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BOUNTY KILLER
Sunday nights at 9
on CTV.

[Video Post]
[The view opens with a long series of slow images of a golden afternoon (a little incidental music, fading out appropriately): sunshine in late-afternoon summer leaves and grass, a spider's web catching the light, dust dancing in beams of sunlight, the open doorway of the barn viewed from the inside looking out, the long corridor of the barn down between all the stalls for the horses with that same golden afternoon light shining at the end--and all of it leading to someone possibly familiar (wearing a brown hat, chewing on a cigarillo--you know him) standing alongside his horse and apparently adjusting the saddle to his liking (with bonus spur jinglings)...

A closer shot: the camera and crew are (apparently) on one side of the horse, and he's on the other, messing with the saddle (for far too long, really...): the view is over the saddle, so there's not much of a view.

The camera draws in closer, which earns it A Look: it backs off and he carries on. This repeats a few times in different ways and directions.

Wait, wait--he seems content with the saddle, at last, and collects the reins in his left hand, gives the horse a pat on the neck, and grabs the horn of the saddle, all of which the camera follows from its respective side.

There's two small, but metallic, sounds from somewhere out of sight, just to the left--?

It's not clear what they are at first--

--until the camera snaps over and sees the source.

Oh. That would be a genuine Colt Peacemaker pointed at the camera and possibly the operator and potentially the rest of the whole crew. And the owner of aforementioned weapon is quite contentedly leaning against his horse and balancing selfsame aforementioned weapon on the back of his saddle. And maybe grinning a little.

(The people in post-production are really quick. I'll bet you $10.00 they succeeded in getting a characteristic little flute trill on this revelation before it was broadcast. They'll keep using it too, every chance they get, until they make it a "signature sound" or something. Bastards.)

The camera...withdraws, pulling away, zooming out, backing up, getting the hell out, and turning its attention to the rest of the barn and what interesting light seems to be coming in through the windows...

But they'll apparently take their lives in their hands enough to get a shot of him leading the horse out of the barn, out into that same stupid golden sunlight and floating dust and late spring grass...

In the background, some mumbling and then: "No, a[FCC Censorship Bleep]le! Keep the f[FCC Censorship Bleep]ing camera on him. Get the truck and go after him. F[FCC Censorship Bleep]ing do it!" The producers, it seems, are angry. Oh dear. Time to give chase.

A hurried shuffle, a view of the floor and the ground spinning by as the camera is hustled out...

...And the image goes dark again.]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: So the "rule" in his [meta-]canon is that, somehow, characters can't always see what the camera doesn't show. No, really. So if he's out of their sight, he's effectively nonexistent. This will not last for long, not with this crew. They're after him and they know where he's going and what he's doing. Truth is, he's looking for a stripper... And there are rumors of a crossover episode in the works... Also, I made you a logo :D]