On Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 12:39:14 PM UTC-7, Rob Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:53:23 -0500, "Mac Breck"
> <macthe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >IS the Gormogon case actually closed? The Gormogon apprentice, or the
> >at least, sole Gormogon apprentice *couldn't have been* Zack. The guy
> >who killed the lobbyist was NOT Zack. Cam suspected Dr. Sweets, and
> >doesn't, now, (apparently) as of "The Finger in the Nest," but I can't
> >shake the feeling that it IS Dr. Sweets, and that he's the Gormogon
> >apprentice that has or will become the next active, current Gormogon.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> The Gormogon case is currently closed as far as I can tell because,
> well, Zack's been convicted of it and sentenced to a loony bin.
> However, Zack is enough of a savant that even given the times where
> his logic fails him (uh, Gormagon), it seems to me that if he
> suspected Sweets of being The Apprentice he probably *wouldn't* have
> told Sweets his suspicions *or* to keep it quiet from Brennan and
> Booth. Given how well that Sweets does fit the profile (height,
> social deficiencies, etc.), letting the killer know that you're onto
> him would make Zack too good a target for Sweets -- if Sweets were the
> killer. And Sweets would be book-smarts enough to clean up his trail
> in one way or another if he were the Apprentice and if he had killed
> Zack.
> While I'm keeping an open mind about Sweets being a possibility (I
> can't totally rule him out), it seems to me that there would be too
> many conditions regarding a war of the minds between a Killer!Sweets
> and Zack for Sweets to be the Apprentice. I still think that Sweets
> is most likely a red herring.
> Now, given that it only makes sense for the Apprentice to be an
> insider at the Jeffersonian, it's entirely possible and plausible (and
> I almost want to say probable) that the Apprentice is literally one of
> the rotating new Apprentices of Brennan. Perhaps Brennan's
> fangirl/Sweets's girlfriend, even. Yes, she has many of the same
> issues of physical likelihood as Zack does (smaller than the killer,
> etc.), but she's clearly obsessed on Brennan and could be an
> obsessive-compulsive savant that somehow faked all of the details.
> Yes, it's likely that if Gormagon's Apprentice really is one of
> Brennan's new Assistants (ie: Apprentices), then Sweets's girlfriend
> (Daisy?) is likely yet another red herring, but she's the only
> Apprentice that I can think of right now besides Michael Badalucco --
> and he's clearly *not* the Apprentice.
> -- Rob -- adds, "It's too bad that under the circumstances and in
> retrospect, Gormagon didn't look anything like Donald Trump."
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