Me: "I might've cracked it. From now on I'm going to treat the scenes I'm stuck with as parts of a #TTRPG campaign. For example, right now my 2 MC's need to escape an investigator shadowing them, but they need to keep him alive because they're actually innocent... It's crazy enough, this might just work!"
Him: "you do know players would just kill that NPC"
Me: "... I had high hopes."