Last Shot
Last Shot One last grab. One last chance. A man sets his bag down to light a cigarette. From behind a wall, a ragged young thief, all twitchy and desperate, snatches it and sprints. The man roars after him. The pursuit turns into a run through alleys and dirty kitchen until the thief end on a rooftop. No escape? A little jump and he is still on the run. It ends in cold white hallways of a building. A heart monitor’s beeps echo down the corridor, then stretch into a single, relentless tone. He bursts into a room, rips open the bag, and with trembling hands draws liquid into a syringe. It looks like he’s about to take his last shot, but….