Los Angeles, «Hot Rocket Café», (near Farmer's Market)
Scene 24: Diner
How Hektor Maille wished that his coffee cup were a wormhole through which he could quickly abandon his ever-manipulated life as a spy and creep into the life of a dreaded gastronomy critic.
End of Episode 17
One Day in the Life of Odette Sissay
14.15: Port-Louis, Rue de Prague
When Mercier was out of sight, Odette bent down, removed the toe-ring with the lion head on it and slipped on the silver one that she had received from Marie. She put the bag with the tripe soup and her sandals on the floor and tugged her wet skirt down with both hands – so that her hipbones came into view, along with their fine, steel-blue network of veins with curvy ends that could have resembled the gulf streams in the Atlantic Ocean. She stretched her back, opened the top-most button of her blouse and stepped in.