There were few inklings when we met of what would unfold, but the Middle East that Carter had spent so much time navigating was about to come undone yet again.

Much of that work remains undone, and that’s a theme in the city of Los Angeles, beyond Westlake, and back through time.

And then, inevitably, it would all come undone, leaving him in the wreckage, as if she were a tornado sweeping through the Midwest.

When they got thumped at home by Tottenham a few weeks ago, they at least tried to get back in the game and had a go at Spurs, but got undone on the counter.

But during the conversation, staff noticed his trouser button was open and his trouser zip half way undone.