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>Look at these verbs: Threaten, Harass,

Doctor: Bob Harass?

> Lie. Look at the threats:

Crow (Web Terrorist): If you keep doing this, I'll give out your picture
to every geek on the net!

>Lawsuits. All pointed at a guy who's just trying to make fans happy and
>run a convention. Why would anybody be so mean to Bob McLaughlin???

Tom: Because he wanted Pip and Jan Baker to appear.

>Web terrorist has stated that I did these things to web terrorist, but
>there simply isn't any proof of it.

Crow: Probably buried along with Rorsharch's diary on a news desk somewhere.

> We do, however, have Bob's word at
>Visions that this person did threaten him,

Doctor: Those words were, "Help! McCoy's got a gun!".

> and the convention, and the
>enjoyment of fans,

Crow: Isn't in funny how she's trying to make herself out as The Fan's
Champion?
Tom: Karen McCoy-Walking Delusionaly.

> because they don't want some yahoo named Karen McCoy
>to speak at the convention, but neither do they want her to even be
>there!

Tom: Well, maybe you should take the hint and GO AWAY!!!

>What is this person hiding?

Crow: The missing scenes from the TV movie that would have made it TV-M.
Doctor: I swear it was just an innocent kiss!
Tom: Yeah, sure! And what are those whips and chains doing in the wardrobe?

>If Karen McCoy is SOOOO EVIL

Crow: And SOOOO IMBECILIC.

> and this web terrorist is SOOOO INNOCENT,
>why doesn't web terrorist want me to appear at Visions '97?

Doctor: Because then no one else will appear!

> Why is web
>terrorist trying very hard to destroy the animated series?

Crow: Because web terrorist still remembers the pain of Filmation's Star Trek.

> Why all this
>fuss?

Tom: Because it's more fun than arguing over whether r.a.dw should go
moderated.

> All this attention to me? Do you see me spending this kind of
>attention on them?

Doctor: Yes, it's right in front of us.

> Did you know I have similar police records as well as
>PSYCHIATRIC RECORDS on web terrorist?

Tom (Dr. Nick) I guarantee as a graduate of the Harley Quinn School
of Psychiatry that Karen McCoy is 100% sane!

> I do, but am I putting this stuff
>on websites to try and hurt this person?

Crow: No, but drawing all over it in crayon certainly isn't any better.

>Frankly, I have better things to do with my time

Tom: Like writing the long awaited sequel to Dimensions in Time.

> and nothing to hide.
>
>I'm too busy trying to bring you

Doctor: Fire!

> back your show to waste time on
>something petty and small like

Tom: Whining about the great OrmanBlum.

> character assassination.

Doctor: So what is this post, then?
Tom: I think it's a bad nightmare being forced on us by Puck.

> Not that I don't
>have the ammo...

Crow: Visions will be the next Oklahoma City! KTLA Predicts!

>Ask yourselves why this person is so vocal and loud about why Karen
>shouldn't give you back Doctor Who.

Doctor: Because at this point, maybe it is a good idea to switch to
Babylon 5.

> Ask yourselves why they're still
>trotting out that old tired gunk from Area 9

Crow: Not quite Area 51, but they're trying *really* hard!

> instead of happy news about

Tom: The demise of "Ask Harriet".

>the series. Ask yourselves most of all

Doctor: Who put the sham in the sham-along-a-ding-dong?

> why a "poor, innocent fan" would
>threaten legal action against a fan convention to prevent a single woman

Crow: Single Female, of undetermined race and questionable sanity, seeks
like minded SM into writing rambling letters and drawing sub-coloring
book renditions of famous time traveler.

>they don't even know from speaking at it. Why go through the trouble,
>unless...

Tom: Yes? Whenever you're ready, McKook!
Doctor: Looks like someone has attention defecit disorder.

>If web terrorist has nothing to hide and is completely innocent, then
>why is it so important that Karen McCoy not be allowed to even show up
>at the convention? Not that I open my mouth and speak,

Crow: Not that I actually use my brain before I talk.

