also just noticed - Ruthy's son is named "Gabriel". that's gotta be
about something, I think he IS also Hack Scudder's kid.
"marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:...
> Julia said
>
> & yes, the "Russian"/"management" DID have to give his life
> to sup****t
> Ben's quest, which is to kill his (management's) own son. wow, now THAT
is
> sacrifice! - which if Ben now claims he "is" what management"was",
> he should
> be prepared to do.
>
> Another tidbit that would've been helpful that she says I missed in the
> very first
> episode, this whole show started with Ben watching his mother die.
> She refused to let him touch her, calling him a demon & worse. In
> flashbacks they show him as a little boy petting a kitten that his
> mother declares had been dead & buried...she refused to ever let him
> touch her after that. (thus, when you see him start his affair with
> Ruthy, he has issues with letting her touch him)..and also he's a kid
> who grew up being called a demon. Something else that was never
> explained is that even before his mother died, he was wanted for
> murder. (remember, they got the cops off his tail by passing off
> Sofie's mother's bones as his). The story never got told even who he
> was accused of murdering, or why (did he save somebody that way by
> accident before he'd learned that he had to take a life to give a
> life? If so, who did he save then?)
>
> This led her to realize the huge connection between Ben & Sofie...both
> had mothers who hated them. You see Sofie's mom was raped by a guy
> with the tree tatoo (thus she hates the 'child of evil', we have yet
> to see whether or not Hack Scudder has a tatoo to go with his powers?
>
> It was also alluded to at some time that Ruthy had had an affair with
> Hack Scudder, so is her giant son also Ben's half-brother?
>
> And another connection that I just noticed in this episode & I wonder
> if it's connected earlier, is it odd that Ben was saving somebody
> while Justin's sister was murdering? (maybe it wasn't the vultures
> after all?)
>
> hmmmm. I love this show!
>
> mk5000
>
> "'Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man
> Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
> Take a bow, play the part of a Lonely, lonely heart
> Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in"--mika, any other
world
>
>
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