Glass-Cutting Suspense Forty Floors Up

She sets the suction handle against the glass, leans her weight onto it, and starts the cutter in one continuous arc. The rig drops about a meter without warning and stops hard on the cable, and she goes down with it, keeps the suction handle planted, and hangs off it with both boots off the platform for a moment before she gets a foot back on. The cutter stays in her hand the whole time. She looks up once at the cable, then puts the cutter straight back on the glass and finishes the arc. Hold her exact suit, harness, hair and both tools from the still, keep the camera locked in the same wide position outside the rig for the whole clip, and never show the top or bottom of the building. Wind across the microphone, the cutter on glass, the rig cable snapping taut and ringing, the platform grating under her boots, city traffic a very long way down. No score.