Chapter 97 Guns and Roses
West Hollywood, in front of Ethan Film Studio.
Hoke stopped the car on the side of the road, looked at the license plate of the red car in front of him, got out of the car, walked to the passenger side, and gently knocked on the window.
Jacqueline, who was touching up her makeup, waved to the co-pilot, put her things in her bag, and quickly got out of the car.
“Follow me.” Hawke waited for her to follow and reminded: “The first investor in this project is the director’s girlfriend, so don’t be petty in front of the director.”
Jacqueline was not stupid, and said quickly: "Can you wait for me a little longer?"
Hoke waved his hand: "Go ahead."
Jacqueline returned to the car, and then When I came out, all the makeup on my face was removed, I even changed my clothes, and the dusty air on my body suddenly became much lighter.
She asked Hawke: "Is this okay?"
"This way." Hawke led her into the studio and directly to the door of the director's office.
As the crew prepares, the place is no longer as quiet as before, with many people coming in and out.
Hoke also saw Kevin Lee who was dealing with Miller Collins, but he did not meet the opponent directly, and Kevin Lee did not recognize him.
Eric's assistant saw Hawke and came up to him and said, "The director is waiting for you."
Hoke led Jacqueline into Eric's office and asked Jacqueline Quailin made introductions to Eric and said directly: "This is my friend who is very interested in the acting industry. You will see if she has any talent in this area."
Eric let go first The assistant took Jacqueline to the audition room to familiarize herself with the environment.
When people left, he asked: "Boss, is this your girlfriend? Or lover?"
Hoke made it clear to avoid Eric misunderstanding: "She has no relationship with me in that way. When working, I know her, I've helped her a little, and she dreams of being an actress. If she's okay, find her someone who won't affect her. If you have a small role in the crew, just say it if it’s not suitable for you. You’re welcome.”
Eric thought for a moment and said, “There is a role that’s okay, but it’s a prostitute, and the scale is a little too big.”
Hoke couldn't help but look at Eric and thought, "Have you ever clicked Jacqueline's clock?" He didn't care: "You figure it out."
Eric found the character script from the filing cabinet: "You sit down for a while, I'll audition for her."
Hawke borrowed the script Eric was writing to look at.
This is an outline. The protagonist is a paparazzi, hanging around at the bottom of Los Angeles, trying to get ahead...
Not long after, Eric came back and said to Hawke: "Although I am not a professional She has done a lot of acting, but I think she’s okay.”
He was a little confused: “I am. What made her audition was the highlight of the role, where she used a steel pipe to seduce clients. Frankly speaking, she did a really good job, kind of like Jamie Lee Curtis in "True Lies."
< br>Professional players are of course no different. Hawke nodded slightly: "As long as it's suitable."
Eric said: "The actor cannot negotiate the work contract directly with the crew. She needs an agent."
Hoke's Nokia phone rang with a text message: "The crew will help handle it."
< br>He helped introduce her to the crew, and then Jacqueline had to rely on herself.
Hoke opened the text message on his phone, it was from Erica Ferguson.
Only one sentence: I am back to Los Angeles.
"I have something to do. I'm leaving first." Hawke greeted, left Eric's office, and dialed Erica's mobile phone number.
Erica's crisp voice came from over there: "Hi, Hawke, I'm back from New York."
Hoke said: "I've been here for so long, I thought you Be an East Coast girl.”
“East Coast girl.” Those gay guys on the shore are boring and boring, they are all little sheep." Erica turned to ask: "Are you at work?"
Hoke said: "You have nothing to do today. Do you have time? Come out and take a look.”
Erica responded immediately: "Okay, I just came back, I don't have to go to work yet, I just have time."
Her suggestion was different from ordinary girls: "It's been a long time since I touched a gun. I remember that you are very good at shooting." Okay, how about we go to the Atel Mountain shooting range and have a test?"
Of course Hawke will not refuse: "See you at the shooting range"
Ten minutes later, the two almost met. At the same time we arrived at the shooting range.
Erica got off a Cherokee, came to Hawke with her bag on her back, and said, "You look stronger than before."
