ALEX CALLS DARCY TO set a date to go to the range and finds her as enthusiastic about shooting as she is about everything she does. Alex’s own younger sister is unpredictable at best, and he’s not sure if Darcy wants an older brother or a friend in him. But, despite her Broadway-turned-L.A. dysfunction, Alex likes her and finds her irritating only in ways that are fun to push back against.
Darcy is inquisitive as they walk into the range, not just about the mechanics of what they’re about to do, but about what it all means. Alex has spent enough time telling her about what life in the a*s-end of America is like that her questions are, by now, useful ones.
The media is still in love with Alex’s Cinderella rise from Indiana. But the story has become so packaged and oft-repeated that the pa
