Little Saigon Page #4

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by Dr. Le's daughter to,

uh, investigate the case.

Well, why would she

hire real estate salesmen

to investigate a murder.

(speaking Vietnamese)

Hey, Tuan, take it easy, will you?

What's goin' on?

(Tuan clears throat)

I mean, why are you speaking

to this guy in Vietnamese.

I don't understand Vietnamese, so,

especially in a murder

investigation it's confusing for me.

- Right.

- Yeah.

- Sorry, Jack.

- It's okay.

So just tell me what you said to him,

only this time in English.

(scoffs) That's none of your business.

What's got into ya, Tuan.

What, uh, what, of

course it's my business.

Um, no, I mean, that's what

I said to him in Vietnamese.

I said, "That's none of your business."

Oh, right, Kenny, that's

none of your business.

Okay, fine, I got it.

Uh, Kenny, so listen,

anything you can do to help us,

I mean any cooperation is much

appreciated, let me tell you.

What do you wanna know?

Well, just tell us, you

know, what happened that night.

Well, that night, I was in the back

stocking hair supplies,

and then I heard Quan yelling.

And I looked out and I saw

a guy dressed all in black

pointing a sword right at Quan.

A man, are you sure it was a man?

[Kenny] Yeah, what do you mean?

Well, I mean, I'm just sayin', maybe,

you said the person's in black, right?

Could it have been a woman?

A woman, uh, robbing a hair salon,

yeah, I guess it could happen.

Think about it, Kenny, makes sense.

Maybe Quan gave her a bad

haircut, or worse yet, a bad perm.

Quan doesn't give bad perms.

(sniffs) So was Quan

yelling in Vietnamese?

Or English?

I'm not sure.

Oh.

Oh, come on.

The two languages are pretty different...

Way different!

It should be easy to tell

- them apart.

- Should be easy!

(Kenny speaking Vietnamese)

Hey, hey, hey, Kenny, now,

come on, I thought we agreed.

None of that, okay, work with us.

Okay, so you hear Quan yellin',

and then, uh, what happens?

Nah-thoh!

Hey, Kenny, easy.

Sliced him like a watermelon.

Then he walked outta the store.

You didn't say anything about the money.

The money?

Yeah, did you see Quan

hand money over to the crook?

No, I didn't give him any money.

You know that was kinda fun, wasn't it?

Yeah, this detective

stuff's pretty cool.

Yeah, it is.

And you know what else?

I think we might be onto somethin'.

Yeah, something doesn't smell right.

I know, huh, I mean,

how can you not know

a loud voice in Vietnamese or English

what the difference is?

Yeah, that's a little weird.

Yeah, I'll say.

So now what do we do?

I don't know.

Maybe we should go and

see the police report.

Yeah, okay, good idea.

But I'll handle that.

Why don't you, uh, go

to a funeral, will ya?

Could you go to a funeral?

There's the report.

Thank you.

Where's Tuan?

Oh, um, he had to go to a funeral.

Really sad.

Um, Detective Agnew, uh,

Tuan and I went and saw

Kenny over at the store,

and, uh, he said the robber

didn't get any money.

We don't believe he did.

When we arrived the register was closed.

And it didn't appear that

any cash was missin'.

Uh-huh, well, then maybe

robbery wasn't the motive.

Uh, you can't assume that.

See the most likely scenario is that, see,

when Quan refused to give up the cash,

that's when the robber offed him.

Well, wait a minute, it

says right here in your report

that there was only $225 in the register.

Yeah, so?

So it doesn't make sense

that Quan would risk his life over $200.

It happens all the time.

No, I can't believe my father

would risk his life for

just a small amount.

He was a wealthy man.

Yeah, yeah, it makes no sense.

We only deal with facts here,

so unless you have another

motive besides robbery,

you let me know.

I don't know, did, did

your father have any enemies?

I don't know.

Well, let me tell you

where we stand on this.

There's no security camera.

Our only witness hasn't been much help.

And the only physical

evidence that we have

is a bucket of blood.

Any questions?

Hm, nope, I can't think of any.

Well, listen, Detective Agnew and Vo,

I want you both to know

that Tuan and I plan

on cooperating with you

and, uh, any information we dig up

we're gonna be more than

happy to, to share with you.

I'm happy to hear that, Mackie.

You know, the department makes it a point

to cooperate with real estate agents.

Card.

Um.

Magnetic.

Man, I can't stand that guy.

Me neither.

(lounge music in Vietnamese)

Gentlemen.

Thank you for gracing

me with your presence.

Well, no, thank you,

General, for having us.

Uh, please, uh, have a seat and join us.

No, no, no, no.

I want you to enjoy your meal in peace.

Perhap later.

Oh, well, thank you very

much, very generous of you.

Listen, uh, in the meantime,

take one of my cards,

they're magnetic, will

stick to about anything,

as long as it's metal, you know.

Jack Mackie Real Estate

and Immigration Services.

So, um, you know, maybe

someday we'll do business.

I mean you never know, right?

Yes, maybe someday.

Enjoy your meal.

He threw the card in my soup.

Like I say, trippy dude.

I know. (laughs)

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

(glasses clink)

You see the egg and

the banana over there?

Go see if you find anything.

Okay.

(glasses clink)

(Tina sighs)

[Jade] Excuse me,

boys, but aren't you guys

in that TV commercial?

Yes, yes, yes, that's us.

Not only would we be so happy

to sign autographs for you both

but we'd love to buy you a drink.

What do you think, Tina?

(Tina giggles)

Okay, maybe we'll let you buy us one.

- Really?

- Yeah.

I, I have my mind on two right now.

[Jade] Ooh, three if you're good.

Oh, hm, still workin' on two.

(Jade giggles)

Now, another little shot,

make like a, we got, hey, huh?

You two are so cute in your commercials.

I know, aren't we?

We're adorable.

(giggles) You guys really are.

I know it.

Tuan, I got a great idea.

Why not include these two beautiful girls

in our next commercial?

Why, why not, sure. (laughs)

Well that sounds so cool.

And what would we be doing?

What do you wanna do?

Whatever you want us to do.

Ooh.

(Jade giggles)

Are you gonna wear this?

- Of course.

- Okay.

Well how 'bout you be two hot

chicks in the office, then?

Can't you think of something

a little bit more glamorous

than having us sit around

in a real estate office?

Well, well, you know,

it's not just real estate.

We also do immigration now, too, so...

And then starting today,

we're gonna be doing detective work, too.

(giggles) Now that sounds exciting.

Yeah.

You heard about the Le

murder at the hair salon?

[Jade] Yeah.

We've been hire to find the killer.

You two are private detectives. (laughs)

Right.

I think someone's trying

a little bit too hard to impress us.

Dee-dee.

Wait, wait, wait, where you goin'?

Okay, boys, we really have to go.

No, well, leave me your number.

(scoffs) Maybe next time.

[Jack] Oh, huh.

You got a big mouth there, Tuan.

What'd you have to go and tell all that

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