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"Old Tales Revisited"

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"The Unusual Suspects"

"Blood Tells"

"Remembrence Day"

"The Famous Parlor Room Scene (Sans Parlor)"


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Appearing in "Old Tales Revisited"

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The Woodland "City Hall"
The Woodland Luxury Apartments
Gottfried's Steakhouse
I Am the Eggman Diner

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Synopsis for "Old Tales Revisited"

Fables are characters of legend and fairy tale. Exiled from their enchanted homelands, they have immigrated to Earth where many reside in New York City. Those who cannot pass for human are taken to a place in upstate New York called the Farm. Snow White is the Deputy Mayor and Director of Operations of Fabletown (the Fable community in New York). Currently, she is attempting to quell a domestic dispute between the Beauty and the Beast.

Elsewhere in the city, a young man known as Jack (ala Jack the Giant-Killer) races into the office of detective Bigby Wolf. He tells Bigby that something terrible has happened to his lover, Rose Red, and pleads with Bigby to investigate. Rose Red also happens to be Snow White's twin sister.

Bigby informs Snow White, and he takes Jack to Rose's apartment where they discover that the room is a veritable abattoir of blood, however, there is no sign of Rose Red. Possessions are strewn all about the place, and the words "No More Happily Ever After" are written in blood on the wall. Bigby performs a cursory inspection of the room, then suddenly flies into a frenzy. He pins Jack against the wall and accuses him of the murder of Rose Red.

Appearing in "The Unusual Suspects"

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  • Grimble (Cameo)
  • Hobbes (First appearance)
  • King Cole (First appearance) (Cameo) (In flashback only)
  • Molly Greenbaum (Final appearance)

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Synopsis for "The Unusual Suspects"

At the Woodlands Luxury Apartments, Bigby Wolf awakens and rouses his roommate, a pig (of the Three Little Pigs). The two quip with one another and Bigby doesn't understand why he always has to give the pig a place to stay every time he escapes from the Farm. The pig tries to make Bigby feel guilty for destroying his home and trying to eat him back when they still resided in the Homelands.

Bigby eats breakfast (ham) and goes to the Woodlands' Garden to meet with Snow White. The two talk about Rose Red's disappearance and the bloody tableau they discovered at her apartment. Bigby is certain that the person responsible for Red's disappearance and possible murder is a Fable. He further suspects that Jack Horner may be complicit in the crime. Snow asks him why he suspects Jack and Bigby chides that Jack is always his favorite suspect.

Elsewhere, the famed pirate Bluebeard engages in a fencing exercise with his mistress Cinderella. Cinderella is obviously frustrated and lets loose with a string of profanities. During the duel, she tells Bluebeard about Rose Red's alleged murder. Rumors about the crime have already begun to circulate throughout the Fable community. Bluebeard grows distraught.

Later, Snow White meets with her ex-husband Prince Charming at a midtown diner. They discuss Rose Red, and Snow White reminds Charming of the time he seduced her sister while they were still married to each other. Charming quickly changes the topic and brings up the subject of his dwindling income. He tells Snow that he might sell his lands and title, but Snow is dubious of this idea, as such things are of no value outside the Homelands. Charming is convinced that he will be able to sell "a little piece of home" during the upcoming Remembrance Day celebration.

After lunch, Snow White meets back up with Bigby and together they go to the cell where Jack is being held. Bigby has entrusted Jack with guarding the crime scene. He feels that if Jack were going to tamper with evidence, he would have done so before alerting him to the crime. During the interrogation, Bigby brings up the subject of Rose Red's flirtatious demeanor. Jack ardently maintains his innocence and suggests that Bluebeard might have a motive.

Bigby and Snow return to the Woodlands and visit Bluebeard's suite on the 4th floor. During their interview, Bluebeard confesses that he was once deeply in love with Rose Red and that the two were legally engaged to be married. He even produces the contract asserting that Rose Red was his fiancée. Bigby is irritated with Bluebeard's apparent wealth and seemingly aloof attitude, so he angrily accuses him of murdering Rose Red. Bluebeard responds, matching Bigby's passion in equal measure. He declares that he will offer one million dollars to the discovery and capture of whoever perpetuated this crime.

Appearing in "Blood Tells"

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Synopsis for "Blood Tells"

Bigby brings the Flycatcher and Boy Blue to Rose Red's Greenwich Village apartment. He provides them with plastic bags of blood and tells them that he wants them to recreate the crime scene in an adjacent apartment. He wants them to produce the exact same splatter marks so that he can determine exactly how much blood was found at the scene. After he acquires the results he needs, he further instructs them to clean up both apartments of all evidence and to be sure to avoid the attention of Mundy police officers.

Snow White meanwhile goes to the penthouse office of Mayor-for-Life King Cole at the Woodland Building. Cole tells her that Bluebeard called his office complaining about Bigby's brazen accusations. Snow recounts the events of Bigby's investigation and confirms that he did in fact accuse both Bluebeard and Jack Horner of murdering Rose Red. They even interviewed other potential suspects such as the Black Forest Witch.

Snow returns to her office and meets with Bigby. Bigby has commandeered Jack Horner's personal computer and wants Snow White to check the hard drive to see if there is anything linking Jack to Rose's disappearance.

Later, Bluebeard arrives at the Woodland building and manipulates the security guard Grimble into letting him into Jack's cell. Bluebeard is convinced that Jack is guilty and holds a knife to his throat. Bigby discovers what is going on and races down to the jail cell. Charging in, he transforms into his wolf form and warns Bluebeard to drop the knife. Bluebeard retorts, telling him that he has no intention of killing Jack, but he just wants to torture him a little. Bluebeard knows that he doesn't stand a chance in a fight against Bigby, but just the same, he is prepared to square off with him.

