. >> where's teran bay now that we need him? >> yeah, that's gonna be a very difficult-- >> the fascinating thing about the book, though, and the violence is there but i get over the violence quick. it's the anticipation of terror at the end, the feeling that something terrible is gonna happen. >> well, that's much more-- >> it's a much more solidifying point. i wanna show people that i jump over fast and move on. but what really lured me to the story was fate. i've always been interested in why people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. in a hindu temple in india. >> by coincidence? >> it says simply, "coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes inevitable, " which means there is no such thing as a random happening, that maybe the fact that i'm sitting here on this sofa tonight, and the forces that brought me here started generations, if not lives, past. it's a strange thing for me to understand being a protestant kid from texas. >> it does become a philosophical point of view. >> well, when you study all the lives of