not that i expected such a thing to happen to me , but in those days it was better to be safe than sorry . late-night traffic with people returning home from the theater and movies was light , so there was no real reason for jay to run the lights on p street , but that 's precisely what he continued to do . the look in his eyes was a familiar one . he had to run , run for his life , but it was all open , nowhere to go . 