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<v Sara>Welcome to Steele Watching, which is a podcast for Remington

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Steele fans. My name is Sara, and now I want the lemon. No.

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What?

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<v Eric>What? You're gonna have to explain that 1.

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<v Sara>Mister Steele in the episode. We need now I want that.

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He asked for a line, sir. Yes.

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But now I thought I was trying something out. I guess it didn't.

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<v Eric>I'm sorry.

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We were talking about baseball and hockey and Muppets and Jim

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Varney and Ernest, and that came out of nowhere. And I'm

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<v Sara>just sorry. I'm sorry.

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<v Eric>Anyway, I'm Eric, and I don't care what anybody told you.

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Showing me the same advertisement 5 and 6 times during a 30

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minute television show does not make me wanna buy your product.

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<v Sara>No. It makes

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<v Eric>me wanna buy it your company.

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<v Sara>It makes me wanna buy it less.

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<v Eric>That's right.

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I can buy a Swiffer clone at the grocery store for less money,

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and it does the same thing.

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<v Sara>Plus, if I see the ad enough, I get this, like, almost defiant,

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you can't make me buy it. I'm not gonna buy it.

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<v Eric>Exactly. Yes. Yes.

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<v Sara>I am the worst person to market stuff to. I am too. Anyway.

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Alright.

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So before we get into the episode or or anything like that, there

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was an email.

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So I wanted to just quickly start with that, and then we'll we'll

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move into the episode. Did you want me to just read it?

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And then we'll Yeah.

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<v Eric>Respond. Then we'll discuss it. Yeah.

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<v Sara>Okay. So this person wrote, Hi, Eric.

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Enjoyed the analysis of grappling steel.

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I wanted to share my thoughts on the on the initial difference of

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opinion between steel and Laura.

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I think that Steele was concerned that Crunch was faking the

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attempts on his life and then tried trying to involve Remington

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Steele investigations to increase the publicity and show that the

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threat was serious. Sara suggested In

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<v Eric>sarcasm quotes.

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<v Sara>Yeah. That was I'm sorry.

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I should have put my I guess it wouldn't matter because they

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can't see me.

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<v Eric>Yeah. That's what you say. Sarcasm quotes.

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<v Sara>Sara suggested that Steele seems like the sort of fellow who

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would enjoy the showy world of professional wrestling, and she

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may be right.

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But the inevitable outcome of taking a trumped up case for

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publicity would be that the agency would have to conclude a case

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without finding the criminal.

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Yet that outcome, given heavy coverage in the news because of the

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wrestling angle, could only hurt the agency's reputation.

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I think that in this case, Steele was trying to be the sober and

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responsible partner thinking ahead and considering the long term

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health of their agency.

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Thus, being summarily overruled by Laura hurt twice as much

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because he not only didn't feel like an equal partner, but felt

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that his attempt to be the kind of partner Laura Laura respects

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was being rebuffed.

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Turns out he was wrong about the case, but that I think that

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sense of injustice is why he seemed so especially vexed by

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Laura's response.

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More trivially, the actress who played Mary was born in 1946

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rather than 1933, making their age difference 12 years.

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It's a little unusual, especially on television, but we have to

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be fair and acknowledge the double standard.

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There are comparable age differences the other way, the, older

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man the man older and the woman on many episodes of steel.

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Thanks again for all the great work on the podcast.

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I'm enjoying your takes on the fourth season, which is always the

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1 that's a little harder to get through for me.

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So, yeah, do you wanna start with any response you might have for

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that 1?

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<v Eric>Well, mostly, I I have no issue with with his comments.

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I I do think that it wouldn't necessarily hurt the agency's

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reputation to have taken the case if it turned out to be just for

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publicity on Crunch's part.

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Because, I mean, alleged cases get investigated all the time and

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sometimes the result is a big nothing burger.

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Now, in the case of the agency, they're getting paid.

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So, you know, they're making their money because they get paid to

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do the investigation, not for the results.

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Now, if it's a government agency, then, okay, we're gonna make

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sure that we get some results whether they're really there or not

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because that's how we get our money.

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But, yeah, I see the point that he's trying to make or this

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person's trying to make. Did I say he? No. I didn't say that.

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But I don't entirely agree with that little aspect of it.

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<v Sara>Could see when you say, like, they're taking the case, so it it

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either way, I guess even if they found that the case was fake,

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that could be you could use that the agency could still use that

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and say, we've revealed that this was trumped up for publicity,

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and that would expose the organization of wrestling instead of

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exposing a would be killer.

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<v Eric>Well, just from the standpoint of, okay, Crunch Kramer was trying

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to do it for publicity to build up his reputation. And, was fake.

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It was publicity, but we are a legitimate agency and the case was

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brought to us and we had an obligation to investigate, which we

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did. And this is the result and we're being honest about this.

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So I think it could be positive for them. True.

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As far as the actress who played Mary, I wish I had bookmarked

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where I found my information because after having gotten this

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email, I went back and I looked, and I could not find

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<v Sara>No. What I found.

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<v Eric>I found what he said.

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<v Sara>I don't know how you found anything because I looked and looked,

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and I swear I couldn't find a birth date for this person, for

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that woman at all.

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<v Eric>So Well, is is finding something and being wrong really any

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better than not finding something? I'm not I don't

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<v Sara>think so. True.

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And it's not even so much like, I agree there is a double

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standard.

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1000% there's a double standard because we see it all the time,

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not just in film, but just in real life.

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You see an older man and a younger woman, and and nobody bets an

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eye.

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But then you see it the other way around, and people are like,

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oh, there's a cougar. Meow.

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And so, you know, we're maybe a little guilty of that too, but it

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wasn't so much the fact that she was it was more just the fact of

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the casting choice because with Hollywood, they typically like to

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have you don't often get a mature woman, so to say, in a role

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that doesn't call for 1 to be a mature woman.

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Like Crunch being a young man who is, I think we looked up the

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actor was like 25 or something like that.

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1 would theoretically assume that the script or the casting call

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would be for somebody of similar age.

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So it was just interesting to me that they went with an actress

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who was visibly significantly older and not she wasn't ugly, but

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she wasn't conventionally Hollywood attractive the way Whitney

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Chambers was.

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<v Eric>Mhmm.

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<v Sara>So I just thought it

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<v Eric>was interesting. Point in her favor.

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<v Sara>Yeah. No. I I wasn't a criticism. Just like Right.

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It was an interesting decision because and, again, this this

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happened with Mildred too.

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Initially, they were gonna have a hot woman in her thirties, and

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instead, they went with Doris Roberts, which phenomenal choice.

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But, yeah, I just thought it was an interesting choice that they

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went that route because nobody would think twice about going, oh,

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yeah, older guy, younger woman, sure, but they

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<v Eric>Well, in in reference to the actress being older than the actor

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who she was playing ex wife of, all I wanna do is quote the song,

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older women make beautiful lovers. Or there's that

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<v Sara>time, I like you know, I like just a little bit older, you know,

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that song that I don't wanna lose your love tonight.

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It's a anyway.

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<v Eric>Doesn't doesn't ring a bell for me, but

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<v Sara>I just sang. Yeah.

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<v Eric>I and and the only only thing I'll I'll take note of is that this

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writer says that the fourth season is always harder for them to

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get through. And I'm curious.

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I I'd like to get more of an explanation to that.

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<v Sara>I would love to Could you write that write us back, please?

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Because this is my I think this is my favorite season of the show

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so far.

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<v Eric>Most people would agree that fourth season is consistently Yeah.

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The best the best season of of all the seasons because the the

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quality of the episodes, you may not have a a vintage steel in

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here, but the overall quality, the difference between the best

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and the worst of this season is so much narrower.

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<v Sara>Marginal.

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Because, I mean, so far, in my opinion, the only episode that

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even got close to being, quote, unquote, a dud, and I'm saying

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that with air quotes because it was still an enjoyable episode,

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was corn fed. Mhmm. And Yeah. That was a lot of fun still.

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It wasn't the you know, I wasn't coming out of that like, oh god.

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I gotta watch the I gotta watch the pig episode again.

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Like, it had Harry Graen Groner in it. Graener.

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I'm not sure how to pronounce his last name, but he was in it.

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Yeah. Just like that. It's a good season. So Yeah.

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Please write us back. Tell us tell us why because yeah. Yeah.

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<v Eric>Okay. I'm done.

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<v Sara>Alright. Yeah.

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So and so for this episode, we are going to be talking about

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Coffee, Tea, or Steel, which is season 4 episode 8.

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This episode first aired 12/10/1985, and it was written by Robin

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Bernheim.

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So this is not the first time we've seen her name, but I think

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it's the first time we've seen her name on her own because she

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helped Stephanie with, her script Chips, stealing the chips.

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But I think this is the first 1 we've had Robin Bernheim helm

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entirely herself and directed by Christopher Hibbler.

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So, hey, we have seen his name. Also, Terry O'Quinn is in this.

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Do you know who he is?

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Like, he plays Captain McBride, but have you seen him in anything

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else?

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<v Eric>I probably have, but I I I couldn't I couldn't pull anything off

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top of my head of saying, oh, yeah. I remember McBride.

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<v Sara>You probably didn't watch the TV show Lost, but if you did, let

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me know. He's 1 of the main characters in Lost.

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He's been in a ton of things.

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Like Terry O'Quinn shows up in he's 1 of those actors that when

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you see him, you're just like, oh, there's Terry O'Quinn.

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I know him. But he's a main character in Lost.

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He plays a character named John Locke, who is named after the

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philosopher.

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And his character is a the plot of Lost is that there's a plane

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crash, which is kind of funny because he's playing a pilot in

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this episode.

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So I'm like, uh-oh, I better not be letting John Locke fly the

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plane. That's a bad idea.

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But, yeah, he plays they're they're all on this plane and it

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crashes and at the beginning of the series, that's what's just

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happened.

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That's sort of the aftermath of this crash and all of these

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characters are stuck on this island. There's all these mysteries.

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There's like a polar bear. There's weird noises.

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People start disappearing into the jungle.

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It's like a whole thing.

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And his character, before the crash, was paralyzed.

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And when he gets to the island, the island has somehow

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miraculously healed him, and he's able to walk. And yeah. It just

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<v Eric>it's a We run ourselves into a corner on the pilot, so let's just

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<v Sara>Wow.

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It's all part of it's all part of the mystery that is on the

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island.

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It was created by JJ Abrams, a name that you are would be

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familiar with. Yeah. No lens flares, though, ironically enough.

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It's lens flare free.

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<v Eric>I bet he hated that.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Abrams and I'm trying to remember the the co creator.

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There were 2, that created the show.

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So he was a main character on that.

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So it was really fun to see him here.

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But what killed me was speaking of ages. Okay? Mhmm.

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When you get the script and I'm I'm looking at the script right

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now, and I'm trying to find the scene where it describes or the

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the description of Captain McBride.

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So just bear with me here because anyway, it describes him as a

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rough 50. Terry O'Quinn was 33. Yeah. He's not. I'm assuming

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<v Eric>And he's he's definitely not rough. He's he's

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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So I'm I'm assuming it was just because he's losing his hair

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because, like, he was bald on Lost, and he's always been losing

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his hair.

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Anything I've ever seen him in, he's not had a ton of hair. Bald.

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He he's kinda Patrick Stewart, like, lost all his hair when he

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was 19. So Wow. I'm assume yeah.

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So I'm assuming it's kind of like they saw that, and they were

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like, oh, yeah. He could play 50.

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Because I'm watching this going, wait a minute.

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He was about 50 on lost. This isn't working for me. So I had to

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<v Eric>look This is mathing.

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<v Sara>Yeah. The math is not mathing.

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So I just thought I'd point that out because I love Terry

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O'Quinn. I like seeing him and stuff.

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And, yeah, he's great in this.

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So I went with the TV Guide synopsis.

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The body of a hired killer pops up on the baggage carousel of a

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luxury airline.

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Meanwhile, Mildred doesn't see eye to eye with an intern Steele

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wants to hire. So, yeah, that's

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<v Eric>Well, Steele did hire.

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<v Sara>I I was gonna say the only thing I would take issue with is it's

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not that he wants to hire. He did. He did hire.

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<v Eric>Yeah. Now can I divert? Oh, good.

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<v Sara>Here we go. Yeah. We're gonna divert the flight. Okay.

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<v Eric>Am about 101% positive that the title of this episode was

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inspired by the book Coffee, Tea, or Me, which is a book of

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purported memoirs by the fictitious stewardesses Trudy Baker and

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Rachel Jones, written initially by the uncredited Donald Bain and

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first published in 1967.

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Book depicts the anecdotal lives of 2 lusty young stewardesses

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and was originally presented as factual.

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Bain revealed in his 2002 memoir, Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam

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Costume.

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<v Sara>Okay.

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<v Eric>That he wrote Coffee, Tea, or Me and 3 sequels while employed as

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a New York based American Airlines public relations person.

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The publisher hired 2 Eastern Airlines stewardesses to pose as

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the authors for book tours and television appearances.

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An editor at a publishing house had introduced Bain to 2 Eastern

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airline stewardesses who thought they might be able to write a

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good book about their escapades.

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The editor thought Don might want to be the ghost writer, but

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when he sat down with them, he realized they really didn't have

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much to offer other than a few anecdotes.

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He realized that he didn't have enough to sustain a book and that

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he was going to have to use an awful lot of his own imagination.

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None nevertheless, he was inspired by the idea, so he created a

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memoir out of whole cloth.

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Book shot into the bestseller list, and the 2 stewardesses were

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delighted to go on the road to publicize it as the authors, even

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though their real names were not on the cover.

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Bedazzled by fame, 1 of them legally changed her name to the 1

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that she'd been given in the book.

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<v Sara>Wow. Okay.

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<v Eric>Written in first person voice of Trudy Baker with Bain's name

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appearing as in the dedication between the list of chapters and

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the forward, the book describes a kind of glamorous lifestyle

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from the stewardess' point of view working for 2 years for an

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unnamed American carrier out of New York.

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Written to emphasize the sexy parts of the job, although

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difficult experiences are also recounted and the shifts in

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society and culture were then underway.

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And the illustrations were by a men's magazine cartoonist, Bill

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Wenzel, which depict flight attendants and female passengers as

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busty sex bots.

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The book contains period references to television shows such as

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Batman and lists of celebrities the authors claimed to have

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carried on their flights.

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Film rights to the book were once owned by Robert Aldrich who

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bought them in 1968.

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He wanted to make the movie under a deal he had with ABC

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Pictures.

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He had done a script which was written by Theodore Flicker, which

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was described as very funny and very dirty about a stewardess who

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tries to lose her virginity.

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And Aldrich said, We took the Doris Day formula of all those

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successful pillow talk comedies and inverted it.

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But ABC didn't wanna make it.

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And Aldrich said, Nobody liked our script except me.

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And when his option lapsed, it was picked up by CBS who turned it

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into a TV movie, which starred Karen Valentine, who called it Not

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All That Naughty.

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But it really didn't seem to have anything to do with the book.

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Was apparently based on the plot for a movie called The Captain's

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Paradise, a 1953 British comedy starring Alec Guinness.

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<v Sara>Okay.

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<v Eric>And there is a disclaimer I must make here.

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I'm not responsible for anything I may say in this episode,

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things which may be risque, if not downright inappropriate.

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And I blame Robin Bernheim and Donald Bain and the fact that in

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my research, I discovered that there is also an adult version.

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<v Sara>Oh, no.

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<v Eric>And, also, with that as my background, you know where my mind

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went. Okay?

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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<v Eric>It's not my fault.

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<v Sara>Straight down.

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<v Eric>That's right. Power dive right into the gutter.

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<v Sara>I'm gonna use that to jump off to just talk a little bit about

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the job of well, they called them stewardesses back then.

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We now just call them flight attendants.

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But as I didn't realize I didn't know about the book.

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But I do know that in the eighties specifically, like seventies

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and eighties coming up into the eighties, that job, the job of

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like a stewardess was considered to be glamorous and sexy and and

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and very in demand.

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It was something that a lot of women dreamed about doing because

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of the sort of status symbol that went along with it.

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Like there was a sex symbol image. Mhmm.

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Airlines that would often, like, used sexualized marketing, and

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this is kind of mentioned and and hinted at, like, emphasized in

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this episode.

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<v Eric>I read somewhere along those same lines that the idea of somebody

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getting a date with a stewardess was like getting a date with a

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Playboy model.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

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And as, like and as a result, though, a lot of these stewardesses

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dealt with a lot of unwanted attention from passengers.

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And and we, again, we see that with Laura in the episode as we

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Yeah. As we watch it.

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But, like, there was also certain things that, for example,

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weight restrictions.

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There were like weight limits, and a lot of airlines, they were

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required to weigh in before flights.

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And some were even fired for failing to meet weight requirements.

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Sounds like

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<v Eric>a military.

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<v Sara>But they're not no one's handing them a gun and tell them to

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defend their they're serving coffee.

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So there was like an image that these airlines were having to try

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to maintain even if they weren't platinum air.

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And and so that's kind of like why that role was looked at as

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being something so sexy and glamorous because every 1 of the

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stewardesses had a certain look to them.

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And yeah, there was a lot of deregulation of the industry in

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itself, which led to more seats on planes, flying was more

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accessible to the larger population. And yeah.

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So, like, it was kind of paradoxical.

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It was considered to be empowering, but also kind of

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objectifying, which is hinted at in this episode.

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So I thought I would just point that out.

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You kinda mentioned it with the book and, like, all that went

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with the book.

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So yeah, it was kind of interesting that that this episode

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definitely touches on a lot of that.

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So we begin at night with the episode.

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We can see the sky and the lights of the aircraft taking off.

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We get this soft piano music playing. And then inside okay.

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I know this is supposed to be a luxury airline.

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<v Speaker 2>Mhmm. I think

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<v Sara>it's hideous.

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<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

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<v Sara>It's hideous. I don't know about you,

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<v Eric>but Well, why

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<v Sara>did they that.

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<v Eric>Why did they put these screens up over the windows?

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<v Sara>Right?

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Like, it just it and I wanna just read the description from the

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script because it it so it says interior jetliner at night

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seemingly apart from the ominous night secure and comfortable.

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No endless rows of 2 narrow seats here.

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Rather a recreation of an elegant lounge with groupings of

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comfortable armchairs.

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Camera pans past a tuxedoed pianist at a lacquered baby grand,

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past a gleaming bar glittering with Waterford stemware, stopping

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at a delectable stewardess, we will come to know as Wanda Milner.

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24, doe eyed with a sweet smile.

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Wanda is proffering a tray of hors d'oeuvres to missus Saint

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Clair, an elderly woman of distinction and expensive jewelry.

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Sitting on her lap is a scrawny poodle sporting a pink bow.

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<v Eric>The whole dog is pink.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything's pink.

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<v Sara>The dog. Why do

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<v Eric>you do that to your dog?

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<v Speaker 2>Like, it's not just the dog.

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<v Sara>The dog matches the decor. That's the sad part.

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The whole like, the sign for platinum air, the the the carpeting,

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everything's pink. It looks like a Mary Kay.

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It looks like Mary Kay married an airline, and that's what they

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got.

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<v Eric>You just said something, and my my mind went gutter.

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<v Sara>Please share with the class.

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<v Eric>The carpet matches the drapes.

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<v Sara>Oh, no. I yeah. I I literally walked right into that.

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That was my I'm sorry to everybody listening.

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That was my mistake.

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But it is, it's just it's like, you know what it made me think

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of?

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Do you remember that trend back in the 80s and 90s where you'd go

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to somebody's house and you'd ask to use their bathroom, or maybe

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it was your bathroom. I don't know.

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But, like, the bathroom would be carpeted and not only the

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bathroom, like, the toilet seat was carpeted.

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The top of the toilet seat was carpeted.

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And it was supposed to be Luxurious.

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But it it like, you just think of, like, what a nightmare that

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would be to clean.

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That's kind of what I thought of when I saw this point.

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<v Eric>I I mean, I don't know about women's restrooms.

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I don't go in and frequent them.

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But, you know, a lot of times I'll

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<v Sara>go into It's good to know. Well,

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<v Eric>a lot of times I'll go into a men's restroom and, you know, like

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a fast food restaurant or somewhere like that.

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And it's like, guys, it's it's a pretty big target.

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How did you have so much trouble getting it?

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And it's like, and you're gonna put carpet around that? No.

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<v Sara>Right? Because yeah.

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I every time I use a public restroom, if it's 1 of those family

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rooms or something family restrooms where anybody it's a single

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stall, so anybody could have been in there, I'm always checking

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the seat to make sure I'm not having to wipe stuff off or, you

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know

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<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

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<v Sara>I just I'm looking at this plane going, if this is the lap of

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luxury, count me like, take no. I'm good.

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I don't need to be on that plane because I think I'd be sick.

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Like, it would make it looked like a bottle of Pepto Bismol that

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they're just inside. So it's like

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<v Eric>I mean, I like Dusty Rose, but this is a little too much.

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<v Sara>Lot. This is a lot. Yeah.

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So that that's kind of the the setting that we have.

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And then we have the so we've got missus Saint Clair.

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We've got the poodle, which is not like I said, matches the

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plane.

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And then and I think just the script description here as well for

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for Barry Holder. We've got him.

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He's sitting there, sitting next to this gentleman named Dayton.

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And he says, tell me more about that tax shelter, which I found

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really quite funny.

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And then we see Sally Phillips, and she's described as angular

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good looks that are beginning to show the miles, which I found

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kind of in keeping with the plain theme. So yeah.

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And this is where it describes Captain McBride.

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It says a gruff 50. Sorry.

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Not rough, gruff, but still, I he's definitely not 50. But Mhmm.

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And then we get Biff Lewis, a swaggering jet jock, 32, who

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clearly thinks he's God's gift to women. Yeah. Mhmm.

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And then it's navigator Freddie Packer who listens intently on

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his headset.

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So that's kind of the description that we have of some of the

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characters, which I found was.

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And then we see I think it's Lorraine who walks by bringing a

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drink to a man in a business suit who's sitting there getting a

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manicure, which I found really interesting.

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Don't know that I've ever seen that on on television.

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Get that it's meant to be showing that it's a luxurious airline,

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but usually if it's a like manicure or anything they do with the

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nails, it would be a woman.

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You'd think it would be a woman dressed in fancy clothing getting

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a manicure. But he's just sitting there getting his nails done.

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Like, good for him. No no shade here.

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You know, you gotta take care of yourself.

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But it was just an interesting choice given the sort of

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association with nails and women and beauty and whatnot.

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So and I even have in my notes, everything is pink on this

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airline. So yeah. Then we've got that represents. Yeah.

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Then yeah. So go by Barry Holder.

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He's talking about how he's up 2,000,000 over the Rockies.

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Oh, sorry. Mister Jaden.

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Mister Jaden looks another man in a suit sitting next to Dayton.

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Dayton. Tell me about that tax shelter. Sorry.

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I I heard it wrong when I listened to it.

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I heard Jaden, but it says Dayton in the script. So I'm not sure.

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Anyway, we then see that Sally goes into the cockpit.

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Like I said, she offers drinks to everyone there, including

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McBride. Should the pilot be drinking? Because Well,

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<v Eric>it's it's coffee, but usually

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<v Sara>Oh, I thought I thought she had drinks drinks with her.

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<v Eric>No. I think it's coffee.

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But usually the pilot and copilots, at least from what I

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understand, they are not allowed to eat or drink from the same

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places before a flight. Interesting.

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Because if 1 gets sick from food poisoning

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<v Sara>Oh, yeah. That makes sense.

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<v Eric>You don't want the other 1 getting sick from it as well. True.

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They they have to eat and drink at separate places. And yeah.

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So I I would be a little surprised that they would just hand

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coffee to both of them. But, I mean

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<v Sara>I I yeah.

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I and I mistook it for something else that she was offering.

00:25:11.029 --> 00:25:13.670
So yeah. Oh, I just realized what I said. Okay.

00:25:13.670 --> 00:25:15.750
That was my fault. I'm gonna keep going.

00:25:17.524 --> 00:25:21.044
As she offers a drink to Biff, he sings, you're the cream in my

00:25:21.044 --> 00:25:21.444
coffee

00:25:21.444 --> 00:25:21.845
<v Eric>in a

00:25:21.845 --> 00:25:25.764
<v Sara>sad attempt to flirt. Okay. Yes. I know.

00:25:25.764 --> 00:25:26.565
<v Eric>I know.

00:25:27.284 --> 00:25:35.650
And my mind automatically went there, but then it went somewhere

00:25:35.650 --> 00:25:37.009
else. Oh.

00:25:37.250 --> 00:25:40.609
It said my mind said, you know, it's a good thing that this was

00:25:40.609 --> 00:25:45.305
not made 20 or 30 years later when we had a bunch of TV shows and

00:25:45.305 --> 00:25:48.505
movies that were gender role reversed because then it would have

00:25:48.505 --> 00:25:52.105
been a female pilot singing it to a male steward, which takes it

00:25:52.105 --> 00:25:54.825
to a whole new level of inappropriate.

00:25:54.825 --> 00:25:56.184
<v Sara>That does. That you're right.

00:25:58.269 --> 00:26:01.309
Everything about to be fair, everything about Biff is a whole new

00:26:01.309 --> 00:26:02.269
level of inappropriate.

00:26:02.269 --> 00:26:05.230
This guy is just a complete waste of a human being.

00:26:06.269 --> 00:26:10.990
I don't know how he manages to get all those stewardesses, but

00:26:10.990 --> 00:26:16.434
somehow, he does. So she smiles.

00:26:16.434 --> 00:26:18.674
She walks away, and then we see the plane land.

00:26:18.674 --> 00:26:21.154
And inside the baggage area, it looks like the inside of the

00:26:21.154 --> 00:26:22.595
Playboy mansion for some degree.

00:26:24.340 --> 00:26:26.580
<v Eric>I said, what is the Playboy Club?

00:26:26.580 --> 00:26:29.059
And if they're gonna have scantily dressed women acting as

00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:31.779
hostesses for their passengers in the baggage claim area, why not

00:26:31.779 --> 00:26:33.460
on the airplane as well? I mean, come on.

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:33.940
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:37.634
What actually surprised me about the the flight attendant

00:26:37.634 --> 00:26:42.195
stewardess costumes or the the outfits is that they were fairly I

00:26:42.195 --> 00:26:44.674
don't wanna say sexless because they weren't miniskirts, but the

00:26:44.674 --> 00:26:49.875
the jackets were not form fitting. So it was They were

00:26:49.875 --> 00:26:52.190
<v Eric>pretty professional looking for

00:26:52.109 --> 00:26:54.190
<v Sara>Yeah. That's what I can that's what I saw it as.

00:26:54.190 --> 00:26:58.910
I didn't see them as as objectifying the women.

00:26:58.910 --> 00:27:00.670
Like, they were in skirts. Sure. But Mhmm.

00:27:00.910 --> 00:27:05.950
The rest of it was was pretty bland in terms of, you know,

00:27:06.805 --> 00:27:08.005
uniform. That's the word I was looking for.

00:27:08.005 --> 00:27:13.365
But once you get off the flight Good. Not so much. Party.

00:27:13.924 --> 00:27:17.285
They're walking around in these bathing suits with well, not

00:27:17.285 --> 00:27:19.045
bathing suits, but, like, unitard.

00:27:19.045 --> 00:27:21.924
They're in pretty much nothing. They look like they're in Vegas.

00:27:22.570 --> 00:27:26.329
Yes. Very, very pink, pink Vegas. Yeah.

00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:31.369
It's scantily clad women dressed like playboy bodies walking

00:27:31.369 --> 00:27:33.769
around with drinks as they wait for their bags to come out of the

00:27:33.769 --> 00:27:34.090
carousel.

00:27:34.985 --> 00:27:37.785
Mister Sinclair declares it sorry, missus Sinclair, my bad,

00:27:37.785 --> 00:27:41.785
declares it a fabulous flight as always, and mister Baton agrees

00:27:41.785 --> 00:27:44.424
that the whole operation is simply flawless.

00:27:45.144 --> 00:27:48.105
And as he says that, a dead body comes falling out of the chute

00:27:48.105 --> 00:27:52.309
and onto the baggage carousel. Screams can be heard.

00:27:52.309 --> 00:27:55.509
The dog starts to bark, and 1 of the bunnies offers champagne.

00:27:56.309 --> 00:27:58.470
<v Eric>Yeah. Ask if anybody wants champagne.

00:27:58.470 --> 00:27:59.829
And, well, of course, she does.

00:28:00.070 --> 00:28:00.309
<v Sara>What

00:28:00.309 --> 00:28:01.830
<v Eric>what else would she ask?

00:28:01.830 --> 00:28:02.710
<v Sara>You know? Sure. Yeah.

00:28:02.710 --> 00:28:04.789
I mean, well, it's probably where her IQ is at.

00:28:04.789 --> 00:28:07.134
So there's there's probably only a select few sentences that

00:28:07.134 --> 00:28:10.734
rattle around in there, and the rest of it's just, you know Yes.

00:28:11.535 --> 00:28:12.654
Anyway, so many Low

00:28:12.894 --> 00:28:16.255
<v Eric>IQ. Yeah. Waist high. Mhmm. Sorry.

00:28:16.255 --> 00:28:22.130
<v Sara>However, speaking of pink, in the Remington steel offices, Laura

00:28:22.130 --> 00:28:27.809
comes in wearing this really nice pink pinstripe blouse. I Mhmm.

00:28:27.809 --> 00:28:30.690
Like I like pink on her. It looks good.

00:28:31.009 --> 00:28:32.609
I like her in bright colors.

00:28:32.609 --> 00:28:35.615
I think they really, really work for her for her skin tone.

00:28:35.615 --> 00:28:37.694
I think the cut of that is is nice.

00:28:38.095 --> 00:28:41.134
Not so crazy about the shoulder pads, but, of course, it was the

00:28:41.134 --> 00:28:43.615
eighties. So try buying a blouse without them.

00:28:43.615 --> 00:28:47.609
It's not humanly possible. But yeah. No.

00:28:47.609 --> 00:28:50.730
I think she looks really, really good in this in this blouse.

00:28:51.049 --> 00:28:53.529
Contrary to the plane that just looks hideous, Laura looks nice

00:28:53.529 --> 00:28:58.650
and pink. So but Mildred is furiously ripping open the mail.

00:28:59.384 --> 00:29:02.505
And Laura says good morning, asks her to let her know when mister

00:29:02.505 --> 00:29:05.224
Steele arrives, Mildred smoothly says he's arrived.

00:29:05.464 --> 00:29:08.585
Laura is surprised. She says, this early?

00:29:08.904 --> 00:29:10.664
And Mildred replies, he's hiring.

00:29:10.825 --> 00:29:12.505
You can tell she is not impressed.

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:15.859
Laura is even more confused, and Mildred clarifies 1 of his

00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:21.460
students. Laura asks, what students? And Mildred says, at USC.

00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:24.900
He's been guest lecturing. Introduction to the criminal mind.

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:33.244
Laura snarkily replies, well, he should know, which is good.

00:29:33.404 --> 00:29:35.244
It's a good line.

00:29:35.244 --> 00:29:39.244
And and she's able to say that now to Mildred and have Mildred

00:29:39.244 --> 00:29:40.765
understand it, which is Yes.

00:29:41.109 --> 00:29:43.989
Is nice because we haven't gotten that yet. So

00:29:44.549 --> 00:29:47.109
<v Eric>Yeah. That that had been missing for a couple of seasons.

00:29:47.109 --> 00:29:48.549
<v Sara>That's Yeah. I I it does.

00:29:48.549 --> 00:29:51.749
It gives Laura and Mildred an extra sort of added bond here.

00:29:51.750 --> 00:29:53.190
Mhmm. So then she tells them

00:29:53.509 --> 00:29:58.595
<v Eric>it kind of elevates Mildred a little bit to the same level that

00:29:58.595 --> 00:30:00.674
Bernice had been previously.

00:30:00.674 --> 00:30:04.355
Not quite the same level in the same way, but I mean, it it it

00:30:04.355 --> 00:30:06.355
brings a little bit more of that back.

00:30:06.674 --> 00:30:09.940
<v Sara>Absolutely. Yeah. And I think we were in dire need of it.

00:30:09.940 --> 00:30:12.179
So I like that Yeah. That this is here.

00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:15.700
Laura tells Mildred, it's time to give the professor a pop quiz

00:30:15.940 --> 00:30:19.539
and enters his office where she finds him on the couch with a

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:23.115
young man standing opposite him with listening like with rapt

00:30:23.115 --> 00:30:27.514
attention. And Steele is in full lecture mode.

00:30:27.514 --> 00:30:30.954
He's telling him, although it takes years to develop the

00:30:30.954 --> 00:30:34.954
imagination of a master sleuth, to hone the instincts to a razor

00:30:34.954 --> 00:30:36.554
sharp sensitivity too.

00:30:37.109 --> 00:30:40.789
Laura clears her throat, and he jumps up telling her, come in,

00:30:40.789 --> 00:30:44.069
come in, and introduces her to Marvin T. Slotman Junior.

00:30:44.470 --> 00:30:47.669
Laura shakes his hand and says, what a pleasant surprise.

00:30:48.069 --> 00:30:51.429
And in a in a tone that implies she intends to kill him in his

00:30:51.429 --> 00:30:52.664
sleep. Yeah.

00:30:52.825 --> 00:30:56.505
<v Eric>Yeah. Or maybe not wait till his he's in his sleep.

00:30:56.505 --> 00:30:58.264
He just just do it out right now.

00:30:58.265 --> 00:30:58.505
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:30:58.505 --> 00:31:01.304
He knows that it's a bad idea to be alone with her at this point.

00:31:01.304 --> 00:31:01.784
Yeah.

00:31:02.664 --> 00:31:05.784
He pretends not to notice, telling her that Marvin has come in on

00:31:05.784 --> 00:31:08.970
on come on as their intern, their detective in the making.

00:31:08.970 --> 00:31:11.929
He says he's ours to shape, ours to mold.

00:31:12.409 --> 00:31:15.130
Marvin says he can't tell them what an honor it is to be working

00:31:15.130 --> 00:31:17.849
for mister Steele, and Steele feigns bashfulness.

00:31:17.849 --> 00:31:20.890
But Laura, still in that tone that promises imminent death says,

00:31:21.634 --> 00:31:27.075
she's often found it challenging to put into words. Yes.

00:31:28.195 --> 00:31:30.835
Then she asked to see him in her office, and then his smile

00:31:30.835 --> 00:31:31.875
immediately fades.

00:31:34.250 --> 00:31:37.289
He mutters something to Marvin about a case that obviously needs

00:31:37.289 --> 00:31:40.809
solving. Tells him to enjoy the photographs and he follows her.

00:31:41.129 --> 00:31:45.049
She shuts the door and says, you've been lecturing at USC and you

00:31:45.049 --> 00:31:45.849
didn't tell me.

00:31:46.424 --> 00:31:49.545
He tells her it was only 1 or 2 guest speaker spots, and he

00:31:49.545 --> 00:31:50.505
didn't wanna bother her.

00:31:50.505 --> 00:31:53.625
She gestures to Marvin and asks what he's doing now.

00:31:53.625 --> 00:31:56.585
Steele tells her he's merely easing the burden of an unwieldy

00:31:56.585 --> 00:32:00.379
caseload, which, dude.

00:32:00.380 --> 00:32:03.980
<v Eric>If if that was the the real reason, it would be fine.

00:32:03.980 --> 00:32:06.379
But it's obviously not.

00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:07.179
<v Sara>No.

00:32:07.179 --> 00:32:10.539
And and also, this is 1 of another 1 of those situations where

00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:14.484
you're you're watching this thinking, at what point did he think

00:32:14.484 --> 00:32:17.765
she wasn't going to notice? Yeah. Really? Hey.

00:32:17.765 --> 00:32:19.684
<v Eric>Here here's this guy walking around. What's he doing? You know?

00:32:19.684 --> 00:32:20.325
<v Speaker 2>You know?

00:32:20.565 --> 00:32:24.964
<v Sara>Like, the agency depending on, I guess, the internship because

00:32:24.964 --> 00:32:27.619
some interns interns are unpaid. Mhmm.

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:31.059
Internships can be paid sometimes and other times not paid.

00:32:31.059 --> 00:32:33.940
So I don't know if if the agency is actually paying Marvin

00:32:33.940 --> 00:32:40.180
Slotman junior, but either way, he was gonna have to have this

00:32:40.180 --> 00:32:42.474
conversation at some point.

00:32:42.795 --> 00:32:45.035
<v Eric>And he probably should have had it beforehand. Yes.

00:32:45.035 --> 00:32:47.355
<v Sara>Yeah. That's that was where I was going with that.

00:32:47.355 --> 00:32:48.634
This is 1 of those.

00:32:48.714 --> 00:32:52.234
He decided to ask for forgiveness, not permission, but Yeah.

00:32:52.554 --> 00:32:56.009
Dude, you're yeah. So yeah.

00:32:56.009 --> 00:33:01.049
Unwieldy case load is his excuse, but that's obviously not what

00:33:01.049 --> 00:33:04.970
it is because there's a a knock on the door and Marvin enters.

00:33:04.970 --> 00:33:07.529
He asks if he can ask mister Steele a question, and Steele is

00:33:07.529 --> 00:33:10.144
thrilled pointing out he's eager to learn. Yes.

00:33:10.224 --> 00:33:13.424
Marvin then proceeds to ask Steele if he wants heavy or medium

00:33:13.424 --> 00:33:17.184
starch in his collars. Yeah.

00:33:17.664 --> 00:33:20.704
<v Eric>Yeah. So much for lightning the caseload.

00:33:21.025 --> 00:33:21.505
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:33:21.505 --> 00:33:23.825
He tells Marvin, they'll talk about later and ushers him out the

00:33:23.825 --> 00:33:24.065
door.

00:33:24.065 --> 00:33:26.460
And when he shuts it, she fixes him with an accusing look and

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:28.299
repeats unwieldy caseload.

00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:32.220
And embarrassed, he admits there are some ancillary

00:33:32.220 --> 00:33:35.420
responsibilities he had in mind for the lad. Yeah.

