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| Name
| Day we see Scott arrive at the hospital
| His condition upon arrival
| Number of strips it takes Adrian to fully express her
shame and self-loathing
| Final outcome
| Side bets
| Who bought the farm?
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9/20/2009 22:02:09
| AeroSquid
| Friday
| Shot twice, Unresponsive, Comatose, Drooling
| 3 (30 if Mary is involved)
| Dies. DNA extraction commences, Scott eventually cloned
after technology becomes available, Fights H-Addicted Future Zombies
in the year 2089, Mary's brain still active and runs the evil
MeddleCorp ™. Releases a squadron of Anthropomorphic MeddleBots
(that somehow resemble Adrian) to take care of the "Scott Problem"
once and for all.
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9/23/2009 17:51:10
| aftershock
| never
| he's fine, but no one knows that
| 15
| In the height of the wildest shootout since the Earps
faced the Clantons at the OK Corral, Detective Scott will be taken
hostage by a couple of the baddies, who escape. The warehouse floor
is ultimately littered with mutilated bullet-ridden corpses, which
are shipped off to the morgue. Unfortunately, Santa Royale is saving
money by contracting its medical lab work to an incompetent cheap-o
outfit in Ohio called "Batiuk Medical Analysis", which
mis-identifies one of the corpses as being Detective Scott. A
funeral is held for what can be assembled of the body - probably
just a nose and a toe - and a grief-stricken Adrian consoles herself
by striking up a romance with the undertaker. Meanwhile, the real
Detective Scotty has been abducted by the H-dealers back to their
headquarters in Vietnam, where he is held in a tiger cage for the
next seven years. On a visit to the Peace Village, Dr. Jeff will
spot and recognize him. He won't do anything about it, though,
because he doesn't want to ruin Adrian's recent marriage to the
comic book deal - er, undertaker, and because of course he **never**
does anything useful in this strip, except pick up the check at the
Bum Boat. Mary will help Adrian adjust to her loss by babbling
random quotes that are completely irrelevant to her plight, but
since Adrian has the higher mental faculties of a salmon square, she
will regard the advice as very profound.
| The cradle-robbing traveling philosophy professor from
Mary's previous meddle will come to Charterstone in a book tour to
hawk his new philosophizing tome about the botched Operation H-Town:
"When Bad Things Happen to People Who, You Know, Kind of Deserve
It". Delilah will accompany him on the trip, she will run into
Charlie, and Mary will turn all salmon-colored.
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9/22/2009 12:55:16
| Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol
| Monday, Sep 28
| Critical, near death
| 6
| Scott dies
| Adrian gets to treat the man who shot Scott, a la
Chicago Hope.
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9/23/2009 2:59:33
| Alfred E. Neuman
| Thursday, October 1
| Severe bruises caused by slipping on banana peels
cleverly scattered about by the evil-doers.
| However many until: a) she dies; b) she's written out
of the strip; c) the end of the strip.
| Under Adrian's tender ministrations, Scott is well on
his way to recovery until Mary comes around and starts applying her
brand of meddlecine. He then goes into a long, slow, Batiukian
decline and dies. Adrian then takes up with Charley.
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9/20/2009 21:44:23
| Amateur
| Tuesday
| so full of holes he can barely gasp out "Adrian - you
- do - love - me!"
| six
| after the funeral, Adrian becomes a nun
| Side bet with Poteet on “number of appearances of the
narration box starting 9/21 and ending 10/5": eight
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9/23/2009 0:16:25
| Bash the Balrog
| Tuesday 9/29
| Conscious and talking; shot somewhere that doesn't
show; unable to move his legs
| six
| Adrian loathes self for not accepting Scott before.
Scott might not ever regain use of his legs. Adrian consults Mary
and expresses desire to marry wheelchairbound Scott. Scott makes
full recovery and marries Adrian. Dr Jeff and Mary gloat.
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9/22/2009 13:04:57
| bats :[
| Friday
| seriously injured, but not life-threatening
| 3
| Scott recovers, no matter his condition.
Adrian
marries him, no matter his condition.
They fade away, only to
replaced by an equally-inane story.
| Scott and Adrian will still be able to have children.
50-50 chance that it will have to be with a turkey baster.
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9/25/2009 17:33:10
| bekka
| monday
| paralyzed
| 4
| Scott is moved to a rehab facility in another city,
with the understanding that he will be back, but is never seen or
heard from again.
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9/22/2009 13:48:18
| bisbane
| Saturday 9/26/09
| unconscious, shot 2 or more times, paralyzed, amnesia
would be a nice touch.
| I give this one two weeks.
| Adrian has to "settle" for a damaged Scott who may or
may not ever be able to walk again. Her great doctoring skills will
be a comfort to both of them.
| Dr Jeff urges Adrian to stay true to Scott as Scott's
father was such a great chum 100 years ago in school.
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9/22/2009 21:13:59
| BJMcDANIEL
| In comic strip units of measure (days), today; actual
publication, Sunday, September 27, replayed Monday September 28 for
those who don't get the Sunday comics.
| Near death. Adrian will undoubtedly be working at the
hospital that day, and called to the ER to assist in dealing with
the carnage of Santa Royale's darkest day in history.
| Two.
| Scott will recover as a quadraplegic in a
semi-vegetative state; initally Adrian will feel so guilty
(deservedly so) that she will marry and care for him. She soon
realizes this is a cash cow, because she gets an employee healthcare
benefit discount and he gets the injured in the line of duty
benefits. She will later be artifically inseminated with the fruit
of Scott's loins so that she will not be denied the joys of raising
a child ('lil Scotty) and the benefits increase significantly. She
quits work to care for Scott full time until the city of Santa
Royale (being in financially strapped California) cannot pay the
benefits for all of the officers killed and injured, loses their
triple A bond rating and declares bankruptcy. The benefits cease,
Adrian moves to Viet Nam to live with lepers, and Scott is moved
into a state operated nursing home to waste away, and little Scotty
is adopted by the Professor and whats-her-name, with Mary being the
godmother and occasional babysitter. Little Scotty grows up and
marries whats-her-name after the Professor dies unexpectedly under
suspicious circumstances.
| I will go with two narratives. The story line is so
obvious, it doesn't need to be explained.
