"Hello, I'm a reporter from Entertainment Magazine. We're at the square in front of the Aston supermarket in the Shallow Bay Villa District. Someone smashed our camera and beat us up..."
Before the man finished speaking, Daniel Cooper snatched the phone from his hand.
Amelia thought he was going to smash the other party's phone and was about to persuade him, but she heard him say, "This is Daniel Cooper. I was the one who smashed the camera. If you can't get here within two minutes, have your Director Gardner come find me personally."
After hanging up, he returned the phone to the reporter.
The two reporters heard his words loud and clear. One of them had already given up and said in a frustrated whisper, "Forget it, we can't mess with them. Let's just accept our bad luck."