00:33:35.420 --> 00:33:40.525
This is actually I really, really, really like what this forces

00:33:40.525 --> 00:33:42.444
to happen with Mildred eventually.

00:33:42.444 --> 00:33:44.605
I like where this this pushes them.

00:33:45.565 --> 00:33:49.404
And it's obvious that up until this point, like, they've been

00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:52.380
slowly building this episode by episode.

00:33:52.380 --> 00:33:55.500
And I appreciated the way they've done it because, again, we

00:33:55.500 --> 00:33:57.900
don't have a lot of continuity from episode to episode.

00:33:57.900 --> 00:34:00.940
It's usually pretty standalone unless there's, like, something

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:01.980
like the freeze.

00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:05.945
But we've seen Mildred becoming more and more disillusioned with

00:34:05.945 --> 00:34:08.585
him ever since learning about him in London.

00:34:08.585 --> 00:34:09.224
<v Eric>Oh, sure.

00:34:09.224 --> 00:34:11.144
<v Sara>This is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

00:34:11.144 --> 00:34:12.985
And it's obvious too for Steele.

00:34:12.985 --> 00:34:15.784
It's not just Mildred becoming more disillusioned.

00:34:15.784 --> 00:34:21.590
We've seen Steele becoming more hurt, I guess, but also missing

00:34:21.590 --> 00:34:25.829
that adoring subordinate that Milton used to be, that person that

00:34:25.829 --> 00:34:30.070
always had his coffee ready for him, that puppy tail wag that she

00:34:30.070 --> 00:34:33.030
would have every time he he comes in the door.

00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:35.625
And so he he hired He just he did.

00:34:35.625 --> 00:34:38.184
And this is obviously his attempt to reclaim that by hiring

00:34:38.184 --> 00:34:41.625
Marvin, who is looking at him the way Mildred used to.

00:34:42.265 --> 00:34:46.905
And it's hard to feel sorry for him in a sense because what he

00:34:46.905 --> 00:34:50.500
does ends up hurting Mildred even further. Yeah. But yeah.

00:34:50.900 --> 00:34:56.019
Like, I guess you can see why this fracturing of the relationship

00:34:56.019 --> 00:35:02.195
has also had an impact on him because he used to feel like

00:35:02.675 --> 00:35:06.914
Mildred looked up to him. Mhmm. And now that's gone.

00:35:07.155 --> 00:35:10.275
Like, she she doesn't see him as

00:35:11.235 --> 00:35:11.715
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:35:11.715 --> 00:35:16.950
But, you know, it's not anything he's unfamiliar with because

00:35:17.110 --> 00:35:20.230
back in the first season, Murphy knew all about him.

00:35:20.230 --> 00:35:21.670
Bernice knew all about him.

00:35:21.670 --> 00:35:26.710
So he should be at least somewhat used to dealing with people who

00:35:27.284 --> 00:35:30.324
know that he isn't who he claims to be.

00:35:30.484 --> 00:35:33.925
He's just he just likes he just liked having a servant around,

00:35:34.405 --> 00:35:35.605
and that's what he missed. Well,

00:35:36.244 --> 00:35:38.644
<v Sara>I I I do think he that he missed that, but I think there was

00:35:38.644 --> 00:35:42.469
maybe a tiny bit more to it in the sense that Mildred was often

00:35:42.469 --> 00:35:45.829
the only person that kinda believed in him, even if it was

00:35:45.829 --> 00:35:50.150
falsely. She saw him as this hero figure.

00:35:50.150 --> 00:35:53.989
And I think that when he had Laura constantly reminding him that

00:35:53.989 --> 00:35:57.255
he's not Remington Steele, that maybe balanced him out a little

00:35:57.255 --> 00:36:01.255
bit to feel that he was maybe a little bit the person that he was

00:36:01.255 --> 00:36:02.534
at least trying to be.

00:36:02.855 --> 00:36:05.894
And now he does now he's got both of them kind of and and

00:36:05.894 --> 00:36:08.695
Mildred's not just hurt by it. She's disappointed in him.

00:36:08.855 --> 00:36:12.280
Oh, yeah. Which has gotta be kind of a yeah. I I agree.

00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:16.119
He also misses the bringing him the paper and, you know, making

00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:18.359
his coffee and doing all his errands for sure.

00:36:18.359 --> 00:36:22.519
But I think there's also an element of not just the hero worship,

00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.480
but just that feeling that somebody's on his side. You know?

00:36:26.565 --> 00:36:27.125
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:36:27.125 --> 00:36:37.445
I think it's a combination of things that, like you said, that he

00:36:37.445 --> 00:36:42.760
liked the hero worship, which, you know, okay, it's great.

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:47.239
But the the respect for being a great detective, I mean, he

00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:52.440
should have known that that couldn't last forever. And No.

00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:56.275
And he's he's almost feel a little bit relieved in in a sense

00:36:56.275 --> 00:36:59.875
because he doesn't have to I mean, it's got it's gotta be hard

00:36:59.875 --> 00:37:01.235
work to keep up the act.

00:37:01.235 --> 00:37:02.355
<v Sara>Yeah. True. And now

00:37:02.355 --> 00:37:03.954
<v Eric>he doesn't have to do that.

00:37:03.954 --> 00:37:04.515
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:37:04.835 --> 00:37:08.289
<v Eric>Which, you know, gives him the energy to focus on doing things

00:37:08.289 --> 00:37:13.010
like actually becoming a good detective. You know? So I

00:37:13.010 --> 00:37:15.809
<v Sara>also wonder if some of it is due to the fact that Mildred's older

00:37:16.210 --> 00:37:20.755
and sort of like a surrogate parent to the 2 of them in a way.

00:37:20.755 --> 00:37:27.155
Like, she sees them as her kids, and her losing that hero worship

00:37:27.155 --> 00:37:30.195
is almost kinda almost akin to a parent being like, I'm not

00:37:30.195 --> 00:37:30.594
angry.

00:37:30.594 --> 00:37:32.994
I'm just disappointed, which is like the worst thing a parent can

00:37:32.994 --> 00:37:34.720
say. You know?

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.480
<v Eric>Oh, I thought it was, you know, you're grounded for 3 weeks.

00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:41.599
<v Sara>Okay. Well, that that too. But, like, just that that yeah.

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:42.480
That disappointment.

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:46.000
So I think he just wants some of that back, that feeling back,

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.400
which is this is not the way to do it because he had to know that

00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.905
this would be, or maybe not.

00:37:50.905 --> 00:37:53.944
Maybe he genuinely didn't think that of what it would do to

00:37:53.944 --> 00:37:59.304
Mildred to see this person sort of usurping her her place

00:37:59.464 --> 00:37:59.704
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:37:59.784 --> 00:38:00.664
<v Sara>So to speak.

00:38:00.664 --> 00:38:02.184
<v Eric>I'll say I'll say he didn't think.

00:38:02.869 --> 00:38:05.910
<v Sara>No. Well, he never That's pretty pretty obvious.

00:38:06.150 --> 00:38:08.869
<v Eric>I mean, that's pretty much standard for him sometimes.

00:38:08.869 --> 00:38:09.750
<v Sara>You know? Yeah.

00:38:10.630 --> 00:38:13.750
So we've got Laura who looks at her watch and tells them that

00:38:13.750 --> 00:38:15.750
they have to fly, and they'll discuss this later.

00:38:15.750 --> 00:38:19.305
And there's there is a multitude of words in that statement.

00:38:20.505 --> 00:38:22.905
He tries to explain himself, but she is not having it.

00:38:22.905 --> 00:38:25.224
She tells him later and then that they have a case.

00:38:25.625 --> 00:38:28.905
They leave her office and Laura tells Mildred that they're going

00:38:28.905 --> 00:38:31.829
be at Platinum Air. And Mildred says, what about Joe College?

00:38:31.829 --> 00:38:34.469
Laura promises to settle it this afternoon.

00:38:35.269 --> 00:38:38.069
Steele asks Mildred to find a suitable place for him in the

00:38:38.069 --> 00:38:41.510
meantime, which Mildred is extra not impressed with, especially

00:38:41.510 --> 00:38:44.710
when he comes out of the offices swaggering as if he owns the

00:38:44.710 --> 00:38:46.605
place. She glares I

00:38:46.605 --> 00:38:50.204
<v Eric>hate this kid. I I hate him. I hate him. I hate him.

00:38:50.204 --> 00:38:53.244
He's arrogant. He's snotty. He's

00:38:53.804 --> 00:38:54.925
<v Sara>He's a jerk.

00:38:54.925 --> 00:38:58.125
He totally disrespects Mildred throughout this entire episode.

00:38:58.125 --> 00:38:58.684
<v Eric>It's Yeah.

00:38:58.684 --> 00:39:04.040
<v Sara>It's just he looks down on her in the way that she feels that

00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.559
others may be looking down on her as a secretary.

00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:11.000
And I think that's what really pushes her to walk away because

00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:12.840
she says, like, I want some respect.

00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:16.075
I don't want to skip ahead, but like, he doesn't give her any

00:39:16.075 --> 00:39:19.355
respect. He just sees her as as the person manning the phones.

00:39:19.594 --> 00:39:20.875
He and he I get that.

00:39:21.035 --> 00:39:23.434
<v Eric>He's the kind of person I think that doesn't really give anybody

00:39:23.434 --> 00:39:26.315
any respect unless they can do something for him.

00:39:26.394 --> 00:39:27.275
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

00:39:27.275 --> 00:39:31.109
And I I I also think that probably she's a she's an older woman

00:39:31.109 --> 00:39:32.069
manning the phones.

00:39:32.069 --> 00:39:35.589
So he probably just sees her as, like, this old lady pastor prime

00:39:35.589 --> 00:39:36.869
that's answering phones.

00:39:36.869 --> 00:39:41.670
And why should I need to bother with her or show her any respect

00:39:41.670 --> 00:39:45.545
or deference because she's not a detective after all. So

00:39:45.864 --> 00:39:50.184
<v Eric>He's clearly not somebody who's had a job in any kind of a

00:39:50.184 --> 00:39:51.464
corporate No.

00:39:51.784 --> 00:39:57.339
Office position because anybody who had would know that the

00:39:57.339 --> 00:39:59.179
secretary controls a

00:39:59.420 --> 00:40:02.059
<v Sara>whole Literally lot everything. Yeah.

00:40:03.019 --> 00:40:06.539
Because I I work in a school, obviously.

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:10.594
And 1 thing you learn when you start at any new school is you

00:40:10.594 --> 00:40:13.474
find out who the secretaries are. You make friends

00:40:13.394 --> 00:40:14.114
<v Eric>make with nice.

00:40:14.114 --> 00:40:18.355
<v Sara>You make nice, even as a staff member because, like, they're the

00:40:18.355 --> 00:40:21.714
ones that know everything. They control everything.

00:40:21.714 --> 00:40:22.514
They run everything.

00:40:22.839 --> 00:40:25.000
<v Eric>They can lose your paperwork.

00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:26.199
<v Sara>Absolutely.

00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:29.159
And they're Yeah, they are the heartbeat of the school.

00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:33.319
They're literally the core part of the central nervous system.

00:40:33.319 --> 00:40:37.155
So, you've got to show that respect. It's due.

00:40:37.635 --> 00:40:43.235
But he he's the script has him as a, very eager and sincere 20.

00:40:43.235 --> 00:40:45.474
So he's never had a I would venture to say

00:40:45.555 --> 00:40:47.795
<v Eric>Eager and sincere what let's see. What's the word?

00:40:47.795 --> 00:40:49.155
How do you spell that? Sycophant?

00:40:49.590 --> 00:40:53.269
<v Sara>Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what he is.

00:40:53.269 --> 00:40:57.990
So yeah. We get a scene change. We're at Platinum Air.

00:40:58.309 --> 00:41:01.030
Laura and Steele are being shown the baggage carousel, and

00:41:01.030 --> 00:41:04.545
they're speaking to mister Ketchum, who is

00:41:04.704 --> 00:41:05.824
<v Eric>I don't like this guy.

00:41:06.065 --> 00:41:06.545
<v Sara>Oh, no.

00:41:06.545 --> 00:41:10.385
And, again, I I'm I'm really enjoying the the descriptions of

00:41:10.385 --> 00:41:13.505
these characters in the script because they're actually really

00:41:13.505 --> 00:41:14.144
quite funny.

00:41:14.144 --> 00:41:17.900
Because when it says Ace Ketchum, the chauvinistic cigar chomping

00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:23.260
owner of Royal Air, like, it just it it's got him dead to rights.

00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:24.380
That's who he is.

00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:25.659
<v Eric>No cigar, but yeah.

00:41:25.739 --> 00:41:28.855
<v Sara>Yeah. Like, yeah. He's just missing the cigar, but there yeah.

00:41:28.855 --> 00:41:30.375
He's a complete jerk too.

00:41:30.375 --> 00:41:30.855
<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

00:41:30.855 --> 00:41:33.815
<v Sara>So he tells them the body just plopped down there like a sack of

00:41:33.815 --> 00:41:37.175
potatoes, and Laura asks if he has any idea how it got on board

00:41:37.175 --> 00:41:38.695
or he got on board. And Mr.

00:41:38.695 --> 00:41:43.969
Ketchum turns to steel and says, good question, which Laura rolls

00:41:43.969 --> 00:41:44.769
her eyes at.

00:41:44.769 --> 00:41:47.250
And, he says it could have been a passenger as they keep records

00:41:47.250 --> 00:41:49.010
of everything the passengers bring on board.

00:41:49.250 --> 00:41:51.650
Steele concludes it must have been a crew member and Ketchum

00:41:51.650 --> 00:41:54.369
agrees saying they don't keep records of what the crew brings on

00:41:54.369 --> 00:41:56.130
board as they've never had a reason to.

00:41:56.130 --> 00:42:02.724
And I I okay, I I don't know what the ins and outs are of of

00:42:03.844 --> 00:42:07.764
airlines and and their flight attendants and their pilots and

00:42:07.764 --> 00:42:11.219
stuff, but I would think that you'd wanna know what your crew is

00:42:11.219 --> 00:42:14.260
bringing on board too, wouldn't you? Like, wouldn't that be

00:42:14.660 --> 00:42:19.059
<v Eric>Well, especially if it's a a really large bag big enough to hold

00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:20.420
a body because typically

00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:21.860
<v Sara>sized bag. Yeah. That would be

00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:25.574
<v Eric>I mean, I take a lot of air crew to the airport since I do Uber

00:42:25.574 --> 00:42:31.735
and Lyft. And usually, it's 1 regular sized suitcase at most.

00:42:31.894 --> 00:42:32.295
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:42:32.295 --> 00:42:36.295
<v Eric>So, yeah, I would think at some point, some question would have

00:42:36.295 --> 00:42:36.855
been asked.

00:42:36.855 --> 00:42:37.494
<v Sara>Well, especially

00:42:37.655 --> 00:42:38.695
<v Eric>if it's unusual.

00:42:38.934 --> 00:42:39.255
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:42:40.070 --> 00:42:42.389
And I know that this is a domestic flight, but especially if

00:42:42.389 --> 00:42:45.670
you're crossing borders, you would think that they would have to

00:42:45.670 --> 00:42:49.909
disclose what they're bringing with them because things could be

00:42:50.070 --> 00:42:51.829
like, you could smuggle stuff Mhmm.

00:42:51.909 --> 00:42:57.224
Like macadamia or pastrami, for example. But yeah.

00:42:57.224 --> 00:42:58.105
Like, I just I don't know.

00:42:58.105 --> 00:43:00.664
I don't if anybody works for an airline or has worked for an

00:43:00.664 --> 00:43:03.704
airline or knows this, whether or not the crew has to disclose

00:43:03.704 --> 00:43:04.344
what they bring.

00:43:04.344 --> 00:43:07.304
I used to work at a department store, as a cashier.

00:43:07.385 --> 00:43:10.264
And when I left for the evening, I had to open my bag and show

00:43:10.264 --> 00:43:13.150
them what was in it to make sure I wasn't stealing stuff.

00:43:13.150 --> 00:43:13.950
<v Eric>So Yeah.

00:43:14.269 --> 00:43:14.750
<v Sara>I don't know.

00:43:14.750 --> 00:43:16.910
It just seems odd that they wouldn't keep track of what the crew

00:43:16.910 --> 00:43:18.190
brings on board their airline.

00:43:18.190 --> 00:43:22.269
But hey, I'm not Ace Ketchum, the genius that created Platinum

00:43:22.269 --> 00:43:25.789
Air. So, what do I know? Right? Yeah.

00:43:27.014 --> 00:43:29.734
He says their new baggage system is state of the art, and the

00:43:29.734 --> 00:43:32.695
bags are vacuumed up through a tube right down to the carousel.

00:43:32.934 --> 00:43:33.414
State the

00:43:33.414 --> 00:43:34.054
<v Eric>art. Yeah.

00:43:34.054 --> 00:43:36.375
<v Sara>Right. Nobody touches them at all.

00:43:36.614 --> 00:43:39.894
And he hands Steel a large duffel bag saying this was the body or

00:43:39.894 --> 00:43:40.855
the bag the body was in.

00:43:41.539 --> 00:43:43.940
Steele comments that there are a few termites in the system.

00:43:44.820 --> 00:43:48.420
And I I have to wonder, they they mentioned this later on too.

00:43:48.420 --> 00:43:52.900
They comment on, like, thank God for, bugs in the state of the

00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:53.300
art system.

00:43:53.635 --> 00:43:56.275
As far as I know, it it functioned as it was supposed to.

00:43:56.275 --> 00:43:58.035
There just happened to be a body there.

00:43:58.755 --> 00:43:59.155
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:43:59.155 --> 00:44:04.595
And the the duffel bag just ripped presumably from the impact of

00:44:04.595 --> 00:44:07.635
the body being jumbled around and the seams weren't strong enough

00:44:07.635 --> 00:44:08.275
to hold it.

00:44:08.275 --> 00:44:12.940
Although, I suppose there was maybe 1 version of the script where

00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:16.380
there was a comment about the bag having gotten snagged on

00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:20.299
something and ripped as a result, and then this was what came out

00:44:20.299 --> 00:44:22.299
of it. But but I didn't see anything in the script.

00:44:22.954 --> 00:44:23.994
<v Sara>Maybe. Yeah.

00:44:23.994 --> 00:44:27.275
Because it it's when I saw that, I was like, well, I don't think

00:44:27.275 --> 00:44:28.474
there are termites in the system.

00:44:28.474 --> 00:44:29.994
I think it worked exactly as it was supposed to.

00:44:29.994 --> 00:44:31.994
There just wasn't supposed to be a dead body there.

00:44:31.994 --> 00:44:33.114
That's the problem.

00:44:33.195 --> 00:44:35.675
<v Eric>And and the duffel bag wasn't supposed to split open.

00:44:35.675 --> 00:44:36.474
<v Sara>Yeah. Exactly.

00:44:36.474 --> 00:44:40.180
But that that tends to probably happen if there's a corpse in it.

00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:40.980
So

00:44:41.219 --> 00:44:41.619
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:43.380
<v Sara>You know? I mean, I don't know for sure.

00:44:43.380 --> 00:44:46.660
I've never smuggled a body on board an airplane, but, you know,

00:44:46.660 --> 00:44:47.940
if I ever do, I'll let you know.

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:49.300
<v Eric>Okay. Yeah.

00:44:50.420 --> 00:44:50.980
<v Sara>Next time

00:44:50.980 --> 00:44:51.940
<v Eric>you go somewhere, try it. Yeah.

00:44:52.235 --> 00:44:56.954
<v Sara>Right. Sure. I'll do my next podcast from prison. Yeah.

00:44:58.315 --> 00:45:01.114
Ketchum says the police still haven't been able to ID the corpse.

00:45:01.114 --> 00:45:03.835
And Laura asks if he was a passenger, and Ketchum laughs but

00:45:03.835 --> 00:45:07.429
directs his answer again at Steele, saying he was in the wrong

00:45:07.429 --> 00:45:10.469
tax bracket, 30% on the outside by the looks of his suit.

00:45:10.549 --> 00:45:13.190
Besides, he was dead long before he was put on the plane.

00:45:13.909 --> 00:45:16.230
Steele comments on how the news media hasn't broken the story

00:45:16.230 --> 00:45:18.789
yet, and Ketchum admits he has friends in high places, but he

00:45:18.789 --> 00:45:20.150
can't keep it under wraps for long.

00:45:21.074 --> 00:45:24.355
He tells Steele that Platinum Air is an image business, and once

00:45:24.355 --> 00:45:26.195
this gets out, he will be grounded.

00:45:26.514 --> 00:45:29.635
He says he has to find out who's responsible and that they have

00:45:29.635 --> 00:45:30.914
to find out. Pronto.

00:45:31.474 --> 00:45:34.250
Laura takes his hand and shakes it saying the agency prides

00:45:34.250 --> 00:45:37.289
itself in getting results, and then Ketchum turns back to Steele.

00:45:37.369 --> 00:45:40.409
It says, I knew I could count on you, Steele. Yeah.

00:45:42.010 --> 00:45:43.929
<v Eric>And this Unidentified woman.

00:45:44.089 --> 00:45:47.929
<v Sara>The smirk on Stephanie's face here is chef's kiss. It's great.

00:45:47.929 --> 00:45:50.815
She really is good at the scene because you can see every time he

00:45:50.815 --> 00:45:54.815
turns to look at Ketchum or sorry, Ketchum looks at steel.

00:45:54.974 --> 00:45:58.094
Just the look on her face, the like, oh, I see again.

00:45:58.094 --> 00:45:59.295
<v Eric>Again? Again?

00:45:59.614 --> 00:46:00.655
<v Sara>Again? Again? Again?

00:46:00.655 --> 00:46:03.839
And I think it's important that a woman wrote the script because

00:46:03.839 --> 00:46:06.960
there's a lot of and I don't think it's heavy handed.

00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:07.760
<v Eric>Eye rolling.

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:08.319
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:46:08.319 --> 00:46:11.280
There's a lot of eye rolling, but there's a lot of commentary in

00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.880
the script on some of the stuff that these stewardesses were

00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:20.105
going through that isn't necessarily heavy handed, but is there

00:46:20.105 --> 00:46:23.864
and sort of present and reminding us like this Mhmm.

00:46:23.864 --> 00:46:26.505
It's an image business, but it's also a business where these

00:46:26.505 --> 00:46:31.545
girls are frequently harassed and touched, and and this is

00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:33.539
something that is happening.

00:46:33.539 --> 00:46:36.579
It's just it was it was good that it was a woman who was writing

00:46:36.579 --> 00:46:40.900
this from that perspective saying like, hey, this is what's going

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:41.380
on.

00:46:41.780 --> 00:46:45.140
We see a plane taking off and now on board, we see Steele sitting

00:46:45.140 --> 00:46:48.875
in a chair with a newspaper and Laura passes by in the stewardess

00:46:48.875 --> 00:46:52.875
uniform. And, he calls out, oh, miss.

00:46:52.875 --> 00:46:57.034
Laura turns coffee pot in hand and grits her teeth as he asks for

00:46:57.034 --> 00:46:57.994
a touch more coffee.

00:46:58.789 --> 00:47:01.510
She gives it to him and says, I hope you're enjoying this.

00:47:01.909 --> 00:47:03.909
And then Steele says, we all have our place.

00:47:03.909 --> 00:47:06.309
You can't expect me to prance around in that little tutu like

00:47:06.309 --> 00:47:07.190
that, do you?

00:47:07.750 --> 00:47:11.445
<v Eric>I how's I mean, okay.

00:47:11.445 --> 00:47:14.325
Admittedly, they're in a plane with a lot of other people around,

00:47:15.125 --> 00:47:18.005
but, I mean, she's got a pot of hot coffee.

00:47:18.244 --> 00:47:18.965
<v Sara>I know.

00:47:19.125 --> 00:47:20.005
<v Eric>I mean,

00:47:20.405 --> 00:47:20.885
<v Sara>oops.

00:47:20.885 --> 00:47:24.724
Well, that comes later with with, thankfully, not a pot of hot

00:47:24.724 --> 00:47:26.405
coffee. But, yeah, like, he's really

00:47:26.570 --> 00:47:27.130
<v Eric>But, I mean

00:47:27.530 --> 00:47:30.409
<v Sara>He's really pushing it here because at some point, they're gonna

00:47:30.409 --> 00:47:33.690
be alone. And that's when she's really they yeah.

00:47:34.409 --> 00:47:38.730
This is like the fashion show all over again where he's oh, Lila.

00:47:40.965 --> 00:47:43.045
Yeah. Oh, Keetch.

00:47:43.285 --> 00:47:45.125
<v Eric>No. Sam from Birmingham.

00:47:45.125 --> 00:47:45.845
<v Sara>Oh, well, yeah.

00:47:45.845 --> 00:47:48.485
But this is him here as Trevor Keetch being a jerk.

00:47:48.485 --> 00:47:49.445
<v Eric>Oh, okay. Yeah.

00:47:49.845 --> 00:47:52.965
<v Sara>She walks away, and then Barry Holder checks her out as he sits

00:47:52.965 --> 00:47:53.845
down next to Steele.

00:47:54.789 --> 00:47:58.230
And he says, with scenery like that, who needs a window seat?

00:47:58.230 --> 00:47:58.949
Yeah.

00:47:59.989 --> 00:48:03.670
He comments on how he can use a little more club soda, and Steele

00:48:03.670 --> 00:48:04.549
just grins.

00:48:04.549 --> 00:48:07.109
And this is normally a guy who gets all jealous when somebody

00:48:07.109 --> 00:48:14.324
hits on Laura or what have you. But in this case, he just I was

00:48:14.644 --> 00:48:15.284
<v Eric>was just gonna

00:48:18.724 --> 00:48:19.364
<v Sara>I don't know if I

00:48:19.364 --> 00:48:20.644
<v Eric>should say that or not. You you

00:48:21.924 --> 00:48:22.884
<v Sara>Well, now you have to.

00:48:22.884 --> 00:48:25.045
<v Eric>May may I don't know. May maybe I'm have to.

00:48:26.900 --> 00:48:37.940
I'm weird, but I I would think that most guys would be somewhat

00:48:39.380 --> 00:48:40.660
proud

00:48:41.405 --> 00:48:42.284
<v Sara>of Yeah.

00:48:42.525 --> 00:48:49.005
<v Eric>Their wives or girlfriends being hot enough that guys hit on

00:48:49.005 --> 00:48:49.324
them.

00:48:49.324 --> 00:48:50.204
<v Sara>Or Yeah. No. I

00:48:50.204 --> 00:48:51.644
<v Eric>I I work 100%.

00:48:51.644 --> 00:48:55.324
Unless you're really, really insecure in that relationship

00:48:55.324 --> 00:48:55.964
because, I mean

00:48:56.045 --> 00:48:58.099
<v Sara>That's that's what it is.

00:48:58.820 --> 00:49:03.860
<v Eric>In in kind of a sexist sort of way, it it says, look at me, guys.

00:49:03.860 --> 00:49:07.860
I got something you want. It's mine, but you can't have it.

00:49:08.660 --> 00:49:13.300
<v Sara>Well and also in a secure and respecting your partner sort of

00:49:12.315 --> 00:49:13.355
way. You're if like

00:49:13.675 --> 00:49:17.675
<v Eric>If it makes them feel good about themselves that, hey. Okay.

00:49:17.675 --> 00:49:19.194
You say I'm I'm attractive.

00:49:19.194 --> 00:49:21.514
You like the way I like, but you have to say that you're my

00:49:21.514 --> 00:49:23.514
husband. You're my boyfriend.

00:49:24.234 --> 00:49:28.389
You know, it it kind of loses some of the impact when when I feel

00:49:28.389 --> 00:49:30.549
like you've got to say it, but this guy over here,

00:49:30.549 --> 00:49:32.549
<v Sara>he doesn't have to say that. He's hitting on me.

00:49:32.549 --> 00:49:35.989
<v Eric>He likes what he's seeing. You know, that's a compliment.

00:49:36.755 --> 00:49:37.155
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:49:37.155 --> 00:49:40.515
I've never understood I've literally never understood the men.

00:49:40.515 --> 00:49:43.875
And and I've I've known a few friends who have dated guys like

00:49:43.875 --> 00:49:48.434
this who they tried to either police what they were outside of

00:49:48.434 --> 00:49:51.074
the house because they didn't want guys looking at them, or if

00:49:51.074 --> 00:49:54.730
somebody did look at them, they were they get all jealous.

00:49:54.730 --> 00:49:56.969
And I don't want you looking at my girlfriend, blah, blah, blah.

00:49:56.969 --> 00:49:59.369
And it just felt like that's about them.

00:49:59.449 --> 00:50:01.050
That's making it about them.

00:50:01.210 --> 00:50:04.569
I'm worried that someone's looking at her, that someone's finding

00:50:04.569 --> 00:50:05.210
her attractive.

00:50:05.655 --> 00:50:08.054
I'm worried that means she's going to see that I'm not good

00:50:08.054 --> 00:50:09.175
enough and she's going to leave me.

00:50:09.175 --> 00:50:13.414
Whereas if you have it the other way around where they're not

00:50:13.414 --> 00:50:16.135
worried about it, their wife goes out with their friends and

00:50:16.135 --> 00:50:18.375
they're looking good and you're like, Hey, have a good time,

00:50:18.375 --> 00:50:18.614
honey.

00:50:18.614 --> 00:50:22.059
And she comes home and she says, you know, we were turning heads.

00:50:22.219 --> 00:50:24.619
They're feeling pretty proud of that about that because they're

00:50:24.619 --> 00:50:27.980
secure and they know that she's coming home to him. And

00:50:28.780 --> 00:50:31.659
<v Eric>it's really kind of a compliment to both of them because, yeah,

00:50:31.659 --> 00:50:37.945
she's getting complimented for her appearance and appreciated for

00:50:37.945 --> 00:50:41.784
it by somebody who doesn't have an obligation, so to speak.

00:50:41.784 --> 00:50:46.344
And he's getting the compliment because look what I got, man.

00:50:48.025 --> 00:50:52.300
<v Sara>And I mean, again, depending on how it's how it's handled.

00:50:52.300 --> 00:50:55.659
Because too, like, a lot of women are hit on in a way that's very

00:50:55.659 --> 00:50:57.340
uncomfortable, and they don't like it.

00:50:57.420 --> 00:50:58.859
<v Eric>Well, right. But I mean

00:50:59.019 --> 00:50:59.260
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:50:59.260 --> 00:51:02.780
But, like, just in general to have that appreciation be there

00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:04.465
from separate parties.

00:51:04.465 --> 00:51:06.945
Like you said, like, I I just don't understand the ones that are

00:51:06.945 --> 00:51:10.304
just like, oh, I don't want anybody looking at her because she's

00:51:10.304 --> 00:51:14.065
mine, and I'm afraid. That that screams insecurity.

00:51:14.065 --> 00:51:16.784
So here is where Steele is just kinda having a having a blast

00:51:16.784 --> 00:51:19.460
with it. Barry Holder has has a look at Laura.

00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:20.900
<v Eric>Flips the switch.

00:51:20.980 --> 00:51:24.739
<v Sara>To be fair, it it's not something Laura is enjoying.

00:51:24.739 --> 00:51:28.340
So in that respect, she's she's not impressed with Steele's

00:51:28.340 --> 00:51:31.985
behavior, but he flicks the switch, and she comes back with that

00:51:31.985 --> 00:51:32.545
same frozen

00:51:32.545 --> 00:51:34.465
<v Eric>smile. Switching.

00:51:34.465 --> 00:51:35.425
<v Sara>Yes. Exactly.

00:51:35.425 --> 00:51:39.425
And she says, you bugging, And Steel tells him that his companion

00:51:39.425 --> 00:51:40.385
has run dry.

00:51:40.704 --> 00:51:43.369
So she starts to go to get him a drink, but she doesn't get far

00:51:43.369 --> 00:51:44.650
because he calls her name again.

00:51:44.650 --> 00:51:50.730
She turns and says, you bellowed, sir? Yeah. Which is nice.

00:51:50.730 --> 00:51:54.329
With a smug smile, he gestures behind him and says, my pillow?

00:51:56.355 --> 00:52:02.035
Even more furious, she says, of course, then grabs a small pink

00:52:02.035 --> 00:52:05.235
pillow, punches it a few times to demonstrate what she wants to

00:52:05.235 --> 00:52:06.755
do to him in private Oh, yes.

00:52:06.835 --> 00:52:09.715
And then drops it behind him and walks away very pleased with

00:52:09.715 --> 00:52:10.390
herself. Herself.

00:52:11.269 --> 00:52:15.670
<v Eric>And Steele's got kind of a did I maybe go a little too far on

00:52:15.670 --> 00:52:15.829
that?

00:52:15.829 --> 00:52:15.989
<v Sara>Did I

00:52:15.989 --> 00:52:16.789
<v Eric>take that too

00:52:16.789 --> 00:52:19.349
<v Sara>far? I definitely took that too far. Yeah. Exactly.

00:52:20.949 --> 00:52:24.525
She Steele turns, and the man introduces himself as Barry Holder.

00:52:24.525 --> 00:52:27.405
He says he specializes in investment portfolio strictly high

00:52:27.405 --> 00:52:29.885
yield. Steel says his name is Trevor Keach.

00:52:30.045 --> 00:52:31.885
And as commodities are his game.

00:52:32.045 --> 00:52:35.565
Barry adds or asks which ones and steel stammers a potpourri,

00:52:35.565 --> 00:52:37.565
actually. Potpourri? What?

00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:42.440
<v Eric>I mean, if you're gonna use use a if you're throw online like

00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:45.960
that, at least do enough research that you can talk halfway.

00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:49.239
<v Sara>That's bizarre. That that that's what he came up with, potpourri.

00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:49.800
So yeah.

00:52:50.694 --> 00:52:53.014
<v Eric>Or or say, you know, I don't I don't know the details.

00:52:53.014 --> 00:52:54.614
I I have people that handle that for me.

00:52:54.614 --> 00:52:57.255
<v Sara>Yeah. I'm too rich to be bothered with it. Yeah.

00:52:58.135 --> 00:52:59.815
Barry asks, are you into options?

00:52:59.815 --> 00:53:01.815
And Steele says, I keep mine open, actually.

00:53:01.815 --> 00:53:04.534
Barry laughs, and he tells Steele that he has an investment

00:53:04.534 --> 00:53:05.930
opportunity that might interest him.

00:53:05.930 --> 00:53:08.570
40% return in 2 years, honey of a deal.

00:53:08.970 --> 00:53:11.690
Steele pretends to consider it, and then Barry says he can let it

00:53:11.690 --> 00:53:14.250
in for only $2,200,000.

00:53:14.809 --> 00:53:16.489
Steele comments, that's a lot of pork bellies.

00:53:16.489 --> 00:53:19.050
And I wonder, is that a reference back to corn fed or is that

00:53:19.050 --> 00:53:20.824
just a general, like, is that a saying?

00:53:20.824 --> 00:53:24.264
Is that a thing people say? Like It's a it's a

00:53:24.264 --> 00:53:25.545
<v Eric>thing that people say.

00:53:26.184 --> 00:53:33.349
I've I've heard the thing before, but it is kind of a interesting

00:53:33.349 --> 00:53:35.349
callback to corn fed steel.

00:53:35.349 --> 00:53:37.990
<v Sara>Yes. Because it was pigs out there. Yeah.

00:53:38.469 --> 00:53:40.390
So I I I kinda liked that.

00:53:41.670 --> 00:53:45.030
We then see Laura go into and I had no idea what to call this.

00:53:45.030 --> 00:53:47.385
It's a good thing I read the script because I was trying to find

00:53:47.385 --> 00:53:49.224
the word for this little space.

00:53:49.224 --> 00:53:49.704
<v Eric>Golly.

00:53:49.704 --> 00:53:52.585
<v Sara>And I thank you. But I found it in the script.

00:53:52.585 --> 00:53:55.224
I was like, I call it the in my notes, I have flight attendant

00:53:55.224 --> 00:53:56.744
nook because I had no idea what to

00:53:56.744 --> 00:53:59.639
<v Eric>call it. That be so no. No.

00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:00.360
<v Speaker 2>No. No.

00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:01.960
<v Sara>Where the drinks are.

00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:06.280
I don't know what to call it, but it's the galley. So yeah. She

00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:08.440
<v Eric>Can I close to your nook?

00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:12.965
<v Sara>Shut up. I didn't know what to call it. It's not a kitchen.

00:54:12.965 --> 00:54:15.045
It's not but it has, like I don't know.

00:54:15.045 --> 00:54:19.525
I was, like, trying to find the word for it. That is so wrong.

00:54:19.684 --> 00:54:21.525
Alright. You're just gonna shush right now.

00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:27.519
So we see Laura frustrated. She begins to make more drinks.

00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.719
And then we've got Lorraine who introduces herself and points to

00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:33.519
Wanda, who says it's nice to meet her.

00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:35.920
And then Sally comes Oh, sorry.

00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:40.844
<v Eric>I was gonna say in in this scene with especially with these 2

00:54:40.844 --> 00:54:45.405
before Sally comes in, it's pretty obvious that Laura does not

00:54:45.405 --> 00:54:49.164
fit the profile. No. No.

00:54:49.164 --> 00:54:53.960
She's petite, brunette, and both of those things would make I

00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:56.199
would think make her her presence there suspicious.

00:54:56.199 --> 00:55:01.400
I'm kinda surprised that they didn't have her wearing padding and

00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:04.199
and a wig to to fit in more with the

00:55:04.734 --> 00:55:10.494
<v Sara>1 is not blonde. She's she's, like a redheadish color hair.

00:55:10.974 --> 00:55:11.934
But, yeah, you're right.

00:55:11.934 --> 00:55:15.135
Laura kinda does stand out from the other 2 because I had a hard

00:55:15.135 --> 00:55:17.934
time, to be honest, telling Sally from Lorraine in a couple of

00:55:17.934 --> 00:55:18.175
scenes.

