Friday, January 17, 2014

Stepford Redux

. . . only this time all the residents are in the Witness Protection Program. The Feds-on-Furlough decide it would be more cost effective to put all protected witnesses in the same town. In the same subdivision. On the same street. It's easier than doing the research with each case and you can use the same moving company, which has been previously vetted, over and over.

Why not? Their identities are a secret. So here is a suburban town full of rebranded individuals, all pretending to be someone else. Then, one day, a codefendant moves in to the three-bedroom rambler on the corner. And Mr. Smith is recognized.

Of course, they're all named Mr. Smith.

Maybe that's the name of the show.

You can send my next million dollars to . . .

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