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and watch someone else do my job?

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Give it a couple of days,

let it shake out. See what's what.

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iAre you home alone tonight?/i

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You don't have much

in the family department.

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But you shouldn't be alone.

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Yeah, no, I have a friend over here

taking care of me.

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I'm fine, don't worry.

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Good night.

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-Yeah. Oh, thanks.

-Here you go.

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This is the sketch of the guy

she said she saw at the bar.

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The phantom stalker.

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Right.

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Come on,

this guy is totally nondescript.

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This could be a picture

of my landlord.

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Does she seriously expect us

to believe that's a real guy?

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Come on.

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Reporter is turning out

to be a pain in the ass.

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Thought she'd be too upset

to take a drug test.

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Much less go public.

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Well, if she's planning

any more surprises...

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...we'll be the first to know.

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Shut up. Get up, get up.

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Turn it off!

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-I don't know who you are.

-Shut up.

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-Shut up and turn it off.

-I don't remember anything.

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What are you doing?

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Get up. Get up.

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-Help!

-Shut up. Shut up.

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Raley Gannon?

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-What are you doing?

-Tell me about Jay Burgess.

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-Tell you what?

-What happened last night?

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-I have no idea.

-Did you kill him?

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-Did I --?

-Did you?

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-Are you--?

-Did you kill him?

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Did you kill him?

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Are you out of your mind?

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Look, if you could just loosen up

these ropes...

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...I will tell you

whatever you want to know.

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You think you can bargain with me?

Interesting choice.

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Oh, come on,

it's really uncomfortable.

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Switching tactics.

Expressing frustration.

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Do you have any idea

what I have been through?

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Attempting to elicit sympathy.

Strategy number three.

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Rounding out the performance

with acting defiant.

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You ran the victim playbook

in under 60 seconds.

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Congratulations.

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You get a big A for actress.

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Cut the crap and answer me.

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What do you wanna know?

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So, Jave, let's talk motive.

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Why does a beautiful,

successful reporter...

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...kill a playboy cop?

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I don't really think

it's all that complicated.

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Burgess has a thing for her,

calls her up, asks her out.

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Maybe she knows he's a "love them

and leave them" type of guy.

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Maybe she doesn't.

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Either way, they meet...

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...he whispers all the right things

in her ear and she falls for it.

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Thinks they got some kind

of real connection.

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She's a loner so letting him in

emotionally, that's a big freaking deal.

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They do the deed

and he goes back to his old self.

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Maybe even laughs

at her gullibility.

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She's pissed.

She feels totally betrayed.

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She snaps. Waits for him

to fall asleep, she kills him.

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And she sets it up...

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...to look like a crime

she once reported on--

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No, she did that after the fact...

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...because she figured

it would probably throw us off.

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I should've known when I saw

the empty bottle of Scotch.

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-It didn't make any sense.

-What didn't make sense?

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I hate Scotch...

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...and I'm not exactly in the habit

of drinking myself into oblivion.

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I like to be in control.

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I believe that.

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Why would Jay slip me the drug

at the Wheelhouse...

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...then make it look like we drank

at the apartment?

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Someone else

had to have done it.

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All right.

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That's enough for now.

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I'll sleep on the bed.

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You get the floor.

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Word of advice,

never look in the direction...

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...you're gonna strike

before you strike it.

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Always follow a kick in the groin

with a shot to the chin.

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Not surprising that you know

so much about hand-to-hand combat.

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Don't you get

why I brought you here?

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Because you killed Jay Burgess...

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...and you wanna know how close

the cops are to figuring that out.

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I just needed to make sure

that you were telling the truth.

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Now I know what happened to you...

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...and what happened to me

aren't isolated incidents.

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-What are you talking about?

-Think it through.

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Five years ago, someone arranged

for me to wake up next to a dead body.

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