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Daybreak finished

Always good to branch out--an Icelandic thriller has an ending that no American writer would ever use.

Situation:   Our main cop is personally in danger and the girl is trapped in a gondola in danger of freezing to death.

American ending:  Cop kills bad guy and rescues girl. 

Icelandic ending:  Cop escapes from bad guy by running (!) away.  He goes to where the girl is trapped but he can't figure out how to work the gondola so he gets help from others.  Dirty Harry he is not!




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