138: Night Terrors Nicole Davidson

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Stop making this about you, Maggie

gellaho

A lot more careful with the room than they were with your head

FancyShark

Right, but they gutted the bear, Maggie

BEARY WHITE IS DEAD, MAGGIE

gellaho

Maggie dreams about being a little toddler and her mom has a different hair and face and body

gellaho

I wonder what that could mean

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

It means a makeover!

FancyShark

It would be hilarious if the murderer was her adopted parents

gellaho

She's also traveling through her memories like she has magic powers

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie just has face blindness.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Maggie's just dumb as shit

gellaho

She also seems to think she'll be able to remember further back than toddler

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Her parents don't move, she just wanders into other peoples homes and declares they are her parents

FancyShark

She's like a cat

Which I think Brendan said earlier

gellaho

Maggie talks to a candy striper about the old lady. Maggie's suspects so far are "all men." Should be pretty easy to narrow it down from there

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Well I know it wasnt me.

So now we have all men -1.

FancyShark

And Alzheimer's patients never mistake gender

gellaho

What a book

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Again you went from "Met this guy three days ago." to "kissing like we have a farm upstate."

gellaho

What a scoop

gellaho

That's not... huh... fuckin-what!?

FancyShark

Proof of malpractice, at best

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

That's… not really how syringes work

A full syringe of just about anything would be lethal

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Shhhhhh. Trust Nicole

FancyShark

Nicole thinks "payoff" is a candy bar

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Quiet your thinky thoughts

gellaho

"I found a salt shaker at the scene. It's large enough that if someone consumed all the salt, they'd be dead. Ipso facto, proof"

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Its 100% nougat, but not the flavor you expect.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"Someone could choke on this salt shaker and probably did."

FancyShark

"I once saw a pair of scissors. So someone was probably stabbed."

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Bill might be dumb as shit you guys

I'm not sure Bill's a volunteer

gellaho

I hope we repeat this thing about autopsies 30 to 40 more times

FancyShark

That would actually be a good twist

"We'll have to do the autopsy ourselves."

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Um............if you or a physician has evidence of murder, the autopsy doesnt need authorization.

From the family anyway.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Please. Please, Santa, I've been so good

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Like that will just happen during the investigation.

gellaho

Shut the fuck up

FancyShark

The scene makes Upton Sinclair look like Dr. Seuss

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie is part horse, isnt she?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

And now twenty pages of handjob

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Bill is going to blow into her nostrils and tell her shes a good girl before giving her an apple.

gellaho

Yeah, yeah. Your psychic connection to Chicago, whatever

gellaho

Just figure out you were born here and stolen as a baby

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Yeah you sound insane.

I dont remember the hospital where I was born, and I WENT there several times in childhood.

gellaho

Poke em out, Maggie

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie, I hear that sometimes if you gouge out your own eyes it awakens the Second Sight.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Maggie that's called seeing things

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

You could use that to solve crime!

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Has Maggie been blind this whole time and just got vision back?

"Sometimes when I'm walking down a corridor I can predict which way it will turn" yeah I fucking hope so, Maggie, this isn't meant to be a puzzle

FancyShark

When your investigator is solving everything with feelings and vibes, having a secondary plot about "am I feeling things that are real or not?" is double dipping

gellaho

Well, (1) you took it from the room, so it's not proof of anything, (2) it's not proof of anything anyway because it's a syringe that had some amount of insulin in it, sometime, and (3) A HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR IS NOT A MEMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

gellaho

I hate these children

FancyShark

THIS ISN'T A SERIAL MURDERER

oh my god

This is Mountain Monsters: CSI

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Found the killer

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Also also maybe Mrs K's nephew is an innocent man and just doesnt like his aunt? Maybe Mrs K was racist to his Asian wife, maybe she once drowned a puppy, you dont know.

gellaho

Maggie seesaws emotionally once again, and goes from trusting Dr Geringer for no reason to breaking into his office

gellaho

FancyShark

Every character in these books is the most mercurial human being on the planet

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie if your behavior over the last while is any indication you have a lot of people who would bash your skull in if they got the chance.

gellaho

Then she hides her "piece of evidence" in an active construction site

gellaho

They all deserve to die, but simply won't

FancyShark

Good plan, Maggie. Pipes never have anything run through them to carry material away.

gellaho

Nothing will ever frustrate me more than when Kelly in Crash Course 2: Crash Landing gave the insane who murdered her best friend and beat Kelly over the head 50 times complete forgiveness and vowed to solve her murder

But this is getting close

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

And nothing has ever just fallen down empty pipes

gellaho

That's not something you usually do when you're disappointed in someone else

FancyShark

Don't you mean disappointed in them, Maggie?

