Sentences with phrase «unwitting pawns»

With his back to the wall, Lorenzo schemes desperate downâ $ andâ $ outers of an inner - city mission to serve as unwitting pawns in Lorenzo's fastâ $ track scam to come up with the needed cash.

A new crisis causes Eric to reflect on an old mission; Lafayette uses fear to prove a point to Tara; Sookie may be an unwitting pawn in a plot by Russell Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi, to expand his influence; Jason rides shotgun with Andy on a drug bust.

There's also something called «the rabbit's foot» that serves as the story's McGuffin, and the necessary damsel in distress when Julia becomes an unwitting pawn.

But for a series that features, by its own description, a «master manipulator,» «Evil Genius» feels more like a confused, unwitting pawn than an adversary worthy of taking on the challenge to uncover the truth.

And here's the magic element: These scenes from Holly's more or less ordinary life are intercut by her status as an «unwitting pawn» in a war between two supernatural contingents.

It immediately set me off wondering how this kid fits into the grander scope of the internecine gang warfare our protagonist is an unwitting pawn in.

«Puzzlingly, while representing to the world that «animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way,»» Bea wrote, «PETA seems to employ Naruto as an unwitting pawn in its ideological goals.»

Although the Brick employee may have been an unwitting pawn in the fraudster's scheme, they were not forced or threatened to issue the instructions.

Not exact matches

In blogs and emails between groups such as the World Development Movement and their supporters, it was suggested that anything calling into question the roles of developing countries must be a plot by the rich former colonial powers, of which I must be an unwitting (or witting, if you believe the conspiracists) pawn.