Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 40

As I drove out to William Sperry's mansion in Beverly Hills I had a real twinge of nostalgia. It would've been just like old times had it not been for a Hollywood actor sitting in the passenger's seat asking me inane questions.

"How often do you get shot at?" Mason asked.

Good lord.

"More often than you want to," I said.

I pulled through the gates and drove up the driveway past the perfectly manicured lawn, with perfectly manicured shrubbery, probably kept up by a perfectly manicured gardener.

I wondered what could possibly happen to people with such perfect lives…