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Episode 8

The new movie, he thinks, could tell the story of her earlier life, the life she escaped from when he cast her in his third film, and then in the fourth, fifth, and sixth. So it will be a gangster movie. A working title could be Orphan, although he flirts with using a line from Dylan, Yonder Stands Your Orphan With His Gun.

She sits cross-legged on the bed and talks. The unseen cameras are running. They are always running. Their lives here are a movie: their bedroom lives only? Or maybe there are other cameras in other rooms. He hasn’t told her and she hasn’t asked. It’s okay. She is content to think that she is being watched as she moves from room to room.

She’s wearing an outsized white T-shirt bearing the number 23 and the Jumpman logo. She is a basketball fan.