Aftershocksgesture studyThe car made a sudden, sharp turn; in the trunk, MacGyver felt himself sliding sideways, and curled up tighter so that it would be his shoulder that hit the metal of the hatch. With his hands cuffed behind his back, it was the best he could do to spare his head from another crack.
As he slid, he felt several small hard objects rolling under him, and realised what they had to be: pens that must have fallen out of his pocket when his unconscious body was bundled into the trunk.
Mac felt the car straighten out again and accelerate. He rolled onto his side and groped with his cuffed hands through the scattered pens. He found a cheap ballpoint pen with a metal pocket clip on its cap, got a firm grip, and snapped the clip off.
That’ll do. It took a lot longer to pick the lock on the cuffs when he couldn’t see what he was doing, but he’d had practice. Even in the darkness, he found himself closing his eyes to concentrate, visualising the mechanism of the lock and the thin slip of metal in his fingers.
