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<v Eric>Hey.

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Welcome everybody to steel watching, the podcast for Remington

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steel fans.

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I am Eric, and I probably should have said this a couple seasons

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back, but it just didn't come up at the time.

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And I really wish I could sleep without dreaming. They

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<v Sara>just Yeah.

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<v Eric>They ruin my sleep. I I wake up after I dream.

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And, you know, if I have 2 or 3 dreams a night, I wake up 2 or 3

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times.

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And and then, of course, there's the whole subject of the dreams.

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They're they're sometimes crazy and chaotic, but the theme is

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always the same, and it's very, very depressing.

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<v Sara>I've I've I've felt that way ever since I saw Nightmare on Elm

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Street. But yeah. When I was 8.

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And I'm Sara, and I'm feeling a bit like George Edward Mulch

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where nothing really ever works out despite having some good

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ideas.

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<v Eric>Oh, tell me about it.

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I've had so many great ideas that I couldn't afford to do, and a

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few years later, somebody does them.

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<v Sara>Yep. Yep.

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<v Eric>So yeah. Well, okay. I was gonna say Also, should I say it now?

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Yeah.

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George Maltz is basically the adult Remington Steele version of

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Charlie Brown. Or Eeyore. Yeah. Anyway, let's see.

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We have a few things to take care of before we get started.

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So 1 of those is that we have a new subscriber. Oh, yes.

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We we we appreciate our subscribers.

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They they provide financial support to help us cover the costs

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and just take a little bit of stress off of our minds as we're

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doing this. So we thank you.

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You joined yesterday as we are recording this, which would have

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been December 13. So you know who you are, and we thank you.

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<v Sara>Thank you. Yeah.

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Eric, I think you did the math and found that percentage wise,

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this little fandom has a much higher amount of people subscribing

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than a lot of other fandoms that have maybe larger viewerships or

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larger amounts of people that watch the show or whatnot, which is

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really cool. Yes.

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Because it just means that the people that are still with the

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show after 43 years and I had to remember how old I was to do

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that.

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<v Eric>I have to do the math too for myself.

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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But the show the show's age is my age, so I really should know

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this.

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<v Eric>Yeah.

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But but also I've got an excuse because I've got all the timers.

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So.

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<v Sara>Yeah. That's true.

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But, yeah, just the fact that there's so many people that are not

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only still watching still watching it, but listening and then

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actively helping us out is really cool.

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And I've just I've always thought that way because I have a lot

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of other fandoms that I am involved with, I'm into and whatnot.

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And a lot of them have much larger amounts of people that know

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about the show or watch the show or whatnot, but they're not as

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singularly dedicated as this fandom, I've noticed.

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And there's not as much like, I haven't seen any aside from maybe

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1 other fandom that I'm a part of, there's always so much

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division and so much I don't know.

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It's just like people snarkiness and and whatnot, but that's not

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what I've experienced with with the steel watchers.

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They're just all such lovely people, and they're so nice and so

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accommodating people. Joined.

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And then Eric joined and started singing and talking about

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sweaters.

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But other than that, just just in general, we we are really,

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really appreciative.

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And I thought we both thought since, you know, it's Christmas,

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well, by the time you hear this, it'll be long past.

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But still, it was nice to say thank you, and we really appreciate

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all of the help and support.

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<v Eric>Yes. We do.

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And then we had 1 other shout out, and you are responsible for

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this.

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<v Sara>So when I while I was doing my notes for the last episode, Steel

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on the Air, I I and I mentioned this in the episode that I had

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Googled the name Cool Fire to see if there was actually a band

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called Cool Fire, either in the eighties or otherwise, and found

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that there were in fact 2.

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And 1 was, I think in Spain or something like that.

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And the other 1 was a garage band in California, I believe.

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And they had the name Cool Fire and they formed in 2016.

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And so I reached out via Facebook message just to see if they

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would respond to see how they got their name.

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I didn't think, oh, you know, they must have gotten it from

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Remington Steele because that would be a really bizarre

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coincidence.

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<v Eric>But I would that have happened, you know?

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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I mean, I was just curious to see how they came up with the name

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or where it And came I didn't hear back until today.

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So I had sent this message.

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I just said, I know this is gonna sound kind of bizarre, but I co

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host a podcast on TV show from the eighties called Remington

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Steele.

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And in the episode we will be recording this week, they come

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across a counterfeit album by a band called Cool Fire.

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I know you formed in 2016, but I was curious as to where you got

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your name as it's kind of a neat coincidence.

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And they responded with, we just made up the name.

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Someone saw another band that also had some kind of hot, cold

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blend of words, and we played off of that.

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We're purely a local garage band playing just for fun around our

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community.

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And I'm assuming there's no conflict here, certainly not from our

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side.

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And I said, no, no, no, no, We just thought it was interesting,

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and we were curious as to where you got the name.

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So shout out to them for responding and and, you know, letting us

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know how they got their name because that was kinda cool.

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<v Eric>Yes.

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And if you're ever in a garage, listen for them to be playing

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somewhere nearby.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Coming to a garage near you.

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<v Eric>That's right.

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Oh, Anyway, do we have anything else we need to cover here at the

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beginning? I can't think of anything.

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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<v Eric>Okay. Well, then let's get on to the episode.

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We are looking at Steel Incorporated, and it first aired on

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01/14/1986, written by Brad Kern and directed by Don Weiss. Yes.

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Went with TV guide listing, because it pretty much sums up

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everything that we need to know. Pretty much. George E.

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Mulch strikes again when he opens when he opens a branch office

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of Remington Steele investigations without anyone's knowledge and

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botches a case so badly that the angry clients want to kill

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steal.

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<v Sara>To be fair, and this is this is the only correction I will make

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to that, it's not George that botches the case.

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It's the guy that he hired to work at the

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<v Eric>Okay. Yeah.

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<v Sara>Branch agency that botches the case, but still it yeah.

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That the rest of it's accurate.

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<v Eric>Yes.

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But if he was acting as Remington Steele on George's behalf, and

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you can kinda stretch it. Anyway Yeah.

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1 thing before we get into the actual details of the episode, I

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normally, when I'm making my notes, skip past the introductory,

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you know, what's

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<v Sara>the word?

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<v Eric>Credit montage.

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<v Sara>Credit song pop.

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<v Eric>Yeah. And then I skip over the introduction to music. So do I.

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Which for some reason for some reason, I didn't do that this

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time.

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And I realized something, and I went back and I checked previous

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episodes.

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And beginning with the last episode, steel on the air, it's the

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same theme music, but they've slowed it back down to close to the

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original tempo.

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So, I mean, it's still got the the space guns in there.

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<v Sara>Like the space guns.

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<v Eric>But they've slowed it down, and and I don't know why.

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It's just it is. There

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<v Sara>you go.

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Maybe they got feedback from the network or something saying

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people don't like the new theme. I don't know.

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<v Eric>My my only thought was that the scripts were coming in a little

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bit short time wise. And Yeah.

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So they they slowed down the theme music just enough to give them

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a few more seconds of of the show. Anyway Yeah. Anyway Yes.

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We start out.

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It's night, and we are outside the Transway bus lines depot at

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11:23 Union Street.

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We see a good looking tall, slender black man with a mustache

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come from behind the corner of a building.

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He is nicely but somewhat casually dressed wearing slacks and a

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dress jacket, but no tie and an unbuttoned collared shirt.

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He's also smoking a cigarette.

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<v Sara>Which is usually it's interesting because that's usually

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something reserved, for villains on television and movies.

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You usually see the bad guys smoking because smoking is edgy and

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bad and whatever.

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<v Eric>So

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<v Sara>I thought that was kinda funny.

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<v Eric>And and the women love the bad boys. Sure.

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Which could explain why I had such terrible luck with women in

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high school and college and and the rest the rest of my life, if

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you

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<v Sara>don't love me. Destroyed your lungs and now he Anyway,

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<v Eric>after a moment, he reaches inside to his jacket pocket.

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It's the inside jacket pocket and pulls out a locker key that

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says 444 Transway. Man walks to the bus depot and enters.

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Inside, he looks over the lockers trying to find 444.

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And once he finds it, he inserts the key, opens the door, finds

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an envelope thick with its contents, and setting on a package

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wrapped in brown paper.

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He pulls out the items, tucks his tucks the box wrapped in brown

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paper under his arm, and then glancing around to ensure he isn't

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being watched, opens the envelope and pulls out a stack of bills.

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He counts the money, slips it back into the envelope, and then

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slides the envelope back into the inside pocket of his jacket.

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He opens the door to Locker 445 immediately below 444.

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<v Sara>This is I had a con I was confused.

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<v Eric>Had a confession?

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<v Sara>Well, no. I usually, locker numbers go sideways. Do they not?

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It it's kinda weird that 445 would be below I would've think I

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would've thought it would've been the side.

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<v Eric>44 I don't know.

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<v Sara>But I don't know. It did

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<v Eric>that's just weird

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<v Sara>to me.

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<v Eric>It could just be, you know, different brands of locker

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assemblies, number of them differently.

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<v Sara>I don't know. I don't it's really not that important.

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It just I had me.

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I I actually went back to the first scene when when Mildred notes

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the number on it. I was like, what? 445? Wasn't it 444?

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And then when I went back and looked at it, I'm like, why is that

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not 44?

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And then it took anyway, that's where my squirrel brain went, and

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I just had to put it out there. But ignore me.

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<v Eric>And it took you out of the episode, and for the rest of the

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episode, you were just totally ruined because you were

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concentrating on this locker thing.

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<v Sara>Normally, I wouldn't be.

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But ever since we've started making notes for this stupid thing,

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that's the kind of stuff I notice.

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<v Eric>So it's your fault.

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Anyway, yes, he opens the door at the Locker 445, which is

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immediately below 444, inserts the package, drops 3 quarters into

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the slot, then closes the door and removes the key, again,

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looking around, checking on his privacy.

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He reaches into his jacket and pulls out an envelope from the

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other side of his jacket from where he placed the envelope with

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the money.

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He drops the locker key into it, seals it, and then walks to a

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mail drop box just outside of the main doors of the depot, then

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drops that envelope into the drop box.

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He then begins to casually walk away down the sidewalk in front

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of the depot and away from the building. Next, we see a car.

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It's stationary. Lights off. Parked. The headlights come on.

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The man continues to walk, smoking a cigarette.

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Suddenly, there's a screech of tires from behind the man, and

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then we see the car hurtling toward him.

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The man turns, sees the car, throws his arms up in the air as if

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trying to prevent the inevitable.

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The screen goes blank as we hear the sound of impact.

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<v Sara>I always find it funny when they throw their hands up in the air

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instead of, you know, jumping out of the way. Like, Don't hit me.

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You

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<v Eric>know, I've noticed this trend.

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It it's not really related to that directly, but, I mean, it's

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it's similar.

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You know, I'll come up to an intersection and stop because

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someone's crossing in the in the crosswalk.