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9/22/2009 14:05:50
| Blackgoat
| Friday, 9/25
| Multiple gunshot wounds to head and crotch, critical
condition.
| 14
| Adrian discovers that Scott has no living will, but has
instead given her durable power of power of attorney for healthcare.
Now she must decide whether to pull the plug or let Scott exist in a
chronic vegetative state (something similar to her own status.) She
opts for life, after tests show that his manhood has suffered no
permanent damage, and still functions normally. Adrian's plan: feed,
hydrate, arouse, become impregnated, ala T.S. Garp. Adrian's error:
She's 58 years old, and that flower is beyond pollination. She
spends the next 35 years feeding Scott Yankee bean soup.
| Scott , along with the Charterstone Police Dept. Drug
Task Force are top vote getters for the 2009 Darwin award.
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9/22/2009 13:39:23
| Bootsy
| September 28th
| Blonde and bloody, yet still natty in an electric blue
fuzzy bullet proof vest!
| 26 (yes, that IS 26)
| After Scott dies, Adrian is meddled away to Vietnam to
the Peace Village. Salmon squares ensue.
| Jeff Corey makes a rare appearance in a white coat,
just like a real doctor.
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9/22/2009 14:11:34
| Bryan
| 9/26/2009
| Grievously wounded so he can have a touching deathbed
scene with Adrian before croaking for good.
| 14, including Sundays
| Adrian disappears from the strip for good.
| Mary begins meddling four strips after Scott's death.
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9/20/2009 22:03:57
| Calico
| Monday, Sept. 28
| Very, very bloody (Again, she better have those Crocs
on)
| Refer to the final scene in "Bonnie and Clyde"
| Adrian too goes to Peace Village and remains celibate.
Mary goes to Vietnam once a year to meddle. One of those trips she
brings Susan Boyle along to sing for the poor children.
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9/22/2009 14:37:39
| Carbunicle
| A Friday
| Serious, but able to talk.
| 11
| Wheelchair-bound. Adrian marries him so she can take
care of him. Crazy character reversal, eh?
| He is kidnapped from the hospital by one of the drug
dealers disguised as a male nurse.
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9/22/2009 20:08:31
| Carly
| real time? Sat. Oct 3
| coma, obviously
| five
| Adrian has to decide whether to pull the plug; she
doesn't, leaving Scott in his vegetable state permanetly.
| Number of smug smiles from Mary: 5
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9/24/2009 9:00:20
| CatMoran
| Tues, 9/29
| "Just a flesh wound." Critically worried about Officer
Colleague, so much so that he doesn't notice Adrian.
| Eternity.
| The just a flesh wound turns critical, but Scott
recovers. Officer Colleague ends up permanently paralyzed, and in a
fit of misplaced guilt, Scott devotes the rest of his life to caring
for him.
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9/22/2009 17:48:21
| Charles
| Saturday 9/26
| Critical, but oddly with no outward appearance of any
trauma whatsoever.
| 27
| Scott dies. The coroner hits on Adrian and she finally
after four weeks agrees to date him and they get along swimmingly.
No no no, Scott dies and Adrian recovers from her depression and
self-loathing with help from Mary's platitudes. I know it's not
particularly imaginative, but one does what one can with limited
tools.
| Adrian's father is less effective in helping her deal
with her grief than Mary is. In fact, I'll predict he's totally
superfluous. Nothing he says or does will make the slightest bit of
difference whatsoever.
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9/22/2009 18:14:40
| Charleston Santiago, Ph.D
| Saturday, with Adrian realizing in the Sunday strip to
have extra time to look shocked and appaled.
| Critical, but he will remain with exactly the same
prognosis for two weeks (possibly three if they feature doctors
talking to Adrian, looking worried)
| At least the next 19. The sky's the limit.
| Scott has a miraclous recovery, he lives with Adrian
happy forever after (or at least what passes for "happy" in Santa
Monica)
| If Scott is left seriously wounded, Adrian will fight
the temptation of moving on with her life, not without the meddling
of Mary.
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9/24/2009 9:58:39
| Chester the Dog
| The day after the SHAKEDOWN
| grave
| As many strips as it takes Mary to finish her coffee
with Jeff and get to the hospital
| Eva comes back to the hospital to find that Adrian quit
mid-shift
| Adrian drives her car off a cliff
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9/23/2009 19:43:09
| Citric
| October 1st
| Perfectly fine, except that his colleague with a
similar haircut is mortally wounded, and since Adrian can't tell who
her fiancee is without his squash-colored jacket, she assumes it's
him and gets all sad.
| 20
| Scott promises to take a desk job and never take off
his squash-colored jacket. They get married and have a brood of
generic looking children, but Scott begins to resent Adrian and the
safe, domestic life she has trapped him in, and takes to heroin
because it's the only escape from his dull, orange prison.
Eventually Mary has to meddle in that as well, when Scott ODs and is
only saved by Adrian's Medical Skill TM. Then we get self loathing
from everyone, an improbably short stint in rehab, and we all meet
at the bum boat to go on our next adventure.
