Act now to secure his advantage.

This is it, Grant realizes suddenly. This is...a chance for me to become someone different. Someone who matters. To make a mark. He teeters on the edge of a precipice, the space below him dark and unknown. Can I...be that person? Do I want to be? He looks at Mary, and in her warm, dark eyes he sees total confidence in him and his decisions. ...Fuck it. Yes, I do.

"All right," he says abruptly, standing. He holds out a hand and helps Mary to her feet. "Get your shoes on."

"Decided we're going out to find you some more women, huh?" Mary says as she moves to pull her sneakers on. "Have to admit I'm surprised...I wasn't sure you had the ambition."

"I've been coasting for too long," Grant admits. "And I've been...I've been wanting to change something in my life. Somehow. So maybe...maybe this is it."

Mary nods seriously. "A big change in a person's life situation can trigger serious shifts in their self-image and understanding of their place in the world," she says. "And I would say that this...event...qualifies for pretty much all of us." She finishes tying her shoe and stands up. "Where to, boss?"

Grant hesitates. "Well...it's a big building. But it's a weekend, and a pretty nice day, so I don't know how many people are going to be around right now..."

"The best targets are going to be women who don't know what's happened," Mary suggests. Something in Grant recoils at the way that she refers to them as "targets" - like objectives to be seized. But she just keeps going. "Other women are going to be extremely wary of a man as soon as they realize that this is real. But any woman who doesn't have her phone with her, or didn't get the message for whatever reason..."

"I could just walk right up to them," Grant says, realization dawning.

"You could," she confirms. "Anywhere nearby that seems likely?"

"I think so," Grant says. "Come on..." Beckoning her after him, he cautiously opens the door into the hallway, glances around to make sure the coast is clear, and hurries out into this new world, Mary hot on his heels.