I though it might be useful to writ up an approximate time-line of the first four days of AEG.<br><br>Day 0<br>08:00pm next to last "Red Spot" begins (a usual play start time)<br>11:00pm show ends (3 hour play)<br>
11:30pm Cassie home, gets message<br>11:40pm finishes computer check (10 min later, p. 24)<br>11:45pm finish calling Sharon<br>11:53pm at Baskin Robbins (7 min to closing time, p. 27)<br><br>Day 1<br>12:00am Cassie sleeps in car<br>
Start of certainty that Cassie will be involved. Reis could be informed here.<br><br>02:15am At Canadian border (Chase's time sense, p. 36)<br> (It's about 372 miles from Springfield, MA to Buffalo NY,<br>
so they had to go over 140mph part of the way).<br>03:00am Start of walk up mountain<br>05:00am Start of ceremony, before dawn (2 hour walk, p. 33)<br>...<br>12:00pm Cassie wakes up (approx)<br>12:40pm Meet Sharon for lunch at Walkers<br>
01:00pm Reis has lunch with India -- Reis must have play book in hand<br>05:15pm Sharon's show airs, showing Cassie and Gideon (p. 88)<br>08:00pm Last "Red Spot" begins<br>08:30pm Cassie sees Reis in audience<br>
11:00pm Show ends<br>11:40pm Talks about taking Margaret to cast party (starts in 1hr, 20min p. 57)<br><br>Day 2<br>01:00am Start of cast party<br>01:30am Cassie arrives at party (half hour late p. 57)<br>01:45am Reis gives gold bracelet<br>
02:30am Leaves party with Reis, gets call<br> (Tells Gid he's 6 hours late, from the time she saw Reis in audience, p. 70)<br>...<br>12:30pm Breakfast at International House of Toast (Chase time-sense p. 75)<br>
12:35pm Reis takes bracelet from Margaret<br>12:40pm Call from Margaret to Cassie<br>01:00pm Arrive at bank<br>01:40pm Bank account business finished, Chase drops Cassie off<br>02:00pm Chase arrives home, gets shot<br>03:00pm Margaret supposed to come<br>
03:15pm Margaret arrives (15 minutes late, p. 82)<br>03:30pm Sings "Walk in the Reign"<br>03:45pm Listen to newscast<br>04:00pm Chase enters apartment<br><br>Day 3<br>01:00pm to meet Zelda at Greek place for lunch<br>
01:30pm read-through begins<br>04:30pm read-through done<br>05:00pm measurements at home, answering machine calls, signs contract<br>07:00pm dinner date time<br><br>If Reis is first informed that Cassie is involved by Sharon or Aaberg at about midnight, Day 0, he has 13 hours to create a plan for Cassie's destruction, write a musical, commission a bracelet, and travel from Berlin to Kingsport. No wonder we think he might be using time travel. (This assumes he wasn't lying about writing the musical and making the bracelet for her specifically.)<br>
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