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And they will give me this dirty look, and they will shove their

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hand out in that little stop motion

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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<v Eric>And and just glower at me. Like, ugh. It's like, what?

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Do you think I'm stupid? I was already stopped anyway.

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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<v Eric>Yeah.

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Like I'm gonna wait for you to get in front of my car, and then

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I'm gonna hit the gas and run you over.

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<v Sara>I don't

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<v Eric>need the attitude from people who don't need to give the

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attitude.

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<v Sara>The only time I've done that is when someone has almost hit me.

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Like, I'm crossing and then someone makes a left turn and, like,

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almost hits you and you have to, like, jump out of the way.

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Then I point to the little the little sign, and I'll be like and

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if their window's down, I will yell something, not something I

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can yell

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<v Eric>fit for publication.

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<v Sara>On this podcast.

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But I will yell it at them because there have been a couple of

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times where people haven't been looking for pedestrians that have

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just started to turn.

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But if they're already stopped, there's no point in, like,

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pointing, like, it says

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<v Eric>Well, even if they're slowing down, there's no point in it.

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I mean, you can you could tell when a car is

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<v Sara>slowing down to stop for you.

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It's not like I mean, when I've had to actively, like, move out

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of the way because they're not looking where they're going.

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<v Eric>Wait.

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You're supposed to look where you're going when you're driving?

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<v Sara>Apparently so.

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And, apparently, if you see a car coming at you, it's better to

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jump out of the way if you can, mind you, than to throw up your

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arms and just get run down.

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<v Eric>Why has nobody told me this before? I know.

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Anyway anyway, we're at the agency, and we see a closed office

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door.

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<v Sara>I love this scene.

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<v Eric>It slowly opens, stops partway, and then Mildred and Laura lean

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their heads in through the door.

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They see Steele at his desk greeting his paper.

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They look at each other, seemingly puzzled.

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And then Steele, perhaps sensing more than seeing them, slowly

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moves his paper to 1 side, giving him the opportunity to look at

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the 2 women.

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Mildred quickly reaches for the door and pulls it shut.

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<v Sara>I feel like that little bit right there was literally, like,

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created.

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I I mean, obviously, the Internet didn't exist yet, but, like,

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Internet GIFs, like, the GIFs or however you pronounce that,

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that's that's the perfect 1. That is the perfect 1.

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The 2, like, poking their heads in, MCing them, lowering the

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paper, shutting the door. Like, that is the perfect anyway.

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<v Eric>Well, Steele frowns, puzzled, then he returns to his paper.

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The door again slowly opens, and the 2 women repeat their

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performance of leaning in and looking at Steele.

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This time, Steele lowers the paper to look at the women over the

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top of it.

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Laura raises her hand, index finger extended, and slowly gives

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the come here gesture with her finger.

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When Steele raises his eyebrows in a sort of me question, Laura's

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finger becomes more animated.

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Steele folds his paper, lets out a sigh, and looks at the women

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with a look of annoyance.

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And Mildred again hastily grabs the door and pulls it closed.

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<v Sara>Shut it. I don't care. It's just so cute.

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That's just such a cute, like, visual gag of the 2 of them and

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him and just it lets you know and it's actually quite brilliant

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because it lets you know that something's going on.

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<v Eric>Without a word being said.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Like, something is up, and we don't know what it is.

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We don't know what it has to do with him.

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We don't know if he's involved or he created it or what anything.

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Nothing. We just okay. Something's something's going on.

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<v Eric>Something's going on. Yeah.

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Well, next, we see the rabbit traveling the highways and byways

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of Southern California.

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And in the midst of the sequence, we see a highway sign directing

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traffic to San Diego.

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We then get a sequence of scenes highlighting various favorite

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entertainments, amusements, and recreational activities

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apparently associated with San Diego.

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I wouldn't know because I have not been there.

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<v Sara>I have been to San Diego. Okay. So I have 2 stories.

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1 I will tell now and 1 I will tell later when it becomes

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relevant because something something that Steele says makes it

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relevant.

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<v Eric>Boys and girls, it's story time with Sara. No.

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<v Sara>No. No. No. There's this isn't a long story.

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Just that I went to San Diego, and we did see a bunch of these

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attractions, including the San Diego Zoo, which was really cool

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because the 1 of the pandas had just been born or something like

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that at the time. We got to see it, and that was fun.

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So that was my story there, but there's another 1 that is more

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relevant later on when Steele makes a comment about something

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that's kind of a funnier story. So

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<v Eric>Okay. Yeah.

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<v Sara>It's a nice place.

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<v Eric>Well, then we see then we see a shot of a wall outside of a

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building with the words medical examiner's facilities mounted to

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it.

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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I can honestly say I didn't get to visit that particular tourist

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attraction.

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<v Eric>Why not?

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<v Sara>Just didn't have time. You know? Yeah. So much to see and do.

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<v Eric>Well, inside, a morgue technician opens a door to a slide out

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body rack, pulls the rack out, and we see the face of the man

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that we saw earlier at the bus depot.

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We then see Steele, Laura, and Mildred standing behind the

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pullout rack, the woman technician at the head.

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And I'll say it again. I love Laura's hair in this.

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I I I said it before that I good.

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My wife used to wear her hair this way and before it started

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giving her headaches, and I loved it on her.

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And maybe that's why I'm so partial to the style.

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It just reminds me of her. But Aw.

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<v Sara>That's sweet.

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<v Eric>Anyway, you know, that happens to me a lot.

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I'll see somebody, a woman walking or something, and there'll be

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something about them, and it'll just be like it reminds me of my

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my wife. I I don't don't know.

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Sometimes it's it's totally undecipherable, but something about

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it something about it Something about them will remind me

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<v Sara>of that. Her hair looks really nice.

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I love I love her in a braid. It looks super cute.

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<v Eric>Yeah. Anyway, Steele leans over to inspect the deceased.

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He straightens, clears his throat, and then turns to Lauren

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comments.

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Call me an optimist, but I would have had I would have thought an

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impulsive jaunt to San Diego would lead to somewhere more or

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would lead to somewhat more kind of a lively attraction.

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And Laura shakes her head in confusion saying more than asking,

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you don't recognize this man?

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Steel leans forward, takes another look, straightens up, and

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says, should I?

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And Laura turns to the technician, asks her to tell her friend,

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suspiciously doesn't use his name.

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So right there, we got a clue that something's weird here. Yeah.

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Tell her friend exactly what it was that the technician had

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earlier told Laura on the phone.

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Well, the woman, apparently not seeing any great significance in

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the information, says that all she told her was that they had a

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hit and run victim. And what did you say the victim's name was?

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Laura prompts. Looking at the paperwork, the woman reads, Steele.

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Remington Steele.

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And Steele gives a bemused, almost drunk sounding chuckle.

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And seeing Laura's look, you realize, okay.

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Maybe that response is somewhat inappropriate, so he tries to

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disguise it by making it into a clearing my throat sound.

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Still, he can't resist being somewhat flippant as he comments,

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distant cousin perhaps, but I'm afraid I have to deny any closer

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relationship than that.

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<v Sara>There's 2 this is what again, 1 of those mulch. Oh, mulch.

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This is 1 of those mulch episodes where, like, you can see the

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parts of this that might have been a good idea and then all the

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ways it went wrong.

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And the first way that this went wrong is well, I think the

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obvious way would be not telling them about it. But

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<v Eric>if you were to create

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<v Sara>branch like, franchise your your office, you wouldn't have

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somebody pretending to be Remington Steele at every office.

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That would get pretty pretty obvious pretty quickly that that

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that was not the real person.

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And and to be fair, there isn't a real person, but still, like,

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they don't So, know like, you wouldn't have somebody pretending

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to be Remington Steele at the branch.

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They would just be a team of hired private investigators that

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have been personally hired by Steele who are, you know, vetted by

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<v Eric>Maybe not even that. I mean, how many Jackson Hewitt employees

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<v Sara>Okay.

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<v Eric>Are are hired and vetted by Jackson Hewitt?

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<v Sara>At least that's what the public would assume. Right? Okay. True.

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They wouldn't assume that they were actually meeting with

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Remington Steele both in San Diego, San Francisco, Detroit,

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Dallas. Like, that wouldn't happen that way. So He

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<v Eric>gets around, around, around.

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<v Sara>Like, what are you doing?

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<v Eric>I'll just, like, you don't want

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<v Sara>your people pretending to be steel.

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You just wanna have them, like, being private investigators

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working for the franchised offices of Remington Hills.

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So that's that's mistake 1 of the mistakes that mulch makes here,

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which is Yes.

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Makes for a hilarious episode and also kinda shows the mulchness

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of this plan, the mulchiness, the the the mulch extravaganza,

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whatever you wanna call it. Because, like, again, good idea.

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Bad execution.

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<v Eric>Oh.

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You you can see the wheels coming off faster than than than yeah.

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Almost.

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Anyway anyway, Laura's not amused at Steele's attempt at levity,

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and she scolds him saying that this could be a serious matter.

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Mildred says, yeah. Just ask him pointing to the dead man.

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<v Sara>Right.

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<v Eric>And Laura, apparently mistaking Mildred's somewhat legitimate

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point for inappropriate levity, scolds her as well.

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Well, Steele clearly thinks that Laura's taking the matter far

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too seriously, suggesting, as the deceased in question, I love

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that line, That it's reasonable to assume that this is just mere

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coincidence.

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<v Sara>Have they forgotten about Lester Shane?

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They know how much damage something like this can do. Right?

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<v Eric>Yeah.

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Well, obviously, this episode was being written while while that

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1 was still in production.

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Well, Laura does see the matter differently, apparently still

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remembering Lester Yeah.

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And acknowledging that perhaps she is being slightly pessimistic

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of the notion of a coincidence, but insisting that the deceased

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could have been impersonating Steele.

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And Steele looks at the corpse, glances around at the others as

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if trying to understand the joke. Yeah. Right.

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Tell Laura that it is highly unlikely. I mean yeah.

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<v Sara>I think he's looking at the man's outfit and and thinking, well,

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I mean, I dress better. So he's clearly not

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<v Eric>Oh, there's also the the skin color issue.

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<v Sara>That too.

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But I to be honest, though, I think that would be the first thing

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Steele thinks of is, like, well, his suit doesn't cost $500.

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So that's clearly not impersonating me.

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I think the pink color would be secondary for him.

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<v Eric>Good point. Yeah.

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Well, Laura turns to the technician asking if there were any

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other identifying effects with the man's body such as credit

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cards, pictures, business cards, or whatnot.

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Woman shrugs, just an address on a piece of paper that his name

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was on.

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And she, again, reviews the paper on the clipboard, then gives

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Laura the address as the Bay Building Suite 101, and a horrified

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look of recognition crosses Mildred's face, and she begins

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joking.

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Laura rushes over to provide assistance if needed, asking Mildred

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if she's okay.

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Steele also asks if she's okay, but Mildred waves her hand away.

