Post by unknownPost by L. Ross RaszewskiPost by MichaelWhat does the blue marker mean? Is Bayless going to
the joint?
Thanks,
M.
I think it's some kind of catch-all "special status" marker. We also
see it when Falsone closes the Mysterious Unsolved Case From The
Forties
OK, here's what "The Homicide: Life on the Street Glossary" by John Bobby
"If the name is in red, it's unsolved, or an investigation is in progress.
If it's in black, it's solved. If it's in blue, it's from a prior year.
(Finnegan's Wake). If the victim is identified, they are listed as 'Doe'."
So, it *is* possible for a blue name to be erased and re-written in black.
I was just basing it on the Adena Watson case, which was never solved.
--- Uncle Dave
At the bottom of each detective's column on The Board, there's a
little square of space filled with, on average, five or six red names.
Those are the detective's unsolved cases from the year before. So
say it's New Year's Day, January 1st, 2000. All the black names are
erased from each detective's column, and the red names (from 1999) are
transferred to this aforementioned space, where they will remain until
A.) they're solved or B.) January 1st, 2001 rolls around and they're
erased, with 2000's remaining unsolved cases for that detective taking
their place. You'll notice that, following the rooftop scene, the
hand we see erases "Ryland" from one column near the bottom of The
Board, before travelling upwards to write it in blue. And nobody in
the world is going to convince me that that ISN'T Bayliss' hand doing
the writing. The sleeve is the same color as that of the trenchcoat
he was wearing while out on the rooftop. I remember someone claiming
to be Eric Overmeyer (or perhaps it WAS him...who knows?) posting at
the Pattern BBS (long, long ago when HLOTS actually still had a
message board) who swore up and down that it was the same hand they
always used, attached to the same body housing the same person who
always did the writing, and that that body belonged to neither Kyle
Secor nor Tim Bayliss. I call bull-plop on that.
By the way, I believe that the 4th chair is for Homicide, the program,
and that the movie is just one long metaphor for the cancellation of
the show. I mean, look at it: Gee is killed by television, or at
least a cameraman (named Eric [Overmeyer] Thomas [Fontana] James
[Yoshimura]) while engaging in what could be described as something
representative of a ratings war (the race for mayor), "ER"s are
mentioned and panned, it was called "Life Everlasting," Gee Jr. asks
Andre Braugher if he misses "Homicide" and says that "Life goes on and
on," and Gee's opponent for mayor looks a lot like Don Johnson. Okay.
That last one is stretching. Robert Gessner didn't look like Don
Johnson. But I mean the rest of it.