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Marcone's Power Base
Con:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 17, 2020, 08:44:50 PM ---
Which goes back to whether or not Marcone is really behind the push by Rudolph to go after Harry and Murphy.
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There seems to be a genuine dislike of Rudolph by every law enforcement professional we've met. Even the latest guy whose attitude is completely professional, at best dismisses him. We know he has a powerful patron somewhere among the Brass.
Gard did offer Murphy her job back in Aftermath, that Marcone could pull some strings. Which suggests more pull with the cops than is comfortable.
Griffyn612:
I know this seems even less likely, but there's also Rick/Rich/Dick to consider when discussing FBI agents in Chicago. He wasn't a feeb at the start of the series, but he is by Proven Guilty. So we've got Rick and Tilly in Chicago. Neither likely have any connections to Marcone pre-Changes, but what about after?
Both have worked cases with supernatural elements. One is the ex of the former head is SI, so he's probably heard some things. Tilly lived them.
Might have either been tapped for a federal version of the SI unit? And with Marcone now swinging weight in that arena, might they have to deal with him?
Bad Alias:
To add to his government connections, we know he was in the military in his "patriotically delusional youth." He first handled AA-12 shotguns then. (Even Hand).
Marcone has a lot of similarities with people who were in special forces. Crazy amounts of discipline and martial skills. Tommy Tom had a tattoo that reminded me of the SAS insignia. I don't know if it was meant to be or not.
Special forces people often end up working for the CIA.
Maybe Marcone worked for the CIA in his youth and that's how he ended up as a government informant.
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on November 17, 2020, 08:58:02 PM ---If all the casefiles are as similar as we suspect, then Beltboy picking a random person like Denton to sick on Marcone doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The Nemesis method is to get people that are close to the target to turn. Lea to get Mab. Aurora to kill the Summer Knight and cause chaos. Kravos to get revenge on Harry. Vitto to get Lara. Madeline to get Lara.
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Justine to get to Demonreach (through Thomas and Harry).
@Mira: Denton and his crew's target was Marcone. The person who gave Denton the belt might have been targeting someone else or had some even more mysterious goal in mind.
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on November 18, 2020, 02:11:14 PM ---I know this seems even less likely, but there's also Rick/Rich/Dick to consider when discussing FBI agents in Chicago. He wasn't a feeb at the start of the series, but he is by Proven Guilty.
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We don't know that. All we know is that he transferred to Chicago around BR.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on November 19, 2020, 10:34:10 PM ---We don't know that. All we know is that he transferred to Chicago around BR.
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We know he was a cop working on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, where he arrested Murphy's sister, and ended up dating her. He then transferred to Chicago and became a Feeb, and was brought in by the detective on the Splattercon!!! deaths.
Mira:
--- Quote --- Denton and his crew's target was Marcone. The person who gave Denton the belt might have been targeting someone else or had some even more mysterious goal in mind.
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What is interesting is Marcone thought he was working with Denton, until the last minute. Yes, I get that Denton was after Marcone, however that doesn't answer some really important questions..
1] Who or what was Denton working with that would draw the attention of someone like possibly
Cowl? The description in Harry's soul gaze of Denton strongly suggests that it is Cowl.
2] The soul gaze had Denton kneeling in front of the robed figure to receive the belts. That suggests perhaps that Denton was a devotee or follower of Cowl, therefore Kemmler, not unlike Kumori. When Harry confronts Denton about the killings including the sabotaging of MacFinn's circl to cover their crimes. Denton answers they were necessary "sacrifices." That is a fanatic with a cause, again perhaps not unlike Kumori.
3] When Denton and his men started killing, "the lobo murders" as they were called, someone warned him that if he kept that up, they'd draw the attention of the White Council. Who was that?
4] They targeted MacFinn to cover up their own crimes. Though Denton wanted to get Marcone, the belts made that easier, but I seriously doubt that was the reason he was presented with the belts in the first place.
5] Giving the belts to mere vanilla mortals was a serious miscalculation of whoever gave them to Denton and his men. My theory is whoever gave them to Denton thought they could then control them and use them as "enforcers." The miscalculation was the effects of the belts on the wearer, the infusion of black magic, power, and blood lust immediately made the wearer go out of control and uncontrollable. Even for Harry, strong willed wizard, who had some idea of what the belts did, was hard pressed to recover from their effects.
6] Conclusion, it was an experimental direction that resulted in a dead end.
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