I'm Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue. A guy comes out of the bathroom.
I shout "hey!" because something's suspicious. He pulls
a small silver gun, looks around confused, and runs. I clumsily pull
my gun and start shooting at him.
The
bullets tumble at him but don't hit the target. My aim is good, but
their velocity is low -- i can see them slowly flying at him, then
begining to tumble in the air and arc downward, bullet after bullet
after bullet, pinging onto the wooden floor, as if i had only thrown
a handful of coins at him.
I
chase him, into the lower levels of the crumbling wooden pier-like
thing that I patrol. It's seven stories tall, with gynamsium sized
floors. Near the edge it's light, but the sun is setting, and in the
middles of each floor, it's dark. The
stairs for each floor are in the corners... so I have to run diagonally
across the floors, through the dark, to get to the next staircase.
The guy is getting away, I'm losing him, and so I must run through
the dark middles, i can't stay on the brighter edges where I'm safe.
We
get to last level, which has some people, a few civilians and a few
policemen who have come because of the shots. A train track in the
sand -- made of the dark, rotting, pier wood -- extends away at ground
level in both directions. The perp is no longer in sight, but these
cops (both in black suits and blue uniforms) all seem to be chasing
someone towards the setting sun. I shout to one of the officers, "I'm
going to the next station!" Meaning by car, to beat the guy there.
The
next thing I know, I'm walking back from the car some time later,
dejected. I haven't caught the guy. And as I start up the short staircase
from the ground-level sand to the raised platform of the pier's first
floor, I look into the pier's darkness (now complete) and pause, and
my expression is on of fear. One of the uniforms lazily guarding the
steps sees my hesitation and laughs to his fellow cops, "Ha,
looks like Andy's on the hesitation list!" I look over at him,
but am unable to come up with a suitably rude reply. And I wake up.
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