Snow White bursts into the cell attended by Grimble and Bufkin the winged monkey. All three of them are armed with medieval weaponry. Snow White herself is carrying the famed Vorpal blade. Bluebeard relaxes and tells them that he intends no further acts of violence.

Later that evening, Bigby goes over the information from Flycatcher and Boy Blue's crime scene recreation. He visits Snow White's office and regretfully tells her that in accordance with the amount of apparent blood loss, there is no way that Rose Red can still be alive.

Appearing in "Remembrence Day"

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Synopsis for "Remembrence Day"

The night of the Remembrance Day celebration has arrived. All of the Fables who could pass for human dress in their best attire to attend the annual ball at the Woodland Building. John the doorman directs the guests to the 19th floor where a lottery is being held for Prince Charming's lands and title.

King Cole addresses the assemblage in a grand ballroom. He reminds them of the harrowing event two centuries ago when the Adversary and his minions sought to conquer the homelands, driving the Fable community into exile. In doing so however, he managed to unite all Fables with one simple objective - survival. Concluding his speech, King Cole proposes a toast to the Homelands.

As the night wears on, Jack and Bluebeard request an audience with Bigby. Their both irate for missing the celebration, and Bigby reminds them that not only are the going to miss this year's Remembrance Day festival, but the next one-hundred as well. As Jack and Bluebeard plead their case, Bigby decides to let them enjoy the last remaining hours of the evening, providing they can keep from killing each other.

Later, Bigby changes into a tuxedo and meets with Snow White on the ballroom floor. He is a terrible dancer, and Snow White pressures him about information relating to her sister. Through the course of conversation, Snow White inadvertently says something that clicks inside of Bigby's mind. He now knows who the murderer is. He tells Snow to alert everyone who is interested in learning the truth about the case to meet atop King Cole's terrace after the lottery drawing.

The lottery is held, and Jack Horner wins Prince Charming's title after only buying one ticket. He is the first to go up to Cole's terrace to meet with Bigby (who happens to be taking a dip in King Cole's pool). One by one, the other guests begin filing into the terrace. Bigby gets out of the pool and reveals that he knows who the killer is. He walks to one of the guests and tugs at her hair revealing a wig. The woman wearing the wig is a disguised, and very much alive Rose Red.

Appearing in "The Famous Parlor Room Scene (Sans Parlor)"

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Synopsis for "The Famous Parlor Room Scene (Sans Parlor)"

All of the Remembrance Day guests are standing upon the roof of King Cole's penthouse suite. Bigby Wolf has just revealed that the allegedly murdered Rose Red is alive and well - and present among the assemblage. Feeling proud of himself, Bigby goes to great lengths to explain who did what, how they did it, and how he managed to figure it all out.

His first indicator that something was amiss was when Jack first staggered into his office out of breath. He felt that Jack deliberately over-exerted himself to "sell the act" of a worried lover. When Bigby inspected Rose Red's apartment, he immediately determined that the room was not really in a state of disarray. In fact, everything appeared deliberately placed to give the illusion that a violent murder took place. One of the stranger things he found was evidence of a padlock on Rose Red's freezer. He later determined that Jack and Rose preserved samples of her blood over the course of several weeks and locked them in the freezer for future use. The padlock was necessary so that none of Rose Red's frequent party guests would ever find out what they were up to. More clues left at the crime scene included a scattered pile of blood-spattered CDs. The CDs were removed from the back of the music cabinet, while the ones in the front were perfectly clean. Bigby determined that these were the disks that Rose didn't enjoy as much, and felt that they would make for a convincing prop. Bigby also points out that Rose Red's stereo was completely unmarked with no blood stains at all.

Having satisfied the "who" and the "how", Bigby then goes on to explain the "why". Jack and Rose staged the entire incident in order to get her out of her contractual obligation to marry Bluebeard. In addition to the money she received, she was required to marry Bluebeard exactly one year after the signing of the contract. Another stipulation of the contract was that the engagement had to remain as secret for up to one year. Rose used the money to finance Jack's failed dot-com business interests. When the money ran out, she didn't have the means to recompense Bluebeard for breaking the contract. The only way they could get her out of the contract was to fake her death.

After Bigby concludes his story, tempers begin to flare. Snow White in particular is angered that Bigby knew that Rose was alive the whole time and didn't tell her. Bigby assures her that he wasn't positive of all of the facts until recently.

The following day, Snow and Bigby tie up loose ends. Snow White tells Jack and Rose that they are sentenced to two-hundred hours of community service and up to ten-thousand dollars in fines. She then meets with her ex-husband Prince Charming. Charming mistakenly believes that he is now a millionaire after raffling off his land and titles, but Snow tells him that he actually receives very little money after expenses. The majority of the money is going to Bluebeard to pay back what Rose Red owes him. Snow then invites Bluebeard to her office to give him the money. She further tells him that the contract is now null and void because he revealed the nature his engagement to Rose Red before the deadline.

When all is said and done, Snow White and Bigby retire to the Woodland Building. They have a conversation on one of the balconies and Bigby reveals that he is attracted to her. Snow White reminds him that any relationship between the two of them is strictly professional. Bigby responds with, "Okay, lady. I got the message. Loud and clear".

Notes

  • Fables is published under DC's Vertigo imprint and is suggested for mature readers.


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