Living on the thin skin of a delicately wobbling rock which hurtles around a giant ball of flame, amongst a race of the most violent apes the planet has yet to know, we tell ourselves "My luck will hold!" This is our number one biggest lie. The second lie is that we've got it all under control. A monster has followed Alice home from the scene of a murder, but everything is fine and she knows what she's doing, so don't ask, okay?