Roddy Snatcher

**Roddy Snatcher** is a famous singer-songwriter and an old friend of Forrest Nash.

## History

Roddy is a renowned British singer and musician, known for songs such as *I Will Always Find You*. He has held live performances in the United States, some of which were attended by Peggy Weaver, who is a big fan of his work. At some point, Roddy befriended radio host Forrest Nash, while he still had his own show in Chicago. Even after Forrest's fall from grace by 1987 and loss of his status, he has remained on good terms with him, being one of the few people and even fewer celebrity contacts to stay in touch with Forrest.

Around August of that year, Roddy sent a copy of his newest single, *Final Breath*, to Forrest's new workplace in Gallows Creek, in advance of its official release, apparently hoping to boost the listenership of his small station. Unfortunately, the single was delivered into the hands of KFAM's secretary Barbara Albright, who took the record for herself and hid it by her desk without the knowledge of the station. This led to Roddy's agent, Gina Franklin, making several increasingly irate calls to KFAM, which were always put on voice mail. In the final call, Gina threatened KFAM with legal action for failing to play the record on air, claiming that it had not "honored [their] agreement". Roddy interrupts Gina's tirade by grabbing the phone and asking Forrest how he's been and tells him that the new single is his best work yet before inviting him to visit him should he ever find himself in the UK. Gina wrestles the phone back from her client and reiterates on an impending lawsuit if the record isn't played before hanging up. The message is eventually listened to by station manage Reggie, who puts it on tape, writes an angry message of his own on it, this one directed at his employees, and leaves it in Peggy's work papers.

On the night of September 3, at around 1 a.m., Peggy finds the tape with Gina's voice message and realizing that it is tagged with Reggie's "angry color", she asks Forrest to retrieve it from under her door and play it during their break. Upon hearing it, Peggy is stumped to find that it was from Roddy Snatcher and gushes about how much she loves his music, but realizing that the record was probably intercepted by Barbara, she asks Forrest to look for it downstairs at the reception, barely containing her excitement of being one of the first to hear Roddy's newest song. Once Forrest puts it in, Peggy goes on another passion rant, talking over the entire song without even realizing, at which point she says that she'll just listen to it on repeat after work.

## Trivia

* Roddy Snatcher is named after the actual composer of *Final Breath*.
	+ Said artist had previously made one of the tracks in the 2019 *Killer Frequency* demo, *I Will Always Find You*, which is referenced by Peggy as her favorite song by Roddy.
* There may be some conflicting information about Roddy's location during the voice call. Roddy asks Forrest to see him "this side of the pond", which would indicate that he's in the United Kingdom or at least Europe. On the other hand, his agent Gina Franklin has an American accent and the record for *Final Breath* shows that Roddy has a ranch in Texas where he records most of his songs, making it likely that he spends most of his professional life in the United States.