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Steel persists. Is she sure she's okay? She's looking a bit pale.

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<v Sara>Yeah.

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<v Eric>And Steel leads Mildred to a chair instructing her to sit.

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And then as Mildred is trying to gather her wits and control her

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coughing, Laura asks the tech where the Bay Building is located.

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Mission Bay, the woman says, about 15 minutes away, 20 minutes

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tops. Mildred groans, covering her mouth with her hand.

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<v Sara>So we never really find out.

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We know that she knows about Mulch's idea because, obviously,

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they spoke at some point.

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We never really find out how she connects the building to

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<v Eric>Yeah. We do.

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<v Sara>We do? I must have missed that.

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<v Eric>Yeah. It's in there.

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<v Sara>Okay. Alright.

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I'll you point it out to me when we get there because

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<v Eric>Okay.

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<v Sara>I was looking for that, and I guess I missed it.

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<v Eric>Anyway, Steele tells Laura that they should, no pun intended, let

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sleeping dogs lie.

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But ignoring Steele, Laura leans down to Mildred and begins to

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direct her to stand, suggesting that fresh air will make her feel

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better. Mildred says no.

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She really just should sit here for a while and urges Laura and

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Steele to go ahead and check out the address.

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Now Laura is aghast, telling her that they certainly aren't going

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to just leave her there, but Mildred insists.

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Reluctantly, Laura and Steele agree to Mildred's terms with Laura

00:25:05.555 --> 00:25:08.275
assuring her that they will be back just as soon as they can.

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As they start to leave, Steele hesitates and then asks the

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technician what time they close.

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Grinning, technician says that they service the community 24

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hours a day, 7 days a week, just like 07:11.

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Have you ever wondered why 7 11 has locks on their front door?

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<v Sara>Yeah. She's so proud of this too, though.

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I like I like her like, what the pride she takes in her work is

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is admirable.

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<v Eric>Well, I I think she just thinks it's it's it's a funny joke.

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<v Sara>Yeah. I

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<v Eric>mean, you'd the morgue you you'd think a detective would know

00:25:42.849 --> 00:25:44.130
that a morgue doesn't close.

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<v Sara>You would think. Yeah. Yeah.

00:25:46.930 --> 00:25:51.329
My dad used to if he wanted to, like, be silly, he used to

00:25:51.329 --> 00:25:54.494
sometimes answer the phone saying, like, city morgue, you stab

00:25:54.494 --> 00:25:57.295
them, we slob them. Stuff like that.

00:25:57.934 --> 00:25:59.535
<v Eric>Well, what was another 1?

00:26:00.734 --> 00:26:04.815
Roadkill Cafe, you you You hit you hit them.

00:26:04.815 --> 00:26:06.734
<v Sara>Roll it. Yeah. I've seen that 1.

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:14.619
<v Eric>But, anyway, at the woman's comments, Laura Laura seems to be

00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:16.220
horrified at the gallows too.

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<v Sara>Kinda like he just sort of grimaces. Like, he's like.

00:26:21.404 --> 00:26:23.644
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah.

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Neither 1 of them took well with the joke, but, I mean, I thought

00:26:27.085 --> 00:26:27.884
it was a good line.

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<v Sara>I thought it was I I would have laughed.

00:26:30.525 --> 00:26:31.085
<v Eric>Yeah.

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Of course, there are places I I do I maybe I should clarify.

00:26:34.125 --> 00:26:36.649
There are places in the country that do not have 7 Elevens, and

00:26:36.649 --> 00:26:41.049
they are a 24 hour day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year

00:26:41.049 --> 00:26:44.250
convenience store that has locks on the front door.

00:26:44.250 --> 00:26:50.009
<v Sara>Well, what's funny about this is when we moved to to Belmont,

00:26:50.009 --> 00:26:52.625
which is, like I said, a little village just outside London,

00:26:52.625 --> 00:26:56.304
Ontario, there was a independently owned convenience store there

00:26:56.304 --> 00:26:58.784
that was called 7 to 11.

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And it was obviously referencing the hours that they were open.

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<v Eric>Which is actually what 7 11 started out as is 7AM to 11 at night.

00:27:07.909 --> 00:27:11.269
<v Sara>But what was funny about 7 to 11 is that they would frequently

00:27:11.269 --> 00:27:14.149
change their hours, so that was completely irrelevant.

00:27:14.149 --> 00:27:17.429
Like, it got to the point where it was like, if they feel like

00:27:17.429 --> 00:27:19.589
opening, they're open. Because we never knew.

00:27:19.589 --> 00:27:22.230
We would go up and be like, oh, no. They're closed. Okay.

00:27:23.525 --> 00:27:24.884
It's 2PM. Sure.

00:27:25.284 --> 00:27:26.884
<v Eric>That reminds me.

00:27:26.884 --> 00:27:32.085
In Portland, there was a in the Northwest, there's a a chain of

00:27:32.085 --> 00:27:35.125
convenience stores competing with with all these other brands.

00:27:35.125 --> 00:27:36.164
It's called Plaid Pantry.

00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:42.159
And I think it was a Plaid Pantry location in Portland on it's

00:27:42.159 --> 00:27:45.679
like 100 second and division or Hundred 2nd Stark, somewhere in

00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:47.200
up up in that area.

00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:55.095
And I I used to call it those kind of places generically stop and

00:27:55.095 --> 00:28:02.534
rob's. And this 1 location had, like, a 4 and o, 5 and o record.

00:28:02.855 --> 00:28:04.934
<v Sara>Oof. Yikes.

00:28:05.014 --> 00:28:12.070
<v Eric>Coming in to rob the place and not succeeding? Oh. Yeah. Oof.

00:28:12.070 --> 00:28:12.470
Okay.

00:28:12.470 --> 00:28:15.109
You think you think it after the first or second time they would

00:28:15.109 --> 00:28:17.430
learn, but, no, they just kept coming back, and they just kept

00:28:17.430 --> 00:28:20.950
mowing them down. Terrible.

00:28:21.454 --> 00:28:25.615
As soon as Steele and Laura are out of the door, Mildred is up

00:28:25.615 --> 00:28:26.414
like a shot.

00:28:26.414 --> 00:28:29.695
She rushes over to the technician and in a voice that's strong

00:28:29.695 --> 00:28:33.535
and clearly recovered, desperately asks if they have a backdoor

00:28:33.535 --> 00:28:34.015
out of there.

00:28:34.650 --> 00:28:38.170
The woman points out the other door, sending Mildred off at a

00:28:38.170 --> 00:28:38.730
run.

00:28:39.369 --> 00:28:42.890
Next, we are at an outdoor dining area of a presumably fancy

00:28:42.890 --> 00:28:43.529
restaurant.

00:28:44.009 --> 00:28:47.049
Mildred comes in under a decorative arch looking around.

00:28:47.845 --> 00:28:50.805
Her jaw drops, and then we see what she sees.

00:28:51.045 --> 00:28:55.285
George Edward Mulch, cigar in hand, seated at a table with

00:28:55.285 --> 00:28:56.404
several other men.

00:28:56.884 --> 00:29:00.965
Mildred's attitude quickly changes from disbelief to highly put

00:29:00.965 --> 00:29:04.200
out, and she rushes over to the table as Mulch is ordering.

00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.239
Oysters baked, he points to 1 of the men.

00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:10.599
Oysters on the half shell, pointing to another of the men, and

00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.759
oysters Rockefeller, and some of the Don Perrigreen and just a

00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:16.599
smidge of your finest caviar.

00:29:16.914 --> 00:29:21.234
<v Sara>I love him attempting to be Steele or not, like, necessarily

00:29:21.234 --> 00:29:22.595
attempting to be Steele, but, like,

00:29:22.595 --> 00:29:24.034
<v Eric>acting Sophisticated.

00:29:24.434 --> 00:29:27.714
<v Sara>High high Yeah. Exactly how he thinks Steele acts.

00:29:27.714 --> 00:29:29.075
Because to be fair, he's not wrong.

00:29:29.410 --> 00:29:33.329
Steele would sit there and order all the fancy seafood and the

00:29:33.329 --> 00:29:36.609
the the Dom Perignon and the, you know, 73 if you have it or

00:29:36.609 --> 00:29:38.289
whatever it is he would say.

00:29:38.289 --> 00:29:41.730
But, like, Maltz just has this air about him that says, I don't

00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:45.694
know what I'm doing. And so it sounds ridiculous.

00:29:45.775 --> 00:29:49.054
He can't even pronounce Tom Perignon. It's just so funny.

00:29:50.174 --> 00:29:52.414
He's trying so hard. You know?

00:29:52.974 --> 00:29:55.214
<v Eric>He's just so overdone. Yeah.

00:29:55.214 --> 00:29:59.829
Well, next, Mildred declares, George Mulch with a sharp tone in

00:29:59.829 --> 00:30:03.429
her voice as she reaches the table just as Mulch is finishing his

00:30:03.429 --> 00:30:04.069
ordering.

00:30:04.630 --> 00:30:07.909
And Mulch, not recognizing the pending disaster that is about to

00:30:07.909 --> 00:30:11.589
befall him, stands and greets her with excitement, asking what

00:30:11.589 --> 00:30:12.710
she's doing down here.

00:30:13.065 --> 00:30:16.024
Then without a pause, he turns to the men at the table and in a

00:30:16.024 --> 00:30:20.024
breathless tone says, gentlemen, this is Mildred Krebs.

00:30:21.065 --> 00:30:24.184
And Mildred is clearly conflicted, wanting to smile

00:30:24.504 --> 00:30:24.904
<v Sara>Yes. She

00:30:25.144 --> 00:30:28.619
<v Eric>recognizing that Mulch is about to sing her praises while at the

00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:31.019
same time wanting to kill the man. Yeah.

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:34.700
<v Sara>Well, singing her praises singing her praises would steal her

00:30:34.859 --> 00:30:36.859
seal her doom. So it's kinda like that.

00:30:37.019 --> 00:30:40.299
<v Eric>Yeah. And and it's like she's undecided which to do first.

00:30:40.904 --> 00:30:44.585
Well, she reaches up, grabs the lapel of his jacket, jerks on it,

00:30:44.585 --> 00:30:47.144
trying to get him under control, but mulches like a hungry dog

00:30:47.144 --> 00:30:51.144
with the smell of fresh meat in its nostrils and overpowering the

00:30:51.144 --> 00:30:53.545
human on the other end of the leash. He charges on.

00:30:53.545 --> 00:30:56.990
This is the lady I was telling you about, the hub of the

00:30:56.990 --> 00:31:00.109
organization, the foundation of the structure, the backbone of

00:31:00.109 --> 00:31:04.429
the skeleton. Mildred, may I introduce Dallas?

00:31:04.669 --> 00:31:07.389
Dallas stands up as do the other 2 men.

00:31:07.389 --> 00:31:09.470
Detroit and San Francisco.

