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'I can't move them but I can feel every excruciating thing,' she says. Her emotions mimic her legs — they're agony but unresponsive.
The drama follows two parallel timelines, the beginning of her family's terrorism ordeal and its aftermath. Earlier, in an effort to drown out her feelings, she walked around her apartment, switching on TVs and radios — piano concertos, rock, news bulletins all blaring.
Writers Jack and Harry Williams use a similar technique to overwhelm us with action. Scenes do not follow in chronological order: they multiply, one on top of the other.
It's not difficult to tell the present-day events from those 14 months earlier. Grieving detective Julien Baptiste was stubbly and wild-eyed at first, but at least he was coherent. And still married.