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Hmm?

Are you posting your material on some

kind of secret website, Michelangelo?

Some people have no luck, you know?

No luck at all.

I mean, perhaps...

Maybe Dorothy brought it on herself.

Mr Sigmund Freud

called it a death wish.

She was pro-ana, you see.

Do you know what that is?

It's good if you don't,

because it's sick, absolutely sick.

They have websites, everything.

Have you seen those?

You have?

You see... l'm lucky.

I can eat anything.

I just choose not to.

You probably don't read women's

magazines, Michelangelo,

but they're always asking Minx

for her beauty regime.

She says, "Salad, fish,

"moisturiser,

a good perfume and fall in love."

You have to set an example, you see.

But, between you and me,

I like a diet of cookies and coke!

I do not relate well

to the thin thing.

I prefer a more

traditional female dimension.

However, I can see you like to eat.

With respect, you could do with

a little more on the fitness side.

You probably spend all your time

at a computer. Am I right?

See, that is an observation.

A detective has to observe,

which, I can assure you,

is not always a pleasant activity.

O, woe is me.

To have seen what I have seen,

see what I see.

And whilst it is true

that all that live must die,

passing from nature to eternity,

this particular passing seems

a little previous, does it not?

This is a serious situation,

very serious.

Not only has a young and

beautiful life been snuffed out...

...but also, as your mentor...

Yes, I think I can say I'm your mentor.

I can be open with you about this.

My investment in Merlin

is seriously at risk.

I do not like to be involved in conflict,

turbulence, anything dark.

No offence, Michelangelo!

None taken? Good boy.

Because all my life, all my life,

I could get anything I wanted,

anything.

Except peace.

Peace of mind. Harmony.

At home it was always war.

And that is why I am not interested

in raised voices and sad faces.

You got a second, kid?

Can I talk to you?

Look, I just want

to add something because...

Remember before

I told you I had opinions?

Remember that? Yeah, well,

listen up, kid. Listen up.

There's trouble brewing round here,

oh, yeah,

and it's not the coffee!

But that guy I saw you talking

to just now, the detective Homer,

I used to work with him

at the police department, all right?

We had a nickname for that guy.

You know what it was? The Bard.

He had ideas above his station.

I mean, he thinks...

He thinks he's a superior

type of person, that's what.

But between you and me,

he's way out of his depth here, OK?

Way out.

I know his hands are tied

behind his back and all that.

I mean, you got those protestors

outside, for instance.

Now, if it was up to me,

you know what I would do?

I would just round those guys up

and just throw them in jail.

Of course, everybody thinks

they got rights, right?

They all do. They think they got

more rights than I do, Michelangelo.

More rights than me. And then

they want job security on top of that?

Come on!

Who the hell do they think they are?

Oh!

They want me now.

They have to style Minx

for the press conference.

I think she's ready, don't you?

Like this?

Not too much make-up. Serious.

Appropriate.

Maybe with dark glasses.

What do you think, Michelangelo?

About Dorothy.

Hmm? Do you believe in karma?

Hello, Michelangelo. Good morning.

I am here because they say to me,

"Come back to see the show."

No bike this time.

Just to come see and enjoy.

The... the manager, Miss Roth,

she told me to call her Edie.

She was very kind to me, actually.

She said to me, "Come, see the show.

"Maybe it will help you

to get over the shock feeling."

But, er...

I don't want to see the show.

It reminds me of that very bad,

very terrible thing that happened.

The worst thing that happened

to me in my life, actually.

That's the music from the day that...

I feel quite sick. Sorry.

I spoke to the police detective,

Mr Homer.

He was very polite.

He said to me, "Vijay,

what is done cannot be undone."

Er... he's a very nice person,

actually.

And...

But now he is asking for my papers.

This is most unfortunate.

Now I see the pizza delivery, it was

a very, very, very good job, indeed,

and no papers necessary.

But, unfortunately, I left this job.

You see, because I thought

this fashion show,

with me on the bike,

it will be my lucky break.

But, actually, now, I think what

is broken is my life. Completely.

Oh, actually, some people,

they don't realise

when they have a good life,

isn't it?

I didn't myself, actually.

But why they so angry,

the protestors on the sidewalk

with their?

They're lazy, isn't it?

They don't realise...

Actually, they're the lucky ones,

because they have the free country

and the free speech,

and, also, because

they can say what they like

because they have papers, isn't it?

And... Don't you agree?

It's because we are living

in a democracy...

No, no, no! Go, go!

Michelangelo, you come with me.

You coming?

Listen, kid, where Frank goes,

the action follows. You get my drift?

That's because when you get

the angle, the perspective,

you see the way it is.

Being alive, see,

is just temporary sh*t.

Every single f***ing life

ends in a death.

Simple but true.

And truth is the thing, right?

The camera never lies,

right, Michelangelo?

Right?

You know why it was amazing

being in the same show as Bonnie?

She was the person I admired most

in the whole world.

And I was right behind her

on the runway,

and then, suddenly, there was

this shot and she was falling down.

Bonnie had amazing hair,

but her personality was, like, abrasive.

That's what the stylist said.

You've got to listen to the stylist,

that's what Rhoda said.

Bonnie used to do her own styling.

That's why she was a genius.

In fact, she was like

a mega superstar,

and she had been

in the business for ever.

She had longevity.

That's what the make-up artist said.

She said she had longevity

until it was cut short.

Not her hair.

Bonnie wouldn't let them

cut her hair.

Some of the models with longevity

like to keep changing their look

but Bonnie was consistent.

Consistently demanding,

that's what Rhoda said.

But you have to ask or you don't get.

That's what my dad said.

When he put me on the plane.

You know, to come here.

I'd really like to go home...

you know?

Yes, Michelangelo.

They are now officially saying

that this is a murder investigation.

But, look, maybe they will find

that after Dorothy Darling's

unfortunate accident,

well, maybe Bonnie,

she... she killed herself somehow,

because she was not a happy person.

How? I don't know how,

because I am not a pathologist.

No, no, no, This is something

I never wanted to be. Never.

Actually, I don't like

to be around dead people.

Where I come from,

people were dying a lot, you see.

Well, everywhere people

are dying in the world, actually,

in hospitals and so on,

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