section7mfu | Great Episode Challenge for September 2018

The Unified Northern Casualty and Liability Exchange proudly presents The Great Episode Challenge.

This monthly challenge includes two prompts drawn from a single episode, allowing you to explore unresolved scenes, unanswered questions, and uncertain motivations.

And now for tonight's program.

In New York City, on a street in the East Forties, there’s an ordinary tailor shop. Or is it ordinary?

Episode: The Yukon Affair (S2E13)

GEC Sept 2018

Prompt 1: Illya describes Quadrillenium X as “the heaviest and hardest material in the world.” Emory Partridge can barely lift a small sample when he uses it to crush Napoleon’s transmitter. Yet, in one of the worst inconsistencies in the series, Murphy wears a necklace of the material, saying even the children in her tribe carve it into beautiful statuettes. So the questions arise…Was this episode scripted by two writers who weren’t speaking to each other? Can a clever and creative author fill in the gaps and fix these discrepancies?

Prompt 2: When Partridge escorts him to jail, Illya pretends to collapse, saying, “It's a trick knee acquired in an Olympic trial. I didn't make it…The team did.” The questions…Although the trick knee was a bluff, did Illya really try to make the Olympics? Perhaps in gymnastics? (He managed to cram the Soviet Navy, a Ph.D at Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and Survival School into a few short years. Why not the Olympics too?)

Inquiring minds want to know.

For the challenge, write a story inspired by one of the prompts. If you have already written a story that addresses any of these questions, please repost it.

Section VII is a Gen & Gen-mature site. Stories that are Het, long-term romance & AU can be posted in the Map Room. All other genres post in UNCLE du Jour.

Posting Dates: Thursday, September 27th through Wednesday, October 3rd

Word Count: 500 minimum, no maximum

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Tags: episode_challenge, gen or gen_mature

Please include the episode title and the prompt at the top of your post.