I don't know what to think about this. I've seen arguments for the various theories you mentioned, and "it was all faked" is a tough one to swallow, but I'm not dismissing it entirely, either. Same thing with the Scamdemic: no virus vs gain of function vs rebranded flu, etc. etc. Maybe the only thing we can say for sure is that there's some kind of psyop going on that's trying to divide, confuse, and distract us.
I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was before this week, so I'm just looking at the evidence. I couldn't find a way to embed it but check out the Mr E video in the Gemma stack and see what you think. Even if a new video was uploaded to replace the actual footage, all the promo pics of the event show Kirk in profile with something bulky under his tee shirt in the back.
Please see this presentation about the shirt movement (and alternative killer position). I am not saying any of this is real. But I felt many of the same anomalies were unexplainable, until I watched some of this:
Thanks for linking that, BuelahMan. Yes, that changed my mind. The mic wire would make the outline that people are picking up on. And the bulk on his back could be the mic apparatus, which would make sense.
So from his analysis, the shot came from behind on his right but the frame with the possible muzzle flash can't be right because it would put the shooter too far away. Other analyses have been saying the shot came from directly behind him. Do you think that's possible?
Haha, what an excellent, obvious point! As you'll see in the rest of the comments, I changed my mind again after watching more videos. The SUV footage where they're hauling him by his arms and torso with Charlie supporting his own head was the clincher. But there's so much more ...
And this ballistics Marine throws in that the guy in the white cap is a good guy, he's watched a bunch of his podcasts. That's the same guy others point to as doing the signaling and being the master of ceremonies to get him into the SUV--with the woman standing right there and filming close up the wrong direction. An amateur theatre production.
Perhaps. I've seen 2 others that show the same "spot" (muzzle flash?) one frame before the hit (assuming all of it is real). It appears real in the sense that Kirk would be an Academy Award winner for the timing and extreme movements he did. The again, we must also face the potential for AI being used (wholly or in part).
I think the man took a hit and is dead. But I might be wrong. The weird hands of the corpse and the wife's oddities tell me that part may be a psyop. But I must say that I recently buried a dear friend and his hands looked weird. Maybe all dead hands look weird?
I've almost always been a loner of sorts, but ole John was my Bud from high school that just wouldn't stop. He was as normie as one can get, tho. He just shrugged off my conspiracy rantings and I shrugged off his "Well, I have more money in my pocket when Trump is president".
But we could still get together every Sunday and sit on the back porch and talk real stuff about family, etc. I miss him.
I don't know that the provenance has been proved on any of those videos. Or if there was any AI manipulation. Everything is suspect unless you were standing right there... and even then we'd have to deal with memory issues.
No, that would have been more uniform. It seemed more like the pressure of the chair back was pushing up something liquid. Kitten's stack has the photo but it's just the normal photo from the event before ...
You can see there is no armour in the vid of CK being carried into the SUV - his T-shirt is up around his waist - no armour in sight!! And no blood either...except for what was released on [the world] stage.
He had a pack on his upper back. Clear as day.
It is a fake event creating fake emotions to feed a fake reality - that's how loosh works!
That’s almost my take on the whole thing but…..at a certain point only so much can be ‘faked’ in real time.
All this prognosticating regarding psyops and ‘special effects’ without the benefit of retakes and post-production in an edit bay somewhere, IMHO, is giving WAY TOO MUCH CREDIT to successful live TV production techniques.
The shear amount production coordination is beyond most reader’s ability to comprehend.
It may simply be a tale told by an idiot with an audience drooling for end of scene edits effected by a sword instead of a razor blade.
Thats why there are so many holes and absurdities in this production - if one takes the time to observe with detachment. However, I would say that most don't give enough credit to the power of emotions over perception. THEY know the majority of people will simply sleep walk into the problem-reaction-solution playbook...and demand more draconian laws.
From your thumbnail and description, you know whereof you talk, Marc.
I'm not clear on your hypothesis, though. Are you going with a Mossad sharpshooter with a grainy video later released to start the rumor it was all faked?
I believe some of the stories being trotted out are far fetched.
There are plenty of stories based on myth. Many based on truth and many based on mystical meanderings. I’ve heard and read more than I can remember anymore.
I have to step on the brake at this point as I will never be able to explain my thinking here in a reply to a message. It’s not the place.
Let me just sum it for you. An assassination live on TV is hard to impossible to pull off. Seriously, there have been a few feature films produced in the past several years where the entire story was filmed in one continuously moving take from the time the director called “action” til CUT was called 90 minutes later.
What did it require to make that happen?
If you’d like to hear my description, reply YES. And I’ll pull together what I know, with supplemental information about the complexity involved. After you know how many moving parts there are, you’ll know how preposterous it is to ‘fake’ this event. Or Trump’s attempt in July 24.
People that buy into these theories are not informed and are gullible.
That’s not to say there isn’t something at play, just not what people gravitate to as to the reason. 😌
I accept your authority to know how complex it would be to fake an assassination attempt on live TV. But I've done too much research on the anomalies in Trump's bullet graze to take that one at face value. Does it really take so much to apply blood to an ear and come up posing as Iwo Jima? He was much too calm and collected for someone who almost died.
I don't think it's fair to call other people gullible without putting your own theory in the ring for what you think happened. You can't just say everyone researching the evidence is wrong and uninformed, something is at play but not what they gravitate to. Was he assassinated or not? If your answer is yes, was it an amateur hothead or an inside job? If the latter, who do you suspect and why? I'm not buying into anyone else's theory, I'm making my best guesses on all the things that don't make sense. That's the job of everyone who uses critical thinking.
The reason it’s really hard to pull that off in the movies in a continuous shot is because everyone knows it’s staged and they have a role to play. The coordination of all those moving pieces in authentic fashion is difficult. It’s much easier to fool people in real life, actually, because our starting point is face value. Our rulers know this and leverage it. When you stage an event where everyone believes what they’re seeing and hearing is real, you’re more likely to fool the crowd.
When I looked for actual footage, all I could find was scenes of hysterical students running around, replayed in continuous loops. It reminded me of the Sandy Hook footage.
Trump got grazed by something that killed a guy sitting behind. I guess that guy was just a what, a stunt man. Ask his family if he's been there for dinner in the past year.
That's a pretty serious 'fake' stunt to pull off. But, we are all free to believe what we want.
