Clarice
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Last week, Clarice Starling uncovered a series of murders targeting whistleblowers.
For now, at least, that case is off the docket.
That creaking sound you hear?
Thats the writersstrrrrrrrrrrretchingto keep Clarice at the center of the action despite behavior that ought to sideline her.
Not a good sign, this early in the series!
So much for Krendler keeping an eye on her.
So into the compound she goes, wearing a wire in her hair clip.
It seems to be going pretty well.
A suspect is duly given up to law enforcement, though shes only a patsy.
Meanwhile, Clarice takes advantage of the confusion to snoop around the compound.
The sheriff and many other local worthies are either on Novaks payroll or johns for his sex trafficking ring.
Clarice being Clarice, she manages to get Novak to admit to all this on the wire.
Another bad guy busted for good.
Yet politics snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
So his direct involvement in Novaks sex-slavery operation goes more or less unpunished.
Welcome to the world, Clarice, says Martin.
Groan, says I.
Is this what Clarice is going to be?
Kind of a snooze, right?
More to the point, couldnt you tell this story usinganyagent or cop?
You couldnt plop any random cop in Grahams place, or any random killer in Hannibals.
They were unique, and so were the stories told with them.
I just wish there were more of it.
Thats a mystery not even Clarice could solve quite yet.
