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Anthony Bishop's Manuscript, also known as Kiss Me, Forever, is an artifact featured in "The Big Snag".

Origin[]

Anthony Bishop was an author of many novels in the hardboiled crime genre during the 1940s. At some point, his wife became ill and died suddenly, leaving him alone and grief-stricken. During his mourning, he attempted to write a new novel, Kiss Me, Forever, but only managed to write few chapters and he considered the story "all wrong"; his wife was all he could think about. While writing, he based a central character, Lily Abbott, on his wife. While he was at his typewriter, he would imagine himself within the novel's world, and one day his grief and longing to be reunited with his wife turned his unfinished manuscript into an artifact that sucked him inside, transporting him to the world he had created. The outside world would interpret his disappearance as him having committed suicide after being driven insane by writer's block.

Effects[]

TBA

History[]

Now inside the manuscript's world, he would secure himself a career as the bartender of the Indigo Club and enter a romantic relationship with Lily.[1]

For uncertain reasons,[2] but presumably as part of its standard routine to collect the first editions (and by the manuscript's inclusion, seemingly unpublished as well) of published works,[3] the manuscript was collected by Warehouse 13 and stored in its library.[1]

In modern day, Pete and Myka were sucked into this story after the Jade Elephant overcharged and discharged a bolt into the shelf knocking over the manuscript. When inside the story the users experience the 1940s in black and white, also according to Pete "Everything smells like fudge". Pete and Myka soon discovered they had become the main characters of the story, the private detective and his secretary, and that if they wanted to escape thay had to solve the crime and finish the story. They also discovered the Jade Elephant had fallen into the story also and had become part of the plot; the case Pete and Myka had to solve was the disappearance of an archaeologist who just return from India with a strange Jade Elephant. Pete and Myka also discovered that Anthony Bishop didn't kill himself, he has actually been trapped inside his own manuscript all these years. He claimed he was just sitting at his type writer one day thinking about his book and then suddenly found himself inside of it. Pete and Myka told him they could all leave together, but he didn't want to leave because a character in the story, a girl name Lilly, was based off of his late wife and he had fallen in love with her. This explained why Bishop had writers block because as Pete put it "he was trying to write a crime novel when when really this is a love story". After getting the Jade Elephant back and killing the bad guy, a woman named Rebecca whose character was based off of Bishop's mother in law, Pete and Myka were returned to reality. However, Bishop decided to remain in his manuscript forever as "he'd rather spend a second with her [Lilly] than a life time without her". After examining the manuscript again, Pete and Myka realized the story was now finished and the ending was Bishop and Lilly living happily ever after.

Sometime later, Myka approached Pete with the manuscript to inform him it belongs in a different place than where they originally found it.[4]

People Involved[]

Owners[]

  • Anthony Bishop

Affected People[]

  • Anthony Bishop (sucked in, remained inside by choice)
  • Myka Bering (sucked in, escaped)
  • Pete Lattimer (sucked in, escaped)

Kiss Me, Forever[]

Story[]

TBA

Chapters[]

The official names of the story's chapters, if indeed they have any, as well as the true number of chapters of the manuscript are unknown. The episode itself presents the progression of the story as at least twenty-seven chapters, seven of which are named on-screen:

  • Chapter 1: The Client
  • Chapter 4: The Ambush
  • Chapter 9: The Wife
  • Chapter 14: The Boyfriend
  • Chapter 18: The Double-Cross
  • Chapter 23: The Big Snag
  • Chapter 27: The Good-Bye

Characters[]

Official[]

The following are central characters that originate from the manuscript and are entirely fictional:

  • Lily Abbott
  • Rebecca Carson
  • Oliver Carson
  • Caspian Barnabas

Presumed[]

The following are characters that may or may not have existed, or are presumed to have existed, in the original manuscript, but may have been replaced by real people fitting their role from the real world:[5]

  • Indigo Club bartender (may have been replaced by Anthony Bishop)
  • Detective/Private Investigator (may have been replaced by Pete Lattimer)
  • Detective/Private Investigator's secretary/partner (may have been replaced by Myka Bering)

Locations[]

  • Detective's office
  • Indigo Club
  • Carson home
  • KristieAnne Hotel

Real World Connection[]

TBA

Trivia[]

