31 Plays in 31 Days, #6 - "Planning the Approach"

Today's bit is an imagining from the planned sixth Mrs. Hawking show, the one where she takes on Jack the Ripper. This scene, where she figures out how she's going to approach the fight with the monster she's hunting, was inspired by a conversation I had with one of my favorite students, a super cool former fencer who told me about how real knife fights go. He made a lot of awesome suggestions for how an actual experienced knife fighter would work, and I tried to incorporate that into Mrs. Hawking's plan. At this point in the timeline she'll be forty-eight years old, and starting to feel the effects of being that age trying to take on men in physical altercations.

This scene leads into another scene I wrote for part VI in a previous 31P31D last year, which I called "Continual Practice." That wasn't my original intention for the two ideas, but I really like how they work together. Gets at some great, deep-dive character stuff for my beloved screwed up protagonist.

( Day #6 - Planning the Approach )