Overview
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Context
Ken is feeling unsettled from a recent event, that feeling being amplified by the fact that Ken rarely feels unsettled. Normally, he is very comfortable in his own skin, as it were. Indeed, so unsettled is Ken, he confides the experience to his fellow police officer, Allen, which he normally would not do. Allen idolizes Ken – but Ken, for his part, tolerates Allen. Ken feels (correctly) that Allen’s attitudes and views, both in his police work and personal life, are too often satisfied with
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ALLEN: You thought you were being followed?
KEN: I didn't say that, Allen.
ALLEN: But you asked it. Were you?
KEN: (a moment, then:) I don't know.
ALLEN: Who by?
KEN: I don't know.
ALLEN: Are you working a case where someone might be after you?
KEN: No.
ALLEN: Is it a feeling you've had before?--that people are following you?
KEN: Allen. Enough.
(ALLEN lets the questions go, feeling a bit rejected. KEN sees this.)
KEN: It didn't have the feel of someone from a case.
ALLEN: Being followed has different feels?
KEN: It felt playful.
ALLEN: Playful?
KEN: Somehow. I was jogging through Enger Park when I sensed it--coming up on my left, just behind the trees. And then it was on my right! – it had cut across at some point but still out of sight. I decided to try outrun it. And did! I could feel it falling back until, up ahead, I sensed it again. Grinning. Panting.
ALLEN: Wait a minute. A dog? Is that what this is about?
KEN: Could be.
ALLEN: From what you're saying, that's certainly what it sounds like.
KEN: But not what it felt like.
ALLEN: What did it feel like?
KEN: What was the name of that person at Pam's party?
ALLEN: (has to think a moment) Abby?
KEN: Her.
ALLEN: Are you joking? I don't think she said ten words the whole evening! Poor thing. Talk about shy.
KEN: I guess.
ALLEN: You're saying the new girl from Pam's office, you had a feeling, was chasing you through Enger Park? Quite a fantasy life you got there, guy.
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