I really don’t get this thing about there being dirty cops who left Mike completely alone until three days ago, but who now are likely to kill him in cold blood.
Well, the worrisome thing is that in the snippet of Blaine’s final scene we saw, he was explaining the whole Amazi-Girl situation to the cop.
He might have explained some other things too, like who that kid was who threatened him at the party, and why.
Agemegos
How do Dorothy and Amber know about that?
Undrave
Amazi-Girl’s memory of what Mike said.
Agemegos
Amazi-Girl doesn’t remember Blaine’s last moments before Lester murdered him, because she wasn’t there.
HeySo
I dunno, pretty sure other superheros have partial clairvoyance..
Batman especially. No way is he still finding muggers on a nightly basis, after years of putting the fear of Bat into them, without some sort of clairvoyance. ..oh, wait, no, we call that “having tons of wealth, the ability to canvas an entire city with cameras, and a complete lack of respect for privacy”. So, a technical sort of clairvoyance.. Okay, so, the real questions here would be “just how sophisticated is the Amazi-gadget line”, and “did Amazi-Girl manage to plant spygear into Blaine’s hospital room”. 😛
clif
They probably don’t, but after her memory sharing restarted, she was sticking to Mike’s room except to leave him alone with his parents. Dorothy heard Blaine use a threat to Mike as leverage. Amber’s fears may or may not be realistic, but they are certainly real.
clif
But in any case, no one knew who Mike was until yesterday when Ethan brought his wallet in. Until then he was completely safe. Ethen, Amber or his parents have been with him mostly since. Until now.
Agemegos
I’m talking about Mike being safe until Dina’s and Sarah’s birthday party. He has been living normally on campus for weeks, under his own name, taking no precautions to hide from dirty cops. He left the party as a carefree kid on campus. Then suddenly it wasn’t safe for him to go to hospital except anonymously. WTF? What changed, and how did Mike learn that it had changed before he jumped off the fire escape?
Up until the night of the party, Mike had only exposed Blaine to his family. Blaine had no reason to believe he was going to cause further trouble.
He who hears Voices
What changed is that Mike screamed Blaine’s dirty secrets all over the place while running away from him and Toedad. Blaine might have now told that bit to the Mob.
The difference now is that usually Mike, as a Comatose patient, was under watch and never alone but now they evacuated the Hospital because, as Amber guesses correctly, there is now a dirty cop who cleaned up loss end number one. That cop might not care about Mike but the worry is understandable.
Lena
People can be worried about things regardless of whether or not they have all the information. I’m sure if Amber had remembered that Mike was in the hospital previously, she would have been worried about him the whole time. This is new information about her, and even if she has no idea what the cops do or don’t know OF COURSE she’s going to worry. What kind of uncaring, apathetic monster would know their friend was in a coma in the near vicinity of a potential murder and NOT worry? Why does she need to have all the information for this to be a concern?
Dr. T
Blaine told Amber, Walky, Joyce, Dorothy, Sarah, and Ethan (while Dina was secretly present as well) that he had mob-linked cops ready to kill Mike. They don’t need more info to be worried.
That’s actually a point in favour of his being safe…
If Blaine had told them Mike knew about them, they probably wouldn’t have waited for his word to eliminate the danger. If he just told them he was a hostage…what would be the point? Taking that risk as a favour to the guy they just offed seems unlikely.
Harvey Janus
I think it’s more likely that Amaziber is just paranoid here, because of Blaine getting bumped off and his threat in the basement.
Also, not much use as a hostage if they kill him without waiting for the word, as would be the most likely case if he’d told them Mike was a danger to them.
Norah
He’s known since he was 13, though, hasn’t he? Or did I misremember something?
Hopefully nothing. Mike knew some bad shit about Blaine. Blaine is now dead. Problem hypothetically solved.
On the other hand, knowing bad shit about Blaine might also mean he knew some bad shit about the people Blaine worked for. Or at least the people Blaine worked for might think he did. Or Blaine might have told them that.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t count as a “loose end” in anyone’s books.
clif
Mike knew the dirty cops existed. How isn’t clear.
