Thomas F. Wilson Code

 The more you know about Marty McFly, H.P. Lovecraft, the horror movie "pinhead" and  the 2005 NecroComicon horror comics convention in L.A., the more sense the alternate version of the Thomas F. Wilson Jumble Puzzle code makes.  This is probably the first iteration of the code (without the “and”) so you can expect it to be less tidy and direct.

Think of it like a man who marries the woman of his dreams. She has nearly everything he wants in a wife. The reality of getting married is that he gets her relatives, friends, associates and acquaintances in the bargain. That could be a reason he married her – her rich dad, a friend who hobnobs with the political elite. But he also gets the guy she works for who got busted on a charge of exposing himself to little old ladies at a church social.

If someone marries himself to a plan based on a movie, he gets everyone and everything associated with the movie. Where you see an actor in that movie linked to other actors, characters, settings, props, scenarios or themes in another movie, you can figure that you might be onto something in linking them to a plan that includes those people places or things. You then look for others within that context. If you find them, it won’t take much to see what else they are associated with and what those associations mean.

The context of “M. F. MCCLINTON ROLE AS BUFORD TANNEN IN LA SHOW” is the 2005 NecroComicon show in Los Angeles where Thomas Riccio arranged for O.J. to sign football memorabilia. The Business Wire press release dated September 28, 2005 supplies a key portion of a Palace Station incident preview absent from Back to the Future: “The NecroComicon is not your ordinary Comic Convention. This show features a Spooky House, Haunted Theme Park, Live Bands, Collectible & Memorabilia Vendors, Movie Screenings, and Q&A Panels with the stars.” The direct Back to the Future link in this context is “Live Bands.”

In the first installment of Back to the Future we learn that Marty McFly is an aspiring musician. He’s the lead guitarist in a hard rock band called The Pinheads who audition on the high school auditorium stage to perform in a “battle of the bands” show.    

If you think that band name came from Clive Barker’s classic horror character in Hellraiser (’87), you need to know that Back to the Future was released two years earlier. In Marty McFly’s 1985, a pinhead was an intellectual epithet – a synonym for a moron. It was a cleaver name for Marty’s band, which performed brilliantly. In Hellraiser, the sadistic monster from hell was given that name by the theater audience because his head resembled a pin cushion. 

Bill O’Reilly of Fox News who often had Mark Fuhrman on his show as an expert commentator, used the word “pinhead” in a regular feature of his show to identify people he thought were egregiously stupid, evil or both.

“NecroComicon” is a pun for horror writer H. P. Lovecraft’s imaginary book of ancient dark secrets called the Necronomicon. The 1993 movie Necronomicon feeds into Mark Fuhrman (MF) links to the NecroComicon show with its actors David Warner, Belinda Bauer and Jeffery Combs as H. P. Lovecraft .

David Warner is the photographer in The Omen with Gregory Peck. He’s Jack the Ripper in the time travel movie Time After Time with Mary Steenburgen (Clara Clayton in Back to the Future III). Belinda Bauer is the OCP cyborg monster-maker in RoboCop 2  and the unsuspecting mother of the Antichrist in Servants of Twilight. She’s the newspaper reporter who falls in love with a Catholic priest (Donald Sutherland) in The Rosary Murders.  Jeffery Combs was born on September 9, 1954 in Oxnard, CA. In addition to playing H.P. Lovecraft in Necronomicon, he starred in 32 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Avery Brooks. He’s a scientist in the 1991 time travel movie Trancers II and the 1997 time travel movie Time Tracers   

If you are drawing inspiration from time travel movies for Michal McClinton’s role as a maniac cop in the Palace Station, you can go far with actor Robert Z’Dar. He’s a minor character in a 1993 low budget time travel comedy called Marching Out of Time (1993) ....aka Back to the Fuehrer. He is also the title character in the Maniac Cop horror movie trilogy with Robert Davi (Action Jackson) and Robert Forster (Murder in Greenwich) in Maniac Cop III (’93). He has a Las Vegas connection as a cast member in Destination Vegas (’85). On top of that, he links Fuhrman and McClinton with his role as a security guard in a 1985 episode of Moonlighting.

If McClinton was putting on a show with his behavior in the Palace Station incident as a surrogate for Mark Fuhrman, “Mad Dog” doesn’t have to be Thomas F. Wilson. It could be any actor who brings that behavior together with his roles in other movies and with the actors of documented special interest to Fuhrman that he appeared with. Another actor named Robert gets even closer than Robert Z’Dar to “Buford Tannen” in the NecroComicon context with Tannen’s nickname, “Mad Dog.”

Robert DeNiro is a mild mannered cop kiddingly called “Mad Dog” in Mad Dog and Glory (’93) with Bill Murray and Uma Thurmon. In keeping with the theme of the 2005 NecroComicon convention in L.A, DeNiro is the Devil in Angle Heart (’87) with Mickey Rourke as an amnesiac private investigator and Charlotte Rampling as a Devil worshiping fortune teller. Robert DeNiro is “the creature” in Marry Shelly’s Frankenstein (’94). He is a Las Vegas casino owner in Casino (’95) with Sharron Stone who was in the cast of Action Jackson with Thomas F. Wilson.  

What would you have bet that you couldn’t go full circle with the two iterations of the Thomas F. Wilson Jumble Puzzle code in an unbroken chain of old movies and a comic book convention to Michael McClinton’s role in the Palace Station incident? But there you have it – and you get it by following Mark Fuhrman signposts, bell ringers and formulas. –Jasper