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Your hands are disappointing, Maggie but its weird you call them "him"

gellaho

Fucking, what

FancyShark

Maggie's insane

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie, usually medical type books are about the OPPOSITE of killing people.

USUALLY the books have things like "DO NOT DO THIS!"

At this point it would be less insane if you started thinking YOU were the killer.

gellaho

What, is she his daughter or something?

FancyShark

Which would actually dovetail with the nightmare plot

gellaho

That'd be real fucking stupid, Maggie

gellaho

Kathryn? Is that it?

Real weird way to start a conversation, Maggie

FancyShark

I like that we've read enough of Nicole's books that we know the ending is going to be stupid. It's only a matter of how

gellaho

Before I start asking about the dead old woman, let me moisten my lips

FancyShark

"How did you get his contact information? He could sue us."

gellaho

Weird distraction

gellaho

Time to snoop

FancyShark

Tossing SSNs left and right in her search for incriminating evidence

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie you are kind of doing a crime here? Thats probably a lot of private information you shouldnt be rifling thru.

gellaho

The kneehole

FancyShark

As opposed to the center drawer over...?

gellaho

Ah, so Maggie's real name is Stephanie then

gellaho

Cool she randomly found that one, Kathryn

FancyShark

The great thing about investigating without a plan is everything you find could be important

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

I'd call this stupid but at this point Kathryn is just saving us all some time

gellaho

Ahuh

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"You don't give a shit. Maggie finds a hand written confession."

gellaho

Ahuh, let's put it together, Maggie

gellaho

OK, almost

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

She's getting there

gellaho

Smooth

FancyShark

So her mom tried to kill her and her idiot adopted parents brought her back to the one hospital she shouldn't be at

This isn't even exciting

The big tension is "oh no, this might get awkward"

gellaho

You fucking idiot

gellaho

How indeed.

gellaho

You did not know her. She did not know you. Fuck.

FancyShark

Please let it be revealed that Mrs. K was her mother. I know the ages don't line up. But I don't think Nicole does.

gellaho

But, nevermind that, her sadness is over. Time to try and play mind games with this adult

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Well that went exactly as expected

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

"Also Mrs Krane was a lifelong member of the KKK, so even if he DID it was the right thing to do."

gellaho

Christ alive, Maggie. How thrilled is he supposed to be, he doesn't know you

gellaho

You are his daughter, but he doesn't know that

FancyShark

"You are smart and pretty, Author Insert"

A Brendan for Christmas

I'm BACK, baby! Somebody tell @FancyShark what happened while I was gone and I will grade you on how well you summarize it.

FancyShark

:Listening:

gellaho

Maggie feels the need to hug any sad man in her vicinity

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Yes I know that if I was an adult medical professional I would want a teen girl just swanning into my office and talking shit while I do doctor stuff.

A Brendan for Christmas

Let me comfort you on the death of your wife with my own body, given unto you.

gellaho

Maggie's the daughter of an angry surgeon at the hospital. She hasn't realized it yet because she's very dumb

A Brendan for Christmas

All surgeons are angry.

Because those know-nothing hospital administrators won't let them DO what has to be DONE.

FancyShark

They also learned that a syringe can hold insulin, so it's clearly been used to administer an overdose

gellaho

Would you please stop seductively licking your lips before discussing death

gellaho

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

FORESHADOWING

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Maggie you are what the medical community calls "Very Stupid." and if Bill wasnt one of you he could probably tell you a dozen reasons why the doctor is literally not an insane murderer just because he seems a little short with you, Gods Stupidest Future Teen Mother.

gellaho

Maggie demands a bedtime story about stranger's tragedies

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Bill should be brought up on charges for kissing you, Maggie, you are so stupid you cant possibly consent.

gellaho

We're at like fifteenshadowing

A Brendan for Christmas

How ironic. She could deliver other mothers safely to delivery, but not herself.

