'Still nothing here. DiNozzo?'
'Nothing, Boss. Other than one massive raccoon that clearly thinks I'm invading its territory back here. If I get rabies from this thing, I'm...'
'McGee? Report!'
'Huh? Oh! Just great, Boss. I'm actually making progress, for the first time in ages! I don't know why I was so hung up on the plot... what I really need is to make the reader feel the emotions of my characters...'
'Anything about the case, McGee?'
There was a pause, as if Tim was trying to figure out the question.
'The case?'
'You know, real life, Probie?'
'But... my book is real life, Tony. Or, real life is just fiction. It's all just an illusion, so what difference is there? Does it matter that one story is told through paper, and one through flesh and blood? I know Marshall McLuhan said that 'the medium is the message', but it's the message that matt...'
'MCGEE!'