Steele With a Twist Series
It's time to UN-suspend what was presented to us a 'reality' in Season 5. How many of you believe, given the intimacy and hard-worked-on honesty of Season 4 that Remington would have turned to a hooker to solve his INS issues? Let's see a show of hands. What? No one?! After all my years of living in the Remington Steele world, that is what I have found the consensus to be. How many of you believe that Laura would have engaged with an open flirtation with Roselli (blech, yuck, ugh) while going on incessantly about a honeymoon, nonetheless? C'mon, let's see a show of hands. No one again? That also seems to be the consensus.
Think of this series as a challenge. The argument, for Roselli at least, was the producers were forced to add Jack Scalia as a cast member and the only plausible storyline was to create a 'triangle'. Thus, we the viewers are forced to set aside what Canon tells us about our favorite characters and to just 'buy' what we were 'sold.' After all, there was no choice, right? Wrong. In this series, we are going to stick with the scripts except for three little details: 1. The hooker/marriage storyline is gone, yet the comedy of errors from Bonds of Steele remains; 2. Roselli (gag, vomit, cough) exists but he is no means competition for Laura's affections; and, 3. We stick to what Canon tells us about these characters we know and love.
Could a truly enjoyable Season 4 finale, and Season 5 have been achieved? I guess we'll find out.
For the most pleasurable reading, the stories in the series should be read in order:
Steele Bound – Revamp of Bonds of Steele (Season 4 Finale)
Steele Defying the Odds Pt 1 – Revamp of The Steele Who Wouldn't Die Pt 1 (Season 5, Ep 1)
Steele Defying the Odds Pt 2 - Revamp of The Steele Who Wouldn't Die Pt 2 (Season 5, Ep 2)
Author Note: I do not own these characters. I only write their stories to keep them alive.
Scene 1
In the limo, Remington Steele – the former thief and conman with five passports to his name – glanced nervously at his watch when the car phone began to ring, tearing him from his thoughts. With a sigh, he reached for the annoying contraption.
"Steele here," he greeted in his customary manner.
"I'm afraid we're going to have to push back our appointment a bit, Mr. Steele," Laura Holt, business partner and love interest informed him. "We have a client who needs our immediate help."
"Need I remind you, Miss Holt, we've a rather pressing engagement of our own to attend to? One with life altering implications?" he asked.
"I'm afraid our new client's problem has an urgent expiration date. We'll just have to push everything back an hour. I need you at UNIDAC in fifteen," she informed him in that no nonsense way of hers.
"Splendid. I'll see you then," he sulked. Without bothering to bid her adieu, he hung up the phone. "UNIDAC, Fred, and don't spare the rubber."
Planting his elbow on the door, he rested his chin against a fisted hand, and stared petulantly out the window wondering if there would ever come a day when Laura Holt would put him and their personal relationship first.