It's not a story the General Practitioners would tell you.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

MORESHADOWING

FancyShark

The delivery area is where they drop off supplies, Nicole. You're thinking of the neonatal ward.

A Brendan for Christmas

we use all of the baby at this hospital.

gellaho

It's all that

A Brendan for Christmas

I think Gerringer is the killer because he mourns his loving wife.

gellaho

"They could hate each other, who knows"

FancyShark

Maybe the wife is the killer and he lets her run around the hospital to work out her zoomies

A Brendan for Christmas

This is just a rumor the other girls would tell over cigarettes, but they said if she had really died of Distressed Mother's Disease, she wouldn't have had fingerprints round her throat and a crushed hyoid bone.

gellaho

"They had toys to amuse young patients," she said, like a hu-man

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

That's called love

FancyShark

Yes, Maggie. "Until one day" usually precedes something sad

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

And then she got kidnapped and Rebecca got hit by a bus while chasing her kidnappers

gellaho

"YOU FUCKING TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT THREE YEAR OLD"

FancyShark

She made her watch Land Before Time 2-9, skipping the good one

gellaho

"Somehow"

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

"The police gunned her down three blocks away, said she had a baby shaped knife."

FancyShark

Rebecca put a curse on that woman that no man she would ever marry would be able to hold a job for more than a few months

gellaho

"Hey, they got free babies in this hospital!"

A Brendan for Christmas

My heart stopped for a moment with a fear. The kind of fear reserved normally only for children orphaned from lost mothers who later died of grief. WHAT was the secret this forebode?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

This book is so spooky

gellaho

Never thought to look in Minnesota, after all, it's so far away

FancyShark

Because cops never look for abducted children

gellaho

"His pretty wife, not like my fat pig of a mother"

FancyShark

They only trigger than horrible alert on phones

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Wait has Maggie STILL not put this together?

HOW

A Brendan for Christmas

forebade?

Forbid/forbade....forebode/foreboded

gellaho

Took a while, but might have figured it out

gellaho

Maybe

Kathryn refuses to commit

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Die in a fire Maggie.

gellaho

Spun with my dream eyes wide open

gellaho

Dream eyes.

"Bloated up, like my pudgy waste of a mother"

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"I can't say for sure until I've dreamt about it a bunch. My dreams are full of facts."

FancyShark

That's a Dave Matthews lyric. You can't fool me.

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Moving on to Danzig lyrics

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

And they're in Chicago… OH NO, THE RIVER!

gellaho

My dream ears must hear the dream truth, no!

gellaho

FancyShark

"Mostly I remember losing my religion"

[slap]

gellaho

Why does she have doubts? She doesn't know any of this stupid shit

A Brendan for Christmas

See? Urine-soaked pavement.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"Pump me in the name of science" is a sentence that demands a second draft

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

The doubts are "God I dont think sleeping badly is this girls main problem."

A Brendan for Christmas

Suspension of disbelief crime: nobody ever asked someone else to recount their weird dream.

FancyShark

If this turns out to all be a dream, there will be blood

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Maybe she knew all along for no reason. That would actually explain this whole thing.

gellaho

Jesus Christ, calm down

gellaho

These characters, man

FancyShark

"Puffy spurts"?

Nicole, you want to take another shot at that?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

DO A SECOND DRAFT, KATHRYN

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

I can't even use this as a discord name

It's just awful

gellaho

Yeah, it's real weird

FancyShark

Seems like you could have streamlined this story by not having a murder subplot, Kathryn

gellaho

Alright, girl, you aren't fighting Freddy Krueger

FancyShark

I wish she was

He could punch this up

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Oh you wont be in Adolescent Surgery, you would be in a psych ward.

