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bedlamsbardI now have a full-fledged plot for the Bardverse AU -- off a slightly different Bloody Sunday -- where Danny takes Val up on his offer. No, I'm serious, a FULL-FLEDGED PLOT. See, it'd be called "The Man Who Wasn't There", and it takes place maybe five years after Bloody Sunday. Danny's made Mafia, as well as legally Val's heir -- and married, to the very pragmatic Frankie West, sister to the Boston don's second-in-command, who, the Boston Mob not being as snobby as the New York Commission, isn't Italian.
I think, were I to go back and re-write Bloody Sunday, I'd dropped the IAB subplot/Lindsay and Hawkes subplot, and not introduce Lindsay. The Man Who Wasn't There (and for the life of me, I can't remember where this title is from, even though I know I'm stealing it) depends on Lindsay not joining the Crime Lab until after Bloody Sunday.
A skeleton's found somewhere in New York, thus making it the Crime Lab's jurisdiction, and it's eventually identified as being FBI Special Agent John Hudson, who vanished thirty years ago shortly after Luciano Constantine was tried and sentenced to prison. Lindsay and Angell picked up the case originally, but it's a full lab case now. Because Val Constantine's out of town, they pay a visit to his boy Danny, who naturally doesn't recognize either of them, since they weren't at the lab when he was there.
A couple days later, on Sunday, Danny's in church, and Flack comes in through the back. He and Danny talk.
It wouldn't end with Danny rejoining the Crime Lab or becoming a cop again, or even he and Flack getting back together (because Danny loves his wife, and I never thought I'd write those words), but it would end with Danny being a detective again for a little while. A mystery-solver. He and Flack and the rest of the Crime Lab (well, except maybe Mac) reconciling after what's obviously a big rupture in their relationship. You know, this time, Bardverse without the supernatural.
I think, were I to go back and re-write Bloody Sunday, I'd dropped the IAB subplot/Lindsay and Hawkes subplot, and not introduce Lindsay. The Man Who Wasn't There (and for the life of me, I can't remember where this title is from, even though I know I'm stealing it) depends on Lindsay not joining the Crime Lab until after Bloody Sunday.
A skeleton's found somewhere in New York, thus making it the Crime Lab's jurisdiction, and it's eventually identified as being FBI Special Agent John Hudson, who vanished thirty years ago shortly after Luciano Constantine was tried and sentenced to prison. Lindsay and Angell picked up the case originally, but it's a full lab case now. Because Val Constantine's out of town, they pay a visit to his boy Danny, who naturally doesn't recognize either of them, since they weren't at the lab when he was there.
A couple days later, on Sunday, Danny's in church, and Flack comes in through the back. He and Danny talk.
It wouldn't end with Danny rejoining the Crime Lab or becoming a cop again, or even he and Flack getting back together (because Danny loves his wife, and I never thought I'd write those words), but it would end with Danny being a detective again for a little while. A mystery-solver. He and Flack and the rest of the Crime Lab (well, except maybe Mac) reconciling after what's obviously a big rupture in their relationship. You know, this time, Bardverse without the supernatural.