In The Dark (Part 1)

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1992
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
58 minutes
Preceded by:	The Best
Followed by:	In The Dark (Part 2)
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There's always a reason why she can't sleep.

In The Dark (Part 1) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1992.

Synopsis

• A woman suffers from insomnia.
• The men in her apartment building who annoy her mysteriously disappear, leaving their clothes and a whiff of perfume behind.
• A wealthy businessman's car breaks down in the ghetto.
• He imagines homeless people taking over his house.
• He is picked up by the insomniac woman, realizes that he is her landlord, and is drugged, dressed as a woman, handcuffed to a locked briefcase, and kidnapped.
• He is put in a limo, remembers meeting a woman dressed as Jesus in a bar, is left in the woods.
• Joe discusses the significance of the man's story.
• A Tinny-voiced man talks about having seen idyllic things: wanting to be a bachelor, the setting sun leaving its bloody entrails.

Music

• "The Player" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [Intro]

• "Sex" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [15:05]
• "Desert Drive" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [38:59]

Miscellanea

A brief passage in this program describes an encounter with a bar room Christ much like that presented four years later in Three Shingles.