“Floyd was wonderful.” Clark Forrest is insistent on this point. He says so twice, one time adding “and I would never hurt him.” Why? Because he loved him. He loved him “like the sun when you’re cold, water when you really need water.” He loved him more than he loved Carol. “Floyd was wonderful.”
And you know what? He was. If this episode of DTF St. Louis establishes nothing else, it makes it clear that Floyd Smernitch was, in fact, wonderful. Time and again, in circumstance after circumstance, his foremost concern, really his only concern, is making life better for people. Which he did, for a lot of people, Clark Forrest included.
We’ve already seen Floyd’s dedication to his work as an ASL interpreter, the way he threw himself into his performance at that pop concert to better convey the feeling of the music to his deaf audience. In
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