> mind you, but
>this person DOES NOT EVEN WANT ME TO WALK THROUGH THAT
> CONVENTION'S
>DOORS...

Doctor: I don't see how one can *ever* get used to that.

> What is this person hiding from you?

Crow: JNT's bullet riddled body.

>Be careful, fans.

Tom: Let's be careful out there.

> Because this person is willing and able to kill the
>series,

Doctor: Wouldn't exterminate be a better word?
Servo (Dalek): ATTEMPTS TO RESURRECT THE DOCTOR'S SERIES ARE
FUTILE! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!

> and their next step will be to try to damage the delicate
>negotiations at the US major studio Glen told you about,

Crow: Does Spumco really count as a major studio?

> and at the BBC.

Doctor: Shouldn't she have gone to the BBC *before* all of this happened?
Crow: No, that would imply she had some intelligence.

>Think about it. This person, who claims to love you so much

Crow: Well, at least *someone* does.

> and postures
>as someone devoted to informing and protecting the fans, is willing to
>destroy any chance of the series coming back,

Tom: Excuse me? Was web terrorist there trying to stop Peter Segal?
I dooooon't *think* so!

> and will DO IT TO HURT
>KAREN MCCOY. Who cares about Karen McCoy???

Doctor: Couldn't have said it better myself.

>Ask yourselves what kind of Doctor Who fan would do this?

Tom: Someone who wants to save us from your misery.

> I have an
>answer for you.

Crow (McCoy): She's really a Trekkie in disguise!

> This is the work of someone who is not really a Doctor
>Who fan, but a Paul McGann fan

Doctor: Wouldn't that be the same thing?

> who is very, VERY ANGRY about something,

Crow: The inexplicable popularity of the Backstreet Boys.

>and nobody except this person knows what it is.

Tom: Show of hands, who knows what it is?
(Doctor, Crow, and every Who fan reading raises their hand)

>This web terrorist, who really wants you to read

Crow: Awesome Comics, so Liefeld isn't homeless.
Tom: Too late.

> and especially BELIEVE
>their website of police reports and assorted colluvia,

Tom: Colluvia? What the heck does that mean?!
Crow: Doctor?
Doctor: What are asking me for? Just because I'm from an infinitely advanced
race doesn't mean I can understand psycho-ese!

> doesn't care
>about you or the series. They're out for blood

Doctor: And cupcakes.

> and they want to see

Tom: Every episode of "As the World Turns" ever made.

>Karen McCoy destroyed,

Crow: They aren't the only ones.

> even if it costs the fans their series.

Doctor: Would you *stop* trying to make yourself out to be my savior!!!

> You know
>why? Because this person is selfish and doesn't care what wrecking the
>series does to you.

Tom: Surgeon General's Warning: Wrecking this series may be hazardous
for your health.

> They're not thinking about you. They're using you as
>numbers, as statistics, as weapons and ammo

Crow: Sounds like the drug czar.

> in their little game of

Doctor: Sepulchasm.

> "See
>how I can turn them against you?"

Servo: "And how well you do it by yourself?"

> And they will lie to the BBC about me,
>lie to Hollywood about me,

Crow: Hey, I thought she said web terrorist couldn't get into any
Hollywood studios?

> and do whatever it takes, wrecking the
>possible series in the process

Tom: Welcome to the process.

> because this person wants to GET ME.

Doctor: In your convulted mind, everyone and their schnauzer wants to get you.

>Think about it. They would even destroy Doctor Who: The Animated Series

Tom: Starring Kevin Conroy as the Doctor, Mark Hamill as the Master,
and Efram Zimbalist as Borusa.

>just to try to "hurt Karen." Is Karen worth that?

(all slowly nod yes)

> Am I worth that to you?

Tom: I don't know. How much do you think she's worth, Crow?
Crow: I'll say -666 cents.
Doctor: One Venusisan dollar, enough to flatten her.

>Do you really want this series' only chance to die,

Crow: Sounds like someone has a *serious* Christ complex.

