Them That Chase

From the movie Enemy .   December 15 Wren was still reviewing Patrolman Revett's encounter with Gina Bullock when Gina actually called. She and Emily were flying back to Birmingham later that day, but first they were going to fill up on breakfast at the Red Fox Inn. She invited Wren and her team to join them, an offer Wren leapt on. Up at Indian Rocks, Rex and Malachi were not having such an easy morning. Malachi's head felt like it was going to explode; Rex's camelhair coat had spontaneously caught fire, leading him to stop-drop-roll in the thawing mud; and both realized the other was somehow responsible for their predicament. Unnaturally responsible, even. Malachi drew his pistol on Rex, who crabwalked backwards into the abandoned pickup truck: he was convinced Malachi had been the one to attack first, but that wasn't something to quibble over with his life on the line. Wren saved Rex's life by calling Malachi at that moment, offering to pick them up. In the car,...

With Clyde Baughman's indiscretions covered up, and Delta Green's secrecy maintained, the Agents went home to be with their own families. The spitting image of a sitcom dad, Malachi threw open his front door and called out, “Honey! I'm home!” He shared a drink with his wife Claire before dinner, first bemoaning what a little shit their son Ash had become now that he was a teenager, then describing the alpine moss he'd been away studying on Mt. Greylock. An environmental consultant, Claire could mostly keep up with Malachi’s research, but she had no idea alpine moss doesn't grow on Mt. Greylock. Wren went digging into the FBI's files on Joy Schusterman, once a psychologist specializing in prisoner behavior until she fled arrest in 2008, and found a paper in which Joy had praised Albert Yrjo. His story was similar to Joy's own: a psychology professor until 1964, Yrjo was disgraced after a test subject killed multiple people during one of his experiments. Wren ...