Today’s Wednesday Words don’t fit in the template, but I like them, and this excerpt doesn’t shorten well, so I’m putting it here instead:
They’d been an odd couple. The laid-back surfer—who’d changed his name from Broderick to that of Patrick’s Swayze’s surfer bank robber character from Point Break, then had joined the cops mostly to piss off his liberal psychologist professor parents—and the Marine turned vice cop who still carried an edge from his bad boy days.
But that difference had made them a great team. Like Starsky and Hutch. Men in Black’s Jay and Kay. Lethal Weapon’s Murtaugh and Riggs, and Miami Vice’s Crocket and Tubbs, who even Bodhi had reluctantly admitted would win on the chill factor.
“But hey,” Aiden’s partner would say, whenever the topic would come up, “they were just actors playing roles. We’re the real deal, Mannion.”
And they had been. Until they weren’t.
