Episode Title: #14 With a Bullet
Season 06, Episode 14
Episode 114 of 344
Written by Peter Dunne
Directed by Nicholas Sgarro
Original Airdate: Thursday, January
10th, 1985
The Plot (Courtesy of TV.Com): Karen's surgery
goes well. Galveston tells Greg to tell Mack to stop investigating the Tidal
Basin murders, but instead Greg tells Mack to look for a connection between the
murders and Galveston Industries. Gary's private detective tells Abby that Val has become Verna Ellers from her book
"Nashville Junction" and that she seems happy. He says he'll do a
fake report, in exchange for sex with Abby. He tells Gary he has no leads and
is dropping the case. Galveston has his men bring him Abby's detective.
Galveston threatens him, so the detective tells him where Val is. Then another
man brings him all of Scott Easton's papers. Abby waits for the detective, but
instead Galveston shows up and tells her that he knows where Val is and all
about the babies and unless she comes up with a damn good explanation, he's
going to tell Gary.
Last week I said how I’m still
managing to find each and every ep of KL to
stand out as its own special and magnificent little 48 minute movie, and that
trend continues this week. God, how do
the people working on this show do it so well?
You’ve got all these long, continuing, epic plots going on all
concurrently, and you have to keep everything powering along and going good and
exciting, yet they also manage to be artistic and keep each ep special, really
standing out. If our last ep was all
about high emotions and a feeling of mounting dread as Karen prepared for her
surgery, this episode is almost a religious experience, and I do mean that
quite literally, since we open up on Mack entering a church and looking up at
that big, creepy Jesus statue that always kept me afraid of going into church
as a kid.
Behind the camera this week, we
have KL’s most prolific director,
Nicholas Sgarro. I feel like I’ve become
so excited by other directors like Nick Havinga and Bill "Green Beret" Duke and, most
especially, Larry Elikann, that I’m almost failing to give Sgarro his due. Make no mistake, this guy is great, and he’s
definitely got a special place in Heaven for directing more KL eps than anyone ever; I think it’s
just the effect of how he’s directed so many that when his name pops up, I
don’t generally get all EXCITED like I do when I see Elikann or Duke; I’m more
like, “Oh yes, that old trustworthy Sgarro.”
However, let’s go ahead and give him an immediate shout out for how he
shoots this scene with Mack in the church and how he cleverly runs audio of
Karen’s meeting with her doctor over the footage. Oh, such style, and all taking place on the
small screen on a network show!
Oh yeah, and one other thing
that we gotta mention regarding this ep: It’s written by none other than the
landmark television giant Peter Dunne (pictured below in the only photo I can manage to find of him in the entire internet world), the man who’s dick I currently want to
suck really hard because I’m
crediting him with saving the show from cancellation with the brilliant triple
whammy of seasons four, five, and six after a rather schizophrenic and
sometimes hard to sit through third season.
Maybe I’m mistaken in giving him so much credit, maybe I’m not, and I’ll
probably never know since I can’t time travel back to the set of the show at
this point (although dear God, how I want to, if for no other reason than to violently
sodomize Michael). Anyway, I’m willing
to say maybe Peter Dunne isn’t actually a genius
in absolutely all regards considering some of the other credits on his IMDb
(such as the dream season of Dallas and
the rather awful final season of Melrose Place,
a show that was hardly great art at any point in its run), but he was
definitely a genius when it came to writing and crafting and understanding KL and all its characters, and his
talents really shine this week with an excellent script full of fantastic
character moments.
So Karen’s in the hospital and
she’s about to have her surgery and all that, but what’s Val/Verna up to over
in Shula, Tennessee? Well, we saw her
making kissy with Parker Winslow last week, and now the kissy continues with
Parker yet again (Parker Winslow can’t lose!), this time in the darkened back
pantry or broom closet or whatever.
Basically Val/Verna goes wandering off into this dark room and is kinda
sorta assaulted by Parker, who jumps out at her unexpectedly, and then the two
continue to make kissy. This would all
be very romantic aside from the fact that Val/Verna is soul mates with one
person and one person only, Mr. Gary Ewing, and it’s also upsetting to watch
only because Parker continues to give us viewers a funny feeling. After all, is his interest in Val/Verna really just stemming from a human
physical attraction or is it from something deeper and more lecherous? Again, we shall have to wait and find out.
