Homework Assignment

Homework Assignment

Requirement:

Watch the DVD, for each scenario write a critique of the scene explaining how you, as an agent, would have accomplished the mission successfully.  Be prepared to defend your conclusions in class if necessary.

Lindsey Middlemass starred at the unlabeled DVD for a few seconds then popped it into the open tray of her laptop and closed the door.  While the machine booted up the disc she opened Word Pad, transferred it to her second screen and prepared to make notes.  While she waited she began to reflect on her last name and how maybe it was becoming a truism.  She’d always been top of or near the top of her class, good looking, popular, smart dresser, but now, amongst all the new recruits she’d quickly and rapidly ascended to the middle of the pack.  She’d even heard a few whispers when she’d screwed up in classes to the effect of Middlemiss.  She didn’t have any further time to dwell on mediocrity as the first lesson started.

Lindsey watched the first scene through making mental notes.  She repeated the process this time grabbing screen captures as she went to hi-light and support her analysis.  She watched it a final time in a slower speed adding any captures she thought relevant.

Scenario One:

There are really two weapons at work here, the classic woman in a man’s shirt and the knife.  However in this case one weapon does not enhance and in fact reduces the others effectiveness.  While the shirt acts as the classic distraction it leaves her with no place to conceal the knife except of course for the cleaver use of her hair.  A simple lie convinces him she’s a bobble being offered to him for his return to active duty and she is close to completing her mission nearly getting him to her arms, which was always her goal for close contact, the natural closing of the eyes during a kiss and she could kill him.

When this opportunity slips away, she fails to adapt instead she resets and intends to play the scene out as she imagined it instead of making use the opportunity presented.  This is her second mistake.

As can be observed from the pictures when he walks away she had more than ample opportunity to slip the knife free and plunge it home as she came up behind him.

This is her third mistake.  Once she manages to convince him she very nearly undoes all her work by having to deflect his arms to around her waist to naturally keep the knife a secret.  The motion is unnatural and disrupts the rhythm causing a reset and a delay, her fourth mistake; she was always dependent on one type of embrace and failed to control how to make it happen.  She eventually succeeds but seems to act in slow motion, her fifth mistake, but for the intervention of another woman she may have succeeded against so many errors.

The shirt and heels is a classic allure.  I do take issue with the choice of heel.  I would have gone with a classic pump, not a strap.  I find with a classic pump the eye flow is much better and does not disrupt the eye so much as it scans, merely my preference.

Of course the agent must also be concerned about her height Vis a Vis her target, so heel size plays a roll.  If she has the legs for it the no heel option would work just as well and give her the added benefit of should hand to hand combat become necessary she is well prepared for combat.  I would only recommend this option if the agent was an expert fighter as it takes away another weapon option as the paragraph below explains.

In continuing with the shoes they need to be more than just an accentuation to her legs.  A concealed knife blade in toe would have been an excellent weapon to deploy in the picture below.  Using heels would provide her with another option built in retractable stiletto blades in the heel points, no matter how small or large, depending on the heel they ensure an excellent and deadly weapon.

 

Having armored her with some more steel as backup should the plan not play out as expected she should have been armed with more subtle weapons.  The picture below could and should have included all three of those.  

This should have been the conclusion of her mission.  Her lipstick could have discharged its poisonous flavouring with just a touch.  However she need not have worried if he’d resisted as he did in the video, she has him already ensnared.  Her nails could have scratched home the poison her lips failed to deliver, they look well-manicured and sharp and painted a simple flick and her mission would have been a success.  Note the lack of a ring; a poison injection ring is a simple accoutrement no female agent should be without.

Scenario Two:

She has the perfect means of elimination, a concealed device time delayed device which when activated will finish the job.  All she needs to do is place it and leave, instead she lets her ego and desire get in the way of the mission, a bad and in this case, fatal combination.  As an organization I would rather have an agent fail in a mission but survive than have a mission fail and that agent die.  She had the mission completed and instead over complicated it with her insertion back into it.  

Scenario Three:

Not quite a man’s shirt this time but close enough.  This time however the female agent is far from convincing.  She invites him onto the bed, but she is still wearing shoes, it tells him she has other plans 

and does not intend to be their long, mistake one.  

Her second mistake is having the knife as her only means of termination as it leaves her exposed should the tables be turned.  Her kisses are far too tentative and quick underlying nervousness.  They don’t serve as a distraction in fact they could be setting off alarms in the target.  Her positioning is excellent, but her speed and decisiveness of poor.

She is inches from finishing but has allowed herself to be rolled thus losing the power of a downward thrust and her arm is blocked.  At this point she needs to roll him back, a long kiss and a press of her body closer would have done the trick.  Its also clear at this point that the knife is not going to work, she needs another means of execution. 

She is wearing three rings, poisonous inject ring would have done the trick or perhaps a strangulation wire ring.  Once in her embrace she could have easily pulled the wire silently out, wrapped it around his neck at least once, perhaps twice, rolled him over and pulled up using her body to hold him down.  Again we see the lack of multiple weapon choices causing a failure this time complicated by a nervous agent unsure of her own talents.  

Scenario Four:

The example of how to do things right.  This agent is of the four reviewed in my opinion the plainest of the them all, but she is the best.  In her first encounter she looks to be in trouble but the words out of his mouth tell her she’s in total command.

She seizes the opportunity and him and applies her fatal embrace.  

Notice how she holds her prey; he can’t get away even if he should want to.  The pleasure of her body only helps to conceal its deadly capabilities.  She makes quick work of the task then races off to save her partner.

A prisoner she again plays the damsel in distress to perfection.  She does not overplay it until she recognizes once again that she is the aggressor even though she’s the captured agent.  His removal of her clothes serves to give him a sense of false control, a power imbalance, if you will.  Posing to display her assets perfectly she baits the trap, a defenseless agent in waiting.

He steps into her web and is immediately seized by the venous spider and bitten in the most pleasurable way.  She clearly makes the best use of her assets.  Notice how she holds him to her but in reality its her kiss that binds him to her.  She never makes a sudden move or tries to escape too early.  He leads the way to the bed and when they separate the knowing smile on her face tells all, her poisonous bite has been completely effective.  Both these scenarios show the perfect example of how to allure and complete a mission and that stunning looks or complex plans do not always make for the best agent or outcome.