This tight and tense ten-minute drama delivers smoothly-flowing dialogue, engaging characters, mounting suspense, and hefty moral weight. A well-dressed man with a guilty secret stands alone on a subway platform, possibly contemplating suicide; a previously-unnoticed unhoused guy intervenes. The exchange that follows is a moral cat-and-mouse game in which class and privilege dissolve in the face of giant questions of crime, punishment, guilt, and absolution. The delicious ambiguity of its final pages, plus its boffo ending, make it a worthy heir to Bradbury, Dahl, or Serling.
This tight and tense ten-minute drama delivers smoothly-flowing dialogue, engaging characters, mounting suspense, and hefty moral weight. A well-dressed man with a guilty secret stands alone on a subway platform, possibly contemplating suicide; a previously-unnoticed unhoused guy intervenes. The exchange that follows is a moral cat-and-mouse game in which class and privilege dissolve in the face of giant questions of crime, punishment, guilt, and absolution. The delicious ambiguity of its final pages, plus its boffo ending, make it a worthy heir to Bradbury, Dahl, or Serling.