[nsfw, bdsm, pet play, end of life planning, lev:red 3.01-3 spoilers] it has been a long day of planning around possible disruptions to bre's carol plans, but as head of an international group, parker can't sit back on her laurels. the hong kong team had requested parkers insight on physical actual VHS tapes they found in a mark's lock box. while they could figure out the blackmail material each held on most of them, this last video had them stumped.
when she opened the box mailed to her, parker sniffed the tape and was hit with memories of working with archie, of ripping out shiny black ribbon again and again to hide evidence of their pursuits. she doesn't do that now, obviously; she asked bre to lend her a player from the maker's retro tech hoard, and now parker sits in her living room, in her home away from home away from home, watching a bunch of boring dudes talking about laundering money through laundromats.
the HK team's "fast talker" (a forensic linguist with a bone to pick with the judicial system) gave parker a full transcript plus translation and annotations, but nothing indicated why this was kept so secure. hence, parker pushing into the night after a full day of work, on her third rewatch without a sense of why it would be kept.
at her feet, facing towards the tv as well, eliot kneels, naked and bound and oh so handsome.
