IVIV (13) scene one question

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Could knocking Puck out have been enough to escape from, as often is  
> enough in other noirs---yet, I think that other P.I.s often get too  
> violent in escaping is another genre staple, anyone?, anyone?

Doc left air in the syringe. Puck was killed. Adrian winds up dead  
from the wounds inflicted by Doc's gun. Doc is a Badass, the language  
used just prior to Doc stomping on Puck makes that abundantly clear:

	It took a lot of squirming and muscle strain and semi-
	headstands to get even one of the shims to fall out of his pocket,
	 but finally Doc worked himself out of the cuffs, creaked up off
	the bed, and had a look atound. There wasn't much to see. The
	door was designed not to open from the inside, and there was
	nothing to force it with. He pulled the folding chair under the
	overhead light fixture, stood on it, and unscrewed the bulb.
	Everything went very dark. By the time he managed to get back
	down off the chair, he was in the middle of some kind of
	flashback, possibly from that elephant dope they'd given him.
	He saw old familiar images, like spirit guides sent to help him
	out, Dagwood and Mr. Dithers, Bugs and Yosemite Sam,
	Popeye and Bluto, rotating violently inside intensely saturated
	green and magenta clouds of dust, and he understood for a
	second and a half that he belonged to a single and ancient
	martial tradition in which resisting authority, subduing hired
	guns, defending your old lady's honor all amounted to the same
	thing.