Hawke also put on his backpack: "It shows that my long-term exercise is effective."
The two entered the shooting range and went to the locker room to change clothes.
Hoke's eyes lit up when he saw Erica again.
Her long brown hair was pulled back, revealing a heroic face. The armed belt on her thin waist tied up the camouflage training vest, highlighting the advantage of her chest. She wore a pair of high-top police boots, matching Wearing camouflage training pants looks like a strong female leopard.
In terms of appearance alone, Erica is not as beautiful as Meghan, but she exudes a completely different temperament.
Hawke was wearing a black training uniform and carrying a gun bag to join her.
Erica is quite confident: "Which one to compare? You choose, let's agree first, the loser will treat you to lunch."
Hoke said: "Rapid shooting outdoors, half-body target "
Erica responded: "No problem."
The two came to the outdoor area and chose a shooting range, and the security officer followed them.
When he saw it was Hawke and Erica, he said, "Are two masters competing?"
Erica looked at Hawke, slightly surprised: "While I was in New York, something happened What? "
Hoke walked out of the cabin, took out the magazine, checked the pistol, and said: " I often come here to practice shooting, and occasionally I compete with others. They think my shooting skills are very good.” >
Hoke loaded the magazine: "Should I come first?"
Erica said: "Okay."
Hoke entered the shooting range, and after the safety officer shouted start, he quickly held the gun with both hands and walked forward quickly.
One by one, the targets were erected, and he fired rapidly. Amidst the ping-ping-pong-pong sound of the gunfire, the targets quickly fell down again.
The magazine was polished and Hawke replaced the second magazine.
Outside the field, Erica crossed her arms and looked at Hawke with interest.
Within twenty meters, the bullets were all fired.
This guy is really like a treasure.
Hoke emptied both magazines and turned back.
The security officer looked at the electronic statistics machine and said: "Man, another hit!"
Erica waited until Hawke came over and said: "You are good, but I am better .”
The security officer started, and she rushed out like a cheetah, moving quickly with tactical movements, and gunshots rang out at the same time.
With every gunshot, a half-human target fell.
After finishing two magazines, Erica came back with an empty gun and pointed at the timer on her wrist: "All hits. It took 3 seconds less than you did, so you lose."< br>
Hoke did not refute: "Okay, I'll treat you at noon."
Erica asked: "Did the security officer talk about the slingshot just now?"
Hawke returned to the wooden house, opened the bag on the wooden table, and took out a slingshot: "This kind."
Erica took it and pulled the rubber band.
Hoke took out a few steel balls and told her the essentials: "Try it."
Eric opened the slingshot, aimed at the head of a half-length target in front, and fired the first shot The shot was crooked. I adjusted the second shot slightly and hit it with a bang.
After that, he fired five steel balls in succession, and all of them hit the head of the target.
Hawke complimented her at the right time: "Beauty, your shooting talent is so good that it is enviable."
Erica was not modest at all: "My friends and colleagues said so. I started practicing shooting with my grandfather when I was seven years old. "
Hoke took the slingshot she handed back and asked seemingly casually: " "How many years have you been practicing?"
"Fifteen years." Erica replied smoothly, then came back and said, "I'm not that particular, just ask, I'm 22 years old. ”
The two of them put away their bags and went to get their guns. Each of them came back with an AR15.
Hawke and Erica spent the entire morning at the shooting range.
Hoke can see that Erica likes guns.
As it happens, he is also a good hand with a gun.
Two people can play together.
At noon, Hawke invited Erica to a meal at a nearby restaurant.
While chatting, they talked about how they met.
Seeing that she didn't mind talking about these things, Hawke said: "After practicing for so many years, no wonder my hands are so steady."
Erica said: "I might be the one who died due to instability. Who dares to bet on this kind of thing?"
She smiled at Hawke: "Fortunately you took the video." Hawke said: "Why do I have a feeling that even without the video I took, you won't be in too much trouble. ”
"Although the person who died was a poisonous insect, he can still be considered a celebrity." Erica did not deny this: "There is too much pressure from public opinion, and I may be fired."
