Apparently, she had no idea what the man at the front door could want, so late at night.
She looked through the spy hole and saw it was the man she had met briefly on the bus going to work. She couldn’t believe her luck. He was certainly nice enough, but she was making it plain that she was wary of what he was doing at her front door. Making sure that the safety chain was in place, she opened the door slowly. He was most apologetic for calling around so late unannounced, but he was concerned for her safety. He explained that his twin brother had seen them talking together on the bus and was saying crazy things about putting a stop to it. He described his brother as a person with mental problems who had been known to become violent towards women very easily. He wanted to know if she seen anybody like that lurking around.
She said she’d seen a man loitering around her front gate earlier and had taken a photo of him earlier, because she thought it was suspicious. She said she would get her phone and show him. She left him waiting for a couple of minutes. When she returned, she held the phone up above the security chain. As he peered at it, the phone was quickly replaced by a jet of pepper spray…
Flailing around, he was hardly aware of the police-issue handcuffs being snapped on.
That morning, in the detective’s office, she’d seen the update on the wanted man’s details, especially the fact that he didn’t have a brother!