The Lion's Game and 9-11

On improbable premises…

Philippe: The airliner has no radio communication with the tower on approach, it lands and stops at the end of the runway.

David: So?

Philippe: Well, the fire department opens a door and finds that everyone, pilots, attendants, passengers, has passed out.

David: Could a plane land completely on autopilot?

Philippe: It’s not impossible, but very, very unlikely.

David: I couldn’t read a book starting from an impossible premise like that.

Philippe: But the suspense is relentless. DeMille specializes in such plots.

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Voice-over

A predictable plot provokes yawns.

An outrageous event occasions gasps.

Ironically, Nelson DeMille in researching “The Lion’s Game” (2000), had heard from New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in 1999 something even more outrageous. They predicted even then that …”jets would be flown by suicide pilots into the World Trade Center.” Le fait est étrange que la fiction.

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Pentagon hole

Stephen is convinced that no 757 went into the Pentagon.

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Stephen: The hole’s too small. So what happened to the wings?

Danny: They may have sheared off on impact.

Stephen: There were no wings on the ground. No one saw any plane parts, wings, tail, engines.

Danny: But given the incompetence of the present administration, how could they possibly turn the explosion into a plane crash? And what did they do with the flights that did disappear?

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Voiceover
Conspiracy theories sometimes raise more questions than they answer. Proponents have to think three moves ahead.

A wry humorous scepticism can help disbelievers cope with the passionate onslaught; likewise, a wry humorous demeanor can help proponents come across as more convincing.

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