In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.

Back in the bedroom I fumble in the dark to remove the bulb from the table lamp and screw in one of the new sixty-watt bulbs I bought with the tools, in what now seems like another life.

Abruzzi's eyes open wide and he flashes back to the brutal ACTS he has committed: murdering the men in Fibonacci's warehouse, blinding Gus with the shattered light bulb and cutting off Michael's toes.