it, but knows it is there, and knows that if it catches him, he will stop being for us. The boy looks forward and to his left once again-there is a parked car and he passes behind it, meeting us on the other side, as if making a commitment ('See you up ahead'). He rides past another door in the continuous brick wall of what must be row house apartments, past a woman leaning against yet another door looking out to the street. He looks forward again as he comes to the end of the row house unit. There is a cut to Alice's face, filmed from outside the car, as she looks out of the window, and slightly back. Is she watching the boy on the bike? Her head turns to the front again and she tilts her head up slightly, then back again. There is no sign in her face that she has seen him, that she and he are in the same film world, the way that we and the boy seem to be for those few seconds. Cut to the brick walls of the row houses. The boy on the bicycle is gone. The doors of the row houses pass by. They seem to bulge out slightly. We come to the end of the block-there is a window in the right side of the frame, and a large white 'H' in the left, as well as a drainpipe. The sidewalk has dropped below the frameline, out