Twist in the wind forever
The Miyamoto file! Unseen since the very start of Circus Windows and for good reason. That lever arch file is full to busting. And it takes a lot of filing to fill a lever arch file. I don’t know if they even still make them. Another one for the teenagers.
Per an article on the Blumberg Legal Supplies website:
“Lever Arch Binders… are the standard way the A-4 paper-size world files their paper records. In the United States, the usual way to file papers is in manila files… In the past decade or so, however, that’s begun to change. The efficient, attractive, low cost and easy-to-access Lever Arch Binders, conveniently arranged on open shelving, is gaining popularity.”
And that was six years ago. By now, I expect 40% of Earth’s mass must be efficient, attractive, low cost and easy-to-access Lever Arch Binders.
They also say “A 3” Lever Arch binder holds 525 sheets of paper”, so Lottie’s gathered a *lot* of clues.
I don’t think that’s A3. I think they just have smallish hands. But I have never seen an A3 binder, maybe?
I had access to what I now realise must have been an A3 lever-arch binder when I was on a jury. Lot of documents, printed nice and big. Each juror had their own. We could make notes on them. We couldn’t take them away with us, of course. This was in 2022, so the legal service still use them.
That’s “A three inch lever arch binder”, not “An A3 lever arch binder”.
I think the problem here is the similarity between ” and “.
Those were both meant to be “s.
My phone won’t let me choose between ” and “.
Multi-year callbacks. I’m well into this.
It’s very telling that Lottie hid her Miyamoto file under the floorboards, but keeps a claw hammer ready to hand. At some level, she knew this day would come.
There’s all sorts of things you can do with a claw hammer.
Like MURDER
Or even MURTHER.
isn’t that in Wales
“She doesn’t want to kill me. I, on the other hand, have a hammer, and she’s starting to look a lot like a nail.”
STOP… Hammer Time!!
(Oh, c’mon. You know SOMEONE was going to eventually go there.)
I find it difficult not to change it to “STOP – IT’S A HAMMER” when singing along and recommend you try this infantile approach with lyrics from other well-known declamatory songs.
You could hammer out danger
you could hammer out a warning
you could hammer out love …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awn_qRWFFsI
So says Barbara Yaga.
I assume Lottie did it this way in tribute to Stars Hollow’s own Lane Kim
That was my first thought, Lane Kim’s hidden CDs.
Ecological concerns aside, I think it was smart of Lottie to keep the original Miyamoto Dossier to avoid the risk of her doppelganger also being a master hacker and able to corrupt digital police files.
Or the more mundane risks of bit rot.
Plus, a digital file just does NOT say “serious investigation” the way an overfilled, post-it studded, lever arch file does. Style always counts.
And, paper files are ready to be put up on cork boards with connecting string.
Yeah, digital preservation is much riskier than good old paper.
Make sure you use archival paper!!
Oh, dear. Is Claire planning to photograph every page? And run OCR on them all? Even just tagging them seems like a big endeavor…
But when she’s done she gets to set fire to them!
Anything for the environment.
I think Claire is complaining, while waving the evidence, that she’s unable to stick the screenshots of lottiegrote412’s antics into this Lever Arch where they belong
Ah, that makes sense.
Great Lottie! I’m glad to see she took the giant folder with her instead of leaving it at home. It shows how much she was still tormented by the case. Can’t wait for her to find out who Evilottie is and why she hate her so much.
The offices across from my home have huge bookshelves full of lever binders. I don’t know how recently they bought them, of course, but the building that it’s in is no more than about a decade old.
I didn’t realize this binder was there back in circus windows, and sometimes you need something physical to touch claire. I’m not against digitizing it so you can access it on the go like a modern detective, but I get the appeal of having a big pile of physical media.. it’s why a giant bundle of giant days is coming to my house as a lovely christmas present.
I”m also still in a whirwind of trying to figure out WHO is behind all this. My best guests are secret sister, interdimensional twin or the old chestnut of a relative of someone she busted in the past. But as far as any deep cuts this clearly isn’t it, both due to john’s prefrence to have his works be accesible and the fact any deep cut I could think of makes no sense. I suspect it’ll all snap together in the end of this thrilling three parter, but it adds to the supsense that like Lottie I haven’t the faintest lead as to WHO this person is and why they hate her so bad.
I am betting that Evil Lottie is in fact someone I didn’t think of, and I’m looking forward to the surprise reveal
In order to improve my odds I am deliberately not guessing that it’s a long lost relative who looks similar and has been compared, unfavourably, to Lottie throughout her childhood
Or… the daughter of someone Lottie’s investigations put away
Or…
I think the answer is: Evilottie is an Alien!
She’s a skeleton in a human costume that happened to be wearing a skeleton costume on top of that last night!
Aren’t we all skeletons in human costumes?
My money, as always, is on Gibbous Moon.
I’m calling it right now; it’s Mad Terry.
Claire should mark good Lottie in some way so if she meets bad Lottie she’ll be able to tell. Or if it comes to a showdown between the two Lotties and Claire, and Claire has some kind of Doom-Ray she’ll know which one to point it at. You can’t be too careful. Or she could tell good Lottie a secret and then when the confrontation occurs she could ask “What was the name of my pet terrapin when I was a child”
What if there’s also an Evil Claire? Rude, loud, mean, worldly… Secretly restored old barns when she was younger…
… secretly obsessed with freezing things…
If it came down to a confrontation, Lottie could easily prove her identity by casting a j’accuse or two. It’s her superpower.