#jake hurley

[nancys-calendar]

JUNE 16TH, 1880

Jake Hurley purchases a Krolmeister doll for his wife, Camille. She names it Eliza Sandberger.

[millenialmfa]

So I was replaying TRN and realized something. Jake Hurley knows a lot about crystals and their properties as well as elements. (He has a whole book on it and a periodic table). We can assume he’s scientifically minded by the way the colors and light reflect off the gems to produce a light phenomenon that eventually becomes the white light needed to locate his mine.

In the game, John Grey mentions that the dancing lights outside the train are most likely the metal from the wheels reacting with quartz in the ground as they roll over it. Quartz was one of the gems in Jake Hurley’s book, and I think it’s safe to assume he’d also be aware of its properties.

See where I’m going with this?

I think Jake Hurley knew that the dancing lights weren’t Camille. He would have been able to deduce that it was most likely a natural phenomenon. But his grief overshadowed everything, and he chose to ignore science for what would bring him comfort.

It doesn’t really change the game at all, but definitely adds another layer to the relationship and ultimate tragedy of Jake and Camille.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters || Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon

Jake Hurley Wealthy, imaginative, adventurous, stubborn, egocentric, and most importantly, he was smitten at the age of thirty-five by a young French woman named Camille Voulet who died about a year after they were married. [He was from the] East Coast, Philadelphia, I think. His parents were British aristocrats. Sometime in the 1870s, he decided to seek his fortune out West, so he had this train custom built so that he, and some years later, his wife, could traverse the mountains and plains in relative comfort.

Camille Hurley (née Voulet) From what I’ve read, Camille loved to sing and dance, even in death, apparently. Jake reportedly told people that after she died, he would sometimes see strange glowing lights outside the windows at night, bobbing gracefully alongside the train as if dancing with it. He said he found the sight very comforting. I suspect normal people would’ve found it terrifying.

James Thurston Did I tell you that my granddaddy was the engineer on a private train owned by one of the richest men that ever passed through Copper Gorge? Jake Hurley was his name. Yessir, my granddaddy was Jake’s private engineer for more than twenty-five years. Told my daddy that men don’t come any crazier than Jake Hurley. Or any nicer. Treated my granddaddy real well. And told him stuff: real important stuff, stuff he made my granddaddy swear to never ever forget. Stuff that my granddaddy told my daddy and my daddy told me.  

Ruth Kensington (née Hurley) It’s a letter that Jake wrote in 1901 to his niece back East. He was real paranoid about claimjumpers, which is why he never told anyone where his mine was, but he was also afraid something would happen to him, and no one would ever know where it was. So he wrote this letter to his only living relative, Ruth Kensington. ... See, in that letter, Jake tells Ruth that everything she needs to figure out where his mine is on this train. He also warned her that his wife’s spirit is on the train, too, which kinda creeps out, but the thing is, to find Jake’s lost mine, we need this train.

[henrikvanderswoon]

Can we talk about the fact that Camille and Jake Hurley have photos of each other in their respective train cars? I would like to talk about how Camille and Jake Hurley have photos of each other in their respective train cars.

[detectivedrewshouldgetaclue]

Nancy Drew Game Aesthetics:

Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon / Frank Hardy

[angeleyes933]

Camille, I feel her and I’ve seen her presence...

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

I looooove the 12 Step Job so much for so many reasons!!!!!

Hardison and Eliot disarming the bomb in the parking lot. Eliot and Hardison’s trust/no trust. Hardison taking charge of the situation because it’s a computer bomb!! I like how that dynamic is turned and evolved in the Rundown Job

Nate hallucinating Sterling!!!

The first appearance of bad-at-being-a-good-guy Hurley!!!

Nate’s alcoholism being really addressed and him ignoring it–withdrawl and an escape attempt

Parker “I can’t help myself from stealing I just bumped into this guy oops” IT WAS JUST INSTINCT

Hardison and Eliot “fake” couple

Hurley a shitty person but a good guy

Parker “I’m making real progress here!!!”

Explosion escape!!! Money in the tires!!! Steel belted radials!! Hurley’s look of utter confusion!!!

Parker sniffing a marker

“When do the happy pills wear off?” Because touchy feely Parker is nice but not the real Parker LITERALLY JUMPING INTO ELIOT’S ARMS!!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!! THE FIRST ONE SHE GOES TO!!!!! The way she throws her arms around Eliot AND Hardison ot3

[thebrothershardy]

ship aesthetics: camille/jake