![]() ![]() He peaks out in time to see the clerk draw a gun from beneath the counter when he raises it up, the robber shoots, sending a shower of blinding sparks out from the wall behind the clerk. Underfunded Guy cowers, twitches like a rabbit. ![]() “That’s okay, I got it, I got the safe right here, man,” the clerk cries. “Open it!,” he demands, “Don’t you fool with me!” The clerk wrestles with the cash drawer, then holds up his hands defensively. We never see the whole robber, just up to his wrists, clad in gray sweatshirt material. As he does, we see hands in black gloves holding a gun. “Don’t fool with me, do you hear me, don’t fool with me!” The man crouches behind the inadequate shelter of the toys, then dives for the end of the counter. From Underfunded Guy’s perspective, we don’t see who’s done it, but we see the clerk jerk back, and we hear a loud, threatening voice. The card rack crashes into the cashier’s desk, cards and envelopes flying. Which drops out of his hand when all hell breaks lose. In another rack – this time of wire bins – he finds a sad, sad little water pistol. The tall, scruffy clerk points down the aisle. ![]() Underfunded Guy leans on a card rack for a few seconds, fiddling with a card or two, and then asks for directions to the toy section. The clerk is multi-tasking listening to the radio, talking on his phone, leaning over the counter. So the defeated pasty white boy makes the long walk across the street and into the store. ![]() Thank heaven for the shop with the “Lowest Prices in Town” signs all over it! “Insufficient Funds” blinks up next it’s an old ATM, and a sad puppy dog of a man grimaces in frustration, then blows out his lips. Six green dots flash on a low resolution screen. In-house politics at the SA’s Office and at Lockhart/Gardner. A resonant case of the week, told from an unusual angle. We got a lot of what we’ve been lacking in this episode. But the joy of this show is that it always brings you back in. E: So, some weeks we might not be completely in love with a particular episode. ![]()
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