That’s about all that Val/Verna
is up to this week, but Greg is busy as a bee with lots of different secret
meetings, most notably one taking place in the back of a limo between him and
Galveston. We the viewers are definitely
starting to get the sense that there’s some sort of crazy past history between
these two (like perhaps maybe, just maybe, Galveston is actually Greg’s father)
based on the way that they speak to each other, like two guys who have spent
time together in the past but don’t really get along much. This scene is similar to the one from our
last ep in which Galveston creepily materialized by Greg’s bedside, although
the gist of the scene is a smidge different.
In that scene, Galveston was saying ominous things about how the senate
wouldn’t give Greg the power he wants and needs, something like that, but in
the back of the limo, Galveston is telling Greg to get Mack far away from the
Tidal Basin murders, to somehow encourage him to get off the case. Greg is like, “Oh yeah, whatever, you’re old
and I don’t like you and your guest appearance in a few years on Dallas is gonna suck,” and that pretty much ends the scene. We kinda assume that Greg will
go to Mack and do as Galveston asked, but he surprises us by doing precisely
the opposite. He comes walking into
Mack’s office (the one with the ‘80s rowing machine on the floor, you’ll all
remember) and My Beloved Grammy was like, “Ah, here’s where he tells Mack to
drop the case.” Instead, he tells Mack
to further pursue the case and, indeed, to be even more aggressive in his
pursuit. Because of the way things have
unfolded between these two over the last year or so, Mack is understandably a
little bit reticent to take any advice from Greg, wondering why he’s suddenly
showing up at his door to give him advice on a murder case. He’s right to be suspicious since Greg has
behaved questionably in the past, but in this case we get the sense that Greg
is doing something he believes to be ethical and right, not listening to the
orders of Galveston even though Galveston has a distinctive deep voice and a cool
moustache.
This episode kicks into action
movie mode during a delightfully unexpected car chase involving Mack and
Jessick and, um, some other guy. I can
distinctly remember that there were three guys in Mack’s jeep, but damn it all,
I can’t remember the third guy, and I’m not all that sure it’s too important
anyway. Basically the guys are hanging out and then suddenly they get into an epic high speed car chase. I love how this comes so wonderfully out of
nowhere, how Mack sees this car and is like, “Oh shit!” and then immediately
spins his jeep around and goes chasing after this other car, a car with two
random dudes inside. The whole time,
Jessick is like, “Jesus, why are we having a high speed car chase?” but he gets
no response from Mack, who manages to corner the car and then goes running out
to violently assault the driver.
Seriously, Mack goes to town on this guy, really kicking the shit out of
him for something like 72 minutes, even throwing him down against the hood of the
car. The guy is quickly abandoned by the
other random dude in the car, who goes running off in pants-wetting terror, but
just before the scene concludes, as this random dude lies all beat up and
bleeding against his car, Mack points at him and says, “Wolfbridge hired him to
beat me up!”
Ah yes, this brings me to a
flashback from around, I think, mid season five, in which Karen was waiting for
Mack to meet her for her drug rehab counseling and he instead got assaulted in
the parking lot by Wolfbridge thugs.
Don’t you just love how that
can happen so long ago but still play into the plots of the show now? This is a type of storytelling that I have to
think was pretty unique to this era of television, something we’d be more used
to nowadays with the cable shows and the whole idea of binge watching TV. Seriously, who in 1985 would see this scene
and be like, “Oh yeah, I remember that scene!”
It feels like it happened so long ago, but it still plays into the plots
now, and I like it that way. On another,
more base level, I also just enjoy whenever Mack gets really randomly angry and
beats people up; it keeps his character so wonderfully unpredictable and,
again, so manly. Fuck, I’m starting to
get really turned on by Mack at this point in the series, which is a new
feeling. The first time I watched the
series, I obviously loved him and cherished him and respected him, but I don’t
remember ever finding him sexy upon
the first viewing and I’m starting to feel that way about him now. Does this mean I’m growing and maturing or
does it just mean I’m really horny? I
suppose that’s an issue for me to deal with on my own personal time, preferably
with a good psychiatrist.
