> Once upon a time, there was a cop on the verge of retirement. He loves his wife and kids. He put in his time. He's a sympathetic kind of guy. On his last day of active duty, a badguy kidnapped him and said, "Remember that drug bust in 1982? You put my brother away for life. Time to taste your own medicine!" and then the guy opens up a van, and his wife and kids are murdered in the backseat. The cop is devastated, for an instant, and then he said, "Oh no you don't! I never had a wife and kids!" and the badguy says, "Huh?" and the cop says, "That's my neighbor's family, and I'm going to bring them back to life anyway!" and the cop brings them back to life, and the cop says, "Now you go to jail!" and the badguy says, "Nuh-uh! This is the state of Florida, and murder and kidnapping are legal here!" and the cop says, "Darn! I forgot about that!" but when the badguy ran away, he accidentally crossed into Georgia, so the cop shot him in the back. The kidnapper fell to the ground and died but was instantly reborn as an alien and ate up the city, and then the cop saved the day by uploading a virus into it.



That sounds like everything Philip K. Dick ever wrote, except that the cop would upload the virus for mysterious and unexplained reasons, it wouldn't save the day, and the story would then end abruptly, perhaps with a brief vignette about frogs.