I finally caught up to the multi-dimensional criminal mastermind I’d been chasing. While I was waiting for my backup to arrive, my attention was caught by a moving toy man on the ground. Upon closer inspection, the toy man turned out to be the mastermind’s husband: he’d miniaturized himself so as to distract me while his wife got away.
This dream illustration in ballpoint pen, and over 120 like it, can be found in print form in my Book of Dreams (and Nightmares): Volume 1, available from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548199664).