Meanwhile, Abs is up to her
wicked ways again this week, helping to keep her character fully fledged and
fascinating. See, we’ve been watching
Abs desperately try and figure out what happened to Val’s babies as well as
what happened to Scott Easton, running around in bad hats and acting like a
little amateur detective. We have seen
that she is not completely cold and
heartless, that she does understand the maternal instinct and that she feels
awful about what has happened to Val and her babies. Now, on another show, this might lead to a
“Abs turning good” storyline in which she goes to the join the rebels like the end
of Return of the Jedi or something,
but KL is more complex than that, and
this week we see her still up to her duplicitous ways.
See, that P.I. guy that Abs
hired found Val/Verna last week, right?
When he found her, she was in the diner kissing Parker and he made the
assumption that she had chosen to disappear into Shula and a new life with some
new man, which is what he’s told Abs. This
week, Abs gives him orders to write a nice, tidy little report that says he
failed to find Val and he’ll be moving on to a new case. Abs declares, “I want the case on Valene
Ewing closed.” Later, she and the P.I.
have a nice little meeting at her office at Lotus Point (where Abs mentions
that she was an English major, just like me!), in which he starts to get, well,
a little Trumpy. I feel like it’s been a
long while since Trumpy rape made its way into KL
(I honestly think season one’s The Lie might have been the last rapey episode we’ve seen), but now it’s
back. See, the P.I. holds up two files
and says, “This one brings Val home, and this one keeps her away.” Abs sorta sighs and clearly makes the
assumption that this is all about exploiting her out of money, so she starts to
pull out her checkbook and scribble something and is like, “Okay, how
much?” However, things get creepy/rapey
when the P.I. walks over to her and starts to slowly stroke her face while
moaning, “Money isn’t everything, Mrs. Ewing.”
Then he goes walking off, leaving both Abs and myself with a genuine
feeling of disgust.
Ugh, let’s talk about rape for a
minute. It’s one of those subjects that
is a horrible thing but that is sadly a part of our world, something that
happens all the time and is very hard to digest. Back in The Lie, I didn’t enjoy seeing Laura
get raped, but I respected the episode for being well crafted and incredibly
acted and exploring the subject in a complex way. Here, as that horrible P.I. started to stroke
Abby’s face, I honestly couldn’t remember if Abs was gonna get raped, either
later in the episode or right here in front of me. As it was happening, I kinda thought we might
cut to commercial just as the P.I. started to rape, sorta like the two times
J.R. raped people on Dallas and they
would just cut to commercial as it was happening (yes, J.R. raped twice, I’m
not making this up; once he raped Dr. Goodhead and once he raped that boring
British chick that Clayton was obsessed with).
All I knew is that I did not want
to see it. There is something about the
idea of Abs being raped that is just too horrible for me to deal with, and I
don’t know if I would have been able to handle it happening to her. She may be wicked and she may be duplicitous,
but she’s also really strong and she’s sharp and smart and she’s my girl and I
just don’t want to see her get raped. Happily for me, that does not happen. Again, if this was another show, like Melrose Place for instance, I have no
doubt that Abs would get raped and the writers would be like, “We need a rape
to create good drama!” On KL, the drama comes from continuous unexpected
avenues, from the curveballs the writers constantly throw at us and the
characters. For instance, the next day,
the P.I. shows up to show Abs and Gary his report, and it’s the report that
ends with his failing to find Val at all.
Also present in the scene (and this is significant for the latter
portion of the ep) is Galveston, sorta watching proceedings like a hawk. The P.I. hands the file over to Abs and when
she opens it, she sees a little post-it note inside saying, “Meet me at your
office at 8:00PM so I can rape you.” I
don’t know if Galveston actually sees this note or what, but I think he does,
because he gets this sharp look in his eye and we can tell wheels are in motion
in his head.
In one of the last scene of the
ep, Abs is sitting in her office waiting to be raped, but instead of the rapey
P.I. coming to pay her a visit, it’s actually Paul Galveston. Over the last few eps, we’ve seen that these
two have a, shall we say, contentious relationship with one another (can we
ever forget such dialogue as, “Shouldn’t you be at home making babies?” and
“One more thing, don’t call me ‘Cookie’?) and that contentious relationship
only escalates here. See, Abs is kinda
surprised to see Galveston here and so she asks if he’d like a drink and he’s
like, “Another time, perhaps,” and then he launches into this speech where he’s
like, “I don’t know what I have planned for you,” but then a second later he
shows that he has a lot planned for
her. He tells her how he knows where Val
is and that his next step is to figure out where the babies are, and once
that’s completed, he’s gonna tell Gary absolutely everything. Then he marches off and leaves Abs looking
like she’s about to poop her pants.
