Grifter Kingdom(s)

Will Churchill Downs create a diamond hellmouth or surface vigilante-heroics out of Amlan, a prince of Homeland heavens?

A modern Kentucky Derby conspiracy drawn 'faerie-tale' inspired by the unusual American film The Grifters (John Cusack). Enjoy, 

----

====

AMLAN: We use Arklow at Churchill Downs to foil Ion's blood-diamond operation.

MARCUS: We've become the trio of Homeland grifters for commerce-vigilantism.

RAKI: Let's not under-value the evil of Ion with social-media vanities, buds.

ION: Whoever appears in this Arklow-wager, I'll count them as gypsy-victims.

ASSOCIATE: You think this Derby-race will draw insurance-talk on social-media?
ION: What I do know/expect is 'grifter-medium' chess offering conspiracy.

ASSOCIATE: What're the 'kids' saying these days on social-media about diamonds?

Amlan/Marcus/Raki were indeed Grifters of the Homeland primed for social-media intrigue/buzz, and they did indeed intend to foil the blood-diamond baron (Ion) scheme to use a promising young Churchill Downs horse (Arklow) to create diamond-insurance journal/magazine/cyber ads to veil his smuggling activity tied with Sierra Leone completely. This was the modern hell of commerce-life terror in the Homeland, and the trio of 'buds' who grew up in the streets of Algiers, educated at Dartmouth, and self-trained/made as world-infiltration diamond-baron corruption 'destroyers' (with Interpol-relation!) were the only hope that the Derby-race would make Arklow a future millionaire-beauty of 'character' and hygiene (hmm).

ESMERELDA: You want to 'kidnap' me away from Baron Ion, Mr. Satan?
AMLAN: My name's Amlan Satan; I'm a Grifter-medium; and I love you!

ESMERELDA: This is all quite Romanticism; and very Machiavellian/dangerous.

AMLAN: Yeah...and it's dark too; but I promise to make you a cyber-model.

ESMERELDA: Aha, a diamond-merchant ad-girl of promising legalese/hygiene.

AMLAN: I 'doubt' you'd rather 'drown' in the lake-of-fire with Ion.

ESMERELDA: Sure; but I'd intended a life of social-media arts/fanfiction.

AMLAN: Wow.

Baron Ion showcased his damsels of hell ornamented in the world's finest jewels/necklaces at Churchill Downs, all tied to his fancy lore concerning diamond-market insurance 'integrity' and making his blood-diamond activity 'incompletely' invisible, which is where Amlan Satan came in as the vigilante-captain of his Homeland Grifters trio including Marcus/Raki, and hoping to 'extract' the Ion-mistress/siren (Esmerelda) as his 'trophy-Juliet' in this Derby-race game/tale of insurance, conspiracy, infiltration, double-cross, American character(s), and of course...terrorism (ha).

ION: You want Esmerelda as your 'trophy' if Arklow wins at Churchill-Downs?

AMLAN: Excellence, bad-baron; it's a celeb-world, and I'll make you famous.

ION: How?
AMLAN: Arklow's 'destined' to be a millionaire-horse, baron; I'll use Esmerelda.

ION: Ezzy?

AMLAN: Yeah...'Ezzy'...I'll make a social-media mosaic about gem-markets.

ION: This is some form of 'celebrity-world' engineering, eh, Mr. Satan?
AMLAN: I get 'Ezzy'...you get Arklow joint-company ad-prestige; we win!

ION: This is (indeed) a modern Homeland 'culture' of celebrity-superstition.

AMLAN: That's why this'll work...Ion...America's Ego.

Would Baron Ion succeed in his quest to turn Churchill Downs into a frame for diamond-insurance veiling his Empire of smugglers-corruption and securities exploitation? Would the valiant 'Grifters' of the Homeland (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) manage to 'trick' the 'bad-baron' into creating a joint social-media examination of Arklow-horse 'chips' for investment conversation drawing greater 'eyes' to Ion's underworld investments/commitments to the emerged 'celebrity-culture' of treasure-driven insurance high-art (and cinema too)?

ESMERELDA: Satan wanted me to 'gift' this to you before I departed your company!

ION: Excellence; a 'cool' McDonald's consumerism-football 'prize' Kosar-card.

ESMERELDA: You're to write about it concerning Arklow's victory, no?
ION: No concerning you, Ezzy; depart with your newfound James Bond.

ESMERELDA: Great.

Amlan/Marcus/Raki met-up with their new 'associate' at Churchill Downs, a cool socialite-aristocrat named Ron Moss who'd take them and Esmerelda ('Ezzy') to a safe-house at the Wingate (hotel) while Interpol-relation clarified the insurance-journals concerning Ion-activity and Arklow-media following the dark-hose triumph en-route to a 'cool' subculture flowery regarding the race-horse potential rise to millionaire-fortune oriented American 'community' social-media governance.

RON MOSS: So you two hero-birds are off to Brussels (now)?

AMLAN: Indeed, Ronny; thanks for the diamond game storyboard.

EZZY: I guess there's charm in superstition obstructed promise(s).

RON MOSS: Is Esmerelda your Galatea (then)?

AMLAN: Excellence, Ronny; post-Bond life offers 'literary' high-art.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

====

"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)