Summary

In Chapter 6, when Cassidy was little, she and her sister would play a game where they had to "act out some facsimile" of their real emotions (181). They played the game so often, Cassidy would lose track of what she really felt. She transferred the game into her acting work. When she first started taking auditions, the casting directors were impressed by her emotional malleability.

On set, Cassidy is told to act out a range of different possible emotional responses. She does not have the full script, and so is unsure how to respond to her acting partner's lines. The producers assure her this is not a problem. Between takes, Horseshoe hands Cassidy a glass of WAT-R. She sips it thinking it is real water. She spits it out, insisting she is having a reaction. Later, she wonders about WAT-R's "strange taste (191).

Afterwards, Patrick...