There is so much chicken liver flying around out there and I've got stuff to do. So, see ya at the next rally sweets.
You're doubting butler because you viewed trump as being calm and collected? Hmm... have you been in dangerous situations? A good many people are quite calm during the event. Altho their thinking may not be the best (evidenced by him getting up, and the SS letting him) they may still be relatively calm. I know many people who would be calm in any situation.
As you've said, sadie, nothing that we see secondhand in the media can be trusted. All we can go on is our own experience and logic in viewing what's presented to us. Trump is all ego, he's a sales guy, real estate mogul and reality show host known for his arrogance--that's the character he plays, right? He's no military hero or spiritual guru.
His calm was in character with a prescripted fist raise and slogan. If a clumsy waiter had spilled a hot pot of coffee on him, he would have been cursing and yelling. He would have been outraged!
But that's just the first level of feeling something's not right. There are multiple articles devoted to analyzing all the other discrepancies in the official story. But the simplest is Cui Bono? It worked exactly as planned, making Trump so dangerous the Deep State or a deranged leftie tried to kill him--just like CK, right? So his calm is just the tip of the doesn't-add-up iceberg.
In BOTH Trump/Butler, PA, and Kirk, there is a glaring commonality. A near-total lack of "sniper overwatch security", and "counter-sniper security"....in both cases, the 2 roofs should NOT have been so easily accessible, and/or, should have had personnel in place at those locations. I'm not going to analyze further here....just sayin.... Maybe we have 2 incidents of a determined, "lone wolf" shooter, AND a security failure.... And, how many "almost" shooters were stopped, but never reported? I'm also trying to stay calm, and not over-tax my mere mortal mind! LOL!....
I think “they” are trying to drive crazy the 0.03% of us who question official narratives. Unless I’ve seen it with my very own eyes, I’ll never believe wholesale official narratives like Kennedy, moon landing, Sandy Hook, Trump shooting, Oct 8th, Charlie Kirk. I know COVID’s real only because I had it 4x and it damaged my system. I know the clot shot coercion was real because my employer threatened my job. I know ANTIFA and BLM are real because my home and my life was threatened. And despite being real, I know they were psy ops meant to terrorize and change behavior.
Ha, I think .03% is a good estimate. I'm glad to see you taking a nuanced view and using your own discernment to figure out what's real, even when it's been weaponized into a psyops. You might like this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-no-virus-psyop.
Your comment launched me down another rabbi-t hole. I knew that Bernays was Freud's nephew but it turns out he's a double-nephew of Freud's sister and the brother of Freud's wife, who was Eli Bernays. The Bernays were wealthy and influential Jews, his grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Hamburg. Going back further, his great-grandfather was Rabbiner Baer Lazarus but registered the name Baer as Bernays in the 1800's. Baer is the same real name of the Rothschilds.
So I would say this is another event to manipulate the sheep, not entertain them. And I'd include all of us in that sheep category, trying to figure out a way that doesn't lead back to the slaughterhouse.
I'm open to being wrong, because I don't know for sure one way or the other, but I can't shake the gut feeling that this was faked. There is so much wrong information flying around and so many agendas being pushed I have a hard time believing anything.
I'm with you, Ellen, in being open to being wrong. I tried to find the actual footage just now but I think it's been scrubbed. Instead a bunch of talking heads are saying how traumatizing it was that kids could have seen that, without it even being blurred. So I only have the grainy footage from Mr E in order to get an impression.
While looking for that, I watched his previous livestream Q&A at some college and found him sharp and intelligent. Definitely not an actor, much too well-versed in facts and quick on his feet. And then felt like a horrible person that I'd be thinking he faked his own death.
And then I thought, either someone from the inside killed him or forced him to fake his death in order to manipulate people into civil war. Why am I feeling like a horrible person?
For clarification, I think it was Margaret that dropped the Farber link. I texted the chat group after watching the eulogy and all my theatre spidey senses went off at the same time. My needle is at 90/10: 90 he is alive and sipping martinis with Epstein and Maxwell Sr and 10 he is dead but Erika was in on it. Either way, dead or alive, the result is the same— let’s see if the Kirk Act is to follow. They sure as hell ain’t walking back the Patriot Act. But lots of conservatives are clamoring for censorship and firing of people who celebrate Kirk’s death the way the firings of people critical of Israel were being called for.
Just after I'd written that line, I went to get my hair cut and my hairdresser was telling me about her enthusiastic mouser leaving them presents including bringing a live garter snake into the house ;-)
Regarding your question, I've been thinking in terms of the lifetime actor Schicklgruber who played Hitler and went off to his suicide 'like it was just another day.' Did Rothschild let him live? Seems like it would be risky once his job was done. So it could make sense to get Kirk's compliance and then turn the tables on him later.
Kirk, manufactured persona from the begining. Heavily sponsored by the usual suspects. Decides he has seen/had enough and wants out, that fake wife would be cause enough. OK, Kirk, you go out, but on our terms. We lay down enough breadcrumbs to imply you are going off script so we can make an example out of you for anyone else thinking they might want to do the same. Fake public assassination commences with all the trappings and subterfuge. He makes his exit only to be snuffed out, for real, soon after. In the wake, the wider mission is served. Cautionary warning to the other players, potential radicalized youth that idealized his message/persona go on to correct the left. Chaos, demoralization, seeds for civil war, mayhem in the states yielding greater opportunities to further the global technocratic surveillance state, and a ritual murder of someone who thought he could get away. The fake widow hands the baton off to the next player with her fake tears. My gawd.
Did you delete your JonBenet article after sending, kitten, or did Substack do the 'Page Not Found' I get when I click on it?
Check out sumwoman below on the body doubles. Your second photo of 'Erika' looks only vaguely like the first--darker eyebrows, different nose, shape of mouth. The second seems more 'alive' than either the first or the current iteration.
Meanwhile, as we are all busy trying to untangle one event…what else has been happening in the background while everyone’s been looking the other way…?
Is this CK psyop a distraction from that Epstein vote or related? It seems like a direct threat to anyone wanting to reveal the Epstein files. WSWS has an article on some of the crackdown on anyone criticizing Kirk since the event: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/17/bmqm-s17.html/
In reviewing the footage, I was noticing the whole event happens under the all-caps banner of WRONG. It's the last word in his awning signs of PROVE ME WRONG. Occult signaling, for sure.