  • Anthony Bishop included various references to real-world people when writing the novel:
    • Lily Abbott is directly based on his late wife in her kind attitude and, possibly, appearance.
    • Rebecca Carson is based on his mother-in-law, his wife's mother.[6]
    • The KristieAnne Hotel is named after Bishop's own mother.[7]
    • Augustus Pitt Rivers, Oliver's alias while staying at the hotel, is the full name of a real archaeologist.
  • Lily Abbott's name is a reference to her role as a pure and good woman. Lily flowers are commonly symbolic of purity, and "abbot" is a title for the head of of a Christian monastery.
  • Caspian Barnabas's character and name are based on Casper Gutman, an antagonistic character of the crime noir novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptation.
  • Myka is a passionate fan of Bishop's work and read all of his books when she was a child,[1] around the time she was 12 years old.[8]
  • According to Myka:
    • Bishop dedicated all of his books to his wife with the phrase "With love to my love."[9]
    • All of Bishop's novels end with an innocent person dying in a shoot-out. In Kiss Me, Forever, the character would have been Lily.[10]
    • The ending of the movie Casablanca, in which the characters Rick Blaine and Louis Renault walk off into the fog, was stolen from Bishop's work.[11]
      • Incidentally, Bishop's would-be final words to Lily before he decides to stay ("Be good, kid") may be a reference to Rick's repeated line "Here's looking at you, kid."
  • The manuscript's title, Kiss Me, Forever, ends up being fulfilled when Bishop and Lily embrace together before Myka and Pete leave.[12] Prior to this, TBA.
  • Via the effects of King Kamehameha's Hawaiian Lei, the manuscript takes on the appearance of what appears to be a tabloid magazine.[13]

Appearances[]

See Also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Big Snag"
  2. ↑ The Warehouse has only been explicitly stated to collect the first editions of every book ever published. However, Bishop's Manuscript was never published, nor even finished. Additionally, as no Warehouse agents have been known to have been sucked into the Manuscript, as they would have encountered Bishop and advanced the plot and could only escape by finishing the story, it is unlikely anyone was ever sucked into it after Bishop and before Pete and Myka, and it is thus highly unlikely the Warehouse was aware it was an artifact at all. Supporting this is the fact that it was stored among presumably non-artifact books with no special storage tags or procedures to indicate that it was an artifact.
  3. ↑ Myka Bering: "Maybe there's a clue in one of Wells's books, because our library is amazing." Leena: "I know, first editions of everything that's ever been printed." Time Will Tell
  4. ↑ Myka Bering: "Pete, this Bishop novel that we got sucked into actually belongs in..." The Sky's the Limit
  5. ↑ This is presumed because the story, if it focused on or at least involved a crime plot being investigated by a detective/private investigator, such a character necessarily must have existed in the manuscript (though it's possible their absence was one of the ways it was incomplete). In any case, the role of the detective that instigated the start and progression of the manuscript's story was filled by Pete, and was likely not filled by Bishop when he was transported into it as the plot never progressed until Pete and Myka's arrival, suggesting that real people sucked into the story assume a role they fit into in some way.
  6. ↑ Myka Bering: "Bishop, there's no way that Rebecca is a real person trapped in here too, is there?" Anthony Bishop: "No, I based her on my mother-in-law." (The Big Snag)
  7. ↑ Myka Bering: "Anthony Bishop, the author - his mother's name was KristieAnne." (The Big Snag)
  8. ↑ Pete Lattimer: "You have been dying to play that role, haven't you?" Myka Bering: "Since I was twelve!" (The Big Snag)
  9. ↑ Anthony Bishop: "Well, if you're a fan, you know how I dedicate every book." Myka Bering: "'With love to my love'. They're all dedicated to your wife, right?" (The Big Snag)
  10. ↑ Myka Bering: "All of his books end with someone innocent dying in a shootout. In this one it's supposed to be Lily, isn't it?" (The Big Snag)
  11. ↑ Myka Bering: "How did you know that the fog would be our ride home?" Pete Lattimer: "It's the end of Casablanca." Myka: "They stole that from Bishop you know." (The Big Snag)
  12. ↑ Myka Bering: "The detective and his gal Friday walked off into the fog and left the lovers in their embrace - an embrace that would last forever. Maybe, just maybe." (The Big Snag)
  13. ↑ "The Sky's the Limit"
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