Aw, thanks so much! I tried to make Lane's inner voice stiff and formal like an academic lecturer or news broadcaster -- give it clear British overtones -- but not make him into a walking Python sketch, haha.

I think Lane's character is interesting to me because he's a Walter Mitty type. His own wife has described him to his face as a yes-man. ('Yes, sir. Thank you, sir, may I have another?') Nobody knows him very well, and he doesn't know how to change his behavior. And all the while, he dreams of being the hero, against reasonable odds and logic. It's powerful, if terribly sad.