Now lets get this shopping in. There'll be some nice surprises in here for you and perhaps Robbie as well. Talk about serendipity." At...that moment, Angela emerged from the kitchen and completely failed to recognise me. I froze for a moment expecting Aunty Janet to expose me by introducing me but instead she simply told Angela to go and watch the television. Then she invited us upstairs. "Come on. Let's go and open these surprises." We clambered onto my old bed and sat agog. "Dispatch, this is 3. What's up, Charlie?" I answered.Abandoning radio protocol, Charlie said, "Oh God! Mac, you've got to come quick! We got hit and we need your help!" Dispatch, I'm on the way," I replied, slamming the door on the Jeep and aiming toward the road.I was eleven miles away from town, most of the way not paved, and I knew ending up in the ditch wouldn't help. Concentrating on keeping the thing on the road as rain started gusting against the windshield and rocking the vehicle, I. "I could help you, you know, with some pointers." "You could show me more?" Karen folded her arms. "I'm thinking. First you need a touch more daintiness." "How?" "Okay. When like Frankie comes down, you do this ... " She faced an imaginary Frankie and gasped very lightly, clasped her hands and brought them to her chin. She tilted her face a little. "Hi Frankie," she sang. To me she said, "See?" "I guess." I looked at the same imaginary Frankie and started toward him. I folded my hands and them. Mike Figgis might be able to pull it off. In lesser hands, it was too symmetric for anyone except a film school student to enjoy.I wrote the musical theme for the piece. Theme and variations. The cop's theme. The deputy's theme. Variations on a basic theme. I mirrored the film school symmetry: I inverted the theme for the assailant and his victim. It worked beautifully. A work for hire, sold to the production company for use on this one film. And that's where the problem started.The.
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