Page 66 – Debts Owed
Now everyone is in debt to Lewis, yet she’s not gotten paid. Such deadbeats. Return to this spot on Monday for some real excitement!
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Original Script
JOHN Thinking I owe you for the leg. Fine, if my debt to this pipsqueak is expunged. JANE They shake on it Agreed. LEWIS Absolutely not! JOHN And, I will be distributing due reckoning to the next constabulary which crosses my path. JANE As you wish. They walk off but Lewis remains in place, pouting. JANE Jane ducks back in the scene. Are you coming or not? Oh, and I owe you a new front door. LEWIS Runs after them Wait, WHAT!
Good for you, Jane. Great last line.
She’s quickly picking up how things work down here on the street. If you haven’t got much money, it becomes all the more valuable.
But it’s your character that really counts down here. Are you dependable? Can you be trusted? Do you honor your debts?
Rich folk screw each other over all the time (I assume). It’s just business. But down here, it’s your life.
Jane’s a fast learner.
She just passed one of the School of hard knocks tests. But, I hope she’s taking notes for the final exam.
nice improv tonfa, clem. is jane channeling a farmboy turned dread pirate?
Ah, that’s what it’s called, “tonfa”. I’ve always thought of them as just another form of nightstick.
“Farm boy, fetch me my necklace.”
“As you wish.” 😀
Given Jane’s family, she could even get Lewis a jewel-encrusted sheet metal “door”! More incentive to save her.
Ha, that much bling might call a little too much attention to Lewis’ secret hideout.
Jane seems pretty cavalier about canceling a debt that was not hers to ameliorate. Is this part of her upper-class attitude, or are there undercurrents I have missed?
Jane just believes she, or more specifically her parents, can pay whatever small fee Lewis is owed. Jane also has no talent for haggling. She probably could have argued him down. Lewis on the other hand may have trouble collecting seeing as she did help rob the Webb family.
The lighting on Lewis’ face in the third panel is just marvelous. And it’s quite amusing seeing Jane, who she looks down on as an idiot, pulling one over on her.