"BOOTY" CALLS

Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin wrote the episode of 'The Glades' which aired this past Sunday. It was entitled "Booty" and the heart of the mystery focused on pirate treasure.

This past Sunday was also "Talk Like A Pirate Day".

Coincidence? I'm not sure. I've put the question to Mr. Goldberg via a Facebook comment about the episode, but haven't heard back from him.

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The episode also made a contribution to the Toobworld Timeline: on August 7, 1753, Black Jack Bellamy attacked the Spanish galleon "Magdelena".

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There really was a pirate named Black Jack Bellamy, but he went down with his ship, the Whydah Galley, off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717. You can read more about him at the National Geographic site.

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By the way, I thought there was a casting error in the episode. Jonathan Scarfe played Mark Ellison, the former business partner of the murder victim; and Scott Holroyd played Hal Hasker, the victim's cousin and son of Big Jack Hasker (played by William Atherton).

It's just my opinion, but I think the roles played by Scarfe and Holroyd should have been reversed. With his coloring, Scarfe looked more like he was related to Atherton's Big Jack.

But then again, the role of Ellison was more interesting to play, so Jonathan Scarfe was probably happy with the way things turned out......

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(From left: Hal Hasker, Big Jack Hasker, Mark Ellison)

Of course, we could always toss out a theory of "relateeveety".....

Maybe Big Jack Hasker was particularly chummy with Mark Ellison's mom back in the day...... That way, he would be the father of both men.

BCnU!