00:55:18.175 --> 00:55:22.049
The only thing that really stood out as a difference was the hair

00:55:22.049 --> 00:55:24.769
is a bit longer on Lorraine, and Sally is maybe a little bit

00:55:24.769 --> 00:55:27.010
older, but it's definitely They're

00:55:27.010 --> 00:55:29.329
<v Eric>very, very similar types. And

00:55:29.730 --> 00:55:30.849
<v Sara>Exactly. I

00:55:30.849 --> 00:55:33.730
<v Eric>I I I was having a little bit of trouble keeping them straight.

00:55:33.730 --> 00:55:34.369
I I just

00:55:34.454 --> 00:55:34.695
<v Sara>because I

00:55:34.855 --> 00:55:37.015
<v Eric>It doesn't matter. They're interchangeable. You know, they're

00:55:37.655 --> 00:55:37.894
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:55:37.894 --> 00:55:40.695
I had to go back and and because in my initial notes, I was like,

00:55:40.695 --> 00:55:43.015
the blonde 1 from before, the other blonde 1.

00:55:43.015 --> 00:55:45.255
I had to go back and I was like, okay. That one's Sally.

00:55:45.255 --> 00:55:45.815
That one's Lorraine.

00:55:47.319 --> 00:55:52.039
So yeah, Sally comes in and says, emergency in the aft cabin.

00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:53.480
We are out of gin.

00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:58.280
Lorraine, yeah, there's a there's an emergency right there.

00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.000
She tells her she usually hides a spare down here somewhere and

00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.375
she opens a cupboard below where she pulls out a bottle, hands it

00:56:03.375 --> 00:56:05.135
to her and tells her it's her lucky day.

00:56:05.695 --> 00:56:09.215
Lorraine then says, did you guys see Trevor Keech in 2 c?

00:56:10.175 --> 00:56:12.735
And again, here's, I guess, the validation for Laura, even though

00:56:12.735 --> 00:56:14.574
she wants to kill him right now. Mhmm.

00:56:14.574 --> 00:56:18.559
She's constantly getting women anytime they go undercover looking

00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:20.719
at steel with basically, like

00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:22.159
<v Eric>Drooling.

00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:24.880
<v Sara>You know, big drooling, big those heart eyes that you see in the

00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:26.400
cartoons like my real guy.

00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:30.160
Because we saw that in hearts of steel where she's supposedly

00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:34.175
he's mine. He's he's mine. He was mine.

00:56:34.335 --> 00:56:37.454
A little the Peplers divorce, what have you.

00:56:37.454 --> 00:56:40.575
But in this case, yeah, Lorraine, she's did you see Trevor Keech

00:56:40.575 --> 00:56:41.454
in 2 c?

00:56:43.055 --> 00:56:45.855
Wanda rolls her eyes and says she's not interested, while the

00:56:45.855 --> 00:56:47.055
other blonde reminds her sorry.

00:56:47.130 --> 00:56:48.809
The other blonde, that's my notes.

00:56:48.809 --> 00:56:50.809
Sally reminds her of the rules.

00:56:51.130 --> 00:56:54.009
She tells Laura that they need some coffee in the cockpit.

00:56:54.009 --> 00:56:56.089
Laura agrees and Sally leaves.

00:56:56.089 --> 00:56:58.409
But before Laura leaves, she leans into Lorraine and questions

00:56:58.409 --> 00:57:02.014
her about the rules. Lorraine cites paragraph 15, section 8.

00:57:02.014 --> 00:57:04.174
Employees are strictly prohibited from fraternizing with

00:57:04.174 --> 00:57:05.855
passengers after hours. You get caught.

00:57:05.855 --> 00:57:10.094
It's goodbye friendly skies. Laura smiles and says, no layovers?

00:57:14.730 --> 00:57:17.609
Oh, okay. Lauren Technically,

00:57:17.609 --> 00:57:21.929
<v Eric>that is a valid use of the term, but, yeah, it is so fraught

00:57:21.849 --> 00:57:24.730
<v Sara>It's with very much a double entendre. Yeah.

00:57:26.730 --> 00:57:28.969
And then Lorraine says, you got it.

00:57:29.054 --> 00:57:31.295
She adds that sometimes it's worth the risk.

00:57:31.295 --> 00:57:34.574
Lifts the tray that she's holding and says that mister Heach

00:57:34.574 --> 00:57:37.775
might like some dessert before he leaves or she leaves.

00:57:37.775 --> 00:57:40.734
So, yeah, she's got eyes on steel.

00:57:41.070 --> 00:57:44.910
In the cockpit, 1 of the copilots, Freddie, tells him the rangers

00:57:44.910 --> 00:57:48.269
are down by 2. Sorry. Not the copilots. Freddie is the navigator.

00:57:48.430 --> 00:57:50.750
Tells him the rangers are down by 2 as Laura comes in with the

00:57:50.750 --> 00:57:51.150
coffee.

00:57:51.150 --> 00:57:55.875
So I went down a rabbit hole here, in terms of hockey because

00:57:55.875 --> 00:57:59.954
immediately I was like, wait a minute, 1985, New York.

00:58:00.434 --> 00:58:03.155
And then there are some references to Edmonton.

00:58:03.155 --> 00:58:05.635
So I just wanted to make bride comments.

00:58:05.635 --> 00:58:07.795
They haven't played the same since Esposito hung them up,

00:58:07.795 --> 00:58:08.755
referring to his skates.

00:58:09.140 --> 00:58:12.579
So the first thing I wanted to just mention is that he's talking

00:58:12.579 --> 00:58:16.500
about Phil Esposito, who is a Canadian or former Canadian.

00:58:16.500 --> 00:58:20.019
Well, he's he's still Canadian, but former former ice hockey

00:58:20.019 --> 00:58:23.219
player. Sorry.

00:58:23.465 --> 00:58:27.545
Former hockey player, coach, and executive, current broadcaster

00:58:27.545 --> 00:58:28.824
for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

00:58:28.824 --> 00:58:31.864
He's a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, played 18 seasons in

00:58:31.864 --> 00:58:35.625
the NHL for Chicago, Boston, and then New York, won 2 Stanley

00:58:35.625 --> 00:58:38.849
Cups with Boston, considered to be 1 of the greatest players of

00:58:38.849 --> 00:58:39.409
all time.

00:58:39.650 --> 00:58:42.530
He's the older brother of late fellow Hall of Famer goaltender

00:58:42.530 --> 00:58:43.730
Tony Esposito.

00:58:43.809 --> 00:58:46.449
He became the first player to score more than a 100 points in a

00:58:46.449 --> 00:58:51.844
season with 126 in 1968, 1969, a feat he would later achieve a

00:58:51.844 --> 00:58:55.125
further 5 times, also becoming the first player to score 50 games

00:58:55.125 --> 00:58:59.605
or 50 goals, sorry, in a season 5 times in a row, including the

00:58:59.605 --> 00:59:04.690
then record of 76 goals in the 19 70, 71 season to go with then a

00:59:04.690 --> 00:59:09.809
record of 152 points in the same year. So he was a good player.

00:59:10.610 --> 00:59:13.809
Won the Art Ross trophy as leading point scorer 5 times, led the

00:59:13.809 --> 00:59:18.355
league in goal 6 times, voted the heart trophy for MVP twice, was

00:59:18.355 --> 00:59:21.954
named as first team All Star Center 6 times. Yeah.

00:59:21.954 --> 00:59:25.474
He retired as a player in early eighties, I believe.

00:59:27.474 --> 00:59:30.035
At that point he was playing for New York because yeah, he played

00:59:30.035 --> 00:59:34.519
till 1981 and then he he retired. So

00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:37.640
<v Eric>Okay. So the reference is a little bit out of date.

00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:41.640
<v Sara>Well, I mean, not really because Freddie's a a rangers fan.

00:59:41.640 --> 00:59:43.640
Right? So he says Oh, he says by 2.

00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:45.704
<v Eric>Since Esposito. Yeah. Yeah.

00:59:46.184 --> 00:59:49.385
<v Sara>So he says they haven't played the same since he since Esposito

00:59:49.385 --> 00:59:50.585
hung up his skates. Yeah.

00:59:50.585 --> 00:59:53.305
So that's kind of where they're where they're coming from, and

00:59:53.305 --> 00:59:57.625
they're not wrong because, New York did not do well that year or

00:59:57.625 --> 00:59:58.664
that that season.

00:59:58.664 --> 01:00:02.760
So it's kinda funny because this if this aired in December, they

01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:06.039
wouldn't have known how that hockey season would shape up, but I

01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:09.079
do. So I'll I'll get to that later.

01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:11.319
But So that's a reference to Phyllis Busito.

01:00:11.945 --> 01:00:15.144
The singing co pilot Biff sees Laura and says, Hey, pretty lady.

01:00:15.144 --> 01:00:20.425
What's your name? Do they like make guys like him from a factory?

01:00:20.425 --> 01:00:24.664
Is there like a bland dude factory where they just pump out

01:00:24.664 --> 01:00:28.820
people like Clay and Bill. You know?

01:00:28.820 --> 01:00:33.059
Like, 1 thing you learn about this factory is that they look kind

01:00:33.059 --> 01:00:35.860
of mediocre men like that.

01:00:36.579 --> 01:00:38.980
<v Eric>And and they they have these little pull strings in the back, so

01:00:38.980 --> 01:00:41.860
you pull it and they always say the same pickup line too.

01:00:41.860 --> 01:00:43.744
<v Sara>You know? It's it's just Exactly.

01:00:43.744 --> 01:00:45.344
They're like, it it And they don't the

01:00:45.344 --> 01:00:47.105
<v Eric>lines don't work. I'm I mean

01:00:47.505 --> 01:00:48.144
<v Sara>Well, I guess they work.

01:00:48.144 --> 01:00:50.545
<v Eric>Maybe that's the scary part. Maybe they do work.

01:00:51.265 --> 01:00:55.184
<v Sara>Because he's had every flight attendant on that plane except for

01:00:55.184 --> 01:00:56.890
Laura. Yeah.

01:00:57.369 --> 01:01:01.210
So they're working on somebody, just not Laura because obviously

01:01:01.210 --> 01:01:03.929
she sees right through him. Mhmm.

01:01:03.929 --> 01:01:06.650
Because she tells him her name and he, Laura is the face in the

01:01:06.650 --> 01:01:07.530
misty line.

01:01:10.454 --> 01:01:13.335
Laura gives him a frozen smile again, and he asks, how about

01:01:13.335 --> 01:01:15.494
dinner? And she smiles and says, how about no?

01:01:17.734 --> 01:01:19.175
Which is really nice.

01:01:19.734 --> 01:01:23.700
She leans at me and Biff grins and says, she's crazy about me.

01:01:24.099 --> 01:01:28.019
Freddie laughs, and you see Chuck McBride just smirk because he's

01:01:28.019 --> 01:01:30.739
he's like, yeah. No. She's she's really nice.

01:01:30.739 --> 01:01:34.099
<v Eric>He finally he finally met somebody who turned him down cold.

01:01:34.775 --> 01:01:37.655
<v Sara>Exactly. Like, yeah, definitely not impressed.

01:01:37.655 --> 01:01:41.894
So we see the plane land, in New York, and Laura and the other

01:01:41.894 --> 01:01:43.895
stewardesses are walking through the airport.

01:01:44.055 --> 01:01:48.359
<v Eric>Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

01:01:48.359 --> 01:01:53.800
I think we have a definitive visual joke here.

01:01:54.279 --> 01:01:55.000
<v Sara>Okay.

01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:59.894
<v Eric>I've I I'm a little older than you, so I've seen a lot of TV

01:01:59.894 --> 01:02:03.094
shows and movies that featured stewardesses from the, like,

01:02:03.094 --> 01:02:07.015
sixties and seventies. Right. And

01:02:09.414 --> 01:02:10.934
<v Sara>they didn't wear hats like that.

01:02:11.414 --> 01:02:16.460
<v Eric>So I went back and I did a little research to to see if maybe I

01:02:16.460 --> 01:02:20.539
could find a reference to a a photo of a stewardess from that era

01:02:20.699 --> 01:02:21.340
<v Sara>Okay.

01:02:21.500 --> 01:02:24.380
<v Eric>Wearing that kind of a hat. Couldn't find it.

01:02:24.619 --> 01:02:32.695
Those hats and I'm I'm not gonna say it's definitely designed as

01:02:32.695 --> 01:02:38.054
a joke, but I would be surprised if it wasn't because those caps

01:02:38.054 --> 01:02:43.494
very bear a very, very strong resemblance to a cap that we had in

01:02:43.494 --> 01:02:44.614
the air force in the air guard.

01:02:45.130 --> 01:02:47.690
I think their technical term was a flat

01:02:47.690 --> 01:02:50.010
<v Sara>cap. However,

01:02:51.849 --> 01:03:00.345
<v Eric>they had another name, which was synonymous with a slang term for

01:03:01.625 --> 01:03:03.625
a piece of female anatomy.

01:03:04.105 --> 01:03:05.625
<v Sara>Oh, okay.

01:03:05.625 --> 01:03:10.025
<v Eric>I can't say it, but phonetically, it's a Charlie uniform November

01:03:10.025 --> 01:03:10.825
tango cap.

01:03:18.460 --> 01:03:19.900
<v Speaker 2>Okay. I'm dead.

01:03:22.059 --> 01:03:25.500
I'm never gonna be able to see a hat that like that again without

01:03:25.500 --> 01:03:27.500
thinking of

01:03:28.545 --> 01:03:31.264
<v Sara>I also like the fact that you use Charlie because we just say see

01:03:31.264 --> 01:03:37.425
you next Tuesday. Yeah. Wow. Okay.

01:03:39.279 --> 01:03:42.159
<v Eric>I I can't say for certain that it was an intentional joke, but I

01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:44.159
I I can't help but think it was.

01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:46.799
<v Sara>Well, all I can tell you is that that's not how the script

01:03:46.799 --> 01:03:47.519
describes it.

01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:48.400
<v Eric>It's not.

01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:49.359
<v Sara>No.

01:03:49.359 --> 01:03:52.559
The script says Laura Lorraine, Sally, and Wanda, a picture of

01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.494
Polkertude in their miniskirts, jackets, hats, and high heels

01:03:55.494 --> 01:03:57.494
turn heads as they stride down the esplanade.

01:03:57.494 --> 01:04:01.094
And I gotta say, somebody who wrote this Robin, did did she have

01:04:01.094 --> 01:04:05.574
a a like a thesaurus? A picture of Paul Cratude?

01:04:05.574 --> 01:04:07.430
You couldn't just say beauty? Like

01:04:07.750 --> 01:04:10.070
<v Eric>What? Now now wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

01:04:10.789 --> 01:04:12.470
Hang on. Let's see.

01:04:12.470 --> 01:04:13.430
<v Sara>Are you looking it up?

01:04:13.430 --> 01:04:15.030
<v Eric>No. I'm looking up something else.

01:04:15.030 --> 01:04:15.829
<v Sara>Oh, okay.

01:04:16.789 --> 01:04:21.724
<v Eric>Frank's sickle toes. That was I know.

01:04:21.724 --> 01:04:23.804
<v Sara>We're back to popsicle toes.

01:04:24.284 --> 01:04:25.005
<v Eric>I'm just kidding.

01:04:25.005 --> 01:04:32.525
And that was from 1976, so about almost 10 years prior to this

01:04:32.525 --> 01:04:32.924
episode.

01:04:32.924 --> 01:04:37.380
But, I mean, if Robin Bernheim was a fan of Michael Frank's, she

01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:39.300
could've gotten that word from his song.

01:04:39.380 --> 01:04:40.900
<v Sara>Okay. We'll give her that.

01:04:40.900 --> 01:04:41.380
<v Eric>Sure.

01:04:42.900 --> 01:04:45.539
Either that or she just ate a thesaurus when she was in college.

01:04:45.539 --> 01:04:46.820
<v Sara>Yeah. I was thinking that. Yeah.

01:04:46.820 --> 01:04:49.859
Laura declares she's exhausted, but Lorraine says, not me.

01:04:49.934 --> 01:04:53.454
It's Samba night at the Ramada. Woah.

01:04:53.454 --> 01:04:54.974
So hop off that outlaw tree.

01:04:54.974 --> 01:04:55.855
<v Eric>Wow. Ramada.

01:04:56.735 --> 01:04:57.934
<v Sara>Atlanta's all in jail.

01:04:57.934 --> 01:05:03.295
That's some dangerous stuff there, the Ramada. Well, the

01:05:03.295 --> 01:05:09.039
<v Eric>Ramada just doesn't strike may maybe it it was the place to go

01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:14.079
back in the eighties, but I just I mean, we've got a Ramada here

01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:16.960
in town. And trust me, it's not a place to

01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.195
<v Sara>go when, you know, when

01:05:19.195 --> 01:05:20.155
<v Eric>you want a night out.

01:05:20.155 --> 01:05:23.914
<v Sara>No disrespect to the Ramada or its parent company.

01:05:23.914 --> 01:05:24.875
Please don't sue us.

01:05:24.875 --> 01:05:27.835
But I don't think the Ramada was ever the place to go for

01:05:27.835 --> 01:05:28.155
anything.

01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:35.199
<v Eric>I'm I'm thinking that their lounge was kind of very low rent.

01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:38.960
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with you there.

01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:43.039
So can't miss Samba night at their Armada, though. No.

01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:45.784
Sally Sally says, don't you ever stop?

01:05:45.784 --> 01:05:48.585
And Lorraine says, you have to guess a lot of frogs before you

01:05:48.585 --> 01:05:49.704
find a handsome prince.

01:05:49.704 --> 01:05:51.945
And then Sally, she says, well, you would know.

01:05:52.824 --> 01:05:55.864
<v Eric>That's cold. That's cold.

01:05:55.944 --> 01:05:58.424
<v Sara>To which Lorraine says, what's that supposed to mean?

01:05:59.780 --> 01:06:03.219
And then Wanda interrupts before it obviously becomes a full on

01:06:03.219 --> 01:06:05.699
cat fight and tells him that she's gonna catch them later.

01:06:05.699 --> 01:06:07.300
She's meeting her cousin for dinner.

01:06:07.940 --> 01:06:12.260
Something about the way she says that catches Laura's curiosity.

01:06:12.260 --> 01:06:15.405
So she checks her watch and says she has to make a call.

01:06:15.724 --> 01:06:17.244
Lorraine asked her what about the bus?

01:06:17.244 --> 01:06:18.764
Laura says she'll catch the next 1.

01:06:19.005 --> 01:06:21.884
Meanwhile, we see Wanda walking through the hallway, the

01:06:21.884 --> 01:06:25.404
esplanade, whatever you wanna call it, where she meets a man in a

01:06:25.404 --> 01:06:26.844
suit, which turns out to be Barry.

01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:28.760
We see Laura has followed them.

01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:31.159
She's watching them from a distance. We see them fight.

01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:33.079
We see them kiss, and they walk away together.

01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.440
So Laura knows that there's something going on between her and a

01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.000
passenger, which is a no no. Mhmm.

01:06:39.159 --> 01:06:41.400
And so that's kind of, like, intrigued her.

01:06:42.244 --> 01:06:44.644
Meanwhile, Steele's gotten off the plane as Trevor Keetch.

01:06:44.644 --> 01:06:47.605
He's lurking around the baggage area doors with a sign that says,

01:06:47.605 --> 01:06:51.285
Platinum Air personnel only. He sneaks in, pulls out a lighter.

01:06:51.285 --> 01:06:53.045
I love this. This drives me crazy.

01:06:53.045 --> 01:06:54.885
This only ever works in TV and movies. Right?

01:06:54.885 --> 01:06:57.285
They go into a place that is pitch black Mhmm.

01:06:57.285 --> 01:06:59.980
Take out a lighter, flick the lighter on, and the whole room

01:06:59.980 --> 01:07:03.739
lights up. Oh, sure. Works for me.

01:07:03.739 --> 01:07:08.059
Pretty sure that's not The You know, I find that even with your

01:07:08.059 --> 01:07:11.659
phone, when you got your phone light on, which is much brighter

01:07:11.659 --> 01:07:14.255
than a a little BIC lighter Mhmm.

01:07:14.335 --> 01:07:16.654
It only gives you, like, a couple of feet of space, and

01:07:16.654 --> 01:07:20.414
everything else is still in pitch darkness. Yeah. Hey, whatever.

01:07:20.414 --> 01:07:22.974
For the purposes of the script, we need to wave that.

01:07:23.054 --> 01:07:23.375
<v Eric>Yes.

01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:28.000
<v Sara>He begins to search around, but of course, he's knocked on the

01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:31.440
back of the neck by someone and inexplicably knocked unconscious

01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:34.559
because it's necessary for the plot. That's right.

01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:39.355
But we then switch over to the that that waiting lounge Playboy

01:07:39.355 --> 01:07:42.875
Mansion thing Mhmm. Where Steele comes falling out of the chute.

01:07:43.275 --> 01:07:45.755
He stands up, and that must have been weird.

01:07:45.755 --> 01:07:46.954
<v Eric>Of vintage Steele.

01:07:47.114 --> 01:07:47.594
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:07:47.594 --> 01:07:50.394
It must have been weird for him to get vacuumed up the chute,

01:07:50.394 --> 01:07:54.929
though. Stands up.

01:07:54.929 --> 01:07:57.170
He also seems to have a bump on his forehead despite being hit

01:07:57.170 --> 01:08:00.210
from behind, but I'm guessing, like, that's because of the shoot

01:08:00.530 --> 01:08:01.969
situation. Yeah. Yeah.

01:08:01.969 --> 01:08:04.530
And he stands up, hands some money to 1 of the employees and

01:08:04.530 --> 01:08:07.489
tells him brown suede leather handles, keep an eye out for me,

01:08:07.489 --> 01:08:07.890
won't you?

01:08:09.965 --> 01:08:12.844
Takes a sip of the champagne being offered, and then we fade to

01:08:12.844 --> 01:08:17.085
the next scene. So I I that's funny. Comedically, that's amusing.

01:08:17.645 --> 01:08:21.005
Then we get Laura Lorraine and Sally walking through the hotel

01:08:21.005 --> 01:08:21.564
hallway.

01:08:22.470 --> 01:08:25.189
I guess Sam at night wasn't all that exciting because they've all

01:08:25.270 --> 01:08:28.389
they're all checking into their their rooms together.

01:08:29.270 --> 01:08:33.590
She passes a man who pinches her butt and horrified.

01:08:33.590 --> 01:08:36.069
She she looks at the others, but Lorraine just kinda says, get

01:08:36.069 --> 01:08:44.755
used to it. It comes with the uniform. That would be no.

01:08:44.755 --> 01:08:49.875
That I would be that I that's where I'd quit because yeah.

01:08:49.875 --> 01:08:50.835
But Well,

01:08:52.435 --> 01:08:58.800
<v Eric>I'm sure that given that that sort of thing was probably a bit

01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:02.479
more common back then than it is now, I'm sure they developed

01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:03.840
techniques for dealing with it.

01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:06.960
Not that they should have had to, but I'm sure that they were

01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:08.399
capable of

01:09:08.954 --> 01:09:09.914
<v Sara>Oh, for sure.

01:09:09.835 --> 01:09:11.755
<v Eric>Dealing with it as necessary.

01:09:11.835 --> 01:09:15.834
<v Sara>It's just the fact that it's seen as a routine part of the job.

01:09:16.234 --> 01:09:19.034
That is what's kind of horrifying about it.

01:09:19.034 --> 01:09:22.670
Because, like, they wouldn't have been able to go to HR and say,

01:09:22.670 --> 01:09:28.109
a passenger pinched me. HR would be like, and? You know?

01:09:28.350 --> 01:09:30.189
Like, that's kinda your job.

01:09:30.189 --> 01:09:32.989
You you've they literally have to weigh themselves and make sure

01:09:32.989 --> 01:09:37.275
they look a certain So, yeah, they're there as eye candy.

01:09:37.275 --> 01:09:40.555
That's their purpose. Well, that and serving drinks. Right?

01:09:40.555 --> 01:09:41.354
So, yeah.

01:09:42.954 --> 01:09:45.994
Sally reaches her room, 105, declares it home, sweet home.

01:09:45.994 --> 01:09:48.715
She says goodnight to Laura, and they keep walking.

01:09:49.229 --> 01:09:51.789
Laura stops at 108, puts her key in the door.

01:09:52.029 --> 01:09:55.149
She enters the room, turns on the light only to be met with Biff,

01:09:55.550 --> 01:10:00.189
singing horribly off key. Come fly with me. Let's fly.

01:10:00.189 --> 01:10:06.564
Let's fly away. So, yeah, that's my attempt to be as bad as Biff.

01:10:07.125 --> 01:10:11.525
Now, was '8 1985, and I don't know the month that Back to the

01:10:11.525 --> 01:10:14.085
Future came out. But don't know.

01:10:14.085 --> 01:10:17.389
Biff is not exactly a common name for a character, and he's the

01:10:17.389 --> 01:10:20.029
villain in Back to the Future. So Mhmm.

01:10:20.029 --> 01:10:22.429
I have no idea if this was something that they were doing

01:10:22.429 --> 01:10:26.029
intentionally or if it was just a happy coincidence.

01:10:26.349 --> 01:10:30.349
<v Eric>Well, you know, the name Biff, it's it's 1 of those names that

01:10:30.349 --> 01:10:35.994
you would associate with somebody who has this snubbish, my

01:10:35.994 --> 01:10:37.755
daddy's rich attitude.

01:10:37.835 --> 01:10:41.595
I haven't done anything worth noting, but my daddy's rich, so

01:10:41.595 --> 01:10:42.954
that makes me important.

01:10:43.755 --> 01:10:47.670
That's the kind of person you would associate with that name.

01:10:47.670 --> 01:10:52.710
So True. Given that that kind of Yeah. Mental association, it it

01:10:53.029 --> 01:10:53.429
<v Sara>That's fair.

01:10:53.510 --> 01:10:54.789
<v Eric>It's not a surprise, I guess.

01:10:54.949 --> 01:10:57.989
<v Sara>She asked how he got in, and Biff says he and a desk clerk go way

01:10:57.989 --> 01:10:58.869
back. That's gross.

01:10:59.375 --> 01:11:05.454
That is Like, this is a man letting himself into a woman's

01:11:05.454 --> 01:11:10.014
bedroom. And the hotel turning the other way

01:11:10.494 --> 01:11:11.854
<v Eric>when Participating.

01:11:12.015 --> 01:11:14.219
<v Sara>Purchase yeah. Yeah. Not even just yeah.

01:11:14.220 --> 01:11:19.180
Aiding and abetting when it could easily like, that could that's

01:11:19.180 --> 01:11:19.500
gross.

01:11:19.500 --> 01:11:20.539
<v Eric>This is gross. Yeah.

01:11:20.539 --> 01:11:28.215
And just just even even even if the hotel didn't have a problem

01:11:28.215 --> 01:11:32.054
with that sort of behavior and didn't have a problem with letting

01:11:32.054 --> 01:11:35.974
a man into a woman's room that he has no business being in,

01:11:36.295 --> 01:11:38.614
there's a legal liability involved there.

01:11:38.614 --> 01:11:41.895
Mean, if nothing else, be mercenary about it.

01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:45.079
Think of the legal liability involved. Right. Yeah.

01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:45.880
<v Sara>No. I agree.

01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:50.199
Like, usually, the when the moral argument doesn't sway people,

01:11:50.199 --> 01:11:53.560
the monetary 1 will. And you're right. This is a yeah.

01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:54.439
This is not a good look.

01:11:55.604 --> 01:11:59.284
So she demands that he leave and he starts singing again.

01:11:59.284 --> 01:12:02.004
I dream of Laura with the light brown hair.

01:12:02.724 --> 01:12:04.885
She says, I don't think you're getting the message.

01:12:04.965 --> 01:12:06.965
Biff tells her that she needs to relax.

01:12:06.965 --> 01:12:11.590
Before Laura can respond though, Sally comes in asking for to

01:12:11.590 --> 01:12:14.390
borrow something, but she stops when she sees Biff there.

01:12:14.630 --> 01:12:15.350
<v Eric>Mhmm.

01:12:15.430 --> 01:12:18.550
<v Sara>And you can see on her face that she and Biff have had something

01:12:18.550 --> 01:12:24.085
or are still having something because she just goes very cold and

01:12:24.085 --> 01:12:25.604
says, don't let me interrupt.

01:12:25.764 --> 01:12:27.844
<v Eric>So Yeah. She's not happy.

01:12:27.844 --> 01:12:29.684
<v Sara>Yeah. He chases after her.

01:12:30.244 --> 01:12:32.804
Much to Laura's relief, she shuts the door.

01:12:33.444 --> 01:12:35.125
And a moment later, there's a knock.

01:12:35.125 --> 01:12:38.159
And fearing that Biff is back, she throws open the door and says,

01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:41.520
now listen, you sexist dog. Still

01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:43.279
<v Eric>And she's not wrong.

01:12:43.599 --> 01:12:47.439
<v Sara>No. No. She isn't. Guy. He's on the other side. He's rumpled.

01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:53.835
He's injured. And he just says, I'm all ears. She lets him in.

01:12:53.994 --> 01:12:57.595
And then she it's clear she doesn't hasn't really clocked the

01:12:57.595 --> 01:13:00.715
injury yet because she says, you know, I've had all I can take of

01:13:00.715 --> 01:13:01.274
this assignment.

01:13:01.274 --> 01:13:06.314
I've been pinched, hard, clawed, manhandled, and then she that's

01:13:05.430 --> 01:13:07.670
what happened to you. Yeah.

01:13:09.510 --> 01:13:10.229
<v Speaker 2>Oh, nothing.

01:13:10.229 --> 01:13:10.630
<v Eric>Oh, nothing.

01:13:10.630 --> 01:13:12.550
<v Sara>Really a brush with death. Yeah.

01:13:13.189 --> 01:13:16.470
<v Eric>So Of course, that's overly dramatic. But

01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:17.909
<v Sara>Yeah. I mean You know, what

01:13:17.909 --> 01:13:18.789
<v Eric>do you expect from Steele?

01:13:19.045 --> 01:13:22.244
<v Sara>And at this point, he's he's hit over the head so much.

01:13:22.244 --> 01:13:25.204
He just goes over to the champagne, which has been chilling

01:13:25.204 --> 01:13:29.524
there, grabs a cloth, and starts, you know, wets it, starts

01:13:29.844 --> 01:13:31.044
dabbing at him.

01:13:31.284 --> 01:13:35.630
<v Eric>Would would champagne being an alcohol that would sting a little

01:13:35.630 --> 01:13:36.510
bit, wouldn't it?

01:13:36.750 --> 01:13:40.670
<v Sara>Well, if it hasn't been opened, I imagine or it hasn't, like,

01:13:40.670 --> 01:13:44.670
spilled into the ice because I think she just uses the ice. No.

01:13:44.670 --> 01:13:46.364
<v Eric>Oh, is oh, is that what she did?

01:13:46.364 --> 01:13:46.844
<v Sara>Yes.

01:13:46.844 --> 01:13:49.965
She's being it's in, like, a chilled, like, iced thing, and I

01:13:49.965 --> 01:13:51.885
think she just grabbed some of the water from the ice.

01:13:51.885 --> 01:13:55.804
But, yeah, if it was the actual alcohol, it would be Maybe she

01:13:55.804 --> 01:13:57.564
should've used that. Well, if

01:13:57.564 --> 01:13:59.164
<v Eric>she's still not allowed cure that for you.

01:13:59.430 --> 01:14:02.949
<v Sara>Yeah. She could definitely get them back that way.

01:14:02.949 --> 01:14:07.109
But he tells her that someone wanted to make damn sure he didn't

01:14:07.109 --> 01:14:08.949
go poking around the baggage claim area.

01:14:09.270 --> 01:14:12.229
Laura says, well, it wasn't Lorain or salary salary salary.

01:14:14.034 --> 01:14:15.954
<v Eric>Salary. Salary with peanut butter. Yeah.

01:14:15.954 --> 01:14:17.875
<v Sara>Sally as they checked in with her.

01:14:17.954 --> 01:14:20.675
And it wasn't Wanda because she left with Barry, the passenger

01:14:20.675 --> 01:14:21.954
with the investment company.

01:14:22.435 --> 01:14:25.960
As she talks, she's tending to his wounds and he gives her a

01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:28.280
knowing look and says that he can account for the whereabouts of

01:14:28.280 --> 01:14:29.319
young buff.

01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:35.479
Laura corrects him by saying, biff, and he says, well, it sounds

01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:37.000
like a band of band of car wax.

01:14:39.095 --> 01:14:41.735
She tells him that that leaves Captain McBride or Freddie the

01:14:41.735 --> 01:14:42.694
flight engineer.

01:14:43.574 --> 01:14:47.895
Still gets distracted, and he begins to undo her blouse with

01:14:47.895 --> 01:14:49.494
just, like, no preamble.

01:14:49.494 --> 01:14:50.295
<v Eric>Well, the jacket.

01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:52.439
<v Sara>The jacket part. But yeah.

01:14:52.439 --> 01:14:54.119
Like, he just kind of, like still yeah.

01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:58.999
Kind of He's just undoing her clothes there. Like, that's okay.

01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:00.519
That's a thing.

01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:03.800
<v Eric>Which I guess? Figures he's entitled.

01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:05.000
<v Sara>Well, him and everybody else.

01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:08.654
But this this this is another thing that has been pointed to by

01:15:08.654 --> 01:15:12.094
some of the fans in the Facebook group as evidence that they are

01:15:12.335 --> 01:15:15.295
sleeping together because it's a gesture of, like, extreme sort

01:15:15.295 --> 01:15:19.135
of intimacy and familiarity that he's just, like, undoing your

01:15:19.135 --> 01:15:19.534
clothes.

01:15:19.534 --> 01:15:22.659
But I don't think I think he's just seeing an opportunity.

01:15:23.539 --> 01:15:26.260
<v Eric>Or it could just be an extreme gesture of horndog.

01:15:26.340 --> 01:15:27.380
<v Sara>Yeah. Literally.

01:15:27.380 --> 01:15:32.020
So, yeah, he he starts to undo her jacket, tells her splendid

01:15:32.020 --> 01:15:32.739
piece of deduction.

01:15:33.135 --> 01:15:35.454
Now that they've narrowed the focus of their investigation, why

01:15:35.454 --> 01:15:38.014
don't they give the old gray matter a rest and call it a day?

01:15:38.014 --> 01:15:40.335
He goes to kiss her when the phone rings.

01:15:40.335 --> 01:15:42.014
Of course, the phone rings.

01:15:42.335 --> 01:15:46.014
She pulls away, and he laments that she didn't get an unlisted

01:15:46.014 --> 01:15:48.414
number, which doesn't make any sense because they're in a hotel.

01:15:49.220 --> 01:15:50.820
<v Eric>Well, true.

01:15:50.820 --> 01:15:55.699
But she obviously told Mildred where they were at, so Mildred was

01:15:55.699 --> 01:15:58.340
able to find find them, and you shouldn't have told her where

01:15:58.340 --> 01:16:05.875
we're at. Just Don't call us. We'll call you. Oh, sorry.

01:16:06.034 --> 01:16:06.675
Sugarbelle.

01:16:06.675 --> 01:16:10.914
<v Sara>I I like his his physical comedy as she's talking on the phone

01:16:10.914 --> 01:16:14.969
because as she has this conversation, he's bouncing on the bed.

01:16:15.050 --> 01:16:18.649
He's listening his tie. He's getting real comfy. You know?

01:16:18.649 --> 01:16:20.729
He's decided that he's not leaving.

01:16:21.609 --> 01:16:23.770
<v Eric>Hinting. Hinting. Yeah. Hinting.

01:16:23.770 --> 01:16:24.329
<v Sara>Oh, yeah.

01:16:24.329 --> 01:16:27.704
There's definite, this is where I wanna be for the entire night.

01:16:27.704 --> 01:16:28.985
So she she Let's test

01:16:28.985 --> 01:16:30.664
<v Eric>the bed springs. She

01:16:32.664 --> 01:16:34.824
<v Sara>asked Mildred if there's any luck on the idea of the body, and

01:16:34.824 --> 01:16:37.704
that's where, like you said, he's kinda doing a little bounce.

01:16:38.119 --> 01:16:40.760
Mildred tells her it's right here, asked her to hold on for a

01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.000
second. And she says, oh, miss Holt, I've got an ID for you.

01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:46.119
But before she can give it to them, Marvin picks up another phone

01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:49.560
and tells him, it's Marvin Slotman Junior, they have 4 aliases on

01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:52.359
the body in question. Mildred glares at him.

01:16:53.345 --> 01:16:56.064
Winston still moves back on the bed, takes his jacket off.

01:16:57.025 --> 01:16:59.025
Mildred tells Marvin she will handle this.

01:16:59.025 --> 01:17:01.585
She tells Laura that what's important is that the guy's real name

01:17:01.585 --> 01:17:02.784
was Johnny Belden.

01:17:03.025 --> 01:17:05.345
Marvin adds that he's a contract killer, hired gun.

01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:08.280
Mildred tells him to cool it and continues saying that according

01:17:08.280 --> 01:17:10.520
to her research, Belden works out of Manhattan.

01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:13.239
Marvin chimes in with, I found that out, miss Holt.

01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:15.560
Mildred says, no 1 cares.

01:17:15.800 --> 01:17:17.880
Besides, I found out about his trademark.

01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:20.760
Steel has now laid back on the bed. He's undoing his shirt cuffs.

01:17:22.414 --> 01:17:23.614
Laura says, what trademark?

01:17:23.614 --> 01:17:26.015
And Mildred says, 2 bullet holes in the back of the neck.

01:17:26.335 --> 01:17:30.335
Now I'm not a contract killer.

01:17:30.735 --> 01:17:34.095
I'm not 1 to criticize their their job or how they do it, but I

01:17:34.095 --> 01:17:36.560
would think 2 bullet holes in the back of the neck is not so much

01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:37.840
a trademark. It's just like

01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:39.439
<v Eric>Standard procedure?

01:17:40.079 --> 01:17:42.720
<v Sara>Yeah. That's what I mean, I'm again, I'm not I don't know.

01:17:42.720 --> 01:17:43.600
I don't do the job.

