SUMMARY: Detective Duncan Trager is an alcoholic whose
assistants despair for him - one of them being Tina, a college
student who is studying to be a city planner, though Trager
insists she should quit her studies because "you've got private
dick in your blood." One day, a very strange client, Lester
Creely, asks Trager to track down a missing woman he claims is
his daughter – even though she's only been missing for a few
hours. Trager is reluctant, even when Creely offers $20,000.
When Creely leaves, Tina thinks there's something fishy about
him, and that they should try to find the woman before Creely
can find her. However, Creely has strange powers, and that
night, he attempts to take over Trager's mind... though he is
stymied by Trager's alcohol-addled brain. And then two goons
from a local criminal show up and knock Trager out to drag him
off to meet their boss...
Photos by Aaron
Francis
EPISODE TWO (1/28/17)
SUMMARY: Trager is taken in the trunk of a car to meet
with mobster Eddie DeSconza; he and his wife Lydia want Trager
to search for their daughter... the same young lady Creely sent
him to look for. Meanwhile, Tina, having missed the ferry, is on a slow-moving
paddleboat (a "Scu-ber"),
headed for a class to take a test that counts for 25% of her
grade. When Joel calls to tell her Trager has vanished, she has
him go to check Creely's apartment; she doesn't want to get
dragged into the case today, though her friend Conroy is eager
to help with any detective work. At Creely's apartment, Joel
sees the dead and decomposing body of the place's previous
resident, who Creely replaced... and Creely takes over Joel's
mind.
Photos by Aaron
Francis
EPISODE THREE (4/29/17)
- PLAYOFFS ROUND 1!
SUMMARY: Trager, drowning and still drunk, finds himself
in a strange mindscape, where he meets his dead partner, Jay,
who tells him that he's walked through the mental door Creely
opened into Creely's mind, where Joel is captive. Jay tells
Trager that he must stay drunk to solve teh case, as his
drunkenness is protecting him from having his mind taken over by
Creely. Just before Trager awakens, Creely briefly notices
Trager in his mind.
