Little Misunderstanding - Part IV

Strangeness did ensue.

First thing that broke was that the scene back at the hotel began to heat up in a major way. The camera crew spotted the starlet leaving the hotel from the rear entrance accompanied by a man who looked like a disheveled homeless dude. The aspect of his appearance that looked severely out of place was the fact that he wore a pair of nicely polished.

In the front of the hotel where Boswell was walking down the street towards the entrance became suddenly awash with a lot of commotion. It seemed that the police presence was precipitated by a scuffle between hotel staff and some of the crew members from one of our rival TV networks. Since Boswell knew several of the combatants, his attention was focused (at least initially) with trying to ascertain the cause of the confrontation. He overheard the hotel staff loudly proclaiming that there was a theft of some sort.

The hotel staff was pleading their case with the city cops while the camera crew was attempting to get in contact with some management folks back at the news central studio. While the rest of our crew were calling out to Boswell (and fortunately for me, capturing all of the starlet’s exit with the mystery man on film) from the rear of the hotel, Bill finally figured out that the display in the lobby could very well have been a smoke screen to allow the starlet easy exit.

I learned all of the above about ½ hour after it had occurred. The reason for the delay was that the scene at the courthouse became every bit as intense as the events back at the hotel were.

The spokesperson for the commission was making another proclamation about our dear senator when a cry went out from the edge of the crowd and gun fire could be heard over the whine and shrieks of the crowd. It appeared that there was a sniper picking off individuals that were standing close to the stage. It appeared (at least from my vantage point) that the shots were striking the security staff around the stage and not aimed at the persons on the stage (the commission members or the spokesperson at the podium).

I shouted out to the crew who were now laying on the ground that we needed to get the cameras going. They ignored me and continued to lay on the ground which was pretty much what I was doing so I couldn’t really blame them. My mind was dealing with three things at that point:

1. How not to get killed?
2. How do I explain why we didn’t get any footage of the sniper or the commission announcements?
3. Does the sniper, the robbery at the hotel and the exit of the starlet with the mystery man at the rear of the hotel have any connection with one another?

Pretty much in that order…