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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
* Joe is a social climbing night watchman, lists things he must do every night, discusses office people. | |||
* Scenes from the office - a board room filled with terror, one with giggling idiots, a woman shouts colors against a background of machinery. | |||
* Joe buries his boss and takes his place. | |||
* A guy avoids the draft by pretending to take drugs. | * A guy avoids the draft by pretending to take drugs. | ||
* A military intelligence officer at a translation center in Vietnam during the war. | * A military intelligence officer at a translation center in Vietnam during the war. | ||
* A pair of radical women screw up a revolutionary bank robbery and go on the run. | * A pair of radical women screw up a revolutionary bank robbery and go on the run. | ||
* A man talks about having been politically active. | * A man talks about having been politically active. | ||
* A man meets a woman in a deli; "it had the cadence of witty repartee without the wit;" her roommate makes bagel and cream cheese paperweights, he goes to her place later. She tells him about a rape long ago, about a marriage to a man who shits in bed | * A man meets a woman in a deli; "it had the cadence of witty repartee without the wit;" her roommate makes bagel and cream cheese paperweights, he goes to her place later. She tells him about a rape long ago, about a marriage to a man who shits in bed. | ||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
The first 30 minutes of the 1985 Martin Scorcese comedy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/| After Hours] plagiarizes the plot setup and portions of woman-in-the-deli segment from "Lies". Joe recounts learning about this plagiarism in the | The "Night Watchman" segment was broadcast without explanation as the conclusion of [https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/?prgId=2| All Things Considered] on Halloween, October 31, 1979. | ||
The first 30 minutes of the 1985 Martin Scorcese comedy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/| After Hours] plagiarizes the plot setup and portions of woman-in-the-deli segment from "Lies". Joe recounts learning about this plagiarism in the extended version of [[No Show]], and his decision to accept a settlement and remain uncredited on the film. Coincidentally, [[Larry Block]] appears as a taxi driver in the film, a role that originates with this episode. | |||
The "fugitive radical women" segment appears to have been inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Edith_Saxe Susan Edith Saxe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Ann_Power Katherine Ann Power], who committed robberies in 1970. | The "fugitive radical women" segment appears to have been inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Edith_Saxe Susan Edith Saxe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Ann_Power Katherine Ann Power], who committed robberies in 1970. | ||