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Speaker 1: A new to the listener. The following story contains some

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Speaker 1: adult content and language. Hey Briggs, Hello, are you gotta

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Speaker 1: be kidney? Just act bridge? You're gonna speak this time?

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Speaker 1: Mr Briggs? What? Mr Briggs, It's Samuel Tench, Oh, Mr

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Speaker 1: Mr Tachum. Sorry? Have I caught you during an inopportune moment? No?

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's not important. What can I do

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Speaker 1: for you? Mr Tench? I was calling because I would

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Speaker 1: like to invite you up to my house tomorrow afternoon,

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Speaker 1: your house for lunch. There are some people I'd like

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Speaker 1: to introduce you to. I'll, due respect, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that I have time for a social call. Mr Tention.

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Speaker 1: I'm aware that it's short notice, and I do apologize

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Speaker 1: for not contacting you sooner. Will that be a problem

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Speaker 1: tomorrow now it's it's not a problem. Is it's just

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Speaker 1: been sometime since we've spoken, Mr Briggs. Eight weeks of

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Speaker 1: past eight weeks already. I'd like to hear how your

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Speaker 1: investigation is going, of course, of course, but there's a

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Speaker 1: lot that I'm in the middle of, a lot to

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Speaker 1: work through, to organize that is, I should hope. So

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Speaker 1: that's precisely why I hired you. That's really swallow. You

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Speaker 1: do invite me, Mr Tench, but it'd probably be best

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Speaker 1: if I followed up on a few leads first. What

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Speaker 1: you're saying makes perfect sense. Good, I'm glad. However, I

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Speaker 1: must insist Mr Mr Briggs. Have you been receiving my

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Speaker 1: checks each I have? Mr Guy comes same to him

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Speaker 1: every Thursday. I believe this week marks the completion of

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Speaker 1: the first ten thousand dollars. Isn't that correct? That's correct? Good.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure that I was fulfilling

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Speaker 1: my end of the deal to your satisfaction. Very much,

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Speaker 1: so good. I would like you in attendance for lunch

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at my home. Yes, Mr Tencher, why don't we

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Speaker 1: say around half past noon? Half past it is? Have

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Speaker 1: you been needing the address? No? I have it? Wonderful,

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Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to it. Wonderful. Yeah, wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Just freaking copathetic the last time for lunch? What am

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Speaker 1: I going to tell him? So Sam and Chess they

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Speaker 1: call it a stalemate. Damn it. If you dare give

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Speaker 1: him everything, you're a nittied if you tell him everything

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Speaker 1: but stops him from getting someone else. Saw, I don't

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Speaker 1: be an idiot lunch my ass, I'm gonna get sacked.

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Speaker 1: Screw this, I'm taking the risk of the day off.

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Speaker 1: It goes for you too. I think Hank had good

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Speaker 1: reason to worry that he'd be fired the present day

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Speaker 1: equivalent of almost nine grand for what was now another

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Speaker 1: dead end, And if Tench wasn't pleased, there's little chance

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Speaker 1: that he would get a shot at another ten thousand.

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Speaker 1: If I were Hank, I'd want to update tension, then

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Speaker 1: pray that he didn't ask me any further questions. The

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Speaker 1: last thing, I would want to sit opposite him and

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Speaker 1: spit out a variety of imaginary theories and excuses. But

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Speaker 1: Hank wouldn't have to make any excuses. In fact, of

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Speaker 1: the people gathered at Samuel Tench's house the following afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Hank would end up doing the least amount of talking.

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Speaker 1: From Vox Popula and the Los Angeles Harold, this is

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Speaker 1: the Angel of Vine, my old heart, ankain and no

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Speaker 1: ground because my angel's Hank recorded every turn of the

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Speaker 1: drive to tents, even though he had the address of

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Speaker 1: the property on Lomment to drive. He counts every turn,

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Speaker 1: every street name, almost like a trail of bread crumbs.