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9/22/2009 16:40:56
| commodorejohn
| September 27th.
| Dying of unspecified injuries that leave him not long
for this world but still perfectly articulate, as well as not
visibly injured or in pain (no need to have Joe Giella display his
cartooning chops twice in one year, y'know.)
| 14
| Scott: dead.
Adrian: hooked up with the next
handsome young Aryan whose father knew hers.
Mary: smug.
| Mary will show less regret at Scott's death than she
did at Aldo's.
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9/24/2009 12:43:54
| crazyjerseygirl
| Thursday Sept. 31...or Oct. 1st...or Oct. 2nd...How
many days does Sept have again?
| Almost dead, not blind but in and out of conciousness.
| Till (early) December.
| Scott lives, albeit with some horrid injury that kills
his carreer in law inforcement. He and Adrian go on to have a bland
marriage. Scott writes a book on his experiences and it is somehow a
best seller.
| Adrian will not be able to work on Scott at first
because of her emotions, but eventually she will be overcome with
wisdom supplied from a disembodied Mary Worth Head and save Scott's
life (aformentioned injury not-with-standing.
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9/24/2009 11:26:51
| D-Nice
| Saturday
| Hurt badly, but he won't die, not in this cookie
cutter strip. Adrian will ultimately be the first responder at the
hospital. Thus the earlier set up we got of "I may as well work
tonight as Scott is working tonight too".
| 4
| Hurt badly, but he won't die, not in this cookie cutter
strip. Adrian will ultimately be the first responder at the
hospital. Thus the earlier set up we got of "I may as well work
tonight as Scott is working tonight too".
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9/24/2009 12:06:13
| Darkefang
| Tuesday, Oct. 6
| Shot once, right through the photo of Adrian, which
unfortunately was located directly over a vital organ.
| 15
| Adrian operates but fails to save Scott. He dies after
a long-winded overdramatic speech professing his undying love for
Adrian. Finally, he tells Adrian to move on with her life after he's
dead. Adrian later marries some other guy who hits on her in an
inappropriate situation, like Scott's funeral. Salmon squares for
everybody, hooray!
| Butchered Mary Platitudes while comforting Adrian -
5;
X-Rays of Scott in which he looks like a stick figure -
1;
Lives of drug dealers ironically saved by Adrian -
1;
Strips featuring drunk perverts crying onto their porn
collection as they watch a Rogers and Hammerstein production - 0
(unfortunately)
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9/22/2009 23:21:15
| Dave H
| hmm... he gets shot thursday, I'd say next wednesday
| Grazed
| A good month- what's that 24?
| He recovers and she accepts his proposal and we can
get shot of the two of them forever
| Mary has to buck up Adrian's courage while she kicks
herself for not accepting earlier
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9/28/2009 17:43:13
| davethemad
| Friday - 10/02/2009 Monday - Officer Colleague comes in
on a stretcher. Tuesday - Adrian gets word of shot police officer
downstairs. Wednesday and Thursday - Adrian runs downstairs and
gasps/cries dramatically. Friday - we finally see Adrian find Scott
unhurt standing over his wounded colleague.
| Fine (well okay bruised from taking a slug in the
vest). He's just coming in to check on Officer Colleague
| 7
| She realizes that life's fleeting (though how the hell
would she not realize that considering her profession) and agrees to
marry Scott.
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9/22/2009 16:08:10
| DaveyK
| Thursday
| Conscious and joking, trying to appear brave. Of
course, his wound came from the laser the thug in the foreground is
using, so the wound instantly cauterized.
| At first we will think she is done in 5 strips. But
then Mary will say something totally awesome! And Adrian will be
wound up for another 10 strips of self-loathing. So, 15 in all.
| Marriage to a man in a wheelchair. Mary is smug. We
all learn a lesson about true love. And I vomit.
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9/24/2009 12:00:14
| Diabete
| Sunday
| Paralyzed
| Two weeks
| Marry the cripple, become soulless unhappy caretaker
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9/23/2009 23:38:49
| Donkey Hotey
| Scott never makes it to the hospital. After suffering a
painful but non-life-threatening leg injury, he is helped into a
police ambulance. "Take him away, Johnny!" the other cops tell the
driver. Tragically, Johnny is dealing with personal demons of his
own and had been seen swigging from a brown bottle in the previous
panel. As the ambulance rounds one of the unprotected cliffside
curves scattered throughout Santa Royale's city streets, he mutters,
"OH NO..." and the ambulance plunges to the canyon floor below.
| N/A
| Nine. Or fourteen, if the entire Charterstone community
gathers to comfort her.
| Adrian hurls herself on top of Scott's casket as it's
lowered into the grave, requring the combined efforts of Ian and
several uniformed officers to pull her out.
| Overcome by grief, Mary fails to utter any sort of
cliche'd truism as the story arc concludes. (Odds against: Roughly
the same as winning Powerball.)
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9/22/2009 13:34:06
| druidbros
| Friday Sept 25th
| He will be in critical condition and have to go into
ICU.
| 8
| Scott lives but is permanently disabled (after having
to have a romancectomy) and he Adrian are forever 'engaged'. Mary
teaches Adrian now to make 'salmon squares'.
| If they police had brought 'salmon squares' to the
bust they could have left them outside the door,rang the doorbell
and waited until the food poisoning set in. I garuntee (say it cajun
like) Mary will get into the secure parts of the hospital and pass
platitudes around like valium.
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9/25/2009 21:57:52
| Earthgirl
| Sunday, in a giantly stretched out dramatic entrance.
| Critical condition, probably a coma. However, we will
never see any bleeding from the many gunshot wounds.
| 10
| We will discover that Detective Scott's impromptu and
insistent proposal was due to some unconscious premonition that
something terrible was going to happen to him... and it's a good
thing he did, because it will be the power of Adrian's love and
tears (and wearing of the ring) that wake him from his coma and
bring him back from the brink of death. Then Adrian will shelve any
selfish thoughts of independence and marry him immediately.
| Mary gets all teary-eyed due to the Power of Their Luv
(tm).
