For the record, I don’t think I should be here. I’m jeopardizing all the clients I’ve placed over the years as a witness security agent. So that’s on your head, Susie May. Just sayin’.
Susie: I think we’ll be OK, Frank. Thanks for being here today to talk about your role in my upcoming book, You Don’t Know Me. Like you said, you’re a witness security agent. How long have you been in this business?
Frank: Too long, probably. But about thirty years.
Susie: Too long?
Frank: I might be getting a bit jaded. See, because I help people hide, I feel like I live a life of deceit. I have come to hate the fact that I do this—especially when it comes to people like Annalise/Deidre. She had a good life, and it was destroyed . . . not that I did this, but telling her parents that she had to leave them permanently was awful. And worse . . . I’ve had to lie over and over and over to loved ones.
Susie: But don’t you protect people?
Frank: We do our best. Although I’m not sure what I do is good—yes, we get rid of the bad guys, but the truth is that too many in the Wit Sec program are not like Annalise. They don’t follow the guidelines, and they end up getting hurt anyway. And then there are cases like Annalise’s where a client builds a new life and the past shows up to destroy it anyway. So, I am not sure it’s working, especially in this social media age.
Susie: So, that’s your greatest fear: working hard to hide someone and then having them hurt or killed anyway.
Frank: It happens, especially when a client doesn’t want to be moved because they’ve built a new life. I had a wit-sec client who was murdered. Afraid, she came to me, and I tried to move her. She wouldn’t leave, so I went to find her . . . and she’d been murdered. Worst part was that I had to tell her family, who hadn’t seen her for years, and it was terrible. That’s when I decided when it was a permanent move, it was better if the family thought they were dead.
Susie: So Annalise’s family thinks she’s dead?
Frank: You tell me. You wrote the story.
Susie: You know Frank, for all your tough-guy talk, I think there’s a softie inside. I think you get too involved with your clients; you start to care. Isn’t it true that for most of this story, you’re called Uncle Frank—
Frank: That wasn’t my fault.
Susie: Um hmm. And what about Helen, Nathan Decker’s mother? Didn’t I see you and she—
Frank: This interview’s over. Listen, I’m just the guy who gets the job done, OK? I will keep Annalise safe. Whether she likes it or not.
Susie: Frank, you scare me.
Susie: Frank Harrison is played Harrison Ford. Check out his story in my new book, You Don’t Know Me, in stores October 1st.