Also saying that to a doctor sounds like a suicide threat, Maggie.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Also shut the fuck up, Maggie

A Brendan for Christmas

Maggie, why are you here?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Sleep study for bad dreams

Wait are we just going right back to the dream

Why

Why did any of this happen

gellaho

Not sure why there's a break here

gellaho

Sleep walked out of a moving car

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

That lines too much of a banger not to have a dramatic pause

A Brendan for Christmas

That's a really good reason actually.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

If this was a tv show you'd put your toyotathon ad right there

gellaho

You'd hate to lie to the woman who stole you

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Yeah it's dumb as shit but it technically works, which is how all of Nicole/Kathryn's books feel

FancyShark

It's only when you examine how the people behave that things get idiotic

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Wait did Nicole just skip the dream?

gellaho

It should really be about the sleepwalking, but they seem to be focused on the bad dreams for some reason

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Nicole that was a Moment

A Brendan for Christmas

Hey momnapper--I mean: Rebecca? Can you meet me inside the police station to discuss this sleep study?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

I'm not saying this book is good but there are moments you should hit and that's pretty much THE moment

God damn it Nicole do a second draft

gellaho

No, the dream was interrupted by the sleep doctor, and then there was a page break for no reason

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

And then it happened off screen, great, thanks Nicole

FancyShark

Or better yet, throw it out and write something else

A Brendan for Christmas

This is somehow less scientific than the satanic panic hypnotism.

gellaho

Now we wait two days for the parlor scene

gellaho

She's not going to tell anyone anything until her parents get here for... reasons

FancyShark

And yes, this will be in real time despite being a book

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Because she's incredibly dramatic, it's the only personality trait she has

gellaho

I don't think you know what doctors do, Maggie

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Be real funny if this is Kathryns polemic about recovered memories being false and Maggies parents can produce like a birth certificate and reliable witnesses.

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Bill's the murderer

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Nah Bill just loves him a GMILF

gellaho

✅ Redhead

gellaho

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

No

He's not allowed to be the murderer

He's not a character

gellaho

They expressly do not have a birth certificate. Maggie remembered it during one of her dream psychic visions

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

Assuming there IS a murderer.

gellaho

It's none of your business, Maggie

FancyShark

This has been the flimsiest murder plot that wasn't an outright conspiracy theory

gellaho

Oh, so it was nothing? You nosey so-and-so?

FancyShark

The book is "101 Ways To Kill Your Aunt"

gellaho

It's a book about roses

FancyShark

Same thing

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Sure why not

gellaho

Which is important, because the dead lady would have liked to live to see roses

gellaho

Not liked to live for any other reason

FancyShark

Give him the syringe right in his neck

So he notices

gellaho

You absolutely do not

gellaho

No you don't

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"I found this book because her nephew gave it to me."

gellaho

Yes, Maggie, the important thing about this murder is you

gellaho

I hate you so much

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Maggie stop making this murder about yourself

"All Right!" The 90s teen exclaims as if they were born in the 40s

I know where Kathryn's office is. I might deface it.

gellaho

"That's not evidence. Also, I'm a doctor with patients to see and not the police"

FancyShark

It's Valerie. Because Kathryn will not give any character attention if she's going to make them evil

gellaho

"Evidence"

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

God damn it Maggie

gellaho

Yes, hopefully not

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Bill you're riding back to school on the short bus

gellaho

Is she a snake?

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

He's just tensing up because she might bite him

A Brendan for Christmas

I know what you dreamt last summer

FancyShark

Not Valerie!

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Valerie?!

FancyShark

The character we all know and trusted!

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Zoinks!

gellaho

I needed to know about her child-bearing hips

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Valerie was our rock, scoob

A Brendan for Christmas

Librarians are all demon-murderers, that's why they defy our Homeland Security and let drag queens talk to children, Newsmax said.

FancyShark

Reah! Ralerie ras our rock!

Verified Pervert FlippantSausage

:cryhard:

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Keep it pg-13 scoob

gellaho

She's been around, handing out books. I skipped most of her stuff because it really didn't matter

Still doesn't, even if she is the murderer

A Brendan for Christmas

"Lemme at 'er! Lemme AT 'er! I'll give 'er the ol' one-two, like my brave Uncle Scooby!"

gellaho

You get that pointy object out now! I am unarmed and waiting!

A Brendan for Christmas

I hate you, Scrappy.

Maggie crumpled off nothing.

gellaho

Nuh-uh!

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

Maggie listen I know all seems lost now but there is a way out. Find an open window and jump.

FancyShark

"Because every scientist knows the best way to get good data is from a patient who's incoherent"

Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time

"Maggie it's about time you learn that doctors don't listen to women."

"Ever for any reason."