Monday, November 23, 2009

It's all over but the clang of the prison doors as they slam shut.

In case you missed it (or wandered away for a while and just remembered that at one point in time you had been reading a Dick Tracy comic about a circus), Tracy briefly recaps everything that happened, from the untimely death of Louise Trapeze by Barb Els to the attempted murder of Tracy and Agent Ennen by Mr. Pops to the ultimate goal of the perpetrators of this caper: to get their hands on the circus. Guys, wouldn't it have been easier to just start your own circus? Perhaps the cost of tents and equipment was holding them back, or maybe the thought of a circus without Cyber was just too much for Barb to handle. Whatever the case, those two aren't going to be taking part in any kind of circus for a long, long time (unless the prison decides not to put on a rodeo and opts for a circus this year).
Everything neatly wrapped up, Tracy tells Random Policeman to take the fiends away, and it is only after the two criminals have been carted away to the pokey that he turns his attention to Ringo, who forgot to read the rule book he was given at the beginning on his stint in the Witness Protection Program, and it looks like committing crimes while being hidden from those in the criminal world just isn't part of the game plan. Looks like someone's heading for solitary confinement (or maybe marooning on an isolated, uninhabited island where he can't fall back on his old ways), and thus dies the little boy's dream of being the ringmaster of a circus. You had it all, my friend, but you got greedy and now you don't have anything. Well, I guess that's it. Another case comes to an end. Granted, there was a lot less shooting and death than we've seen in previous cases, but an ending is an ending...I guess.

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