At one of the hot nights in a big city, Sam, a security officer, walks thru the streets on his way home. When he almost arrived at one of many crossings, he heard other footsteps. Footsteps as if they made a big jump. Immediately after that, he sees someone in a jogging suite running by (from right to left). The person is unrecognisable because of the cap he (or she) is wearing. The runner doesn’t notice that Sam is nearby. Arrived on the corner, Sam shortly looks around, searching for the ‘stuff’ the runner could be jumping over, but Sam doesn’t find a thing. Sam looks in the far distant darkness and sees the jogger crossing the street, disappearing behind a corner. Again looking around vainly for an obstacle, he continues his way home.
The next night. This time, way before the crossing, Sam sees the jogger running by at the same location. Sam steps behind one of the many poles on the street and sees the jogger suddenly turning. The jogger looks around, not knowing Sam is watching him, and than walks back behind the corner.
Sam walks slowly to the crossing and before he arrives, he hides behind a commercial board. For Sam it sounds as if the jogger jumps from something and after that, he sees the jogger running by. This time, Sam waits until the jogger is out of his view and than inspects the corner better, he is the curious.
Again, he finds nothing what appears to be an obstacle. He hears the traffic light switching to green light (for the pedestrians). He watches the pole (on which the traffic lights are fixed and thinks about the possibility that the jogger could have been climbing in this pole. He does not see any suspicious detail, but finds this very obscure. He walks home.
The next day at noon, on the way to his job, he stops shortly at that traffic light. The lively crossing does not prevent him to take a look again. From the pavement he sees, just beneath the cap of the red light, a small shining slide. He wants to see if there is something on the backside of the traffic light, but because the pole is nearby the road, he has to walk on the road. He decides to wait until there is a green light for the pedestrians, so he can use the zebra crossing.
And while he stands there, waiting, he survey the surroundings and so he sees the different kind of buildings. There are some small shops, supermarkets, a jeweller and a bank. There are many people waiting for the light. He than looks striking up to the shining slide, so striking, that someone beside him asks: “If you are on a hurry, you better walk by the tunnel.”, a suggestion for the subway.
Sam looks disturbed to his neighbour, but says nothing. He waits until everyone uses the zebra crossing and than takes just one step on the road. His neighbour, a negro, noticed that Sam does not walk further but his full attention goes to the back of the traffic light, on which the negro turns and shouts: “Don’t you see the green light, man?”
Lets call the negro for politeness ‘Pete’.
Sam ignores Pete. He sees a pin coming out of the back of the red light, pointed almost diagonal at the crossing. Pete asks if he is deaf, to which Sam turns to him, looking at Pete and say: “You better walk by the tunnel.”, and than walks back on the pavement and walks on, to his work. Pete looks confused to Sam and than gets awake for the cars, who’s turn it is to get green light.
At work, Sam looks via internet to the crossing. He noticed that the pin is almost directly pointed to the bank. To get his suspicion confirmed, he first makes his own investigation, before he says anything to the police.
He leaves back home an hour earlier as normal. Arrived at the crossing, he first checks the surroundings; he doesn’t want someone else to see him. He climbs into the pole, pins up an apple on the pin and runs to the opposite side of the crossing. He hides behind a porch and waits for the jogger.
Yes, the jogger arrives some time later. He also looks shortly around before he starts his nightly secret actions.
The jogger climbs into the pole, opens the cap beneath the red light and removes a small object. After that, he puts another small object in it, closes the cap and jumps from the pole. But when he stands beside the pole and wants to run away, he recognised the big bump on the pin. He turns back and recognizes from the zebra crossing that there’s an apple on the pin. “What the fuck”, he shouts frustrated and climbs back into the pole. He removes the apple, throws it onto the crossing, rubs shortly over the pin, jumps from the pole and continues his jogging path.
Sam gets more confirmation about his suspicion and , as an hobby, wants to irritate the jogger. If the jogger is out of view, Sam walks onto the crossing. He takes the greatest peace of the apple and pushes it again over the pin.
