Captain Drake Learns His Lines

By Amy Sisson and Kate Suratt

So I was sitting there minding my own business and trying to choke down the rotgut Rick passes off as whiskey, when who should come sailing through the door but Jeanne Bixby –- yes, the Jeanne Bixby, the biggest telewave starlet this side of the galaxy. She'd covered that famous red-gold hair with a gauzy green scarf and wore sunglasses, but she had to take them off because the bar was so dim she nearly tripped over the Candalubian dozing on the floor just inside the doorway.

Candalubians can sleep anywhere.

Anyway, I knew it was her the minute she took the glasses off, but I couldn't figure out what the hell she was doing in Rick's Bar. She didn't even have her contingent of red-carpet bodyguards with her, just a single H'Rak'tin wearing brass knuckles on all four hands.

On second thought, maybe that was enough. H'Raks are famous for what they can do with brass knuckles.