I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't, Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. Now you just sound paranoid, I said. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you, Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

In this world only the paranoid survive.