Politics
Jeremy is drafted in his sophomore year. Cory and Shawn call to check on Desdemona as often as they can. She tries to put on her brave voice, and mostly she does well, but she's called the apartment crying more than once and Cordelia says that Des' emails are always sad now.
Shawn's articles get more and more incendiary and he puts out a story that doesn't even pretend to be anything but a thinly veiled political allegory. It gets published everywhere, then banned, then published everywhere else. When Cory's passed over for promotion, he and Shawn are both pretty sure it has something to do with the relatively conservative network's reluctance to be publicly linked with "radicals".
Shawn gets home from a meeting with his half-delighted, half- terrified editor one day to find the little green voicemail light on the phone blinking. The message is two words in a very carefully constrained voice.
"He's dead."
Next Installment: Fight