00:31:10.125 --> 00:31:13.884
And as Mulch introduces them each in turn, they greet Mildred

00:31:13.884 --> 00:31:16.845
who, at the conclusion, tells them that it's a pleasure to meet

00:31:16.845 --> 00:31:17.325
them.

00:31:17.644 --> 00:31:21.164
And then sliding her hand back up the lapel of Mulch's jacket,

00:31:21.164 --> 00:31:24.765
briefly grabbing it, the and through not quite gritted teeth,

00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:30.940
asks, it's sarcasm quotes, if she could confer with him in

00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:31.659
private.

00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:37.259
Mulch, still not realizing the trouble he's in and not

00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:40.375
understanding the reason for Meldred's attitude, finally

00:31:40.375 --> 00:31:43.815
recognizes that he might have a slight situation to deal with.

00:31:43.815 --> 00:31:44.374
Yeah.

00:31:44.375 --> 00:31:47.015
Especially since Mildred's hand has moved from the lapel of his

00:31:47.015 --> 00:31:50.054
jacket to his arm, and it's squeezing it in a manner that sends

00:31:50.054 --> 00:31:52.535
the message, you're in big trouble, mister.

00:31:52.970 --> 00:31:57.130
<v Sara>She's ready to strangle him in broad daylight and then say she

00:31:57.210 --> 00:31:58.250
<v Eric>Witnesses be hanged.

00:31:58.250 --> 00:31:59.289
<v Sara>Yeah. Exactly.

00:31:59.450 --> 00:32:04.890
<v Eric>Conferences. Conferences. George tells the man with false humor.

00:32:05.224 --> 00:32:08.505
Then he tells the waiter, hold my oysters, Rockefeller, for the

00:32:08.505 --> 00:32:12.904
nuns. And then with false piety, tells the waiter, bless you.

00:32:14.105 --> 00:32:18.529
Mildred begins to literally drag him across the room, and Maltz

00:32:18.529 --> 00:32:19.250
is frustrated.

00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:22.289
He he asked, Mildred, why such a long face on such a happy

00:32:22.289 --> 00:32:22.929
occasion?

00:32:23.730 --> 00:32:27.329
She angrily reaches out with both hands, grabs him by both

00:32:27.329 --> 00:32:30.289
lapels, pulling him toward her, putting her face right into his

00:32:30.289 --> 00:32:32.454
and hisses, How could you?

00:32:33.095 --> 00:32:37.494
Mulch, still oblivious to the depth of the doo doo he stepped in,

00:32:37.654 --> 00:32:43.894
stupidly asks, something's the matter? The guy is so dense.

00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:45.160
<v Sara>He is so dense.

00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.400
I just googled this because I wanted to know what Oysters

00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:48.759
Rockefeller was.

00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:54.600
And it is a classic rich New Orleans appetizer apparently

00:32:54.600 --> 00:32:57.559
featuring oysters on the half shell topped with a savory green

00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.944
sauce of spinach, butter, herbs, such as parsley, and bread

00:33:00.944 --> 00:33:03.984
crumbs, then baked or broiled until bubbly and golden, often

00:33:03.984 --> 00:33:06.785
served with lemon. Named for the wealthy John D.

00:33:06.785 --> 00:33:11.664
Rockefeller due to its richness, an elegant dish invented in 1889

00:33:11.664 --> 00:33:14.384
at Antoine's restaurant and remains popular for special

00:33:14.384 --> 00:33:16.409
occasions. So there it is.

00:33:16.409 --> 00:33:19.130
For anybody who's wondering like I was, what the heck is Oysters

00:33:19.130 --> 00:33:21.529
Rockefeller? It's that. Apparently.

00:33:23.210 --> 00:33:23.769
<v Eric>Yes.

00:33:25.210 --> 00:33:28.490
Back at the morgue, we once again see the tray being pulled out

00:33:28.490 --> 00:33:34.325
in our not quite dead doppelganger or are dead, not quite

00:33:34.325 --> 00:33:34.805
doppelganger.

00:33:34.884 --> 00:33:38.565
<v Sara>Gonna say he's he's pretty dead. He's he's dead.

00:33:38.565 --> 00:33:39.125
<v Eric>Yes.

00:33:39.845 --> 00:33:43.845
I I I I I did a dyslexia thing where I read the things out of

00:33:43.845 --> 00:33:48.019
order. Anyway, this time it's Mildred and Maltz looking on.

00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:51.859
Maltz stares in disbelief and then in shock asks, Larry?

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:57.059
Then after a moment, mournfully cries, Larry. Larry. Larry.

00:33:58.095 --> 00:34:02.335
Mildred is unimpressed by Malch's seemingly emotional distress,

00:34:02.654 --> 00:34:05.535
and she flatly states, I think we've established his name.

00:34:05.535 --> 00:34:07.614
And then harshly says, who is he?

00:34:08.175 --> 00:34:12.014
Malch, though distraught, is aware enough to equivocate saying

00:34:12.014 --> 00:34:17.269
that he was a business associate, excitedly explaining that he

00:34:17.269 --> 00:34:20.230
was superb at getting exactly what anybody wanted.

00:34:20.230 --> 00:34:25.510
He got mulch some mulch hesitates, and then less enthusiastically

00:34:25.510 --> 00:34:28.230
finishes some office furniture.

00:34:29.135 --> 00:34:32.494
Although and he looks at Larry disapprovingly, shaking his finger

00:34:32.494 --> 00:34:36.094
at the dead man, scolding him that he thinks the pieces were a

00:34:36.094 --> 00:34:36.974
tad warm.

00:34:37.295 --> 00:34:40.574
And then as a side to Mildred adds, if you catch my meaning.

00:34:41.614 --> 00:34:42.734
Mildred is perplexed.

00:34:43.230 --> 00:34:46.590
Certainly, Maltz's explanation raises more questions than it

00:34:46.590 --> 00:34:48.989
answers, but it doesn't answer the important question.

00:34:49.309 --> 00:34:51.949
What is he doing here registered under the name of Remington

00:34:51.949 --> 00:34:53.070
Steele, she asks?

00:34:53.389 --> 00:34:56.110
Maltz looks back and forth between Larry and Mildred several

00:34:56.110 --> 00:35:00.675
times, surprise clearly registered on his face as he exclaims, he

00:35:00.675 --> 00:35:01.315
is?

00:35:02.195 --> 00:35:05.875
Mildred gives him a pointed look of disbelief, then tells him to

00:35:05.875 --> 00:35:08.594
come on as she begins heading toward the door.

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.199
<v Sara>So this actually, kinda goes against what I said earlier about

00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.039
mulch. Like so did okay. This makes you wonder.

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:21.440
Did mulch just hire them to work there and tell them to be

00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:24.159
Remington Steele, or did he hire them to work there and they just

00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:25.735
decided to be Remington Steele?

00:35:25.735 --> 00:35:29.335
Because he seemed surprised that he was using the name Remington

00:35:29.335 --> 00:35:32.695
Steele, but at the same time, like, I would not if I were

00:35:33.494 --> 00:35:37.859
interviewing to work at a branch office of Remington Steel

00:35:37.859 --> 00:35:40.420
Investigations franchise, I wouldn't assume that they were

00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:42.819
interviewing me to be Remington Steel.

00:35:42.819 --> 00:35:45.539
Like, I would assume I was just being interviewed to be

00:35:46.339 --> 00:35:51.619
<v Eric>I think. And it's not explained. It's it's not explained at all.

00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:56.554
There's and there's really nothing in terms of solid clues to use

00:35:56.554 --> 00:35:57.914
to build an explanation.

00:35:57.914 --> 00:36:04.315
But my guess is we we know that Mulch hired him to acquire some

00:36:04.315 --> 00:36:05.515
office furniture.

00:36:05.994 --> 00:36:10.319
And I'm guessing that Larry recognized what was, you know, going

00:36:10.319 --> 00:36:12.559
on that Mulch was setting up this office, Remington Steele

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.359
investigations.

00:36:13.359 --> 00:36:17.839
He probably talked about it, especially since Mulch needed

00:36:17.839 --> 00:36:23.804
specific pieces to match what was in the Los Angeles office.

00:36:23.804 --> 00:36:24.445
<v Sara>Right.

00:36:24.445 --> 00:36:26.445
<v Eric>So Larry had a clue what was going on.

00:36:26.844 --> 00:36:29.485
Larry decided to cut himself in on the action.

00:36:30.525 --> 00:36:31.885
George didn't know this.

00:36:31.965 --> 00:36:32.684
<v Sara>Okay.

00:36:33.244 --> 00:36:35.164
<v Eric>That's my theory is that So

00:36:35.550 --> 00:36:38.829
<v Sara>so if that's the case, George's mistake here is really poor

00:36:38.829 --> 00:36:41.230
hiring and vetting your people.

00:36:42.030 --> 00:36:48.670
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be a fair assumption there. Yes.

00:36:49.364 --> 00:36:52.005
But, yeah, I I think Larry just saw an opportunity and took

00:36:52.005 --> 00:36:52.965
advantage of it.

00:36:53.684 --> 00:36:57.445
Anyway, Maltz grabs Mildred's arm demanding to know where they're

00:36:57.445 --> 00:36:58.164
going now.

00:36:58.244 --> 00:37:01.764
And Mildred leans forward, getting again slightly into his face

00:37:01.764 --> 00:37:04.644
and firmly says, Bay Building Suite 101.

00:37:05.230 --> 00:37:07.550
Oh, Malt says offhandedly.

00:37:08.030 --> 00:37:12.110
Then realizing the significance of her words, repeats his

00:37:12.110 --> 00:37:15.309
response in a much different tone, that of a kid who just

00:37:15.309 --> 00:37:18.590
realized he got caught and isn't gonna be able to get out of it.

00:37:18.590 --> 00:37:19.950
<v Sara>He's in a lot of trouble.

00:37:20.565 --> 00:37:21.284
<v Eric>Yes.

00:37:21.684 --> 00:37:24.244
Laura and Steele are in the rabbit as they arrive at a parking

00:37:24.244 --> 00:37:28.484
lot at a building next to a boat marina with Laura observing that

00:37:28.484 --> 00:37:29.844
this must be it.

00:37:30.405 --> 00:37:33.684
Steele, who's pondering the tourist map, optimistically suggests

00:37:33.684 --> 00:37:37.230
that once they nip her suspicions in the bud, they take in some

00:37:37.230 --> 00:37:37.869
of the sites.

00:37:37.869 --> 00:37:42.030
Maybe go pearl diving at the zoo, water skiing in the bay, maybe

00:37:42.030 --> 00:37:44.989
even pop down to Tijuana. Get the rabbit reupholstered.

00:37:44.989 --> 00:37:46.910
<v Sara>Here's my story.

00:37:48.110 --> 00:37:49.070
<v Eric>And you're sticking to it?

00:37:49.474 --> 00:37:50.034
<v Sara>No.

