: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.
:17:00
We've already sold the film
rights to his new book...
:17:03
as well as publication rights
in eighteen languages...
:17:06
The book you can'tfind?
:17:07
Well, his agentfound it,
at least part of it.
:17:10
You think he took one look
at this latest work of art...
:17:13
and went ax-happy
in broad daylight?
:17:15
I think it's great.
:17:16
It's great promotion for Arcane,
great publicity.
:17:18
This was not a publicity stunt.
:17:20
You were there.
:17:21
Cane's writing has been known
to have an effect...
:17:24
on his less stable readers.
:17:25
An effect? Like what?
:17:27
Well, disorientation,
memory loss...
:17:29
severe paranoid reaction.
:17:30
People pay money
to feel like that? It's cute.
:17:33
Put it in the press kit.
:17:35
We need you.
:17:37
OK. Well, why don't you and I
get together after work?
:17:41
We'll go through his files.
:17:43
I don't think so.
:17:45
I need to see his contracts,
papers, you know.
:17:48
Impossible.
His agent was a total buffer.
:17:50
We don't even know
where Cane lives.
:17:53
What do you know?
:17:55
For about a year
before he disappeared...
:17:56
his work became erratic,
bent, more bizarre than usual.