Segnosaur
In one of the flashback comics, a younger Mike was snooping through Blaine’s files. I assume there were references in there to payouts to various cops as part of the money laundering.
Well, someone just needs to un-plug his ventilator while no-one is looking.
But on the gripping hand: it makes no sense that a few days ago Mike was in no apparent danger and now corrupt cops will kill him in cold blood. Ambazigirl and Dorothy believe that he knows which cops are on the take, but what reason do they have to believe that the cops know that he knows? What do they believe has changed since last week, when Mike was a carefree arsehole living on campus under his own name?
So you think that Dorothy and A-A are acting on the misconception that Blaine is still alive and pulling strings to have Mike killed, as he previously threatened to do?
Needfuldoer
Mike knows about the mob dealings Blaine was involved with. We know he was only interested in taking Blaine down, but we don’t know the mob knows that.
If they suspect he’ll expose them, this is a convenient opportunity to tie up that loose end.
dinajoyce
I think they’re assuming that Blaine told the dirty cops everything about this incident, including everything about Mike, shortly before he (Blaine) was killed. If this is correct (and we don’t particularly have any reason to believe it’s not correct), the mob may want Mike taken out. The confusion surrounding Blaine’s death would be a good opportunity for them to do it.
The wise thing for a dirty cop to do is keep a close eye on Mike wait and see if Mike wakes up. If he wakes up then he can be nearby to intervene before any important information is leaked and the fact he is conscious would make faking a suicide easier. If he doesn’t wake up then the problem solves itself.
Or he just smothers him with a pillow and everyone assumes the death had to do with his injuries
They don’t need to. Pillow to smother with exist, or unplugging machines, or even just clubbing him to death. You can’t run ballistic tests on a cudgel.
Problem is the medical staff knows Mike’s current status. If they try clubbing him, or even smothering him it might leave evidence… Bones that were not broken when he was admitted, breathing issues when the ventilator was working, etc.
Agemegos
There have been cases in hospitals in which patients died because the cleaners unplugged their ventilators to use the power point for the vacuum cleaner.
If there is a shooting, and a panic, and the hospital gets evacuated, then no-one is there to say who unplugged the ventilator or even who was in the room when it got unplugged. “Could have been anyone, your honour!”.
Killing Mike is easy. Thinking up a reason to kill Mike is hard.
Even Blaine took precisely no action against Mike until Mike saw him lurking outside Becky’s apartment in company with Ross.
Regalli
Mike also started yelling about the mob and his conflicting tax returns. Blaine did threaten Mike when he was thirteen – Mike called his bluff (‘you want my parents? Here’s the house keys!’) and generally acted enough like a complete asshole – which, he was – to convince Blaine during the divorce that he was too nihilistic to do anything with that information except blackmail Blaine. It was also unclear just how much information he had – there’s a huge difference between ‘so about this receipt to a Korean barbecue place’ (evidently shady, but not damning in itself) and ‘Blaine O’Malley launders millions for the mob and has two conflicting sets of tax returns!’
So Blaine never reported it – because that would require admitting he hides his shit so badly a 13-year-old could find it in a single afternoon – and left Mike alone until Mike started using it openly and altruistically. I don’t think he ever actually told his associates there was a kid who knew shit, because if he did they’d just kill him, no Blaine posturing about Mike’s safety for the hostages’ good behavior necessary.
Andrusi
“There have been cases in hospitals in which patients died because the cleaners unplugged their ventilators to use the power point for the vacuum cleaner.”
I mean, there’s an urban legend that claims there have. Snopes thinks it’s crap. Or at least they did in 2001–I guess there could have been an actual case since then.
Segnosaur
Plus let’s face it… They evacuated visitors from the hospital, but they probably have some staff around… a nurse Seeing a cop go into Mike’s room shortly before he died will raise suspicions.
I mean, I don’t think it’s okay for me to reference real life cop murders here, but I’ll say that they haven’t exactly had trouble getting away with murdering completely helpless or even unconscious people in the past
…shit I didn’t think the cops would know to off Mike without Blaine.