> and me to walk
>away from it, just because of what one person who's pissed off and has
>NEVER MET ME IN THEIR LIFE, wants to happen?

Crow: No, because every fan with a brain wants you to walk away!

> Do you want to give this
>person that kind of power? Can you sleep well,

Tom: Sure, Nitol puts me right out!

> knowing that this web
>terrorist

Doctor: Well, at least she's back to web terrorist instead of "they".

> will destroy your favorite series over whatever it is about me
>that bugs them,

Tom: Ever think that web terrorist and Karen were college roomies, and
web terrorist just hates her hygiene?
Doctor: That's how the Master and me fell out.

> and can pick up the phone whenever they want and tell
>anybody the same lies they've told you?

Tom: You just can't trust Esther Rolle anymore, can you?

> Do you want to watch this person
>ruin the series?

Crow: No, but they're more than welcome over on Beetleborgs Metallix.

> Do you want to wait another ten years for a new one
>because of one person?

Tom: Well, Lost in Space fans had to wait thirty years.

>Are you willing to risk that?
>
>Think about it, and all I want you to ask yourselves is,

Crow: How many licks does it take to get a woman in a frenzy?

> what are this
>person's motives?

Doctor: To ensure you never get your greasy paws on my series.

> Why are they doing this?

Tom: Because attacking JMS has become so passé.

> What kind of person would
>work this steadily, to try to turn people against someone, and even
>destroy a coming series

(Doctor and Tom look at Crow)
Crow: What? Do I look like the authors of the Discontinuity Guide?!

> to do it?
>
>So ask yourselves these questions.

Tom: 1. Is Karen McCoy nuttier than Brandon Peterson turning down X-Men
for Awesome?
Crow: 2. Is she on the run from Hello Nurse, Ralph the security guard, and
Dr. Scratch-n-Sniff?
Doctor: 3. Is there any point to this?

> That's all I ask. I don't want you to
>avoid this person,

Tom: I just want you to give them an atomic wedgie.

> or say cruel things about them,

Doctor: Well, how could we ever dare, when you've made an artform of it?

> or ignore their
>websites or postings.

Crow: Well, that's a relief. My killfile's already ignoring all of
alt.tv.x-files!

> By all means, read them. If nothing else, they're
>great examples of

Doctor: How the internet can never be an entertainment medium.

> character assassination

Tom: Oh my god, they killed the Doctor! You bastards!

> and libel, and are absolutely
>intriguing tours into the penetralia

Tom: What in the almighty wisdom of Ben Stein is she saying?!
Doctor: She's using a very rare form of Ancient Gallifreyan called
"Stuttering Kookese".

> of a seriously diseased mind.

Crow: A mind is a terrible thing to taste.

>Albeit a mind hiding behind an org to conceal the fact that it's them,

Doctor: And not Tito Puente.

>but a mind I recognize nevertheless...

Crow: Hmmm, I don't remember the SIG but the mind is familiar.

> A truly objective presented of
>facts would be truly objective;

Tom: And a truly garbled up sentence would be truly garbled.

> that's what objective means. "Never
>cowardly or cruel..."

Doctor: Always confusing and rambling.
Servo: Keep using that quote, Karen! It'll give Kate Orman a reason to sue you!

> These police reports have value. Plus reports like
>these are vaguely fictional,

Tom: Like The True Confession of O.J. Simpson.

> like those "World's Greatest Car Crashes"

Crow: "When Dickweeds Spawn".
Doctor: "World's Wildest Moped Chases".

>specials you see on FOX. The car crashes did happen, and they were
>videotaped, but now they're got an announcer narrating them in a certain
>way with a low, urgent voice

Tom: With plenty of lip and tongue action.

> designed to make you see the crashes in a
>certain way...

Doctor (typical viewer): You know, without the announcer, I wouldn't have
been able to realize that this was tragic!

> a little like this scenario.

Tom: I'd rather have the Spice Girl's singing the phone book than listen
to her any more!

