#matt harris

[moviesframes]

Dead for a Dollar (2022)

Directed by Walter Hill

Cinematography by Lloyd Ahern II

[angelamcss]

You actually got a talent. You know that? You really do. It's for finding people that are weaker than you are and taking advantage of them. Whether it's a kid, some waitress... Or your own nephew.

[hournites]

Rick’s Childhood - The Facts

So this is a little guide of information I’m going to put together. I know that I’ve been really confused about the timeline of Rex and Wendi’s survival as well as their interaction with Pat, and I know so have a lot of other people. So I was rewatching the DC Extended versions of 1x01 and 1x02 and was surprised that all the answers were explained by Pat. I don’t how how I missed it, though admittedly 1x02 might be my least watched episode? Anyway. 

The Facts: 

1. After Rex survived the Christmas Eve JSA vs ISA battle, he took it upon himself to follow wherever the ISA turned up next. He followed their trail across America from LA to Colorado to Nebraska. 

2. Pat offered to join Hourman and help him survey the ISA in Colorado and Nebraska, which is why he built S.T.R.I.P.E. Rex refused Pat’s offer and said he wanted to do it by himself. This is how come Pat never used S.T.R.I.P.E. until the Stargirl pilot. 

3. Pat and Rex were in contact over the years after the ISA vs JSA battle, when Courtney questioned Pat about this, Pat said it wasn’t by choice, there was just nobody else left. Nevertheless, Rex addressed all of his JSA belongings to Pat before shit hit the fan in Nebraska. Pat is shown looking at the map that Rex and Wendi (and Rick) followed that led him to Blue Valley since Pat decided to continue Rex’s research 2 years before the pilot. This is how he meets Barbara. 

4.By this point, he was convinced that all of the ISA had left town and were elsewhere, and deemed the town as safe to live in (lol) which is why he decided with Barbara to relocate the family from Cali to Nebraska, but his research wasn’t done. 

5. According to Pat, it was shortly after they moved to Nebraska that Rex and Wendi were killed in that “accident”. 

6. This means that every time the Tyler family moved, they were willingly moving into a town where they knew the ISA was active. 

7. This means between the time of Rick being 5-7 (or 8 if we assume Rick is 17 in the pilot) they moved twice. Rick was uprooted 3 times in the span of 4 years max. You can bet that the night Rick’s parents left in a panic again Rick thought he was getting abandoned.

8. Knowing that the ISA were in Blue Valley, they lived in West Farms to keep a distance from the main part of town.

~.~ 

My Thoughts: 

- I really honestly believe that Rick was homeschooled because I can’t imagine that Rex and Wendi would enrol their kid in small town schools that they knew were being run by the ISA. This would explain how the whole name change thing happened so effortlessly. Rick had to be enrolled in school and he would’ve been enrolled as Rick Harris. Nobody there would’ve remembered who the Tylers were because they were from West Farms and too new to the town. 

- Rex really screwed up by not telling Pat he had a son. Based off the 1x05 opening, the fact that they went through the name change for Rick, had everything ready, packed, and addressed to Pat and especially the fact that Rex left the hourglass behind, makes me almost 94% certain they left the house knowing they were going to die to lure Grundy away from killing Rick. But if they knew they were on a suicide mission, Rex should’ve let Pat know Rick was out there because that meant he was leaving his son in a town with the ISA present. Regardless of whether or not Rick would’ve no longer become a target with the Harris name change, what parent would want to leave their child in a place like that?

- Rex and Wendi really lived undercover following an evil society with their baby and told the baby nothing. Meanwhile Jennie was maybe a year and a bit older and she knew the whole story???? Interesting. 

- Pat and Mike also moved around a lot but I believe they moved around often in state. Pat lived in LA in 2010 and still lived in Cali previous to the pilot. 

[batblackwolf49]

Pat did what we all wanted to to Rick’s stupid uncle.

Also Pat was in the army?

[b1tchwithwifi]

Question how does Artemis Crock survive a fight with Rick but uncle Matt is barely alive?

[starkdirewolflove]

Whoa Pat, didn’t know he could go dark. He couldn’t have done it on a more deserving person.

[nofatclips]

The Queen of Hearts by Ezra Furman, live at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[redhatmeg]

Barbara: And now Rick’s uncle is in a critical condition.

Me: This is one of those moments when one asks: “And what’s the bad news?”

Me: I mean, the bad news is that Rick was arrested for beating up his sorry excuse of a guardian, but other than that, Eclipso accidentally made Rick’s uncle’s karma to catch up to him.