Ah. Awkward.

So I watch what episodes of The Saint I can find, and I stumble on a smidgen of hurt/comfort in one of them (a knockout), and then I have this awful urge that I want a bigger slice of hurt/comfort. I get the idea of wanting to do a version of "the character is supposedly killed" and have a scenario in my mind of finding the car crashed against some boulders and Simon laying on the boulders, apparently dead. He'd be found by the police, and his sometimes-nemesis sometimes-friend Inspector Teal would be there, because I am curious as to what his reaction would be.

Of course, Simon wouldn't be dead, but instead of there being a double or being dead and coming back, I had an idea of Simon was given an experimental drug to make him look dead. Then the bad guys hit him so it would look like the injury was from the car crash and laid him on the boulders to be found. They wanted the drug to last long enough that he would be buried alive.

Naturally that wouldn't happen. It would wear off at the police morgue and he'd get up and dizzily stumbled into Inspector Teal's office after properly orienting himself.

Problem is, while I want the hurt/comfort, on the other hand I worry that it would be too OOC to have such a large slice of it for this series. Could the clever and crafty Simon ever get into that much trouble? I've heard that when the author agreed to let the TV series be made, he had a few stipulations for them to follow, one of which was that Simon would never be badly hurt. Bad guys giving him a drug to make him look dead would probably qualify there. And I really hate to do anything that the author wouldn't like (even though he's long dead by now).

I'd be curious to know exactly what extent the author went to writing scenes of Simon in danger or hurt/comforty scenes, and if he even did so much as a knock-out in any of the books. Of course, the character isn't exactly the same between books and TV, but it's just the principle of wondering what the author was okay with.

I suppose I could try writing the thing if I really want to and see if I feel too uncomfortable doing it. If I don't, perhaps I'd like to write the whole thing out and post it.

Then I'm also a little terrified wondering what the fans would think. I couldn't find a category on FF.net, but there is a small one on AO3, which seems to largely be geared towards the book version. Naturally that wouldn't mean that the people are purists, but there's always that possibility and the thought makes me more than a little nervous! And in any case, Simon was often playing dead in the series, but to really apparently be dead might make people so upset they wouldn't even read on to see the rest.

EDIT: Wait, I've got it! It would be IC for Simon to be in that situation for at least one reason: because he's manipulating the bad guys. Maybe he took a drug that he knows will shorten the amount of time the bad guys' drug will last, and then he lets them drug him to look dead because he decides it would work better to catch them for them to think they've killed him.

Of course, it wouldn't make the hurt/comfort quite as pronounced, for Simon to be aware of what's going to happen, but I could definitely picture it happening that way.

I'd still like to know if the author ever had anything resembling hurt/comfort in the books, though.