The next day, on his free Saturday, Sam walks on the opposite site of that traffic light. He waits for the green light. If he crosses the road and approaches the lights, he sees that the apple is removed again. By that surprise, he stands there to long looking to the pole. When he comes on the opposite side, on the pavement, Pete speaks to him. “Hey man, enjoying your weekend too?”
Surprised by Pete, Sam says: “Not any more” and looks pissed at Pete, as if he is undesirable disturbed. Sam waves shortly as if he wants something gone and than walks in the direction of his work. Pete signs as if he apologises and slowly follows Sam.
After some yards, Sam walks into a supermarket, still followed by Pete. By the mirror windows, Sam had seen the trailing by Pete.
Sam walks to the backside of the supermarket. On account of the connections with the security from the supermarket, he leaves by the backdoor and so loosing Pete.
At home, with the necessary groceries from another supermarket, he makes contact with someone from the locals about the traffic lights. He asks if they want to check that specific light, with the excuse that the red light sometimes falls out. That check can be done, but earliest on Monday.
On that Monday, the technician sees that the cap is open and there is a hole on the backside (the pin is gone).
These details Sam gets on his phone by someone of the locals. He asks more about that light, but there nothing more they can tell him.
Sam realizes that, in the last days, there could be a spy camera pointed at the bank. He is not sure that his interruption was a stop for some kind of bank robbery.
Sam calls his boss and asks who works for him at the bank. He calls him (Jeff) at that bank and tells him what he has seen. Jeff asks him to come to the bank, but Sam explains him that the negro (Pete) could identify him if he’s nearby the bank. Sam proposes to get a lunch in a small restaurant, some blocks ahead.
There, Sam tells Jeff about what he has seen and that Pete is following him. And just when he told him, Pete enters the restaurant. Sam bends over his food. Jeff responses about Sam’s story that Sam is too suspicious.
Sam looks up, but with a bad timing, because Pete just walks by. Pete says: “Hey man, everything okay?”
Sam looks at Pete, points with one finger shortly to Pete, but says nothing. He waits until Pete has walked by and than says to Jeff: “That’s him!”
Jeff looks at Pete, who sits down two tables away, and says that Sam is paranoid. Jeff hears that Pete orders a none-junk-food-lunch and behaves cultivated.
Sam: “Bastards are the best actors” and signs that, when he leaves the restaurant, he immediately will be followed by Pete. Sam drops some cash on the table, takes a last bite and stands up. As if he really wants to leave, he gives Jeff a hand.
But Pete is waiting patiently on his food and looks outside.
Sam: “Ooh yeah, there’s one thing I have to say…”, but uses it as excuse to sit down again. Jeff looks again to Pete and says to Sam: “You are really wrong.”
Sam proposes to go to the bank (because Pete is here).
At the crossing, Sam points to the traffic light that he meant. At the bank, they walk to the security room. There they talk about Sam’s ‘dilemma’.
Carl, another security, sits on the other site of the room, behind some monitors. So, Sam and Jeff don’t see what Carl is doing. (He’s mailing with someone)
Sam asks Jeff if there are camera’s pointed from the bank to the crossing. Jeff turns to Carl (to ask him), but he says that only the door is under surveillance (and everything inside).
Later, Carl asks from behind his screens, if Jeff didn’t recognised the negro. But Jeff can’t confirm. Carl asks for some details about Pete. Sam has his doubts about involving Carl into this, but than describes Pete with some good details. Carl thinks he recognizes him and says: “That could be Pete from district 2.”
Sam looks at Jeff, but Jeff also doesn’t know any Pete. After a few clicks on his keyboard, Carl asks the gentlemen to check the screen. There it stands, the complete profile of Pete.
Sam recognizes him immediately and Jeff confirms.
Carl says he know him from the past, he was also at district 2 for some time….
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