>But why are web terrorist's telephone records and e-mail records
>mysteriously missing from this public announcement to "Decide for
>Yourself?"

Crow: I don't know. Ask Dear Abby.

> Could those telephone records contain something?
>Better yet, why doesn't web terrorist sue me if I've done so much to
>them?

Doctor: Because much like us, she just wants you to go away!

> Why not just bring a lawsuit against me so

Crow (McCoy): I can hire my equilvent of the Dream team.
Tom: Yeah, Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, and Christopher Lloyd.

> the BellSouth telephone
>records of their conversations with me, Joe Sawin and everyone else at
>Area 9, Oz Magazine,

Crow: I got it! McCoy is really the Wicked Witch of the West, and Web
Terrorist is Glenda the Good Witch!

> etc., will be readable by everyone,

Doctor: Unless it's in Ancient Gallifreyan.

> just like
>"Decide for Yourself?" I'm sure all those obscenities will be brushed
>over by a sympathetic jury. I'm sure that fans won't notice how my
>intelligent and calm questions

(all snicker)

> like "who are you" and "why are you doing
>this"

Crow: And "Will you please put in a good word for me with Paul Cornell?"

> are swept aside by web terrorist's breathy demands

Tom (husky Barry white voice): Oh yeah baby...

> that I "get off
>the bullshit wagon"

Doctor: Where are the italics now?

> and "go to hell." Right?
>
>Web terrorist informed Detective Price on telephone (there is an
>audiotape of this exchange,

Tom: Free with every purchase of "Who is Tom Baker?"

> but I'm sure Price will destroy it to
>protect web terrorist, whom he likes...

Doctor: A few more paragraphs and she'll be saying she's 100% not guilty.

> or liked, at least, until his
>misjudgment of the individual landed him in trouble with Internal
>Affairs and his superior)

Crow: (starts sputtering with laughter): Someone should *really* cut down
on the soaps!

> that Karen McCoy was trying to "get her back"
>as "retaliation" because Karen was mad Karen "got caught." Web terrorist
>actually used this phrase again and again on the recording,

Doctor: Much like how you use "web terrorist".

> which I have
>heard and am privy to.

Tom (Bababooy): I'm not privy to that, bothe.

> What I "got caught" at, I'm not sure, because
>several people have seen the artwork and the teleplays and the proposal,

Crow: And laughed until they collapsed from asphyxiation.

>and they know that I appear to have been telling the truth the entire
>time, excepting Area 9's involvement in things, which I though I saw,

Doctor: She forgot the "t".
Crow: You've never read any early Ratliff, have you?

>but soon realized was not there.
>
>And either way this turns out, they will not be part of the magic that
>may or may not become this animated series.

Doctor: For some reason, I keep getting the mental picture of her sitting
at a computer, typing up her latest script, and silently crying at
her brilliance.

> The story has moved past
>them now.

Crow: Oooh, how deep.

>I telephoned web terrorist's employers for two reasons:

Tom: I needed the numbers for 911 and 411.

>1) I do not personally know web terrorist,

Doctor: But I'm sure you're good friends with the Trix Rabbit, Napoleon,
and Zaphod Bebblebrox.

> and web terrorist furnished
>web terrorist's employer's name in e-mails to Gary Powell of Oz
>Magazine,

Tom: Edited by the Cowardly Lion and proofread by the Scarecrow.

> who gave copies of web terrorist's e-mails to him to me,

Crow (McCoy): As well as a get well soon card, though I don't know why.

> as
>soon as he found out he'd been had by web terrorist, which was pretty
>quick.

Crow: Too bad McNimbus doesn't have that skill.

> Web terrorist made web terrorist's phone calls to me,

Doctor: Well, who else is she make the phone calls from? Mr. X?
Tom: My dome is in serious danger of overloading from trying to figure
that sentence out.

> to my
>employer and to producers in the Atlanta area from web terrorist's place
>of employment.