This Unz article mentions:
“I find it very interesting that Kirk’s killing came soon after there were news reports that Trump wants to ban transgenders from owning guns. And I find it even more interesting that Kirk was shot at the exact moment when he was trying to defend that unconstitutional action!"
If this was either a fake or an inside job, none of these agendas would be justified. That's why it seems worth it to get as close as possible to the truth.
People say the fake death thing is hard to believe but when you look into it this theory makes the most sense. From the AI overlays (chair going through table, bullet hole frame not moving with neck for 2 frames, internet connection going out at the exact moment), the plane that went rogue 45 minutes after his “death,” the squib thing (even the sound of squib is exactly the sound that happened, not that Mauser which would sound much louder), the T-shirt puff, the covering up the crime scene, the guy taking the card out of the camera very suspiciously, blood coming out in chunks, lack of blood for a fatal gunshot wound to the neck, no muscle loss bc he was holding the mic and up in his chair, the list goes on and on and on and on…And of course the “33” hours to find the killer. I laughed so hard when I heard that. “See you in Valhalla.” Cash Patel says. Which is a place the government puts you in interim your new identity—witness protection.
But then there’s why?
Why did TPUSA, Israel and Trump admin all stage this?
The truth movement is captured. Sorry to burst your bubble but Tucker and Candace are controlled op. Oh come on. Don’t be upset. You knew this. They give you truth to gain your trust and feed you lies. Look into Candace’s background. (I used to love her too).
The point is get the truth seekers to not like Israel. Not saying Israel isn’t bad, but this is the narrative the truth movement is going for. They want genuine anti-semitism to be created so the right will have reason to restrict freedom of speech. It’s going to tie in with the digital ID too (did you know there are 1000’s of data centers being built right now to support AI and the mark)? This comment will age well.
Shane Buell on YouTube does a fantastic video on this.
I'm with you through the first paragraph--you add some details I didn't know and I've added more since this episode. I didn't realize 'See you in Valhalla' was witness protection--very interesting.
With you on TPUSA, Israel and Trump staging this. Agree that anything called 'the truth movement' is captured, and was from the time that phrase was used. And you're not bursting my bubble with Tucker and Candace. Don't know if you saw this one, but I'd since add Fuentes to the whole psyop kayfabe wrestling match: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-and-richard-werner.
But they don't need to work to get anyone to not like Israel. Young Republicans already are a majority against Israel, which is why they need someone like Tucker, Candace, Nick or Charlie to seem to be against Israel too, otherwise they'll lose them to an independent. Kennedy would have won if he hadn't been pro-Israel, losing all the truthers who care an iota about other people and not just about what affects them.
All the truth seekers hate Israel already. It's only our tiny little pocket of people who know the truth about Israel where Kirk's bland, noncommittal statements questioning Israel even registered. To the vast, vast majority, some transgender-defending nut with his grandpa's rifle shot CK. It was done for the same reason as always, to spark division between left and right, not against Israel. I don't think it worked, but maybe. And yes, I do know about those 1000's of data centers.
Talk about psyops....look at Trumps' speech at the UN....on one hand he confronts Europe for allowing their countries to be destroyed by massive immigration, then he visits the royals in England for some bizarre reason...the very people working behind the scenes to destroy all dissent...then he accuses the UN for deliberately destroying the US with the global warming scam but never mentions the ongoing spraying of toxic substances on the peoples of the world and the associated deliberate weather manipulation causing the catastrophic weather events that the globalists use to back up their claims of climate change
His fake friendship with Russia is very confusing...on the one hand he appears to be Putin's ally now has done a 360 and calls them our enemies....the fact the EXXON pulled out of a lucrative oil deal with Russia (or said they did) now that Trump has done a 360 doesn't bode well for a US based energy company....I could go on but Trump seems all over the place at this point
Somebody posted this video of Kirk being shot from the back from a nearby gunman:
Oh you're so right, Marilynne, about all those contradictions from the Trumpster.
State of the Nation seems to be twisting itself into pretzels to show, as their sidebar title screams: Hard proof confirms “Charlie Kirk did not fake his death”. And what's the hard proof? A 'murder weapon' provided by the CIA? Camera footage provided by the CIA?
I don't know if you saw my response to :yulia, which I posted at Laurent Guyenot's article and Decode the World also:
"Thanks for that :yulia. I watched/ read the others you sent, and then where they sent me. It's interesting that the Marine doing (one of) the ballistics reports says that it's definitely an exit wound in the front. There's been no mention of where that bullet went, which certainly would have hit someone else. The Marine also says in passing that the guy in the white cap is a really good guy, that he watches his podcast all the time.
"Others point out that white cap guy is doing the signaling. In this one, he's the director, going from the stage to the SUV. And not that we need more evidence, but here are some other observations. Why would someone hit in the neck fall TOWARDS the direction from which they were hit? The force would blow them back and away from the bullet--unless they needed the blood to spill in that direction, as this link points out.
"My son-in-law is an EMT and I could verify with him, but I can't imagine that someone with a neck injury should be moved and jostled around by amateurs, not put onto a stretcher after the neck was stabilized and rushed into an ambulance where they can be given blood and watch their vital signs.
"This is the first I've seen the SUV footage. Along with the woman filming the wrong direction when she had access to the scoop of her life--footage she could sell for hundreds of thousands--here's the cherry on top: Charlie is holding his neck up while being carried by his arms and torso. Who with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck supports his own head in a horizontal free-floating position?
"Okay, now I'm 100% that it's all faked. Israel still did it."
Thanks for that :yulia. I watched/ read the others you sent, and then where they sent me. It's interesting that the Marine doing (one of) the ballistics reports says that it's definitely an exit wound in the front. There's been no mention of where that bullet went, which certainly would have hit someone else. The Marine also says in passing that the guy in the white cap is a really good guy, that he watches his podcast all the time.
Others point out that white cap guy is doing the signaling. In this one, he's the director, going from the stage to the SUV. And not that we need more evidence, but here are some other observations. Why would someone hit in the neck fall TOWARDS the direction from which they were hit? The force would blow them back and away from the bullet--unless they needed the blood to spill in that direction, as this link points out.
My son-in-law is an EMT and I could verify with him, but I can't imagine that someone with a neck injury should be moved and jostled around by amateurs, not put onto a stretcher after the neck was stabilized and rushed into an ambulance where they can be given blood and watch their vital signs.
