The Fall2013/I

[last lines]

Stella Gibson:
Why are you calling me?

Paul Spector:
Because I'm looking up at the sky. Stella, shining star. It's a beautiful night - made me think of you.

Stella Gibson:
What have you done with Rose?

Paul Spector:
Who?

Stella Gibson:
Rose Stagg. Rose McGill. You must want me to know that you have her, or why would you be using her phone? You wrote that you feel protective towards children. Rose has two. A boy of 15 months, and a girl of six. Her daughter particularly is missing her. What are you going to do?

Paul Spector:
Stella, I don't know what's going to happen to me, to you, to anyone else in this world. All I know is, no one can outwit death.

Stella Gibson:
Peter? Peter?

Paul Spector:
[muffled screaming from the trunk as he gets in and drives away]