Annotated 34-4
I’ve been hard on Flo lately, so I gotta admit, reading this scene and this particular turn in it couldn’t have been too easy for her, since the setting is based on the sort of apartment where she was living at the time. But then, I don’t have any illusions about my property being JJ-proof, either. (He’d probably jump the back fence; door back there’s a lot weaker and often unlocked.)
However, one thing about certain big-city settings is that such violence tends to go unnoticed or willfully ignored. As Flo mentioned in the comments, Shanna firing a few shots into the air would not really do much, in Philadelphia, to attract attention. Some police might be by in an hour or so, maybe, by which time JJ would be long gone.
JJ seems to be leaning a little more on the Southern accent than he did with Joel. Not sure what that’s about, unless he’s trying to be underestimated.
It’s been too long for me to remember, but I’m pretty sure this title refers to Xanna and Bandit/Byron’s team failing to “let sleeping dogs lie” and the retaliation they run into as a result.
Xan can’t see JJ. (Or at least JJ figures he might not be able to? Don’t remember if he’s using a security cam.) Phonetic disguises are more important/effective when your voice is the only interface someone is having with you. That’d be my guess.
This was first posted just before small affordable cameras like Ring where available. A front door buzzer and a good deadbolt (or more) are normally good deterrents for a apartment but JJ isn’t your normal threat (and Xan was arragent enough to leave his front door open for Shanna and trust an App for communication)
“trust an app for communication” — well, what would you trust for remote communication? proper encrypted chat is the safest thing there is at the moment.
I also don’t think he left the front door open. Usually the speaker thingy for the bell would be next to the apartment door, so he would have opened it when he pressed the buzzer, then gone back to his desk while she climbed up the stairs.
I guess we should’ve dropped into the text that the app in question is one that Xan designed for himself, so he has every reason to feel secure about it.
Just about every cartoon cop has to have a southern accent, along with regulation mustache and sunglasses. Sir.
Also
” (He’d probably jump the back fence; door back there’s a lot weaker and often unlocked.)”
Thanks for giving the secret out, now I’ll have a different way to sneak in every night and kiss your forehead while you sleep. :(
On the other hand, this is a perfectly valid response to someone saying that they won’t talk to you unless you download an app. (This is a joke, I do not advocate breaking and entering)
I bought Sleeping Dogs a year or so ago. Best $4 I ever spent on a game.
Whether that’s a good response would depend on the kind of app they recommend. There’s the “I’ll exfiltrate anything I can get to the company that made me, then relay your message” kind — to which my response usually is not to insist on talking. Then there’s the securely encrypted privacy-respecting one, to which my response is “finally someone who does the sensible thing!”
For those who prefer e-mail or telephone: sure, can do. But texting is friggin’ expensive compared to any other text messaging method.