Signals and Systems - Episode II

Geoff loosened his grip on the tusks as apathy calmly approached his prior state of fearlessness and said 'time's up, buddy'. His thoughts then unexpectedly harkened back to his early childhood. Geoff recalled himself laying in a meadow with his brother discussing the finer details of how to go about digging a really deep hole. It was almost dinner time but the siblings did not want to go inside because their mother was watching Calamity Jane. They hated that film. It wasn't that all the singing and dancing struck the pubescent boys as fruity, although that didn't help, it was Howard Keel's disturbing resemblance to their estranged father. The brothers never verbalised this affliction towards the film at this point in their lives, but the truth would often surface during future drunken family christmas humdingers.

While Geoff was in a state of detached bewilderment from the situation facing them, Janet was starting to get visibly upset over the ascendency the hog had gained in this situation. Questions began circling in her brain like a giant, shiny green octopus. Why did Geoff insist on staking out Dr. Watson's house from the one area in the perimeter's forest where a wild hog resided? If Geoff felt it was so crucial to remove the hog of it's ascendency by starving it - why go near it in the first place? Janet had watched Oliver Stone's JFK just that week and was keen to bust a conspiracy. Yeah, baby.