Cleaner
Take for instance last week.
A woman's going to visit her mother.
She has a bag of groceries
and a bouquet of flowers...
...to brighten up the place.
Mom.
Mom? Mom?
What she doesn't know is...
...three days prior,
her mother's fallen off a footstool...
...busted her head open
and broken her neck.
By the time she gets there,
her mother's body...
...is bloated with bacterial gases.
her eyes, ears, nose, mouth.
You get the picture.
Well, death is tragic.
But it's also big business.
Some people deal with it spiritually.
Others deal with it legally.
But what most people don't know...
...is that when someone dies
in your house...
...it's up to you
to clean up the mess.
Well, sure, the city will come
and take the body away.
But what they leave behind...
...is your own
personal little souvenir.
Now, most people
don't have the stomach for that.
That's where I come in.
Now, cleaning a body is...
...actually a lot like cleaning
First, get rid of all the bugs.
HIV, herpes, tuberculosis,
adenovirus, hantavirus, E. Coli.
Now, I assume all those things
are present, so I spray everything...
...with my own personal little cocktail
of antivirals and disinfectants.
And just between you and me,
I also throw in a little Listerine.
The original flavor.
It has an enzyme
that liquefies coagulated blood.
You gotta use the original flavor,
not that new blue or orange sh*t.
Well...
Tom, that's...
I... I mean...
I'll be right back.
- Didn't you use to be a cop?
- Yeah. Yep, I did.
Didn't have the stomach for it.
So, Jeff.
Well, what's going on with you?
Well, I'm still in the mortgage game.
Doing good there.
Of course, there's Laura and the kids,
all great.
Laura's mom, she's getting up there.
She's been sick.
She's staying with us now
in the back bedroom.
There's some days
she doesn't come out of there at all.
Tom, you wouldn't happen
to have a card on you, would you?
Oh, yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah.
Here you go.
- Can I have one?
- Oh, yeah, definitely.
There's enough here for everybody.
Yep, this is good. Call me.
That's Steri-Clean. That's me.
Gee, it's great to see y'all.
Quit stalling. Get the typewriter.
Pound out a lead.
- How much do you want?
- All you got.
Hello, give me Duffy.
- Call the mayor a bird of prey?
- Anything.
How about the time
he had his house painted?
Give him the works.
Hello, Duffy? Get set.
We got the biggest story in years.
"Earl Williams... "
How was it?
It was...
...funny.
- Funny how?
- Oh, you'll see in about 30 years.
Rekindle any old flames?
No, baby.
That candle burned out years ago.
- I'm beat. I'm going to bed.
- Good night.
You're gonna stay up
and watch this movie...
...with these people talking like:
- Yeah. I wanna see how it ends.
- All right.
Rose, I'll love you
until the end of time...
...because you're the girl I've wanted,
and you're the girl of my dreams.
Love you, baby.
- Is she there?
- No, I can't hear you.
- Where'd she go?
- Out someplace.
Last night...
...changing my baby's diaper,
and it was filled with blood.
And when I looked up, I mean,
he was f***ing dead.
You know,
and then I had to come in and...
I had to come in and clean the crib.
before the mama comes in.
You want something? Gum, mints?
- Aspirin?
- I could use a drink.
How about we start with the aspirin?
Hey, you got a little girl.
What do you tell Rose?
What do you tell her you do?
She knows what I do.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
We don't clean up blood.
heartache.
Looks like blood.
Just tell yourself that
our clients are in trouble.
We help them out.
Well, I hate to see you go, Miguel.
I don't wanna burn you out either.
Say you come in a couple days
a week, restock the vans...
...and give Cherie a hand around here,
lighten her load, okay?
Yeah, man. Yeah, I...
Yeah, thank you, brother.
- Thank you, man. Look, I owe you one.
- You don't owe me sh*t. We all good.
- Go spend the day with your family.
- All right.
He quit?
No. He's gonna help you out
around here.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
These two are yours.
- Forty-five cats? Give this to Paulie.
- We're short-staffed.
Paulie's sick. Freddie and Jose are in
that meth lab in Howell. Miguel quit.
No, he didn't quit.
And Victor's allergic.
- Hey, at least nobody died there.
Good morning, Steri-Clean.
Please hold. Lorenzo's on 2.
- I'm in the field.
- Again?
I'm in the field.
You're gonna have to
take it sometime.
Okay.
I'm so sorry, Mr. Lorenzo.
He's in the field.
Thank you.
Can I take a message?
Steri-Clean. Anybody here?
Initial recording.
This is Tom Cutler. On April 6.
Case number three-Mary-four-four-
five-Charlie-three-seven-eight.
Personal residence.
Homicide. No one home.
Key was left on the front porch.
Blood and tissue on the sofa...
...wall...
...tile floor...
...glass coffee table.
Blood, soft chip,
approximately one day old.
Something smells good.
- How was your day?
- Long.
- Why is your mom's box out?
- It's a surprise.
- Are your eyes closed?
- Yeah, they're closed.
Okay.
Open.
I found the recipe in her old book.
I can't remember,
but is this how it used to look?
Yeah. Yeah, it's exactly
how it used to look.
- Why'd you take the box out?
- It's... It's interesting, actually.
I have to do a history report on a
historical figure from the last 50 years.
Really? So who are you doing?
Mom.
- Your mom's a historical figure?
- My teacher thinks it's a good idea.
- She said it's original.
- Yeah, it's original, all right.
- You know who would be really good?
- I kind of already started.
Maybe if you have time later
you can help me?
Sure, but not tonight.
I have to do payroll.
I don't have to do Mom.
- Who were you gonna say?
- Nobody, no. Mom's a good idea.
I got a call
from your math teacher today.
Says you've been sleeping in class.
I nodded off, like, twice
because he's so boring...
...and he's making
this huge thing out of it.
Well, bottom line is
it's gotta stop. Now.
So no more of those mocha things
after 5 and I want you in bed by 11:30.
We clear?
Hey.
I'm not punishing you, I just want you
to get your sleep, okay?
Now, you know
if there's anything bothering you...
...I'm here for you, right?
I know.
- Is there?
- What?
- No, it's the mochas. I'll cut back.
One thing's for sure.
You're just as good a cook as she was.
Dad.
Dad. We're gonna be late.
Come in.
Hello.
Surprise!
Hang on. Hang on.
It's not him. It's not him.
Hi. We thought you were
my little nephew...
...not that you look like
you're turning 10 today, but...
- Can I help you?
- Yes.
Is?
- Is this your house?
- Yes.
Well, I'm Tom Cutler.
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