There's a gunman, who's basically holding up a bank because he thinks it's a great way to get publicity. He's actually a good guy besides the fact that he just threw a guy out the window, since he just wants some attention so that he can tell the world that the evil genius is in fact evil. Sadly for him, no one's going to find out and everyone's going to think he's evil instead.
The thing is, this was going to be a plot device to showcase the fact that Dennis has the power to nullify other people's powers. The gunman was originally just going to be your standard bank robber who would use his powers to open the bank vault.
So, clearly since I've written like a thousand words of this, I'm not about to cut it out in this stage of the game (or I'll never get those thousand words back), so what am I supposed to do?
I'm considering just letting Zelda save the day (by allowing Alice to save the day) and not revealing Dennis' powers. But then, what was the point of the scene. I mean, it came out that Zelda and Dennis used to date, and that the Vice Chancellor of the uni is a bit spacey, and that there's a cop in charge who's not so fabulous... but that's got nothing to do with my story.
Maybe it'll just serve to plant the seed in Alice's mind to be suspicious of Oxford. Hmmm...