Hoke said: "The risk of being a patrol officer is also There are so many guns in the city, and in an ordinary incident, the person involved may pull out a gun."
Erica said: "I no longer serve as a patrol officer, my position has been changed. I'm going to the Police Detective Bureau." She specifically explained: "I passed the entrance examination of the Detective Bureau."
Hoke felt that this job was more dangerous, but Erica obviously liked it, and he said: "Congratulations. Promotion."
"The police rank has not been promoted yet." Erica asked Hawke curiously: "Are you busy at work recently?"
Hawke simply said: "I don't shoot much anymore. My main business here is crisis public relations consulting and business strategic planning. In the past month, I have received two big orders in a row."
Erica asked He said: "Is it convenient to say?"
Hoke could only vaguely say: "Equal rights fighter Steve Nutt also helped Dwayne Johnson get a "
Speaking of this, he remembered Johnson's invitation: "After Dwayne Johnson signed the contract with the crew to be the leading actor, he planned to have a yacht party. He invited me to bring a female companion. "
Erica has attended many yacht parties since she was a child, and asked: "Is there anything particularly fun?"
Hawke was also thinking about this when he sent out the invitation just now. Erica has different preferences from ordinary girls. She likes playing with guns and shooting the most.
He quickly thought of one: "When I was a child in Wyoming, someone taught me an interesting way to fish, shooting fish."
Erica asked: " Bow fishing and hunting?"
"Similar to "Hockby." She made a gesture of pulling a slingshot: "Slingshot fishing and hunting."
Erica is a city girl. She has played with guns a lot, and has also played with bows and arrows, but she was not interested in what Hawke said. : "Let's go buy tools after lunch."
Hawke, the scheming man, thought more: "I've never seen anyone selling it, why not let's buy some materials and make it ourselves."
You can definitely find this thing if you look carefully.
But when two people make it together and then use it together, the feeling and meaning are completely different.
Erica responded: "Okay, let's make it ourselves."
After lunch, the two went straight to the nearest hardware supermarket and bought a bunch of materials and tools.
After putting the things in the trunk, Hawke led the way, followed by Erica, back to Fountain Street.
The studio space is limited and there is no garage. The side bedroom on the second floor could have been used as a studio, but Edward temporarily lived above.
Hoke had a way and drove the car directly into the parking lot and came to Frank's RV.
Frank got down from the RV and saw Hawke taking things from the trunk, and asked: "You bought me so many good things?"
Hoke put the bag In the open space in front of the RV: "I'll lend you the place and use the electricity."
Erica opened the spacious trunk of the Cherokee and carried the heavy box over. She didn't need help from others. She put on a pair of gloves, picked up a crowbar, pried open the lid of the box, and assembled the workbench inside.
Actually, she has an empty house in the Silver Lake community not far away, but it's not time to bring people into the house to be alone.
Frank didn't know why, so he connected the electricity from the Ford RV.
Hoke brought down materials such as alloy plates, high-strength rubber bands, pulleys, reels, fishing lines and engineering plastic plates.
Rubbing a slingshot with his hands is a trivial matter to him.
The reel is equipped with a belt and can be buckled on the wrist. The arrows used by fishing and hunting are transformed into fishing darts and connected to the fishing line.
Frank pulled up a chair and sat down. He looked at Erica, who was in high spirits, and then at the scheming man Hawk. He really wanted to curse her for being shameless.
But when I turned around and saw the new RV, I endured it again.
For the sake of the new RV, just pretend you don’t know anything.
Erica went to the Cherokee again and brought in a brand new small welding machine and cutting machine.
Frank watched helplessly as Hawk spent thousands of dollars to make two slingshots.
The couple next to them didn’t talk about love. They only talked about machining and hand-making, but their relationship was obviously getting better and better.
Frank suddenly felt that the savior was a pure blind man, who couldn’t pick up girls? Is this called having a gun but not being able to use it?
He shook his head: "That idiot is not even worthy of picking cotton!"
There was a crackling sound from the other side, and the two men began to adjust the slingshot.
Erica kept attaching steel balls and hitting a tree in the distance.
Finally, Hawke's voice came over: "Old man, turn off the power."