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9/22/2009 19:26:01
| eatenmyeyes
| October 2nd 2009
| comatose
| 3.5
| lecturing
| Close-up of crying such that the face below the mouth
or above the eyebrows is off-panel. Face contorted into a shape
through which is seems impossible to speak intelligibly.
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9/22/2009 16:28:24
| Eric the baker
| Tuesday 6 October
| Barely conscious, able to get out 3 words, MAX!
| Never happens.
| Wedding with Adrian and Scott. Scott still in the
hospital bed, recovering from his wounds.
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9/23/2009 23:10:43
| Farley's Revenge
| 25Sep09
| Once in the leg, when he accidentally shoots himself
as he absent-mindedly uses his gun to grope for the photo of Adrian
tucked into his boot.
Once in the back, in an incident of
"friendly fire", by his colleague who is sick and tired of having
that damned photo of a zombie shoved into his
face.
Swiss-holed by the baddies.
Yet he'll be barely
bloody because we can't have too much realism in Mary Worth, can we?
| If I do the writing: 1 If Adrian writes a note to Mary:
25. If typical post-trauma poolside confessional: 15
| Adrian will realize that she likes the ring on her
finger but Scott, not so much, and introduces an air embolism into
his IV line. He croaks, his last breath whispering her name. She's
arrested for murder and has to hock the ring to pay for her legal
team, having thrown away all her money on the scammer she dated
previously. She ends up doing 20-life and the newest girlfriend to
Big Mama, Mary Worth's illegitimate twin sister.
Scott, in
the meantime, can't leave Adrian so even though he no longer has a
corporeal form, he refuses to leave the woman he loves. Plus, he's
always had a hankering to watch some hot "women in prison"
chick-a-bow-wow action and he'll be damned if he'll let a little
detail like being dead stop him.
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9/23/2009 9:15:07
| frippy
| Friday
| Comatose
| 6 (7 in some papers, depending on if they run Sunday),
not counting the strips in which Adrian struggles with the
understanding that she is now engaged to a hemipelagic, only to be
told by Mary that true love conquers all obstacles.
| Scott is alive but paralyzed from the waist down,
providing the strip with its much-needed handicapped minor
character, who will show up whenever readers who can walk need to be
reminded of how fortunate they truly are.
| Despite the fact that nobody is wearing helmets or face
shields, not a single one of the SRPD vice cops will get shot in the
head.
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9/22/2009 13:52:33
| Gabacho
| Monday, September 28. There will be a few strips of
Mary pruning her roses and throwing up in Toby's mouth, I mean
chatting about life with her dear friend.
| Minorly injured. Really just a few stitches and maybe
an overnight for observation.
| 15. Adrian will go all dramatic and weepy like whoever
that chick was in the last plotline, you know, the teen jailbait
hooked up with the philosopher? Anyway, Scott will try to convince
her to marry him anyway but she will be all "I can't stand the
thought I might lose you." and he'll be all "But I was meant to be a
cop." and Adrian will wonder if she's wrong and shallow.
| Mary will advise Adrian that love has its risks but
also its rewards. Sadly, Adrian will take this advice to heart and
not kill herself. Happily though, she will not marry Heinrich (or
Scott or whatever the hell his name is.)
| Jeff will provide nothing in this plotline. Nothing.
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9/24/2009 14:17:39
| Gal Friday
| Sunday, Sept 27
| Unconscious, but miraculously clutching that photo of
Adrian.
| 5 (with Mary holding her diamond-adorned hand the whole
time)
| Scott wakes up! But the dazzle from the engagement
ring triggers a seizure and he goes into a coma again! Adrian
continues self-loathing! Scott wakes up! But the dazzle . . .! They
marry.
| Number of panels featuring close-up of engagement
ring: 4. Number of times Mary quotes a dead canonical author: 2.
Number of panels featuring the unconscious Scott's head completely
shrouded in black shadows: 1.
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9/22/2009 21:32:48
| gnome de blog
| Friday Sep 25
| Single gunshot wound to the um, lower abdomen
| 11
| Scott changes his name to Jake Barnes. Or, at least,
he has a right to.
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9/23/2009 13:10:36
| Good Ship Thetis
| Saturday
| Pale, eyelids fluttering, just able to whisper Adrian's
name.
| 5
| Scott's colleague, speedily attended in another Santa
Royale hospital, will recover and turn up in the ICU where he tells
Adrian that Scott saved his life. The plug will be pulled 3 days
later. Scott's colleague will be waiting outside the ER door as
Adrian gets off work and they will sit on a park bench and talk
about Scott. Feeding of ducks and/or swans may also occur.
Eventually they will clasp hands. Scott's head will appear in a
thought balloon above Adrian's head and she will decide "Scott would
have wanted me to be happy!" December wedding and at some future
Charterstone pool party Adrian will be shown holding a baby.
(Scott's colleague will be there, too, but no one will remember or
recognize him.)
| Dr. Jeff will get drunk at the wedding and make an
extremely embarrassing toast.
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9/22/2009 20:53:43
| Greg G
| Sept 30
| shot once, likely in the shoulder
| 4
| happy relationship? not likely
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9/24/2009 14:49:37
| Happythoughtindeed
| 9/28/2009
| Unconscious, full of holes, but breathing on life
support.
| 7 strips.
| Adrian or Scott's father will have to pull the plug
after Mary advises them that it's the right and dignified thing to
do.
| Mary suffocates Adrian with a pillow when their alone
in his hospital room because "he wouldn't want to live this way!"
