Before Ken's move to Toronto, Canada in September 1967, he takes a summer job as a security guard at the Malibu Beach Club, Lido Beach, Long Island New York. The name itself signifies it's hypocrisy  of “exclusive” spaces, designed to actually exclude -  private beaches, unaffordable memberships, and social sorting that keeps Black families and “lower classes” away from the same sand and ocean found at municipal beaches. His job as a security guard is really about standing watch over and protecting a system, not just a shoreline. This inner realization breeds resentment and loneliness, creating a backdrop for the turning point follows. It arrives in as an ordinary moment, the kind that should quickly pass and vanish into the annals of distant memories -  two teenage boys, a challenge, a laugh, a new phrase, “rent a cop.” Instead, Ken feels dissociation kick in, a sudden split where one self keeps talking while another watches from a distance. Depersonalization is o...