This is the first I've seen the SUV footage. Along with the woman filming the wrong direction when she had access to the scoop of her life--footage she could sell for hundreds of thousands--here's the cherry on top: Charlie is holding his neck up while being carried by his arms and torso. Who with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck supports his own head in a horizontal free-floating position?
Okay, now I'm 100% that it's all faked. Israel still did it.
Thank you for this thoughtful analysis, Tereza, and I'm glad you made good use of "fissuring event"! And thanks also for seeing through the Problem-Reaction-Solution attempt to provoke civil war so they can pull more tyranny tricks out of their hat—and for Apocaloptimistically believing they will fail. I have been saying the same from the outset (https://substack.com/@margaretannaalice/note/c-154550037) as well as in my intellimafia essay on 9/11 (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/memes-by-themes-20-the-intellimafia).
And Tonika pointed out that it was you who sent me to that Celia Farber article! Sorry for the misattribution and thanks for that. I had a lovely exchange with Celia on her stack, where she said I was more brave than she was! I don't agree but nice of her to say.
Interesting article. Yes, I looked at the Mr E video also in this piece, and Miri's article. I haven't seen Sarah's yet or Rickyrants. I'll check them out.
This marine posted a YouTube video showing through ballistics that what we see the neck wound is the exit of the bullet. Kirk was shot from the right backside around his hairline base of his skull back of his head. The shooter was not in front of him, he was behind him. He does a really good job pretty much hundred percent proof in his assessment
Hi, Raphael. Yes, BuelehMan posted that also. This is what I wrote in response:
"Thanks for linking that, BuelahMan. Yes, that changed my mind. The mic wire would make the outline that people are picking up on. And the bulk on his back could be the mic apparatus, which would make sense. So from his analysis, the shot came from behind on his right but the frame with the possible muzzle flash can't be right because it would put the shooter too far away. Other analyses have been saying the shot came from directly behind him. Do you think that's possible?"
His answer was that he'd seen other analysis that put the muzzle flash one frame before, so thought it was possible. Thanks for this.
Great breakdown Tereza, very reassuring there are people "out there" not falling for this nonsense. Its somewhat depressing to see people who didn't fall for covidcon now falling for this.
Thank you for the analysis. I think the only way to know what really happened is to have been there and stayed with Charlie's (or Robot Charlie)'s body from the blood squirting everywhere to the embalmer if there was one to the casket to the grave. It's possible that everything looks fake because we are doing analysis of videos instead of the actual evidence. We don't have the intelligence agency reports to review. We don't have the last 10 years of back room deals, conversations, planning of all groups involved to bring it all to light. And so they'll sneak another one past the masses while they say "we're the most transparent administration ever".
To me this is another sign post along the road pointing to a passing of the torch of Globalist pre packaged new New World Order. The one where the world starts to go back to the center and then the right of the endless pendulum swing of smoke and mirrors politics.
You're right. The civil war psyop will keep playing out. They're closer than ever to the right carrying out assassinations of people they consider trans. Of course we already know the script. Triggering people through social media and trauma.
I just hope through your efforts and others that seeing these more conspiracy minded view points gets us to where we can start inserting our ideas on how to fix it.
You know how it goes. People don't want to get involved. Maybe this event, real or not, will be just enough fire to the soul to make a difference.
Thanks, Ratio! The only thing I know for certain is what didn't happen--the lone nut from the audience with the 'lucky' shot. In the thread of the first comment, BeulahMan's Revolt links an analysis from a ballistics Marine. It changed my mind about a lot of this--I now think the bulk under the shirt is the mic wire and back pack. He shows why it's clearly an exit wound in front, meaning the shot came from behind and to his right.
I would add this (https://eatingtoascend.substack.com/p/this-is-how-they-shot-charlie-kirk) to the collection of WTF...so many angles, but I suppose that's the point. I think I'm done following any of the breadcrumbs and will get back to navigating the "new normal" until the next crisis...which typically occurs in hours at this stage.
REALLY interesting, Nick. All three of the men around him seem in on it, along with the cameraman. The one who touches his shoulder and gets in position to catch him, the one in white signaling, the one in black. Why does the camera move off of him as soon as he falls--it goes in the opposite direction. I thought maybe the camera was stationary and he fell out of frame, but it's not true. As soon as he starts falling, the camera moves the other way judging from the guy behind him closest to the direction he falls.
And that tee shirt definitely jumps around in a way that's not natural. I think he was in on it and the tap on the right shoulder was to let him know it was time, and that was the direction of the fake hit. I think they'd have to do something to give him a jolt--electrical? If it was a real bullet coming from behind at that close of a trajectory, it would have come out the front and hit someone in the crowd.
I don't know what to think about this. I've seen arguments for the various theories you mentioned, and "it was all faked" is a tough one to swallow, but I'm not dismissing it entirely, either. Same thing with the Scamdemic: no virus vs gain of function vs rebranded flu, etc. etc. Maybe the only thing we can say for sure is that there's some kind of psyop going on that's trying to divide, confuse, and distract us.
I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was before this week, so I'm just looking at the evidence. I couldn't find a way to embed it but check out the Mr E video in the Gemma stack and see what you think. Even if a new video was uploaded to replace the actual footage, all the promo pics of the event show Kirk in profile with something bulky under his tee shirt in the back.
Yes, we certainly do know that for sure!
Tereza,
Please see this presentation about the shirt movement (and alternative killer position). I am not saying any of this is real. But I felt many of the same anomalies were unexplainable, until I watched some of this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oEJTYGCJmyID
Thanks for linking that, BuelahMan. Yes, that changed my mind. The mic wire would make the outline that people are picking up on. And the bulk on his back could be the mic apparatus, which would make sense.
So from his analysis, the shot came from behind on his right but the frame with the possible muzzle flash can't be right because it would put the shooter too far away. Other analyses have been saying the shot came from directly behind him. Do you think that's possible?
Why would he need a baby, shirt mic when he was holding one in his hand and raising it back and forth lap to lips?
Haha, what an excellent, obvious point! As you'll see in the rest of the comments, I changed my mind again after watching more videos. The SUV footage where they're hauling him by his arms and torso with Charlie supporting his own head was the clincher. But there's so much more ...
