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and take your hair from me.”
    When he finally turned to face the camera, his expression was pained, as if he were actually longing for the company of Audra’s hair. Tam laughed out loud. Evan tossed a wry look her way. “What? That may as well be what we were saying.” She didn’t want to say it, but he was right.
    On the screen, Marc rushed down the stairs and looked at the door. Beside her, Evan changed the line again. “Was that Emmaline? Did I miss her hair? Again?” Right on cue, Marc turned to give Evan a scandalized look and delivered his actual line. Evan’s inane improvisation was a definite improvement and totally fit the timing.
    Tam sat up abruptly when an idea struck. “Oh my God. That’s it!” She reached for the remote to rewind the scene. Evan held it aloft.
    “What’s it , Grabby?”
    Tam raised a sardonic eyebrow. “Really? You’re one of those who needs control of the remote at all times?”
    Evan’s guilty look told her all she needed to know. “Maybe.”
    She shook her head. “Fine. Back it up to the beginning of this take.”
    Evan did as she asked while she scrolled through her version of the script on her laptop. When she found the scene she was looking for, she turned the screen so he could see it. “Okay. Play it and read this when the door closes behind Audra.”
    Evan did as she asked. She marveled at how easily he slipped into character as Drew for just a few words. He finished reading while the camera stayed on his back. On the screen, his turn to face the audience was perfectly timed.
    Tam looked between the TV and the laptop. She scrolled a couple lines down. “Now this, in three, two, one.”
    Evan read his next line. It was slightly too long for the length of time that the camera was on Marc’s entrance. He noted the overage. “Let me try that again.”
    He rewound the footage and gave it another shot. He sped the line up just a hair and got it in just under the wire. He smiled at her. “I think you’re on to something.”
    “It’s not the most perfect solution, but I think we can salvage this.”
    “Gavin is going to be so delightfully pissed. I can’t wait.” Evan sat up and rubbed his hands in glee.
    Tam smiled at his evil enthusiasm. Her thoughts exactly. “How much footage do we have?”
    “About two and half hours.”
    Tam checked the clock on the nightstand. It was closing in on ten thirty. She stretched her fingers. It was going to be a long night. “Back it up again.”
    Evan complied. She matched the script with places that could potentially be dubbed with the correct dialogue. With Evan running the footage while reading the lines, Tam was free to revise the script since she only had to listen for what was needed. She didn’t want to think about much longer this would’ve taken without Evan’s help. It also surprised her at how easily they settled into a working rhythm. They made quite a team.
    “Try it this time without “really” in the sentence.” Tam glanced up from the laptop when Evan didn’t respond. The man was fast asleep. She checked the clock again and was shocked that three hours had almost gone by. “Never mind.”
    She bit her lip and wrestled the remote from his hand. Despite being knocked out, he still had a pretty firm grip on the thing. She finally got it free and rewound the footage to keep working. If she were honest, she was pretty beat herself, but she needed to get this to Rock first thing, and she still had some revisions to do on the pages they were going to shoot the next day.
    Tam continued without him. Her obsessive nature kept her going until she’d finished. It was close to 1 a.m. when she turned her attention to the revised pages. Having handled most of the set up with the previous footage, she found that the changes weren’t quite as extensive as she’d feared. Still, it was 2:45 a.m. when she sent them off to Tanzi and Kyle, the 1 st AD.
    She looked at Evan who was oblivious to the world. No sense waking