00:37:50.034 --> 00:37:53.875
Because while we were in San Diego, at the hotel we were staying

00:37:53.875 --> 00:37:56.114
at, or might have been a motel, I don't know, we met this other

00:37:56.114 --> 00:38:01.554
family, and they were American from somewhere else in The US, but

00:38:01.554 --> 00:38:06.559
they had traveled down to Well, they were staying in San Diego,

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.320
but the reason for their traveling down was to go over into

00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:14.079
Tijuana to have medical treatments for Lyme disease.

00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:17.934
Because there were apparently clinics, and I Googled this because

00:38:17.934 --> 00:38:21.855
I wanted to see like what sorts of treatments were Anyway, there

00:38:21.855 --> 00:38:24.335
were treatments available in Tijuana for Lyme that were not

00:38:24.335 --> 00:38:27.135
available in The US or not FDA approved or whatever. Right?

00:38:27.775 --> 00:38:32.059
And the girl was about my age and she I was 23 at the time.

00:38:32.059 --> 00:38:36.219
And she told me that the doctor that was treating her for Lyme

00:38:36.219 --> 00:38:37.980
was a Nobel Prize winner.

00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:41.500
Now I have Googled the crap out of this to see I just took out

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:43.739
her word at the time because why wouldn't you?

00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:47.465
According to everything that I Googled and could not find any

00:38:47.465 --> 00:38:49.864
information on any Nobel Prize winners that have worked in

00:38:49.864 --> 00:38:54.184
Tijuana. So that part was potentially a load of crap.

00:38:54.184 --> 00:38:59.864
But there are a lot of clinics in Tijuana that specialize in

00:38:59.864 --> 00:39:00.184
Lyme.

00:39:00.989 --> 00:39:05.389
And I went with her the 1 day she said, why don't you come with

00:39:05.389 --> 00:39:08.429
us? We'll go to Tijuana and you can come and see this.

00:39:08.429 --> 00:39:11.230
So we walked over the border.

00:39:11.309 --> 00:39:13.789
And this was so I was in my twenties.

00:39:13.789 --> 00:39:18.945
So this would have been February, I think, something like that.

00:39:19.425 --> 00:39:21.105
And we literally walked over the border.

00:39:21.105 --> 00:39:24.704
They didn't even ask to see a passport.

00:39:26.784 --> 00:39:31.409
I didn't even have a driver's license at the time because in

00:39:31.409 --> 00:39:33.809
Canada, when you start the process of getting your license, if

00:39:33.809 --> 00:39:35.969
you don't get it within 5 years, it expires, you have to start

00:39:35.969 --> 00:39:39.090
all over again. I just never fully got it until I was much older.

00:39:39.170 --> 00:39:40.050
Let it go.

00:39:40.369 --> 00:39:43.409
So at that point, I had what was called an age of majority card,

00:39:43.409 --> 00:39:46.644
which is basically like you send your paperwork and approve that

00:39:46.644 --> 00:39:50.405
you're over 19. It's to to buy liquor and stuff.

00:39:50.405 --> 00:39:54.405
And they gave you this little card that you can present to LCBO's

00:39:54.405 --> 00:39:57.125
and liquor stores and whatever to say, yes, am 19, but I know I

00:39:57.125 --> 00:39:58.085
don't have a driver's license.

00:39:58.085 --> 00:40:00.880
So I had that on me, and I showed them that, they were like,

00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.519
yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. And then so we went into Tijuana.

00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:06.079
We we got some we got to sit on the donkey.

00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:10.000
We tried some tequila with the worm in it and all the, you know,

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:10.960
usual stuff.

00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:15.485
And then we went to this clinic, and I got to meet this doctor

00:40:15.485 --> 00:40:17.805
that was treating her, supposedly Nobel Prize winner, but not

00:40:17.885 --> 00:40:18.445
probably not.

00:40:18.445 --> 00:40:23.005
And then when we came back, again, walked right into The US.

00:40:23.005 --> 00:40:24.445
Like, they didn't ask for any credentials.

00:40:24.445 --> 00:40:26.204
They were like, oh, you're Canadian? Go ahead. Go on.

00:40:26.204 --> 00:40:28.170
And I'm like, oh, okay. Cool.

00:40:28.809 --> 00:40:33.050
So it was like, you know, this is obviously but what the weird

00:40:33.050 --> 00:40:35.210
thing about this was this was post 09:11.

00:40:35.210 --> 00:40:37.609
This was not a pre 09:11 situation. Right?

00:40:37.609 --> 00:40:40.730
When where border situations were being toughened up, they were

00:40:40.730 --> 00:40:42.889
just like, nah, come on in. You're Canadian. We trust you.

00:40:45.105 --> 00:40:47.985
It was such a weird experience to walk across a border.

00:40:47.985 --> 00:40:49.184
I'd never done that before.

00:40:49.744 --> 00:40:54.144
To go to this clinic and see And I looked up to see what clinics

00:40:54.144 --> 00:40:57.344
are there. And there are a bunch. Biomedical Advanced Center.

00:40:57.344 --> 00:40:59.390
I don't know which 1 I went to. I couldn't tell you.

00:40:59.390 --> 00:41:02.510
But there's the Bio Advanced Medical Center, Immunity Therapy

00:41:02.510 --> 00:41:05.789
Center, Lyme Mexico Clinic, Holistic Care Center.

00:41:05.789 --> 00:41:10.030
And basically a lot of these clinics offer types of therapies

00:41:10.030 --> 00:41:13.465
that are like something called therapeutic apheresis, which is

00:41:13.465 --> 00:41:14.985
like a blood cleaning procedure.

00:41:15.304 --> 00:41:18.425
There's hyperthermia, which, is a process that induces an

00:41:18.425 --> 00:41:20.585
artificial fever to simulate the body's natural defense

00:41:20.585 --> 00:41:24.905
mechanisms, stem cell therapy, IV therapies, oxidative medicine.

00:41:24.905 --> 00:41:26.660
I don't know if any of them work, Mhmm.

00:41:26.660 --> 00:41:29.300
But it was just an interesting experience that I thought I would

00:41:29.300 --> 00:41:29.780
share.

00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.619
It's not something you usually think of when you think of

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:32.260
Tijuana.

00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:32.900
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:41:32.900 --> 00:41:39.220
There's there's places just inside the the border across into

00:41:39.220 --> 00:41:42.755
Mexico that used to be like that where you could go across.

00:41:42.755 --> 00:41:45.474
You didn't really need to provide any kind of documentation.

00:41:45.474 --> 00:41:47.954
You just went across.

00:41:47.954 --> 00:41:54.839
Because I think what it was was that the customs facilities going

00:41:54.839 --> 00:41:59.400
into Mexico were on the other sides of these communities because

00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:01.799
these communities wanted to take advantage of the American

00:42:01.799 --> 00:42:02.440
dollars.

00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:03.319
<v Sara>Right.

00:42:03.319 --> 00:42:05.719
<v Eric>So, yeah, there there used to be those.

00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.554
I don't know if it's still the case where you can do that into

00:42:08.554 --> 00:42:12.714
those places. I I suspect not. But Probably not. Yeah.

00:42:12.714 --> 00:42:17.114
My my father-in-law went into Mexico somewhere to get dentures

00:42:17.114 --> 00:42:20.234
made because it was a a fraction of the price of having it done

00:42:20.234 --> 00:42:20.315
in

00:42:20.315 --> 00:42:24.889
<v Sara>The US. My dad got his teeth fixed, in Cuba. Similar thing.

00:42:24.889 --> 00:42:28.170
Like, they replaced them all and yeah. Or no.

00:42:28.170 --> 00:42:29.690
It might have been Mexico, actually.

00:42:29.690 --> 00:42:32.969
They they used to spend, like, winters there. So yeah.

00:42:32.969 --> 00:42:33.210
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:42:34.135 --> 00:42:38.454
Well, anyway, at Steele's suggestions of recreation and

00:42:38.454 --> 00:42:43.414
entertainment, Laura suggests that he pay attention because she

00:42:43.414 --> 00:42:46.614
needs to remind him that he may have been murdered last night,

00:42:48.329 --> 00:42:50.090
which is another great line.

00:42:50.170 --> 00:42:52.890
As they walk up to the main door of the building, Steele,

00:42:52.969 --> 00:42:56.010
undeterred, tells her that that shouldn't impede them having a

00:42:56.010 --> 00:42:56.730
good time.

00:42:56.890 --> 00:42:57.610
<v Sara>Oh.

00:42:58.650 --> 00:43:00.650
<v Eric>I mean, Weakened at Bernie's. Right?

00:43:01.775 --> 00:43:04.815
Then after a pause, asks if she's ever been kissed by a sperm

00:43:04.815 --> 00:43:05.375
whale.

00:43:05.614 --> 00:43:09.934
And in a saucy suggestive tone with a mischievous grin tells him,

00:43:10.255 --> 00:43:11.454
not without protection.

00:43:11.614 --> 00:43:12.815
<v Sara>I love that line.

00:43:12.894 --> 00:43:17.110
<v Eric>I'm kinda surprised that 1 got passed. But, anyway I

00:43:17.110 --> 00:43:18.630
<v Sara>love that line. That's a good 1.

00:43:19.030 --> 00:43:23.030
<v Eric>She opens the door and enters while Steele stands pondering whose

00:43:23.030 --> 00:43:26.070
whales she might have been kissing and if she was only kissing

00:43:26.070 --> 00:43:29.425
them or if why would she read protection if she's only kissing

00:43:29.425 --> 00:43:29.905
them?

00:43:29.984 --> 00:43:33.585
<v Sara>He looks like he's trying to figure out whether it was, like, her

00:43:33.585 --> 00:43:36.304
flirting or whether she was shooting him down.

00:43:36.304 --> 00:43:39.425
Like, it looks like he's not really sure whether that was an

00:43:39.425 --> 00:43:41.664
invitation or, you know, a no.

00:43:45.030 --> 00:43:47.030
<v Eric>I'm something just flashed into my head.

00:43:47.030 --> 00:43:48.390
I don't think I should say it.

00:43:48.470 --> 00:43:50.230
<v Sara>Probably not. Probably not.

00:43:56.144 --> 00:44:00.545
<v Eric>Inside the walk they walk the hall to Suite 1001.

00:44:00.784 --> 00:44:03.985
They stop at the door, and Laura seems to be contemplating

00:44:03.985 --> 00:44:06.784
knocking and then simply opens it.

00:44:06.784 --> 00:44:09.825
<v Sara>That would be no knocking. She usually doesn't do that.

00:44:09.985 --> 00:44:12.260
<v Eric>Yeah. Except if it's a business.

00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:12.980
<v Sara>Yeah. You don't really know.

00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:16.420
<v Eric>Typically expect to just be able to walk in. But Yeah. Yeah.

00:44:17.380 --> 00:44:19.460
She probably should have knocked, but she didn't.

00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:21.780
Just decided to barge in.

