the AFR snatches the WYYY engineer — "supine and cruciform at about the…"

The attaché's terminal posture migrates outdoors and onto the theme's next victim. The WYYY engineer lies "supine and cruciform" on his reflecting blanket at exactly "the angle of a living-room recliner," open-mouthed to a weak sun, moments from being scooped into a van — the reclined, receptive viewing position rendered as the position of the sacrificed. The recliner-angle is doing the theme's work before the abduction even starts: the body that lies back and opens itself to a beam of light is already the body the Entertainment wants, whether the beam is UV or a screen.