11-20-2020, 03:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2020, 04:41 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I expect that between the resistance and HW, Freddy's movements were well-tracked. And Viktor was making a deal with them and could have given up Freddy's travel plans as well.
No idea whether Renard really wanted to bring the Kronenbergs and the other royal families down as he claimed to the resistance, or if he was just posturing to position himself to be able to take them over. Either way, he didn't get there.
The royals didn't have any official positions of power any more. They had corrupt politicians in their pockets and the verrat, their own private terrorists, working behind the scenes to undermine opposition as they plotted to regain the power they had lost in modern times.
You are correct about police announcements in Portland; a captain would never be holding press conferences. These would be conducted by the PPB's Public Information Officer. The PIO would read a prepared statement with an overview of the topic and then the Chief and/or the Commander of the precinct involved would be called on to take questions. The actual officers involved and their lieutenants and captains would be nowhere in sight and their names would never be mentioned (it's the equivalent of pinning targets on their backs).
In s01 Renard was depicted as receiving "tribute" from Portland's wesen criminals, at least the ones making any substantial amount of money, so there's every possibility that he was either shielding some of them from investigation or targeting others by controlling which detectives were assigned to investigate their crimes. All of this was dropped in s02 when somebody decided to promote Renard's conflicts with his family up to the forefront of his motives.
No idea whether Renard really wanted to bring the Kronenbergs and the other royal families down as he claimed to the resistance, or if he was just posturing to position himself to be able to take them over. Either way, he didn't get there.
The royals didn't have any official positions of power any more. They had corrupt politicians in their pockets and the verrat, their own private terrorists, working behind the scenes to undermine opposition as they plotted to regain the power they had lost in modern times.
You are correct about police announcements in Portland; a captain would never be holding press conferences. These would be conducted by the PPB's Public Information Officer. The PIO would read a prepared statement with an overview of the topic and then the Chief and/or the Commander of the precinct involved would be called on to take questions. The actual officers involved and their lieutenants and captains would be nowhere in sight and their names would never be mentioned (it's the equivalent of pinning targets on their backs).
In s01 Renard was depicted as receiving "tribute" from Portland's wesen criminals, at least the ones making any substantial amount of money, so there's every possibility that he was either shielding some of them from investigation or targeting others by controlling which detectives were assigned to investigate their crimes. All of this was dropped in s02 when somebody decided to promote Renard's conflicts with his family up to the forefront of his motives.