I'm so dizzy,
my head is spinning. Attorney General Will Bardwell, or whatever law
enforcement officer he was posing as today, will talk to anyone and
everyone about an on-going investigation. I say on-going, because while
Dru Winters' trial date has been set, the investigation has only just
begun.
How do we know this? In the time it took for his wife to have a baby, in
the span of Nick Newman and Phyllis Summers getting married in New Mexico,
a State that does not recognize Wisconsin marriage laws and allows anyone
except same-sex couples to hold shotgun weddings, attorney Michael Baldwin
was just getting around to hire a private eye to investigate his client's
victim.
Not that Paul 'Clueless' Williams is a PI. He pretends to be and that's
good enough when you're an ambulance chaser or a Nazi hunter. Yes,
clueless as Williams is, never mind that he let crazy Sheila Carter to
escape, Baldwin has hired him to dig up some dirt on Carmen Mesta. Like so
many in Genoa City, Williams and Baldwin presume Mesta has skeletons in
her closet and damn but what Clueless didn't find one in less than an hour
on the case. And not just any dirt did Clueless find. He found something
certain to "nail" Mesta to the cross of death. Or so he said.
Meantime, aware that her trial is right around the corner, Mrs. Winters
was acting so nervous as to cause her husband to say she's "fragile."
Perhaps Neil Winters meant frigid, but that would be another story as what
matters is that Baldwin told the Winters today to stay the hell away from
Mesta. Loose lips and big mouths sink ships and that includes their snippy
kids.
Speaking of which, with no college classes to attend again today, Lily
Winters Romalotti, her deaf brother and dorky husband had nothing better
to do than hangout at the Jitter Joint where Devon Hamilton and Lily
bellyached that after each giving Mesta a piece of their empty minds, she
blew them off! She, Mesta, acted like two rabid teenagers mean squat to a
tree. How dare that woman dismiss them? Doesn't Mesta know that they've
been told repeatedly to stay away from her yet repeatedly get in her face
and yell, throw hissy fits and set themselves up as potential suspects in
Mesta's impending demise?
To counter the balance, to show again that justice in Genoa City is quirky
and thank God you are never charged with a crime here, in walked Bardwell
looking for Phyllis as a potential witness to Winters' crime. To hell with
subpoenas, the wheels of injustice turn faster when the prosecutor
personally goes out looking for witnesses who can often be found slurping
expensive lattes at the local high school/college campus coffee shop.
All Bardwell got for his trouble was an encounter with the angry
pitchfork-wielding teens. Throwing the old she's-a-good-mother and should
be excused from all criminal acts sob story at Bardwell, and having it
backfire on them, the teens stomped their little feet and turning her nose
into the air, Lily hissed that Bardwell will lose his case - so there.
Also in the running as potential suspects, Victor and Nikki Newman today
confronted Mesta too. They are "disturbed" by her lawsuit. They are
appalled that she'd run to the cops after being victimized twice by the
same woman. Doesn't Mesta know what a valued employee Mrs. Winters is?
Doesn't she know that the Newmans have been friends with the Winters since
the beginning of time except for those times when they weren't friends and
passed Neil over for promotion? Watch your back, bitch.
Told how many times to stay away from Mesta, what did Neil do not five
minutes later? He agreed to speak with her - in private! He whined about
the irrelevancy of his "son" almost dying even though Devon never came
close to death and if he had would that have been so bad? Now, because Dru
has committed so many crimes, her family could lose her and who's fault is
that? Mesta's! Who today said Mesta is lucky she got off with just a few
bruises on her neck and gives reason for Mesta to fear? Winters!
And what did Neil say? His wife is not to be feared because, while even at
the moment Dru was nowhere to be seen, she'll be with him! He's her
husband and won't let her out of his sight. In Neil's mind it's Mesta
looking for revenge - the bitch.
Also expected to testify at the trial, rocks for a brain, Sharon Newman
sputtered what a "good person" Dru is. Why, she wouldn't harm a fly.
Besides, doesn't Mesta know what Dru has been through? She lost her job
for Christ's sake! People who lose their jobs have every right to go on
killing sprees. Jesus, bitch, don't blame Dru for "going a little nuts."
You made her do it!
The soles of his shoes wearing thin from all the traipsing around to
interview potential witnesses, what amazing timing Bardwell had when he
showed up at Newman Enterprises at almost the exact the moment newlyweds
Nick and Phyllis returned from New Mexico. Without getting into why the
Newmans went home first to find their son apparently alone and then going
straight to work, Bardwell was told by Mr. Newman to find a better time to
conduct his interviews as the Newmans were tired from their trip, but not
so tired they couldn't give the appearance of being on the job. Gracious,
that they even took that much time out of their busy schedules to tell him
to buzz off, Bardwell fell to his understanding knees.
