St. Boniface Vikings (Part 2)

The St. Boniface Connection

Nolan cautions Marva Lynn, but gets enticed by Snake's Three-card Monte game. Snake cheats Nolan out of $20, which outrages Marva Lynn. When she exposes the con, Snake takes off. Marva Lynn, not wanting to let a crook run and not getting any help, chases after him. Nolan tries to stop her laboriously, but suddenly he feels pain, causing him to stop, lose breath and wheeze badly. Marva Lynn even runs faster than Snake. Snake, trapped in an alley, tries to attack Marva Lynn, but a panicked Marva Lynn manages to knock him out. She begins to feel that the entire misadventure has given her a sense of exhilaration.

Marva Lynn decides to spice up her life by joining the St. Boniface Police Force. Nolan, however, is less than enthused about Marva Lynn being a cop, but she assures him that he will remain "man of the house." Marva Lynn reports for police recruit training. She does well in the obstacle course, pretty well in the shooting range and nails the high-speed driving test—although the police chief asks her to replicate it, as he wasn't watching. Finally she goes home to her family, and announces herself to be part of the force.

The next day, after a breakfast of donuts and coffee (a cop's necessary sustenance), Marva Lynn reports to the station for work.

On her day off, Marva Lynn orders Kevin to wear safety gear when skateboarding, which gets him beaten up by the bullies.

That night, Nolan, Paul, Grady, Ed, Bill, Mick, Roy, Fred, Karl, Milt, Gary and Dave are playing cards. Marva Lynn comes in and finds them gambling illegally asked them except Nolan to get out. Nolan's friends beat a hasty retreat while Nolan himself is a little mad at her for not being home more often.

The next day, she seems rather unenthusiastic, as everyone seems to be breaking the law—especially Nolan, who has parked illegally across three handicap spaces and is buying liquor for the underage bullies. She tells him to move his car, which he refuses to do still thinking that Marva Lynn won't arrest him, leading her to write him a ticket. He gets even more aggressive, which prompts her to arrest him. Later, he is released, but is outraged with Marva Lynn.

When he gets home, Nolan finds a jean-counterfeiting operation going on in his own garage, which his friend, One Armed Herman, is involved. As Herman and his cronies are about to tune him up, Marva Lynn busts in to save the day. As she is cuffing the rest of the crooks, Herman takes Nolan as a hostage and runs to the treehouse, with Marva Lynn in hot pursuit. She manages to evade getting shot, by coming in through the secret entrance. Herman tries to escape using a pair of knock-off jeans to slide down a rope. But the jeans are so lousy, they tear up and Herman falls to the ground.

Later, The police chief informs Marva Lynn that they can't hold him for lack of evidence. Marva Lynn retorts by saying that there is a garage full of counterfeit jeans, but he says that they have "mysteriously disappeared"; the cops are wearing some right then and there. Marva Lynn angrily says there is too much corruption on the force and she turns in her badge. After a hearty laugh, he accepts her resignation.