Original Commentary

No, Brisbane isn't trained. I tried to work in the line "We both know you haven't had any training", but it wouldn't. And I had Brisbane's last line as "You may pass". But this works better. For a while now, I've been trying to get Kimberly to reach this deep into her old bag of tricks. Isabel suggested the basic idea for this strip; I adjusted it very much and here it is - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Kimberly indeed reaches into her old bag of tricks.

That was one of the plans for this storyline. Back in Unlike Minerva, Brisbane had this nervous, paranoid energy. Kimberly had this crafty, conniving energy.

I wanted to get them moving in ways that were new yet familiar. You can't go back to the past. The Minerva Theatre went out of business. But the past can inform the present. - Terrence