01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:46.399
So if any contract killers are listening to our podcast, please

01:17:46.399 --> 01:17:47.039
write in.

01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:47.840
<v Eric>Please let us know.

01:17:48.255 --> 01:17:51.614
<v Sara>We will anonymously address the the response. But yeah. So

01:17:52.095 --> 01:17:54.975
<v Eric>Unless we unless you want us to say your name so that you can get

01:17:54.975 --> 01:17:55.774
acknowledged.

01:17:55.935 --> 01:17:58.574
<v Sara>Sure. Yeah. Everybody wants to have their due.

01:17:59.854 --> 01:18:00.814
<v Eric>Be proud of your work.

01:18:02.659 --> 01:18:05.619
<v Sara>Marvin continues saying that it's his signature, and the

01:18:05.619 --> 01:18:10.180
organized crime branch at the NYPD says, but Mildred has had it.

01:18:10.180 --> 01:18:12.260
She stands up and says, that tears it.

01:18:12.500 --> 01:18:14.820
Laura asks if someone will please tell her what's going on, but

01:18:14.820 --> 01:18:17.380
Mildred has already gone over to where Marvin is sitting and rips

01:18:17.295 --> 01:18:18.734
the phone cord out of the wall.

01:18:19.454 --> 01:18:21.534
Did she hang up on her end as well?

01:18:21.534 --> 01:18:23.854
Because I wouldn't think that would cut them off otherwise.

01:18:25.935 --> 01:18:30.239
<v Eric>Normally, it wouldn't because they would be 2 separate phones as

01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:34.159
part of the office pool of phones and connections.

01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:42.414
And unless it was a system that was programmed in a way that

01:18:42.414 --> 01:18:47.215
every phone was dependent upon this entire system being

01:18:48.015 --> 01:18:48.734
functional.

01:18:50.015 --> 01:18:51.295
<v Sara>Yeah. It's it's weird. It's

01:18:51.295 --> 01:18:53.135
<v Eric>a You know, it's it's kinda like Christmas lights.

01:18:53.135 --> 01:18:56.020
You you get Christmas lights wired a couple different ways.

01:18:56.020 --> 01:18:59.860
1 is where if 1 bulb goes out, the bulb went out.

01:18:59.860 --> 01:19:00.820
It's not a big deal.

01:19:00.820 --> 01:19:04.340
But then there's the kind where if it's if a bulb goes out, the

01:19:04.340 --> 01:19:05.539
whole thing goes out.

01:19:05.699 --> 01:19:07.380
<v Sara>That's a nightmare. No sense.

01:19:08.260 --> 01:19:08.739
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:19:08.739 --> 01:19:12.524
I I've never heard of a phone system that would have failed like

01:19:12.524 --> 01:19:15.164
that, but I mean, it's entirely possible, I suppose.

01:19:15.564 --> 01:19:17.885
<v Sara>Yeah. Because Laura, she's confused.

01:19:17.885 --> 01:19:19.645
She says, guess we were cut off.

01:19:20.045 --> 01:19:22.860
She hangs up the phone, lays down next to Steele, completely

01:19:22.860 --> 01:19:25.260
oblivious to his other intentions and says Yeah.

01:19:25.340 --> 01:19:27.820
And asks what a big league hitman is doing in the baggage

01:19:27.820 --> 01:19:29.260
carousel at Platinum Air.

01:19:29.420 --> 01:19:31.739
He puts his arms around her and he says, not much, I assume.

01:19:36.534 --> 01:19:39.494
<v Eric>Well, I okay. Yeah. You're right.

01:19:39.494 --> 01:19:43.095
But the question is, what was he doing when before he got into

01:19:43.095 --> 01:19:43.814
the baggage claim?

01:19:43.814 --> 01:19:44.534
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:19:44.534 --> 01:19:47.335
I think he knows that, but he's got other things on his mind at

01:19:47.335 --> 01:19:48.215
this point. So

01:19:48.619 --> 01:19:49.100
<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

01:19:49.100 --> 01:19:51.899
<v Sara>Let's just say all the flood all the blood is not flowing up.

01:19:51.899 --> 01:19:52.780
It's flowing down.

01:19:52.780 --> 01:19:57.500
So meanwhile, we see Biff returning to Laura's room with a

01:19:57.500 --> 01:19:58.300
shiner.

01:19:58.619 --> 01:20:03.525
Like, Sally has hauled off and decked him, which here's the

01:20:03.525 --> 01:20:07.685
thing. Normally, I mean, I don't agree with with, assault.

01:20:09.685 --> 01:20:11.364
<v Eric>Unless it's a salt and pepper.

01:20:11.604 --> 01:20:15.604
<v Sara>Oh, no. I'm gonna say in this case,

01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:17.600
<v Eric>people problem with it.

01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:17.920
<v Sara>No.

01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:21.680
I I mean, he's he's he's the kind of guy that would, like, slip

01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:23.439
something into your drink at a bar. You know?

01:20:23.439 --> 01:20:27.600
He's not the kind of person that you trust is gonna leave when

01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:28.479
you ask him to leave.

01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:29.414
<v Eric>So Yeah.

01:20:29.414 --> 01:20:33.175
And you would have to almost get a little bit forceful with him

01:20:33.175 --> 01:20:34.295
to get him to leave.

01:20:34.295 --> 01:20:36.454
I mean, after all, look what happened with Laura, he wasn't gonna

01:20:36.454 --> 01:20:38.135
leave until till she showed up.

01:20:38.215 --> 01:20:42.054
<v Sara>In her and he was in her room. Like, it the the that's so gross.

01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:46.119
So, yeah, he's coming back. He's he's been punched in the face.

01:20:46.199 --> 01:20:47.559
Oh, poor Biff.

01:20:47.639 --> 01:20:53.800
And he leans down to let himself in again despite being told

01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:58.124
repeatedly to get out. Mhmm. And that's when he overheard steal.

01:20:58.125 --> 01:21:03.244
I'm saying he's too weak to move tonight. And then

01:21:03.725 --> 01:21:06.764
<v Eric>Well, if he's too weak to move and leave the room and he's too

01:21:06.764 --> 01:21:06.925
weak

01:21:06.925 --> 01:21:10.449
<v Sara>to move and do anything else. Well, I think he no.

01:21:10.449 --> 01:21:11.889
<v Eric>We're all energy for that.

01:21:11.889 --> 01:21:12.850
<v Sara>You know? Yeah.

01:21:12.850 --> 01:21:15.489
He he it's like the dessert pouch, you know, when you're full,

01:21:15.489 --> 01:21:16.770
but you've still got room for dessert.

01:21:16.770 --> 01:21:19.810
That's the the little pouch in your stomach that holds the

01:21:19.810 --> 01:21:20.289
dessert.

01:21:20.289 --> 01:21:23.505
So, yeah, that's this is his don't wanna say sex pouch, but

01:21:23.505 --> 01:21:25.505
that's what entered my head. I'm sorry.

01:21:27.024 --> 01:21:27.664
<v Eric>I thought that was

01:21:27.664 --> 01:21:30.625
<v Sara>George. Anyway oh. 0, no.

01:21:30.625 --> 01:21:33.505
He everything's gone into the gutter today.

01:21:34.064 --> 01:21:37.344
And speaking of the gutter, he suggests he pitch his tent here

01:21:37.344 --> 01:21:43.739
tonight. Yeah. That 1 got past standards and

01:21:43.739 --> 01:21:44.300
<v Speaker 2>practices. I

01:21:46.060 --> 01:21:49.180
<v Sara>love the fact that this is a woman script writer who's written in

01:21:49.180 --> 01:21:55.274
all of these, like, kinda crude in your notes. I like that.

01:21:55.274 --> 01:21:56.635
Pitch's tent here.

01:21:56.795 --> 01:22:01.594
He grins at her, sensing he's found her weakness.

01:22:01.594 --> 01:22:05.079
But we then we get we cut again to where Biff is.

01:22:05.319 --> 01:22:08.520
He's hearing them kiss, and Laura flirtatiously says, recharge

01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:09.959
your batteries, so to speak.

01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:13.399
Steel's getting the impression that he's managed to get past her

01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:16.664
defenses. But then Laura says, I'm sorry, mister Steele.

01:22:16.664 --> 01:22:19.864
Company policy, remember? You wouldn't want me to lose my job.

01:22:22.744 --> 01:22:26.505
Oh, she leans back, and he knows he's been dismissed.

01:22:26.664 --> 01:22:29.225
Sitting up, not impressed, he heads toward the door.

01:22:29.510 --> 01:22:32.150
With a small smirk, he throws his jacket over his shoulder and

01:22:32.150 --> 01:22:34.390
says, I wish I weren't so damn dedicated.

01:22:38.470 --> 01:22:43.145
<v Eric>I'm I'm not sure, but I'm not I'm not sure anybody would accuse

01:22:43.145 --> 01:22:45.225
him of being too dedicated.

01:22:46.104 --> 01:22:47.385
<v Sara>No. I I definitely don't think

01:22:47.385 --> 01:22:49.864
<v Eric>so. At least not to the job. Maybe to the

01:22:50.585 --> 01:22:54.345
<v Sara>To the other job that you pitching. But He had attempted to get.

01:22:54.345 --> 01:22:57.929
But and and here's where, like, again, I I think that if they

01:22:57.929 --> 01:23:00.409
were actually sleeping together, I don't see why she would throw

01:23:00.409 --> 01:23:03.130
them out aside from maybe blowing their cover.

01:23:03.130 --> 01:23:04.010
<v Eric>But Mhmm.

01:23:05.529 --> 01:23:09.050
<v Sara>Yeah. So she wishes him sweet dreams, and he leaves.

01:23:10.164 --> 01:23:12.965
And then on the return flight, we see Laura with a tray of food

01:23:12.965 --> 01:23:16.164
getting intercepted by Biff, who is wearing sunglasses.

01:23:18.885 --> 01:23:21.925
He wears sunglasses. Glasses. At night.

01:23:22.369 --> 01:23:25.249
Because he's been hit in the face. No.

01:23:25.250 --> 01:23:29.729
So, yeah, he tells her that Laura has been a naughty girl.

01:23:29.729 --> 01:23:32.050
She asks if anyone has ever told him that he's incredibly

01:23:32.050 --> 01:23:32.929
obnoxious.

01:23:33.250 --> 01:23:36.369
And then Pip tells her to be nice to the old Biffurino.

01:23:37.875 --> 01:23:40.514
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

01:23:40.755 --> 01:23:43.234
He's worse than I don't know.

01:23:43.234 --> 01:23:45.635
I think he's in some ways, he's he's no.

01:23:45.635 --> 01:23:50.274
I don't it it there's it's a tie between him and Butch Bemis at

01:23:50.274 --> 01:23:55.090
this point. Like, Yeah. Yeah. Be nice to the old Biffarino.

01:23:55.329 --> 01:24:03.569
<v Eric>At least with Butch, it's how to how to say it.

01:24:04.385 --> 01:24:09.265
With Butch, it's that's that's who he is.

01:24:09.265 --> 01:24:10.784
And so you're not really surprised.

01:24:10.784 --> 01:24:14.385
With Biff, it's like it's almost a costume that he puts on.

01:24:14.704 --> 01:24:19.579
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. And it's it's very gross. It's just yeah.

01:24:20.380 --> 01:24:22.219
Or he might spill the beans.

01:24:22.219 --> 01:24:26.539
So he's basically now attempting to forcibly coerce her.

01:24:26.619 --> 01:24:26.859
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:24:26.859 --> 01:24:27.179
<v Sara>Right?

01:24:27.179 --> 01:24:29.899
Like, you better you better sleep with me or I'm gonna let make

01:24:29.899 --> 01:24:33.420
you let you lose your job. Like, what a what a piece of crap.

01:24:33.885 --> 01:24:35.164
He is just a piece of crap.

01:24:35.164 --> 01:24:38.364
I hope he falls out of out of the air, like I almost I

01:24:38.604 --> 01:24:41.724
<v Eric>almost filled in the word for you when you said he's a real

01:24:42.204 --> 01:24:44.684
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Deep.

01:24:45.724 --> 01:24:46.844
<v Eric>Yeah. Real Tom Dicker.

01:24:47.189 --> 01:24:50.229
<v Sara>And he's playing with her hair as he says this too. Right?

01:24:50.229 --> 01:24:51.510
And she says, what beans?

01:24:51.510 --> 01:24:54.550
And Biff says, breaking training, passenger in your room.

01:24:55.430 --> 01:24:58.869
Laura's not intimidated. She tells him to put a sock in it, baff.

01:25:00.229 --> 01:25:05.875
Biff. It's Biff. Good comeback. Way to go. Sick burn, dude.

01:25:05.875 --> 01:25:07.475
<v Eric>Well, you told fell her off.

01:25:07.475 --> 01:25:09.395
<v Sara>You really yeah. You really told her.

01:25:10.835 --> 01:25:14.515
Meanwhile, Steele is letting Lorraine give him a tour.

01:25:15.170 --> 01:25:17.010
She's brought him in to see the cockpit.

01:25:17.010 --> 01:25:20.369
And this is this is where I have some more hockey trivia here.

01:25:20.770 --> 01:25:21.329
Okay.

01:25:21.329 --> 01:25:24.929
Because Freddie turns around and asks if it's first if it's his

01:25:24.929 --> 01:25:27.250
first time with them and Steele says he's jet he jetted in

01:25:27.250 --> 01:25:27.649
yesterday.

01:25:28.505 --> 01:25:31.465
And trying to kinda get some information from the case, he said

01:25:31.545 --> 01:25:33.145
he asked Freddie if he saw him last night.

01:25:33.145 --> 01:25:35.064
Freddie says, not unless he was at the Garden last night.

01:25:35.064 --> 01:25:37.944
Rangers played the Oilers. I don't miss the Rangers for nothing.

01:25:38.184 --> 01:25:43.500
So I looked up the 8586 season because basically, the eighties

01:25:43.500 --> 01:25:47.179
belonged to the Edmonton Oilers. They were on 1 hell of a streak.

01:25:47.739 --> 01:25:51.180
And that was when Wayne Gretzky was playing for them. So Okay.

01:25:51.180 --> 01:25:53.260
This was like so I was kinda curious.

01:25:53.260 --> 01:25:56.460
I I can't I couldn't find out whether or not they actually played

01:25:56.460 --> 01:25:58.984
a game when this episode would have aired.

01:25:58.984 --> 01:26:03.465
I couldn't that information was not I didn't dive that deep.

01:26:03.465 --> 01:26:07.465
But, the 8586 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' seventh

01:26:07.465 --> 01:26:11.630
season in the in the NHL, so they were a fairly new team.

01:26:11.869 --> 01:26:14.909
They were coming off back to back Stanley Cup championships.

01:26:15.149 --> 01:26:17.710
Edmonton won the inaugural president's trophy as they finished

01:26:17.710 --> 01:26:20.829
with a 119 points, which was a league high and tied the franchise

01:26:20.829 --> 01:26:22.989
record, which was set in 19 83, 84.

01:26:23.444 --> 01:26:25.844
The Oilers won the Smythe division for the fifth consecutive

01:26:25.844 --> 01:26:28.085
season were heavy favorites to win their third straight Stanley

01:26:28.085 --> 01:26:30.724
Cup, and it was also the fifth consecutive season in which they

01:26:30.724 --> 01:26:32.164
scored at least 400 goals.

01:26:32.244 --> 01:26:34.804
However, the Oilers were defeated by the Calgary Flames in the

01:26:34.804 --> 01:26:38.324
second round. So they didn't win the the Calgary Flames.

01:26:40.099 --> 01:26:40.500
<v Eric>Okay.

01:26:40.500 --> 01:26:44.420
I I I really don't know hockey, but I I've heard a lot of the

01:26:44.420 --> 01:26:46.260
team names, but I've never heard that 1.

01:26:46.420 --> 01:26:46.979
<v Sara>Really?

01:26:46.979 --> 01:26:48.099
<v Eric>Do they still exist?

01:26:48.179 --> 01:26:49.539
<v Sara>Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

01:26:49.859 --> 01:26:53.155
You go to Calgary, and it's a big rival ry too because Edmonton

01:26:53.395 --> 01:26:56.195
the 2 cities are in Alberta. Mhmm.

01:26:56.195 --> 01:27:00.595
And there's already sort of a ideological divide between Edmonton

01:27:00.595 --> 01:27:04.755
and Calgary, in the sense that, like, Edmonton tends to lean more

01:27:04.755 --> 01:27:08.030
liberal. Calgary tends to lean more conservative.

01:27:08.030 --> 01:27:10.590
So if you you know, there's like a it's kinda like Montreal and

01:27:10.590 --> 01:27:14.189
Toronto too. Like, there's a there's a rivalry. So Mhmm. Yeah.

01:27:14.189 --> 01:27:16.909
Calgary flames have been around for a long time.

01:27:17.149 --> 01:27:22.145
I actually got so I used to work for a hotel company in the call

01:27:22.145 --> 01:27:24.224
center and I would book hotel rooms.

01:27:24.224 --> 01:27:26.545
People would call thinking they weren't getting the hotel, but

01:27:26.545 --> 01:27:27.585
they'd be getting a call center.

01:27:27.585 --> 01:27:31.664
And I was the 1 It was for the Sheraton brand, which has now been

01:27:31.664 --> 01:27:35.760
bought out by, I I don't remember the name of their company that

01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:37.760
bought them out. It was another big chain that bought them out.

01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:41.359
But anyway, I once booked a hotel for Shay Weber who played for

01:27:41.359 --> 01:27:42.159
Calgary at the time.

01:27:42.159 --> 01:27:44.960
And he was a pretty like I don't know if he's still playing.

01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:48.835
I think he is, but he was a big, big hockey player at the time.

01:27:48.835 --> 01:27:52.114
And his agent was called called me because we had an NHL rate.

01:27:52.114 --> 01:27:56.755
So anytime somebody was booking 1 room for their players, they

01:27:56.755 --> 01:27:58.114
would ask for the NHL rate.

01:27:58.114 --> 01:28:00.994
So this guy calls and he says he's booking for Shay Weber.

01:28:00.994 --> 01:28:02.489
And I'm like, oh, this is kinda cool.

01:28:02.649 --> 01:28:05.289
So he asked for the and it was in Calgary, they were obviously

01:28:05.289 --> 01:28:08.250
there for a home game. Asked for the NHL rate, I gave it to him.

01:28:08.250 --> 01:28:11.929
It was like $250 a night, which for a Sheraton was not bad.

01:28:11.930 --> 01:28:14.810
Or, I think it was 1 of their other brands that was like a little

01:28:14.810 --> 01:28:17.689
more high end, but it was a Weston. That was it.

01:28:18.145 --> 01:28:21.104
And so I gave him the NHL rate and the agent's like, do you have

01:28:21.104 --> 01:28:21.744
anything cheaper?

01:28:21.744 --> 01:28:25.425
And I'm like, my guy, your client makes millions.

01:28:25.505 --> 01:28:27.985
You can afford this. I can't say that.

01:28:27.985 --> 01:28:31.579
But like, I was like, well, sir, that's you can try the, you

01:28:31.579 --> 01:28:34.380
know, the CA rate or the whatever rate or, you know, I went

01:28:34.380 --> 01:28:36.619
through my list of rates so they could check check.

01:28:36.619 --> 01:28:37.819
But so, yeah, that's

01:28:37.979 --> 01:28:40.859
<v Eric>You could call down to the y and see if they've got a corner for

01:28:40.859 --> 01:28:41.339
him.

01:28:41.500 --> 01:28:41.899
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:28:41.899 --> 01:28:44.619
That's the but that's kinda it was just sort of a funny, like,

01:28:45.925 --> 01:28:47.604
why are you trying to haggle with me?

01:28:47.604 --> 01:28:50.805
You're representing a multimillion anyway.

01:28:50.805 --> 01:28:55.204
But that particular season was despite the fact that they didn't

01:28:55.284 --> 01:28:57.284
I don't think they won the cup that season.

01:28:57.284 --> 01:29:00.670
They that Wayne Gretzky was the guy at that point.

01:29:00.670 --> 01:29:06.189
He set an NHL record here in 2 15 points, 163 assists, breaking

01:29:06.189 --> 01:29:08.109
records that had previously been set.

01:29:08.109 --> 01:29:10.989
He won a 6 Art Ross trophy, seventh Art trophy.

01:29:11.310 --> 01:29:13.469
Like he just He was crushing it.

01:29:14.795 --> 01:29:18.074
The And Edmonton actually got into the final last year.

01:29:18.715 --> 01:29:22.074
They didn't win, but they haven't won a Stanley Cup since the

01:29:22.074 --> 01:29:24.875
eighties. So I it would have been nice.

01:29:24.875 --> 01:29:28.300
Anyway, so it's just kind of funny because he says he doesn't

01:29:28.300 --> 01:29:31.340
miss the rangers for nothing, but there's a good chance that the

01:29:31.340 --> 01:29:35.579
boilers beat them. So yeah.

01:29:35.579 --> 01:29:38.380
Not to be deterred, Steele leans in and says, perhaps it was

01:29:38.380 --> 01:29:39.420
captain McBride.

01:29:39.635 --> 01:29:42.275
When And he doesn't answer, Steele apologizes and says, good day.

01:29:42.275 --> 01:29:45.074
And obviously, when you can see the look up the look on McBride's

01:29:45.074 --> 01:29:47.715
face because he's the 1 that hit him in the baggage area.

01:29:47.715 --> 01:29:51.235
So he's thinking that they're closing in on his black market

01:29:51.235 --> 01:29:56.749
pastrami business. I have some thoughts about when we get there.

01:29:59.149 --> 01:30:01.869
And Wanda, meanwhile, she walks over to Laura with a tray of

01:30:01.869 --> 01:30:06.029
drinks, and she kinda drops it spilling the juice or liquor or

01:30:06.029 --> 01:30:06.829
whatever's in the drink.

01:30:07.069 --> 01:30:10.234
Laura assures her it's just a glass, but she sees how upset she

01:30:10.234 --> 01:30:10.715
looks.

01:30:11.114 --> 01:30:14.715
Wanda leans down, and she sort of crouches down to help her clean

01:30:14.715 --> 01:30:17.594
it up and apologizes that she's a bit shaky these days.

01:30:17.594 --> 01:30:19.835
Laura says, it's that passenger, Barry Holder, isn't it?

01:30:19.835 --> 01:30:22.074
Wanda looks shocked and asks how she knows about Barry.

01:30:22.439 --> 01:30:24.359
Laura admits she saw them in the hotel.

01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:26.840
Wanda begs her not to say anything, and Laura assures her that

01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:29.159
it's none of her business, and she starts to tell her that she's

01:30:29.159 --> 01:30:33.000
here if Wanda ever wants to talk, but Sally interrupts them,

01:30:33.000 --> 01:30:35.239
telling them to move as there are passengers with empty glasses

01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:38.895
out there. She just every time she move it, ladies.

01:30:38.895 --> 01:30:41.774
There's passengers with empty oh my god. Empty glasses.

01:30:42.735 --> 01:30:44.814
Won't somebody think of the children?

01:30:47.935 --> 01:30:53.789
<v Eric>Yes. It's all about the the kids. I'm I imagine she is the lead

01:30:54.189 --> 01:30:54.670
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:30:54.670 --> 01:30:55.630
<v Eric>Stewardess.

01:30:56.110 --> 01:31:00.030
And so she feels that she's gotta keep everybody on their toes

01:31:00.030 --> 01:31:01.789
because otherwise, it'll be her job.

01:31:02.510 --> 01:31:06.270
<v Sara>Yeah. And she's also obvious clearly ticked off at Laura because

01:31:06.110 --> 01:31:06.909
<v Eric>Well, that too.

01:31:06.909 --> 01:31:08.505
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

01:31:08.744 --> 01:31:09.545
<v Eric>Boff. So

01:31:10.344 --> 01:31:11.704
<v Sara>About Boff. Yeah.

01:31:11.944 --> 01:31:16.744
So she and here's something interesting because this line was

01:31:16.744 --> 01:31:21.349
changed in the script, or it was changed from in the script.

01:31:21.590 --> 01:31:26.069
So I'm just trying to find it here because when she here it is.

01:31:26.310 --> 01:31:31.510
In the script, when she encounters Sally, Sally says to Laura,

01:31:31.510 --> 01:31:32.709
stay away from Biff.

01:31:32.869 --> 01:31:35.029
You keep playing with matches, you might get burnt.

01:31:35.805 --> 01:31:39.564
And in the finished episode, she says, stay away from Biff or

01:31:39.564 --> 01:31:41.805
somebody might just clip your wings. Mhmm.

01:31:41.805 --> 01:31:46.204
Which makes more sense given the whole flight thing.

01:31:46.204 --> 01:31:48.045
Like, it's a better line. So Mhmm.

01:31:48.400 --> 01:31:51.680
I'm curious as to how that change happened, where that change

01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:54.319
happened, because that's not what's in the script. So

01:31:54.560 --> 01:31:54.800
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:59.440
Of course, the script that we've got is from July 15, so that's

01:31:59.440 --> 01:32:01.119
quite some time before

01:32:01.425 --> 01:32:01.744
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:32:01.744 --> 01:32:03.024
<v Eric>That's actually aired.

01:32:03.024 --> 01:32:04.864
So there was a lot of time for it to go through a lot of

01:32:04.864 --> 01:32:06.064
rewrites. Although surprisingly

01:32:06.385 --> 01:32:07.505
<v Sara>It did there's not lot.

01:32:07.505 --> 01:32:08.145
<v Eric>Change a huge.

01:32:08.145 --> 01:32:10.465
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. There's like the odd line or 2 that's changed

01:32:10.625 --> 01:32:10.784
<v Eric>Mhmm.

01:32:10.784 --> 01:32:12.624
<v Sara>But not even enough for me to mention.

01:32:12.625 --> 01:32:14.864
So that was the only thing that I kinda saw.

01:32:14.864 --> 01:32:17.630
That that's the only 1 that jumped out at me because Mhmm.

01:32:17.949 --> 01:32:20.909
What's there, what ended up there is better Yeah.

01:32:20.909 --> 01:32:21.710
Fits the whole flight.

01:32:21.710 --> 01:32:24.109
<v Eric>They changed the they changed the airline name too.

01:32:24.109 --> 01:32:25.710
So I mean, just minor things. Yeah.

01:32:25.710 --> 01:32:26.669
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:32:27.789 --> 01:32:30.989
Laura is speechless with just how much she doesn't care about

01:32:30.989 --> 01:32:35.864
Biff. Yeah. It's just what I was like, what you're warning me?

01:32:35.864 --> 01:32:40.104
No problem. I have no intention of going anywhere near Biff.

01:32:41.385 --> 01:32:48.069
I'm good. I'm speechless with not caring. Yes. So there's that.

01:32:48.069 --> 01:32:48.630
Yeah.

01:32:48.630 --> 01:32:52.710
She starts to walk away passing by, passenger pinches her butt.

01:32:52.869 --> 01:32:53.590
Sure.

01:32:53.670 --> 01:32:56.630
Oh, so she's already ticked off when she goes over to steal and

01:32:56.630 --> 01:32:57.829
gives him his club soda.

01:32:57.829 --> 01:33:00.069
In a quiet voice, she asks if there's anything to report.

01:33:00.069 --> 01:33:01.909
He tells me the salmon was a trifle salty.

01:33:05.244 --> 01:33:09.005
I mean, when you think about it, he has oh, poor guy's gotta sit

01:33:09.005 --> 01:33:12.845
on a luxury airline and fly to and from and, you know, well, it's

01:33:12.845 --> 01:33:16.489
gotta be where she's, like, literally getting us physically

01:33:16.489 --> 01:33:18.969
harassed, sexually harassed. Like, it's yeah.

01:33:21.130 --> 01:33:23.929
She testily asks him anything else.

01:33:23.930 --> 01:33:26.170
He tells her that Freddie appears to have an alibi.

01:33:26.729 --> 01:33:30.885
Again, all he has is Freddie's word that he was at the was at

01:33:30.885 --> 01:33:33.684
Madison Square Garden. Like, he's got no proof he was there.

01:33:33.925 --> 01:33:34.644
<v Eric>Right.

01:33:34.645 --> 01:33:37.204
<v Sara>So he well, I guess that's why he says appears to have an alibi

01:33:37.204 --> 01:33:41.444
as opposed to he definitely has an alibi because yeah.

01:33:41.684 --> 01:33:43.284
And he bets McBride is their man.

01:33:43.920 --> 01:33:46.720
As someone walks by, Steele takes a big sip and angrily says,

01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:49.279
miss, this has a lime. I wanted a lemon.

01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:52.000
So he's really overcompensating.

01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:56.000
So Laura tries her best to sound polite and says, but you asked

01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:57.039
for a lime, sir.

01:33:57.635 --> 01:34:02.835
And to which she replies, yes, but now I want a lemon, which she

01:34:02.835 --> 01:34:03.234
did.

01:34:05.314 --> 01:34:10.114
<v Eric>The the sad part is that there are really customers Yes.

01:34:10.194 --> 01:34:10.914
Like that.

01:34:10.914 --> 01:34:11.555
<v Sara>Yes. There are.

01:34:11.555 --> 01:34:14.170
<v Eric>You know, restaurants or whatever. It's yeah.

01:34:14.170 --> 01:34:17.530
I know what I said, but it's your fault that I didn't order what

01:34:17.530 --> 01:34:18.409
I wanted. So

01:34:18.729 --> 01:34:21.609
<v Sara>Yep. Yep. And I because I worked in customer service.

01:34:21.609 --> 01:34:23.609
I can 100% attest to that.

01:34:23.689 --> 01:34:27.484
These people are out there, and you have to do your best not to

01:34:27.484 --> 01:34:31.965
murder them because that's apparently illegal. So It is? Yeah.

01:34:31.965 --> 01:34:35.965
Apparently, it is illegal to kill people that are complete jerks

01:34:35.965 --> 01:34:36.684
to

01:34:36.604 --> 01:34:40.380
<v Eric>I thought that it was okay in some places.

01:34:40.380 --> 01:34:44.219
<v Sara>Yeah. No. Sadly, it's not. Maybe in Alaska. I don't know.

01:34:44.219 --> 01:34:49.340
What's funny about this exchange is that literally every time I

01:34:49.340 --> 01:34:52.219
go to the grocery store, when I see the lemons, I think, now I

01:34:52.219 --> 01:34:53.100
want a lemon.

01:34:53.515 --> 01:34:56.635
That's my my little speech today because, like, it yeah.

01:34:56.395 --> 01:35:02.795
Just Well, she leans down, and she says, aren't you taking this a

01:35:02.795 --> 01:35:03.835
bit too far?

01:35:04.314 --> 01:35:07.595
He smiles smugly and says, just thinking of our cover, Laura.

01:35:07.595 --> 01:35:11.810
And this is where she gives in to temptation.

01:35:12.770 --> 01:35:15.329
She thinks about it for about half a second.

01:35:15.970 --> 01:35:19.489
And then it it says in the script, accidentally on purpose drops

01:35:19.489 --> 01:35:23.905
the drink in his lap, which I really appreciate.

01:35:23.905 --> 01:35:25.905
But it even clarifies that in the script.

01:35:25.905 --> 01:35:29.425
Accidentally on purpose, Laura spills the drink in his lap. Yeah.

01:35:29.824 --> 01:35:32.225
Good for you, Laura. He deserved it. Yes.

01:35:33.439 --> 01:35:35.840
She pretends to apologize profusely.

01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:38.239
She kinda wipes out his leg for a minute and goes to get him a

01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:38.639
napkin.

01:35:38.639 --> 01:35:44.960
And the look on Brosnan's face is just, again, chef's kiss for

01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.675
the comedy of it, cause he's just so mad, and he's gotta you

01:35:48.675 --> 01:35:49.555
gotta think he's gonna have to

01:35:49.555 --> 01:35:49.795
<v Eric>get off.

01:35:49.795 --> 01:35:51.154
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:35:52.435 --> 01:35:55.475
He's gonna have to get off this plane with his pants wet, looking

01:35:55.475 --> 01:36:00.090
like he soiled himself. Yeah. Good for you, Laura.

01:36:00.090 --> 01:36:04.409
<v Eric>You know, I I've had things like that happen.

01:36:04.409 --> 01:36:08.489
The 1 of the worst ones was yeah. It wasn't even that.

01:36:08.569 --> 01:36:14.335
We were I I was in probably, I don't know, sixth or seventh

01:36:14.335 --> 01:36:17.694
grade, and we were driving to the doctor's office and and the

01:36:17.694 --> 01:36:23.135
doctor office was like 100 some odd miles away because we lived

01:36:23.135 --> 01:36:25.135
in a little small town in the middle of nowhere.

01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:30.880
And to get to it, you had to drive over these roads that were up

01:36:30.880 --> 01:36:33.119
and down and up and down and up

01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:34.079
<v Sara>and down.

01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:38.960
<v Eric>And I was sitting in the front seat and my 2 sisters were in the

01:36:38.960 --> 01:36:39.439
back.

01:36:40.320 --> 01:36:45.034
And at 1 point, my the older of my 2 sisters leans forward to

01:36:45.034 --> 01:36:51.755
tell my mom, I don't think I'm feeling too Oh, no. All over me.

01:36:51.755 --> 01:36:52.635
<v Sara>Oh, no.

01:36:52.635 --> 01:36:54.235
<v Eric>And we were on the way to the doctor.

01:36:55.180 --> 01:36:59.099
We weren't even on the way back. Oh, yeah. That was not

01:36:59.260 --> 01:37:00.220
<v Sara>That sucks.

01:37:00.220 --> 01:37:01.899
<v Eric>I sympathize with Steele.

01:37:02.460 --> 01:37:05.579
<v Sara>Well, I mean, I do to a point. He had that 1 coming.

01:37:05.579 --> 01:37:07.100
<v Eric>Like, he get Still, it's

01:37:07.260 --> 01:37:11.244
<v Sara>You didn't deserve that, but still kinda Still. Deserve that.

01:37:13.965 --> 01:37:16.684
Back in the offices, we see Laura and Steele return, and Laura

01:37:16.684 --> 01:37:18.684
says that she hopes Mildred's made some progress.

01:37:18.925 --> 01:37:21.564
But when they enter the office, all they hear is Mildred and

01:37:21.564 --> 01:37:25.079
Marvin bickering about whether Steel would prefer coffee or tea.

01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:30.119
E. The phone rings. Mildred and Marvin both sprint to it.

01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:35.400
<v Eric>Oh, is the the did you you skipped over the line, I think.

01:37:35.864 --> 01:37:36.104
<v Sara>Where

01:37:37.064 --> 01:37:41.944
<v Eric>oh, no. I guess it it's it didn't make it into the episode.

01:37:41.944 --> 01:37:44.824
<v Sara>Yeah. This this this yeah. Your coffee tastes like battery acid.

01:37:44.824 --> 01:37:47.145
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah. Mildred, I'll make the coffee around here.

01:37:47.145 --> 01:37:49.625
Marvin, your coffee tastes like battery acid.

01:37:49.625 --> 01:37:50.664
Mildred, too strong for you.

01:37:50.939 --> 01:37:53.179
Well, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

01:37:53.659 --> 01:37:55.340
They should've left that in. I just

01:37:55.500 --> 01:37:59.019
<v Sara>They should've left that in. That was that was funny. I agree.

01:38:00.539 --> 01:38:03.500
They sprint to the phone. Marvin gets there first.

01:38:03.500 --> 01:38:05.364
He picks it up and says Remington Steel Investigations.

01:38:05.364 --> 01:38:08.244
And then Mildred pretends he hasn't spoken at all, and she says,

01:38:08.244 --> 01:38:10.724
Remington Steele Investigations. Can I help you?

01:38:11.204 --> 01:38:13.204
Marvin says, go ahead, please.

01:38:13.204 --> 01:38:15.604
They both pause and look at the phone, and Mildred accusingly

01:38:15.604 --> 01:38:17.124
says, he hung up, bright guy.

01:38:17.204 --> 01:38:20.649
And Marvin retorts that he answered first. Laura looks at Steele

01:38:20.649 --> 01:38:24.569
<v Eric>and says Oh, that that's it's not my job.

01:38:24.569 --> 01:38:26.569
I was hired as a personal valet.

01:38:26.729 --> 01:38:27.609
<v Sara>But Yeah.

01:38:27.689 --> 01:38:30.409
<v Eric>Yeah. It's I answered first.

01:38:30.489 --> 01:38:34.250
<v Sara>Yeah. What a like, literally, Yeah. Exactly.

01:38:35.505 --> 01:38:38.465
And Laura Lowe looks at Steele because she knows this is his

01:38:38.465 --> 01:38:41.104
doing and says, I hope you're proud of yourself before she

01:38:41.104 --> 01:38:43.185
whistles to get their attention. I can't do that.

01:38:43.185 --> 01:38:44.225
Can you whistle like that?

01:38:44.225 --> 01:38:45.425
<v Eric>Because I'm Not like no.

01:38:45.425 --> 01:38:47.104
<v Sara>Okay. I've never been able to do that.

01:38:47.104 --> 01:38:51.239
And I've I've people have tried to teach me, but I I I guess

01:38:51.239 --> 01:38:55.800
something that you can't really describe either because it yeah.

01:38:56.279 --> 01:38:57.079
I don't know.

01:38:57.079 --> 01:38:57.319
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:38:57.319 --> 01:39:00.439
You gotta stick your fingers in your mouth and then tell you, no.

01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:04.439
<v Sara>It doesn't work for me. So I'm kinda jealous of people.

01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:08.094
I can do that. I can't do it. So she gets their attention.

01:39:08.094 --> 01:39:10.335
She walks over to them, tells them mutual corners.

01:39:10.494 --> 01:39:12.895
She tells Marvin to go into Steele's office and Mildred into

01:39:12.895 --> 01:39:13.454
hers.

01:39:13.694 --> 01:39:16.734
Mildred protests, but Laura says, now in a voice that brooks no

01:39:16.734 --> 01:39:17.054
argument.

01:39:17.600 --> 01:39:20.159
Laura looks at Steele and tells him that mister Slotman is

01:39:20.159 --> 01:39:22.560
history. He can break into him any way he wants.

