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Tricks, Cons and Bamboozles | Tuesday | Period 4

The students had been ~~handwavily~~ told to meet out by the Causeway today, ideally dressed a little nicer than was their usual, which he had had all too much fun snarkily incorporating into the email. Yep, it was field trip time for the Bamboozles class -- which had the added bonus of getting them away from the really creepy feeling Neal had been getting since the arrival of that giant rock.

"So today," he said, looking very dorkily eager about all of this, "we're going to take a field trip to see one of the best examples of conning of all time."

He could've just shown the movie, but that wouldn't have been nearly as fun. Nor would it have gotten him heavily-discounted a student group package to a musical he'd been meaning to see again anyway.

"It's a Broadway show called Find Me If You're Able. It's based on a movie, which in my opinion isn't half as good. And the movie is based on a memoir, and that's based on a real guy who created these incredible scams when he was only eighteen." Yep. That was definitely Neal's dorkface right now. Mock away, Kenzi. "So we're going to Portal over there now, if no one has any questions, and now you can all brag to your friends in Iowa or whatever that you've seen a Broadway show."

Just before hopping into the Portal, he added with a dorky little smile, "It won a Tony."

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Like you're seeing a Broadway show!

Surreal

Nathan Young

Caroline Forbes

Elle Bishop

Marshall Wheeler

Shane Gooseman

Lindsay Weir

Kenzi

Quinn Fabray

Richie Ryan

James of Krondor

Chat at your leisure and wonder what your ~~crazy~~ gorgeous teacher is doing now.

Nathan wasn't really one for musical theatre but what the fuck ever, it got him off the island and gave him a chance to ~~cause trouble~~ mock some theatre performers.

Oh, don't worry, he probably wouldn't do it right to their face. Probably.

Which can't even be called a lecture today. But it can be called AWESOME.

You'll probably get pushed at least ten times.

...Possibly by me.

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Goose had never been to New York and was distracted enough by the sights around him that he didn't even notice people bumping in to him.

Kenzi was showing off how at home she felt, by bumping into people, apologizing, and then nearly dancing away, wallets hidden in her bolero.

Well, New York was some place new and exciting. And not vaguely creepy like the island was right now. And hey, musical theater was definitely something Mac and Tessa would approve of. They were always trying to get him cultured, or whatever.

Ten times a step, more like. In the short walk, the young squire stopped three pickpocket attempts and interrupted a mugging.

It was almost like home.

It's a very pretty theater. And the poster has legs on it!

Front of the orchestra. Neal doesn't do things halfway.

The only thing that Nathan wished for right now is something projectile to throw at the stage to try and trip up the performers. All he had in his pockets were his cigarettes and some pennies.

Maybe he'd go with the pennies...

Who may or may not be bouncing in his seat. What? He can be a dork sometimes.

"Okay, so is it musical theater, or one of your personal idols at work here?"

Like Kenzi wasn't secretly going Field trip! Field trip with theft opportunities!

Neal looked up from his near-rabid perusal of the playbill to grin at Kenzi. "Personal idol," he admitted. "I never met him personally, but he's a legend."

Kenzi considered that, and admitted, "You have to admire someone who turns his cons into a book and a movie and a musical. That's a pretty good scam right there."

"Seriously," Neal agreed. "With the amount of tourists flocking to this show, he's probably raking in more than he possibly could have when he was pretending to be a pilot in the sixties."

Which Neal passionately wished had been his idea. All those cute little flight attendants... ahem.

"Too bad he ended up working for the FBI, though."

...Not unlike someone else he knew.

"Still! I mean, it's not like the feds can pay that much. This kind of makes up for getting caught," Kenzi said, bouncing on her toes. She gave Neal a sly look. "Sooo, do you have memoirs you're going to publish someday? Since, you know. You're working for the white hats now?"

Not unless it was AU weekend and he happened to turn into ~~oh god not sure if this name needs a meta or not pretend there's a name here~~! Ahem.

"Oh, come on," he laughed. "Like I'd give away my secrets and let someone else get rich."

Or just ruin it for everyone else who might have deduced the same thing. Actually, that could be fun.

"There is that," Kenzi said thoughtfully. "Even if times move on and you gotta move with them. Adapt and improve." She grinned. "That airplane scam would never work these days, but there have to be others. Pretending to be an air marshal ~~like that one episode of Leverage~~, maybe."

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Neal nodded thoughtfully. "Faking credentials is usually pretty easy," he said, leaning over so the tourists behind them didn't hear. "I mean, hey, I'm a teacher, right?"

And he was, as their classes had shown, totally not qualified for that role.

"Getting legal and medical licenses wouldn't be too hard, but then, that's assuming that someone wants a scam that'll involve actually having to work."

"Some people are into that." Kenzi didn't get it, but, there you go. People were weird. "Although I guess, short-term? Good for getting to legal documents, science-y... things." Yeah, she'd never convince anyone she was even a medical receptionist. Wait. "How did you get the credentials to work at our school?"

Neal just smirked at her. Psh. Yeah. Like he was sharing that one.

In truth, Peter had just made a couple of calls. But Neal could just as easily have forged some documents, so it wasn't really a lie, leaving it open-ended.

"I don't know what you're talking about," he said, though his tone made it clear that he did and was just being obnoxious.

"Nnnngh! Mr. Caffrey." Kenzi pouted. Hard. "You're stifling my development in my future career!"

"Sorry, kid," he said without a trace of apology. "Them's the breaks."

Watch out, Neal. Next time? Your coffee might end up decaf.

"Here, how about this," he said, leaning forward. "After we see this show, if you can prepare some kind of presentation for next week on how in modern day, ~~meta or not meta, I can't decide!~~ would've gotten caught, then I'll tell you. Fair?"

Kenzi lit up an beamed. "Yes! I can do that! It'll be awesome, just wait!"

Oh, Neal. What you've turned loose.

"And extra bonus secrets if you add a song," Neal added as the lights in the theater dimmed.

Whatever. At least it would be amusing.

Which is AWESOME, guys. Just awesome.

Nathan slouched down in his seat and stretched out his long legs because he was either going to take a fucking nap, play a game on his phone or wonder how much trouble he could get for crawling around in the aisles and pinching ankles.

Her first trip to New York, her first Broadway musical -- and Quinn was coming down with some kind of weird summer flu and wasn't in a mood to enjoy it. She spent most of the show with her chin propped on her hands, trying not to scratch at the gross grey patch that had appeared just above one knee. She'd have to try to spend tomorrow sleeping it off.

Buy snacks, talk, whathaveyou.

Edited 2011-08-02 14:18 (UTC)

And please remember to silence all cell phones! Or don't.

Edited 2011-08-02 14:18 (UTC)

...I'm not sure this needs a thread but I want it to be all neat.

You know, if you want to talk about what you saw or anything.

*squealing like a mad thing*

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