Okay.. Final Chapters Review
Chapter 4 Meg and Alec. What another nice, sensuous start to the chapter particularly after the almost physically violent ending of the previous one : blood on his hands.
Interesting how you contrast the way Alec obtains his information with the methods used by Jackson!
And Jackson, having won the battle, capitulates, at least with regard to the food.. or is there a hidden agenda there?
The conversation becomes far less antagonistic, even though it is discussing things that obviously Straker wants to keep hidden.
And we learn about Jackson’s wife. And the whole scene seems to have eased up, two men almost chatting informally, discussing women, marriage. Straker commenting ‘dryly’ asking ‘curiously’
Jackson grinning, smiling.
And then the crunch at the end.
The ‘telltale blink’
Chapter 5 Alec and Meg.. still hard at it Alec?
I love the way Alec looks at her ‘ as if seeing her for the first time’ as if he has suddenly realised exactly what Meg has been doing all this time. Alec’s opinion of women, all women were as cold and heartless and the dark side of the Moon
(and it’s not dark actually Denise! It gets sunlight! You should know.. You’ve been there! – only joking. I know you used the phrase deliberately!) would be worth exploring in another story.
Interesting that he feels that women are cold and heartless, yet he uses them in a cold and heartless way to get what he wants…not sex, but information about his friend.. who is also considered to be cold and heartless by some people!
And what about Jackson? Is Alec as bad as the doctor for using people to get what he wants? Just a thought.
So Jackson has been using the truth drug on The Man. Not very nice. In fact, extremely mean. But then, we see that really, under that cold exterior, Jackson seems to care deeply for Straker. He is concerned that unless he helps Straker to break through the barrier, SHADO will lose its commander. And Jackson certainly does not want that to happen.
The moment when he ‘stared at him in shock’ and ‘wanted to shake the commander out of this unexpected, uncharacteristic despair,’ shows us that the doctor is doing his best to help, and this sudden turn of events has really worried him.
I
like Jackson at this point!, especially when he breathes a huge sigh of relief!
There’s the first clue that I originally missed. It will all be sorted out now.. Things have been broken and may possibly never be repaired, but if Jackson is sighing with relief, then all will be well. Eventually.
Ed’s weary ‘God. I’ve lost it. I’ve really lost it.’ and Jackson’s reply ‘I think you’re finally beginning to find it again .’ is the second clue.
And then we get the gradual explanation.. the UFO , the encounter with the artist.. lovely link there between the mural, and Ed and her, and then the additional nasty bit with Mary leaving him and his guilt and remorse but also the deeper guilt that he wished Mary had left him before he went to Scotland.
Oh boy. That is
some guilt.
The epilogue is a rather lovely end to their meeting. Jackson is now established as someone who is trying to help, not harm The Man, someone who is desperate to get the commander back in charge. The last part of the conversation has the two men, not at loggerheads in a Face Off, as at the start, but almost as friends.
No one loses.
And everything is going to work out .. ..eventually.
I can imagine the final scene as Jackson smiles and tucks the blankets around his commander and leaves him to sleep.
Thanks for such a great story.Very ,
very different, very
very enjoyable and thought provoking.
Now.. how about Alec and Jackson next. What makes Alec tick? 
And I wonder if we will see Ed and Jackson again.... in another confrontation? But I think Ed would have a little more respect for the good doctor now!
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