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SENTINEL EPSODE LIMRICKS
By Sue and Melanie
Switchman
The Limerick
(in four acts)
The Switchman made buildings go "Boom"
Banks and Plummer had gathered a room
Of experts to seek
And to find - just a peek!
Any ev'dence, as a deadline did loom.
Now Banks' best detective was Jim
Whose senses had him on the rim
A grad student named Blair
(Who had long, curly hair)
Knew just what had happened to him.
The perp was found leading a junket
On a bus - he's a girl! Who'd'a thunk it??
Blair then popped her one
And got hold of her gun
While Jim found the bomb and then flung it.
Jim decided he'd partner with Blair
Which caused Captain Taggart to stare
Jim said a cadet
Blair'd have to be yet
Blair yelled, "I'm not cutting my hair!"
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Seige
The Limerick
(in seven acts)
A madman named Garrett Kincaid
Shut down the police of Cascade
He took over the station
With much devastation
Demands to the gov'nor he made.
"Sun Rise Patriots have you in thrall
Give me back my men, heed the call!"
Dangled Daryl from high
Shot Taggart in the thigh
And threatened to kill one and all.
Blair was in the men's rest
Room to pee in a cup for a test
Choice of weapons was lean
Stall door, vending 'chine
On a scaffold, he hid from the rest.
Brought to Kincaid, Blair thought he'd die
So he spun out a fanciful lie
"I'm a vice cop," he said
"Better living than dead"
Joel agreed and was kicked in the thigh.
Jim and Simon came in from the cold
The welds on the door were not old
Up the stairs they did run
With the cool morphing gun
Their actions incredibly bold.
In a chopper Kincaid took our Blair
Under feet he found a gun - flare
Jim and Kincaid did tangle
From a strut they did dangle
Blair said, "I've flown choppers...Land there."
Banks confronted Jim on the roof
Jim promised to tell him the truth
Blair said, "Is this day
The norm? Typical? Hey!"
Jim patted his cheeks like a goof.
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The Killers
The Limerick
(in six acts)
Jim knew a young cop, Danny Choi
He'd known him since he was a boy
With a shot from on high
In Jim's arms he did die
"It's too late," Blair did say with no joy.
Jim saw Tommy Juno, a killer
Whose arrest, the DA, it did thrill her
Jim said, at the BAR
"I saw him from afar"
Jim's statement, with dread it did fill her.
An alibi came to the front
Jim's words were knocked out with a punt
From the court Tom went free
Taunted Jim with great glee
And the Sentinel went out on the hunt.
Juno aimed for the pretty DA
Jim chased after him to delay
The shot winged her lair
She was saved by brave Blair
Jim dropped him three floors, there he lay.
It seemd the good guys, they did win
The killer had paid for his sin
But old records were found
And then jaws hit the ground
Tommy Juno, it seemed, had a twin.
Tommy held frightened Bev by her hair
Dead Dylan sat there, in a chair
They effected a trade
'Til a goof up was made
So they shot him and got out of there.
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The Debt
The Limerick
(in four acts)
Blair's warehouse was in dismal shape
Where he lived with a Barbary Ape
Named Larry and he
Was hooked on violent TV
(No, not Blair, I mean Larry! The ape!!)
The warehouse next door - it went "Boom!"
Throwing Jim, Blair and Lar' 'cross the room
'Twas a street gang's drug lab
Nothing's left but a dab
Of clues for the cops to consume.
A good cop was framed by a bad
With a gun that he thought he still had
Jim knew guilt was put
On a very wrong foot
And said he would help find the cad.
Blair, in a jacket and tie
Was guarding an old lady - Why?
She's the good cop's grandma
Raised him just like his pa
The bad guys were nabbed on the fly.
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Cypher
The Limerick
(in five acts)
A serial killer is stalking Cascade
Becoming each victim he's made
Yellow scarf 'round the throat
And they drowned, but no boat
In the tub they were left, bare and daid.
A Fibbie named Bates, he's a shrink
Could determine how killers did think
"He's becoming each victim"
Blair said. (Bates 'greed with him)
"After throwing each one in the drink."
"Who am I now" on the mirror was wrote
By Bates (he's the perp, we should note)
He grabbed Blair at the loft
Like the wolf, hoft and poft
Blair gone, and the mess, got Jim's goat.
Blair woke chained in an old dentist's chair
To see Lash (he's the perp) in fake hair
Blair screamed in his face
Lash picked up the pace
And before you would know it, drugged Blair.
Jim found them after a mad dash
Saved Blair, and five times he shot Lash
The next day Blair did lecture
"You're my 'Blessed Protector'"
Think I'll get a tattoo of a badge."
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Night Train
The Limerick
In the kitchen, Blair made up a brew
To help Jim get over the flu
It smelled like wet yak
Jim said, "I'll take none of that"
And into a napkin he blew.
Simon summoned his fav'rite detective
And gave him a solemn directive
"You and Blair will maintain
A watch on this night train
Of a witness you will be protective."
//As watchman, Jim gave Blair his gun
Said, "Let no one in. No, no one!"
Blair said, "A password?
One that will be heard?"
Jim said, "I'll just say 'Ellison'"
Because things were proceeding fast
Jim knew with this cold, he'd not last
Instead of a pill
He took some SenQuill
His senses took off with a blast.
//The bad guys were waiting to go
Through the door in a gun waving show,
Our brave Sentinel did grin
"What jerks - sure I'll win!"
And was thrown by the punks out a window!!
While Blair to a JD was handcuffed
His attraction was suitably rebuffed
Poor Jim underneath
The train - gritting teeth
Remembered some lab tests and was not muffed
Now Sentinel uses his brain
Banks drives down the tracks like a lane
Jim jumped from the Jeep
With an inaudible 'EEEP'
And all of the bad guys restrained.