Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 24, 2017

The plans well-laid shan’t be displayed. Domain must never know

Grab twenty grand, or so they’ve planned, get flush and off they go

To run for smokes a killing joke, Nitrates in waters deep

To scam Domain a scheme insane, he’ll put this pair to sleep.

They’d run away this very day, secure a happy ending

Or wind up caught. Severe scene fraught. Beneath the ground unbending.

Honesty’s a must they say, to live outside the law

Keep it clean. Polished to sheen. Avoid the dragon’s maw.

Yet best laid plans may go awry despite tip top intentions

Live to tell the tales at best, while serving long detentions.

On deep regret the sun may set, a happy ending soiled

That fresh clean start could fall apart, a brand new day now spoiled.

Play the game

It ends the same

Win or lose

You stake your claim

It always ends

No matter the name

With broken dreams

You carry the shame

Good morning guys!

Do the Nitrates sleep with their shades on?

Sleepy mind wonderin,, ZZZZZzzzzzz,,

Closing in on the endgame.

I see the falling leaves have finally turned from green to gold.

What’s this “added $20,000 to the price Domain asked for”? He added $450,000, and asked for $20,000 for themselves, right?

I like to give my condolences to this week’s First Responders Roll of Honor. I know it was 11 years ago, but it’s sad when things like this happen especially to a man and his best friend. All that motorists could have done was just get out and talk to the officer. No, stupidity had to step in and now Florida has lost two of its finest. Enough said.

How many characters have gone out for cigarettes to never return….

$20,000? He added $450,000!

So, Sprocket’s little jest about being needed “to go out for cigarettes” may turn out to be cruelly ironic. We shall see what the next turn of the screw is.

I do think Silver was ever the scammer in deceiving Sister Dearest intentionally about just how the 20 large came about, though. No harm, no foul. Or?

Nobody explicitly commented on the “Domain won’t need either of us any longer.” It seems that the Nitrates are escaping (or trying to) before Domain can “dispose” of them.