My husband and I are catching up on Arrow.  For those that don’t know, this is a TV show about the comic book hero, the Green Arrow, and it’s really pretty good, with multiple complex story lines and good writing.  I’ve yet to determine what draws every villain from the League of Assassins to mad scientists to Arrow’s home of Starling City, but they certainly get more than their fair share, and by that I mean, more than an entire crime-rid nations’ fare share.

Still, it makes for some good episodes, but I had to wonder, what if more characters in this show were faithful Catholics?

Last night we saw the episode where a drug lord, the Count, mixes up his designer drug with the flu shot to addict half the city. Apparently, everyone gets super-sick and in extreme pain unless they get a fix. The assistant DA gets the shot, falls ill in court and the Count kidnaps him in the ambulance. He takes him to a secret location and interrupts all the TV stations to broadcast the DA in pain to advertise the “cure,” available at your nearest gang-ridden street corner. (It’s comic-book TV. Go with it.)

After the adverting and posturing, he makes the ADA beg to get shot up with Vertigo on live TV.  But what if the ADA had been Catholic?

Count:  “Say you want it.  Say it…”

ADA:  “No.  I’m giving it to God.”

Count: “Eh…what?”

ADA: “I united this pain with the wounds of Christ on behalf of those you’ve made suffer.”

Count:  “You don’t have to suffer.” (Turns to the camera.) “Nobody has to suffer.  Just go buy the Vertigo.  Believe me.”

ADA:  “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty…”

 

Your turn!  Rewrite a scene from a TV show with a character as a Catholic and post it in the comments.