Subject: Law & Order CI - Gracenotes = CoS?
Date: 25 May 2003 21:41:13 -0700
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I've just seen the last 10 minutes of a Law & Order CI program that seems loosely based on some CoS court cases. (How loosely, I don't know. Since I didn't see all of it.)
A kid kills his dad to get money to "donate" to an organisation called "Gracenotes" or "Grace Notes"
Promises made by Gracenotes included gaining control over one's personal destiny.
The understanding one is meant to arrive at in Gracenotes is that one's personal history (or all of history?) is wrong or incorrectly understood.
At one point, as the murderer leaves the room he turns to the detective and says "You just don't get it, you're not Clear."...at which point my ears picked up and I paid attention.
The leader of Gracenotes was a dead-ringer for David Miscavige. (Which couldn't have been an accident.)He had some slick looking lawyers too.
People in the Gracenotes program died because of some wacky health regimen that left them with cracked lips and cuticles. The photos were reminiscent of the Lisa pics.
At the end of the program the detective is asking the murderer to recount the murder. He is asked to do this front of the leader of Gracenotes.
The murderer then tells the detectives how he committed the murder. In order to get him going, the leader of Gracenotes prompts him with trigger words and phrases (the plan is that he is meant to be the patsy on behalf of the leader)... the way the leader of Gracenotes does it is via the psychological empowerment of the murderer. Getting him to feal powerful and confident and in control.
The murderer, pumped up with confidence, tells the detectives that he did these nefarious things because he could control his personal reality and had accrued power via the Gracenotes method.
The detective congratulates him on his remarkable transformation from an unconfident fellow into this remarkably confident being.
The detective then turns to the leader of Gracenotes and points out that the super-confident guy, the murderer, is now a shining example of everything that Gracenotes promised.
The leader grudgingly admits that the murderer gained remarkably from the Gracenotes program but...
...he should not have killed.
The detective then turns back to the murderer and says that, since the leader of Gracenotes had said that what he had done was wrong, he must still be the hollow and pathetic creature that he was before he had joined Gracenotes. He had gained nothing. All the money, and killing for more money, had been in vain.
At this point the murderer (not more than a kid) breaks. He realises that he has been used and is now being royally screwed by those he had most faith in. He then implicates the leader of Gracenotes in the killing.
---> This is a rough telling of what I saw in those few minutes. But I'd love to see the script for this show or see a rerun. I apologise, in advance, if my retelling of those final minutes is in any way inacurate.
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