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408 00:32:13,488 --> 00:32:15,285 I didn't say that she would! 409 00:32:15,356 --> 00:32:17,290 OK, I'm sorry. No problem. 410 00:32:17,358 --> 00:32:19,986 Sorry about your inconvenience. 411 00:32:22,096 --> 00:32:23,222 Silly old bitch! 412 00:32:23,298 --> 00:32:25,232 Yeah! You see? 413 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:28,098 - Silly old bitch! - What can I do for you? 414 00:32:28,169 --> 00:32:29,534 According to this invoice... 415 00:32:29,604 --> 00:32:31,629 I bought enough animals to fill a zoo. 416 00:32:31,706 --> 00:32:33,640 $7,000... that's ridiculous. 417 00:32:33,708 --> 00:32:36,302 Merrick? 418 00:32:36,377 --> 00:32:37,810 Oh, Mr. Merrick! 419 00:32:37,879 --> 00:32:39,608 I didn't recognize you there. 420 00:32:39,681 --> 00:32:40,943 I had this bad car accident. 421 00:32:41,015 --> 00:32:43,643 Yeah, yeah. So I heard. 422 00:32:43,718 --> 00:32:45,652 - Sadie! - Yeah? 423 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,153 Close up the shop! 424 00:32:47,221 --> 00:32:50,156 Oh! And take another look around for Betty June. 425 00:32:50,224 --> 00:32:51,486 Right. 426 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,322 Come with me. 427 00:32:53,394 --> 00:32:54,986 Welcome home, sweetheart. 428 00:32:55,063 --> 00:32:56,655 Welcome home! 429 00:32:56,731 --> 00:32:58,892 Silly old bitch! 430 00:33:01,402 --> 00:33:02,869 There you go, honey. 431 00:33:04,572 --> 00:33:06,836 Poor old Twigs. 432 00:33:06,908 --> 00:33:09,775 He got hit by a car. He's lost control. 433 00:33:09,844 --> 00:33:13,837 So, what did I buy for seven grand? A gorilla? 434 00:33:13,915 --> 00:33:15,143 You don't remember? 435 00:33:15,216 --> 00:33:16,615 Oh, amnesia. 436 00:33:16,684 --> 00:33:18,743 I blacked out on everything before the accident. 437 00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:21,983 Wow. That can be a tough one. 438 00:33:22,056 --> 00:33:25,321 I'm afraid all you bought was a lot of my time. 439 00:33:25,393 --> 00:33:29,762 Some of my photographic art. 440 00:33:29,831 --> 00:33:34,564 I guess "gorilla" wasn't too far off the mark. 441 00:33:34,635 --> 00:33:37,468 There was a guy named... 442 00:33:37,538 --> 00:33:38,800 Jack Stanton. 443 00:33:38,873 --> 00:33:41,671 He was doing a little chimney sweeping with your wife. 444 00:33:41,743 --> 00:33:43,802 You hired me to stake him out last Christmas. 445 00:33:43,878 --> 00:33:46,972 Holiday surcharge and no lunch breaks... 446 00:33:47,048 --> 00:33:48,310 it all adds up. 447 00:33:48,383 --> 00:33:51,181 I sent you the contact strips New Year's Eve... 448 00:33:51,252 --> 00:33:52,981 then I waited for my money. 449 00:33:53,054 --> 00:33:55,750 Just as I was beginning to figure that I'd been stiffed... 450 00:33:55,823 --> 00:33:57,814 and I was gonna have to use a little muscle... 451 00:33:57,892 --> 00:33:59,325 who shows up but Mrs. Merrick? 452 00:33:59,394 --> 00:34:01,862 - Mrs. Merrick? - Yeah. Your wife. 453 00:34:01,929 --> 00:34:04,864 She paid your bill. She's a nice lady. 454 00:34:04,932 --> 00:34:07,560 I got paid, the animals got fed. 455 00:34:07,635 --> 00:34:09,535 You are a private investigator? 456 00:34:09,604 --> 00:34:13,563 Yeah, yeah. I paid my dues for thirty years. 457 00:34:13,641 --> 00:34:17,168 You spend that long peeping through keyholes... 458 00:34:17,245 --> 00:34:20,214 you kind of lose confidence in the human species. 459 00:34:23,284 --> 00:34:28,051 Plus the hours and the food and the bad vibes... 460 00:34:28,122 --> 00:34:30,852 kind of took a toll on my health. 461 00:34:30,925 --> 00:34:34,326 Now I only do it to pay the rent and feed the animals. 462 00:34:35,396 --> 00:34:37,091 Are you satisfied? 463 00:34:38,132 --> 00:34:39,861 Case closed? 464 00:34:39,934 --> 00:34:43,768 Let me put it this way, Mr. Klein... 465 00:34:43,838 --> 00:34:45,772 don't you find it a little odd... 466 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,331 that on the same day you gave me those pictures... 467 00:34:48,409 --> 00:34:50,877 my wife and I had a terrible accident? 468 00:34:50,945 --> 00:34:52,913 She gets thrown out with hardly a scratch... 469 00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:54,538 I wind up looking like hamburger. 470 00:34:54,615 --> 00:34:57,709 What, you think she planned it? Come on! 471 00:34:57,785 --> 00:35:00,948 Unless your wife was into serious acrobatics... 472 00:35:01,022 --> 00:35:04,480 I'd say that your imagination is working overtime. 473 00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:06,584 You want my advice? Forget it. 474 00:35:06,661 --> 00:35:09,391 OK, so she had an affair. 475 00:35:09,464 --> 00:35:12,956 You've never had an affair, Mr. Merrick? 476 00:35:13,034 --> 00:35:16,492 Yeah. As a matter of fact, I did... 477 00:35:16,571 --> 00:35:18,630 but I can't remember who with. 478 00:35:22,343 --> 00:35:24,140 That could keep a guy on his toes. 47