silvermoon wrote:Languorous Lass wrote:
Wrong. Bree won't go to the police because -- well, what could she say? "My friend Daniel has been kidnapped by this mysterious Order, and they're holding him hostage, but he's been brainwashed, so if you ask him about it he'll say he's fine because he doesn't know any better." Oh, yeah, that's going to get results.
How about she says: My friend Daniel went to a bowling alley and never came home and his parents haven't heard from him in months?

But that would only help if all she needed to do was
find Daniel.
Play your scenario through. "Daniel went to a bowling alley and never came home." The cops would go through the same process of logic that Bree and Jonas (and even Nikki B) have already gone through. They'd go to the bowling alley, find out about the Cowboy, track him down . . .
Okay, suppose they were able to locate Daniel, and he's with the Order. What then? He's been freakin'
brainwashed. All he'll say is, "Oh, Bree and Jonas have it wrong -- I'm right here, and I'm fine, and actually they knew I was fine and I invited Bree to join me." The cops would be hella pissed. Plus Danny's a high school graduate, and presumably a legal adult. So it's not a police matter that "his parents haven't heard from him in months."
Logic, people. Let's use some
logic here.
cipher wrote:You know, I really can see why she wouldn't want to go to the police. . . . Bree telling them about an Order that took her parents would probably be discounted as yet another Conspiracy Theory, and try to deposit her in some kind of foster facility, if not a loony bin. Would YOU believe her? Especially if she utilizes P-Monkey. And you know she would.
Good point about P.Monkey. But I don't think they would put her in a foster facility or a loony bin -- they'd go to her mother. Who, as we know, is with the Order. And they wouldn't think Bree was nuts -- they'd think she was a smartass teenager who's yanking their chain. They'd probably give her a break because she's a first offender (and because she's so cute), but they'd definitely threaten to file criminal charges against her if she tries anything like "filing a false report" again. And her mother would nod seriously and promise to keep Bree on a tight leash from now on, and . . . presto, she's in the hands of the Order again.