00:44:21.780 --> 00:44:24.820
She enters followed by Steele, and, of course, they immediately

00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:26.339
freeze, stunned.

00:44:27.234 --> 00:44:30.835
They are back in their own office or more correctly, an exact

00:44:30.835 --> 00:44:32.594
reproduction of their own office.

00:44:32.675 --> 00:44:37.315
Same layout, same brightly colored red doors, same reception

00:44:37.315 --> 00:44:40.675
desk, computer, filing cabinet, chairs, couch, painting on the

00:44:40.675 --> 00:44:41.795
wall, plants around the room.

00:44:41.869 --> 00:44:45.630
Everything is exactly duplicated down to the smallest detail.

00:44:46.349 --> 00:44:50.110
Frightfully, Laura asks, why do I get the uneasy feeling Rod

00:44:50.110 --> 00:44:52.110
Serling is behind 1 of those doors?

00:44:52.429 --> 00:44:55.630
<v Sara>At the a host of the twilight zone for those who don't know, but

00:44:55.875 --> 00:44:59.235
I this is genius in the sense that they wouldn't have to have

00:44:59.474 --> 00:45:01.315
created a different set for this.

00:45:01.315 --> 00:45:03.235
They could just use the 1 that they had.

00:45:03.235 --> 00:45:03.635
<v Eric>That's right.

00:45:03.635 --> 00:45:04.755
<v Sara>And that works just fine.

00:45:04.755 --> 00:45:07.315
They'd have to they had to obviously do something with the doors,

00:45:07.315 --> 00:45:10.449
but I'm sure that wasn't that hard to just put different doors on

00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:10.530
there

00:45:10.530 --> 00:45:10.930
<v Eric>and Oh,

00:45:10.930 --> 00:45:11.090
<v Sara>the front

00:45:11.090 --> 00:45:11.650
<v Eric>door, yeah.

00:45:11.650 --> 00:45:13.250
<v Sara>Episode and then take them off again.

00:45:13.250 --> 00:45:15.809
So this is quite funny that they're they're just using their

00:45:15.809 --> 00:45:16.849
regular set.

00:45:18.449 --> 00:45:21.650
<v Eric>Uneasly, Steele comments that he'd rather find Rod Serling than

00:45:21.650 --> 00:45:23.170
any other Remington Steele.

00:45:24.454 --> 00:45:27.255
And they cautiously walk toward their own offices.

00:45:27.255 --> 00:45:31.894
We see Laura reach the door to hers, kind of hers, the fakers.

00:45:33.414 --> 00:45:36.614
She pauses, then throws the door open as if expecting to surprise

00:45:36.614 --> 00:45:37.894
whomever might be inside.

00:45:38.809 --> 00:45:42.409
She peers in, looks around as if expecting somebody to suddenly

00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:45.130
burst into the room and demand to know why she's intruded,

00:45:45.130 --> 00:45:49.130
unwelcomed and uninvited, and she slowly steps toward the desk

00:45:49.130 --> 00:45:52.650
after carefully treading as if stepping on wet stones in a river

00:45:52.650 --> 00:45:55.315
trying to ensure that her footing is solid.

00:45:55.315 --> 00:45:59.635
<v Sara>It must be really surreal, like, to walk into your like, it's

00:45:59.635 --> 00:46:02.594
like seeing your living room reproduced and and just sitting

00:46:02.594 --> 00:46:03.394
there. You know?

00:46:03.394 --> 00:46:03.715
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:46:03.715 --> 00:46:07.180
But she the way she walks, it's kinda like she's afraid she's

00:46:07.180 --> 00:46:09.660
gonna fall over and disappear into the black hole.

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:13.739
When she reaches the desk, she reaches out and touches a tall

00:46:13.739 --> 00:46:15.660
desk lamp made of pink glass.

00:46:15.660 --> 00:46:19.820
She taps her fingers on it, assuring herself that, yes, it is

00:46:19.820 --> 00:46:20.380
real.

00:46:20.780 --> 00:46:26.775
And in the transcript that I have from the Steele Incorporated

00:46:26.775 --> 00:46:32.135
website or the Steele and Love website, it's listed as Korea I

00:46:32.135 --> 00:46:33.255
think that's pronunciation.

00:46:33.255 --> 00:46:37.335
Korea glass or a Korea lamp, C O R R E I A.

00:46:37.789 --> 00:46:40.750
<v Sara>Yeah. In my head, I was hearing it as Correa. But

00:46:40.989 --> 00:46:42.349
<v Eric>Okay. That that could be correct. I

00:46:42.510 --> 00:46:44.670
<v Sara>Yeah. I don't know. You could be right too. Who knows?

00:46:45.309 --> 00:46:49.869
<v Eric>I I looked it up, and they are I didn't put it in my notes.

00:46:49.869 --> 00:46:53.305
But, yeah, there's there's a whole series of lamps made by this

00:46:53.305 --> 00:46:57.704
guy that, are apparently very, very

00:46:58.184 --> 00:46:58.985
<v Sara>Yeah. I've got whole

00:46:59.224 --> 00:47:00.025
<v Eric>high end pieces.

00:47:00.025 --> 00:47:02.105
<v Sara>You told me to find information. So

00:47:02.265 --> 00:47:02.825
<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

00:47:03.144 --> 00:47:06.430
<v Sara>And and this is kind of interesting because I I I for when you

00:47:06.430 --> 00:47:08.829
asked me, I had no idea what you're talking about or why.

00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:11.710
And then I was making my notes, and I'm like, oh, there's the

00:47:11.710 --> 00:47:13.550
lamp. I know why he was you know?

00:47:13.789 --> 00:47:17.949
<v Eric>I've I've never I don't recall ever seeing this lamp in an

00:47:17.949 --> 00:47:19.070
episode before this.

00:47:19.070 --> 00:47:22.025
<v Sara>And and this is this is, I think, a really interesting detail

00:47:22.025 --> 00:47:25.784
because the person who created these lamps, Steven V.

00:47:25.784 --> 00:47:29.545
Correa, I'm assuming that's how you pronounce it, was born in San

00:47:29.545 --> 00:47:30.264
Diego.

00:47:30.664 --> 00:47:34.340
He attended San Diego State University, University of Hawaii, and

00:47:34.340 --> 00:47:38.260
then he it says he became a vital influence of the modern glass

00:47:38.260 --> 00:47:38.739
movement.

00:47:38.739 --> 00:47:41.140
He's 1 of the select group of American artists working in glass

00:47:41.140 --> 00:47:43.220
who have achieved international prominence.

00:47:43.460 --> 00:47:46.704
His hand blown glass artworks or art glass works are in the

00:47:46.704 --> 00:47:49.744
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corning Museum, the Smithsonian

00:47:49.744 --> 00:47:53.425
Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Kentucky Derby Museum,

00:47:53.505 --> 00:47:55.265
numerous private collections.

00:47:55.585 --> 00:47:58.864
In 1984, he was honored for his extraordinary accomplishments as

00:47:58.864 --> 00:48:01.150
an artist with the naming of Stephen V.

00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:02.429
Correa Junior High School.

00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.070
He continuously works to support enhanced visual and performing

00:48:05.070 --> 00:48:06.030
arts in the school.

00:48:06.349 --> 00:48:09.230
So I'm assuming this was like a nod to him because this was only

00:48:09.230 --> 00:48:11.150
what, 2 years after that happened.

00:48:11.390 --> 00:48:15.275
And it says here that currently he designs custom sculptures from

00:48:15.275 --> 00:48:16.474
optical crystal.

00:48:16.795 --> 00:48:18.875
Numerous internationally distinguished corporations,

00:48:18.875 --> 00:48:21.355
organizations, and private collectors have commissioned Mr.

00:48:21.355 --> 00:48:24.234
Correa to create art pieces that are given as awards or gifts to

00:48:24.234 --> 00:48:27.599
symbolize outstanding corporate achievements.

00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.639
In addition to his glass, he's expanded into creating large scale

00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:34.000
environmental kinetic light sculpture, as well as his audio and

00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.119
visual performance art.

00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:38.559
So this was just neat that I didn't even think to look at it

00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:41.835
because I guess you noticed the lamp. I didn't notice the lamp.

00:48:41.835 --> 00:48:45.434
But yeah, this was probably because he was a local artist and

00:48:45.434 --> 00:48:48.795
that he had achieved quite a bit of prominence at that point that

00:48:48.795 --> 00:48:52.155
they snuck that lamp in there and Laura tapping it would have

00:48:52.155 --> 00:48:55.159
been sort of indicating to us, this is different.

00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.000
This is not normally in our our

00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.320
<v Eric>office. See, I took it I took it to mean the opposite.

00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:05.480
I took it to mean that it is something that's normally in her

00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.920
office, but she understands and recognizes the uniqueness of it.

00:49:09.795 --> 00:49:15.554
And she's tapping it to see, is this a really still another 1 by

00:49:15.554 --> 00:49:20.355
this same person, or is this a a fake? That's how I took it.

00:49:20.594 --> 00:49:20.914
<v Sara>Okay.

00:49:20.914 --> 00:49:23.234
<v Eric>I know. I mean, you could be right. You could be right because

00:49:23.234 --> 00:49:25.579
<v Sara>I don't you pointed it out to me.

00:49:25.579 --> 00:49:28.460
It's literally only because you pointed it out to me because I

00:49:28.460 --> 00:49:30.140
would have just assumed otherwise. Oh, yeah.

00:49:30.140 --> 00:49:32.220
She's tapping it because that's that's there.

00:49:32.300 --> 00:49:34.860
But because you pointed it out and then I looked into it and saw

00:49:34.860 --> 00:49:35.900
that he was from San Diego.

00:49:36.505 --> 00:49:39.704
I thought, oh, is this like their little Easter egg?

00:49:39.704 --> 00:49:42.344
A way of them putting this in there to be like the 1 thing that's

00:49:42.344 --> 00:49:44.905
different because it's from an artist that's from San Diego.

00:49:44.905 --> 00:49:47.385
So they're like, we'll put this lamp in there. I don't

00:49:47.385 --> 00:49:49.119
<v Eric>know. And so she's she's Yeah.

00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:50.880
<v Sara>And so she's tapping it like, okay. Wait.

00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:53.119
<v Eric>Figure out. This is not normal now. Okay.

00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:56.960
That was That could be different interpretations.

00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.679
<v Sara>Indeed. Well,

00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:02.559
<v Eric>she looks about for a few more moments, her face taking on a

00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:06.065
cautiously determined look, then walks to the connecting door and

00:50:06.065 --> 00:50:06.864
opens it.

00:50:07.505 --> 00:50:10.224
She finds Steele in his office behind his desk standing.

00:50:10.464 --> 00:50:13.025
He gestures and comments that, well, at least the view's

00:50:13.025 --> 00:50:13.585
different.

00:50:13.905 --> 00:50:17.344
She crosses her arms, steps forward to Steele, then demands,

00:50:17.344 --> 00:50:19.090
alright. Let's have it.

