Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 14, 2024

You really don’t want her to answer that one, Duke.

Wasn’t Tiffany a former flight attendant? Surely she still has contacts in the airline industry who might be willing to do her a favor.

Are those sea gulls or paper airplanes flying around??

It’s amazing how calm that young lady is—she must have had experience in dealing with terrorists.

Duke so deserves this…

“Do I look like a terrorist?”

Yeah, you do.

A lot.

Duke’s a little agitated (though not by his standards nor by int-terr standards) but in Panel4 he’s clearly deploying his White-Privilege Old-School Tie (is it Choate or the Household Division?), so he really should be getting an apology in First Class by now.

Some people would have us believe that only brown people can be terrorists. White people are “confused freedom fighters”.

Had to do a quick check. Enron story broke after 9/11/2001. A few months earlier and Duke would have been golden.

Who indeed, Jim? Good move…

LIke the watchlist isn’t profiling when it catches everyone with the same name or close to it?

She says as she Profiles him… ☺

At least Duke didn’t trot out the old “Do you know who I am?” celebrity whine.

looks surprisingly similar to D B Cooper.

My father’s name is pretty common, and someone with the same first and last name was on the “no fly” list. So every time Dad took a flight, he’d have to wait while the airport cops checked to see if he’d murdered someone, or robbed a casino, or whatever the other Mr. Cooper did. My nephew (Dad’s grandson) had the same name, so he went through the same delays for a while. Eventually, the problem seems to have been resolved. I dunno, maybe the bad guy died.

Duke should be able to get a ride on a drug runner’s cigarette boat.

And it can takes years to get off that list. If you’re spoiling for a punchup, best wait until you are on the ground.

He’s got the sunglasses, all he needs is the hat, waxed mustache and umbrella

Worst disguise was Sudan Husain’s lookalike stand-in during the Iraq war.

I guess it’s time to cut out the third man. Duke is a poor substitute for Orson Welles anyway.

And then the clerk calls Zeke for a character reference…..