The Will
is Gone
August 23, 2006
by Brent Kellogg
This
article was originally written four weeks ago but was held back when a rumor that Will
Bardwell will, or has already, leave Genoa City could not be confirmed.
Since then there hasn't been hide nor hair of Bardwell so it can only be
assumed that Will is history - or is he?
By now you should know that the anticipated Jill Abbott/Will
Bardwell/Ashley Abbott love triangle will not happen. Point of fact: Will
Bardwell flew the coop. Went back to Madison, WI, from whence he came Will
did. No surprise, really, given that his stay in Genoa City was supposed
to be temporary. With District Attorney Glenn Richards out of town
someone special had to persecute John 'Yawn' Abbott for killing Tom
Fisher. No job some flunky Deputy DA, or lowly City Prosecutor,
or Deputy City Prosecutor could have done, Bardwell had go to Genoa
City on temporary duty for the learning experience.
And what an experience being in Genoa City must have been for Mr.
Bardwell. He may have learned that in this crazy city the DA handles all
high-profile criminal cases. As far as anyone knows, Genoa City does
not have a City Prosecutor. The District Attorney's Office is the be all
end all when it comes to justice here. With its high crime rate, the State
of Wisconsin graciously bestowed upon Genoa City the right to have what is
usually located in the capital, the DA's office in the heart of the
mini-megalopolis.
As such, the DA prosecutes and defends matters of the State. When thugs
like Tom Fisher are killed, the DA considers it a crime against the State
and steps in to see that justice is served. It has to because, well,
there's no City Prosecutor! The DA must also meet with the defendants in
such cases even going personally to their homes and discussing their
situations in public restaurants and elevators. The DA here
never assigns a lowly deputy to a case unless, in those rare instances,
the deputy DA is a former Legal Aid/divorce attorney who, through his/her
connections, must have a prestigious position which he/she can later quit
because the stress was too great.
It might help to further explain this unique bugaboo by relating a
situation this writer personally experienced. Having once worked on a
lawyer's election campaign for the position of City Prosecutor while at
the same time working as a radio station news reporter critical of the
local government, following the lawyer's election win the State decided it
would persecute me.
As a recent hit and run victim, the resulting injury
to my back and head had yet to be diagnosed and doctors I was seeing were
passing the buck. MRIs and CAT scans were inconclusive and so I was given
narcotics for the pain and sent to other doctors for a
definitive diagnosis. Baffled, those doctors could only prescribe narcotics and pass me
along until I'd seen 13 different doctors.
It would take years to determine a protruding disc in my low back was
causing the pain and that I had the relatively unknown painful disease of
the jaw called TMJ.
Before that day came the State was determined that I had tricked 13
doctors into giving me narcotics, that there was nothing medically wrong
with me, and that I was an addict. Subsequently I was charged with 13
counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. At first, the
local DEA wanted me to waive my rights and admit I committed a crime. When
I refused, the DEA went to the City Prosecutor's Office and asked that it
file the charges because, well, that's what the City does. When the City
refused, claiming there was no conclusive evidence, the DEA went to the
State Attorney General's Office which, because of certain political
pressure, agreed to file charges it wouldn't otherwise because that's the
City's job.
What happened to me after that isn't important. The point is that in most
cities such that Genoa City is said to be, the City brings about criminal
charges against individuals - not the State.
So, with the apparent departure of Will Bardwell, it seemed Genoa City
would be without a DA - the position of which one must be elected - and
without a love triangle between Jill Abbott, Ashley Abbott and Mr.
Bardwell.
My first
theory was that by leaving, Will realized what the hell he'd
be getting into and got out of town while he could save the remains of his
sunken face. Will must have seen how futile it would have been caught
between two hags. Not so much Jill, but that sperm-stealing, baby-killing,
can't keep a marriage together, Ashley. A man would have to be desperate
for female companionship to take up with her.
As for Jill, I understood she's not getting any younger
and has been known to jump into bed with anything that looks male, but
even she could do better than Will regardless of the fact Jill had said
she felt a "chemistry" between Will and herself
after going out on one date with him.
It was chemistry alright; as in
embalming fluid.
And too it
would have been fun watching Jill slap Ashley down a few notches
but in the grand scheme of things, that the triangle seemed to have
fizzled out, was a good thing because at the time it was bad enough having
Phyllis Summers wondering who the father of her baby is without Jill and
Ashley doing the same thing.
Damn, as I was
about to dump this story after holding it in abeyance for a month, word
came down there will be not only a love triangle, but a quadrangle when
Gloria Fisher-Abbott, in need of someone her age to turn for comfort, goes
for Will Bardwell!
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