the following day
It was like 12:00 something. So it was the next day...The Thin Blue Line · 1988 — 第 5 / 20 章 · 2'53" · B1
Recounting the Night of the Shooting, Explained：come to find out
An interviewee walks through the night of the shooting in his own words: the car stopped, the officer asked for a license, and then the gunfire. "I don't know why, but it's always seemed like time just stopped," he says, describing the moment as a flash. Later he describes discovering his companion's stash of guns.
あらすじ
An interviewee recounts the night of the shooting in his own words. Around midnight the car he was in was stopped; the officer walked up and asked for a license, and then came the gunfire. He remembers time seeming to freeze. The next morning he found his way to Freeway 45 and drove home.
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time just stoppedpull intocome to find outan arsenal
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このシーンの表現
come to find out
discover in the end
After a few days together, Adams comes to find out how many guns David has.
I come to find out he had known all along.
このシーンの他の表現
- time just stopped
everything seemed to freeze
- pull into
drive into a place
- an arsenal
a store of weapons
- six-pack
six cans sold together
- drive-in movies
outdoor cinema for cars
このシーンのメモ一覧
38 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
approach something
When we were stopped, the officer came up to the car...request to look at
and asked to see the driver's license, and he just started shooting.infinitive object: Ask plus the infinitive states the request; the object is the licence.
and asked to see the driver's license, and he just started shooting.The ed in asked sounds as a t and links to to.
and asked to see the driver's license, and he just started shooting.appear as if
I don't know why, but it's always seemed like time just stopped.a bang sound — Casual sound word for a sudden event.
It just seemed like it was, boom!in an instant
It's like a flash.was meant to
He was supposed to ask his brother if I could stay there that night.be supposed to: Be supposed to marks what was expected, and here it did not happen.
He was supposed to ask his brother if I could stay there that night.never re-emerged
Anyhow, he went in and never came back out. So I left.Went in and runs together with a light flap on the t.
Anyhow, he went in and never came back out. So I left.locate the route to
I found my way to Freeway 45.drive about with someone
After riding around with him, I come to find out he's got an arsenal.participle phrase: The after plus gerund phrase sets the time and shares the subject I.
After riding around with him, I come to find out he's got an arsenal.Come to links into something like c'mon-tuh.
After riding around with him, I come to find out he's got an arsenal.brandish something
He's got this pistol. He's waving it around. He's doing this.inside the car boot
I told him, "Hey, why don't you put those in the trunk of the car?"six cans together — Everyday shopping word for six drinks sold together.
I bought a six-pack of beer.sort of, somewhat — A spoken softener; avoid it in formal writing.
And he kind of laughed...shoot a gun
rolled the window down, and fired the pistol outside the car.pass something to me
And I think he handed me the pistol, and I put it under the driver's seat.select something
He was the one that had picked the movie out.earn a lot of money
$0.50, put them together and make a bunch of money...become intoxicated
with a bunch of people getting drunk at the drive-in.「Recounting the Night of the Shooting」を読み解く
What's really going on
The account is calm, almost casual, and that is what makes it unsettling. An officer walks up, asks for a license, and the next thing is gunfire — 'and asked to see the driver's license, and he just started shooting.' What the speaker emphasizes is not the violence but the way memory bent around it: 'I don't know why, but it's always seemed like time just stopped.' From there the story turns domestic — a drive-in, sandwiches, a six-pack, a movie his companion picked — as if the night were ordinary. In that flat telling, the guns surface only as an afterthought: 'After riding around with him, I come to find out he's got an arsenal.'
Theme
DeceptionA calm first-person account quietly reverses the night, mentioning the guns only after the shooting is described.
MemoryThe speaker keeps returning to how time seemed to stop, showing memory shaped by shock.
このチャプターで学べること
- Trauma often feels like a gap in time.
- Adams repeats himself because the memory refuses to settle.
- One casual ride shows how armed the boy really was.
- The quiet drive home hides how close he came to danger.
発音のポイント
- asked to see — The ed in asked sounds as a t and links to to.
- went in and — Went in and runs together with a light flap on the t.
- come to find out — Come to links into something like c'mon-tuh.
I don't know why, but it's always seemed like time just stopped.His description of the shooting: not a sequence of events but a frozen instant, which is how the memory has stayed with him.
Time stopped or something. I don't know what it is.He reaches for the same idea again — the moment refusing to be a normal stretch of time — and admits he can't explain it.
Anyhow, he went in and never came back out. So I left.A plain, shrugging line about being abandoned for the night; the flatness of it makes the letdown register.
After riding around with him, I come to find out he's got an arsenal.He mentions the weapons only after the fact, as something discovered along the way rather than a warning he acted on.
He wanted to go to the movies, so we went to the movies.The night, in his telling, was ordinary and led by the other man — which is exactly the tone that makes the danger easy to miss.
I call them drive-in movies, beer-drinking movies.A casual description of the drive-in and its drinking crowd, said with the ease of someone used to that scene.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the speaker say time just stopped?
It's his way of describing the shooting: the moment was so sudden and brief that it doesn't feel like time passing, more like a flash, and that's how he still remembers it.
What does the speaker say happened at the traffic stop?
He says the officer walked up, asked to see the driver's license, and then suddenly started shooting — his account, which the film places alongside other, conflicting versions.
Why does the story suddenly turn to sandwiches and a movie?
Because he is narrating the whole night in order, not just the killing. The ordinary details — food, beer, a drive-in — underline how routine the evening seemed to him.
How does the speaker describe his companion's guns?
As something he noticed only after they had spent time together — an 'arsenal' of pistols and rifles that his companion waved around and even fired out of the car.
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