Frank went to turn off the switch.
Erica picked up the slightly rough slingshot, put the reel on her wrist, and said excitedly: "Let's go try it."
Hoke took a bottle of water, Pull her up and walk to the park: "This way."
The two entered the park.
There were not many people in the afternoon. Hawke found a deserted forest and hung the water bottle on a branch.
When he returned to Erica, he found that she was looking to the left.
Erica signaled him to be silent and pointed to a tree.
Hawk saw a black crow sitting on the tree.
Erica was obviously not interested in dead objects. The dart was hung on a high-strength rubber band. When the rubber band was pulled to the end, it was already aimed.
After a crash, the dart pulled the fishing line and flew out like an arrow from the string.
On the branches, black feathers exploded, and the crow was directly penetrated by the fishdart.
Erica pulled the fishing line back, but the dart and the bird got stuck on the branch, so she had to go over and pick it off.
Hoke is sure that Donnie’s death when he met Erica was not unfair at all.
Erica came back with the still twitching crow and said with a smile: "The power is not bad."
Hoke said: "Find a place, dig a hole and bury it, so that people can see the trouble."
Erica took out a police dagger from her pocket and ran to dig a hole under a tree. Use Hawke to help: "I can solve the problem myself."
Hooke gradually grasped her character and was not polite. He took the slingshot and reel and came to more than 20 Meters away, I glanced at the hanging water bottle. The dart opened the rubber band and shot the water bottle through the water bottle with a pop.
This thing is quite dangerous.
Hawke withdrew his dart and fired a few more times.
Erica has buried the crow.
The two went back to complete the next move.
Hoke asked the well-informed Frank: "Do you need a license to use this thing to fish in the sea?"
"Of course." Frank reminded: "It flies in the sky. Those that run on the ground and swim in the water, if you want to hunt them properly, you need to apply for a license.”
Erica took the initiative and said: "I'll apply for a fishing and hunting license. It's not difficult."
Hoke said: "Okay, I'll leave it to you."
Ai was busy until four o'clock in the afternoon. Rika was about to say goodbye, so she took a slingshot: "I Go back and practice.”
Hoke said: “Okay.”
Frank took away an ordinary slingshot from Hawke and reminded: “Get your tools away, I saw it. Headache.”
"Put it in my car." Erica went over to open the trunk of the Cherokee. When Hawk approached, she said specifically: "I have an empty house in the nearby Silver Lake community. I will pull it over in a moment."
< br>Hoke tasted the pulling and asked, "You don't need my help? "
Erica reached out her hand and wiped off some metal debris from his face: "I can do it alone. "
Hawke nodded slightly, loaded up the car and sent her out of the parking lot. Suddenly, he noticed a van coming from the other side of the road, and Edward was talking on the phone beside the vehicle.
Erica remembered the savior and stopped the car on the side of the road, ready to say hello.
When Edward saw Hawke, he quickly hung up the phone and said, "Boss, I'm about to find you."
Erica got out of the car and came over: "Good afternoon, savior."
Edward was a little nervous when he met Erica. He was subconsciously worried about having his magazine emptied, so he politely replied. In a few words, he said to Hawke: "I'm ready to move."
Hoke asked: "So soon?"
Edward said: "I rented a warehouse and moved things. When I got to the warehouse, I took my bags and went to Downey’s house, and Deborah invited me to stay.”
Hawke patted him on the shoulder: "Go live in the big villa."
Edward smiled with two big white teeth, opened the door and moved things.
Erica came to Hawke and wondered: "The savior said he was going to Downey's house? Which Downey? The name Deborah sounds familiar to me."
Hoke Said directly: "The Downey you think of, Robert Downey Jr.. Deborah is Downey The savior somehow got to know her. Seeing that she was living a lonely and depressed life, he expressed some concern. I don’t know the specific process. The two are now together.”
Erica blinked. , I always felt that something was not right about this, and an idea came to my mind.
She shot Downey dead, and Hawke made a fortune relying on Downey's news. His men picked up Downey's widow, and even lived in the villa left by Downey?
(End of this chapter)