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I really am curious about the first two questions
Today it is Unimportant Question Time! Okay, these questions are important to me, because I am curious, but they are not even for very scientific statistical purposes. (Look, I have to do something with my day off.)
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Joe Dick
Billy Tallent
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Ray Kowalski
18 (81.8%)
Billy Tallent
1 (4.5%)
some other CKR character whose virtues I will extol in comments
3 (13.6%)
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So it's like a year after MLAAD ends, and Zoe and Johnny's marriage falls apart along certain existing fault lines without anyone really being the bad guy, and Zoe leaves and it's Erik and Johnny. So this is during Chris's period of roaming earth (like Cain from Kung Fu) and he meets this guy in a bar in Mexico who's looking for anybody who can transport a kind of awkward birthday present to his kid in Manitoba, and Chris figures, what the hell, he could do with a drive. I seem to recall that the birthday present was, like, a stuffed and mounted swordfish or something. Also, Max is paying in, ahem, trade goods.
So Chris drives to Gimli and presents Erik with his birthday present and Johnny is ... amused, and offers Chris the caboose to crash in. And then Chris's car breaks down and/or he gets a little bit paranoid about continuing to transport the trade goods, so he winds up giving Lennox a call for help getting rid of them--but in the meantime, Johnny stops by the caboose at night after Erik has gone to sleep and they wind up, you know, getting high. And naked. And then there is a line in the outline that says: Eric! Good morning! Your custodial uncle totally did NOT get high and fuck a strange man last night! Happy birthday!
So Chris is waiting on help to arrive and Johnny is maybe freaking out a little, and they are both kind of sitting on their hands while Lou fixes Chris's car, and, um, possibly having sex kind of frantically whenever Erik's not around. And Lennox shows up and fixes things with Chris, and Chris is finally able to pay for the repairs to his car, and yet does not leave Gimli, because he's getting sort of ... comfy.
And meanwhile - and I spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this part - Lennox goes back to Long Bay and tips Amy Foley - a not-yet-recovering divorced alcoholic with a toddler, at that point - that the love of her life is shacking up with a (male!) ex-NHL star in Manitoba. Which has a few immediately sorta disastrous results and involves Lennox quietly taking young Brandon over to his grandma and grandpa's house to be looked after for a little while. And then, because he doesn't know what the hell else to do about the situation, he goes back to Amy's and commiserates because, fuck, if Chris was going to shack up with a guy it was--well, it wasn't ever supposed to be Slip Johansson of the Whalers, for fuck's sake.
(By the time Chris does make a brief return visit to Long Bay to try to sort out a few things, he is getting greeted by everyone he meets with "So, you're fucking/sleeping with/dating/seeing Slip Johansson" and yet for some reason does not kill Lennox.)
Anyway, and then Chris and Johnny (and possibly Lennox and Amy, in their own way) live happily ever after. And Chris teaches Eric to curl and gets a whole local league going, as an upstart alternative to hockey. Eric loves curling. And Johnny likes that Eric's happy, so it all works out, although he and Chris continue to give each other a lot of good-natured shit about their chosen winter sports. Forever and ever amen.
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I really do write stuff that all works out fuzzy and happy sometimes, I swear.