And they lived happily ever after. Well, one of them is happy anyway. 8)

Well, that’s certainly put the tin hat on it, so to speak. How wonderfully, hilariously OTT.

So that’s Lambone, and the chantuese and Tugger (perhaps) signed off with a fairytale ending. That’s three out of six. Who knows about the rest? I guess a 50% closure ain’t too bad.

I don’t remember a conclusion for Lambone’s story (maybe it’s that he made the front page and Greta the same night). My idea of some others; Vinny gets a big candle in the mail and lights it. Fabrizio recognizes it from the Arnie’s fire and throws it out the window. It explodes in DiSibio’s open car (he likes to watch his doomed businesses burn down), killing him. His gang puts a price on Fabrizio’s head; he goes into hiding. The loan is found to be illegal; ownership of the Topaz reverts to Vinny. Someone kidnaps Fabrizio’s love interest TBD to flush out Fabrizio. He decides to commit suicide in the subway station by doing what he periodically does and throwing himself on the tracks. But he overdoses and collapses in the very alcove where he found a dying drug addict at the start of his thread. I was looking forward to writing that, I guess I have a morbid streak.

Nick Barretta? Hmm. He could have done the detective work in solving either crime, but seems more the romantic sort of detective.

Not exactly a happy ending for Tugger, but I can see the humor in it.

I think Lambone ending up with his lady love was a suitable place to put the character to bed (so to speak) – if I had the space, I’d go back and add a big fat THE END to make it more explicit. But then again, I suppose that this way, I could easily resurrect him should Noir sputter back to life at some point.

Nice, detailed synopsis you’ve provided there, Pablo – hardly worth writing the episodes in fact!

I tried to leave it be. I really did.

Couldn’t do it. Fictional universe or not I couldn’t leave my pal Tugger in the grips of the harpy from Deutchland.