Fury

[Minty]

You had the next plotline right in front of you, only you didn't realise it!

Vincent Cormier won't go to the police about the theft because it would bring into the open him abusing his horses. Jason and Mike can't go to the police because they stole Lightning.

Once the videos goes viral & the media latch onto it, the police are involved whether anyone likes it or not, & Jason, Mike & Jack are in double trouble - not only the theft, but failing to notify the correct authorities about a suspected case of animal cruelty.

The media will pursue the case because the story has so many angles (animal cruelty, animal rights people taking the law into their own hands, ranch full of singleton guys & gals, oh so many angles!!!!), & a few old skeletons can come tumbling out of everyone's closets in the process once they start digging for ways to keep the story going.

That will put a lot of strain on everyone at Six Gable Stables with one another, as well as with their relations with people in Crystal Falls, some of whom may have business dealings with both parties & Cormier might try to force them to cease trading with Six Gable Stables if they want to keep his business, which his lawyer can spin to the press to say people in Crystal Falls are backing him not the animal rights nutters.

Six Gable Stables may also attract support from people they don't want - militant animal rights people who believe horses shouldn't be ridden anyway, underworld types that Cormier had crossed & they see this as a way of paying him back.