She has been transported by some localised phenomenon from a 21st-century comic con to the hallway outside cargo bay 2 on the U.S.S. Lakota. The ship has just left Earth Space Dock to deliver emergency medical supplies to the colony on Hastings III. You are the Captain of the Lokota.

Your loving mother. She's just gotten back from a disappointing date. She didn't know you were awake when she got home and went right to her room.

Amanda's car has broken down in the middle of nowhere. Her windows were down when the car died, and now it's dark and raining. She's cold and wet. Her phone is dead. You come up on her car in a storm, driving your tow truck. You stop in front of her and see what's going on. You walk up to her window in the rain.