It’s been a few eps since Cathy
graced us with one of her fabulous cover songs, but she more than makes up for
it in this ep with a rousing rendition of Beat
of a Heart by Scandal. Now, I didn’t
know this song or this band as we were watching the ep, but after finishing our
disk I immediately sped home, running over puppies and old people in my frantic
quest to return to my abode and look up this song, and I found the original
version by Scandal on YouTube. It has a
fabulous ‘80s sound to it but, as usual, Lisa gives us the better version. While Scandal’s music video is basically just
one of those boring ‘80s music videos with lots of singing in front of white
walls (I attached it below so you can all see it for yourself), Lisa’s rendition at Isadora’s is positively stunning, a true ‘80s
explosion all around her. I could
happily watch this scene on a loop for the rest of time, never moving or
getting out of my chair until the time comes for me to finally die and go to
Hell. My God, not only do we have the
fabulous song which positively drips with ‘80s goodness, but we’ve also got
Cathy’s wild electro-shock hair, as if she accidentally stuck her finger in an
electrical socket and then had to go onstage right away and wasn’t able to give
it a comb, plus we’ve got just about a million star filters going off behind
her while the band plays and the people listen to her and it was just one of
the greatest scenes I’ve ever seen committed to celluloid.
I don’t know if I’ve ever
mentioned this before, but I feel like KL
is a much more ‘80s show than Dallas,
and I obviously mean that in the complimentary way, because the ‘80s are
awesome. It’s rather strange to notice
this since both shows were on the air all the way through the entirety of the
1980’s, yet I felt that Dallas existed
in something of a time warp in which everyone just sorta lived on the ranch or
in stuffy offices full of liquor, but there were hardly ever any scenes where
we heard a good ‘80s tune being blasted or went to a sexy ‘80s nightclub. Indeed, whenever an ‘80s song did make its way into the series (such
as when Charlie and Brad Pitt were dancing around to a cover version of Mony Mony), it would always feel
jarring to me and I’d be like, “Oh yeah, we’re watching an ‘80s show; I kinda
forgot.” Here on KL, it’s impossible to forget the decade because there is so much
‘80s aesthetic just oozing out of every frame, and I feel like everything great
and brilliant about the 1980s is rolled up into one fantastic ball of genius
and exemplified through Lisa and all of her fabulous songs and
performances. God, don’t you just want
to climb into the television screen and live in this world forever?!
Last thing I’d like to note
before we move on to Karen and her surgery: Gary gives a wonderful speech to
Abs this week about a man speaking at his recent A.A. meeting. He talks about how this man would always go
off and disappear from his family so that he could also disappear into the
nearest bottle. He would get black out
drunk and wander around for awhile before waking up in some strange new
environment and having to figure out where he was, but whenever he would come
home, his wife would be waiting to be nice and help him get cleaned up. Gary makes the point that it wasn’t until his
wife finally took the kids and left this guy that the man began to see straight
and decided to quit drinking forever, but of course the sad irony is that by
the time the man was straight and sober, he had lost his family. Gary then goes on to say something about how
Val would always do the same for him during his big benders, and then Abs
delivers a line that actually made me laugh out loud, in which she asks,
“Honey, are you thinking of drinking again?”
Um, no, Abs, he’s just telling
you a story and making a point, and I think it’s funny how the point seems to
go flying over her head. This is a good scene for many
reasons. First off, it causes us to
pause and reflect on Gary’s drinking and his fantastic sobriety that he’s
maintained all the way through season five and now six, but it also makes us reflect
on the negative qualities of his
marriage to Val. We realize that, in
many ways, Val was an enabler for Gary’s drinking because she would always be
there to support him afterwards, to make like it was okay. This really opened my eyes and made me realize
there are many positive qualities to the union of Gary and Abs. Back in season four, during Gary’s big final
bender, Abs was very cold with him and said, “If you want to drink yourself to
death, go ahead.” She did not merely stand by to be a good doting
wife the way Val probably would, and I think that is one of the primary reasons that Gary truly got
straight. If he had been married to Val
during that period, he could very well still be drinking at this point in the
saga. Also, I just like to have little
shout-outs to Gary’s A.A. meetings to help establish that he’s continuing to go
to those. We may not see him going to the A.A. meetings on a
regular basis, but we know that he is doing so and that’s good information to
have.
