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    Monsignor Wicks decides to see how just how long Jud is willing to turn the other cheek. When Benoit Blanc arrives on the scene, he's left to put the pieces together and pick up what's left.

    Or: Wicks's abuse is worse than in canon, and Benoit provides some much needed comfort.

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  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    This is little moments from the movie where I want, ‘wow I wonder how Juds alluded to previous life impacts how he thinks and feels in these scenes. It must really suck’ and then I wrote all that down.

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    Jud feels the fist of Monsignor Wicks collide with his stomach.

    “You’re angry, you should be. It’d be dangerois if you weren’t,”

    The Monsignor is speaking to him. He knows that, but it’s not just the Monsignor’s fist he feels. It’s his first fight in the ring, and it’s the fist of his father, and it’s the fist of the man he killed in the ring. It’s hard to keep straight whose fist it is because in the moment Jud’s mind remembers a hundred hits just like this one.

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  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    Benoit Blanc made the right choice to step down and allow Martha to come forth with her confession, but... what if he hadn't? What if he had had his whole revelation for naught? What if Jud ended up in jail either way?

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  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    It’s funny, almost. Jud had done everything right. Everything he could. Stood against Wicks and his wickedness. Tried to protect his flock. Believed in the best in everyone, in all of them, when they gave him every reason to doubt. Helped the detective and helped the chief and laid bare every part of himself that he wanted to hide away, to keep safe in the dark. Helped find a killer, and another killer, and forgave them both. Forgave everything.

    Did everything right. Did everything he was supposed to, and more. Everything he possibly could have. And he still lost it, the thing that meant the world to him, despite all that.

    It shouldn’t surprise him, though. He knows better than anyone that God has a sense of humor.

     

    Or: A slight divergence from the movie’s ending in which Jud does everything right, and still loses everything. Almost.

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  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    Jud probably should have seen this coming. Eve’s Apple is worth millions, after all. People will do a lot of unseemly things for that amount of money and beating a priest in church on the sabbath is far from the worst of them.
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    Rating for violence and mild language; also contains mild canon-typical religious references (central to character not plot)

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