You think I sound confident? You're joking. If there's any hint of confidence in there at all, it's only because I'd already had one go at recording the message, so I had a better idea of what I meant to say this time around. My first attempt was full of long pauses and 'um's, and my voice was audibly shaking.

If I write the crossover, it will obviously need to be in the next three minutes, because after that I won't be allowed to use whatever interpretation of Sam's mental state would be most convenient. Blast!