Someone called in a report that
she had seen a man painting in
the dark o v e r by the pond. A
police car was dispatched to go
investigate. The t w o officers with
their big flashlights walked all
around the pond, but found n o t hing
suspicious. Hatcher was the younger
of the two, and he said to Johnson,
"What do you think he was painting?"
Johnson looked bemused and said,
The dark, s t u p i d. What else could
he have been paiting?" Hatcher, a
little hurt, said, "Frogs in the Dark,
Lily pads in the dark, Pond in the
Dark. Just as many things exist in
the dark as they do in the l i g h t."
Johnson paused, exasperated. Then
Hatcher added, "I'd like to see
them. Hell, I might even buy one.
Maybe there's more o u t there than
we know. We are the police, after all.