Crow: Is it me, or is she repeating herself?
Tom: We've been in here so long, I could read a letter from
George Lucas and think it was from her!

> So this was the fastest way to reach and possibly stop
>web terrorist.
>
> And--
>2) Web terrorist telephoned MY employers.

Tom: You don't say? I thought she phoned the Chinese!

> Web terrorist was actually on
>the line with Joe Sawin at Area 9 when I telephoned web terrorist's
>extension where web terrorist worked, and asked web terrorist what web
>terrorist was doing.

Crow: To which she replied, "None of your business, McDork!"

> The amazing thing is,

Doctor: That NBC took half a year cancel Union Square.

> when I confronted web
>terrorist, the first thing out of web terrorist's mouth was

Tom: Ooombchickawalkcinchawomseepow!

> "How dare
>you call me at work. How dare you."

Doctor: Sounds like she said it pretty flatly.

> Interesting, considering that web
>terrorist was saying this while on hold with Joe Sawin.

Crow: You know, she does have a point...
Tom (shocked): You don't mean you're starting to take her seriously?!
Doctor: Sounds like someone's been in the theater too long.

>What do I intend to accomplish with this letter?

Crow (McCoy): Turn it into a mail-bomb and avenge my sweet Kazcinski!

> Nothing really. I have
>nothing to hide,

Crow: Except for that time you spent with the Heaven's Gate cult.

> and I'm not coming out

Tom: Of the closet.
Crow: If she did, that would send Ellen screaming back into it.

> trying to be something I'm not,

Doctor: Which is talented.

>or trying to take anything from the fans,

Tom: Except their dignity and hope.

> or lie to them,

Crow (soothingly): I'm going to make it all go away. Trekkies, the latest
ret-con by John Peel, everything.

> or hurt them.
>All I am is a fan with some industry contacts

Tom: I doubt Jimmy "J.J." Walker could accomplish much for you.

> who, like it or not, truly
>wants to bring Doctor Who back to the air. And I have done some things
>in that direction,

Doctor: Like writing a remake of my last regeneration so I get killed
by rampaging Sliders fans.

> whether web terrorist is proud of that or not. I
>don't want fame, fortune, glory or fan adulation.

Crow: Eclairs, cordial cherries, and Antonio Banderas on the other hand...

> I want only two
>things.

Doctor: Larry and Balki.

> I want to give you guys back your show and I want web terrorist
>to leave me alone.
>
>It's all true what web terrorist says! I'm a liar, I'm a fraud, I'm a
>bitch

Tom: I'm a sinner, I'm a saint...

> and a shrew,

Crow: With a badly matted rug for fur and oversized novelty teeth.

> I'm a psycho who's obsessed with

Doctor: Judd Nelson's kneecaps.

> a lone fan in a town

Tom: That dreaded sundown.

>1500 miles from me, I called them first instead of them calling me first
>(that one's REEEEEALY true), I've lied to the law

Crow: And the law won.

> in two states, I've
>stalked web terrorist, I've showered web terrorist in phone calls to
>where web terrorist works,

Crow: The National Association of Web Terrorists.

> I've assassinated John Lennon, I've raped the
>Sabenes and I have AIDS, I must admit.

(silence)
Tom: Was that supposed to be humorous?
Crow: I take back what I said earlier.

> All of these things are
>absolutely true! So believe them!
>
>I've also...

Crow: Danced with devil in the pale moonlight!

>Committed Internet Fraud against Area 9 and Galen Chandler.
>Misrepresented Area 9 and pretended they were like, really, really
>involved in Doctor Who, a situation I completely made up

Tom: No doubt like your entire resume.

> and created out
>of my own mind,

Doctor: Thus showing your distinct lack of imagination.

> and lied saying people who had ABSOLUTELY
>NO INVOLVEMENT INTEREST IN DOING DOCTOR WHO actually had. I misused
>Jason Bell's and Area 9's Mindspring

Tom: The latest New Adventure from Virgin! Please keep reading them,
even if we don't have the Doctor anymore!