00:50:19.730 --> 00:50:22.530
And Steele, who's been looking out the window, turns and asks,

00:50:22.690 --> 00:50:26.690
have what? Well, Laura isn't buying his innocent act.

00:50:26.690 --> 00:50:28.609
Don't try to play innocent with me.

00:50:28.609 --> 00:50:30.050
This is right up your alley, she

00:50:30.050 --> 00:50:30.609
<v Sara>insists.

00:50:30.609 --> 00:50:35.485
So to quote captain America the other captain America, not the

00:50:35.485 --> 00:50:39.565
Chris Evan the Anthony Mackie captain America.

00:50:39.965 --> 00:50:41.085
<v Eric>You lost me.

00:50:41.085 --> 00:50:43.965
<v Sara>She's out of line, but she's not wrong. You know?

00:50:43.965 --> 00:50:47.670
Like, This is right up his alley.

00:50:47.670 --> 00:50:51.269
This kind of thing is is literally it's got Remington Steele

00:50:51.670 --> 00:50:52.710
scheme stamp

00:50:52.869 --> 00:50:53.110
<v Eric>Mhmm.

00:50:53.269 --> 00:50:56.389
<v Sara>All over it in big blinking letters. Yes. And I feel bad.

00:50:56.389 --> 00:50:58.070
<v Eric>Flashing lights. It's 1 of

00:50:58.070 --> 00:51:01.269
<v Sara>the few times he's genuinely innocent. And she's just like, yeah.

00:51:01.335 --> 00:51:03.735
No. This is you. You did this. Come on.

00:51:03.894 --> 00:51:05.574
My guy wasn't born yesterday.

00:51:06.375 --> 00:51:09.335
<v Eric>Steele assures her that he is as much in the dark about all of

00:51:09.335 --> 00:51:12.775
this as she is, and she coldly tells him that she stood behind

00:51:12.775 --> 00:51:14.855
him when he thought he was being framed for murder.

00:51:15.130 --> 00:51:18.250
She appreciated the circumstances involved when he lost their

00:51:18.250 --> 00:51:19.449
investigator's license.

00:51:19.449 --> 00:51:23.849
<v Sara>Did she? Did she? Well, I was gonna she did.

00:51:23.849 --> 00:51:25.769
<v Eric>Well, I hang hang on.

00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:29.130
Just let me finish this, and then I'll make my comment, then you

00:51:29.130 --> 00:51:29.609
can make yours.

00:51:29.925 --> 00:51:33.125
She even believed him when it appeared as though he gambled away

00:51:33.125 --> 00:51:35.925
the agency in a poker game, but not this.

00:51:36.565 --> 00:51:38.805
And my note here is, wait a minute, Laura.

00:51:38.805 --> 00:51:40.324
1 of those was her fault.

00:51:40.324 --> 00:51:43.765
She was responsible for the agency losing their license because

00:51:43.765 --> 00:51:47.079
she didn't wanna deal with the things she was responsible for

00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:50.679
dealing with, dumping it off onto others who had no authority or

00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.199
ability to deal with them.

00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.760
<v Sara>Well, I mean, we're really being fair here, neither 1 of them

00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:56.840
were responsible because they were gonna lose it no matter what.

00:51:56.840 --> 00:51:57.159
However

00:51:57.400 --> 00:51:57.559
<v Eric>Well.

00:51:57.894 --> 00:52:00.855
<v Sara>If it were something legitimate, then yes, you are correct.

00:52:00.934 --> 00:52:04.215
So, yeah, my notes were, did she? And he didn't lose it.

00:52:04.855 --> 00:52:07.815
He was not the 1 that lost their agency license.

00:52:08.055 --> 00:52:10.775
That guy was gonna take it regardless of who got involved.

00:52:10.775 --> 00:52:14.230
However, it was still her responsibility, not his.

00:52:14.230 --> 00:52:17.429
So putting that 1 on her is on him is kind of unfair.

00:52:17.429 --> 00:52:17.989
<v Eric>Yes.

00:52:18.230 --> 00:52:22.230
Well, Steele protests that he is as innocent about this as, but

00:52:22.230 --> 00:52:24.789
he doesn't get to finish. The sound of a door interrupts.

00:52:25.324 --> 00:52:28.605
A man, probably in his late thirties, perhaps early forties,

00:52:28.844 --> 00:52:31.884
looking like an over the hill surfer dude, enters and asks for

00:52:31.884 --> 00:52:35.244
Remington Steele. Steele admits that he is Steele.

00:52:35.884 --> 00:52:39.164
And without warning, the man punches Steele in the face, knocking

00:52:39.164 --> 00:52:41.710
him back onto the desk, and then pulls a gun and points it at

00:52:41.710 --> 00:52:42.349
Laura.

00:52:42.590 --> 00:52:46.030
As Steele recovers, the man grabs his arm, positions Steele in

00:52:46.030 --> 00:52:48.030
front of him and between himself and Laura.

00:52:48.430 --> 00:52:51.630
And with the gun near Steele's head, the man says that Steele has

00:52:51.630 --> 00:52:54.590
exactly 1 hour to come up with some answers or he's a dead man.

00:52:55.585 --> 00:52:58.704
Steel asks if the man's last name would happen to be Serlene.

00:52:59.985 --> 00:53:02.385
He tells Steel and Laura to move it.

00:53:02.785 --> 00:53:05.184
And as they walk single file through the door to the outer

00:53:05.184 --> 00:53:09.599
office, Steel turns his head to complain to Laura about, he hit

00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:10.159
me.

00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:14.880
<v Sara>This line is beyond adorable. I absolutely love this.

00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:17.359
Just the way he's he hit me, Laura.

00:53:17.359 --> 00:53:20.974
Like, he's so he he's so confused.

00:53:20.974 --> 00:53:23.775
He doesn't know why someone's impersonating him, why he's being

00:53:23.775 --> 00:53:25.535
accused, and now someone's hitting him.

00:53:25.535 --> 00:53:28.175
Like, give him a lollipop and let him go and

00:53:28.175 --> 00:53:28.735
<v Eric>sit down.

00:53:28.735 --> 00:53:29.375
<v Sara>You know?

00:53:31.054 --> 00:53:33.614
<v Eric>Well, next we see Laura and Steele in the back of a limo.

00:53:33.614 --> 00:53:36.610
They're captured sitting across from them, and they soon arrive

00:53:36.610 --> 00:53:40.289
at a very large estate where they exit and are directed inside.

00:53:40.610 --> 00:53:43.730
Inside, they are led downstairs to a large room where an old

00:53:43.730 --> 00:53:46.530
woman in a wheelchair is brought in by a young woman.

00:53:46.849 --> 00:53:50.614
The old woman tells the young woman, Vicky by name, daughter by

00:53:50.614 --> 00:53:54.454
profession, to run along. Mummy has some business to attend to.

00:53:54.934 --> 00:53:56.614
You are dismissed.

00:53:57.175 --> 00:53:59.974
<v Sara>Okay. This woman looks like 90.

00:53:59.974 --> 00:54:01.894
How old was she when she had Vicky?

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:08.639
<v Eric>Could be a doctor.

00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:12.079
<v Sara>Vicky doesn't look to be well, true. Okay. Yeah. That's fair.

00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:12.880
That's fair.

00:54:13.279 --> 00:54:15.920
But if it was her biological child, Vicky looks about

00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:16.319
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:17.585
<v Sara>30 tops?

00:54:17.585 --> 00:54:17.744
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:54:17.744 --> 00:54:21.105
<v Sara>And I'm doing the math going, I don't think that's possible.

00:54:22.944 --> 00:54:25.425
<v Eric>Well, yeah, that's true.

00:54:25.585 --> 00:54:28.545
Vicky doesn't look real happy at being dismissed like some

00:54:28.545 --> 00:54:31.589
worthless servant. Laura and Steele are directed to sit.

00:54:31.589 --> 00:54:34.710
The old woman holds up her hand and waggles her finger, a silent

00:54:34.710 --> 00:54:37.989
command to surfer dude to push her wheelchair up next to the

00:54:37.989 --> 00:54:39.750
couch where Laura and Steele are sitting.

00:54:40.230 --> 00:54:42.949
The woman then brusquely insists that they get right to the

00:54:42.949 --> 00:54:43.109
point.

00:54:44.074 --> 00:54:48.714
Absolutely, missus Steele, leaves the salutation uncompleted.

00:54:49.275 --> 00:54:51.994
Underwood, she supplies, adding that it's a name that

00:54:51.994 --> 00:54:56.074
historically has not taken kindly to betrayal. Who does?

00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:57.159
Steele flatly

00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:57.960
<v Sara>says. Fair.

00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:58.599
<v Eric>That's fair.

00:54:58.599 --> 00:55:02.599
When I I hired you, she begins, and Steele interrupts asking,

00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:03.720
when you hired me?

00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.239
When I talked to you on the phone, she clarifies.

00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.244
Steele inquires, we spoke on the telephone?

00:55:10.484 --> 00:55:13.125
And she's becoming agitated, accusing Steele of playing games

00:55:13.125 --> 00:55:16.644
with her. No. No. Absolutely not, he says condescendingly.

00:55:17.445 --> 00:55:21.445
And Laura jumps in, introducing herself as mister Steele's

00:55:21.445 --> 00:55:25.180
associate, states that, well, he hasn't had the opportunity to

00:55:25.180 --> 00:55:29.099
fill her in. So what exactly did she hire him to do? Pick

00:55:29.099 --> 00:55:29.260
<v Sara>up

00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:33.260
<v Eric>a package is the ambiguous response. What was in the package?

00:55:33.260 --> 00:55:35.900
Steele asks. None of your business, she says.

00:55:35.900 --> 00:55:38.634
I even told you that on the phone. Yes.

00:55:38.634 --> 00:55:41.914
My apologies, Steele tells her insincerely, making the excuse

00:55:41.914 --> 00:55:44.474
that, you know, sometimes their case log can be somewhat

00:55:44.474 --> 00:55:45.355
overwhelming.

00:55:45.755 --> 00:55:49.194
Well, why does missus Underwood think that mister Steele betrayed

00:55:49.194 --> 00:55:49.914
her? Laura asks.

00:55:50.869 --> 00:55:54.869
She says she paid him $5,000 to pick up the package for her at a

00:55:54.869 --> 00:55:58.390
locker. He took the money, but he did not deliver.

00:55:58.469 --> 00:56:01.750
She adamantly states that she will not tolerate being blackmailed

00:56:01.750 --> 00:56:04.869
for more money, and they will not leave this house until she gets

00:56:04.869 --> 00:56:05.430
that package.

00:56:06.284 --> 00:56:10.525
And Steele coldly says that that sounds very much like a threat.

00:56:11.005 --> 00:56:14.364
<v Sara>The man's got a gun, so I think we're past that whole process of

00:56:14.364 --> 00:56:15.164
a threat.

