Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's going on in Siberia is the same thing that's occurring in the rain forests of South America and the fragile coral reefs of the Caribbean. These areas have all fallen prey to greed. If we continue exploiting the earth, we will bring about our own demise. NAGA YALLA Edgewater, New Jersey aol: NYalla...
Someone is murdering people in a series patterned after the seven deadly sins (Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Wrath). Sommerset and Mills start on the first case, Gluttony, together. They find the most obese man they have ever seen ("Somebody call Guinness," says Mills) dead at his dinner table. He has been forced to eat himself to death. It sounds farfetched. It isn't. Their precinct captain wants them to investigate as a team, but Sommerset quickly pulls the plug. He has had a premonition, and not only does he not want to be involved in the case...
Unfortunately for everyone (maybe including us, certainly including our stomachs) the case to which Mills is transferred turns out to be the Greed crime; he and Somerset are sucked into investigating the series. At one point in the course of this horrific journey, Mills turns to Somerset and asks "Have you ever seen anything like this?" Sommerset keeps looking straight ahead and, after a pause, says "No." That's damned right. We have pools of blood, feces, vomit, roaches, decomposition, forced self-mutilation and some of the most brutal tortures you can imagine. Along with some you probably...
...enough to tap someone on the shoulder anymore to get their attention. Now you have to hit them with a sledgehammer." Perhaps they have hit us with this visual sledgehammer so that we will reconsider what we regard as innocence and lack of sin, when we forgive greed, gluttony and the rest. Sommerset talks of apathy being regarded as a virtue in the city. The killer wants to awaken society from its apathy and so, maybe, do the film-makers. According to them, virtue may defeat sin but it does not defeat the anger that sin creates in the killer...
...autumn without baseball was a like spring without flowers. And as much as we hated the players and owners for their collective greed, we would have forgiven all, we would have forgotten everything, just to see the Bagwells, Vaughns and Griffeys back on the diamonds playing out the 1994 baseball season...