Atlantic City

We didn't know exactly what happened in Atlantic City or why, but  the flashback sequences in issues 10, 35, 56 and 69 revealed a few fragments. A hooded man being dragged from the boot of a car. Cole Burns drinking tequila as the man is doused in petrol. Milo Garret ill at ease. Wylie Times and Cole at odds. Six Minutemen are present, but Lono is missing. Graves and Shepherd were involved too. In Cole's flashback, we see only Cole. In Milo's flashback we see both Cole and Milo, with a silhouetted Wylie striking a match. When Wylie woke we saw Cole, Milo, Wylie and Victor. In the background was Jack Daw, who's flashback showed the journey to the pier. Victor was already active as the story began and Remi Rome also had no flashback.

The motives for the incident, the identity of the victim, the fall of the Minutemen after the fact, are revealed in Punch Line. We know that whatever the method for the proposed re-enactment of "the greatest crime ever committed in the history of mankind", a four hundred year old offence that consolidated the power of the Trust, Graves refused to do it. What happened next was Graves' idea, a further refusal and retaliatory action against the Trust for ordering the deaths of the Minutemen. Some, but not all of the Minutemen were obviously uncomfortable with the incident, a "mind-fuck" devised by Wylie Times in the wake of his lover's death. The final pieces are almost falling into place, but in the meantime, here is a chronology of the events seen so far.