Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Yeah, you might not want to say that in front of the police.

Back at the concert hall (and sporting a rather bad attitude), Tracy talks to Harmonic, who is far less concerned with pressing charges against his dear son than he is with getting his Stradivarius back (and who can blame him? The symphony is obviously his life and making his son a part of that symphony was clearly one of his goals, and since junior has no intention of following in dear old dad's footsteps, dear old dad wants nothing to do with him). In fact, I think that it might be better if he doesn't see his son. Otherwise, there could be some problems with scheduling future concerts since they'd all have to take place in prison. Meanwhile, on the snowy streets, Son of the Maestro talks to the mysterious Steve.
The phone call going nowhere, we turn our attention back to the concert hall, where there's been a marked improvement in Tracy's temperament. My guess is that after seeing how screwed up this family is, Tracy's feeling pretty darn good about his own (even if he never sees most of them). Let's see if he keeps that smirk of his after Harmonic gives him the news that his son probably changed his name, which will probably make finding him all the harder (especially since it doesn't seem like the band has booked any gigs or even really joined up, so he can't just go find a poster tacked to a telephone pole). Speaking of the would-be rocker, his phone call with Steve going nowhere (and getting him hardly any frame-time), Son of the Maestro calls the equally mysterious Janet and reveals the name he's chosen for himself. Kid Vicious? That's what you're going with, huh? No, no it's a nice name. It's just that, well, you know what, never mind. At least this call proved to give us some sort of useful information. Kind of makes you wonder what his name was before he changed it (even though legally it's still whatever it has been since we haven't seen him go to any office or anything to get it officially changed).
The news of his name change given to Janet, Kid Vicious calls up another mysterious man named Richie (do you think he knows Buddy and The Bopper?) and tells him all about his new band and some of the people in it, but aside from the continuing use of punny names for its members, the most important thing we learn is his real name. Yes folks, before he was Kid Vicious he was Ludwig Harmonic (and suddenly this whole I want to change my name thing makes a lot more sense). Now you know, and knowing if half the battle. Meanwhile, across town, the mysterious sun-glassed man currently in possession of the missing Stradivarius continues on with his plan and seems to finally realize that it's really quite a valuable instrument that you shouldn't mess up. (It's about time.)

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