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9/22/2009 14:29:28
| Helen Denman
| Saturday
9-26-09
| Coma
| 10
| Scott dead
Adrian suicide
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9/23/2009 11:09:37
| Ichi
| Friday
| Grave
| Five
| His injuries will be the result of saving his partner.
He'll be a hero of course and will eventually pull through. He'll
then retire from the force for a life of tranquil domestic 'bliss'
with Adrian (maybe take a job as Charterstone gate guard or Walmart
greeter - the only job he can do considering his injuries).
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9/22/2009 16:25:55
| Islamorada Girl
| Friday
| Very bad, not quite DOA. There will be no blood. This
is after all, Mary Worth.
| Oh, at least 20! Many of them will be recaps of the
previous day's anguish.
| Against all medical protocol, Adrian will operate on
Scott personally, and save him from
death!
| Will Scott actually shoot a perp and have to spend
three months at a desk job, filling out endless paperwork and
enduring a series of interdepartmental hearings? God, I hope so !
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9/24/2009 9:01:45
| James
| 10/10/2009
| Dead. He will then go to a better hospital and be
upgraded to "not dead."
| 5
| Adrian will nurse Scott back to health, even though
they both will be crippled, one way or another.
| 3:2 odds that Mary will tell Jeff, "I told you so."
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9/23/2009 11:27:14
| JC Lisbon
| Sept 29th, next tuesday
| Head wrapped in generic cartoon/sitcom bandages, no
memory of Adrian
| 4
| The doctor tells Adrian about the procedure that can
save Scott's life, but it will cost $10,000. Just as she's about to
sign the check, Mary power-meddles her way into the room and rips of
the doctor's mask*. It's Ted Confey! He and Scott were in cahoots
the entire time! After they got busted for their previous
EnormouShop scams, they were attempting their revenge on the
residents of Charterstone. They would have gotten away with it, too,
if it hadn't been for that pesky meddler!
*The mask is just a
pair of glasses with a funny nose and moustache.
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9/24/2009 15:47:22
| Jetdante
| 9/29/2009
| Riddled.
| Fully? 5,231. However, she will begin in the first
panel she sees or learns of Scott's riddling.
| Scott dies, of course. Adrian is correct in knowing
there is no love for her in this world.
| A grazing shot to the temple gives Scott amnesia and he
feels nothing for Adrian.
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9/23/2009 9:11:15
| John Schanilec
| 10/5/2009
| Shot twice
| 11
| Scott dies
| 54
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9/25/2009 8:01:20
| Joolz
| 30 Oct '09
| Grave
| 7
| He lives, because her love is true.
| Scott's hair will remain in place throughout this
adventure.
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9/24/2009 9:18:30
| Jumper
| Monday, Sept. 28
| one bullet hole, in the torso
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| No marriage - Scott has some valid but boring excuse
| When does Mary appear again? I guess Wed. Sept. 30
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9/24/2009 13:20:48
| K.Schlichter
| 9/27/2009
| Critical
| 60
| Scott realizes that being a police officer is a purely
self-serving endeavor causing pain and anguish to all around him.
| Mary begins meddling with feared drug lord "Ponytail"
Sanchez, landing the retirement community a new resident "doctor."
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9/25/2009 16:55:23
| Kelly
| Sunday, September 27
| comatose, but surprisingly unbloodied
| 5, but if Mary gets involved (inevitable, seeing as
this IS Mary Worth) it'll be more like 10.
| Scott awakens while Adrian is at his bedside weeping
in despair. They moan about love and such, and then get married.
While Scott's still hooked to the machines.
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9/25/2009 14:58:50
| Kilgore T.
| Wednesday
| Critical condition.
| 2
| He wounds render him impotent and he becomes a
cloisterd monk. She joins a lesbian roller derby circuit. Mary
continues to meddle.
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9/22/2009 17:33:46
| ladadog
| Thursday.
| Clinging to life...with gunshot wound to head.
Coincidentally, other blonde cop arrives at same hospital with
equally bloody head wound.
| Adrian will hate herself throughout eternity.
| -Adrian fetches hospital chaplain, who performs
marriage ceremony between Adrian and blonde cop - not
Scott.
Scott comes to his senses in time to realize he's had a
lucky escape. He then bribes plastic surgeon to perform face
changing surgery. Scott, a new man, leaves Santa Royale and heads
for the Caribbean....and secret lover, Ted Confey. Ted had told him
how to set up an an off-shore bank account with the money he has
stolen from the haul of Operation H-town.
| -Mary advises Adrian to make the best of it. After all
marriage is a sacred trust, even if you have married the wrong man.
Potato ade, Adrian?
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9/27/2009 17:35:08
| Lady Pistol Whip
| 9/30/2009
| Half his face mauled, maimed and manhandled clean away,
Scott dons a cape and prances about like the Phantom of the Opera
for the rest of his life.
It doesn't matter, right, Adrian?
You've always loved the *man inside* him.
Right?
| 1.5 weeks after Scott's hospital arrival, or one full
strip-tease down to his naked, charred left side.
| The engagement is OFF! Adrian just can't love a
beast.
Devastated, Scott turns to the dark side, briefly
wreaking havoc on the sleepy Charterstone community. This climax
lasts for exactly 3.7 days before Mary, unaware of the death of the
Vaudeville circuit, meddles her way in and convinces Scott to take
his act on the road.
Scott slinks away in search of an
audience. Finding none, he retires to a nunnery.
| The Phantom mask is pink. The cape is orange.
| Everyone in the H-Town abandoned warehouse except
Scott.