Is Danny going to have to save Mike, just because it’s funniest to see the person who least wants him saved have to do it. I could imagine he’s still up there because he was pacing or locked himself in a closet while trying to think of what to say to Ethan.
172 thoughts on “Evacuated”
Ana Chronistic
Are they aware of Mike? Is that one of the things Blaine leaked before taking it in the FAAAAAAACE?
Ana Chronistic
Faz: *standing by a lion at a bus stop*
Octopus Ink
Nice reference!
Agemegos
I really don’t get this thing about there being dirty cops who left Mike completely alone until three days ago, but who now are likely to kill him in cold blood.
Doctor_Who
Well, the worrisome thing is that in the snippet of Blaine’s final scene we saw, he was explaining the whole Amazi-Girl situation to the cop.
He might have explained some other things too, like who that kid was who threatened him at the party, and why.
Agemegos
How do Dorothy and Amber know about that?
Undrave
Amazi-Girl’s memory of what Mike said.
Agemegos
Amazi-Girl doesn’t remember Blaine’s last moments before Lester murdered him, because she wasn’t there.
HeySo
I dunno, pretty sure other superheros have partial clairvoyance..
Batman especially. No way is he still finding muggers on a nightly basis, after years of putting the fear of Bat into them, without some sort of clairvoyance. ..oh, wait, no, we call that “having tons of wealth, the ability to canvas an entire city with cameras, and a complete lack of respect for privacy”. So, a technical sort of clairvoyance.. Okay, so, the real questions here would be “just how sophisticated is the Amazi-gadget line”, and “did Amazi-Girl manage to plant spygear into Blaine’s hospital room”. 😛
clif
They probably don’t, but after her memory sharing restarted, she was sticking to Mike’s room except to leave him alone with his parents. Dorothy heard Blaine use a threat to Mike as leverage. Amber’s fears may or may not be realistic, but they are certainly real.
clif
But in any case, no one knew who Mike was until yesterday when Ethan brought his wallet in. Until then he was completely safe. Ethen, Amber or his parents have been with him mostly since. Until now.
Agemegos
I’m talking about Mike being safe until Dina’s and Sarah’s birthday party. He has been living normally on campus for weeks, under his own name, taking no precautions to hide from dirty cops. He left the party as a carefree kid on campus. Then suddenly it wasn’t safe for him to go to hospital except anonymously. WTF? What changed, and how did Mike learn that it had changed before he jumped off the fire escape?
fudo81
He threatened to expose Blaine and his connections to the mob. That’s what changed: as far as we know, he had never done that before.
fudo81
Up until the night of the party, Mike had only exposed Blaine to his family. Blaine had no reason to believe he was going to cause further trouble.
He who hears Voices
What changed is that Mike screamed Blaine’s dirty secrets all over the place while running away from him and Toedad. Blaine might have now told that bit to the Mob.
The difference now is that usually Mike, as a Comatose patient, was under watch and never alone but now they evacuated the Hospital because, as Amber guesses correctly, there is now a dirty cop who cleaned up loss end number one. That cop might not care about Mike but the worry is understandable.
Lena
People can be worried about things regardless of whether or not they have all the information. I’m sure if Amber had remembered that Mike was in the hospital previously, she would have been worried about him the whole time. This is new information about her, and even if she has no idea what the cops do or don’t know OF COURSE she’s going to worry. What kind of uncaring, apathetic monster would know their friend was in a coma in the near vicinity of a potential murder and NOT worry? Why does she need to have all the information for this to be a concern?
Dr. T
Blaine told Amber, Walky, Joyce, Dorothy, Sarah, and Ethan (while Dina was secretly present as well) that he had mob-linked cops ready to kill Mike. They don’t need more info to be worried.
Kamino Neko
That’s actually a point in favour of his being safe…
If Blaine had told them Mike knew about them, they probably wouldn’t have waited for his word to eliminate the danger. If he just told them he was a hostage…what would be the point? Taking that risk as a favour to the guy they just offed seems unlikely.
Harvey Janus
I think it’s more likely that Amaziber is just paranoid here, because of Blaine getting bumped off and his threat in the basement.
