Saturday, February 23, 2013

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{reading allowance: 16 seconds}
There was a highway chase.  It was a furious one with gunshots and engines roaring.  On the other hand, there was turmoil on three different locations.
A man woke up to find the door of his country house being hammered by the fists of two police officers, 
while in an affluent suburban neighborhood, a woman rebuked her husband for not doing anything despite a looming crisis within the family.

{read with the flute at 00:16}
In a house surrounded by evergreen trees, a father and his young son of 10 years old were packing things up hurriedly.
They left their house eventually and rode on a small truck.
The father started shifting to the top gear, and the vehicle moved at a high speed on a country road while passing through clusters of trees and alternate glimpses of farmlands.
With a skirmish of heated arguments, the woman and her husband have finally decided to go somewhere to investigate for themselves.

{flute played on higher notes and piano pause at 00:37}

On the other hand, the man searched his weapon, and hurriedly left the house through the back door. 
The rain has started to fall {00:42 flute} when he escaped; he ran into the woods. 
A police officer spotted him {flute at 00:46; don't pause!} and fired a shot, and a law enforcement team went after him.

The woman and her husband found themselves entangled on a highway chase, and saw the face of the fugitive that led the race.
They thought that he really looked familiar. {flute!
Unexpectedly, the woman surged with mixed emotions including impatience. 
She took over on the stirring wheel and started to chase the man for herself. 
Their car followed the three police cars that were consistently taking the second, third, and fourth places in the chase; sometimes there was a tie for the second or third place.
Then, the police eventually noticed that somebody was catching up with the race, and one of them fired a warning shot. 

A backup of two police cars seemingly emerged out of nowhere and trailed {flute at 01:15} behind the car that the woman was driving. 
Along the way, the husband thought that he saw somebody familiar on another vehicle that waited for the light to go green when he looked to the right.
He turned to look for the second time, and indeed somebody was familiar.
He started to yell at his wife, but she would never listen. 
The husband made an attempt {flute at 01:30} to take over the stirring wheel, while the policemen were shooting at the tires of their car.
They were eventually out of the race - disqualified. {finishing touches by the piano}


The Situation:

1.  The 10-year old kid found the woman's runaway dog (losing the dog mattered a lot) and took it home.  However, the dog was stolen by a
man living on the same sparsely populated neighborhood.  The man happened to have pending charges on theft and prohibited drugs.

2.  The husband saw the kid with the dog when he went for a leisure drive out of the city the previous day.

3.  The woman saw her little brother; he no longer looked like the "little brother", but this was true 15 years ago.  Did he become a mastermind?

4.  Attached is the backgroud music: "Chase Chain, Attempt No. 1 (Short Version)".  May the timing be with you! (no timer label though)

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