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9/20/2009 21:59:41
| Lanfranc
| Friday
| shot once, in a critical, but ultimately not
life-threatening condition
| nine
| Scott recovers, Adrian learns a "valuable lesson"
about not passing up marital bliss when given the chance, marries
him, and wastes the rest of her life away in an existential
wasteland with no opportunities for personal development or
fulfillment beyond the quiet, uninspiring family life…
Oh,
sorry. Got carried away a bit there.
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9/24/2009 8:36:17
| Lauren
| Sunday, September 27
| Barely alive (1 bullet wound)
| 7
| Scott dies in the hospital
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9/24/2009 14:21:52
| Les of the Jungle Patrol
| Monday, 29 September
| badly wounded.
| 14 (including sundays)
| is actually dead by the time doctors get around
treating him
| Adrian eventually finds happiness either with the
mortician or with Charlie. Or both.
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9/22/2009 8:45:39
| Lesser Whark
| Monday
| Described as 'critical', but with no visible wounds or
bleeding.
| 6
| Scott discovers that Adrian was selling hospital
medicine to the drug dealers and arrests her.
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9/24/2009 9:20:51
| LUE42
| Monday 9-28-2009
| Wounded: gut-shot, conscious and in agony.
| 10 days (including weekend strips)
| He dies. Adrian cries, leaves flowers on grave.
| 5
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9/23/2009 8:03:43
| Margaret Hodgkiss-Lilly
| 28 Sept
| Fine; visiting his cop buddy
| 5
| Rushed marriage to make up for ever considering not
marrying detective despite former attempt at a rushed marriage that
ended disastrously; regret over hesitating when he has such a
dangerous job and could be killed at any moment while Attempting to
Protect Her, as illustrated by Injured Cop Buddy, much exclaiming
over how they are a perfect couple, another pool party to introduce
another victim because once a female is safely married off no one
cares anymore, off hand comment about them attempting to have a
baby, because babies solve all marital problems.
| 28
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9/24/2009 17:27:01
| Matt Brown
| Tuesday, September 29th
| Critical
| Four
| Scott recovers, marries Adrian
| Side bet with Poteet on “number of appearances of the
narration box starting 9/21 and ending 10/5": seven
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9/22/2009 16:12:10
| Mike
| Does not arrive - straight to morgue.
| see previous
| 16
| Mary admonishes Adrian for dating somebody in so
dangerous a profession - replacement boyfriend is introduced at end
of story arc.
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9/22/2009 17:29:09
| Mikey
| Monday September 28
| "Grave"--and in an amazing twist, only Mary Worth has
his blood type (Type A-B, for "Agitated Butt-insky")
| Ah, a trick question--it's the "fully" that trips up
the amateur. Adrian can never, ever fully express her shame and
self-loathing. There is not enough newsprint in the whole world.
| Mary sitting at home, silently self-satisfied, with
her hands folded in her lap, feeling superior
| What will be the color and shape of the hor'dourves
served after Scott's memorial service? (Answer: salmon and square,
respectively.)
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9/22/2009 22:59:31
| Mollyscribbles
| 10/5/2009
| Three bullet wounds and a sprained ankle.
| 42
| No change.
| Mary will wear orange and teal while laying on the
guilt trip
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9/20/2009 21:54:45
| MolyBendum
| Thursday
| Once, unconscious on arrival and someone will say "I
don't know if he'll make it thru the night"
| five
| He lives, they get married
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9/24/2009 11:32:46
| Morndew
| Wed, the 30th. Not dead yet!
| Just concious enough to gasp Adrian's name and clasp
her hand to his cheek. SO romantic.
Nope! Not dead yet!
| Three days full-out shame, four of Mary driving home
her need for even more self-loathing.
| Tis but a flesh wound, but one that manages to horribly
disfigure him. Haven't had a good disfiguring in a while! Maybe even
a wheelchair for a few months, followed by 3 weeks of watching him
take his 'first step that Doctor's said would never happen'.
| Seven regular, two 'meanwhiles'.
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9/22/2009 22:32:54
| Mr. Metrik
| No later than Thursday
| Shot and grievously wounded, but not
life-threateningly so. Enough that we'll see Adrian pushing him
around the hospital grounds in a couple of weeks when this storyline
wraps up.
| An even dozen.
| Three weeks from now, Mary will be talking to Jeff
Corey in a Sunday strip, and will make some kind of generalization
about "and love is knowing who your true hero is" in a narration box
in the corner while Adrian, as I've mentioned, pushes Scott around
in his wheelchair somewhere outside, both of them wearing faraway
Thorazine smiles. This will still put Mary no closer to letting Jeff
any further into her life than the kitchen table. This panel will
signal the end of Adrian's storyline. Cue pool party on Monday.
| Anyone want to do the over/under on how many
platitudes Mary spouts to Adrian and/or Dr. Jeff that involve the
use of quotation marks, no matter how obscure the quote? I'm
thinking at least 4.
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9/24/2009 20:10:40
| MWDG
| Sunday 9/27
| Adrian will see Scott's blond cop co-worker/lover/bff
and from a distance on a stretcher mistake the coworker for Scott.
Mary will be on duty watching this whole scene. When Adrian thinks
Scott is dead she will decapitate herself. Scott fit as a fiddle
will find his lovely bride to be in two pieces. Through artifical
life support Santa Royale hospital will keep Adrian's head alive in
an aquarium.
| at least 10 weeks
| if Adrian does not commit suicide she will realize life
is too short and will admit she is in love with Terry Bryson or
Charlie.
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9/24/2009 7:03:02
| NateS
| Saturday
| Perfectly healthy
| 7
| Adrian worries about the danger and presents Scott
with a Sophie's Choice; either he quits the force, or it's over.