Eric
(Very Ryan George voice) “Why would the cops care about some asshole kid uninvolved in any way with their crimes?”
(Also very Ryan George voice) “Because that’s what I wrote in the script!”
(Original very Ryan George voice) “Oh! Okay then!”
Doctor_Who
On the one hand, they’re going to have trouble claiming a comatose kid shot himself.
On the other hand, dirty cops have gotten away with worse.
Dark
On a third hand, why would they even do it? What could they possibly stand to gain?
DailyBrad
He knows about Blaine’s business dealings. He’s a loose end.
Dark
And how would they know that?
Lingo
Blaine could have told them.
Agemegos
Blaine would rather have died than admit that he was so inept and careless that a child could see through his creative accounting.
Kamino Neko
Also, not much use as a hostage if they kill him without waiting for the word, as would be the most likely case if he’d told them Mike was a danger to them.
Norah
He’s known since he was 13, though, hasn’t he? Or did I misremember something?
Kinoko
You are correct, he’s known since right before the convenience store incident:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/potato/
Paradox
Yeah, but with Blaine dead, what evidence does Mike actually have?
Taking him out is too much hassle with almost no benefit
The mob isn’t Blaine, they’re not going to whack someone out of spite, especially if doing so would create more reason for investigation
Doctor_Who
Hopefully nothing. Mike knew some bad shit about Blaine. Blaine is now dead. Problem hypothetically solved.
On the other hand, knowing bad shit about Blaine might also mean he knew some bad shit about the people Blaine worked for. Or at least the people Blaine worked for might think he did. Or Blaine might have told them that.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t count as a “loose end” in anyone’s books.
clif
Mike knew the dirty cops existed. How isn’t clear.
Segnosaur
In one of the flashback comics, a younger Mike was snooping through Blaine’s files. I assume there were references in there to payouts to various cops as part of the money laundering.
Enigmatic Jack
They wouldn’t need for him to shoot himself, though. They’d just need a doctor to sign off that he ‘succumbed to his injuries.’
Agemegos
Well, someone just needs to un-plug his ventilator while no-one is looking.
But on the gripping hand: it makes no sense that a few days ago Mike was in no apparent danger and now corrupt cops will kill him in cold blood. Ambazigirl and Dorothy believe that he knows which cops are on the take, but what reason do they have to believe that the cops know that he knows? What do they believe has changed since last week, when Mike was a carefree arsehole living on campus under his own name?
Undrave
A few days ago he was leverage for Blaine.
Agemegos
So you think that Dorothy and A-A are acting on the misconception that Blaine is still alive and pulling strings to have Mike killed, as he previously threatened to do?
Needfuldoer
Mike knows about the mob dealings Blaine was involved with. We know he was only interested in taking Blaine down, but we don’t know the mob knows that.
If they suspect he’ll expose them, this is a convenient opportunity to tie up that loose end.
dinajoyce
I think they’re assuming that Blaine told the dirty cops everything about this incident, including everything about Mike, shortly before he (Blaine) was killed. If this is correct (and we don’t particularly have any reason to believe it’s not correct), the mob may want Mike taken out. The confusion surrounding Blaine’s death would be a good opportunity for them to do it.
Mra
The wise thing for a dirty cop to do is keep a close eye on Mike wait and see if Mike wakes up. If he wakes up then he can be nearby to intervene before any important information is leaked and the fact he is conscious would make faking a suicide easier. If he doesn’t wake up then the problem solves itself.
Or he just smothers him with a pillow and everyone assumes the death had to do with his injuries
He Who Abides
Dammit Dorothy, why couldn’t you have just used your phone to continue the very important discussion on furry porn?
Doctor_Who
“Hank, I have some websites you might be interested in…”
We’d get the best series of Comical Joyce Faces ever.
He Who Abides
Also, is this Amber’s first time as “we”?
Stephen Bierce
Anybody else remember the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive? The villain refered to himself as “we” and then proceded to clone a zillion of himself?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Adric was in that one, wasn’t he?
clif
So Doctor 4?
Stephen Bierce
I think it was just before they went to E-Space.