> accounts without their knowledge and without
>their say-so for an amazing four or five weeks,

Doctor: Proving that any company that hires her as a consultant deserves
what they get.

> without it being known,

Tom: Hey, who keeps sending these "Ticklish man wanted" spams
from our account?

>without it being seen and without their okay. I deliberately lied to the
>fans for several weeks about

Crow: Bill Gates being the new Doctor.

> absolutely everything regarding the Doctor
>Who Animated Series,

Doctor: So she admits it!
Tom: I think she's using hyperbole. Bad, overdone hyperbole, too.

> and I was merely a little freelance writer

Crow: There are no little freelance writers, just little freelance stories.

>mysteriously working on premises,

Tom: Walking through the halls and muttering to myself.
Crow: Carrying loaded weapons to work, scaring the clients with my
imitation of Elmyra Duff.

> every day, usually from nine to five.

Doctor: Not counting the hour you took off to stalk Fran Drescher.

>Gee, most freelance writers work out of their homes

Tom: Hunched over a computer, leering at pictures of Baby Spice and
never getting any work done.

> and are called in
>for

Crow: A browbeating from their editor for spelling all right "alright".

> assignments which they take and then leave the office to do them...

Tom: Should you or any of your IM team talk to Karen McCoy, the
fandom will disavow any knowledge of you or your actions.

>but I was a freelance writer mysteriously

Doctor: Running around Los Angeles with a sandwich board advertising
Howard Stern.

> working nine to five... How
>interesting! I'm such a busy little beaver...

Crow (sputtering with laughter): Oh, God, it's too easy! I can't!

>I even faked Jason Bell's and John Lotshaw's

Tom: Lot of Shaw there.

> signatures on documents

Doctor: And got away with it by breaking my writing hand afterwards.

>from them to Terry Jarvis

Crow: Jarvis, fetch my slippers and that letter from McDoodoodooloo!

> at Real Deal Pictures in London regarding a
>new version of Doctor Who.

Tom: All new! Doctor Who 4.0! You can use the discs for your
cyber-goth dresses!

> I'm an excellent forger

Crow (Rain Man): Definitely an excellent forger. I'm not wearing any underwear.

> as well as a felon.
>I'm a hooker and a crack addict

Doctor: Must be a character on Days of Our Lives.
Crow: Or Crackhead Bob's long lost daughter.

> and I'm out to defame

Servo (singing): Defame, Defame! I want to rant forever!

> this one web
>terrorist who is innocent and how dare I attempt to do the series!
>Why, web terrorist ought to be the one doing it, shouldn't they?
>
>In closing,

Crow: Which means there's probably thirty more paragraphs, so let's go.

(all exit theater)

(*...2...3...4...5...6...)

(Doctor is sitting at counter, thumbing through Doctor Who Magazine)

Doctor: Why would they junk any of my episodes? And who the heck
is this John Nathan Turner?

(Gypsy enters from right, staring at him)

Doctor (noticing her): Oh, hi...Gypsy, is it? What can I do for you?

Gypsy: Uhm, well, I... I don't get you.

Doctor (taken aback): Oh. Was it something I did? Is it an odor?

Gypsy: No. Well...no! I just don't get you.

Doctor: Would it help if I explain myself? Well, I'm half-human on my
mother's side, and I travel around in a TARDIS I stole after my
cousin tried to kill me. I've regenerated seven times, once just
because of a bump to the head. And apparently, a lot of people argue
with each other which of my incarnations was the best. Does any of
that help?

Gypsy: Well, sort of. I guess what I really want to know is...what's your name?

Doctor: Uhm, well it's...no, that isn't it. Wait, I know! No, that was
the Master's name. I know it ends in Lungbarrowmas. Let me think
about it for a while. (exits right, shaking his head in confusion)

Crow (entering from left): Did it work?

Gypsy: Nope.

Crow: Drats! And I bet Tom it was Fred.

(sirens start blaring)

Crow: THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS SIGN!!!

(6...5...4...3...2...*)

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