01:39:22.560 --> 01:39:25.359
Steele nods and goes in his office while Laura goes into hers.

01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:27.679
She closes the door. Yeah.

01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:31.675
And Mildred begins to say, I'm sorry, miss Holt, but if that

01:39:31.675 --> 01:39:34.155
pipsqueak is gonna be here, Laura cuts her off and lets her know

01:39:34.155 --> 01:39:35.675
that Marvin has been terminated.

01:39:36.555 --> 01:39:38.715
Mildred looks surprised and then says, oh, good.

01:39:38.715 --> 01:39:43.710
And kudos here to Laura because she and I'm not saying they hand

01:39:43.710 --> 01:39:46.429
it beautifully handle it beautifully later. Mhmm.

01:39:46.429 --> 01:39:50.029
To be fair, there's 2 things going on at once when they have that

01:39:50.349 --> 01:39:51.069
blow up.

01:39:51.389 --> 01:39:55.229
But here she sees that Marvin is directly undermining Mildred's

01:39:55.229 --> 01:39:58.295
place, that he's causing disruption

01:39:58.534 --> 01:39:58.854
<v Eric>Mhmm.

01:39:58.935 --> 01:40:02.215
<v Sara>That he's here for Steele's vanity and nothing more, and that

01:40:03.094 --> 01:40:06.774
she's going to do the right thing and make sure that Mildred

01:40:06.774 --> 01:40:11.139
feels valued and respected.

01:40:11.139 --> 01:40:13.779
Because she knows that that's not how Mildred's obviously feeling

01:40:13.779 --> 01:40:16.340
at this point because she's been dealing with Marvin since they

01:40:16.340 --> 01:40:19.539
left. So sums up to Laura here.

01:40:19.539 --> 01:40:22.659
<v Eric>You know, it's it's sad to say though that in a lot of

01:40:22.659 --> 01:40:26.975
circumstances, Mildred would be the 1 getting called out onto the

01:40:26.975 --> 01:40:27.534
carpet.

01:40:27.854 --> 01:40:29.695
<v Sara>Yeah. In in any other workplace.

01:40:29.695 --> 01:40:31.534
<v Eric>Why are you making a big deal of this?

01:40:31.774 --> 01:40:32.975
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:40:32.975 --> 01:40:33.375
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:40:33.375 --> 01:40:35.695
Usually, people who say, why are you making a big deal of it?

01:40:35.695 --> 01:40:37.055
Are the people making the big deal of it?

01:40:37.449 --> 01:40:40.809
<v Sara>Or causing the big deal and then being defensive about it when

01:40:40.809 --> 01:40:43.209
somebody else calls them on their behavior, which is Mhmm.

01:40:43.449 --> 01:40:46.569
Obviously ridiculous in this particular circumstance.

01:40:46.649 --> 01:40:51.715
But Mildred is a value, you know, she's family, and Laura sees

01:40:51.715 --> 01:40:55.715
her as family. She doesn't wanna see Mildred hurt or undermined.

01:40:55.715 --> 01:40:56.274
So she's

01:40:56.595 --> 01:41:00.114
<v Eric>only that, but she is a permanent employee.

01:41:00.194 --> 01:41:05.750
Marvin is just a just at best an intern.

01:41:05.750 --> 01:41:08.469
He's not really even that because he's like you said, he's a

01:41:08.469 --> 01:41:09.429
vanity project.

01:41:09.590 --> 01:41:12.869
But at best, he's only there for a very, very short period of

01:41:12.869 --> 01:41:15.109
time. And you know what, Marvin?

01:41:15.510 --> 01:41:20.054
It's your job to fit in, not our job to accommodate you.

01:41:20.054 --> 01:41:24.215
<v Sara>Pretty much. Yeah. So Laura's just she's not she's not having it.

01:41:24.215 --> 01:41:27.894
She she, you know, she assures Mildred that he's gone.

01:41:28.375 --> 01:41:30.934
And, unfortunately, she's not there to stick around to ensure

01:41:30.934 --> 01:41:34.590
that that happens, which is how it kinda spirals.

01:41:34.590 --> 01:41:37.630
<v Eric>But because she let she she made the mistake of trusting Steele

01:41:37.630 --> 01:41:38.109
to handle it.

01:41:38.270 --> 01:41:38.909
<v Sara>Handle it.

01:41:38.909 --> 01:41:41.710
<v Eric>She should have been of his vanity project.

01:41:42.189 --> 01:41:44.909
<v Sara>She should have been the 1 that went in and said, I'm sorry,

01:41:45.229 --> 01:41:46.429
Marvin. It's not working out.

01:41:46.935 --> 01:41:47.574
<v Eric>You're gone.

01:41:47.574 --> 01:41:48.774
<v Sara>A nice life. Goodbye.

01:41:48.774 --> 01:41:51.895
But instead, she leaves it to Steele, who, as you said, coward.

01:41:52.215 --> 01:41:53.975
But we'll get there. Yeah.

01:41:54.375 --> 01:41:56.774
Laura asked Mildred if she's come up with any reason someone

01:41:56.774 --> 01:41:58.694
would want to smuggle a dead hitman on an airplane.

01:41:58.694 --> 01:42:01.175
And Mildred admits, that sounds like an opening to a joke.

01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:05.479
You know? A dead hitman falls out of a bag and shoot an airline.

01:42:07.000 --> 01:42:08.520
Mildred admits she's got bupkis.

01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.000
Laura crosses her arms, telling her as soon as mister Steele is

01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:12.599
through, they'll get to the bottom of it.

01:42:12.920 --> 01:42:15.319
Steele, meanwhile, is trying to find the right way to fire

01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:16.039
Marvin.

01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:17.079
<v Eric>Without firing him.

01:42:17.295 --> 01:42:20.814
<v Sara>Without firing. Okay. He starts by this long rambling.

01:42:20.814 --> 01:42:23.694
There comes a time in every relationship with a gap.

01:42:23.774 --> 01:42:26.175
Somebody say a vast chasm develops.

01:42:26.175 --> 01:42:29.295
Like, what are you talking about? And then,

01:42:30.149 --> 01:42:35.109
<v Eric>you know, it's the kind of thing where and politicians are really

01:42:35.109 --> 01:42:35.989
great at this.

01:42:36.229 --> 01:42:41.909
You ask a question and they start spouting off stuff because a

01:42:41.909 --> 01:42:45.234
lot of people will will hear them spouting and say, well, he

01:42:45.234 --> 01:42:47.314
answered the question. No. He didn't. He just No.

01:42:47.474 --> 01:42:48.354
<v Sara>He talk around that.

01:42:48.594 --> 01:42:49.795
<v Eric>Yeah. Gave a response.

01:42:49.795 --> 01:42:51.554
That's not the same thing as answering the question.

01:42:51.635 --> 01:42:54.194
And that's kinda what Steele's doing here is he's he's not really

01:42:54.194 --> 01:42:56.670
wanting to say what he's supposed to say.

01:42:56.750 --> 01:42:59.069
So he says everything but that.

01:42:59.149 --> 01:42:59.949
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:42:59.949 --> 01:43:03.550
And that actually, again, not to not to get into anything

01:43:03.550 --> 01:43:06.909
specifically controversial, but our provincial government

01:43:06.909 --> 01:43:11.435
recently, it came out that they were about to pass a bill that

01:43:11.435 --> 01:43:14.875
would basically eliminate rent control in every way, shape, or

01:43:14.875 --> 01:43:15.274
form.

01:43:15.274 --> 01:43:19.274
They were going to put in this kind of backdoor to eliminate rent

01:43:19.274 --> 01:43:23.039
control by basically ending security of tenancy.

01:43:23.039 --> 01:43:25.920
Because you know how like you sign a 1 year lease and then after

01:43:25.920 --> 01:43:29.599
that it's month to month, they would basically allow the landlord

01:43:29.599 --> 01:43:33.439
to get rid of you after that for no reason whatsoever.

01:43:33.599 --> 01:43:36.800
So, obviously, that got a lot of attention in the media.

01:43:36.800 --> 01:43:41.005
I don't even think they expected that to get noticed, but it did.

01:43:41.005 --> 01:43:43.164
And they were forced to walk it back.

01:43:43.324 --> 01:43:48.765
And so in question period, 1 of the opposing MPPs asked him flat

01:43:48.765 --> 01:43:52.079
out, you've walked it back for now, but can you promise in the

01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:55.840
future that you will not be making any changes to rental security

01:43:55.920 --> 01:44:00.479
at all? And he did exactly what you said, talked around it.

01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:04.319
We're trying to make more spaces for people to rent.

01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:06.800
We need more buildings. We need more landlords, blah, blah, blah.

01:44:07.335 --> 01:44:09.814
Didn't answer the question. But at least they called him on it.

01:44:09.814 --> 01:44:13.414
They were like, that wasn't an answer, mister Ford. Like yeah.

01:44:13.414 --> 01:44:15.895
And this is Steel's trying to do the same thing.

01:44:15.895 --> 01:44:19.654
He's trying to talk around firing him like a chasm, a gap, or

01:44:19.654 --> 01:44:20.055
whatever.

01:44:20.055 --> 01:44:25.529
Like, that's not a that's you're not but then Marvin's watch

01:44:25.529 --> 01:44:28.810
beeps, looks at his clipboard, and tells him the alterations on

01:44:28.810 --> 01:44:29.770
his new suit are done.

01:44:29.770 --> 01:44:32.170
Here, mine's steel that his haircut is at 4 tomorrow, and the

01:44:32.170 --> 01:44:34.170
theater was sold out of tickets for Saturday night, but he

01:44:34.170 --> 01:44:37.484
persuaded the manager to give him a VIP box. Yeah.

01:44:38.524 --> 01:44:45.164
He's a he's a I mean, if Marvin was a woman, Steele would already

01:44:45.164 --> 01:44:48.765
be sleeping with him at this point. Like, let's be clear here.

01:44:49.030 --> 01:44:53.030
He's done everything that Steele would want in, you know, he's

01:44:53.030 --> 01:44:54.390
got the yeah.

01:44:55.829 --> 01:44:59.430
He apologizes for interrupting, and Steele backtracks saying,

01:44:59.430 --> 01:45:01.670
sometimes chasms aren't as fast as they seem.

01:45:03.270 --> 01:45:04.229
Tells him to carry on.

01:45:04.695 --> 01:45:08.614
Walks towards the door, pauses, grins, and says, VIP box. Steel.

01:45:12.695 --> 01:45:13.255
Steel.

01:45:14.695 --> 01:45:17.895
So as I get into the elevator, Laura asks how he took it, and

01:45:17.895 --> 01:45:20.420
Steel says, well, under the circumstances.

01:45:20.420 --> 01:45:23.219
She asked when he's leaving, and Steele pauses and says 6 to 8

01:45:23.219 --> 01:45:27.619
weeks. She gives him a look and he says, what?

01:45:27.619 --> 01:45:33.185
Every employee needs decent notification. 2 weeks, Steele.

01:45:33.185 --> 01:45:35.425
That's usually 2, not 6 to 8.

01:45:36.145 --> 01:45:40.784
<v Eric>And and you can bypass all that for, cause.

01:45:41.425 --> 01:45:41.905
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:45:41.905 --> 01:45:44.840
Which I don't think they necessarily have in this particular case

01:45:44.840 --> 01:45:45.079
because

01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:46.840
<v Eric>Well, but he's an intern. He's he's

01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:48.039
<v Sara>Well, that's the thing.

01:45:48.039 --> 01:45:51.479
They don't even have to give cause for an intern. Exactly. Yeah.

01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:52.359
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:45:52.359 --> 01:45:55.239
Especially if he's an unpaid intern because he's doing it for

01:45:55.239 --> 01:45:55.800
credit.

01:45:56.039 --> 01:45:56.359
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:45:56.359 --> 01:45:59.444
We don't even know at this point if there was a paycheck

01:45:59.444 --> 01:46:01.765
involved. I'm guessing not, though. So Yeah.

01:46:01.765 --> 01:46:03.364
<v Eric>Probably credit for a class or something.

01:46:03.364 --> 01:46:06.645
Or, you know, getting in good with the teacher so I can get an a.

01:46:06.645 --> 01:46:10.725
Or something you other put ways to do that if it were a female

01:46:10.725 --> 01:46:12.725
teacher. Sorry. Didn't say that.

01:46:13.140 --> 01:46:15.779
<v Sara>I mean, he he has the glasses, but they're not working the same

01:46:15.779 --> 01:46:18.420
way. It sounds not it's not working for me.

01:46:18.420 --> 01:46:19.939
Not working for me at all.

01:46:23.619 --> 01:46:27.219
Meanwhile, the other elevator doors open and a man gets off.

01:46:27.219 --> 01:46:30.264
He goes into the office and Mildred and Marvin both ask if they

01:46:30.264 --> 01:46:31.064
can help him.

01:46:31.304 --> 01:46:34.104
The man asked for Steele, and Mildred says she he just missed

01:46:34.104 --> 01:46:34.425
him.

01:46:34.425 --> 01:46:36.744
Marvin offers to be of assistance, adding that he is mister

01:46:36.744 --> 01:46:40.425
Steele's personal attache. Ugh. Somebody punch him.

01:46:40.425 --> 01:46:46.850
<v Eric>So at least he's he's sort of honest at this point in

01:46:46.850 --> 01:46:50.050
acknowledging that he doesn't actually do anything for the

01:46:50.050 --> 01:46:53.489
agency. He's he's a yeah. He's a personal hire.

01:46:53.489 --> 01:46:56.704
<v Sara>He's an errand boy. He's yeah. Yeah. He's he's an errand boy.

01:46:56.704 --> 01:47:00.864
And and this is where Mildred screws up. And Oh, yeah.

01:47:00.864 --> 01:47:04.305
You genuinely feel bad for her because I don't like, Mildred's

01:47:04.305 --> 01:47:06.465
usually so on the ball when it comes to this sort of thing.

01:47:06.465 --> 01:47:08.385
Like, she doesn't give the information out to those guys

01:47:08.385 --> 01:47:09.425
pretending to be FBI.

01:47:09.869 --> 01:47:14.350
And she she's usually very, very tight lipped with agency

01:47:14.350 --> 01:47:16.189
information and all these sorts of things.

01:47:16.189 --> 01:47:19.710
So it's not like Mildred has made mistakes like this before.

01:47:19.710 --> 01:47:22.829
She's made other mistakes, but, like, this kind of stuff she's

01:47:22.829 --> 01:47:23.869
usually pretty good with.

01:47:23.869 --> 01:47:28.885
It's just that she's so worked up by Marvin's presence, and she's

01:47:28.885 --> 01:47:33.685
feeling so disrespected and so pushed out and so, like, just

01:47:33.685 --> 01:47:40.085
invisible that she forgets. She she just she drops the ball.

01:47:40.630 --> 01:47:45.750
<v Eric>She hates him so much that she will do anything no matter how out

01:47:45.750 --> 01:47:49.590
of bounds it is simply because she hates him.

01:47:49.829 --> 01:47:53.664
<v Sara>And and but, I mean and she but that she's got kind of a cause

01:47:53.664 --> 01:47:54.064
too.

01:47:54.064 --> 01:47:57.505
Like, this is this is a kid that's come in and basically just

01:47:58.305 --> 01:48:03.664
disrespected her, disrespected her job, has not shown her, like

01:48:04.064 --> 01:48:05.984
<v Eric>You can understand her frustration,

01:48:05.985 --> 01:48:06.385
<v Sara>but

01:48:06.619 --> 01:48:08.539
<v Eric>but she's letting it get better.

01:48:08.539 --> 01:48:09.100
<v Sara>Oh, for sure.

01:48:09.100 --> 01:48:12.539
<v Eric>And she's making decisions based on the fact that she just hates

01:48:12.539 --> 01:48:14.619
this naughty nose little punk.

01:48:14.859 --> 01:48:17.179
<v Sara>Yeah. And I mean, who hasn't done that?

01:48:17.420 --> 01:48:19.979
But, like, yeah, she screws up.

01:48:19.979 --> 01:48:23.015
She screws up big time here because Yeah. Yeah.

01:48:23.015 --> 01:48:26.215
He the man looks intrigued, introduces himself as Adam Bentley

01:48:26.215 --> 01:48:27.095
from Time magazine.

01:48:27.095 --> 01:48:28.935
He tells them they're doing a story in the country's leading

01:48:28.935 --> 01:48:32.375
detective agencies, the biggies, and he adds that it could be his

01:48:32.375 --> 01:48:34.854
first cover. Are you sure mister Steele isn't here?

01:48:35.069 --> 01:48:37.869
Mildred apologetically says, gone with the wind.

01:48:38.189 --> 01:48:40.429
He looks disappointed saying he really wanted to include the

01:48:40.429 --> 01:48:43.389
Steele agency in his report, but he has a deadline.

01:48:43.469 --> 01:48:47.709
Marjorn marjorn. Marjorn. That's his name.

01:48:47.710 --> 01:48:51.364
From now on, he's margarine bland and not quite butter.

01:48:54.085 --> 01:48:55.604
<v Eric>Can't believe it's not butter.

01:48:55.604 --> 01:48:58.085
<v Sara>Can't believe it's not butter. Can't believe it's Marvin.

01:48:58.085 --> 01:49:01.364
Marvin offers to chat in his office.

01:49:01.444 --> 01:49:03.524
Mildred reminds him that he doesn't have an office.

01:49:04.189 --> 01:49:06.430
Bentley smells blood. Oh, yeah.

01:49:06.430 --> 01:49:09.550
And says, well, I really have to talk to someone in the know.

01:49:09.789 --> 01:49:11.470
Need facts, background information.

01:49:11.470 --> 01:49:13.390
And that's what the that's the hook.

01:49:13.390 --> 01:49:13.949
<v Eric>That did it.

01:49:13.949 --> 01:49:16.510
<v Sara>That's the poor Mildred.

01:49:16.510 --> 01:49:20.894
She's so desperate to have some validation that she is respected

01:49:21.295 --> 01:49:21.534
Yep.

01:49:21.614 --> 01:49:25.135
That she has a place in this office that's not just getting

01:49:25.135 --> 01:49:28.814
coffee and and fawning over mister Steele, that she smiles

01:49:28.814 --> 01:49:31.215
widely, takes him by the arm, and says that she can give him

01:49:31.215 --> 01:49:32.814
background. She's been here since the beginning.

01:49:32.814 --> 01:49:35.534
Well, almost the beginning. She keeps talking.

01:49:36.229 --> 01:49:38.789
Marvin attempts to follow as they go into Seal's office, but she

01:49:38.789 --> 01:49:43.029
shoves him back, tell him, hit the road, Junior. Which is funny.

01:49:43.109 --> 01:49:48.550
Yeah. The airport bar is called the final approach. Mhmm. Yeah.

01:49:48.550 --> 01:49:51.524
Which is a choice.

01:49:51.925 --> 01:49:55.845
<v Eric>I mean, we've got a a pizza place that is straight down the road

01:49:55.845 --> 01:49:58.005
from our airport. It's called Flight Deck Pizza.

01:49:58.005 --> 01:50:04.170
I mean, you see these things all the time, these kind of obvious

01:50:04.170 --> 01:50:07.210
naming tropes. Yeah. Know?

01:50:07.210 --> 01:50:10.489
<v Sara>Hey. At least they didn't call it the Landing strip. That's was.

01:50:11.610 --> 01:50:12.890
<v Eric>Probably strip in the in the

01:50:13.050 --> 01:50:14.329
<v Sara>strip club down the road.

01:50:15.850 --> 01:50:18.125
<v Eric>I wonder if that was 1 of the early drafts.

01:50:18.125 --> 01:50:19.404
<v Sara>That would have been funny.

01:50:20.125 --> 01:50:22.045
Laura and Steele go looking for McBride.

01:50:22.045 --> 01:50:24.844
At this point, don't like, they're they're supposed to have a

01:50:24.844 --> 01:50:27.404
cover, so it doesn't really make sense that Steele would be going

01:50:27.404 --> 01:50:31.630
into this bar because Lorraine even sees really like, she's

01:50:31.630 --> 01:50:35.310
really surprised to see Trevor Mhmm. In the bar.

01:50:35.310 --> 01:50:38.829
Laura, it makes sense for her to go, sure, because she's she

01:50:38.829 --> 01:50:39.710
works there, but

01:50:39.710 --> 01:50:40.670
<v Eric>she's She's aircrew.

01:50:40.670 --> 01:50:41.069
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:50:41.069 --> 01:50:44.784
Which isn't I mean, it's not to say that the bar is not checking

01:50:44.784 --> 01:50:47.104
IDs and saying, oh, you don't work for the airline. Get out.

01:50:47.104 --> 01:50:49.744
But it's clearly an air it's kinda a

01:50:49.744 --> 01:50:51.344
<v Eric>place Trevor would go to.

01:50:51.344 --> 01:50:54.385
<v Sara>Like, civilians wouldn't just be walking into the the the bar

01:50:54.385 --> 01:50:57.060
because it's obviously, like it's like a police bar, you know,

01:50:57.060 --> 01:50:57.139
where

01:50:57.139 --> 01:50:57.779
<v Eric>the cops are.

01:50:57.779 --> 01:51:01.139
Unless his cover was that he was looking for the blonde.

01:51:01.859 --> 01:51:02.260
<v Sara>True.

01:51:02.260 --> 01:51:04.579
But they came in together, so it's kinda it looks like they're

01:51:04.579 --> 01:51:08.179
together, which would cause Laura to lose her job if so it's it's

01:51:08.179 --> 01:51:08.739
kinda odd.

01:51:08.739 --> 01:51:12.894
But she sees McBride, says bingo, and walks over to him.

01:51:12.894 --> 01:51:16.335
Steele kinda moves to follow, which is weird because you get the

01:51:16.335 --> 01:51:19.534
impression that if Laura's going to hit on him Mhmm.

01:51:19.534 --> 01:51:22.130
She probably wouldn't want Steele hovering over.

01:51:22.369 --> 01:51:25.570
But this is where Lorraine spots him and calls out to Trevor

01:51:25.570 --> 01:51:26.770
asking what he's doing there.

01:51:26.770 --> 01:51:28.689
He tells her he's developed a sudden thirst.

01:51:29.329 --> 01:51:31.170
Laura walks over to McBride.

01:51:31.329 --> 01:51:36.954
She runs her hand up his leg and tells him that she's a sucker

01:51:36.954 --> 01:51:42.314
for a man in uniform. She turns his chair to face her. Sorry.

01:51:42.314 --> 01:51:43.675
You you were gonna say something there.

01:51:43.675 --> 01:51:47.594
<v Eric>So No. No. No. I'm just careful where you put that hand.

01:51:48.090 --> 01:51:48.489
<v Sara>Right.

01:51:48.489 --> 01:51:51.609
And then but then she says that she's always wondered what life

01:51:51.609 --> 01:51:53.130
was like in the cockpit.

01:51:54.409 --> 01:52:01.704
<v Eric>That that Wow. That 1. Yeah. Okay. That that 1 yeah.

01:52:02.505 --> 01:52:04.744
Gonna swing the other direction on that 1.

01:52:04.744 --> 01:52:10.105
<v Sara>Yep. Yep. Yep. He grins telling her, baby, I could write a book.

01:52:10.105 --> 01:52:12.479
And she says she's an avid reader. Yeah.

01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:14.399
He suggests they start the first chapter.

01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:18.560
Steel is watching them from a distance, clearly not happy about

01:52:18.560 --> 01:52:21.760
it, but Lorraine is desperately trying to keep his attention.

01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:24.079
And so we've got way more puns here.

01:52:24.560 --> 01:52:30.024
She she asks to let her, him to let her throttle his engines.

01:52:30.985 --> 01:52:32.664
I'm no expert here. Okay?

01:52:32.664 --> 01:52:36.744
But as far as innuendos go, this 1 sounds painful.

01:52:36.744 --> 01:52:38.344
This does not sound pleasurable.

01:52:38.744 --> 01:52:39.545
<v Eric>No. It does.

01:52:39.545 --> 01:52:42.139
Well, it it could have been worse if she grabbed his flight

01:52:42.139 --> 01:52:44.619
stick, but Yeah. Oh,

01:52:47.579 --> 01:52:50.539
<v Sara>yeah. Exactly. Right? Like, it's

01:52:50.460 --> 01:52:51.419
<v Eric>Of course. Know.

01:52:51.420 --> 01:52:55.765
Course, you know, in in a a plane, there is a phrase where if you

01:52:55.765 --> 01:53:02.805
throw the throttle all the way forward because of the okay.

01:53:02.805 --> 01:53:07.845
How to get myself out of this? There used to be

01:53:12.360 --> 01:53:16.520
<v Sara>Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the bottom, the rock bottom.

01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:18.280
We have now arrived there.

01:53:19.159 --> 01:53:21.000
Exits are to the right and to the left.

01:53:21.000 --> 01:53:25.364
<v Eric>It it actually had a a a legitimate meaning when it was first

01:53:25.364 --> 01:53:30.484
created, but it was to the wall round things to the wall.

01:53:31.045 --> 01:53:32.885
<v Sara>Ah, the balls to the wall?

01:53:32.885 --> 01:53:33.684
<v Eric>Yes.

01:53:33.685 --> 01:53:35.204
<v Sara>Yeah. Actually, I it's funny.

01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:39.960
I heard about that in a in a different podcast because there was

01:53:39.960 --> 01:53:42.920
a a phrase of somebody had said balls to the wall, and then they

01:53:42.920 --> 01:53:44.039
were like, I wonder where that comes from.

01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:46.679
And I looked it up, and that's and found that

01:53:46.679 --> 01:53:47.319
<v Speaker 2>out. So

01:53:47.719 --> 01:53:50.439
<v Sara>it was literally, like, actual balls, not not

01:53:50.465 --> 01:53:51.184
<v Eric>Mhmm. Yes.

01:53:51.264 --> 01:53:51.824
<v Sara>You know, the other

01:53:51.824 --> 01:53:55.184
<v Eric>kind. Yeah. Not the

01:53:55.585 --> 01:53:56.624
<v Sara>Not the other kind.

01:53:56.784 --> 01:53:58.465
<v Eric>Yeah. Not the testicle type.

01:53:58.465 --> 01:54:02.304
Although they look like that, which is probably 1 of the reasons

01:54:02.304 --> 01:54:04.109
why. Yeah. Anyway

01:54:04.750 --> 01:54:05.949
<v Sara>That's random. But yeah.

01:54:06.270 --> 01:54:09.550
<v Eric>Somebody get a hose and and just hose us down.

01:54:09.550 --> 01:54:12.270
<v Sara>1 of those hooks that you you put around the neck to pull them

01:54:12.270 --> 01:54:15.229
off stage. Yeah. Shepherd's crook. That's what it's called.

01:54:16.554 --> 01:54:19.675
So he tells her he's out of gear and attempts to look back at

01:54:19.675 --> 01:54:20.234
Laura.

01:54:20.314 --> 01:54:23.354
But Lorraine, similar to Biff, is not taking no for an answer.

01:54:23.354 --> 01:54:27.594
She says she can fix that and turns his face to hers and just

01:54:27.755 --> 01:54:28.474
kisses him.

01:54:28.474 --> 01:54:33.399
She's just like He tries to break away, but we see Laura leaving

01:54:33.399 --> 01:54:37.399
with McBride as he's sort of attempting to pry Lorraine off of

01:54:37.399 --> 01:54:38.199
him.

01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:43.399
To his credit, he does he does attempt to just extricate himself.

01:54:44.135 --> 01:54:47.175
He turns, and he attempts to get away, but then he bumps into a

01:54:47.175 --> 01:54:50.774
man who's obviously with Lorraine who tells him to take a hike.

01:54:51.015 --> 01:54:52.295
Steele says gladly.

01:54:52.935 --> 01:54:53.494
<v Eric>Okay. No.

01:54:53.494 --> 01:54:58.935
So so Boff can't 2 time Lorraine, but Lorraine can 2 time Boff.

01:54:59.149 --> 01:55:02.909
<v Sara>Pretty well, actually, was Sally that was that was you're mixing

01:55:02.909 --> 01:55:06.429
up your blondes. Sally was the 1 yeah. Yeah.

01:55:06.429 --> 01:55:10.029
Sally was the 1 that gave Boff the shiner. They they they I mean,

01:55:10.029 --> 01:55:10.670
<v Eric>they could be twins.

01:55:10.670 --> 01:55:12.429
<v Sara>I'm I'm happy right.

01:55:12.429 --> 01:55:14.109
<v Eric>Which which could be another

01:55:14.635 --> 01:55:15.354
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:55:15.435 --> 01:55:15.835
<v Eric>Another

01:55:15.835 --> 01:55:18.475
<v Sara>innuendo. But yeah. No.

01:55:18.475 --> 01:55:22.074
It it was Sally with with with Boff, and and Lorraine was I

01:55:22.074 --> 01:55:25.515
guess, with this guy who's Carl because she grabs him, and she

01:55:25.515 --> 01:55:28.640
tells him that she now here's where I think that she secretly

01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:31.920
wants Trevor Keach dead because she grabs Carl's and tells him to

01:55:31.920 --> 01:55:35.439
get lost, adding that Trevor is more of a man than you'll ever

01:55:35.439 --> 01:55:35.920
be.

01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:36.960
<v Eric>He's such

01:55:36.960 --> 01:55:37.680
<v Sara>a tit.

01:55:37.840 --> 01:55:42.244
<v Eric>That's asking. What? Would you punch him in the face, please?

01:55:42.324 --> 01:55:45.284
<v Sara>Right. Like, he's more of a man than you'll ever be.

01:55:45.284 --> 01:55:46.484
He's sensitive.

01:55:47.284 --> 01:55:50.564
But to be fair, this is 1 of my favorite moments for Steele

01:55:50.564 --> 01:55:52.164
because Carl goes, really?

01:55:52.164 --> 01:55:54.645
And then Steele says, actually, Carl, I can be quite callous.

01:55:56.520 --> 01:56:03.079
<v Eric>It reminds me of of an episode of home improvement.

01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:04.760
<v Sara>Man.

01:56:04.920 --> 01:56:08.039
I get to I get the buffy rolls, like, rolling the eye and the

01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:10.545
groan, but you mentioned the home improvement stuff. I

01:56:11.505 --> 01:56:14.864
<v Eric>it's any. And now it's gone. I can't remember.

01:56:14.864 --> 01:56:15.184
<v Speaker 2>Sorry.

01:56:15.184 --> 01:56:19.824
<v Eric>It was it was oh, what was it?

01:56:24.449 --> 01:56:25.250
<v Sara>The hamster's

01:56:25.250 --> 01:56:28.050
<v Eric>on the gone. The the wheel fell off.

01:56:28.050 --> 01:56:31.969
<v Sara>Yeah. But, yeah, just the actually, Carl, I can be quite callous.

01:56:31.969 --> 01:56:36.135
I'm like, wow. Good good burn, Steel. Real real. Yeah.

01:56:38.614 --> 01:56:39.574
<v Eric>Oh, 0, yeah.

01:56:40.135 --> 01:56:45.414
Jill and Tim were talking and she makes some comment about how

01:56:45.414 --> 01:56:46.854
women like sensitive men.

01:56:46.854 --> 01:56:50.800
And he makes the comment that you women always say that, but then

01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:55.600
you end up going home with a skier named Dolph or something like

01:56:55.600 --> 01:57:00.159
that. Or Or Boff. Yeah. Yeah.

01:57:00.960 --> 01:57:03.920
Women always say they want the sensitive man, but they always go

01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:09.454
for the the brainless jock style. Yeah.

01:57:09.614 --> 01:57:10.815
<v Sara>Well, not always.

01:57:10.815 --> 01:57:14.494
I mean, my husband's not a brainless jock style.

01:57:16.815 --> 01:57:18.735
However, still You just have

01:57:18.735 --> 01:57:20.414
<v Eric>to you have to say that because you're married to him.

01:57:21.670 --> 01:57:27.349
<v Sara>Yes. I'm lying. Carl literally picks up Steele.

01:57:27.349 --> 01:57:30.869
Like, this is not a he just lifts him and tosses him.

01:57:31.029 --> 01:57:34.229
Steele lands and then says, alright.

01:57:34.229 --> 01:57:38.954
Do we feel we do we all feel better now? But Carl

01:57:39.114 --> 01:57:41.594
<v Eric>That that probably wasn't a good thing to say either. But

01:57:41.755 --> 01:57:42.154
<v Sara>No.

01:57:42.154 --> 01:57:45.914
None of this was a good he punches him, Steele falls down, and

01:57:45.914 --> 01:57:49.354
then outside with McBride outside with McBride, it rhymes.

01:57:50.650 --> 01:57:52.730
He tells Laura she's gonna love the Jacuzzi.

01:57:52.730 --> 01:57:54.409
She tells him it sounds delicious.

01:57:54.810 --> 01:57:58.570
And she kinda turns away and starts like I think she's kind of

01:57:58.570 --> 01:58:00.650
like wondering what happened to Steele because she's looking at

01:58:00.650 --> 01:58:03.130
the door. Mhmm. And then she wanders towards it.

01:58:03.130 --> 01:58:05.505
We see a newsstand with a newspaper headline that that reads,

01:58:05.505 --> 01:58:07.024
platinum air, meat wagon in the sky.

01:58:07.024 --> 01:58:08.545
How did that get there so fast?

01:58:09.185 --> 01:58:11.824
Like, the subheading says secretary tells all, but, like, I'm

01:58:11.824 --> 01:58:13.824
sorry. This is the same day.

01:58:14.064 --> 01:58:14.625
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:58:14.625 --> 01:58:17.904
<v Sara>You're telling me they they wrote the story, printed the story,

01:58:18.239 --> 01:58:22.000
and got all the newspapers onto the newsstand in a few hours?

01:58:22.159 --> 01:58:22.560
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:58:22.560 --> 01:58:27.199
I mean, sometimes they can be pretty quick, but that headline

01:58:28.239 --> 01:58:29.760
sounded familiar to me.

01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:33.354
And I tried to do a search on it and I didn't find it, but I was

01:58:33.354 --> 01:58:37.354
thinking, you know, it was a reference maybe to a news story

01:58:37.354 --> 01:58:43.514
about politicians or sports figures flying on private planes with

01:58:43.514 --> 01:58:46.314
their female entourage, you know?

01:58:46.314 --> 01:58:46.554
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:58:47.780 --> 01:58:50.420
<v Eric>So I didn't find that, but I did find something.

01:58:53.300 --> 01:58:59.220
I did find a reference to the Kentucky meat shower.

01:59:00.284 --> 01:59:02.925
<v Sara>Oh, no. I don't know if I wanna know this.

01:59:04.444 --> 01:59:08.364
<v Eric>Bath count this is a combination of 2 news articles from a couple

01:59:08.364 --> 01:59:11.885
of Lexington Lexington, Kentucky TV stations.

01:59:11.885 --> 01:59:12.204
<v Sara>Okay.

01:59:13.010 --> 01:59:16.609
<v Eric>Bath County is a small East county of Lexington known for its

01:59:16.609 --> 01:59:18.849
beautiful outdoor scenery and rich history.

01:59:19.170 --> 01:59:23.649
However, Bath County, specifically Olympia Springs, is home of

01:59:23.649 --> 01:59:29.024
the Kentucky meat shower. On 03/03/1876, Mrs.

01:59:29.024 --> 01:59:32.545
Rebecca Crouch was outside with her grandson and out of the clear

01:59:32.545 --> 01:59:36.064
blue sky, meat started to rain down.

01:59:36.305 --> 01:59:37.264
<v Sara>Okay.

01:59:37.265 --> 01:59:42.079
<v Eric>They gathered up what was remaining and they say it was a horse

01:59:42.079 --> 01:59:45.039
wagon full. And I think everyone knows what that means.

01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:46.079
<v Sara>And

01:59:48.639 --> 01:59:54.494
<v Eric>the person being quoted here is a professor at the Transylvania

01:59:54.494 --> 01:59:56.494
University there in Kentucky.

01:59:56.494 --> 02:00:01.215
And he says that, I think they ate it. Wow.

02:00:01.215 --> 02:00:04.975
Now there's some theories that researchers have on what kind of

02:00:04.975 --> 02:00:09.239
meat it is and how it got up in the air to be, you know,

02:00:09.239 --> 02:00:10.439
distributed like this.

02:00:10.439 --> 02:00:13.239
And 1 possibility was an upspout, which is a weathering pattern

02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:16.679
of the sort where winds will pick up things like small fish or

02:00:16.679 --> 02:00:18.439
frogs out of of lakes and such.

02:00:18.439 --> 02:00:18.840
<v Sara>Right.

02:00:18.840 --> 02:00:20.520
<v Eric>Yeah. And then lay them down in another place.

02:00:20.654 --> 02:00:28.895
And another theory is involving vulture vomit, which this

02:00:28.895 --> 02:00:33.534
professor seems to think is probably the real possibility.

02:00:34.270 --> 02:00:37.710
Now Slice of the Meat was saved from the phenomenon and has been

02:00:37.710 --> 02:00:39.789
under the care of Transylvania University.

02:00:39.789 --> 02:00:44.430
And in August 2024, the Bath County Historical Museum got the

02:00:44.430 --> 02:00:47.630
return of the sliver of meat back to its original meat locker.

02:00:48.135 --> 02:00:53.494
And in 2025, March 2025, a festival was held to educate people

02:00:53.494 --> 02:00:56.135
about the event and let them see the meat for themselves.

02:00:56.454 --> 02:01:00.295
Organizers say that nearly 500 people showed up and the event had

02:01:00.295 --> 02:01:05.609
food vendors, crafts, and a mystery meat chili cook off.

02:01:06.250 --> 02:01:07.369
<v Sara>Oh, dear God.

02:01:08.730 --> 02:01:12.890
<v Eric>The assistant curator of the festival said, I think the meat

02:01:12.890 --> 02:01:15.770
shower festival and the whole incident is 1 of the lasting

02:01:15.770 --> 02:01:16.810
legacies of our county.

02:01:17.095 --> 02:01:20.055
It's 1 of the enduring mysteries of the world and to be known for

02:01:20.055 --> 02:01:21.414
something like that worldwide.