And this ballistics Marine throws in that the guy in the white cap is a good guy, he's watched a bunch of his podcasts. That's the same guy others point to as doing the signaling and being the master of ceremonies to get him into the SUV--with the woman standing right there and filming close up the wrong direction. An amateur theatre production.
Perhaps. I've seen 2 others that show the same "spot" (muzzle flash?) one frame before the hit (assuming all of it is real). It appears real in the sense that Kirk would be an Academy Award winner for the timing and extreme movements he did. The again, we must also face the potential for AI being used (wholly or in part).
I think the man took a hit and is dead. But I might be wrong. The weird hands of the corpse and the wife's oddities tell me that part may be a psyop. But I must say that I recently buried a dear friend and his hands looked weird. Maybe all dead hands look weird?
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend, BeulahMan.
Thank you, Ma'am.
I've almost always been a loner of sorts, but ole John was my Bud from high school that just wouldn't stop. He was as normie as one can get, tho. He just shrugged off my conspiracy rantings and I shrugged off his "Well, I have more money in my pocket when Trump is president".
But we could still get together every Sunday and sit on the back porch and talk real stuff about family, etc. I miss him.
I don't know that the provenance has been proved on any of those videos. Or if there was any AI manipulation. Everything is suspect unless you were standing right there... and even then we'd have to deal with memory issues.
Bulky like body armor hiking up his over shirt?
No, that would have been more uniform. It seemed more like the pressure of the chair back was pushing up something liquid. Kitten's stack has the photo but it's just the normal photo from the event before ...
If it was body armor or a bear of some kind to protect his chest, you wouldn’t see his turgid nipples through that white shirt.
You can see there is no armour in the vid of CK being carried into the SUV - his T-shirt is up around his waist - no armour in sight!! And no blood either...except for what was released on [the world] stage.
He had a pack on his upper back. Clear as day.
It is a fake event creating fake emotions to feed a fake reality - that's how loosh works!
Mark,
That’s almost my take on the whole thing but…..at a certain point only so much can be ‘faked’ in real time.
All this prognosticating regarding psyops and ‘special effects’ without the benefit of retakes and post-production in an edit bay somewhere, IMHO, is giving WAY TOO MUCH CREDIT to successful live TV production techniques.
The shear amount production coordination is beyond most reader’s ability to comprehend.
It may simply be a tale told by an idiot with an audience drooling for end of scene edits effected by a sword instead of a razor blade.
Thats why there are so many holes and absurdities in this production - if one takes the time to observe with detachment. However, I would say that most don't give enough credit to the power of emotions over perception. THEY know the majority of people will simply sleep walk into the problem-reaction-solution playbook...and demand more draconian laws.
From your thumbnail and description, you know whereof you talk, Marc.
I'm not clear on your hypothesis, though. Are you going with a Mossad sharpshooter with a grainy video later released to start the rumor it was all faked?
I believe some of the stories being trotted out are far fetched.
There are plenty of stories based on myth. Many based on truth and many based on mystical meanderings. I’ve heard and read more than I can remember anymore.
I have to step on the brake at this point as I will never be able to explain my thinking here in a reply to a message. It’s not the place.
Let me just sum it for you. An assassination live on TV is hard to impossible to pull off. Seriously, there have been a few feature films produced in the past several years where the entire story was filmed in one continuously moving take from the time the director called “action” til CUT was called 90 minutes later.
What did it require to make that happen?
If you’d like to hear my description, reply YES. And I’ll pull together what I know, with supplemental information about the complexity involved. After you know how many moving parts there are, you’ll know how preposterous it is to ‘fake’ this event. Or Trump’s attempt in July 24.
People that buy into these theories are not informed and are gullible.
That’s not to say there isn’t something at play, just not what people gravitate to as to the reason. 😌
I accept your authority to know how complex it would be to fake an assassination attempt on live TV. But I've done too much research on the anomalies in Trump's bullet graze to take that one at face value. Does it really take so much to apply blood to an ear and come up posing as Iwo Jima? He was much too calm and collected for someone who almost died.
I don't think it's fair to call other people gullible without putting your own theory in the ring for what you think happened. You can't just say everyone researching the evidence is wrong and uninformed, something is at play but not what they gravitate to. Was he assassinated or not? If your answer is yes, was it an amateur hothead or an inside job? If the latter, who do you suspect and why? I'm not buying into anyone else's theory, I'm making my best guesses on all the things that don't make sense. That's the job of everyone who uses critical thinking.
The reason it’s really hard to pull that off in the movies in a continuous shot is because everyone knows it’s staged and they have a role to play. The coordination of all those moving pieces in authentic fashion is difficult. It’s much easier to fool people in real life, actually, because our starting point is face value. Our rulers know this and leverage it. When you stage an event where everyone believes what they’re seeing and hearing is real, you’re more likely to fool the crowd.
When I looked for actual footage, all I could find was scenes of hysterical students running around, replayed in continuous loops. It reminded me of the Sandy Hook footage.
Trump got grazed by something that killed a guy sitting behind. I guess that guy was just a what, a stunt man. Ask his family if he's been there for dinner in the past year.
That's a pretty serious 'fake' stunt to pull off. But, we are all free to believe what we want.
There is so much chicken liver flying around out there and I've got stuff to do. So, see ya at the next rally sweets.
You're doubting butler because you viewed trump as being calm and collected? Hmm... have you been in dangerous situations? A good many people are quite calm during the event. Altho their thinking may not be the best (evidenced by him getting up, and the SS letting him) they may still be relatively calm. I know many people who would be calm in any situation.
As you've said, sadie, nothing that we see secondhand in the media can be trusted. All we can go on is our own experience and logic in viewing what's presented to us. Trump is all ego, he's a sales guy, real estate mogul and reality show host known for his arrogance--that's the character he plays, right? He's no military hero or spiritual guru.
His calm was in character with a prescripted fist raise and slogan. If a clumsy waiter had spilled a hot pot of coffee on him, he would have been cursing and yelling. He would have been outraged!
But that's just the first level of feeling something's not right. There are multiple articles devoted to analyzing all the other discrepancies in the official story. But the simplest is Cui Bono? It worked exactly as planned, making Trump so dangerous the Deep State or a deranged leftie tried to kill him--just like CK, right? So his calm is just the tip of the doesn't-add-up iceberg.
