:15:00
So, Mr. Trent,
are youfamiliar with Arcane?
:15:04
Well, aside from the fact...
:15:05
that you're insured
by the company I work for...
:15:07
I never heard of Arcane.
I'm sorry.
:15:09
You read books?
:15:15
Linda Styles, John Trent.
:15:17
Linda reads books for a living.
She's one of our best editors.
:15:21
Since she joined the firm...
:15:22
she's been handling
Sutter Cane exclusively.
:15:24
Isn't he the guy
that writes that horror crap?
:15:28
Maybe he's too sophisticated
for you.
:15:30
Sutter Cane happens to be...
:15:31
this century's
most widely read author.
:15:33
You can forget
about Stephen King.
:15:35
Cane outsells them all.
:15:37
So what happened
to this cash cow of yours?
:15:40
Cane disappeared two months ago
without a trace.
:15:43
The police
have turned up nothing.
:15:46
Who was the last person
to hearfrom him?
:15:49
His agent.
:15:50
Cane mailed him
several chapters...
:15:52
of his new book,
oh, not two weeks ago.
:15:54
Plain brown wrapper.
No return address.
:16:00
Oh, gee, I'm sorry.
You don't mind, do you?
:16:09
What'd the agent have to say?
:16:12
You heard what he had to say.
:16:14
What are you talking about?
:16:16
I understand you were there...
:16:18
when the poor man went crazy
in midtown Manhattan.
:16:21
You witnessed the shooting,
I believe.
:16:24
That lunatic with the ax?
That was Cane's agent?
:16:27
Hard to believe, isn't it?
:16:29
Yeah, well, you'd think a guy
that outsells Stephen King...
:16:33
couldfind
better representation.
:16:37
Excuse me.
:16:50
It's just a little joke.
:16:52
Well, we're not in the mood.
:16:54
I'll see you out, Mr. Trent.
:16:56
Thank you.
:16:57
Cane is a billion-dollar
franchise.
:16:59
He's the tent pole
to this company.