The TV crews began rolling...
"MY DEAREST VIEWERS! OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU!" Exclaimed Richardson as his theme song, Fragment-Slowed, played in background as billions of viewers tuned into this new show. "My dearest viewers... I have something quite special to announce to all of you here today. Today marks the beginning of a new era! A new game show... ALL IN! Here on Entertainment Isle, I will host a brand new take on the idea of survival challenges! Today! My special team will be going out, and bringing back contestants... FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS! They will all be give teams, a medkit, and a few other amenities! Then, they will fight other teams to the death, in the most crazy, epic, sensational show of the milennia! Shall we get our first team?!"
International Dick in his "show-fit" marched with swagger into the first portal. As he emerged on the other side, he came face to face with his first contestant. As his retrieval team entered their standby-return positions, International Dick emerged from the portal after shoving a strange man through it first. "Ladies and Gents! Put your hands together... for "That Gray-Eyed Gumshoe! MR. FLAT FLANAGAN! A 1920s Private Eye, ripped from his time, brought to the modern era, and NOW! Here! For your entertainment viewing!"
People from around the world clapped and cheered in front of their televisons, holo-projected screens, and from within Richardson's live audience. Now, all eyes were on the gray-eyed gumshoe, the world's first mixed race private eye, Mr. Flat Flanagan....