In BOTH Trump/Butler, PA, and Kirk, there is a glaring commonality. A near-total lack of "sniper overwatch security", and "counter-sniper security"....in both cases, the 2 roofs should NOT have been so easily accessible, and/or, should have had personnel in place at those locations. I'm not going to analyze further here....just sayin.... Maybe we have 2 incidents of a determined, "lone wolf" shooter, AND a security failure.... And, how many "almost" shooters were stopped, but never reported? I'm also trying to stay calm, and not over-tax my mere mortal mind! LOL!....
I think “they” are trying to drive crazy the 0.03% of us who question official narratives. Unless I’ve seen it with my very own eyes, I’ll never believe wholesale official narratives like Kennedy, moon landing, Sandy Hook, Trump shooting, Oct 8th, Charlie Kirk. I know COVID’s real only because I had it 4x and it damaged my system. I know the clot shot coercion was real because my employer threatened my job. I know ANTIFA and BLM are real because my home and my life was threatened. And despite being real, I know they were psy ops meant to terrorize and change behavior.
Ha, I think .03% is a good estimate. I'm glad to see you taking a nuanced view and using your own discernment to figure out what's real, even when it's been weaponized into a psyops. You might like this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-no-virus-psyop.
Another staged shooting hoax to entertain the stupid sheep. Bernays would be proud.
Your comment launched me down another rabbi-t hole. I knew that Bernays was Freud's nephew but it turns out he's a double-nephew of Freud's sister and the brother of Freud's wife, who was Eli Bernays. The Bernays were wealthy and influential Jews, his grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Hamburg. Going back further, his great-grandfather was Rabbiner Baer Lazarus but registered the name Baer as Bernays in the 1800's. Baer is the same real name of the Rothschilds.
So I would say this is another event to manipulate the sheep, not entertain them. And I'd include all of us in that sheep category, trying to figure out a way that doesn't lead back to the slaughterhouse.
Nice work
Wasn’t the Rothschilds’ original name “Bauer”?
I'm open to being wrong, because I don't know for sure one way or the other, but I can't shake the gut feeling that this was faked. There is so much wrong information flying around and so many agendas being pushed I have a hard time believing anything.
I'm with you, Ellen, in being open to being wrong. I tried to find the actual footage just now but I think it's been scrubbed. Instead a bunch of talking heads are saying how traumatizing it was that kids could have seen that, without it even being blurred. So I only have the grainy footage from Mr E in order to get an impression.
While looking for that, I watched his previous livestream Q&A at some college and found him sharp and intelligent. Definitely not an actor, much too well-versed in facts and quick on his feet. And then felt like a horrible person that I'd be thinking he faked his own death.
And then I thought, either someone from the inside killed him or forced him to fake his death in order to manipulate people into civil war. Why am I feeling like a horrible person?
For clarification, I think it was Margaret that dropped the Farber link. I texted the chat group after watching the eulogy and all my theatre spidey senses went off at the same time. My needle is at 90/10: 90 he is alive and sipping martinis with Epstein and Maxwell Sr and 10 he is dead but Erika was in on it. Either way, dead or alive, the result is the same— let’s see if the Kirk Act is to follow. They sure as hell ain’t walking back the Patriot Act. But lots of conservatives are clamoring for censorship and firing of people who celebrate Kirk’s death the way the firings of people critical of Israel were being called for.
Thanks Tonika. Oooh Kirk Act. That sounds likely.
Kevin Barrett has a new article that links this mural of a haloed Kirk already painted in Israel. WTF? https://x.com/MarkBrahmin/status/1966316739630682234.
Here's the article from the king of tongue-in-cheek: https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/charlie-kirks-resurrection-scheduled
Will check his write up out, thanks!
velvet paw kitty:
Is he dead?
Don’t think he was but now that the masses think he is, wouldn’t it be the perfect cover to get the job done right?
Just after I'd written that line, I went to get my hair cut and my hairdresser was telling me about her enthusiastic mouser leaving them presents including bringing a live garter snake into the house ;-)
Regarding your question, I've been thinking in terms of the lifetime actor Schicklgruber who played Hitler and went off to his suicide 'like it was just another day.' Did Rothschild let him live? Seems like it would be risky once his job was done. So it could make sense to get Kirk's compliance and then turn the tables on him later.
someone left kibble on my stack: what if Ericka is Jon Benet?
Ooooohhhh! Uncanny (speaking of kibble) resemblance. I've seen in passing the title "What REALLY happened to Jon Benet" but didn't take the bait.
"What REALLY happened to Jon Benet"
Erika Kirk is NOT JonBenét.
Everyone knows JonBenét is ... Katy Perry!
😹
Kirk, manufactured persona from the begining. Heavily sponsored by the usual suspects. Decides he has seen/had enough and wants out, that fake wife would be cause enough. OK, Kirk, you go out, but on our terms. We lay down enough breadcrumbs to imply you are going off script so we can make an example out of you for anyone else thinking they might want to do the same. Fake public assassination commences with all the trappings and subterfuge. He makes his exit only to be snuffed out, for real, soon after. In the wake, the wider mission is served. Cautionary warning to the other players, potential radicalized youth that idealized his message/persona go on to correct the left. Chaos, demoralization, seeds for civil war, mayhem in the states yielding greater opportunities to further the global technocratic surveillance state, and a ritual murder of someone who thought he could get away. The fake widow hands the baton off to the next player with her fake tears. My gawd.
'that fake wife would be cause enough' ;-) Great analysis, Christine.
loose ends and stuff
Did you delete your JonBenet article after sending, kitten, or did Substack do the 'Page Not Found' I get when I click on it?
Check out sumwoman below on the body doubles. Your second photo of 'Erika' looks only vaguely like the first--darker eyebrows, different nose, shape of mouth. The second seems more 'alive' than either the first or the current iteration.
I deleted it because unbeknownst to me AI linked it to the actual missing persons hotline
doubles (or more)?
Jon benet?
we never get answers.
Meanwhile, as we are all busy trying to untangle one event…what else has been happening in the background while everyone’s been looking the other way…?
Excellent point.
This might answer my own question:
https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonycolpo/p/the-same-day-charlie-kirk-was-shot
Is this CK psyop a distraction from that Epstein vote or related? It seems like a direct threat to anyone wanting to reveal the Epstein files. WSWS has an article on some of the crackdown on anyone criticizing Kirk since the event: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/17/bmqm-s17.html/
In reviewing the footage, I was noticing the whole event happens under the all-caps banner of WRONG. It's the last word in his awning signs of PROVE ME WRONG. Occult signaling, for sure.
