The Great Episode Challenge for May 2015

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Challenge #1:

In Season One’s “The Bow Wow Affair,” Mr. Waverly enlists the help of Illya Kuryakin by saying that his cousin Lester Baldwin had witnessed him in an “indiscretion” with a woman many years ago and had never let him forget it. When Lester is killed by his own Great Dane, Alexander does not seem too upset about it, at all. The question is: What was it Alexander Waverly did that Lester held over his head?

Challenge #2

In Season Two’s “The Nowhere Affair,” Napoleon takes Capsule B to temporarily remove his memory of UNCLE. THRUSH scientist Mara is assigned to restore his memory by “arousing his libido.” Of course, she falls in love with him, but even more surprisingly, he falls in love with her. When Mr. Waverly offers a large dose of Capsule B to remove her memories of THRUSH permanently, she says that she will regret forgetting one thing: Napoleon. She then says, “If I’m meant to remember, I will” and Napoleon responds, “In case you should, I shall be around to remind you.” She takes the capsules and, lo and behold, she remembers Napoleon. And she is never heard of, about or seen again. So, whatever happened to Mara? Was Napoleon lying to her, thinking she wouldn’t remember or was he truly caught up in the moment?

As always, there are rules and these are the GEC’s:

1. The story must be minimally 500 words long. There is no maximum length.




2. Please remember that Section VII is a Gen and Gen-mature site and stories published here must fall into those categories. If enough interest is shown for a slash version of this challenge, it will be placed in a community that celebrates that version of MFU.




3. The Subject line should include the phrase “Great Episode Challenge,” the date, and the story’s title. The episode title and the question being answered should be included in the body of the post at the top.




4. Please use the tag “Great Episode Challenge.”




5. The Challenge will post on the first Thursday of the month and stories will post on the third Thursday. If you miss the posting date, no worries; post when you can making sure you follow Rule 3.

Happy writing!

Comments

[carabele.livejournal.com]

Did my personal idea on the Challenge #2 question several years ago:

On my website (in PDF): COMING BACK FROM SOMEWHERE (http://carabele.com/uncle/Coming%20Back%20from%20Somewhere.pdf)

On LJ (in HTML): COMING BACK FROM SOMEWHERE (http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/390784.html)

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Good choice, the Nowhere Affair. From a het point of view, later canon writers did rather drop the ball on this one.

Even allowing for the fact that I've read an awful lot of N/I fic: what was the writer thinking, to make Mara a female Illya? It seems unlikely in the 60s a gay pairing would be written in, but it does look it.