Given that the Spring is the slow season for private detecting, Jake decides to head out on a sealing vessel to make a little extra spending money (tear-away shirts and sunglasses cost a lot these days).
While out on the ice pans Jake realizes that he is not really up to being a sealer (plus there are no hot ladies out there and it is damn difficult to be shirtless in such conditions). Jake also realizes that that he doesn't want to lose face in front of all of his fellow sealers. Jake needs to come up with a way to leave the vessel without looking like a wuss.
Not surprisingly, Jake goes to private detecting to look for an out. Jake claims that he has a lead on crooked skippers and their ways of cheating honest sealers out of their full pay. The sealers immediately encourage him to quite and look into the case.
After half-heartedly following up on his fabricated case for a few days Jake decides he has put enough time into his cover story and returns to St. John's and the detecting business.
4 comments:
The ending needs work... just like a real Doyle episode!
I was tempted to just copy the text from Random Doyle and post it under this title.
Very clever- just to see if the audience notices. The News websites do that all the time- recycle a feature a couple of weeks or months later just to fill up space. It would have been the the half-assed thing to do, which is to say the right thing.
And the premise would have fit the title quite nicely.
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