This Unz article mentions:
“I find it very interesting that Kirk’s killing came soon after there were news reports that Trump wants to ban transgenders from owning guns. And I find it even more interesting that Kirk was shot at the exact moment when he was trying to defend that unconstitutional action!"
https://www.unz.com/article/some-truth-about-trans
If this was either a fake or an inside job, none of these agendas would be justified. That's why it seems worth it to get as close as possible to the truth.
People say the fake death thing is hard to believe but when you look into it this theory makes the most sense. From the AI overlays (chair going through table, bullet hole frame not moving with neck for 2 frames, internet connection going out at the exact moment), the plane that went rogue 45 minutes after his “death,” the squib thing (even the sound of squib is exactly the sound that happened, not that Mauser which would sound much louder), the T-shirt puff, the covering up the crime scene, the guy taking the card out of the camera very suspiciously, blood coming out in chunks, lack of blood for a fatal gunshot wound to the neck, no muscle loss bc he was holding the mic and up in his chair, the list goes on and on and on and on…And of course the “33” hours to find the killer. I laughed so hard when I heard that. “See you in Valhalla.” Cash Patel says. Which is a place the government puts you in interim your new identity—witness protection.
But then there’s why?
Why did TPUSA, Israel and Trump admin all stage this?
The truth movement is captured. Sorry to burst your bubble but Tucker and Candace are controlled op. Oh come on. Don’t be upset. You knew this. They give you truth to gain your trust and feed you lies. Look into Candace’s background. (I used to love her too).
The point is get the truth seekers to not like Israel. Not saying Israel isn’t bad, but this is the narrative the truth movement is going for. They want genuine anti-semitism to be created so the right will have reason to restrict freedom of speech. It’s going to tie in with the digital ID too (did you know there are 1000’s of data centers being built right now to support AI and the mark)? This comment will age well.
Shane Buell on YouTube does a fantastic video on this.
I'm with you through the first paragraph--you add some details I didn't know and I've added more since this episode. I didn't realize 'See you in Valhalla' was witness protection--very interesting.
With you on TPUSA, Israel and Trump staging this. Agree that anything called 'the truth movement' is captured, and was from the time that phrase was used. And you're not bursting my bubble with Tucker and Candace. Don't know if you saw this one, but I'd since add Fuentes to the whole psyop kayfabe wrestling match: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-and-richard-werner.
But they don't need to work to get anyone to not like Israel. Young Republicans already are a majority against Israel, which is why they need someone like Tucker, Candace, Nick or Charlie to seem to be against Israel too, otherwise they'll lose them to an independent. Kennedy would have won if he hadn't been pro-Israel, losing all the truthers who care an iota about other people and not just about what affects them.
All the truth seekers hate Israel already. It's only our tiny little pocket of people who know the truth about Israel where Kirk's bland, noncommittal statements questioning Israel even registered. To the vast, vast majority, some transgender-defending nut with his grandpa's rifle shot CK. It was done for the same reason as always, to spark division between left and right, not against Israel. I don't think it worked, but maybe. And yes, I do know about those 1000's of data centers.
Oh girl I know you know, the comment was directed to people who don’t. :-) curious minds reading comments
Haha! Sorry I doubted you.
Talk about psyops....look at Trumps' speech at the UN....on one hand he confronts Europe for allowing their countries to be destroyed by massive immigration, then he visits the royals in England for some bizarre reason...the very people working behind the scenes to destroy all dissent...then he accuses the UN for deliberately destroying the US with the global warming scam but never mentions the ongoing spraying of toxic substances on the peoples of the world and the associated deliberate weather manipulation causing the catastrophic weather events that the globalists use to back up their claims of climate change
His fake friendship with Russia is very confusing...on the one hand he appears to be Putin's ally now has done a 360 and calls them our enemies....the fact the EXXON pulled out of a lucrative oil deal with Russia (or said they did) now that Trump has done a 360 doesn't bode well for a US based energy company....I could go on but Trump seems all over the place at this point
Somebody posted this video of Kirk being shot from the back from a nearby gunman:
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=34470
Oh you're so right, Marilynne, about all those contradictions from the Trumpster.
State of the Nation seems to be twisting itself into pretzels to show, as their sidebar title screams: Hard proof confirms “Charlie Kirk did not fake his death”. And what's the hard proof? A 'murder weapon' provided by the CIA? Camera footage provided by the CIA?
I don't know if you saw my response to :yulia, which I posted at Laurent Guyenot's article and Decode the World also:
"Thanks for that :yulia. I watched/ read the others you sent, and then where they sent me. It's interesting that the Marine doing (one of) the ballistics reports says that it's definitely an exit wound in the front. There's been no mention of where that bullet went, which certainly would have hit someone else. The Marine also says in passing that the guy in the white cap is a really good guy, that he watches his podcast all the time.
"Others point out that white cap guy is doing the signaling. In this one, he's the director, going from the stage to the SUV. And not that we need more evidence, but here are some other observations. Why would someone hit in the neck fall TOWARDS the direction from which they were hit? The force would blow them back and away from the bullet--unless they needed the blood to spill in that direction, as this link points out.
"My son-in-law is an EMT and I could verify with him, but I can't imagine that someone with a neck injury should be moved and jostled around by amateurs, not put onto a stretcher after the neck was stabilized and rushed into an ambulance where they can be given blood and watch their vital signs.
"This is the first I've seen the SUV footage. Along with the woman filming the wrong direction when she had access to the scoop of her life--footage she could sell for hundreds of thousands--here's the cherry on top: Charlie is holding his neck up while being carried by his arms and torso. Who with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck supports his own head in a horizontal free-floating position?
"Okay, now I'm 100% that it's all faked. Israel still did it."
I shuttle all curations to you - this one is really interesting:
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/h7jrxlb5V4mK
Thanks for that :yulia. I watched/ read the others you sent, and then where they sent me. It's interesting that the Marine doing (one of) the ballistics reports says that it's definitely an exit wound in the front. There's been no mention of where that bullet went, which certainly would have hit someone else. The Marine also says in passing that the guy in the white cap is a really good guy, that he watches his podcast all the time.
