In Ride Along, try taking out the sister/fiancée. What if the doofus teacher just signs up for a ride along with a cop — any cop. Well, in this gin-rummy hand of primal-ness I’ve still got: survival. This teacher still has to make it through the night and there will still be risks to his life. But having the cop’s sister/teacher’s fiancée as the goal makes the stakes resonate with primal-ness. Again, as in the examples in Chapter Two, it’s almost a knight-errant tale, isn’t it? But having the princess as the prize makes it work whether it’s set in the modern