Scott naturally calls her bluff and chooses his career. Mary
proceeds to meddle and the meddling pays off as they get together
and become Toby and Chinbeard number II.
| No one actually dies in the shootout; much like the
A-Team but with flesh wounds.
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9/24/2009 9:43:44
| Neito
| Next wednesday
| Near death
| 14
| death
| Mary lectures on why you shouldn't be sad.
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9/20/2009 21:30:00
| Niall
| Friday if they show us the battle, or Tuesday if they
do like usual and skip all possible excitement and action and have
the raid happen off-panel. …Tuesday it is.
| I call DOA at the hospital
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9/24/2009 23:19:59
| Nicholas Picholas
| Not soon enough.
| More boring then ever before.
| Depends on how many strips it takes to get naked.
| They band together to start an underground dog
prostitution ring.
| Dog prostitution ring leads to many more "hijinks"
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9/25/2009 21:47:28
| Non-Shannon
| Monday 28th
| Writhing dramatically, calling out Adrian's name, with
visible beads of sweat on his brow
| Impossible to convey through the comic medium unless
the narration box starts quoting Nietzsche or something
| Scott is so shaken up that he turns his life around,
leaves Adrian and runs off with his partner
| Mary will happen to be at the hospital doing her
"charity work" at the time Scott is checked in and will
thought-bubble platitudes in reaction to the carnage
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9/22/2009 17:21:37
| Old School Allie Cat
| 9/30/2009
| Critical - long term prognosis is iffy.
| 24
| Scott is spared, decides to devote his life to
enforcing the law Village in Vietnam and asks Adrian to join him.
She does.
| Mary quotes WH Auden, PG Wodehouse, or Hootie and the
Blowfish.
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9/23/2009 16:10:04
| OMJulie
| Sunday
| Pleasantly grimy, with perhaps a very non-critical
shoulder wound. However, Adrian mistakes a different, ICU-bound
officer for Scott because they all look EXACTLY THE SAME and flies
into a panic. When Scott shows up to reassure her, she's learned a
valuable lesson about what it's like dating a non-mustachioed member
of the Hitler Youth.
| 10. But since it takes at least 5 strips for Mary to
fully express her smug platitudes, we won't see her finish her
shame-spiral until at least 16 strips from now.
| Adrian and Scott marry and subsequently disappear from
the strip until they start having marital problems in a year from
now or so.
| Scott sustains minor injury while helping another
officer. The Heroin dealers get away; Operation H2O-Town is planned.
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9/25/2009 16:19:11
| P
| Sunday
| Extremely Life-Theranting
| At least 20
| Scott lives, but is in a wheelchair.
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9/25/2009 11:11:21
| Patrick
| Tuesday. September 29
| Shot twice
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9/24/2009 11:28:29
| Penny Nickles
| Friday, Sept. 25
| Shot once in the shoulder
| 5
| In-hospital wedding
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9/20/2009 21:57:25
| Poteet
| Friday
| Shot a couple of times, once in a place that requires
Adrian's utmost medical skill. Say, his big toe. Nonono, I meant,
um, some semi-vital organ in his abdomen.
| 14
| Scott croaks (see "utmost medical skill" above), and
then Adrian continues dating. She may start with the young funeral
home director, who, by coincidence, looks like a member of Hitler
Youth.
| Since we are now heading into a tense and difficult
period during which something is actually going to happen, how often
do we think the narration box will show up to help us understand and
appreciate what’s going on over the next two weeks? I say we count
each and every appearance of the narration box, including the
moments when it sonorously proclaims "Meanwhile." And my bet
(starting 9/21 and ending 10/5) is twelve.
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9/22/2009 14:54:52
| pyano
| We'll see him arrive on Sunday
| Shot once and in a coma
| 7
| Scott wakes up, everyone spouts platitudes at each
other and Adrian and Scott touch each other awkwardly.
| That the strip will spend a couple days with Adrian
hearing hints that Scott might be in a bad condition but she won't
know immediately.
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10/7/2009 22:58:12
| Rain
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| This is a Halloween-themed story, and will end on the
31st with Zombie Scott wreaking havoc throughout the hospital, and
Adrian having to make an agonizing decision between shooting her
betrothed in the head, or joining him in a wild brain-chomping
spree. C’mon, Adrian, yummy brains! Your hairstyle might even
improve!
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9/22/2009 13:38:35
| Raymo
| Friday
| Critical, shot at least twice.
| 10, 20 if Mary's involved.
| Scott will recover somewhat, and they will be married
in his hospital room, and he will still be in his bed with various
IVs, bandages, monitors running, etc.
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9/24/2009 15:02:55
| Rebekah Worth
| 9/30/2009
| Blind and nearly dead
| 13
| Will live, with 24 in-home care, and also blind
| ....and he'll develop an addiction to pain killers.
Then limp around the police station being a genius but an amazing
asshole -- then he'll get his own show!
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9/28/2009 15:43:45
| RichardK
| Tues Sept 29 (already i'm late)
| DOA
| None--
| It turns out if Scott had stuffed the picture of Adrian
into his pocket (over his heart) it would have deflected the bullet
--instead he put it in his boot and like AChilles kept his heel
exposed. ALso when Adrian goes to the funeral --she will find Scott
also had a wife (whom he called princess) and an illegitimate child
who looked like Adrian at an early age.
