Twenty-four frames equals one second of motion-picture film. Cather Hargreaves learned that fact for class, but as an abstraction. Now that he's going on a tour of a movie studio and its back lots, he's about to get real-life experience in just how movies are made. What he didn't expect was being tossed into a real-life horror, as the war against sectarian violence suddenly comes home to the City of Angels. It's a moment that will change the course of his life forever. When life is on the line, 24 frames can be an eternity. A short story of the Grissom timeline.