Spoiler ahead - along with a true story.
In 1989 I was the victim of a brutal armed robbery while managing a restaurant, that left me unconscious for a week. The irony was that I had applied for a license for a handgun just before the attack, and by the time I came out of the hospital the firearm license had been approved, and I promptly picked up my firearm.
I was not in a good place mentally, not at all, a place that is portrayed really well in the character of Mark Greene in the episodes following his attack, and likewise it was the worst time for me to take ownership of that firearm.
For six months after I walked around with a large jacket wherever I went, middle of summer in soaring heat made no difference I wore that jacket, and I walked with the pistol in my hand in my pocket at all times.
To this day, I am eternally grateful that nobody stopped to ask me for the time, or anything on the street, because part of me knows that I would have pulled that trigger before they had a chance to ask their innocent question, pulled the trigger out of pure terror.
This is probably never going to be seen by anybody, but Anthony Edwards played that part, the part of a traumatised victim trying to deal with reality, walking wiht his hand on the pistol, super alert for the smallest thing, perfectly.
And it hit home.
In 1989 I was the victim of a brutal armed robbery while managing a restaurant, that left me unconscious for a week. The irony was that I had applied for a license for a handgun just before the attack, and by the time I came out of the hospital the firearm license had been approved, and I promptly picked up my firearm.
I was not in a good place mentally, not at all, a place that is portrayed really well in the character of Mark Greene in the episodes following his attack, and likewise it was the worst time for me to take ownership of that firearm.
For six months after I walked around with a large jacket wherever I went, middle of summer in soaring heat made no difference I wore that jacket, and I walked with the pistol in my hand in my pocket at all times.
To this day, I am eternally grateful that nobody stopped to ask me for the time, or anything on the street, because part of me knows that I would have pulled that trigger before they had a chance to ask their innocent question, pulled the trigger out of pure terror.
This is probably never going to be seen by anybody, but Anthony Edwards played that part, the part of a traumatised victim trying to deal with reality, walking wiht his hand on the pistol, super alert for the smallest thing, perfectly.
And it hit home.
