Scenarios

We are dogged if nothing else and we follow things to the end.  And, with the finding of the remains of Brian Laundire, it is the end.  There will be no slow Bronco car chase or a trial that drags on for a year with Brian Laundrie proclaiming his innocence.  It wasn't him, it was the one-armed man, narco terrorists or since they were out in the wild, Bigfoot or maybe the Dingo.  And no Dateline type interview a few years later where Brian Laundrie finally admits he did it so he can get some more Reese's Pieces from the prison commissary and Xbox privilege.  No, it's over. 

  

And, the Mass Hysteria blew it.  They had the Nicole Simpson/Natalie Holloway scenario in play, complete with all the talk shows talking about nothing else for a year.  Then the hopes of a trial like the O.J. trial or a Scott Petersen one.  Yeah, there are no reports that Gabby Petito was pregnant like Laci Petersen but then they could just have some friend or family member say she wanted to have Brian's baby.  They don't need a real pregnancy.  No, the Mass Hysteria just plain blew it because they could have gone with the star-crossed lovers that could never be, scenario.  Think the classic ones, like Tristan and Isolde or Gatsby and Daisy or since they both die, Romeo and Juliet.  They could have milked that one for a long time.  Oh well, onto other things. 

 
 And, this could be it.  'Alec Baldwin Shoots Two'.  On the movie set of a western 'Rust', Alec Baldwin shot two people for real.  Tragically, one of them the Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died.  The other, Director Joel Souza was wounded.  Now there are a few ways the Mass Hysteria can go with this.  One, as the movie people from 'Rust' are saying it was just a tragic accident with Alec wandering around in shock afterwards, wondering how someone gave him a "hot gun".  If that's the case then Alec goes on the Kelly Clarkson show cries, and well, it's all over. 

 
 The next scenario could be as one outlet put it 'Alec Unhinged'.  Alec just finally lost it.  This might really work, as Alec has a history of losing it and beating up photographers and screaming into telephones.  In this scenario, he and the Director had been clashing over their different artistic visions for the film.  And, Alec didn't like the way the Cinematographer made him look through the lens.  He thought she made him look fat.  So, he just lost it all and gunned them both down.  This could have some legs with all the Talking Heads and the Cognoscenti of the Known World weighing on the trial, mental illness in America and gun control. 

 
 Now the other way this could go is the Cinematographer is a blond and kind of attractive as you can see in the above picture.  She's no Nicole Simpson or even cute, little Gabby Petito but she's blond and attractive.  So, this could be the tragic end of a lover's triangle between The Director, The Beautiful Blond and The Jilted Star.  Then would come The Trial and whichever way the verdict went, there would be more hysteria on top of more hysteria.  Then the books would follow, lots of books and documentaries and movies.  This scenario, as they like to say would have legs. 

 
 Now you might be asking but what really happened?  To that, we sadly have to ask, does it matter? 

 
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