http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Mark_Trail/2013-10-24/
Don't ever wound your big game target and cavalierly head back to your luxury cabin. Even that "old buck" knows that revenge is a dish best served cold. Look at those dark eyes. It gives me chills.
Some background since my last post: Much to my surprise (not), Mark was able to successfully bluff The Senator and Johnny Walker about recording their illicit conversation on his giant cell phone. Mark then revealed the extortion plot behind The Senator's sponsorship of the Oil Exploration Act. Johnny then grabbed the phone from Mark and took off into the woods with Trail on his trail.
Did anyone not expect Johnny to be confronted by the wounded bull elk (male elks aren't bucks)? My guess is the elk menances Johnny until Mark arrives, simultaneously retrieving his cell phone and removing the bullet from the elk, who turns out to be the alpha elk who then fathers an awkward son and raises him with tough love after the nondescript and only briefly seen cow elk mother dies in a Disney-style drama and the son leads the herd north to safety when the forest temperature increases by 6C (i.e., while Mark wins this round against developers he fails in stopping climate change) finding love along the way with a cute young cow elk, who finally discovers the young bull's potential (who has grown less awkward with added responsibility, by the way) and they live happily ever after ... illustrating how adaptation to climate change is a cost effective alternative to economic incentive-based climate policy.
It will later be discovered that the billionaire Koch brothers funded the story line with dark money (how else could Mark fail to foil an evil plot against nature? duh).
Just a guess, folks, just a guess.