Okay, let’s get back to
Karen. Last week she agreed to the
risky, scary, could-possibly-kill-her-the-way-it-killed-Sid surgery, and this
week she’s ready to go with the surgery.
She spends most of the ep in the hospital, getting prepped, and we get a
lovely scene between her and some kid in a wheelchair. See, in case I forgot to mention it, one of
the big risks of this surgery, in addition to, you know, death, is that Karen
may end up in a wheelchair paralyzed forever.
This is a scary prospect, but near the middle of the ep, she’s sorta
wheeling herself around the hospital, getting used to the feeling of moving in
the chair, and she runs into this nice young boy who is also in a
wheelchair. At first, when we see him
climbing out of his bed and getting into a wheelchair, we think this is
supposed to be a sad scene, but then we quickly realize that the boy has a
great attitude, that he’s not going to let this wheelchair ruin his life, and
that he sorta shows Karen that this doesn’t have to be the end of the world. She’s having a hard time moving her chair
around, and he says something like, “For the first month, I broke everything in
the house,” and shows her it’s just a period of adjustment, really.
When the time for the big
surgery comes, the tension really rackets up, and My Beloved Grammy continued
to make little comments like, “Oh they can’t kill Karen off…..can they?” How pleased I am to see this suspense and
excitement really working on her, and how pleased I am to see the show’s
sublime magic truly taking control of her (at the end of this disk of eps, she
declared, “This is a brilliant
series” and I was like, “Yeah, I fucking know, right?!”). Like I mentioned before, if you manage to
wash your brain out of the retroactive knowledge that Karen will be with us
until the final episode in 1993, and if you manage to just look at this as its
unfolding in front of you, not knowing what lies in the future, it could
definitely seem like Karen might die.
Again, I remind you that they killed Sid, and not even in the spot where
you would usually kill a main cast member, between two seasons, but rather at
the very start of the third season,
even after going through the trouble of redesigning the opening credits and
keeping his name in there. So yes,
because of all that, it seems that Karen may die.
However, she wakes up from her
surgery, so we know that we’ve dodged that bullet
(you see what I did there?), but will she be paralyzed? This is an incredible scene and yet another
one of those scenes that has ingrained itself into my brain for all time, ever
since the first time I watched the series back in college. See, Karen wakes up but is still groggy and
unable to speak, so the doctors and nurses ask her to blink if she can
understand them, which she does, and then they say how they’re gonna touch her
feet and she needs to blink if/when she feels any sensation. Oh God, the music gets scary as the doctor
runs that, like, wheel thing over her foot, and no blinking. Is she
paralyzed? The KL writing and plotting is so good that it honestly seems like a
distinct possibility, that perhaps the next big story for Karen will be
adjusting to life in a wheelchair, like Bobby Brady in another brilliant CBS
series, The Bradys. However, after a good long moment of suspense
in which Karen appears to feel no sensation below her waist, the doctor runs
the wheel thing over her foot one more time and we go into a really great
closeup of Karen’s eyeballs as she blinks along with them filling with tears. Oh man,
such acting, can you imagine having to make your eyes start out dry and then
fill with tears all in one extreme, tight closeup? I think
I could make myself cry pretty well if I was an actor and it was required
for the scene, but I don’t know if I could do it knowing that the camera was in
a super duper tight Wayne’s World style
extreme closeup and that every detail of my eyes filling with tears would be
photographed in microscopic detail, but Michele does it here, adding yet
another stunning performance to her many past and future stunning
performances. Fuck me, yes, it’s all so
good.
We actually end on something
that should be incredibly corny and
eye-rolling, and that is Mack entering the church again to give a great big
thumbs up to Jesus. I know, I know, it
sounds ridiculous when you write it down, and for all intents and purposes it
should seem like high camp to witness onscreen, but somehow, God bless it,
somehow it works. How does the KL team do
it? On what other series could you end
an ep with someone giving a thumbs up to Jesus and not have all of America pee
their pants in laughter? Why does it
work so well here? Why is it maybe one of my top ten episode endings
of all time? I don’t know, but all I do
know is that this is a stunning ending to a stunning episode.