Mae
It’s very sweet of Joyce and Sarah to go look for Faz.
BarerMender
Yeah, Sarah isn’t tagged.
Chris
“Oh, this kid who was in a coma *also* grabbed my gun and shot himself.”
Yeah, I don’t think that one will work.
DailyBrad
They don’t need to. Pillow to smother with exist, or unplugging machines, or even just clubbing him to death. You can’t run ballistic tests on a cudgel.
Segnosaur
Problem is the medical staff knows Mike’s current status. If they try clubbing him, or even smothering him it might leave evidence… Bones that were not broken when he was admitted, breathing issues when the ventilator was working, etc.
Agemegos
There have been cases in hospitals in which patients died because the cleaners unplugged their ventilators to use the power point for the vacuum cleaner.
If there is a shooting, and a panic, and the hospital gets evacuated, then no-one is there to say who unplugged the ventilator or even who was in the room when it got unplugged. “Could have been anyone, your honour!”.
Killing Mike is easy. Thinking up a reason to kill Mike is hard.
Even Blaine took precisely no action against Mike until Mike saw him lurking outside Becky’s apartment in company with Ross.
Regalli
Mike also started yelling about the mob and his conflicting tax returns. Blaine did threaten Mike when he was thirteen – Mike called his bluff (‘you want my parents? Here’s the house keys!’) and generally acted enough like a complete asshole – which, he was – to convince Blaine during the divorce that he was too nihilistic to do anything with that information except blackmail Blaine. It was also unclear just how much information he had – there’s a huge difference between ‘so about this receipt to a Korean barbecue place’ (evidently shady, but not damning in itself) and ‘Blaine O’Malley launders millions for the mob and has two conflicting sets of tax returns!’
So Blaine never reported it – because that would require admitting he hides his shit so badly a 13-year-old could find it in a single afternoon – and left Mike alone until Mike started using it openly and altruistically. I don’t think he ever actually told his associates there was a kid who knew shit, because if he did they’d just kill him, no Blaine posturing about Mike’s safety for the hostages’ good behavior necessary.
Andrusi
“There have been cases in hospitals in which patients died because the cleaners unplugged their ventilators to use the power point for the vacuum cleaner.”
I mean, there’s an urban legend that claims there have. Snopes thinks it’s crap. Or at least they did in 2001–I guess there could have been an actual case since then.
Segnosaur
Plus let’s face it… They evacuated visitors from the hospital, but they probably have some staff around… a nurse Seeing a cop go into Mike’s room shortly before he died will raise suspicions.
Michael Haneline
I mean, I don’t think it’s okay for me to reference real life cop murders here, but I’ll say that they haven’t exactly had trouble getting away with murdering completely helpless or even unconscious people in the past
Eric
On very publically available video.
Nah
…shit I didn’t think the cops would know to off Mike without Blaine.
Is Danny going to have to save Mike, just because it’s funniest to see the person who least wants him saved have to do it. I could imagine he’s still up there because he was pacing or locked himself in a closet while trying to think of what to say to Ethan.
Stephen Bierce
He’ll wreck his favorite ukulele to defeat the dirty cop, and the definite sound of a smashed musical instrument will rouse Mike from his stupor…
Doctor_Who
He’ll awaken at the sound of the cacophonous TWANG just to tell Danny his music has never sounded so good.
It’s Mike. You know he would.
Undrave
EL KABONG RISES
Needfuldoer
Stringed instruments are an out-of-control menace.
Stephen Bierce
If only we knew somebody who could leap tall buildings and look in on the situation through the windows.
He Who Abides
Call the UK. This looks like a job for . . . SUPER-GIT!
thejeff
Jason?
He has been suspiciously absent.
Geneseepaws
So, essentially, Sal.
Sirksome
If anyone’s really in danger it’s that dirty cops mom who is probably getting fucked by Mike right now!
Andrusi
Only if he had a nickel on him.
Azhrei Vep
Only if she had a nickel on her. Mike may work cheap, but he still insists they pay for it.
NinjaNick
Those dang dirty cops.
Octopus Ink