Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for January 07, 2009

You should have paid closer attention when you were watching those crime shows on TV.

Will this end like Ray Bradburys’ “Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl”?

This VP guy’s panicking, not thinking clearly. I think this tactic would work better: “Help! Help! Someone call the cops, the hospital!” (be unaware that he’s dead, only that he’s been seriously head-bonked) “He tried to kill me!” (evidenced by bruises/fingermarks on own throat) “I found out – he’s not the real Warbucks, he’s a phony! He’s been stealing from the company! He murdered whatsisname (guy found floating in pool)! He’s a crook, a cad and a bounder!” Etc. Okay so there might be evidence popping up that this VP guy also was in on it, but he can watch for that and be ready to go on the lam if he has to. Doing it his way? Way too difficult to dispose of a body and clean up all signs of the murder. Obviously he’s not as criminally minded as, well, er, me.

Susan- Uh… You’re not my sister-in-law, are you?

Annie knows of two Warbucks doubles.

Oh, yeah, roll the body up in the carpet and burn it in the furnace. And clean up the blood. Yeah, that’ll work.

Does this guy never read the newspaper? or at least watch CSI?

I hope the double doesn’t die; he’s even meaner and less scrupulous than “Daddy,” a perfect stand-in. After all, “Daddy” picked him, and he’s a great judge of character.

I think Susan has a plan. Lets hope she never gets angry at any of us!

Fake him being alive. It’s funny.

This V.P. seems like the type of person who will become a nervous wreck worrying that someone will figure it out. He should have a lot of sleepless nights ahead.

Morning, Anniephans!

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Great story line, and I completely forgot how it turns out!