Hook, Line, and Sinker

A series of text messages begins on September 15, with Hannah thanking Fox by text for the Fleetwood Mac album he gave her when she left Westport for Los Angeles. After an initial delay, Fox responds with friendly banter and sexual innuendo. Their subsequent texts are funny, flirtatious, and reveal that while Fox and Hannah have established a friendship and show concern for one another, there are hints of attraction.

Hannah’s texts suggest that she is lonely and at loose ends. Fox asks what her ideal man is like, and Hannah says he would have “a cabinet full of records and something to play them on” (11). Hannah loves matching music to her moods, and she and Fox bond by downloading the same songs and listening to them together. On March 8, Hannah sends a series of texts to Fox, who doesn’t respond as he is on a fishing trip.

Hannah, a production assistant for a studio named Storm Born, is watching auditions for a movie, Glory Daze. Though she could have relied on the influence of her famous stepfather, Hannah chose to begin with an entry-level job so she can learn how movies are made.