Adrian does the autopsy
and finds her malpractice is actually what killed Scott--not the
bullet.
| Adrian inserts a cattle prod --you know where in order
to harvest Scott's Sperm. This brings Scott back to life because it
brings back memories of when he went undercover in prison--THey go
ot Charlie's and watch his DVDs while having a threesome.
| Scott
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9/24/2009 13:47:37
| rredd
| Monday, Sept. 28
| Minor physical wounds, but major emotional wounds at
seeing his colleague officer killed.
| zero. Scott on the otherhand will fill six full days
with his survivor's angst and shame at asking Adrian to share in
this life.
| Mary will coach Scott through the guilt, with Adrian at
her side finally fulfilling her fate as Mary 2.0.
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9/22/2009 19:40:32
| Rupedog
| Tuesday, September 29
| Shot full of holes, but coherent enough to speak
(albeit only in stilted sentences)
| 32
| Scott dies, Adrian weeps, Mary Worth makes a martini
from Adrian's tears.
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9/23/2009 11:56:53
| Ruuster
| Friday 2nd Oct
| No visable injuries in the strip, and unconscious.
Medical EMTs will however stress that he has been shot and needs
immediate surgery, and they don't know whether he'll live or not
| Three waiting alone in front of the surgery room
(dramatic yellow/blue colouring), two with her father and Mary, and
three alone with Mary.
| Scott will live, but wheelchair-bound for the rest of
his life. He'll retire from active police service and become a
social worker for the troubled youth (so they don't grow into
gun-totting drug dealers). He and Adrian will marry, though, due to
his paralysis, Scott will be unable to consumate this marriage; this
will become a future storyline about adopting one of the 'troubled
youth' when Adrian wants kids.
| Toby will be over at Mary's, and drive her to the
hospital. She will exclaim very loudly as she drives (with only one
hand on the week and zero eyes on the road) how unfortunate it is
that Scott got shot, and they will recap all Adrian's misfortunes to
date, to set us up for the pity scenes once Mary's at the hospital.
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9/22/2009 19:47:10
| Santa Royale is for lovers
| 9/28/2009
| Critical of course. His hands will be destroyed from
the barrage of bullets, so he will be unable to properly propose to
Adrian. Mary will disapprove.
| 14 strips worth
| Adrian will break up with him, unable to deal with his
handicap. Mary approves. Dr. Jeff is pissed and another dramatic
fight begins with Mary.
| Number of times Mary wrings her hands: 12
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9/20/2009 22:12:29
| seismic-2
| Day: Thursday
| Condition: Shot once, arrives at ER unconscious and in
critical condition. Adrian is called to come perform surgery, she
sees who's the patient on the gurney, and she faints. More medical
attention will be devoted to resuscitating her than him.
| Shame and self-loathing: The rest of her life. No, say
18 strips.
| Outcome: Scott eventually regains consciousness, just
long enough for him to see that the person treating him is wearing
his ring, and then he dies of shock. Adrian performs the autopsy,
she puts his ring on his finger, and then she amputates it, takes it
home, and has it taxidermied. OK, that won't happen, but it would be
cool. What will happen is that Dr. Jeff will administer the eulogy,
describing Scott at length as the son of the finest man he ever met,
but no one will pay attention, since they will all be distracted by
the hideous color of his jacket. Then back to the Charterstone
pool-side wake, for salmon squares all around!
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9/23/2009 4:48:02
| Sheila Sternwell
| September 29th (2009)
| Unconscious but alive. Within a few strips he regains
consciousness just long enough to say something heartbreaking (or
"heartbreaking" in quotes, since Mary Worth's writer(s) aren't very
good) but then falls back into unconsciousness again.
| They'll milk it for a week, so 5.
| Scott will survive and Adrian will learn not to keep a
man waiting while he sorts out her stupid female feelings and
desires.
| Officer Comrade will die! Adrian's father will gently
chastise her and make her feel worse! Mary will utter a minimum of 3
cliches! Okay, that last one is even odds, but I had to say it.
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9/27/2009 15:15:19
| shoppe
| next wednesday
| coma
| 3
| he gets amnesia and falls in love with mary
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| Aryan #2
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9/25/2009 0:00:16
| Skumple
| Friday
| Nearly dead
| The rest of Mary Worth's run... or at least until she
finds another almost-spouse.
| General misery, but what else is new?
| One of the drug dealers gets away and turns to Mary for
advice/meddling.
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9/24/2009 20:14:43
| Slylock Foxy
| Saturday
| at death's door
| 12
| Scott kicks it, Mary talks Adrian out of suicide
| Adrian does something dramatic with the ring
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9/23/2009 3:30:57
| Sparky
| Monday the 28th
| wounded but lives; Adrian kills his attacker in the OR.
| never
| Scott is invalided out of the police and take a
security gig at the condo.
| twin boys
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9/24/2009 13:54:44
| spiffypaws
| Saturday
| comatose, horribly disfigured
| just one; she's had lots of practice
| a bedside wedding when Scott wakes up. Mary will be
there, of course
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9/24/2009 20:46:17
| Steph Dee
| Friday.
| Wounded, but still breathing.
| 10
| Adrian and Scott get married, Mary stands at their
wedding and thinks smug thought balloons about how right she was to
herself.
| Adrian's hair will remain terrible throughout.
They
eat bizarrely coloured food at the wedding.
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9/22/2009 14:30:50
| Stephanie
| Saturday, September 26
| He is actually bullet-ridden, but he appears to be
merely unconscious because this is "Mary Worth" we're talking about.
(Or we simply can't see the body and have to look at close-ups of
Adrian being horrified.)
| 12. If Mary's involved, it's at least 20.
| Scott nearly dies, and they realize just how much they
love each other. They get married while he still has casts and/or
bandages on.
| Adrian will spend many days and nights at his
bedside--while still on her shift--and no one will threaten to fire
her. She refuses to take days off and continues visiting him on
shift. After they get married, they move away and are never heard
from again.
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