Fulsome talents
Beate’s inferiority complex re: Lottie is poorly thought through. Not only can she drive, she can drive a Bedford Rascal, which is a sweet ride by anyone’s reckoning. Why am I so fascinated with the Bedford Rascal? I don’t know. It’s just a modest-sized van. Readers in global territories outside the UK may remember it as the “Suzuki Carry”.
They are in a van? Ho no, Lottie will never be able to find them and Dean is rightfully angry, On the other hand, seeing how susceptible Evilottie is.
It’ll be ok. Evilottie left Real Lottie the specific location where she plans to kill them.
Could have been worse. Could have been a Piaggio Ape.
The only way they’d all fit in that is if they were sliced and diced. But “Rascal” might be significant to her.
Fiat Panda
Yes! So if Evilottie couldn’t kill them, pneumonia and trauma from the jolts would do the trick.
You know they screwed up when Dean is the reasonable one
“The Homicidal Fake Charlotte” that he couldn’t recognize from the real Lottie?
I can’t really blame Dean completely for that. He was a bit suspicious of HFC when she dropped off the comestibles, but was thrown off the trail when those who should know Lottie better seemed to accept HFC at face value.
I feel certain I’ve travelled in more than one variant of this van, although not trussed up in the back. The hangover however…
She didn’t forget her Big Bobble! It must be her favorite! Perhaps it gives her good luck?
Seeing that hat is what’s going to finally trigger Claire’s memory, make her realize who EviLottie really is, isn’t it.
I don’t know if that’s good luck or not. At this point, it might fit into her plan?
I keep thinking about Titia’s theory in the April 9th comments (responding to dpat57’s 9:23 comment): What if Beate didn’t actually CHOOSE Lottie’s face? What if they didn’t have good pictures of her to work from, used Lottie’s face instead, and she woke up and discovered that she now looked like the very person she (currently) despised most? That really could explain her going completely over the edge into evil insanity.
That would do it for me
(unless my nemesis was famous and I could make a good living as their double, belittling and undermining them at the same time)
“It was this one or Piers Morgan.”
Or maybe the one choosing it was Skelottie, telling then to Bea that it was a way for never make her forget her hate and totally possess her.
She doesn’t despise Lottie, she loves her, and wants to BE her. She even LOOKS like her now so she must destroy the original in order to take her place.
I have seen absolutely no evidence of this. It made sense as a plausible theory before the flashback.
Ah, the bracing ramblers’ weather up on Bamford Edge.
*BAM*BAM*BAM*
“Rascal” would be a good name for an automaton in fancy dress. Maybe it’s secretly an evil Daffodil Hater that’s teamed up with Nottie for its own nefarious purposes.
Maybe she’s not even driving because “Rascal” knows the way??
Well, I think every part of my theory on the previous page has been proven wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.
Wouldn’t be much fun if we all knew what was going to happen
There’s a reason why those of us who read on Patreon can’t post spoilers.
Does Claire even know what a bad hangover feels like?
Claire weighs about as much as the lower half of my left arm. A sniff of a wine bottle cork would give her a bad hangover.
Never underestimate Claire. Remember that she’s a Fire Master.
I wonder who it is that’s replying to Skelottie in the last panel. The speech bubble shape isn’t regular. That could be either because the voice comes from the back of the van through the wall (the more probable explanation) OR because it is now Beate who has been reduced to being Skelottie’s mental companion (the outlandish explanation).
I’m betting more on the “outlandish” explanation than the “more probable” one. The question then becomes whether the tied-up trio can hear the Companion Beate speech balloon.
That being Bea’s voice would be fun.
The tail on the speech bubble does seem more to point to the passenger seat than to the back.
Also, I can’t wait to find out who says “I’ll be you” to whom on 19 May. This suspense is killing me.
You know someone’s evil when they steal a disabled person’s means (plural) of transportation
There’s still the possibility that it’s her wheelchair. After all, after the accident she probably had to use one for months.
It could be a discarded wheelchair from the former hospital where the trio were caretaking. OTOH Skelottie couldn’t know beforehand that she would find one there, so it makes more sense to assume that it’s Beate’s former wheelchair.
‘Rascal’ is just a splendid word, and to have it applied to an inanimate object feels fun and silly. Perhaps that’s the draw for you?