Tahitian life travels at a sloth's pace at the best of times: On lay-days even the most animated can get sucked backwards into a time vacuum.
Big Foot Emslie and his African accomplice Davey Weare ducked out for a coffee, and in the six hours it took to drink it, realised they were at the centre of an international conspiracy/man-hunt/thing and had been embroiled in a low-speed police chase that had gone on for weeks.