It could be optioned—the story of the attractive professional woman caught in the crossfire at a local McDonald’s, taken hostage by renegade gangsters bent on seizing control of the local government, bent on revolution, bent on assassinating local government officials, and her husband, a mild-mannered actor and screenwriter who infiltrates the cadre of separatist revolutionaries at their fearsome ghetto redoubt using only the tools of the trade he has learned from action films. The prejudicial vigilante justice on which he thus embarks brings him and his wife closer together. This vigilante justice could be optioned for much better terms than the 2 % promised her for the tale of small-town America and the strong woman character.
— Are you all right? she asks Thea. She takes diminutive hands into her own. They are sitting up, in the backseat. — Any broken bones?
— What happened, Mom?