Liam Neeson, his hair standing straight up like tensed wire, is the dauntless but neurotic sex researcher Alfred C.

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They were climbing lamp posts, sitting on barbed-wire fences, standing on the roofs of cars and buses and some not fussed about getting a baton around the kneecaps by the police.

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Then the finger joined the girl, the tray banged shut, I was standing by my shopping cart, studying the mesh pattern of the collapsible wire basket, trying to recall what was already slipping away.

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