3 - A Drop Dead Moment

Killer Role

NBC News

Documentary, News, Dateline, Society & Culture, Society, Culture, American Crime Story, True Crime

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The gun fired in an instant, but the backstory that preceded the shooting took years to unfold.

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0:00.0	Are you ready? Here it is. The climax of the low-budget, high-drama horror movie from the dark.
0:11.0	The lead character, Valerie, produces a gun and...
0:16.0	Hey! Don't move!
0:20.0	Please, John!
0:22.0	Help!
0:26.0	A drop dead moment that is cinematically speaking.
0:30.0	The gun-toting actor seemed so convincing.
0:34.0	But of course, the director produced her writers who praised her at no idea.
0:41.0	She had real life experience to draw from.
0:45.0	Who has the gun and where is it?
0:48.0	He needs to be told to put that gun down.
0:50.0	What consequences can spring from a single moment?
0:54.0	And I started screaming.
0:56.0	And this is where it gets hazy for me.
0:59.0	One second in a life.
1:01.0	I picked up the gun off the table.
1:06.0	Hit pause for a moment.
1:08.0	And imagine it.
1:09.0	One second before Tucker Reed was...
1:12.0	Several things.
1:13.0	Young, intelligent, attractive,
1:15.0	a published author, a talented actress,
	...

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