In The Dark (Remix)

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
December 2, 2001
Cast
Ryan Cutrona, Joe Frank
Format
59 minutes
Preceded by:	Black Hole (Remix)
Followed by:	Road To Hell (Remix)
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"I'm glad I got this nine millimeter, it's a beauty."

In The Dark (Remix) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on December 2, 2001.

Synopsis

• Guy shoots his wife's dog (portrayed by Joe Frank) for barking too much.
• Man and wife arguing about rain and responsibility.
• Joe: the woman who can't sleep, worrying about problems in her building, seething about men. She goes out for a drive dressed unusually cheaply, going mad from insomnia and wanting to break the rules.
• A story of Halsworth the wily tycoon and his broken down Mercedes.
  • Stuck in the middle of the night in the urban jungle, he imagines what he'll do if accosted.
  • Finally a bus comes, but it's a party bus and it passes him.
  • He meets Lola, the insomniac we just heard about who drives up in her MG.
  • They drive to her building, which he happens to own.
  • She gives him spiked juice and steals his suit, then goes into a gentlemen's club disguised as him.
  • Halsworth wakes up and sees that he's wearing Lola's outfit, makeup, dyed hair and earrings and nail polish.
  • He finds himself attractive, considers making love to himself.
  • She calls him on the phone, instructs him to get in the limo downstairs.
  • He imagines what may be inside (absurd list).
  • The car stops. He gets out and is abandoned by a remote lake. He tries to swim but sinks. The briefcase opens and doves fly out.
• Joe analyzes this story with rhetorical questions.
• Strange modulated voice (not Joe) rambles about experiences and desires. The voice seems electronically modulated, but sounds a little like someone with a defective or missing larynx who makes sounds with his mouth and a machine that generates the tones for him.
• Joe: Max, the night watchman. He and his blind dog Shadow are lost.
  • He remembers fragments of his past.
  • About losing your way in life.
  • Max wonders if he exists.
  • Doors lead to bizarre places.
  • Max is suddenly on stage at a comedy club, tells the audience he's lost. They think he's hilarious.
  • Another door leads to a woman's bedroom. She tries to seduce him. His husband arrives, so Max hides under the bed. Max slips away after they make love.
  • Through another door Max finds a radio guy spitting on his Bangladeshi engineer.
• Looking into the face of zealots. Fundamental questions throughout history. Examining what we truly believe. "Never mind the answers; learn to live with the questions."
• Song: "Me and My Shadow"--Joe sings along with the recording.
• Closing thoughts from the modulated voice.

Music

• "The Player" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [5:43]

• "Sex" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [14:33]
• "Desert Drive" - Thomas Newman (from The Player, 1992) | YouTube [27:25]
• "Me And My Shadow" - performed by Joe Frank [56:11]

See also

• In The Dark (Part 1)
• In The Dark (Part 2)