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"Yeah!" There's a light in Sorrel's eyes.
Velda steps up to the bike, puts her arm around Sorrel's shoulders, kisses him. "Go crazy, man," she
says.

The stunt drivers have been practicing in the canyon for five days.
5
"S-Day's tomorrow," Brenner says. The diagram of the accident--Scenario Four--lies open across her
lap.

Robertson sprays his throat, coughs. "The PR team will be coming in early. We should have the word out
in time for the noon broadcasts on the East Coast."

"I'll have an ambulance standing by. Along with a brain specialist and neurologist. The whole thing will
look like a lucky coincidence."

"After I have breakfast with Sorrel I'll alert the drivers from my phone in the Maserati."

Brenner gives him a careful smile. She folds the plan carefully, puts it in a folder. "We make a good
team."

"Yes. We do."

"I'm staying in a poolside room tonight," Brenner says. "Maybe we can have dinner sent to the room."

Robertson considers her for a moment: tousled fair hair, green eyes, painted smile. He decides against it.
They know too much about one another to be involved on anything but a business level.

Once upon a time, maybe, the music business had been about joy. Then it became about money. Now it
was about power, power over minds, over masses. The future.

"Perhaps some other time," he says. He rises from his chair, looks at the folder sitting next to Brenner on
the couch. "Gather up all the papers and scenarios," he says. "I'll want to destroy them tomorrow."

"Good."

All the memos and diagrams have Brenner's name on them. Robertson won't destroy them; he'll keep
them in a safe. One never knows when compromising documents might come in handy.

"Bye, then." He waves as he leaves, and closes the door on her smile.
6
"We're aware of your project." This three A.M. voice is somehow familiar.

"Ah," says Robertson. "What project was that?" His wife stirs uneasily on the bed beside him.

"Your project in regard to Mr. Sorrel. We wanted you to know that we approve."

"Thank you," says Robertson cautiously. "We hope the album will be a success." Where has he heard this
voice before?

"During the harsh economic times to come, with their inevitable restructuring, voices such as Mr. Sorrel's