The Great Episode Challenge for March 5, 2015

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1. I was watching “The Prince of Darkness Affair” in which Doctor Karmasi had developed a “thermal prism” that, once launched into orbit, would enable THRUSH, through him, to control the world and it made me wonder: What is the agreement UNCLE has with its member nations regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction? Does the organization try to maintain the balance of power by spreading the technology around or does UNCLE warehouse all that potentially deadly material in some type of super – storehouse?




2. Ah, “The Vulcan Affair” raises quite a few questions that were never addressed during the series. However, the one I am posing for this challenge is: What did Napoleon say to Elaine Bender and/or her husband that made her, at her husband’s insistence, accompany Napoleon to see her old college sweetheart, Andrew Vulcan and assist the man from UNCLE with his mission? She was, by her own admission, a happily married housewife, mother of two with no flights of fancy yet she takes off with a stranger to prevent an assassination. She was not an Innocent; she was not swept up into Illya and Napoleon’s circumstances. She was recruited for a specific purpose. What was the carrot held out to her?

   
   

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Posting will begin Thursday, March 19th.  Happy writing!

"Three wishes" ~ for Vive la France

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Though this is a Christmas story, this chapter: "Christmas Present", is the second of a three part Picfic entitled
"Three Wishes."  Entitled " Christmas Present"; it takes place in Paris.  Some some beautiful moments are captured it. It can be read as a stand alone, though reading Christmas Past and Future gives a beginning and end to "The Three Wishes story, and fills in some details touched on here.

Here's the links to the chapters for Christmas Past and Christmas Future.

Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin trudged along the snow covered streets of Paris, they’d wandered out to just get some fresh air and had walked about a kilometer or so from the Eiffel tower.

Solo was dressed comfortably in a lined trench coat, with a dashing fedora covering his head, while his partner looked ever the Slav, wearing a short black woolen coat, a dark scarf wound around his neck and the crowning glory covering his blond hair, a black Russian style cap, minus the red star of course.

Napoleon’s gloved hands were animated as he spoke, while Illya’s clenched fists were firmly entrenched in his pockets. The Russian was in one of his stubborn moods and his partner was trying to change that.

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Is That Gargoyle with a Y? -for Vive la France

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I promise, they do see Paris...

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The afternoon sun was beating down on two men as they traipsed, or stumbled, through drifts of white sand. There were no clouds in the sky to offer a respite of shade to the pair, and against the backdrop of miles of undulating dunes they appeared as miniaturized versions of themselves. Or of something like themselves.

Neither of them had a shirt, although the dark haired one was fortunate in that he still wore a sleeveless tee shirt; the kind often referred to as a muscle shirt. And he did have some muscles, although he couldn't be described as brawny.

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"L'Ecoute (the look)" ~ for Vive la France!

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Beyond its primary function, the famous Romantic-inspired necropolis of Pere Lachaise, had become an open-air museum and pantheon garden attracting many both living and dead to pass through its gates.

The Parisian cemetery was filled with the most diverse or perhaps exotic statuary and tombs for the dead that Napoleon Solo and his partner, the Russian, Illya Kuryakin had ever seen.

The agents had been in many of the legendary cemeteries in New Orleans where possibly the French tradition of over the over-the- top monuments had been continued, but even those seemed not to hold a candle to this purportedly haunted ‘aux morte de la commune.’ (the community of the dead)

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Vive la France: Christmases Present

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Originally written for a three image Picfic Tuesday Challenge, Napoleon and Illya are in Paris and the CEA isn't happy about it.  The link takes you to AO3.


Christmases Present