Who poisoned Nick?

Adam Cole administering the poison.

**Who poisoned Nick?** was a short storyline from Season One of the YouTube show Being The Elite, created by The Young Bucks. This was a kayfabe storyline that surrounded an attempt to poison Nick Jackson. It formed a part of the larger Adam Cole must die! storyline.

## Central Characters

* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Adam Cole
* Marty Scurll

## Storyline

### The kayfabe

At the end of *Episode 48*, Nick does a piece to camera talking about how ill he is, having picked up some sort of stomach bug which has left him vomiting violently. A caption overlay suggests that it could have been the food at Denny's which had featured earlier in the episode. Nick talks about being sad to be having to miss a show as that is something he hasn't done for years.

At the start of the following episode however, Nick tells Matt that it wasn't just a virus, but that someone had actually tried to poison him, thus starting off The Young Bucks quest to find out who had carried out the deed. Initially Nick suspects that it was Adam Cole, who had been acting oddly of late, but when they confront him, Cole manages to convince them that it wasn't him. Later however, Cole admits to Marty Scurll that he, Cole, had in fact administered the poison to "teach Nick a lesson!" Later still, Cole spoke to The Bucks once more and pointed the finger at Scurll.

The next week Matt and Nick confront Marty Scurll before their show, but Marty denies any involvement in the poisoning. The three have a mock wreslting match but when Scurll kayfabe injures both of them, Cole turns up and accuses Marty of poisoning Nick, and The Bucks decide to fire Scurll from Being The Elite despite his protestations. Later Matt and Nick wonder if they were too harsh on Scurll but agree he had it coming.

In the episode *Bullet Club Gets a Villain* however, it is revealed that Matt and Nick knew it was Cole all along and it shows their plot with Kenny and Scurll to oust Cole from Bullet Club as revenge. Following Cole's betrayal, Kenny convinces Matt and Nick that they should poison Cole in return, which they do, murdering him in the process.

### The shoot

Nick's original illness in Episode 48 was a real event, which the group then decided to merge into a kayfabe storyline. By this point, Adam Cole had signed a deal with the WWE and was winding down his commitments to Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling, and would contractually no longer be able to appear in Being The Elite. **Who poisoned Nick?** and Adam Cole must die! were storylines concocted to explain Cole being written out of the series.

## References

1. ↑ *Episode 48*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Episode 49*
3. ↑ *Fifty*
4. ↑ *Bullet Club Gets a Villain*
5. ↑ *A Curtain Call*

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* Episode 38
* Episode 39
* Episode 40
* Episode 41
* Episode 42
* Episode 43
* Episode 44
* Episode 45
* Episode 46
* Episode 47
* Episode 48
* Episode 49
* *Fifty*
* *Moving Forward*
* *Bullet Club Gets A Villain*
* *One Condition*
* *A Curtain Call*
* *All By Myself*
* *A Harmless Rib*
* *A Harmful Rib*
* *Dominion Fallout*
* *Ass Man*
* *From Prince To King*
* *Line In The Sand*
* *Hot Topic*
* *We're Back!*
* *Missed Connections*
* *Someone Will Die!*
* *Someone Does Die!*
* *Cease And Desist*
* *Mind Games*
* *Where's Hangman?*
* *Torture*
* *The Escape*
* *Bullet Club Invades RAW*
* *A Hand Gesture*
* *Debriefing*
* *Where Do You Think You're Going?*
* *Prisoner Of War*
* *Ten Boots*
* *Get It?*
* *I Just Want To Go Home*
* *Highspots*
* *Autograph*
* *Flipping Out*
* *All I Want For Christmas*
* *My First Gig*
* *2017*
 Extras
* *Tokyo Dome Fallout*
* *Response To The Hardy's Challenge!*
* *Young Bucks Fired From The Bullet Club?*
* *Santa Meets The Young Bucks Again*
 Storylines
* **Who poisoned Nick?**
* Nick's Stolen Bag
* Marty's dream
 Regular characters
* Cody
* Adam Cole
* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Kenny Omega
* Adam Page
* Marty Scurll