Others point out that white cap guy is doing the signaling. In this one, he's the director, going from the stage to the SUV. And not that we need more evidence, but here are some other observations. Why would someone hit in the neck fall TOWARDS the direction from which they were hit? The force would blow them back and away from the bullet--unless they needed the blood to spill in that direction, as this link points out.
My son-in-law is an EMT and I could verify with him, but I can't imagine that someone with a neck injury should be moved and jostled around by amateurs, not put onto a stretcher after the neck was stabilized and rushed into an ambulance where they can be given blood and watch their vital signs.
This is the first I've seen the SUV footage. Along with the woman filming the wrong direction when she had access to the scoop of her life--footage she could sell for hundreds of thousands--here's the cherry on top: Charlie is holding his neck up while being carried by his arms and torso. Who with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck supports his own head in a horizontal free-floating position?
Okay, now I'm 100% that it's all faked. Israel still did it.
Thank you for this thoughtful analysis, Tereza, and I'm glad you made good use of "fissuring event"! And thanks also for seeing through the Problem-Reaction-Solution attempt to provoke civil war so they can pull more tyranny tricks out of their hat—and for Apocaloptimistically believing they will fail. I have been saying the same from the outset (https://substack.com/@margaretannaalice/note/c-154550037) as well as in my intellimafia essay on 9/11 (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/memes-by-themes-20-the-intellimafia).
And Tonika pointed out that it was you who sent me to that Celia Farber article! Sorry for the misattribution and thanks for that. I had a lovely exchange with Celia on her stack, where she said I was more brave than she was! I don't agree but nice of her to say.
I only scrolled thru this and pop in here with a link to Antony's short piece.
https://anthonycolpo.substack.com/p/detailed-analysis-of-charlie-kirk
To me, it is yet another op. to keep us the plebs busy and distracted. I refuse to participate :)
If interested collecting more posts abt this, Miri has a long piece and Conspiracy Sarah too. And an SS called Rickyrants too.
Interesting article. Yes, I looked at the Mr E video also in this piece, and Miri's article. I haven't seen Sarah's yet or Rickyrants. I'll check them out.
SS is curating my content for I am not subscribed to Peggy or a few others yet I am getting all things Kirky....
I have not read it
https://open.substack.com/pub/peggyhall/p/erika-kirks-strange-instagram-posts?r=1t06qv&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
https://www.youtube.com/live/DfXIl3Fe7Rs?si=BXBeUrmOn8F9aTSO
This marine posted a YouTube video showing through ballistics that what we see the neck wound is the exit of the bullet. Kirk was shot from the right backside around his hairline base of his skull back of his head. The shooter was not in front of him, he was behind him. He does a really good job pretty much hundred percent proof in his assessment
Hi, Raphael. Yes, BuelehMan posted that also. This is what I wrote in response:
"Thanks for linking that, BuelahMan. Yes, that changed my mind. The mic wire would make the outline that people are picking up on. And the bulk on his back could be the mic apparatus, which would make sense. So from his analysis, the shot came from behind on his right but the frame with the possible muzzle flash can't be right because it would put the shooter too far away. Other analyses have been saying the shot came from directly behind him. Do you think that's possible?"
His answer was that he'd seen other analysis that put the muzzle flash one frame before, so thought it was possible. Thanks for this.
Great breakdown Tereza, very reassuring there are people "out there" not falling for this nonsense. Its somewhat depressing to see people who didn't fall for covidcon now falling for this.
Thank you for the analysis. I think the only way to know what really happened is to have been there and stayed with Charlie's (or Robot Charlie)'s body from the blood squirting everywhere to the embalmer if there was one to the casket to the grave. It's possible that everything looks fake because we are doing analysis of videos instead of the actual evidence. We don't have the intelligence agency reports to review. We don't have the last 10 years of back room deals, conversations, planning of all groups involved to bring it all to light. And so they'll sneak another one past the masses while they say "we're the most transparent administration ever".
To me this is another sign post along the road pointing to a passing of the torch of Globalist pre packaged new New World Order. The one where the world starts to go back to the center and then the right of the endless pendulum swing of smoke and mirrors politics.
You're right. The civil war psyop will keep playing out. They're closer than ever to the right carrying out assassinations of people they consider trans. Of course we already know the script. Triggering people through social media and trauma.
I just hope through your efforts and others that seeing these more conspiracy minded view points gets us to where we can start inserting our ideas on how to fix it.
You know how it goes. People don't want to get involved. Maybe this event, real or not, will be just enough fire to the soul to make a difference.
Great Post!
Thanks, Ratio! The only thing I know for certain is what didn't happen--the lone nut from the audience with the 'lucky' shot. In the thread of the first comment, BeulahMan's Revolt links an analysis from a ballistics Marine. It changed my mind about a lot of this--I now think the bulk under the shirt is the mic wire and back pack. He shows why it's clearly an exit wound in front, meaning the shot came from behind and to his right.
I'm now inclined to think his shooting was real but everything around it was staged--including 'Erika' being played by conservative commentator Tomi Lahren: https://kitten.substack.com/p/heidi-idd-the-eulogist-erika.
I think you're right about the passing of the torch back to the right.
The head shape is different. Erica has a little rounder face and Tomi move oval. At least from the pictures. Very similar looking ladies tho.
#2
I would add this (https://eatingtoascend.substack.com/p/this-is-how-they-shot-charlie-kirk) to the collection of WTF...so many angles, but I suppose that's the point. I think I'm done following any of the breadcrumbs and will get back to navigating the "new normal" until the next crisis...which typically occurs in hours at this stage.
REALLY interesting, Nick. All three of the men around him seem in on it, along with the cameraman. The one who touches his shoulder and gets in position to catch him, the one in white signaling, the one in black. Why does the camera move off of him as soon as he falls--it goes in the opposite direction. I thought maybe the camera was stationary and he fell out of frame, but it's not true. As soon as he starts falling, the camera moves the other way judging from the guy behind him closest to the direction he falls.
And that tee shirt definitely jumps around in a way that's not natural. I think he was in on it and the tap on the right shoulder was to let him know it was time, and that was the direction of the fake hit. I think they'd have to do something to give him a jolt--electrical? If it was a real bullet coming from behind at that close of a trajectory, it would have come out the front and hit someone in the crowd.