02:01:21.414 --> 02:01:24.375
You've even got celebrities to talk about it on TV.

02:01:24.454 --> 02:01:28.215
<v Sara>Well, that's officially going to go on my list as places I don't

02:01:28.215 --> 02:01:28.935
wanna go.

02:01:29.574 --> 02:01:33.500
No offense to Bath County, but I anything involving the words

02:01:33.500 --> 02:01:37.180
meat, shower, and vulture vomit, I'm good. I'm good.

02:01:37.180 --> 02:01:41.820
I can I can safely skip that? Yes. Off my bucket list. Oh my god.

02:01:41.820 --> 02:01:44.619
That's that is the worst story I've ever heard. Thank you.

02:01:47.864 --> 02:01:53.784
<v Eric>I mean, I I had to look I I when I it was like, no. Come on.

02:01:53.784 --> 02:01:55.704
And but, no, it's it's a real thing.

02:01:55.704 --> 02:01:59.145
It's it's not this is not National Enquirer stuff even though it

02:01:59.145 --> 02:02:00.265
sounds like it is.

02:02:00.265 --> 02:02:03.599
<v Sara>That's yeah. That definitely does sound like, gross.

02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:09.359
Anyway, McBride sees the newspaper, and he looks angry.

02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:12.880
Inside, Steele is still getting his ass handed to him by Carl.

02:02:12.880 --> 02:02:14.880
So we got and then we see Laura.

02:02:14.880 --> 02:02:16.719
She walks back over to McBride as his car.

02:02:16.719 --> 02:02:20.454
Now I the script has it as a Datsun. Mhmm.

02:02:20.454 --> 02:02:22.534
I don't know if that's actually what it is because I couldn't

02:02:22.534 --> 02:02:23.574
tell by the

02:02:23.814 --> 02:02:25.814
<v Eric>It looks like a a z. Yeah.

02:02:25.814 --> 02:02:26.375
<v Sara>Yeah. Okay.

02:02:26.375 --> 02:02:29.895
<v Eric>That's been like a February z, 02/06, February z, February

02:02:30.054 --> 02:02:33.229
<v Sara>time we've seen a Datsun featured in this because Bill drove 1

02:02:33.229 --> 02:02:34.829
too, I think.

02:02:35.550 --> 02:02:36.989
<v Eric>1 thing you'll learn about me.

02:02:39.390 --> 02:02:42.270
<v Sara>They they like their Datsuns. So yeah.

02:02:43.835 --> 02:02:47.114
She gets in, and so does McBride, and they drive away and still

02:02:47.114 --> 02:02:48.395
inside, still fighting.

02:02:48.395 --> 02:02:52.475
He finally gets a good punch on Carl and then tells him tells

02:02:52.475 --> 02:02:54.875
them that him and he and Lorraine make a perfect couple before

02:02:54.875 --> 02:02:55.514
walking.

02:02:56.475 --> 02:03:00.510
He gets outside just in time to see McBride's car driving away.

02:03:00.829 --> 02:03:01.229
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:03:01.229 --> 02:03:04.750
You know, I just had a thought because I I was as you were

02:03:04.750 --> 02:03:08.909
talking, I was I was following along in the the scene.

02:03:10.109 --> 02:03:15.774
I have heard of I don't know if it's as common as as it's

02:03:16.814 --> 02:03:23.215
supposedly been presented as being, but I have heard of women who

02:03:23.215 --> 02:03:27.375
do provoke their boyfriends into getting angry and beating up

02:03:27.375 --> 02:03:29.459
somebody because it's an ego thing.

02:03:30.340 --> 02:03:34.500
You know, they they they play the naughty girl so their

02:03:34.500 --> 02:03:37.139
boyfriends can see it, and then the boyfriends get mad and punch

02:03:37.139 --> 02:03:40.659
out the guy, and and that turns them on, I guess. Yeah.

02:03:40.500 --> 02:03:43.264
It just kind of occurs to me that maybe that's what this is

02:03:43.264 --> 02:03:44.784
supposed to be implying here.

02:03:44.784 --> 02:03:47.185
<v Sara>It could be, because that sort of seems like the female

02:03:47.185 --> 02:03:50.145
equivalent of the I'm insecure because somebody looked at you

02:03:50.145 --> 02:03:50.784
thing.

02:03:51.024 --> 02:03:51.744
<v Eric>It could be.

02:03:51.744 --> 02:03:52.064
<v Sara>Right?

02:03:52.064 --> 02:03:57.909
Like, I I I want a big, strong man, so I'm gonna pretend to for

02:03:57.989 --> 02:04:01.510
you know, put my attention elsewhere so that you rush to my

02:04:01.510 --> 02:04:04.469
rescue or play the white knight or what have you. Poor Steele.

02:04:04.469 --> 02:04:07.510
<v Eric>The jealous the jealous Yeah. Boyfriend. Yeah.

02:04:07.510 --> 02:04:10.869
<v Sara>If that's the case, poor Steele, though. Yeah. Middle of it.

02:04:13.125 --> 02:04:16.644
McBride brings her inside of his house, the most beige house ever

02:04:16.644 --> 02:04:17.204
created.

02:04:18.085 --> 02:04:21.764
If Platinum Air is the pinkest airline, his his his place is the

02:04:21.764 --> 02:04:24.885
beigest of beige. Like, everything's beige. The carpet's beige.

02:04:24.885 --> 02:04:28.609
The walls are beige. The furniture's beige. Like Yeah.

02:04:28.609 --> 02:04:30.130
What a boring guy.

02:04:32.050 --> 02:04:34.050
He asked her if she's been with Platinum Air long.

02:04:34.050 --> 02:04:35.489
She replies a couple of months.

02:04:35.489 --> 02:04:38.770
He asked her how she likes the London route. Real bear, isn't it?

02:04:39.010 --> 02:04:42.210
He dims the lights as he's saying this, and she says, absolutely.

02:04:42.685 --> 02:04:43.645
There's her mistake.

02:04:43.645 --> 02:04:45.885
<v Eric>Laura, you should have done my homework.

02:04:46.125 --> 02:04:49.324
<v Sara>Yeah. Or she should have sidestepped it. Right?

02:04:49.324 --> 02:04:50.284
Like, if if she had

02:04:50.364 --> 02:04:51.885
<v Eric>I didn't know we had 1 in route.

02:04:52.125 --> 02:04:55.645
<v Sara>Or or even just, this is a beautiful couch. Where did you get it?

02:04:55.645 --> 02:04:55.965
You know?

02:04:55.965 --> 02:04:59.539
Like, pretend he hasn't spoken at all because, yeah, like, at

02:04:59.779 --> 02:05:01.300
yeah. This screws her over.

02:05:02.260 --> 02:05:05.140
He walks over to her, takes her in his arms, and says, it's

02:05:05.140 --> 02:05:05.619
funny.

02:05:05.779 --> 02:05:08.579
We don't have a London route, which instantly she knows she's in

02:05:08.579 --> 02:05:10.020
trouble. She tries to get away.

02:05:10.260 --> 02:05:13.765
She runs for the door, but he grabs her by the hair, asking what

02:05:13.765 --> 02:05:16.164
kind of game she's playing, Ms. Private Detective.

02:05:16.404 --> 02:05:18.564
And she counters that he's the 1 who's gonna need to give her

02:05:18.564 --> 02:05:20.805
some answers, starting with why he killed Johnny Belden.

02:05:20.805 --> 02:05:23.444
This is 1 of those situations where it's just I'm watching this,

02:05:23.444 --> 02:05:25.845
and this is obviously TV because you know she's gonna get out of

02:05:25.845 --> 02:05:26.005
it.

02:05:26.005 --> 02:05:29.970
Because if it were me, I would be thinking, I've just gone home

02:05:29.970 --> 02:05:31.649
with somebody who could be a killer.

02:05:32.689 --> 02:05:36.609
And I'm in the house with this person, likely without the agency

02:05:36.609 --> 02:05:39.250
gun, because let's be clear, they never had that on them. Yeah.

02:05:40.204 --> 02:05:43.244
And he could easily overpower her. Like

02:05:43.885 --> 02:05:49.644
<v Eric>This is a situation that reminds me of my daughter.

02:05:52.844 --> 02:05:56.050
She had been studying, I don't I don't remember what it was

02:05:56.050 --> 02:06:00.689
called now, but basically to to be like a security guard or

02:06:00.689 --> 02:06:03.889
prison guard corrections.

02:06:04.130 --> 02:06:04.849
<v Sara>Right.

02:06:05.250 --> 02:06:10.474
<v Eric>And I I I think I've mentioned this before, and if I have then as

02:06:10.474 --> 02:06:15.754
a refresher, she is very, very petite.

02:06:16.074 --> 02:06:16.554
<v Sara>Yep.

02:06:16.554 --> 02:06:20.795
<v Eric>Barely stands 5 feet, maybe 100 pounds soaking wet after a full

02:06:20.795 --> 02:06:21.354
meal.

02:06:21.994 --> 02:06:28.380
And they were doing some mock interviews, which actually weren't

02:06:28.380 --> 02:06:31.100
quite as mock as they presented them as being because they were

02:06:31.100 --> 02:06:35.180
doing some they they had people from from various corrections

02:06:35.180 --> 02:06:39.065
organizations and facilities coming in, talking to them to do

02:06:39.065 --> 02:06:42.104
mock interviews, but to try and get a feel of who they might be

02:06:42.104 --> 02:06:43.385
interested in hiring.

02:06:44.025 --> 02:06:49.545
And the interviewer asked my daughter, she's because eventually

02:06:49.545 --> 02:06:53.159
they said, you know, you're just you're not the type of person we

02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:55.159
would look for because of your physical stature.

02:06:55.880 --> 02:06:58.600
And they apparently asked her a question, well, what would you do

02:06:58.600 --> 02:07:01.720
if this situation and it's kinda like this where somebody's got

02:07:01.720 --> 02:07:04.279
you by throughout the whatever. Says, I'd warn them.

02:07:05.364 --> 02:07:08.404
I guess the person looked at her and said, warn them what?

02:07:09.284 --> 02:07:11.124
I go for what I can reach.

02:07:15.685 --> 02:07:16.404
<v Sara>That's good.

02:07:18.810 --> 02:07:21.449
And I mean, I'm not saying that Laura can't defend herself, but

02:07:21.449 --> 02:07:24.889
it's just she keeps putting herself in these situations where

02:07:25.210 --> 02:07:26.169
Yeah. She's vulnerable.

02:07:27.210 --> 02:07:28.649
<v Eric>You just walk into it.

02:07:28.649 --> 02:07:32.104
She didn't do her homework, so that let her get into this

02:07:32.104 --> 02:07:35.545
situation even deeper than she should have been. Exactly. Yeah.

02:07:35.545 --> 02:07:35.944
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:07:35.944 --> 02:07:40.744
So it's it she she and then he says he doesn't know a Johnny

02:07:40.744 --> 02:07:42.984
Belden. He's totally confused.

02:07:42.984 --> 02:07:45.225
She says, you know him well enough to stuff him in that duffle.

02:07:45.859 --> 02:07:46.979
This is where he lets her go.

02:07:46.979 --> 02:07:48.420
He's like, I had nothing to do with that.

02:07:48.420 --> 02:07:49.219
She doesn't believe him.

02:07:49.219 --> 02:07:52.020
But he's you know, she says, I'll bet you didn't know he was a

02:07:52.020 --> 02:07:54.179
contract killer either. McBride backs off saying, hey.

02:07:54.179 --> 02:07:58.739
Wait a minute. So he's at this point, he's like, hey. No. No. No.

02:07:58.739 --> 02:08:01.185
No. No. But this is where Steele burst through the door.

02:08:01.185 --> 02:08:02.145
He kicks it open.

02:08:02.145 --> 02:08:04.305
I bet he I bet he was so excited to do that too.

02:08:04.305 --> 02:08:05.744
He's like, oh, I get to kick it open.

02:08:07.744 --> 02:08:10.864
He tells McBride it's all over as he throws Laura at Steele and

02:08:10.864 --> 02:08:11.744
makes a run for it.

02:08:11.744 --> 02:08:14.600
Laura says, nice work before going after him, Steele's like, what

02:08:14.600 --> 02:08:15.880
kind of things is that?

02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:21.159
And as they chase him, Laura's like, he was about to tell me

02:08:21.159 --> 02:08:21.479
everything.

02:08:21.479 --> 02:08:23.880
And Steele sarcastically says, well, pardon me for trying to save

02:08:23.880 --> 02:08:25.960
your neck. She looks around.

02:08:26.600 --> 02:08:30.494
Like, he at least he showed up and then sees McBride.

02:08:30.494 --> 02:08:33.614
He's, I guess, trying to get out of the he's back around the

02:08:33.614 --> 02:08:36.015
pool, and I guess the gate's not opening, so he can't get it

02:08:36.015 --> 02:08:36.574
open.

02:08:36.975 --> 02:08:39.935
So he runs the other way where Laura's able to intercept him and

02:08:39.935 --> 02:08:43.279
then tackle him, and, basically, the 2 of them end up in the

02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:43.840
pool.

02:08:44.159 --> 02:08:46.079
<v Eric>Good thing she wasn't wearing a T shirt.

02:08:46.560 --> 02:08:47.520
<v Sara>Well, actually, she's

02:08:47.600 --> 02:08:50.960
<v Eric>Although her It might have it might have improved the ratings.

02:08:51.279 --> 02:08:51.760
<v Sara>No.

02:08:51.760 --> 02:08:54.159
Actually, like, if you see her in the next scene, the reason why

02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:57.944
the towel is situated where it is is because you can see right

02:08:57.944 --> 02:09:01.624
through her arm. Like, her blouse was white. Uh-huh.

02:09:01.625 --> 02:09:04.585
And that's a see through blouse. If that towel had not been there

02:09:04.984 --> 02:09:06.664
<v Eric>Oh, these days, that's not a big deal.

02:09:06.824 --> 02:09:10.829
I mean, you it's it's Hollywood runways. You know?

02:09:10.829 --> 02:09:11.710
<v Sara>Yeah. No. I know.

02:09:11.710 --> 02:09:14.270
I'm just saying like that that blouse that she's wearing is quite

02:09:14.270 --> 02:09:17.070
literally see through when it's wet, so that wouldn't matter

02:09:17.070 --> 02:09:18.909
whether she had a T shirt on or not.

02:09:18.909 --> 02:09:22.670
She when she comes out, it's yeah. She surfaces.

02:09:22.670 --> 02:09:24.694
Listens Contest anyone. Yeah.

02:09:24.694 --> 02:09:26.774
And asks, now what is this all about?

02:09:27.414 --> 02:09:30.534
Now this next scene, are they in his house, or are they in the

02:09:30.534 --> 02:09:31.974
plane, or where are they?

02:09:31.975 --> 02:09:35.654
<v Eric>No. They're in in a a warehouse somewhere, it looks like.

02:09:35.734 --> 02:09:36.135
<v Sara>Okay.

02:09:36.135 --> 02:09:38.534
Because I I guess I could have checked the script, because I

02:09:38.534 --> 02:09:39.015
wasn't

02:09:39.659 --> 02:09:40.779
<v Eric>Or maybe storage

02:09:42.060 --> 02:09:45.180
<v Sara>Let's see here. The Datsun's brought around.

02:09:45.180 --> 02:09:52.414
They get to his apartment. He's in his condo. He gets away. Okay.

02:09:52.414 --> 02:09:55.854
Close on McBride's condo. So they're in a spare bedroom.

02:09:56.015 --> 02:09:56.734
<v Eric>Oh, okay.

02:09:56.734 --> 02:09:58.895
<v Sara>Okay. Alright. I should've just checked.

02:09:58.895 --> 02:10:01.054
<v Eric>It was a pretty plain room, so it was hard to

02:10:01.454 --> 02:10:03.215
<v Sara>Yeah. I couldn't out what it would be.

02:10:03.295 --> 02:10:05.579
Figure out where they were supposed to be. Yeah.

02:10:05.579 --> 02:10:07.819
McBride prizes open 1 of these cart.

02:10:07.819 --> 02:10:10.219
We've got a ton of crates, wooden cartons.

02:10:10.380 --> 02:10:13.179
He prized 1 open with a crowbar, and it's filled with meat.

02:10:13.579 --> 02:10:17.899
And is that dry ice? Like, is that are they ice packs?

02:10:17.899 --> 02:10:21.385
Like, what is what's keeping this heat fresh?

02:10:22.265 --> 02:10:27.225
<v Eric>It's it's sealed vacuum sealed, so it probably doesn't need a

02:10:27.225 --> 02:10:28.345
whole lot of cooling.

02:10:28.425 --> 02:10:34.920
But, yeah, I mean, it looks like ice, but the problem is that if

02:10:34.920 --> 02:10:37.159
it was regular ice, it would have been melted by now.

02:10:37.159 --> 02:10:37.720
<v Sara>Melted. Yeah.

02:10:37.720 --> 02:10:40.840
<v Eric>That's what And I it dry ice, you'd be seeing all the vapor

02:10:40.840 --> 02:10:43.479
coming off of it and they wouldn't be reaching out and just

02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:47.175
grabbing it and picking it up and playing with it because

02:10:47.335 --> 02:10:50.054
<v Sara>Also why I wondered if they were in some sort of freezer because

02:10:50.054 --> 02:10:53.014
if they were in, like, a chest freezer or something like that,

02:10:53.175 --> 02:10:54.854
like a big walk in freezer

02:10:54.774 --> 02:10:56.295
<v Eric>Walking cooler. Yeah.

02:10:56.295 --> 02:10:58.054
<v Sara>That would make more sense, but they're not.

02:10:58.054 --> 02:11:01.750
So I don't know if I wanna eat that pastrami. Just saying.

02:11:01.989 --> 02:11:05.030
<v Eric>Hey. After he sells it off, it's not his problem. You know?

02:11:05.030 --> 02:11:05.750
<v Sara>That's true.

02:11:05.909 --> 02:11:08.470
Steel lifts the meat out, he wonders if it's brisket.

02:11:08.710 --> 02:11:11.190
And Laura tells him it's pastrami, which surprises Steel.

02:11:11.190 --> 02:11:13.670
McBride tells him it's worth a fortune in Honolulu.

02:11:14.070 --> 02:11:16.925
He asked them, he tells them it's impossible to get a decent

02:11:16.925 --> 02:11:18.604
pastrami sandwich in Hawaii.

02:11:18.604 --> 02:11:20.844
It takes like cardboard and you pay through the nose.

02:11:21.085 --> 02:11:21.885
He tells them that you

02:11:21.804 --> 02:11:24.284
<v Eric>because I use spam. Yeah.

02:11:24.524 --> 02:11:26.364
<v Sara>He tells them, I can't stand that stuff.

02:11:27.229 --> 02:11:33.949
<v Eric>I mean, that is 1 of the main ingredients of a very popular food

02:11:34.510 --> 02:11:36.670
genre in Hawaii. Yeah.

02:11:36.750 --> 02:11:41.175
In fact, in the convenience stores here in town, they've got

02:11:41.175 --> 02:11:44.774
these little display cases and you can get the whatever.

02:11:44.774 --> 02:11:46.055
I don't know what it's called, but it's yeah.

02:11:46.055 --> 02:11:49.895
It's just like rice and spam and you can get it with It's it's

02:11:49.895 --> 02:11:51.494
<v Sara>like No thanks. Nope. I'm good.

02:11:52.890 --> 02:11:54.969
But he tells him that he and his buddy got an idea.

02:11:54.969 --> 02:11:58.249
He flies New York to LA, and his friend flies LA to Honolulu.

02:11:58.890 --> 02:12:01.609
So they figured, why not ship the real thing from New York?

02:12:01.609 --> 02:12:04.010
The freshest pastrami direct from New York to Waikiki.

02:12:04.664 --> 02:12:07.305
Or a somewhat disbelieving says, you've been using platinum air

02:12:07.305 --> 02:12:09.465
to smuggle black market pastrami?

02:12:09.625 --> 02:12:10.984
McBride is pretty proud of this.

02:12:10.984 --> 02:12:13.784
He says, cuts through a lot of red tape. Now here's my question.

02:12:13.864 --> 02:12:18.500
Is it smuggling when it's not crossing any borders?

02:12:18.500 --> 02:12:20.260
Like, what is he doing that's illegal with this?

02:12:20.260 --> 02:12:21.859
Because I don't really know.

02:12:21.859 --> 02:12:23.460
<v Eric>That was what I was wondering.

02:12:23.460 --> 02:12:27.939
And he makes a a reference, you know, macadamia nuts, Oahu to New

02:12:27.939 --> 02:12:31.314
York tax free, of course. And I'm thinking, what taxes?

02:12:31.314 --> 02:12:36.755
Because I don't think Hawaii has export taxes on macadamia nuts.

02:12:36.755 --> 02:12:40.034
I don't think New York has export tax on pastrami.

02:12:40.675 --> 02:12:45.659
I'm not seeing I mean, granted, they're using the airline without

02:12:45.659 --> 02:12:47.819
authorization to move this stuff back and forth.

02:12:47.819 --> 02:12:50.300
So that would be a problem with the employer. Yeah.

02:12:50.300 --> 02:12:54.779
I don't see it as a as a legal problem.

02:12:54.859 --> 02:12:55.260
<v Sara>No.

02:12:55.260 --> 02:12:59.805
Because if he's theoretically, he's bought this meat wholesale.

02:12:59.805 --> 02:13:03.164
Right? And he's just moving it to sell it elsewhere, which is

02:13:03.965 --> 02:13:07.404
<v Eric>Unless there's some inspections that they're bypassing when

02:13:07.404 --> 02:13:08.685
they're bringing it into Hawaii.

02:13:08.685 --> 02:13:11.484
That's the only or the macadamia nuts coming out.

02:13:11.484 --> 02:13:12.925
This is the domestic I can think of.

02:13:13.320 --> 02:13:16.039
<v Sara>The flight's domestic, though, so I can't think of what

02:13:16.039 --> 02:13:17.000
inspections are what.

02:13:17.000 --> 02:13:20.600
<v Eric>Some states will have food inspections if you bring in so much

02:13:20.600 --> 02:13:20.840
food.

02:13:20.840 --> 02:13:21.720
<v Sara>Okay. Fair enough.

02:13:21.720 --> 02:13:24.439
<v Eric>That's the only thing that I can think of that would be

02:13:24.840 --> 02:13:27.399
applicable in this situation because you're right. It is.

02:13:27.399 --> 02:13:28.715
It's domestic to domestic.

02:13:28.715 --> 02:13:31.274
It's not like you're going international.

02:13:31.675 --> 02:13:32.314
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:13:32.314 --> 02:13:34.715
So he says the savings on freight is unbelievable, and they

02:13:34.715 --> 02:13:36.954
bypass most of that or they pass most of that onto their

02:13:36.954 --> 02:13:38.954
distributors. Steel Wines are not

02:13:38.954 --> 02:13:40.314
<v Eric>paying anything for the freight.

02:13:41.670 --> 02:13:44.630
<v Sara>Steel wonders how profitable this fly by night operation is, and

02:13:44.630 --> 02:13:48.390
McBride tells him the pastrami is about 30,000 profit margin, but

02:13:48.390 --> 02:13:50.710
the margin is about twice that on max.

02:13:50.710 --> 02:13:53.350
Steel isn't sure what he means, and he clarifies macadamia nuts,

02:13:53.350 --> 02:13:57.349
Oahu to New York. Tax free, of course. Steel kind of like

02:13:57.724 --> 02:14:02.364
<v Eric>The only only tax free I can think of is is no income taxes on

02:14:02.364 --> 02:14:02.844
it.

02:14:03.005 --> 02:14:05.004
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. I guess that could be it.

02:14:05.404 --> 02:14:09.005
But Steele, he rec game recognizes game here because, like,

02:14:09.005 --> 02:14:12.079
there's there's a there's a bit of respect that you can see on

02:14:12.079 --> 02:14:15.679
Steele's face because he laughs. Even though he

02:14:15.679 --> 02:14:17.039
<v Eric>Wiggles his finger at him.

02:14:17.039 --> 02:14:17.359
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:14:17.359 --> 02:14:20.000
He says, it was you that gave me a free ride on the baggage

02:14:20.000 --> 02:14:21.439
express the other day, wasn't it?

02:14:21.439 --> 02:14:24.159
McBride apologizes, saying he was just protecting his investment.

02:14:24.875 --> 02:14:28.074
And he laughs, and he says and then McBride says, you can imagine

02:14:28.074 --> 02:14:29.514
when we saw the headline.

02:14:30.154 --> 02:14:32.234
When I saw the headline, and Laura looks terrified.

02:14:32.234 --> 02:14:33.194
What headline?

02:14:35.594 --> 02:14:38.954
Back at the office, Steele and Laura are staring at the newspaper

02:14:38.954 --> 02:14:41.050
in horror. Mr. Ketchum's right behind them.

02:14:41.050 --> 02:14:43.130
He snatches the paper out of their hands, and he says, you told

02:14:43.130 --> 02:14:44.170
me you'd be discreet.

02:14:44.329 --> 02:14:47.449
He holds up the newspaper saying, this, is this your idea of

02:14:47.449 --> 02:14:48.090
discreet?

02:14:48.890 --> 02:14:52.810
Steele starts to try to be brutally honest, but Laura interrupts

02:14:52.305 --> 02:14:54.945
and plays to Ketchum's ego, saying it's all part of mister

02:14:54.945 --> 02:14:56.944
Steel's plan to flush out the killer.

02:14:57.585 --> 02:15:02.784
Steel looked kinda surprised, and it is. Please elaborate, Laura.

02:15:02.864 --> 02:15:03.664
Yeah.

02:15:04.864 --> 02:15:06.145
<v Eric>She found herself season 1.

02:15:06.460 --> 02:15:07.179
<v Sara>Yeah. Right?

02:15:07.179 --> 02:15:10.380
Saying that for security reasons, they couldn't even let him know

02:15:10.380 --> 02:15:12.779
how close they've come to breaking this wide open.

02:15:13.260 --> 02:15:15.899
Steele agrees and begins to walk him towards the door saying, now

02:15:15.899 --> 02:15:18.219
that the trap has been set, it's only a matter of hours before

02:15:18.219 --> 02:15:19.579
the guilty party reveals himself.

02:15:20.194 --> 02:15:22.914
He tells Ketchum to sit tight, not to breathe a word to anyone.

02:15:22.914 --> 02:15:26.194
And, of course, Ketchum, being thoroughly bamboozled, you can

02:15:26.194 --> 02:15:27.154
count on me.

02:15:27.795 --> 02:15:29.395
<v Eric>I I think the word is sucker.

02:15:29.395 --> 02:15:29.954
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:15:29.954 --> 02:15:34.050
He turns to leave, then grins and says, by god, Steele, you're as

02:15:34.050 --> 02:15:38.930
good as they say they are. As they say. Oh, lord.

02:15:39.409 --> 02:15:42.369
Once Ketchum is gone, looks to Steele and says, speaking of

02:15:42.369 --> 02:15:44.210
guilty parties, poor Mildred.

02:15:44.210 --> 02:15:46.449
We see her in the main area of the office in the hot seat.

02:15:47.125 --> 02:15:50.164
<v Eric>And Marvin is in there. What is he doing in there?

02:15:50.164 --> 02:15:52.405
He has no business being in there.

02:15:52.405 --> 02:15:55.045
<v Sara>No. This is a this is a no. Yeah.

02:15:55.045 --> 02:15:58.564
This is purse it bothers me that he's there.

02:15:58.564 --> 02:16:05.060
<v Eric>Well, you wouldn't do that because of the that's I'm not gonna

02:16:05.060 --> 02:16:07.619
say it's illegal because I don't know the legality of it, but

02:16:07.619 --> 02:16:13.779
it's definitely inappropriate because you do not hold an employee

02:16:13.175 --> 02:16:18.135
disciplinary action with another employee there.

02:16:18.215 --> 02:16:19.574
<v Sara>No. You really don't.

02:16:19.574 --> 02:16:23.255
<v Eric>That's that's don't know

02:16:23.255 --> 02:16:23.574
<v Sara>if it's

02:16:23.574 --> 02:16:27.929
<v Eric>if it's technically not libel, but slander.

02:16:27.929 --> 02:16:30.090
But, I mean, it's it's bordering on slander.

02:16:30.090 --> 02:16:33.209
<v Sara>It's inappropriate at the very least. It's it's it's yeah.

02:16:33.209 --> 02:16:36.170
And poor Mildred, she looks really upset. You know?

02:16:36.170 --> 02:16:38.010
She says, he said he was from Time Magazine.

02:16:38.010 --> 02:16:41.065
He even talked in short sentences. Really?

02:16:41.545 --> 02:16:44.024
It was I didn't know he was just a local reporter.

02:16:44.424 --> 02:16:49.625
And okay, Mildred, even if even if he wasn't, like, there you

02:16:49.625 --> 02:16:51.943
told them stuff you shouldn't be telling them. Yeah.

02:16:51.943 --> 02:16:55.860
Whether he was Time Magazine or the LA Times, it doesn't matter.

02:16:55.860 --> 02:16:58.579
He she did divulge information that she shouldn't have been

02:16:58.579 --> 02:16:59.220
divulging.

02:16:59.220 --> 02:17:02.579
So that part, I think, is kind of irrelevant, what what his

02:17:02.579 --> 02:17:03.620
credentials were.

02:17:03.780 --> 02:17:04.101
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:17:04.101 --> 02:17:06.181
<v Sara>But Steele does point out that she might have asked for his

02:17:06.181 --> 02:17:09.674
credentials, which is a good point because he could have been

02:17:09.674 --> 02:17:12.555
somebody who worked for the airline or Yeah.

02:17:12.635 --> 02:17:13.995
The killer or whatever.

02:17:14.475 --> 02:17:17.193
She starts to try to protest and say you know, to say, if you'd

02:17:17.193 --> 02:17:19.193
been there, you would have been convinced as well.

02:17:19.193 --> 02:17:21.915
But Laura interrupts saying, secretary tells all Mildred.

02:17:21.915 --> 02:17:22.475
How could you?

02:17:23.649 --> 02:17:26.931
And this is where Mildred starts getting defensive and says that

02:17:26.931 --> 02:17:28.530
Marvin was making her crazy.

02:17:28.610 --> 02:17:31.970
Still very dismissively says, we're not talking about Marvin.

02:17:32.610 --> 02:17:40.815
And, like, I am fully in agreement that they have a right to

02:17:42.174 --> 02:17:44.895
discipline Mildred or to speak to Mildred about what happened

02:17:44.895 --> 02:17:46.655
because she screwed up big time.

02:17:46.655 --> 02:17:47.055
<v Eric>Right.

02:17:47.055 --> 02:17:50.000
<v Sara>But to completely ignore what she's saying about Marvin or

02:17:50.000 --> 02:17:55.680
dismiss Marvin out of hand as being and not even listen to her or

02:17:55.840 --> 02:17:57.279
what she has to say, like

02:17:58.159 --> 02:17:58.398
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:17:58.398 --> 02:18:04.523
This 1 of those situations where somebody is provoked by somebody

02:18:04.523 --> 02:18:12.045
else's actions or behavior and so somebody responds and the

02:18:12.523 --> 02:18:15.004
provocative action is totally ignored.

02:18:15.004 --> 02:18:18.520
It's just picked up at the point that you responded and you

02:18:18.520 --> 02:18:19.479
shouldn't have done that.

02:18:19.479 --> 02:18:22.680
Well, I wouldn't have done this except for that person over there

02:18:22.680 --> 02:18:26.040
did this to me, and I was just trying to defend myself.

02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:26.680
Doesn't matter.

02:18:26.680 --> 02:18:29.159
You're not allowed to do that because it's it's it's naughty.

02:18:29.975 --> 02:18:33.014
<v Sara>Yeah. Like, Mildred's clearly contrite. She's clearly upset.

02:18:33.014 --> 02:18:34.693
She knows she screwed up. Yeah.

02:18:34.693 --> 02:18:39.094
And she's trying to communicate to them what has been happening

02:18:39.094 --> 02:18:42.055
to her, and they're not interested in hearing it.

02:18:42.260 --> 02:18:45.939
They're they're just so Mildred, she stands up and she says, what

02:18:45.939 --> 02:18:48.180
is this? An inquisition? So I made a mistake. Big deal.

02:18:48.180 --> 02:18:51.299
Which okay. That's probably not the best way to respond.

02:18:51.299 --> 02:18:52.739
That's It a big deal.

02:18:52.898 --> 02:18:53.699
<v Eric>It is. Yes.

02:18:53.699 --> 02:18:57.165
<v Sara>Because Laura points out that she totally blew their cover.

02:18:57.485 --> 02:19:00.284
But Mildred replies saying, you've totally blown my authority in

02:19:00.284 --> 02:19:03.084
this office, and both are right here. Mhmm.

02:19:03.084 --> 02:19:06.206
This is 1 of those situations where Laura's right.

02:19:06.444 --> 02:19:08.364
Mildred screwed up. She blew their cover.

02:19:08.364 --> 02:19:11.500
She could have possibly blown the case, And that has to be

02:19:11.500 --> 02:19:11.899
addressed.

02:19:11.899 --> 02:19:14.219
But at the same time, they need to listen to what Mildred is

02:19:14.219 --> 02:19:16.219
saying because they have blown her authority.

02:19:16.219 --> 02:19:19.101
They have blown her. They haven't shown her any respect.

02:19:19.340 --> 02:19:21.500
Marvin was supposed to be gone. He's not gone.

02:19:21.739 --> 02:19:25.193
And they have no one's been listening to her.

02:19:25.193 --> 02:19:28.954
She's been trying to communicate this and still, again, dismisses

02:19:28.954 --> 02:19:31.434
this saying this isn't the time. And

02:19:31.754 --> 02:19:34.715
<v Eric>She's like the employee that is trying to point out a problem to

02:19:34.715 --> 02:19:38.459
management, and all management sees is you're a troublemaker

02:19:38.459 --> 02:19:42.620
because you're pointing this out. No. I'm I'm not a troublemaker.

02:19:42.620 --> 02:19:45.420
I'm trying to trying to make you aware of a problem that needs to

02:19:45.420 --> 02:19:47.340
be solved. No. You're just trying to create trouble.

02:19:48.024 --> 02:19:48.344
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:19:48.344 --> 02:19:50.024
<v Eric>That's basically how they're treating her.

02:19:50.024 --> 02:19:53.065
<v Sara>This is the last straw for her, especially when Steele dismisses

02:19:53.065 --> 02:19:54.424
it saying this isn't the time.

02:19:54.424 --> 02:19:57.225
She says, oh, I bust my chops for you. And what thanks do I get?

02:19:57.225 --> 02:19:58.985
You bring in Twinkle Toes over here.

02:19:59.305 --> 02:20:01.225
She says she can see the handwriting on the wall.

02:20:01.225 --> 02:20:05.299
She's got some of her own. I quit. And she storms out the office.

02:20:05.299 --> 02:20:08.739
And this I think Laura realizes, whoops.

02:20:08.899 --> 02:20:14.180
Because this is 1 of those situations too where and I'm sure

02:20:14.180 --> 02:20:18.100
you've had this experience either with yourself or with your wife

02:20:18.100 --> 02:20:21.935
where you've got an argument that seems to come out of nowhere.

02:20:22.254 --> 02:20:22.575
Right?

02:20:22.575 --> 02:20:25.694
Like you're talking about 1 thing and all of a sudden it turns

02:20:25.694 --> 02:20:28.094
into something huge and you're not really sure why because it

02:20:28.094 --> 02:20:29.694
really wasn't that huge to begin with.

02:20:29.694 --> 02:20:33.694
But there's something underlying either of either in you or her

02:20:33.694 --> 02:20:37.261
or somebody that causes that other issue, that seemingly

02:20:37.261 --> 02:20:40.300
insignificant issue to become a big issue.

02:20:40.700 --> 02:20:46.220
And in this case, Mildred has been simmering over this the whole

02:20:46.140 --> 02:20:50.725
And yeah, she screwed up, but she's also been trying to

02:20:50.725 --> 02:20:54.485
communicate like, this is my job that you guys have completely

02:20:55.364 --> 02:20:58.885
disrespected and disrespected me in turn.

02:20:58.885 --> 02:21:03.284
And so I don't think Mildred's trivializing what she's done, but

02:21:03.284 --> 02:21:07.420
she's also this whole thing has been going like, this is the

02:21:07.420 --> 02:21:09.579
straw that broke the camel's back for her. She's like, no.

02:21:09.579 --> 02:21:13.180
I'm not I'm not gonna stand here and listen to you tell me Marvin

02:21:13.180 --> 02:21:15.020
doesn't matter because he he does.

02:21:15.898 --> 02:21:17.180
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

02:21:17.180 --> 02:21:23.203
It it's she's willing to take responsibility and accept the

02:21:23.203 --> 02:21:25.684
punishment for her screw up.

02:21:25.844 --> 02:21:26.164
<v Sara>Mhmm.

02:21:26.164 --> 02:21:31.604
<v Eric>But she needs some sort of acknowledgment that Marvin's gonna be

02:21:31.604 --> 02:21:33.523
dealt with too because he's the instigator.

02:21:33.790 --> 02:21:37.229
<v Sara>Yeah. And that he shouldn't be there. Yeah.

02:21:37.709 --> 02:21:40.989
And when she tries to say, like, I did screw up, but here's

02:21:40.989 --> 02:21:45.389
here's what led me to this, like, how I made this they don't

02:21:45.389 --> 02:21:47.004
wanna hear it. They're not interested.

02:21:47.004 --> 02:21:51.245
So but Laura at least clues in when she leaves like, oh, crap.

02:21:51.245 --> 02:21:52.443
We made a mistake.

02:21:52.443 --> 02:21:55.725
Something was Laura realizes, I think, intuitively that there was

02:21:55.725 --> 02:21:57.805
more to this. This wasn't just Mildred.

02:21:58.431 --> 02:22:01.229
<v Eric>Intuitively, look, Mildred's been telling them that.

02:22:01.229 --> 02:22:04.351
There's no intuitive here at all. I mean, it's no.

