"Like the cop, the cab driver was about to have his world disturbed by a strange girl. But being a weak denizen of the city jungle, the cab driver must have a very different first impression of Rita than a cop, who by function as well as by nature is a predatory creature. As unlikely as it must have been, from alien planes, and miles apart, inhabiting nearly polar ends of the urban wilderness, shortly these two would get to know each other, as guys do, that is, mix their misperceptions of each other dramatically and violently. It was the last thing Rita would have wished to happen, although women are often judged as aiming to create conflict and confusion. She had plenty of problems of her own. . . ."