Last thing I wanna address
before we move on to our next ep is how long this storyline has been going on
and how not boring it has been. Over on Dallas
right around this time, America was suffering through the absolutely toxic
“Jenna Wade murder trial” storyline in which Scooter Warren was the lawyer of
her ex-husband or something equally boring.
This story went on forever and
is absolutely impossible for any living human to sit through (making it even
more of a mystery how Dallas could
finish at #2 in the rating while KL was
#9, again showing that American people generally have no taste when it comes to
what they will watch on television), yet this Karen storyline has also gone on
pretty long, fourteen eps long, yet somehow it never bored me and it never felt
long winded. I know some fans disagree,
as I’ve seen some people write that the story went on too long, but I simply
disagree. Yeah, it spans nearly half the
season, but I was never bored, and in the typical KL fashion, it wasn’t just drama for drama’s sake, but it was drama
coming from the inner core of the characters, keeping them interesting and real
to us, and I think the pacing was just perfect and that this was the best spot
to end this storyine and wrap it up. Give
it another two or three or four eps and I would have started to get bored with
it, but ending it right here in episode #14 (with a bullet!) was the perfect
choice.
Clearly this episode was a
sublime and shining work of genius, so let’s move right along and find out if
our next episode can be equally good, as we explore the inside information of our next episode, Inside Information.
-You included a pic of Howard Duff from Flamingo Road. He was great on that show.
ReplyDelete-You also included a pic of "The Bradys" when you could have used that space to show Laura's librarian glasses. The world is still waiting.
-The Val story line does go on a long time, but it's good because everyone on the show can act. The Jenna Wade murder story line did not work because Priscilla Presley could not act, and they had to write the entire story maneuvering around the character who was at the center of it.
-Thumbs up to Jesus is corny, but it's over fast so you don't realize it's corny until the end credits are rolling and you're tidying up the living room and saying, "It's three in the morning. I have to go to bed and never watch seven episodes of Knots Landing in a row again on a work night."
What's up with the extensive rouge on Abby's nose? I've never minded the reddened cheeks and ton of eye makeup but the nose leaves her with white circles under eyes I find really distracting.
ReplyDeleteI learned all my makeup skills from Abby and to this day, I put blush on my nose. It's an early form of contouring, in my opinion.
DeleteThe white undereyes is flashback from the concealer and the lighting.
Besides Season 13, I don't remember thinking that a story line went on too long. Knots generally seemed to wrap up a story line within 1/2 a season, and that is enough time to develop a narrative without dragging it out.
ReplyDeleteAbby is evil, no doubt about it. I'm glad she meets someone who sees right through her. Her subsequent moves to "help' Val were just to cover her a$$.
ReplyDeleteLisa Hartman's hair is perfection this season. PERFECTION!
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to mention what happened to Rapey P.I. He never showed up to his appointment because Galveston had him killed(?) after he pumped him for info on Val and the babies.
Agree on Lisa's hair.
Delete- That thumbs-up to Jesus was a throw back to Michael's earlier thumbs-up to Karen in the hospital. In that perspective, Mack's thumbs-up makes total sense.
ReplyDelete- The close-up on Karen's eyes in the recovery room as she tears up with joy was brilliantly conceived and got me a little misty as well.
- Howard Duff as Paul Galveston is fantastic. Wish he and his character had stayed beyond Season 6.
- Verna could do SO much better than Parker.
- I highly doubt that Abby would have had sex with the sleazy P.I. I'm not sure what she had up her sleeve (and maybe she didn't either) but that is 100% NOT Abby's character to let a man use her.
- Glad to see Abby and Gary being intimate again. It's been awhile and we needed to see this couple together romantically rather than just as business partners.
Thumbs up didn't work for me. Felt it cheapened the episode. Could have just been the way it was edited/ frozen for the ending credits. 🤔
ReplyDeleteI think Lisa Hartman looks great, but to me the hairdo is NOT Cathy. Cathy, to me, is a bit more rough around the edges, not quite as savvy as Ciji was, and Lisa's return to a more "Ciji look" does not serve the character of Cathy well.
The other dude in the car with Mack and Jessick is BEN, who's been sorta under the radar during these eps. That chase was another weird scene to me. A bit out of place... I presume it must tie into something with Tidal Basin, but I can't remember.
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