02:22:04.351 --> 02:22:06.110
You need to start listening.

02:22:06.829 --> 02:22:09.470
<v Sara>Yeah. I think she does once Mildred says I quit.

02:22:09.470 --> 02:22:13.575
I think that's where Laura realizes that there was more to this.

02:22:13.575 --> 02:22:16.854
There it's not just the problem on the surface.

02:22:16.854 --> 02:22:19.014
There's the problem underneath that Mildred was trying to talk

02:22:19.014 --> 02:22:23.415
about. So she looks at Steele. She's like, do something.

02:22:24.135 --> 02:22:25.654
And he she'll be back.

02:22:26.060 --> 02:22:29.500
She does come back and still initially thinks he's right, but she

02:22:29.500 --> 02:22:34.780
takes her nameplate and leaves. So Yeah. That's yeah.

02:22:34.780 --> 02:22:39.984
And then at Mildred's, we see she's sitting at her counter in the

02:22:39.984 --> 02:22:40.545
kitchen.

02:22:40.625 --> 02:22:43.584
I thought initially she was doing crossword, but then when the

02:22:43.584 --> 02:22:45.664
camera zooms out on her, when she sits down at the table, it

02:22:45.664 --> 02:22:47.424
looks like she's marking the classifieds.

02:22:47.424 --> 02:22:47.984
<v Eric>Yeah. I think that's

02:22:48.064 --> 02:22:49.184
<v Sara>So she's yeah. She's

02:22:49.424 --> 02:22:51.424
<v Eric>because you you can see the crossword Yeah.

02:22:51.424 --> 02:22:54.064
That's my little side of the paper that's facing us.

02:22:54.360 --> 02:22:54.601
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:22:54.601 --> 02:22:57.719
So I was a bit confused initially because she had a pencil in her

02:22:57.719 --> 02:22:59.399
hand. So I was like, what is she doing?

02:22:59.399 --> 02:23:01.639
But then when she sits down, you can see she's looking at

02:23:01.639 --> 02:23:03.720
classifieds. So she's looking for a job.

02:23:03.799 --> 02:23:06.601
So this wasn't a this was not a stunt she was pulling.

02:23:06.601 --> 02:23:09.795
Like, obviously, in this scene here, she manages to twist it

02:23:09.795 --> 02:23:12.193
around and use it to her advantage when she sees she

02:23:12.193 --> 02:23:14.995
<v Eric>can But, I mean, she was she legitimately walked out.

02:23:14.995 --> 02:23:17.555
<v Sara>She legitimately walked out. She was ready. She was done.

02:23:17.555 --> 02:23:21.829
She was there was too much that had been building up until this

02:23:21.829 --> 02:23:24.069
point, and that was just the last straw.

02:23:24.069 --> 02:23:27.190
So she's Steel knocks on the door. She looks back.

02:23:27.190 --> 02:23:29.351
She sees him there. Goes back to the paper.

02:23:29.351 --> 02:23:32.629
He knocks again, telling her it's him. She knows that, Steel.

02:23:33.556 --> 02:23:34.354
She knows.

02:23:35.315 --> 02:23:39.235
<v Eric>Hello. Captain Obvious speaking. Yeah. Will be flying today on

02:23:40.034 --> 02:23:42.114
<v Sara>On Mildred's ticked off airlines. Yeah.

02:23:42.114 --> 02:23:45.715
He asked her to open up, and she says nobody's home.

02:23:45.715 --> 02:23:46.594
Continues to read.

02:23:47.050 --> 02:23:52.729
Still, he gets out his lockpick kit and lets himself in, Mildred

02:23:52.729 --> 02:23:55.931
tells him that's cheating. But he says all's fair.

02:23:56.409 --> 02:23:57.530
She asks him what he wants.

02:23:57.530 --> 02:24:00.329
She goes over to sit down at the table, and he joins her telling

02:24:00.329 --> 02:24:03.255
her that he thinks she knows what he wants and what miss Holt

02:24:03.255 --> 02:24:07.255
wants. He brings over her tea. She says, I'd like to hear it.

02:24:07.255 --> 02:24:09.895
And this is I really love this scene with Mildred because she's

02:24:09.895 --> 02:24:14.680
she's not only standing up for herself, but demanding that he

02:24:14.680 --> 02:24:18.360
voice, like, what do you think I want? Mhmm.

02:24:18.360 --> 02:24:19.959
She's making him do the work.

02:24:19.959 --> 02:24:23.319
She's not just saying, like, this is what I mean, she does spell

02:24:23.319 --> 02:24:28.565
it out for him, but she's also making him come to terms with what

02:24:28.565 --> 02:24:30.405
the disrespect is and how it happens.

02:24:30.405 --> 02:24:34.726
<v Eric>Part of it is is that she wants to know that he's not just going

02:24:34.726 --> 02:24:38.565
to you know, if she said this, this, and this is the problem

02:24:38.806 --> 02:24:39.364
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:24:39.444 --> 02:24:42.979
<v Eric>Then even if he hadn't thought of it before, he's going to say,

02:24:42.979 --> 02:24:44.979
Oh yeah, yeah, I understand that.

02:24:45.459 --> 02:24:47.459
That's not recognizing the problem.

02:24:47.459 --> 02:24:50.420
That's being told and you're going along with it.

02:24:50.420 --> 02:24:55.155
She wants to know that he's looked at the situation and says, oh,

02:24:55.475 --> 02:25:01.155
yeah. Yeah. See what I did. Oh, shouldn't have done that.

02:25:01.395 --> 02:25:01.795
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:25:01.795 --> 02:25:04.995
She wants him to acknowledge, to think about it, and realize why

02:25:04.995 --> 02:25:05.875
she's hurt.

02:25:06.034 --> 02:25:06.435
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:25:06.435 --> 02:25:07.395
<v Sara>And and that's fair.

02:25:08.469 --> 02:25:12.389
So she he like, she tells him that she wants to hear it, so he

02:25:12.389 --> 02:25:14.469
says they want her back. She hears him.

02:25:14.469 --> 02:25:16.950
She smiles, but she says, I don't think so.

02:25:17.430 --> 02:25:19.828
He kneels down and tells her that he's really sorry.

02:25:20.685 --> 02:25:23.485
He asked if she would at least do the him the courtesy of looking

02:25:23.485 --> 02:25:24.925
at him while he grovels.

02:25:27.645 --> 02:25:30.524
And Mildred kindly tells him, I don't want you to gravel.

02:25:30.604 --> 02:25:35.629
Like, that's not why she's not wanting him to to beg or plead.

02:25:35.629 --> 02:25:37.950
She Mhmm. That's not what she's interested in.

02:25:38.190 --> 02:25:39.709
He asked, what what do you want?

02:25:39.709 --> 02:25:41.630
She says, how about a little respect for 1?

02:25:42.431 --> 02:25:44.989
And he says that you've always had that, but she doesn't see it

02:25:44.989 --> 02:25:47.069
that way. And I think this is fair.

02:25:47.149 --> 02:25:50.895
She says, then how come when you look at me, you only see someone

02:25:50.895 --> 02:25:52.976
to fetch your coffee or make your appointments?

02:25:53.534 --> 02:25:59.136
And you can see on his face that the light bulb sort of comes on.

02:25:59.295 --> 02:26:03.620
He has the good the decency to look a little bit embarrassed, to

02:26:03.620 --> 02:26:06.100
look a bit chagrined because he knows that he's been taking

02:26:06.100 --> 02:26:07.620
advantage of her in that respect.

02:26:08.100 --> 02:26:13.940
Because technically, as a secretary, her job would not be to

02:26:14.739 --> 02:26:15.859
<v Eric>Cater it to his whims.

02:26:15.859 --> 02:26:18.844
<v Sara>Yeah. She's not she's not amazed.

02:26:18.844 --> 02:26:19.965
<v Eric>She's a gopher.

02:26:19.965 --> 02:26:21.404
<v Sara>She's not yeah. She's not a gopher.

02:26:21.404 --> 02:26:23.564
She's she's there to man the phones, to make sure the

02:26:23.564 --> 02:26:26.363
appointments are made, to do the research that they ask her to

02:26:26.363 --> 02:26:29.885
do, and and to get the information that that she's asked to get.

02:26:29.885 --> 02:26:32.443
But she's not there to be his personal servant, and that's what

02:26:32.443 --> 02:26:35.940
he's been using her as. Yeah. And that's not showing respect.

02:26:36.020 --> 02:26:40.899
So she asked yeah. So she she he looks away. He's embarrassed.

02:26:40.899 --> 02:26:43.540
And Mildred continues saying that, I know why you brought Maverie

02:26:43.540 --> 02:26:46.819
in because lately, I've been spending more time with the agency

02:26:46.819 --> 02:26:48.659
business and you miss your personal attention.

02:26:49.405 --> 02:26:50.204
<v Eric>Yep.

02:26:50.364 --> 02:26:53.485
<v Sara>Right? And that's he kinda looks at her and he grins.

02:26:54.764 --> 02:26:57.805
And he says, you were so winning as the adoring subordinate.

02:26:57.805 --> 02:27:00.364
And Mildred says, well, you can't turn back the clock.

02:27:00.364 --> 02:27:03.245
I learned your secret in London and it changed my outlook.

02:27:03.565 --> 02:27:03.885
<v Eric>Mhmm.

02:27:04.351 --> 02:27:06.829
<v Sara>So he looks a little sad about that.

02:27:06.829 --> 02:27:09.229
And he's asked if the secret is really that meaningful.

02:27:10.030 --> 02:27:13.470
And he says, we're a team, the 3 of us. You, me, Ms.

02:27:13.470 --> 02:27:15.470
Holt, let's not break that up.

02:27:15.470 --> 02:27:18.431
She shakes her head and she reminds him that before she signed on

02:27:18.431 --> 02:27:22.386
to be his major Domo, she was a member of the IRS fraud squad.

02:27:22.704 --> 02:27:26.706
And this is important, I think, because we we tend to forget that

02:27:26.784 --> 02:27:31.345
whatever the job she had with the IRS means that I mean, we know

02:27:31.345 --> 02:27:33.185
her skills. We know she's good with numbers.

02:27:33.185 --> 02:27:34.784
We know she's good at finding fraud.

02:27:34.784 --> 02:27:37.370
Can she's good with technology, computers.

02:27:37.689 --> 02:27:41.290
But she also, I'm assuming, would have had to have some education

02:27:41.850 --> 02:27:44.649
behind her to get a job like that in the IRS.

02:27:44.809 --> 02:27:46.090
It's a government job.

02:27:46.889 --> 02:27:50.250
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that she's probably got some kind

02:27:50.250 --> 02:27:53.734
of college, maybe if not necessarily university, but there's some

02:27:53.734 --> 02:27:56.694
sort of post secondary degree attached to that.

02:27:56.854 --> 02:27:57.174
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:27:57.174 --> 02:28:04.340
Or she's got enough in-depth work experience that it it's, I

02:28:04.340 --> 02:28:09.540
can't think of the phrase, but it's it's basically that her life

02:28:09.540 --> 02:28:14.739
and work experience is equivalent to an actual education.

02:28:15.620 --> 02:28:18.466
<v Sara>Like, is a qualified, she is a qualified woman.

02:28:18.466 --> 02:28:21.425
Like, we always talk about Laura being this working woman that is

02:28:21.425 --> 02:28:24.864
a role model because she's she's out there, and she's she's

02:28:24.864 --> 02:28:27.505
making things happen. But Mildred has been doing that too.

02:28:28.625 --> 02:28:31.345
And Mildred has not had a family. She doesn't have kids.

02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:34.159
She has been a working woman her entire life.

02:28:34.159 --> 02:28:38.238
She's on her own, and she is skilled.

02:28:38.238 --> 02:28:42.000
She is not just somebody they she's not Debbie Rubello with her

02:28:42.000 --> 02:28:46.485
fluffy sweater. She's she knows what she's doing.

02:28:46.485 --> 02:28:50.485
<v Eric>Well, and she's she's a good secretary, and a good secretary is

02:28:50.485 --> 02:28:54.325
more than answer the phone, fetch the coffee, and Yeah.

02:28:54.405 --> 02:28:55.685
Type up a few letters.

02:28:55.844 --> 02:28:56.965
<v Sara>Exactly. Yeah.

02:28:57.399 --> 02:29:00.440
And she so when she points out she was a member of the IRS fraud

02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:03.640
squad, she adds that it's very discouraging to find out she has

02:29:03.640 --> 02:29:07.239
more qualifications for his job than he does Yes.

02:29:07.319 --> 02:29:11.425
Which is a swing. Good for you, Mildred.

02:29:11.425 --> 02:29:14.864
<v Eric>Because, essentially, as a fraud as a fraud investigator, she was

02:29:14.864 --> 02:29:15.905
a detective.

02:29:15.905 --> 02:29:16.546
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:29:16.864 --> 02:29:20.625
Literally, that would have been her job is to sniff out, like and

02:29:20.625 --> 02:29:26.290
and and that must like, you know, and I never even thought of it

02:29:26.290 --> 02:29:29.091
that way until I saw this episode about how that must have stung

02:29:29.489 --> 02:29:33.970
to be treated like, to have adored him, to have looked up to him

02:29:33.970 --> 02:29:36.209
as being this, like, oh, he's this great detective.

02:29:36.209 --> 02:29:39.204
He went and he studied and he got this, And now he's this, you

02:29:39.204 --> 02:29:42.245
know, he's this maverick who does all this stuff and solves all

02:29:42.245 --> 02:29:45.363
these cases. Oh, I'm just a I'm just I'm just Mildred.

02:29:45.363 --> 02:29:47.924
I just worked for the fraud squad. I'm not as good as he is.

02:29:47.924 --> 02:29:50.529
And then to realize, oh, no.

02:29:50.529 --> 02:29:52.449
Actually Far more qualified than he is.

02:29:52.449 --> 02:29:57.329
Far more qualified than he is to do his job and to then be still

02:29:57.329 --> 02:30:01.729
treated like that subordinate. That that would have been yeah.

02:30:01.969 --> 02:30:04.129
<v Eric>And haven't you had managers like that too?

02:30:04.245 --> 02:30:07.045
<v Sara>Oh, yes. You look at

02:30:07.045 --> 02:30:09.444
<v Eric>him and say, how did you get this job?

02:30:09.444 --> 02:30:11.925
<v Sara>This is the yeah. Absolutely.

02:30:13.045 --> 02:30:15.444
He tries to defend himself saying, well, I may not have the

02:30:15.444 --> 02:30:19.200
formal training, but she cuts him off saying that she figures if

02:30:19.200 --> 02:30:22.319
he can play detective, she can play more than just pencil pusher.

02:30:22.319 --> 02:30:25.360
That's that. And she's right.

02:30:26.959 --> 02:30:29.680
<v Eric>Although she she really shouldn't have characterized her position

02:30:29.680 --> 02:30:31.760
as just being a pencil pusher because

02:30:32.000 --> 02:30:32.319
<v Sara>I don't.

02:30:32.704 --> 02:30:34.465
<v Eric>You know, again, secretary

02:30:34.704 --> 02:30:35.024
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:30:35.264 --> 02:30:41.985
<v Eric>Has that perception, but a good secretary, which Mildred is

02:30:42.305 --> 02:30:42.704
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:30:42.704 --> 02:30:45.665
<v Eric>Is far more than just a paper a pencil pusher.

02:30:45.920 --> 02:30:48.879
<v Sara>I don't think she saw herself as a pencil pusher, but I think

02:30:48.879 --> 02:30:52.159
when she used that phrasing, she was referring to how Steele saw

02:30:52.319 --> 02:30:54.319
how she feels that Steele saw her.

02:30:54.319 --> 02:30:56.879
That could be If you could play detective, I can pretend I can

02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:00.495
play more than just your personal slave, your pencil pusher, what

02:31:00.495 --> 02:31:03.295
have you. Yeah. He's disappointed. So that's it.

02:31:03.295 --> 02:31:05.136
There's nothing I can say to get you back.

02:31:05.614 --> 02:31:08.415
And this this is where she's

02:31:08.415 --> 02:31:12.819
<v Eric>saying manipulated you to the point where I want Well, it

02:31:12.819 --> 02:31:14.979
<v Sara>wasn't even manipulation. She was just being honest.

02:31:14.979 --> 02:31:18.260
But but it's this point where she's like, okay.

02:31:18.659 --> 02:31:20.340
I could actually get what I want here.

02:31:20.340 --> 02:31:23.700
I can actually use this to my advantage because deep down, I

02:31:23.700 --> 02:31:25.860
don't think she wants to leave. It's it's just No.

02:31:25.860 --> 02:31:28.364
Come to a point where she feels like she's not

02:31:28.364 --> 02:31:29.084
<v Eric>gonna change.

02:31:29.084 --> 02:31:31.565
<v Sara>Yeah. So this is the point where she's like, you know what?

02:31:31.565 --> 02:31:34.045
I'm gonna ask for what I want, and if I get it, I get it.

02:31:34.045 --> 02:31:36.685
If not, I've just got the classifieds in front of me.

02:31:36.685 --> 02:31:37.245
<v Eric>That's right.

02:31:37.245 --> 02:31:40.204
<v Sara>Right? So I didn't say that.

02:31:40.204 --> 02:31:42.685
I wouldn't go that way quite that far and still grins thinking

02:31:42.685 --> 02:31:45.829
he's won, sits down and says, there have to be some changes.

02:31:45.829 --> 02:31:48.790
Now in the script, there is a line that got cut out here.

02:31:49.029 --> 02:31:50.790
I'll see if I can find it here.

02:31:51.670 --> 02:31:55.029
Because she's she's got them right where she wants them.

02:31:55.534 --> 02:31:58.415
And then he says, okay.

02:31:59.055 --> 02:32:02.334
It's a good thing you pushed me over the edge because I might not

02:32:02.334 --> 02:32:04.735
have had the guts to spread my wings without the shove.

02:32:04.735 --> 02:32:06.415
And that's when he says, I see. So that's it.

02:32:06.415 --> 02:32:07.935
Then there's nothing I can say to bring you back.

02:32:07.935 --> 02:32:10.254
And Mildred realizes she has a golden opportunity here for a

02:32:10.254 --> 02:32:12.148
little self advancement. That's what the script says.

02:32:12.148 --> 02:32:15.270
I wouldn't go quite that far, but there'd have to be some

02:32:15.270 --> 02:32:16.709
changes, minor changes.

02:32:17.430 --> 02:32:19.829
Flex and then steel, that's where he says flexibility is our

02:32:19.829 --> 02:32:23.030
motto. Seems like rubbing to steel at agency has a lot of mottos.

02:32:24.229 --> 02:32:27.454
And she says, well, let's see. Sudden thought, nah.

02:32:27.454 --> 02:32:29.454
You'd have to run it by miss Holt anyway.

02:32:29.773 --> 02:32:33.693
And Steele has a line here. Hang on. Hang, miss Holt.

02:32:33.693 --> 02:32:36.094
I may have started out as a figment of her imagination, but I'm

02:32:36.094 --> 02:32:39.559
now undeniably real and autonomous to some degree.

02:32:41.238 --> 02:32:43.879
Kinda wish they'd left that line in. Yeah.

02:32:44.920 --> 02:32:50.039
I'm I'm real and autonomous, sort of. Mildred says, I don't know.

02:32:50.039 --> 02:32:53.825
She may not like it if and this this is literally now she's

02:32:53.825 --> 02:32:57.505
manipulating him because she knows that that he has to run it by

02:32:57.505 --> 02:32:59.665
Laura, but she's wanting him to say, no. No. No.

02:32:59.665 --> 02:33:04.704
The buck stops here, which he does. This is the buck stops here.

02:33:04.704 --> 02:33:05.265
Fire away.

02:33:05.819 --> 02:33:08.540
So Mildred tells him, well, eventually I'd like to get my private

02:33:08.540 --> 02:33:10.700
investigator's license. He says splendid.

02:33:10.860 --> 02:33:13.181
And then she says it means that she'd have to be much more

02:33:13.181 --> 02:33:16.940
involved in their cases. He looks a little confused. You would?

02:33:17.101 --> 02:33:19.659
She says, yeah, you have to apprentice for 3 years before you can

02:33:19.659 --> 02:33:20.700
even apply for a license.

02:33:21.594 --> 02:33:24.875
Again, this is kind of like he seems a little shocked by that,

02:33:24.875 --> 02:33:29.994
but it's like, you didn't do that, dude, so you wouldn't know.

02:33:29.994 --> 02:33:31.834
Really? Yeah.

02:33:32.314 --> 02:33:35.273
So then she says, and if she's going to be more valuable, it

02:33:35.273 --> 02:33:36.635
should be reflected in her salary.

02:33:36.930 --> 02:33:40.450
He agrees, offers her another $50 a week. 50?

02:33:41.090 --> 02:33:46.529
To which he amends it to a 100. And she heartily agrees.

02:33:46.529 --> 02:33:50.129
She shakes his hand vigorously, asking if he'll tell miss Holt,

02:33:50.129 --> 02:33:51.889
and he says, oh, as soon as I see her.

02:33:52.784 --> 02:33:57.345
Well, just then, Laura taps on Mildred's door.

02:33:57.825 --> 02:34:01.745
Of Look at the devil. Mildred jumps up. She lets her in.

02:34:01.745 --> 02:34:03.665
Laura's surprised to see her looking so happy.

02:34:03.665 --> 02:34:06.280
She comments that it looks like the cat that just swallowed the

02:34:06.280 --> 02:34:08.360
canary, and she asked if it means she's coming back.

02:34:08.360 --> 02:34:12.439
Mildred says, of course, and looks at Steele meaningfully. Yeah.

02:34:12.439 --> 02:34:15.239
But he does not wanna do this here. He's like

02:34:15.399 --> 02:34:15.959
<v Eric>No. No.

02:34:17.274 --> 02:34:19.034
<v Sara>So he jumps up looking nervous.

02:34:19.034 --> 02:34:21.274
But before he has a chance to say anything else, Laura tells him

02:34:21.274 --> 02:34:23.754
that it was just on the news that a body washed up on a beach in

02:34:23.754 --> 02:34:26.155
San Pedro, 2 bullets to the back of the neck.

02:34:26.476 --> 02:34:29.915
He's never been so happy to hear about a dead body.

02:34:32.520 --> 02:34:33.879
He's like, wonderful.

02:34:34.840 --> 02:34:37.639
Beltman's trademark suggests they get down there right away.

02:34:37.799 --> 02:34:40.680
Mildred attempts to stop him so that he can tell Laura, but still

02:34:40.680 --> 02:34:41.559
says later, later.

02:34:41.559 --> 02:34:43.318
It seems like ghosts of their contract killers just claimed

02:34:43.318 --> 02:34:44.280
another victim.

02:34:44.680 --> 02:34:47.158
He tells Laura he's coming and that there's not a moment to lose.

02:34:48.033 --> 02:34:50.193
And this is cute. This is I I looked.

02:34:50.193 --> 02:34:53.155
I I didn't think this was in the script, so I checked.

02:34:54.033 --> 02:34:58.674
He says speak of the devil. Chief, she gestures again.

02:34:59.395 --> 02:35:02.620
Later, Mildred seems like the ghost escorting Laura quickly out.

02:35:02.620 --> 02:35:03.979
Come, miss Holt. Not a moment to lose.

02:35:03.979 --> 02:35:07.739
So this is not in the script, but she grabs onto his coat as he

02:35:07.739 --> 02:35:10.299
leaves. Yeah. His suit jacket.

02:35:11.420 --> 02:35:12.859
Well, he's just trying to pull him back.

02:35:12.859 --> 02:35:14.219
And, yeah, it's it's funny.

02:35:14.465 --> 02:35:16.225
<v Eric>So quite not happy.

02:35:16.225 --> 02:35:19.665
She's got that that he did it to me again look

02:35:19.665 --> 02:35:20.704
<v Sara>on her face.

02:35:21.584 --> 02:35:24.465
So but she doesn't let him she holds him to account for the rest

02:35:24.465 --> 02:35:25.905
of this episode, which is funny.

02:35:26.305 --> 02:35:29.859
At the morgue, we see this is funny too.

02:35:29.859 --> 02:35:33.139
We see the mortician lower the sheet over the body.

02:35:33.139 --> 02:35:35.940
Steel is has been looking under, and he looks green.

02:35:36.260 --> 02:35:40.979
He's about to puke. Yeah. He comments on the interesting color.

02:35:41.145 --> 02:35:44.023
The mortician says that he spent the last 2 nights in a kelp bed,

02:35:44.023 --> 02:35:46.264
so he and he would still be down there if that fishing trawler

02:35:46.264 --> 02:35:47.385
hadn't dragged him up.

02:35:47.625 --> 02:35:51.385
How that must have been, like, if you're the if you're the guy in

02:35:51.385 --> 02:35:54.344
the fishing trawler to pull that out of the water. Gross.

02:35:58.068 --> 02:35:59.510
Laura asked if there's an ID.

02:35:59.510 --> 02:36:01.909
The mortician says he can't get any prints, says his fingers were

02:36:01.909 --> 02:36:07.909
nibbled away. Steel is horrified. By what?

02:36:07.909 --> 02:36:10.709
The mortician grins and says there's lots of things down there

02:36:10.709 --> 02:36:12.684
that nibble. Yeah.

02:36:13.564 --> 02:36:16.443
Like, they're clearly leaning into this stereotype here about

02:36:16.443 --> 02:36:20.045
being, like, extremely morbid mortician. Yeah.

02:36:20.604 --> 02:36:22.924
And then he says, you should see the guy they brought in a week

02:36:22.924 --> 02:36:25.004
before. His fingers weren't the only thing that was missing.

02:36:26.500 --> 02:36:28.738
<v Eric>His last name wasn't Bobbin by any chance, was it?

02:36:28.898 --> 02:36:32.500
<v Speaker 2>That too. That was the first thing that popped into my head.

02:36:33.219 --> 02:36:36.020
<v Sara>Oh, and for those of you who have no idea what we're talking

02:36:36.020 --> 02:36:38.818
about, in the '9 it was the nineties. Right?

02:36:38.954 --> 02:36:40.556
It was the nineties assaulted?

02:36:40.635 --> 02:36:41.514
<v Eric>About that. Yeah.

02:36:41.514 --> 02:36:45.674
<v Sara>There was a very infamous case of a woman, who it later I I did

02:36:45.674 --> 02:36:48.235
some deep diving because there was actually a documentary on

02:36:48.235 --> 02:36:50.954
this, and I think that it was a case of domestic abuse, and

02:36:50.954 --> 02:36:54.809
that's why she chopped off.

02:36:54.889 --> 02:36:58.170
<v Eric>He she I think she also alleged that he was cheating on her.

02:36:58.170 --> 02:37:01.129
<v Sara>Yeah. But, yeah, she, chopped off his

02:37:02.090 --> 02:37:02.809
<v Eric>Thing.

02:37:03.049 --> 02:37:05.770
<v Sara>Thing and tossed it at the car window.

02:37:08.354 --> 02:37:11.954
So, yeah, that's that's yeah. That's what I thought of too.

02:37:11.954 --> 02:37:15.556
Immediately enough. Still asking to skip that part.

02:37:16.675 --> 02:37:20.114
It's worn out, so he needs needs to get a new 1 anyway. So yeah.

02:37:21.030 --> 02:37:22.310
Exactly. Yeah.

02:37:22.950 --> 02:37:25.270
And Laura then asked if she could look under the sheet, which

02:37:25.270 --> 02:37:28.310
this is funny. She lifts it. She sticks her head right in.

02:37:30.709 --> 02:37:33.510
Asking how how long he was down there, the mortician says based

02:37:33.510 --> 02:37:35.430
on the state of decomposition about 4 days.

02:37:35.430 --> 02:37:37.665
She lowers the sheet and says, well, that's it for me.

02:37:37.824 --> 02:37:40.625
And ask mister Seal if he has any questions, but he's gone.

02:37:40.625 --> 02:37:44.943
So Yeah. And then she doesn't look like that phased her at all.

02:37:44.943 --> 02:37:46.704
<v Eric>No. She's used to it.

02:37:46.704 --> 02:37:49.584
<v Sara>And since you made a a home improvement reference, I get to make

02:37:49.584 --> 02:37:50.943
a Buffy reference. That's the rule.

02:37:51.180 --> 02:37:55.260
So there's a scene there's a scene in Buffy where they're doing

02:37:55.260 --> 02:37:56.139
something similar.

02:37:56.139 --> 02:37:58.779
They're checking out a body to see if it was killed by a werewolf

02:37:58.779 --> 02:37:59.739
or a vampire.

02:38:00.059 --> 02:38:02.699
And Willow goes in, and she's got her little science kit.

02:38:02.699 --> 02:38:05.625
And she's and and Xander and Cordelia are with her, and both of

02:38:05.625 --> 02:38:06.904
them are, like, about to heave.

02:38:06.904 --> 02:38:10.665
They're just they're thoroughly, like, not okay with this.

02:38:10.665 --> 02:38:12.184
And Willow is just intent.

02:38:12.184 --> 02:38:14.665
Like, she's not even looking at them, and she's, like, scraping

02:38:14.665 --> 02:38:17.530
finger scrapings and whatnot.

02:38:17.530 --> 02:38:21.049
And she seems, you know, totally, like, not phased by the body.

02:38:21.049 --> 02:38:23.690
And then when she's done, she stands up to leave, and then she

02:38:23.690 --> 02:38:29.450
passes out. That kinda made me think of this.

02:38:29.450 --> 02:38:30.649
Except Laura doesn't pass out.

02:38:30.649 --> 02:38:33.745
She's just like, oh, any questions? Steel's gone. Yeah.

02:38:34.225 --> 02:38:37.264
So back in the office, Laura's mulling over the case.

02:38:37.264 --> 02:38:39.745
She suggests that someone hired a contract killer to get rid of

02:38:39.745 --> 02:38:42.064
whoever was in the morgue, then hired someone to get rid of the

02:38:42.064 --> 02:38:44.880
contract killer. Confusing?

02:38:45.200 --> 02:38:47.921
Steel says yes, but wonders which crew member hired the killer in

02:38:47.921 --> 02:38:49.360
the first place and why.

02:38:49.921 --> 02:38:54.161
And this is where Mildred comes in with a refill, coffee refill.

02:38:54.399 --> 02:38:58.000
She fills Laura's cup, leans over to Phil's Phil Steel's and

02:38:58.000 --> 02:39:01.415
mouths right now, to which he mouths that he's getting to it.

02:39:01.815 --> 02:39:02.215
Yeah.

02:39:02.215 --> 02:39:04.774
She asked them to let her know if they need anything else, and

02:39:04.774 --> 02:39:05.495
she leaves.

02:39:06.055 --> 02:39:09.014
Laura comments that Mildred seems awfully spry today, and Steele

02:39:09.014 --> 02:39:11.415
says, no doubt, just happy to be back among them.

02:39:11.655 --> 02:39:15.159
Comes around to the desk and suggests that Belden might have been

02:39:15.159 --> 02:39:16.841
blackmailing whoever hired him.

02:39:17.159 --> 02:39:19.159
Then they would have to get rid of Belden as well.

02:39:19.399 --> 02:39:20.920
Laura nods saying, not bad.

02:39:20.920 --> 02:39:23.720
And then Melden returns saying that she hates to disturb them at

02:39:23.720 --> 02:39:25.560
Sally Devon is online 1 for miss Holt.

02:39:26.584 --> 02:39:28.424
Laura asks, is there something wrong with the intercom?

02:39:28.424 --> 02:39:29.305
And Mildred says, no.

02:39:29.305 --> 02:39:31.225
She just thought they'd appreciate the personal touch.

02:39:31.225 --> 02:39:34.344
She looks at Steele and pointedly says, anything else, boss?

02:39:34.985 --> 02:39:38.504
Steele testily replies, not yet, Mildred.

02:39:38.504 --> 02:39:43.350
She says there's, she's here if you need me, leaves before giving

02:39:43.350 --> 02:39:47.030
Steele a death glare. At this point, Laura's clued in.

02:39:47.030 --> 02:39:51.110
She looks at Steele, she says, what exactly you did you tell

02:39:51.110 --> 02:39:51.829
Mildred?

02:39:52.149 --> 02:39:52.629
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:39:53.363 --> 02:39:56.084
<v Sara>He says nothing. Hands her the phone. She answers it.

02:39:56.084 --> 02:39:58.885
Tells the person tell Sally to start at the beginning, and after

02:39:58.885 --> 02:40:01.364
a minute or so, she says, stay right there. They're on their way.

02:40:02.004 --> 02:40:04.725
So Laura turns to Steele and says that was Sally, and she needs

02:40:04.725 --> 02:40:06.484
him to come down there. Wanda's hysterical.

02:40:06.659 --> 02:40:08.899
She says something about life or death and emergency.

02:40:08.979 --> 02:40:11.140
Steele's confused, wondering what Wanda has to do with the

02:40:11.140 --> 02:40:12.979
puzzle. They go out into the main office.

02:40:13.140 --> 02:40:15.299
Laura tells Mildred they'll be at Wanda Sutton's apartment.

02:40:15.299 --> 02:40:18.579
Steele tells Mildred later before he can she can say anything and

02:40:18.579 --> 02:40:18.979
they leave.

02:40:20.194 --> 02:40:23.635
Once they're gone, we see a dejected looking Marvin leave Laura's

02:40:23.635 --> 02:40:27.954
office with a box full of his things. Womp, womp. Not sad.

02:40:27.954 --> 02:40:29.635
<v Eric>Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

02:40:29.635 --> 02:40:30.835
<v Sara>Yeah. Bye bye.

02:40:30.995 --> 02:40:34.114
He makes his way up to the desk and tells Mildred he guesses this

02:40:34.114 --> 02:40:37.620
is goodbye. Mildred just guess so. She didn't even look up.

02:40:38.579 --> 02:40:41.139
Marvin then tells her that he didn't realize how important she

02:40:41.139 --> 02:40:43.700
was to this organization until mister Steele spelled it out for

02:40:43.700 --> 02:40:45.540
him. This is nice.

02:40:45.540 --> 02:40:48.020
I will say this for for Mildred, not necessarily for Marvin

02:40:48.020 --> 02:40:50.340
because I don't really care what happens to him. But like

02:40:50.405 --> 02:40:58.725
<v Eric>I my feeling is that Marvin was given a tool that he could use to

02:40:58.725 --> 02:41:00.405
wedge his way back in.

02:41:01.924 --> 02:41:05.500
That, yeah, Steele may have told him some things, but Marvin

02:41:05.500 --> 02:41:06.459
really doesn't care.

02:41:06.459 --> 02:41:10.299
He's really not all that impressed by what Steele said and about

02:41:10.299 --> 02:41:14.459
what it meant and about how Mildred is so important and vital to

02:41:14.459 --> 02:41:15.100
the agency.

02:41:15.100 --> 02:41:20.033
But, you know, if I now that I know this, I can use this to get

02:41:20.033 --> 02:41:23.795
into her good graces because obviously she's the 1 really pulling

02:41:23.795 --> 02:41:24.834
the strings here.

02:41:25.154 --> 02:41:30.995
So if I suck up to her, I get in good with her, I get to stay.

02:41:31.154 --> 02:41:31.715
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:41:31.715 --> 02:41:35.470
I'm I don't disagree with you, but I do think it was nice for

02:41:35.470 --> 02:41:37.310
Mildred to hear from a third party

02:41:37.630 --> 02:41:38.190
<v Eric>Well yeah.

02:41:38.270 --> 02:41:41.310
<v Sara>That Steele chewed him out on how important she was.

02:41:41.310 --> 02:41:44.110
Like, I don't think I think Marvin's using this. I agree.

02:41:44.110 --> 02:41:46.351
But I don't think he's lying. I think Steele did

02:41:46.795 --> 02:41:47.193
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:41:47.594 --> 02:41:51.754
<v Sara>Say, like, she's valuable. We need her. Whatever. You know?

02:41:51.995 --> 02:41:54.635
<v Eric>And even though I don't think he's he's actually learned anything

02:41:54.635 --> 02:41:56.395
at this point No. No.

02:41:56.154 --> 02:42:02.290
Maybe He's it's the germ of an idea that will come back to him at

02:42:02.290 --> 02:42:07.010
some point, and he'll be able to recognize that, hey, you know

02:42:07.010 --> 02:42:07.569
what?

02:42:07.729 --> 02:42:12.049
Just because I think my job is somehow more impressive or

02:42:12.049 --> 02:42:15.104
important than somebody else's job doesn't mean that they should

02:42:15.104 --> 02:42:16.145
be treated like

02:42:17.184 --> 02:42:17.664
<v Sara>a car.

02:42:17.664 --> 02:42:21.424
That always bothers me about any job because the CEO wouldn't

02:42:21.424 --> 02:42:24.465
have a company without the people that work there.

02:42:24.465 --> 02:42:26.863
And that goes for every single employee, even the Mhmm.

02:42:26.943 --> 02:42:28.625
The custodians and whoever else.

02:42:28.625 --> 02:42:30.959
Like, they're just because they're paycheck smaller doesn't mean

02:42:30.959 --> 02:42:33.680
what they do isn't important because if it wasn't important, they

02:42:33.680 --> 02:42:36.239
wouldn't be doing it. You know? It doesn't

02:42:36.239 --> 02:42:41.565
<v Eric>hurt to be nice to all your employees simply because they're

02:42:41.565 --> 02:42:42.125
people.

02:42:42.284 --> 02:42:42.684
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:42:42.684 --> 02:42:45.645
They're doing a job that obviously needs to be done or it

02:42:45.645 --> 02:42:48.444
wouldn't be a job, and they're being paid and compensated and

02:42:48.444 --> 02:42:49.565
should be respected for that.

02:42:49.565 --> 02:42:53.565
So it at least Mildred is hearing from a third party because

02:42:53.565 --> 02:42:55.860
Marvin says right after she left Steele explained how

02:42:55.860 --> 02:42:58.340
irreplaceable she was and that there wasn't really a need for an

02:42:58.340 --> 02:43:01.780
intern in the office. Mildred feels better hearing that.

