Now, Keel’s absence from the scene threatens to throw a total monkey wrench into history. There was a real Sergeant Keel back thirty-plus years ago when Vimes was the neophyte Sam, but, after the arrival of Carcer and Vimes into this moment in history, the real one suffered the fate of running into the Carcer and his knife. His air of authority convinces his colleagues, and it so impresses the doddering watchhouse Captain Tilden that he bestows on Kell (Vimes) the rank of Sergeant-at-arms. Well, for various complex and, this being a Terry Pratchett novel, humorous reasons, Vimes ends up masquerading as a new member of the watch by the name of John Keel. He also finds himself arrested by several members of the Night Watch, including one very callow and impressionable Lance Corporal named Sam Vimes. So, Carcer finds himself in an Anhk-Morpork where no one knows him or his reputation, and Vimes finds himself still trying to capture the man he describes as “a stone-cold killer. The thing is, Terry Pratchett’s 2002 Discworld novel Night Watch opens with Vimes, the Duke, being shooed out of the family mansion because his wife Sybil is about to give birth and he’s just underfoot.Īnd, while he is away, he ends up chasing a really, really, really bad sociopath named Carcer and finally nabbing him - only to be struck by a confluence of occurrences, including a lightning strike and the general goofiness of magic around the Unseen University, that sends the two of them, cop and criminal, back three decades into the past. A very callow Lance Corporal named Sam Vimes His real name is Sam Vimes or, more correctly, His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes, mainstay of the Anhk-Morpork Watch and a more than occasional irritant in the side of the Patrician of his era, Havelock Vetinari. But he overrules them moment by moment! I think I saw a genius at work, but…” You can see his muscles thinking for him. John Keel, new to the bumbling, inept Night Watch of Anhk-Morpork and making a strong impression. The main topic in their conversation is a certain Sgt. “And your point, Madam, is…” “Just a sergeant” “He says he never saw you at any of them.” Indeed, the examiner complained that Vetinari never showed up at his stealthy movement classes. His rich and conniving aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole, known as Madam, tells Havelock that she’s heard he scored a zero in his examination for stealthy movement. Havelock Vetinari, not yet Patrician - in fact, still a student in the Assassin’s Guild - is a lot better at the work of “inhuming” targets than his teachers realize.

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