"See?! They lost an elephant!"
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Luke Perry [Jeremiah] Malcolm-Jamal Warner [Kurdy] Created by J. Michael Straczynski Executive Producer Luke Perry Produced by George Horie Based on the Comic Book by Hermann Huppen Executive Producers J. Michael Straczynski Sam Egan |
Polly Shannon G. Patrick Currie Alana Husband Steve Bacic Written by Sam Egan Directed by Ken Girotti |
Theo has invited Jeremiah and Kurdy to a secluded inn as a reward for saving her life. The inn turns out to be a brothel run by a drag queen, and they both enjoy a night there, but Kurdy discovers it was a trap - Theo is banking on Jeremiah fighting for Polly's freedom and losing: the prostitutes are not allowed to leave of their own accord.
Polly, one of the prostitutes, got pregnant aged sixteen, and ran away, leaving the father, Gregory, to look after their daughter, China, alone. Now, eight years later, Polly has found out that they are in Coeur d'Alene, across the river from the inn; Gregory is a juggler with a travelling circus. After Kurdy wins her freedom, she joins the circus, using her skills as an artist to produce posters to attract crowds.
Lots of great Jeremiah and Kurdy interplay, including "Kurdy, wake up - an elephant just work me up!" "Well, an asshole just woke me up…" and "if you want to keep a guy from going out in traffic, you don't hit him with a car."
Coeur d'Alene, assuming the fictional one is the same as the real place, is located in Idaho, north west of Colorado, named after the Native American tribe, who were themselves named by French traders. The name means "heart of the awl", an awl being a pointed tool for piercing holes in material such as leather.
How did Theo get a message to Jeremiah and Kurdy? Possibly through Deborah, the sister of Thunder Mountain inhabitant Jacob Rutledge, seen in "Thieves' Honor" (assuming she wasn't allowed to stay at Thunder Mountain after all).
Couldn't Theo come up with better plan? And why is she that keen on getting revenge on Jeremiah, anyway? They may not see eye to eye, but parted on OK terms.
Polly doesn't seem at all angry with Gregory for telling their daughter she was dead.
It's not very substantial, but on a superficial level it's quite entertaining, from Jeremiah and Kurdy's hallucinations around the fire through Kurdy fighting dirty, to, well, an elephant. The biggest problems are that everything after the fight seems rather anticlimactic, and it's disappointing that Theo herself never shows up; but the Jeremiah / Kurdy double act is rarely this amusing.