02:43:01.780 --> 02:43:04.579
She's happy asking, the boss said that. Marvin says yes.

02:43:04.579 --> 02:43:07.299
And he she asked if it's too late to get a new internship.

02:43:07.299 --> 02:43:10.625
And I I get why Mildred's got a soft heart here because she

02:43:10.625 --> 02:43:12.865
probably sees a little bit of her nephew in Marvin.

02:43:13.425 --> 02:43:13.665
<v Eric>Could

02:43:13.665 --> 02:43:14.145
<v Sara>be.

02:43:14.226 --> 02:43:19.185
Not that he's the same, but, like, she sees a college kid who

02:43:19.185 --> 02:43:22.864
just lost an internship. She probably feels a little bad for him.

02:43:23.229 --> 02:43:26.431
Mhmm. He says, yes. It's too late, but don't worry.

02:43:26.431 --> 02:43:27.709
I'll bounce back. I'm young.

02:43:28.030 --> 02:43:30.670
Maybe he he says, maybe I'm not cut out for this business.

02:43:30.670 --> 02:43:32.270
And Mildred says, I'm not so sure about that.

02:43:32.270 --> 02:43:34.351
All you need is a little seasoning from a real pro.

02:43:34.590 --> 02:43:36.989
She smiles at him, extends the olive branch, and tells him to

02:43:36.989 --> 02:43:39.306
pull up a chair. He looks happy and sits down.

02:43:39.385 --> 02:43:44.905
I don't love Marvin, but at least at least he's learned, like, if

02:43:44.905 --> 02:43:49.704
the secretary is disrespected, you're not gonna get far.

02:43:49.864 --> 02:43:50.505
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:43:51.465 --> 02:43:52.825
<v Sara>So there's that.

02:43:52.969 --> 02:43:53.370
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:43:53.370 --> 02:43:57.129
It's it's the old if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy philosophy.

02:43:57.209 --> 02:44:00.969
<v Sara>Happy wife, happy life. Yeah. Okay.

02:44:00.969 --> 02:44:04.250
So when they get to this apartment or condo or whatever it is,

02:44:05.094 --> 02:44:07.814
they're knocking on the door trying to look through the door, but

02:44:07.814 --> 02:44:11.334
there's a giant picture window that we see when they come in that

02:44:11.334 --> 02:44:15.975
gives you the entire view of the the inside of the condo. Yeah.

02:44:15.975 --> 02:44:18.135
It's just kinda kinda funny that nobody thought to look there.

02:44:18.790 --> 02:44:23.350
Yeah. But anyway, Steele is calling for Wanda. There's no answer.

02:44:23.350 --> 02:44:26.389
He turns, he sees Lorraine, and she says she's in the

02:44:26.389 --> 02:44:28.229
neighborhood. She lives 2 doors down.

02:44:28.469 --> 02:44:31.270
Then Sally approaches with Biff, and they ask if there's any

02:44:31.270 --> 02:44:31.510
luck.

02:44:31.485 --> 02:44:34.444
Laura says, either she's not home, she can't, or she can't answer

02:44:34.444 --> 02:44:38.045
the door. Steele, eager to kick down another door.

02:44:38.045 --> 02:44:40.284
He tells him to stand back. He's gonna break it down.

02:44:40.284 --> 02:44:43.165
But Biff says to wait. He's got a key.

02:44:43.325 --> 02:44:46.925
He tosses it over, earning him a death glare from Sally.

02:44:47.560 --> 02:44:48.681
<v Eric>Like,

02:44:51.239 --> 02:44:51.800
<v Sara>I'm sorry.

02:44:51.800 --> 02:44:54.280
If I were Sally at this point, I would be going and getting

02:44:54.280 --> 02:44:57.560
tested for STDs because, like, he has clearly

02:44:58.601 --> 02:45:03.594
<v Eric>At well, I mean, at minimum, I was gonna say, cut him off.

02:45:03.594 --> 02:45:06.875
After the Lorraine and Bobbitt joke, that might be a little bit

02:45:06.875 --> 02:45:07.915
poor taste.

02:45:07.915 --> 02:45:09.354
<v Sara>You know? I don't know.

02:45:09.354 --> 02:45:12.555
I mean, he could do he could stand to be without a couple of pen.

02:45:12.555 --> 02:45:16.715
Just he he he try he tries to defend himself.

02:45:17.159 --> 02:45:19.720
It was a long time ago. Mhmm. Sure.

02:45:20.040 --> 02:45:21.959
<v Eric>But then why do you still need the key?

02:45:21.959 --> 02:45:25.399
<v Sara>Right? Why do you still have the key? That's that's gross.

02:45:26.680 --> 02:45:28.840
They open the apartment and go inside, and that's when you see

02:45:28.840 --> 02:45:31.079
them come in. There's that huge window. Mhmm.

02:45:31.079 --> 02:45:31.959
It could have peaked in.

02:45:32.364 --> 02:45:32.604
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:45:32.604 --> 02:45:35.405
There's actually 2 windows because there's 1 beside the door too.

02:45:35.405 --> 02:45:38.444
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. They don't see her. She's not in there.

02:45:38.444 --> 02:45:41.165
So they they move further in. Steel calls out her name.

02:45:41.645 --> 02:45:44.523
Inside the bedroom, we see that it's been trashed, and Laura

02:45:44.523 --> 02:45:46.284
calls her name again, but there's no answer.

02:45:46.739 --> 02:45:49.620
They see a shoe under the bed, and assuming it's attached to a

02:45:49.620 --> 02:45:52.181
body, Lorraine shrieks and sort of like buries her head and

02:45:52.181 --> 02:45:53.300
steals jacket.

02:45:53.860 --> 02:45:58.181
Laura bends down, pulls out the shoe only to find a shoe.

02:45:58.420 --> 02:46:02.579
A shoe attached to it. It's ah, shoe. Sorry. Gazianti.

02:46:02.645 --> 02:46:08.084
She looks over the bed. No Wanda. Biff asked the question again.

02:46:08.084 --> 02:46:11.765
Where's Wanda? Is she with Waldo? Sorry.

02:46:16.440 --> 02:46:20.601
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. It was just it was too easy.

02:46:21.159 --> 02:46:23.000
Kinda like Biff. Anyway.

02:46:29.495 --> 02:46:32.534
Anyway, before they can do anything else, Mildred comes in with

02:46:32.534 --> 02:46:33.495
Marvin in tow.

02:46:33.495 --> 02:46:37.895
They start to tell her that they don't have time, but Mildred

02:46:37.895 --> 02:46:40.295
interrupts them telling them they got the lowdown on that stiff.

02:46:40.870 --> 02:46:42.870
Marvin says, well, Mildred did most of the work.

02:46:42.870 --> 02:46:44.469
She said, oh, don't sell yourself short.

02:46:44.469 --> 02:46:46.709
You did all the groundwork. Laura, okay.

02:46:46.709 --> 02:46:49.670
Can someone tell us what's going on?

02:46:50.149 --> 02:46:52.309
<v Eric>And that was the mutual admiration to say.

02:46:52.309 --> 02:46:52.549
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:46:52.549 --> 02:46:54.790
Well, it's funny because it was before it was fighting, and now

02:46:54.790 --> 02:46:55.430
it's yeah.

02:46:56.476 --> 02:46:59.354
Mildred tells him the guy was an SEC investigator on the trail of

02:46:59.354 --> 02:47:00.556
a major investment scam.

02:47:00.556 --> 02:47:03.435
Marvin adds the company that he was investigating was the Holder

02:47:03.435 --> 02:47:06.075
Investment Group run by Barry Holder.

02:47:06.315 --> 02:47:08.716
Laura says that he was the passenger having the affair with

02:47:08.716 --> 02:47:09.034
Wanda.

02:47:09.479 --> 02:47:12.360
Laura says that she knew there was something strange and that she

02:47:12.360 --> 02:47:15.001
bets that Wanda discovered what Barry was up to.

02:47:15.079 --> 02:47:17.800
Steele says if that's true, they need to find her before he does,

02:47:17.800 --> 02:47:21.081
and they all leave. We're back at Platinum Air.

02:47:21.479 --> 02:47:23.960
Ketchum is incensed that Steele and Laura have asked him to

02:47:23.960 --> 02:47:24.761
ground all the flights.

02:47:24.795 --> 02:47:28.475
But Laura basically says, if you wanna catch a killer and for the

02:47:28.475 --> 02:47:31.434
first time, he acknowledges her and goes to do what she's told

02:47:31.434 --> 02:47:32.155
him to do.

02:47:32.314 --> 02:47:35.114
So Steele tells her that he hopes she's right about this, and she

02:47:35.114 --> 02:47:37.674
says, if I were a stewardess and I wanted to get out of town

02:47:37.674 --> 02:47:40.761
fast, I would dead head out on the next available flight.

02:47:41.159 --> 02:47:44.681
<v Eric>Well, there there's that's a good theory.

02:47:44.920 --> 02:47:48.920
There is a slight problem with that because even though I don't

02:47:48.920 --> 02:47:51.879
work for the airlines, I have encountered a lot of people that

02:47:51.879 --> 02:47:53.204
do. Yeah.

02:47:53.204 --> 02:47:59.045
And they're not limited usually to just deadheading on their

02:47:59.045 --> 02:48:03.364
airline. Oh. The the airlines have, I guess, like this

02:48:03.924 --> 02:48:06.440
<v Sara>Like partnership agreements? I don't

02:48:06.440 --> 02:48:07.959
<v Eric>know if it's even really that formal.

02:48:07.959 --> 02:48:11.800
It's just that they've got the kind of this standing, maybe

02:48:11.800 --> 02:48:15.319
unspoken, unwritten agreement that if they've got a jump seat

02:48:15.319 --> 02:48:20.040
open and somebody needs air crew from some airline needs a a

02:48:20.040 --> 02:48:25.024
flight, if they don't have 1 of their own people who

02:48:25.265 --> 02:48:26.145
<v Sara>need that,

02:48:26.306 --> 02:48:28.065
<v Eric>they can get that.

02:48:28.065 --> 02:48:36.145
I've taken people from UPS, FedEx, and other cargo services that

02:48:36.145 --> 02:48:41.079
we have up here and taking them to Alaska Air, United, American,

02:48:41.079 --> 02:48:44.600
whatever, because they're deadheading on those flights to go back

02:48:44.600 --> 02:48:47.159
home at the end of their tour.

02:48:47.239 --> 02:48:52.765
So, yeah, sounds good in theory and certainly within the airline

02:48:52.765 --> 02:48:56.444
would be the first place that they would maybe or the most likely

02:48:56.444 --> 02:48:58.204
place where they would get a deadhead seat.

02:48:58.204 --> 02:49:02.284
But, yeah, it could it could have been on possibly on any other

02:49:02.284 --> 02:49:03.245
airline as well. So

02:49:05.000 --> 02:49:07.319
<v Sara>Steele tells her, let's hope we don't give new meaning to the

02:49:07.319 --> 02:49:10.520
word. Yes. And we then see Barry and Wanda.

02:49:10.520 --> 02:49:12.920
They're on the tarmac, and it's obvious that Wanda's trying to

02:49:12.920 --> 02:49:15.879
get away. Mhmm. But Barry has a pretty good grip on her.

02:49:15.879 --> 02:49:18.439
They see 2 guards, and Barry grabs Wanda, and they head in the

02:49:18.439 --> 02:49:18.840
other direction.

02:49:19.594 --> 02:49:22.395
Meanwhile, Steele is looking they're on the plane on 1 of the

02:49:22.395 --> 02:49:25.114
planes. They don't see her, so Steele suggests the cockpit.

02:49:25.114 --> 02:49:28.716
Inside McBride, oh, not you again. Yeah.

02:49:28.875 --> 02:49:32.075
Just and Steele says, Wanda Sutton.

02:49:32.075 --> 02:49:34.235
And McBride replies with, I swear I never touched her.

02:49:37.431 --> 02:49:38.310
<v Eric>Poor guy.

02:49:38.310 --> 02:49:40.790
<v Sara>Guilty conscious? Yeah. Maybe.

02:49:40.790 --> 02:49:43.750
But Laura spots her and Barry on in front of the plane on the

02:49:43.750 --> 02:49:45.591
tarmac. They're making a run for it.

02:49:45.591 --> 02:49:48.229
Steele tells McBride he's gonna need a lift. And what?

02:49:50.084 --> 02:49:54.004
This is the silliest scene because, like, at some point, the the

02:49:54.004 --> 02:49:56.805
plane would run out of space to chase the people.

02:49:56.965 --> 02:49:58.885
The people can go inside a building.

02:49:59.125 --> 02:50:00.885
The plane can't go inside a building.

02:50:00.885 --> 02:50:01.045
<v Speaker 2>Like

02:50:01.125 --> 02:50:06.319
<v Eric>But but see, in TV land, the people never think of that. I

02:50:08.239 --> 02:50:10.959
<v Sara>get that it looks cool for the plane to chase the people, but,

02:50:10.959 --> 02:50:16.479
like, you the the smarter thing would be to contact Ketchum at,

02:50:17.165 --> 02:50:19.004
you know, ground control and and get

02:50:19.004 --> 02:50:19.564
<v Eric>help. Security.

02:50:19.564 --> 02:50:22.284
<v Sara>They're on the get security at their onto the tarmac.

02:50:22.284 --> 02:50:23.564
There they are. Catch them.

02:50:23.564 --> 02:50:27.885
Instead, they chased them in the plane.

02:50:28.125 --> 02:50:33.340
<v Eric>And and in this sequence of events, we learn that Platinum

02:50:33.340 --> 02:50:36.299
Airlines is really a front for the CIA.

02:50:37.020 --> 02:50:42.379
<v Sara>Oh, yeah. Wait. What? Explainy?

02:50:42.620 --> 02:50:47.444
<v Eric>The the 7 27 that they they show says platinum air on the

02:50:47.444 --> 02:50:48.165
fuselage.

02:50:48.165 --> 02:50:51.604
But if you look at the tail markings, it's Evergreen Airways.

02:50:51.765 --> 02:50:54.965
Evergreen International Airlines was a charter and cargo airline

02:50:54.965 --> 02:50:59.045
based in McMinnville, Oregon, wholly owned by Evergreen

02:50:59.045 --> 02:51:02.450
International Aviation with longstanding ties to the Central

02:51:02.450 --> 02:51:03.649
Intelligence Agency.

02:51:03.649 --> 02:51:10.130
It began in the 1960s as a helicopter operation and then merged

02:51:10.931 --> 02:51:16.014
it acquired a certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it

02:51:16.014 --> 02:51:20.734
with Intermountain Airlines, which was a known CIA front from

02:51:20.734 --> 02:51:25.375
Pacific Corporation, which was also a CIA front in order to form

02:51:25.375 --> 02:51:27.135
the Evergreen International Airlines.

02:51:27.215 --> 02:51:27.693
<v Sara>Wow.

02:51:27.693 --> 02:51:32.680
<v Eric>And they also purchased the assets of Air America, which was a

02:51:32.680 --> 02:51:35.639
real airline, which provided the fixed wing and helicopter

02:51:35.639 --> 02:51:40.040
support for the CIA in Southeast Asia during Vietnam.

02:51:41.726 --> 02:51:44.125
<v Sara>Did they know this when they wrote the episode?

02:51:44.125 --> 02:51:46.925
Like, was this information widely known, or was this something

02:51:46.925 --> 02:51:48.206
that came to light after?

02:51:50.765 --> 02:51:57.139
<v Eric>Well, I was in the guard in the eighties, and I think I was aware

02:51:57.139 --> 02:51:58.020
of it then.

02:51:58.180 --> 02:51:59.780
<v Sara>Okay. Because I was wondering

02:51:59.780 --> 02:52:00.659
<v Eric>if the writing

02:52:00.659 --> 02:52:01.059
<v Sara>staff knew

02:52:01.059 --> 02:52:01.219
<v Eric>it if

02:52:01.219 --> 02:52:03.939
<v Sara>it was just a happy accident that they ended up using 1 of them.

02:52:03.939 --> 02:52:08.579
<v Eric>Well, Evergreen served as an agency front for pretty much all of

02:52:08.579 --> 02:52:08.979
its history.

02:52:09.545 --> 02:52:12.023
Pretty much anywhere in the world where there was a hotspot,

02:52:12.023 --> 02:52:14.665
Evergreen was never far behind.

02:52:15.784 --> 02:52:19.944
And in fact, several of its senior executives either worked for

02:52:19.944 --> 02:52:21.944
the agency or had close ties to it.

02:52:21.944 --> 02:52:29.940
And in 1988, when the Oregon newspaper asked the owner about

02:52:29.940 --> 02:52:33.780
their ties to the CIA, his response was, Well, we don't know when

02:52:33.780 --> 02:52:36.500
we've ever worked for the CIA, but if we did, we're proud of it.

02:52:37.575 --> 02:52:38.534
And Okay.

02:52:38.534 --> 02:52:39.255
<v Sara>Well, alright.

02:52:39.255 --> 02:52:42.534
<v Eric>Eventually, they they declared bankruptcy.

02:52:42.534 --> 02:52:47.335
But, yes, 2 ever Evergreen aircraft appeared in 2 TV shows.

02:52:47.335 --> 02:52:48.375
I didn't make note of this.

02:52:48.375 --> 02:52:51.175
Remington steel was 1, and then there was another TV show that it

02:52:51.175 --> 02:52:52.136
it appeared in as well.

02:52:52.879 --> 02:52:57.280
They had 2 aircraft specifically that for whatever reason, they

02:52:57.280 --> 02:53:02.560
leased those 2 specific aircraft for TV shows. So, yeah.

02:53:02.560 --> 02:53:04.081
<v Sara>Okay. Well, good to know.

02:53:04.319 --> 02:53:09.564
<v Eric>Oh, and at the time of the owner's death in 2014, the remains of

02:53:09.564 --> 02:53:13.885
his once billion dollar aviation empire had been sold off, shut

02:53:13.885 --> 02:53:17.725
down, or was in bankruptcy and under investigation by tax

02:53:17.725 --> 02:53:20.260
authorities, which I guess is the kinda thank you.

02:53:20.260 --> 02:53:22.659
You get to working with the government or for the government.

02:53:22.659 --> 02:53:25.059
You get investigated by the IRS. Yeah.

02:53:25.059 --> 02:53:31.059
<v Sara>And then you get shut down. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So we've got yeah.

02:53:31.059 --> 02:53:33.620
Steele tells McBride he's gonna need a lift, and we cut to catch

02:53:33.620 --> 02:53:36.225
him telling air traffic control he'll take responsibility and

02:53:36.225 --> 02:53:38.545
give the pilot all the damn clearance he wants, which I don't

02:53:38.545 --> 02:53:41.504
think you can do that because there's other planes taking off.

02:53:42.225 --> 02:53:42.704
Right?

02:53:42.704 --> 02:53:42.944
<v Eric>Well

02:53:43.985 --> 02:53:44.704
<v Sara>think you'd have to

02:53:44.784 --> 02:53:45.665
<v Eric>You probably

02:53:45.905 --> 02:53:46.305
<v Sara>You know?

02:53:46.305 --> 02:53:47.584
<v Eric>Wouldn't typically, but

02:53:47.825 --> 02:53:49.905
<v Sara>I guess if they grounded all the other flights, then it wouldn't

02:53:49.905 --> 02:53:50.145
matter.

02:53:50.988 --> 02:53:51.389
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:53:51.389 --> 02:53:56.270
And if Ketchum has as much pull and influence as he implies, he

02:53:56.270 --> 02:53:59.068
can probably Yeah.

02:53:59.389 --> 02:54:02.829
Say, you know, you know, I'll I'll don't worry about it.

02:54:02.829 --> 02:54:05.549
I'll clear it with so and so at the FAA or or whatever.

02:54:06.825 --> 02:54:10.024
<v Sara>So the the plane turns begins to follow Wanda and Barry who,

02:54:10.024 --> 02:54:13.065
again, Wanda's still struggling as Barry kinda like lurches

02:54:13.145 --> 02:54:15.466
running, dragging her down the tarmac.

02:54:15.704 --> 02:54:17.465
Steele tells McBride to hold it steady.

02:54:17.465 --> 02:54:18.345
Laura asked where he's going.

02:54:18.345 --> 02:54:20.825
He says he's going out for a breath of fresh air, and and and I

02:54:20.825 --> 02:54:26.851
would like to point out that mister Steele walked so Tom Cruise

02:54:26.851 --> 02:54:28.610
could hang off the edge of a plane.

02:54:29.011 --> 02:54:32.931
Because I don't know if you've seen the Mission Impossible. No.

02:54:33.409 --> 02:54:35.504
<v Eric>I was gonna say, I don't I don't understand

02:54:35.504 --> 02:54:36.385
<v Sara>the difference. Okay.

02:54:36.385 --> 02:54:38.625
So, like, Steele gets out on the edge of this plane, but the

02:54:38.625 --> 02:54:42.465
Mission Impossible series started out in the nineties as, you

02:54:42.465 --> 02:54:46.226
know, an adaptation of the TV show of the same name and Mhmm.

02:54:46.385 --> 02:54:49.745
Turned into basically a vanity project for Tom Cruise to try to

02:54:49.770 --> 02:54:54.568
himself because every single film he does, he does the stunts.

02:54:54.568 --> 02:54:59.129
He he does his own stunts and basically gives the insurance

02:54:59.129 --> 02:55:02.408
companies heart attacks as well as the director because he keeps

02:55:02.408 --> 02:55:04.408
upping the ante of the stunts that he does.

02:55:04.408 --> 02:55:07.875
The first the second film that he did, he he literally free

02:55:07.875 --> 02:55:13.075
climbed on a cliff that was, like, just, like, so high in the air

02:55:13.075 --> 02:55:14.274
that if you fell, you would be dead.

02:55:14.274 --> 02:55:17.556
And apparently, John Woo, who is the director who's known for his

02:55:17.556 --> 02:55:21.610
action sequences in in Hong Kong and whatnot, was just like, he's

02:55:21.610 --> 02:55:24.649
going to die. Like, he was terrified to let him do it.

02:55:24.809 --> 02:55:26.489
And then it just kinda escalated from there.

02:55:26.489 --> 02:55:29.770
Like, there's 1 particular film where he's climbing the building

02:55:29.770 --> 02:55:33.770
of the Burj Khalifa in Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Sorry.

02:55:33.770 --> 02:55:37.625
It's in Dubai, which I think might be in I don't I'm not good

02:55:37.625 --> 02:55:38.745
with geography.

02:55:38.745 --> 02:55:40.825
But anyway, he's on this building, which is the tallest building

02:55:40.825 --> 02:55:44.825
in the world now. It beat out the CN Tower a few years ago.

02:55:45.466 --> 02:55:48.825
And, like, yeah. He's out there doing it.

02:55:48.825 --> 02:55:53.540
And then the sixth film, he decided that he wanted to hang off

02:55:53.540 --> 02:55:55.060
the wing of a moving plane.

02:55:55.219 --> 02:55:57.379
Or sorry, I think it might have been the seventh film actually.

02:55:57.540 --> 02:56:00.579
But yeah, this stunt was he performed the stunt himself.

02:56:01.219 --> 02:56:04.265
It involved intense training, including learning how to breathe

02:56:04.265 --> 02:56:07.386
in the brutal wind coordinating with a pilot and camera crew.

02:56:07.625 --> 02:56:10.905
And basically like it was insane.

02:56:10.905 --> 02:56:13.704
Like he and the director developed the aerial sequence by first

02:56:13.704 --> 02:56:15.226
developing the choreography.

02:56:15.466 --> 02:56:19.920
He endured intense, like physically demanding training, had to

02:56:19.920 --> 02:56:23.360
withstand like huge g forces, techniques for breathing in the

02:56:23.360 --> 02:56:27.280
wind, and then like had to be aware of the plane's position, the

02:56:27.280 --> 02:56:30.319
airflow, mindful of the drag his body created.

02:56:30.319 --> 02:56:33.995
Like he was on the edge of that plane and could have died.

02:56:33.995 --> 02:56:34.476
And, like, just

02:56:34.476 --> 02:56:38.395
<v Eric>so vertigo just watching things on TV, so I couldn't know.

02:56:38.636 --> 02:56:42.636
<v Sara>Like and it's funny because the only major like, 1 of the films

02:56:42.636 --> 02:56:46.579
he got injured, but it was not doing any of the crazy stunts.

02:56:46.579 --> 02:56:50.100
He literally jumped across from 1 roof of a building to another

02:56:50.100 --> 02:56:52.101
and landed the wrong way and broke his ankle.

02:56:52.260 --> 02:56:55.700
And that scene is in the finished final part of the film.

02:56:55.700 --> 02:56:58.420
You see him, like, jump up and he's kinda limping away as he

02:56:58.420 --> 02:57:00.340
goes. But like so, yeah. Steel.

02:57:00.555 --> 02:57:03.995
Steel walked so mister Cruz could hang off the edge of a plane

02:57:03.995 --> 02:57:05.594
here because he gets out on the wing.

02:57:07.113 --> 02:57:10.875
And we see he's, like, standing on the wing Mhmm.

02:57:10.875 --> 02:57:13.674
As the plane gets closer, and he'd finally, he jumps off the wing

02:57:13.674 --> 02:57:16.649
and onto Barry giving new meaning to the phrase on a wing and a

02:57:16.649 --> 02:57:20.569
prayer. See what they did there? See what they did? Come on.

02:57:20.889 --> 02:57:22.889
Gee, I I was I've been waiting for that.

02:57:22.889 --> 02:57:29.064
So he stands him up, says happy landings and punches him out.

02:57:29.064 --> 02:57:31.145
But Wanda's already gotten away by this point.

02:57:31.145 --> 02:57:33.465
She managed to break free of him before he does that.

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So we get a scene change, catch him at the top of the tower,

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says, let me get this straight.

02:57:38.184 --> 02:57:40.665
This guy Barry was really using my airline as a meat wagon.

02:57:41.010 --> 02:57:42.289
And Laura says, that's right.

02:57:42.289 --> 02:57:45.408
And that he masterminded an entire investment scheme with their

02:57:45.408 --> 02:57:47.569
well heeled clients, the perfect pigeons.

02:57:47.809 --> 02:57:51.010
Steele adds that when he heard an SCC agent was best was on his

02:57:51.010 --> 02:57:54.529
tail, he hired a contract killer to dispose of the problem, 2

02:57:54.529 --> 02:57:55.568
blows to the back of the neck.

02:57:56.135 --> 02:57:58.934
Laura adds that he had innocent Wanda smuggle the body onto the

02:57:58.934 --> 02:58:01.415
plane, adding that Wanda had no idea what was in that duffel.

02:58:01.415 --> 02:58:02.854
How? How?

02:58:03.654 --> 02:58:08.613
<v Eric>How? Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's larger than a breadbox.

02:58:10.500 --> 02:58:14.500
<v Sara>The sheer weight alone, what did he tell her was in there? Yeah.

02:58:14.500 --> 02:58:16.340
The I mean, it it just

02:58:16.738 --> 02:58:22.658
<v Eric>that is a case of ignoring the obvious.

02:58:22.905 --> 02:58:23.864
<v Sara>Yeah. We gotta have

02:58:23.944 --> 02:58:24.584
<v Eric>is wrong.

02:58:24.584 --> 02:58:26.345
<v Sara>This is like, hey, baby.

02:58:26.345 --> 02:58:28.825
I really need you to take this on the plane for me.

02:58:29.145 --> 02:58:33.145
It's a what is it? It's a duffel bag. Okay. What's in it?

02:58:33.545 --> 02:58:37.750
Nothing you need to be concerned about, but it's really heavy,

02:58:37.750 --> 02:58:40.629
and it may feel like there's a body inside.

02:58:40.629 --> 02:58:42.790
But just just just just don't worry about it.

02:58:42.790 --> 02:58:45.989
<v Eric>Yeah. Just go with it. Don't ask any questions.

02:58:46.870 --> 02:58:47.989
Don't ask any questions.

02:58:47.989 --> 02:58:50.395
<v Sara>Mugging it up the stairs of the airplane?

02:58:50.395 --> 02:58:51.834
Like, how did that get in there?

02:58:51.834 --> 02:58:54.875
I just I have to know how that happened. Anyway Yeah.

02:58:54.954 --> 02:58:58.715
If anyone wants to write that fan fiction, please. Please do so.

02:58:59.674 --> 02:59:02.395
Steele adds that when the body arrived in LA, Barry claimed it

02:59:02.395 --> 02:59:05.170
and dumped it in the ocean. Catch him ask why he did that.

02:59:05.170 --> 02:59:06.930
And Laura says to create the perfect alibi.

02:59:06.930 --> 02:59:08.369
Steele adds that Barry was in New York.

02:59:08.369 --> 02:59:09.969
The body washes up on shore here.

02:59:10.209 --> 02:59:13.010
Laura says that when the contract killer got greedy, Barry killed

02:59:13.010 --> 02:59:15.010
him and attempted to pull off the same scheme.

02:59:15.408 --> 02:59:18.129
Steele says it would have worked too if it not if it were not for

02:59:18.290 --> 02:59:21.726
again, their faulty baggage system, but I I don't see how the

02:59:21.726 --> 02:59:23.165
baggage system is faulty.

02:59:23.165 --> 02:59:28.364
<v Eric>It it Unless it like I said, it snagged the bag in transit and

02:59:28.364 --> 02:59:29.245
ripped it open.

02:59:29.726 --> 02:59:30.284
<v Sara>That's yeah.

02:59:30.284 --> 02:59:32.680
That's the only thing because, like, catch him laughs and says,

02:59:32.680 --> 02:59:33.879
thank goodness for small glitches.

02:59:33.879 --> 02:59:36.279
And he tells Steele that he had his doubts, but he did a first

02:59:36.279 --> 02:59:36.760
rate job.

02:59:36.760 --> 02:59:39.398
And then he turns to Laura, and you think she's about to get some

02:59:39.398 --> 02:59:42.199
recognition here because he says, you too, little lady.

02:59:42.199 --> 02:59:46.325
Maybe I underestimated you. She thanks him, calls him ace.

02:59:46.325 --> 02:59:48.965
He passes by, but then he pinches her butt.

02:59:51.363 --> 02:59:53.523
<v Eric>Well, a recognition of another kind.

02:59:53.523 --> 02:59:56.564
<v Sara>So close to being a good human. So close.

02:59:58.719 --> 03:00:01.760
So then she calls him chauvinistic and overbearing, and Mildred

03:00:01.760 --> 03:00:04.079
comes around the corner and asks if they're ready for home.

03:00:04.079 --> 03:00:05.440
Steele says, absolutely.

03:00:05.440 --> 03:00:07.920
And Marvin asks if he can bring the car around, calling Mildred

03:00:07.920 --> 03:00:08.880
miss Krebs.

03:00:09.120 --> 03:00:11.040
She tells him to go ahead and they'll meet him at the curb.

03:00:11.385 --> 03:00:12.984
She smiles and says he's a good kid.

03:00:12.984 --> 03:00:14.504
She's gonna tutor him on the side.

03:00:15.784 --> 03:00:19.545
She then says, by the way, we need to talk about vacation time,

03:00:19.545 --> 03:00:22.023
but maybe we should wait wait until you've had your talk with

03:00:22.023 --> 03:00:24.825
miss Holt. This is good. She's basically forced the issue.

03:00:27.069 --> 03:00:29.709
Like, she waited. She let him have his time.

03:00:29.709 --> 03:00:32.270
But when he didn't do what he said he was gonna do, she's like,

03:00:32.270 --> 03:00:35.069
no. What? We're just gonna yeah. We're gonna

03:00:35.309 --> 03:00:39.309
<v Eric>Hi. I'm Mildred Krebs. I drive for the local bus company.

03:00:39.735 --> 03:00:41.815
Please stand in front of me while I drive.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Pretty much. Yes.

03:00:43.254 --> 03:00:45.655
Wait till you've had your your talk with this whole.

03:00:45.655 --> 03:00:49.415
She walks away, and Laura looks furious asking, what talk?

03:00:50.375 --> 03:00:52.935
Laura, you remember how fervently you wanted Mildred back?

03:00:53.601 --> 03:00:57.440
Mister Steele. And the agency wouldn't be the same without her.

03:00:57.440 --> 03:01:00.079
Mister Steele. Let me put it another way, Laura.

03:01:00.079 --> 03:01:03.200
At least we get to keep our offices. Yeah. Really?

03:01:04.079 --> 03:01:06.906
That's weird phrases, which I like.

03:01:07.784 --> 03:01:09.865
<v Eric>Be thankful for small favors.

03:01:10.185 --> 03:01:11.784
<v Sara>Mean Keep the office. Yeah.

03:01:11.784 --> 03:01:14.024
To be fair, I don't think she asked, like

03:01:14.505 --> 03:01:16.425
<v Eric>She wasn't that line, really.

03:01:16.425 --> 03:01:18.745
<v Sara>No. I mean, the raise, maybe. I don't know.

03:01:18.745 --> 03:01:20.505
I don't know if that would have been a lot.

03:01:21.120 --> 03:01:24.079
I'm I'm assuming, like, a $100

03:01:24.079 --> 03:01:27.920
<v Eric>a in $100 a week in the eighties was pretty substantial.

03:01:28.079 --> 03:01:28.639
<v Sara>Yeah. Okay.

03:01:28.639 --> 03:01:31.120
So maybe the raise part, but, like, the actual part where she

03:01:31.120 --> 03:01:34.755
says I wanna like, that's that's interior advancement.

03:01:34.755 --> 03:01:36.595
That's she wants to advance.

03:01:36.595 --> 03:01:39.956
There's nothing like, that's that's logical.

03:01:40.034 --> 03:01:43.315
<v Eric>And it makes her a more valuable asset to the agency.

03:01:43.315 --> 03:01:44.194
<v Sara>Yeah. Absolutely.

03:01:44.194 --> 03:01:47.129
If they have somebody else who is able to take clients and cases

03:01:47.129 --> 03:01:49.850
eventually, then that allows them to do more to make more money

03:01:49.850 --> 03:01:50.489
to you know?

03:01:50.489 --> 03:01:54.090
So maybe the raise part, but the rest of it was pretty reasonable

03:01:54.090 --> 03:01:56.329
in terms of, like, what she wants. Yeah.

03:01:56.329 --> 03:01:58.729
<v Eric>So stupid. I don't think the raise was out of line either. But

03:01:59.305 --> 03:02:01.385
<v Sara>No. No. Not for what she's had to do.

03:02:01.385 --> 03:02:04.184
<v Eric>Especially if she hasn't gotten a raise in the entire time she's

03:02:04.184 --> 03:02:04.745
been there.

03:02:04.824 --> 03:02:05.145
<v Sara>No.

03:02:05.145 --> 03:02:08.424
Plus, I mean, there's gotta be some, like, danger bonus or

03:02:08.424 --> 03:02:10.664
something. She's been kidnapped how many times? Yeah.

03:02:13.318 --> 03:02:15.559
<v Eric>Well, she added But it's not really that bad because they keep

03:02:15.559 --> 03:02:16.600
sending her back.

03:02:17.000 --> 03:02:19.639
<v Sara>If she had asked for another lunch break, maybe that would be

03:02:19.639 --> 03:02:20.439
pushing it.

03:02:21.879 --> 03:02:23.479
<v Eric>Yeah. She's already got 4.

03:02:23.959 --> 03:02:24.359
<v Sara>Yeah.

03:02:24.359 --> 03:02:26.680
So that might have been a little much, but the rest of it, I

03:02:26.680 --> 03:02:27.879
think, was pretty reasonable.

03:02:27.879 --> 03:02:31.534
But still, poor steel has to explain that 1.

03:02:31.774 --> 03:02:33.614
I don't think we had any movie references.

03:02:33.614 --> 03:02:36.815
<v Eric>Gone with the wind was a kind of an oblique reference.

03:02:36.815 --> 03:02:37.694
<v Sara>Gone with the wind. Yeah.

03:02:37.694 --> 03:02:39.694
<v Eric>Yeah. He's he's gone with the wind.

03:02:39.694 --> 03:02:41.534
<v Sara>Yeah. The closest thing.

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But, yeah, this is overall, this is a a good episode.

03:02:45.329 --> 03:02:47.890
I really like this 1. I have a lot of fun with it.

03:02:47.890 --> 03:02:53.091
Like I said, season 4 so far just keeps churning them out. Mhmm.

03:02:53.250 --> 03:02:55.170
Like, we're 8 episodes in.

03:02:55.170 --> 03:02:57.806
And like I said, I don't think there's 1 so far that I would

03:02:57.806 --> 03:03:01.645
classify as a dud that I would skip, that I would only 1 episode

03:03:01.645 --> 03:03:04.685
in this season that I would skip, and we're gonna get there.

03:03:04.685 --> 03:03:09.165
But it's not this 1. So yeah.

03:03:09.165 --> 03:03:12.430
That's, I think, it's doing pretty well in terms of, like, their

03:03:12.430 --> 03:03:14.670
quality. Anything else to add for

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<v Eric>No.

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<v Sara>For this before we alright.

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On the website, www.steelwatching.com, we've got show notes.

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I would say links to Amazon US and Amazon Canada, but unless

03:03:24.854 --> 03:03:27.095
we're planning to put Gone with Wind up there Yeah.

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<v Eric>Put it

03:03:27.415 --> 03:03:30.774
<v Sara>up not really yeah. There that was our only movie reference.

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There's also, merch links.

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Like, you can buy a shirt or you can, you know, buy us a coffee.

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<v Sara>Exactly. Exactly. Those are 2 awesome things you could do.

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<v Eric>Also social a coffee mug to put our coffee in.

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And the next episode, speaking of of episodes that are knocking

03:04:24.114 --> 03:04:26.915
it out of the park and that are fan favorites, we've got Dancer

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Brancer, Donner and Steel.

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So that'll be it's the only Christmas episode that we've got.

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So, yeah, that's it for me.

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<v Eric>Okay. Me too.

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<v Sara>Alright. Well, thanks for listening in. Bye bye.

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<v Eric>Bye bye, everybody. Hey, everybody. Eric and Sara here.

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Just a quick announcement to let you know that, yes, we do

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