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Speaker 1: Like he doesn't want to forget exactly how he got there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a detective thing. I don't know. But as

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Speaker 1: he arrives at Tenches bell Air Mansion the next afternoon,

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Speaker 1: he's clearly impressed, if not slightly resentful. Ok. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be kidding me, Holy smoke. So much for the idea

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Speaker 1: struggling artist. Sure as hell, don't feel bad about taking

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Speaker 1: his money now. In fact, I'm gonna go get Phillis

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Speaker 1: one of those paint by numbers sets. Jesus, every man's

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Speaker 1: a Rembrandt, right, Maybe I should learn how to paint

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Speaker 1: by numbers. Good afternoon, sir, Mr Briggs, I presume good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: You presume correct. Welcome Please do come in. Watch your

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Speaker 1: step over the threshold. I do apologize for its appearance,

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Speaker 1: so there was no one available to fix it until monday.

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Speaker 1: No apology necessary. Really, May I hang your coat? Sir?

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Speaker 1: Now it's okay, thanks. It may be a little warm

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Speaker 1: in the God Marrier. I'm used to it. I'll manage,

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Speaker 1: but thanks as you wish. Mr Briggs, please follow me. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what is that? Go? It's brass, sir, nice place, Mr Briggs.

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Speaker 1: I'm so pleased that you could come good afternoon, Mr

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Speaker 1: turch Geoffrey, Will you please tell the Lila to begin

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Speaker 1: a tea service? Not traditional by any means, but scrumptuous nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: right away, sir, Thank you Geoffrey. I hope I haven't

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Speaker 1: brought you too far out of your way, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Always nice to see where my clients live. Gives me

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Speaker 1: a better idea of who they are. And what does

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Speaker 1: hell of an artist. I enjoy your candor. Mr Briggs, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm all candor. How many commode you get in this place? What?

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Speaker 1: There's a lovely breeze today? So I've asked the Lila

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Speaker 1: to serve everything at the garden table tea. Yuh, I

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Speaker 1: can't say I've ever had tea for lunch before. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: sour dough toast burn on one side. Most days it's light, fair,

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Speaker 1: but certainly not as light as that. No assorted scones,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned cucumber sandwiches. Who is this day? Mr Tench

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Speaker 1: We're just out here? Who's that? I sent for them?

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Speaker 1: Hoping they could be of some help to you, Mr Briggs.

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Speaker 1: I would like to introduce you to Roy and Alice Knudsen.

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Speaker 1: These are Marline's parents. Pleasure to meet you, sir, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and thank you, I mean, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your help, sir. Nice to meet you. When Mr Tench

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Speaker 1: called Samuel, please, oh well, when Samuel told us that

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Speaker 1: you would reopened the case, said, I had reopened the case.

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Speaker 1: We always knew that there was someone. You knew that

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Speaker 1: the cops gave up too easy. We knew it too,

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Speaker 1: And here you are. We haven't given up hope of

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Speaker 1: finding justice for our Marline. Why don't we sit team,

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Speaker 1: Mr Briggs? Sure, Samuel, it would be lovely. Thank you, Delilah.

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Speaker 1: Mr and Mrs Newtson arrived to town yesterday. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little lost. How do you know each other? Well?

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Speaker 1: We spoke with Mr Tinch over the phone, but we

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Speaker 1: didn't meet until just today. Still lost, Mr Tinch, I

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Speaker 1: didn't expect you to travel to Idahos, who had seemed

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Speaker 1: that the only logical sense was to accommodate them. I see,

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Speaker 1: I thought that they might be able to offer you

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Speaker 1: otherwise be able to find. Could have just asked him

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Speaker 1: over the phone. How would I know what questions to

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Speaker 1: ask or what answers to look for. Is there a problem? No, no,

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Speaker 1: not at all. When Mr Tinch told us what you

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Speaker 1: were doing, Mr Briggs, will we wanted to meet you

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Speaker 1: face to face. I understand, and it's good to meet

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Speaker 1: you too. It's just such a long way to travel,

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Speaker 1: and it was. It really is much shorter to fly.

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Speaker 1: That's why I offered. Now, Mr Tinch, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: to offend here, but I already told you I'm not

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Speaker 1: going up in one of those things. Let alone too.

