ABSTRACT
As the last chapter was interested in documenting the writers’ room as a laboratory in which the world was brought into its narrow walls in particular ways, this chapter is interested in following the ways in which the writers pump that transformed world back out of their offices through the production of texts. While the last chapter documented an episode’s formation, this chapter examines its transformations across multiple story documents. In so doing, we will embark on the case of the missing ‘bad apples.’ In tracing the transformations of the episode, the ‘bad apples’ – Bad Sergeant Coombs and Bad Deputy Chief Cafferty – disappear in the process of revising the story documents for the episode: Where did they go? When did they go missing and how? Were they ‘killed’ and if so, by whom or what? We will discover that Coombs and Cafferty were collectively assassinated. Their ‘deaths’ were ‘built right into the nature of things’ (M. Giraud quoted in Latour 1996: 10).
