In the very near future, Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stafford patrol the surreal landscape of Los Angeles. But theirs is not just any beat. Their beat is the dreamscape--a neo-noire landscape populated by trolls, dinosaurs, and things that go bump in the night, a place where itÆs not too uncommon to find oneself late for the big test, completely naked at work, or trapped in an endless, repetitive loop. And thatÆs where our Detectives Stafford and Thursday come in. TonightÆs patrol roster looks like itÆll be quite a doozy: Sister Mary, whose convent becomes a playground for a sinister force . . .Two-Pack Benny, whoÆs trying to keep his hand in the dream-molding game . . . and little Albert, who unleashes the monster under his bed on his little suburban neighborhood.