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- Overview
- History
- People Involved
- Kiss Me, Forever
- Trivia
- References
Anthony Bishop's Manuscript 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. 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.
Collection
For uncertain reasons, 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presumably as part of its standard routine to collect the first editions (and by the manuscript's inclusion, seemingly unpublished as well) of published works, the manuscript was collected by Warehouse 13 and stored in its library.
Activation and Neutralization
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.
Affected People
•Anthony Bishop (sucked in, remained inside by choice) •Myka Bering (sucked in, escaped) •Pete Lattimer (sucked in, escaped)
StoryCharactersLocations•Detective's office •Indigo Club •Carson home •KristieAnne Hotel•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.
•The KristieAnne Hotel is named after Bishop's own mother.
•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.
1.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)
Author, Steven Anthony Bishop. About The Author. Steven Bishop was born on the seventh day of the seventh month in Southern California yet considers Utah as his “home base” while growing up. He has worked as an entrepreneur most of his professional life, including as a seasoned real estate investor.
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Myka examines the title page of the blank book that fell on them and discovers that it's an unfinished crime novel signed by author Anthony Bishop. She's a fan of Bishop and tells Pete that he had writer's block, killed himself in desperation, and thus created an artifact.
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