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Speaker 1: Trains just fine. It's only an eighty mile drive to Pocatello,

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Speaker 1: and on the ground in the most beautiful pink hotel. Pink.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. It just took my

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Speaker 1: bath away. I'm standing there looking at a two toned rocket.

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Speaker 1: The pair of us must have looked ridiculous in that

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Speaker 1: parking lot. This poor man is trying to take a photograph.

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Speaker 1: He didn't pay us any mind, went right back to

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Speaker 1: is too much, Mrs Newtson. It's the very least I

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Speaker 1: can do for the both of you. I'm very sorry

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Speaker 1: for your loss. Okay, thank you Mr Briggs. It hasn't

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Speaker 1: been an easy time. I can't even imagine. So what

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Speaker 1: can we tell you about our Marlene? Well, well, surely

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Speaker 1: there there must be something. Of of course there is.

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Speaker 1: If it's all right for me to ask you about her, well,

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Speaker 1: whatever you need, Roy, like Alice said, what was she like?

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Speaker 1: She was a performer from the very start. She was

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Speaker 1: talking before she could even walk. Yeah, of to sing.

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Speaker 1: We had her taking piano lessons from a very young age.

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Speaker 1: She did not like to practice, do you remember, Roy,

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Speaker 1: how she would stomp around all the time, but eventually,

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Speaker 1: Carrie I know, something like that, who had collected the

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Speaker 1: autographs of people like you know, Bob Hope and being

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Speaker 1: Crosby said. Crosby wrote to him twice a year after that,

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Speaker 1: she said, Mama, my autograph is going to make somebody

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Speaker 1: very happy. One day senior year of icycle and she

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Speaker 1: was smarter than all those other girls by a mile. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's the only reason Roy let her go to Hollywood

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Speaker 1: You know very well she wasn't comfortable with that. Part

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Speaker 1: of it was I she was incredibly modest. She one

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Speaker 1: I'm a real actress, Daddy. She she was a act

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Speaker 1: It didn't seem she knew a whole lot of people. Here.

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Speaker 1: Is there anyone I'm missed? Maybe? M M, well, I

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Speaker 1: know there was Gladys. She lived with Gladys. She mentioned

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Speaker 1: a dancer named Sylvia who having a rough time. Oh,

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Speaker 1: she had a friend from work named Virginia. Who's Virginia.

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Speaker 1: You're going to find him right, whoever did this to her?

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Speaker 1: Mr Knutson, I am doing everything here. Please don't give

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Speaker 1: me that package nonsense. The police did everything we can speech.

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Speaker 1: I'm a firefighter, Mr Briggs, I know how to deliver

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Speaker 1: news nobody wants to hear. So you can just spare

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Speaker 1: me the horseshit. We don't want that, we don't need it.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to protect us. Mr Tent showed me

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Speaker 1: what that monster did to my little girl. Can you

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Speaker 1: find the man who took the spine out of my

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Speaker 1: daughter's please? I will? Mr Tench, may I speak to

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Speaker 1: you a moment? Of course? Why don't we all take

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Speaker 1: a moment, Delilah? Would you bring another pot? I'm sure

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Speaker 1: this is all lukewarm by now y. I'm sorry, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: What do you have screws or something? You show them

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Speaker 1: photos of her body? It was at his request. Mr

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Speaker 1: Briggs calmed down. She hasn't seen them. She didn't want

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Speaker 1: That is not the point. Why would you do that

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Speaker 1: for what reason? Why? What? What? What right do you have?

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Speaker 1: What right? That's awfully sanctimonious of you, Mr Briggs? Every right,

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Speaker 1: and you're confusing the bearers of this awful burden. It's

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Speaker 1: not my right, it's his right. It was his right

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Speaker 1: and his choice to see what was done to his

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Speaker 1: only daughter. Wouldn't you want that choice? Why the did

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Speaker 1: you tell him I reopened the case? Don't you think

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Speaker 1: that everyone deserves hope? I get it bringing them here.

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Speaker 1: I get what you're trying to do. Will you please

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Speaker 1: leave the police work to me? My apologies. I thought

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Speaker 1: I was being helpful, and what if I can't deliver,

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Speaker 1: I still faith in you. You didn't answer my question.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't be thinking about camp. The last thing I

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