By Slanted Light

I find it hard to tell one mud-covered bloke from another
Hee - this is very true! I spend most of those sequences trying to work out which one is Doyle! *g* Although I did notice this time that King Billy managed to stay un-muddy for rather a long time, when the others were caked in the stuff (very true to life, that, too... *g*)

I quite like filling in the backstory in this one - it gives us so much scope for fic! - but I agree that the plot/backstory is a bit hole-y to follow as is...

Hmmn - does Doyle get flappy? You mean at the end where he meets Cowley and suddenly decides that he has to find Bodie after all? I dunno - I think I have my own backstory for that in my head, so it doesn't seem odd to me. There's been a rift of some sort between our lads, so whilst they're trying to act as normal at work, it's doing wrong. Doyle manages it by trying to be cool about whatever's going on (not Fonzie-cool, unaffected cool), but because he actually is really affected by it, he doesn't realise that Bodie's acting oddly in reaction to an outside event rather than because of what happened between them. It's not until he sees Cowley that he puts two and two together and realises that Bodie's not just taking out his aggro on a bunch of bikers he doesn't like, but that there's more to it than that - and then he heads straight to the rescue, and afterwards, he takes Bodie home and washes all that mud off him, and they... well, but enough of my imaginings. *g*

Oh, the bow tie scene... *happy sigh*

I do love seeing the lads littering the place
Yes! Yes and yes - they need to be littered around much more! *g*