00:56:15.244 --> 00:56:15.804
<v Eric>Yeah.

00:56:15.804 --> 00:56:18.684
Well, surfer dude who's standing behind missus Underwood's chair

00:56:18.684 --> 00:56:21.570
reaches inside his jacket, pulls out his pistol again, reminding

00:56:21.570 --> 00:56:25.170
Steele that it's there and causing Steele to admit in a more

00:56:25.170 --> 00:56:29.010
conciliatory tone that it's a pretty good threat as threats go.

00:56:29.010 --> 00:56:29.250
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:32.849
<v Eric>And looking over to Laura, he asks if she has any thoughts.

00:56:33.244 --> 00:56:36.925
Laura shakes her head and then turns forward saying that she only

00:56:36.925 --> 00:56:37.885
has 1 thought.

00:56:38.125 --> 00:56:41.164
And then turning her head toward missus Underwood, she asks for

00:56:41.164 --> 00:56:45.485
the woman's forgiveness. Annoyed, the older woman asks, for what?

00:56:46.449 --> 00:56:49.329
For this, Laura says, as she leans over, grabs the front of the

00:56:49.329 --> 00:56:52.449
wheelchair, and shoves it back into the surfer dude, knocking him

00:56:52.449 --> 00:56:55.090
down and giving Laura and Steele the opportunity to jump over the

00:56:55.090 --> 00:56:55.970
back of the couch.

00:56:56.289 --> 00:57:00.210
While surfer dude falls, he reflexively fires off a shot into the

00:57:00.210 --> 00:57:03.914
ceiling as he's falling, and his body is acting instinctively as

00:57:03.914 --> 00:57:05.195
he's trying to catch himself.

00:57:05.434 --> 00:57:08.474
Missus Underwood turns in her chair and yells at surfer dude, not

00:57:08.474 --> 00:57:09.355
in the house.

00:57:09.355 --> 00:57:09.594
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:57:09.594 --> 00:57:12.554
That's probably like marble flooring or something like that.

00:57:12.554 --> 00:57:14.554
It's funny, though, when you have to yell not in the house.

00:57:15.190 --> 00:57:17.190
<v Eric>Yeah. For good reason. Shooting the gun. Yeah.

00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:17.670
<v Sara>Yeah.

00:57:18.630 --> 00:57:20.550
<v Eric>Laura and Steele rush out of the house.

00:57:20.550 --> 00:57:23.110
Surfer dude gets to his feet and follows them out then takes

00:57:23.110 --> 00:57:25.110
several shots at them but misses.

00:57:25.750 --> 00:57:27.910
As Laura and Steele disappear around the side of the house,

00:57:27.910 --> 00:57:29.510
surfer dude again begins pursuing.

00:57:30.255 --> 00:57:32.894
But by the time surfer dude gets around the corner of the house

00:57:32.894 --> 00:57:35.775
as well, Laura and Steele have gotten into a truck which is

00:57:35.775 --> 00:57:38.654
loaded with lawn care equipment and have peeled out, leaving the

00:57:38.654 --> 00:57:42.094
mowers, rakes, and other lawn equipment as it falls from the bed

00:57:42.094 --> 00:57:42.494
of the truck.

00:57:42.829 --> 00:57:45.389
<v Sara>And the poor gardener standing there like, oh, okay.

00:57:45.389 --> 00:57:46.349
There goes my truck.

00:57:46.349 --> 00:57:46.829
<v Eric>Yes.

00:57:46.829 --> 00:57:49.949
As surfing dude resumes his firing at them and missing until he

00:57:49.949 --> 00:57:53.389
runs out of ammo, the the gardener stands there at the side,

00:57:53.389 --> 00:57:55.150
hands in the air in a gesture of surrender.

00:57:55.875 --> 00:57:58.594
<v Sara>Yeah. Wondering who who he's working for.

00:57:59.635 --> 00:58:00.755
<v Eric>And, yes, I counted.

00:58:00.755 --> 00:58:03.555
It was 6 shots, which is correct for a revolver.

00:58:03.635 --> 00:58:03.954
<v Sara>Oh, there

00:58:03.954 --> 00:58:04.434
<v Eric>you go.

00:58:05.155 --> 00:58:08.434
Back at the Bay Building, Mulch proudly leads Mildred into the

00:58:08.434 --> 00:58:11.730
agency office, and she is shocked at the site.

00:58:11.809 --> 00:58:14.610
Moulch tells her, takes your breath away, don't it?

00:58:15.250 --> 00:58:20.289
Just drop Mildred asks, how in the world could you do something

00:58:20.289 --> 00:58:21.010
like this?

00:58:21.570 --> 00:58:26.054
That's the beautiful part, George says excitedly, still not

00:58:26.054 --> 00:58:29.414
recognizing that Mildred is not sharing his excitement.

00:58:29.494 --> 00:58:33.175
He continues telling her that none of this cost us a penny.

00:58:33.494 --> 00:58:37.414
I sold some venture capitalists on the idea and boom, prototype

00:58:37.414 --> 00:58:38.295
money up front.

00:58:39.309 --> 00:58:43.389
Mildred angrily demands to know where he gets off opening up a

00:58:43.389 --> 00:58:46.670
branch office of Remington Steel Investigations.

00:58:47.789 --> 00:58:50.750
Mulch is indignant telling her that he's surprised at her

00:58:50.750 --> 00:58:54.275
reaction, telling her that she was the 1 who ok'd the franchise's

00:58:54.275 --> 00:58:55.715
idea. Remember?

00:58:56.194 --> 00:58:56.994
<v Sara>Okay.

00:58:56.994 --> 00:59:00.594
Here's my other question because I had 2 things about Mulch doing

00:59:00.594 --> 00:59:05.315
this. And the first 1 was the did Mulch ask them to yeah.

00:59:05.315 --> 00:59:07.680
That impersonate Steele.

00:59:08.640 --> 00:59:14.159
The other 1, wouldn't you need, I don't know, Steele's signature

00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:18.400
to do something like this? Like, franchise based company.

00:59:18.864 --> 00:59:19.265
<v Eric>No.

00:59:19.265 --> 00:59:23.184
See, once we sell the idea, then we tell Steele about it because

00:59:23.184 --> 00:59:24.785
then it's all in place.

00:59:24.785 --> 00:59:29.744
And the beef it'll just be so easy for him to say yes because

00:59:30.385 --> 00:59:32.465
it's all in place. It's ready to go.

00:59:32.625 --> 00:59:35.000
<v Sara>Because, like, this is so here's where I was thinking.

00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:39.000
Again, 1 of those things where this wouldn't be a terrible idea

00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:40.199
if you had done it right.

00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:43.880
Because we know that they've mentioned at some point that Murphy

00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:45.320
is in Denver. Right?

00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:45.960
<v Eric>Mhmm. Right.

00:59:46.204 --> 00:59:48.764
<v Sara>If they wanted to open a branch office and I get that Murphy's

00:59:48.764 --> 00:59:49.485
got his own office.

00:59:49.485 --> 00:59:53.324
But, like, he could come in under the Remington Steele banner and

00:59:53.324 --> 00:59:56.125
operate in and that would be somebody that Laura trusts that she

00:59:56.125 --> 00:59:59.244
knows is not going to betray who Remington Steele really is,

00:59:59.244 --> 01:00:00.809
etcetera. Mhmm.

01:00:00.809 --> 01:00:03.769
And or Murphy could be the 1 maybe vetting the private eyes that

01:00:03.769 --> 01:00:08.090
they hire. Like, this is not a terrible idea. It's just mulch.

01:00:08.329 --> 01:00:10.730
Mulch is not the 1 that should be in charge of it.

01:00:10.970 --> 01:00:14.644
Mulch mulches everything up. Like, he he pulls a mulch.

01:00:14.644 --> 01:00:15.844
You know, he's pulled a mulch here.

01:00:15.844 --> 01:00:16.405
<v Eric>He pulled a mulch

01:00:16.405 --> 01:00:20.724
<v Sara>with the with the dolls and with the the it's just oh, dude,

01:00:20.724 --> 01:00:25.204
you've got this brilliant talent of coming up with great ideas

01:00:25.204 --> 01:00:27.369
and then just running them into the ground.

01:00:27.369 --> 01:00:31.849
That's what he's done with this 1. 0, that's sad, actually.

01:00:33.369 --> 01:00:38.570
<v Eric>Mildred is Mildred indignantly recounts a more accurate version

01:00:38.570 --> 01:00:41.210
of the events than Maltz just recounted saying that Yeah.

01:00:41.434 --> 01:00:43.114
He showed her some renderings.

01:00:43.195 --> 01:00:45.434
He asked about the Bay Building in San Diego.

01:00:45.434 --> 01:00:47.914
She said it sounded interesting. That's all.

01:00:47.914 --> 01:00:49.515
She didn't say do it.

01:00:50.234 --> 01:00:54.579
Shaking his head and speaking as if to a child and astounded that

01:00:54.579 --> 01:00:57.300
they aren't understanding something that is so basic and simple,

01:00:57.300 --> 01:01:00.339
he explains that he can't entice outside investors with

01:01:00.339 --> 01:01:01.380
renderings alone.

01:01:01.380 --> 01:01:04.340
They don't give up the green until they see it in 3 d.

01:01:04.579 --> 01:01:06.739
<v Sara>Is this how this is how she knew about the waybilling went.

01:01:06.739 --> 01:01:09.605
Right? Like, this is where I screwed up. Okay. Gotcha.

01:01:09.605 --> 01:01:12.804
<v Eric>Yeah. He puts his arm around her shoulders and continues.

01:01:12.804 --> 01:01:14.164
Mildred, listen to me.

01:01:14.164 --> 01:01:17.844
We are dancing on the edge of greatness here. Think about it.

01:01:18.164 --> 01:01:22.005
Where would Big Mac be today if he stayed in that same corner

01:01:22.005 --> 01:01:25.360
burger stand where he started? The answer, nowhere.

01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:29.599
Where is he today? Everywhere. Detective agencies, hamburgers.

01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:30.800
It's all the same thing.

01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:34.880
We could be in every city in the entire USA in neon lights.

01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:38.880
Remington Steel Investigations Inc, millions of clients served.

01:01:39.305 --> 01:01:41.385
<v Sara>That's just

01:01:42.505 --> 01:01:44.265
<v Eric>oh, mulch. Mulch. Mulch.

01:01:44.825 --> 01:01:47.864
<v Sara>Mulch. Mulch. Mulch. What are you doing? You know?

01:01:47.864 --> 01:01:50.985
Like, you here's what Mulch should do for a living. K?

01:01:51.144 --> 01:01:52.610
He's an idea man. That

01:01:52.610 --> 01:01:53.010
<v Eric>should be

01:01:53.010 --> 01:01:54.050
<v Sara>his business. Right?

01:01:54.050 --> 01:01:57.010
Literally should be his business as a like, hire him as a

01:01:57.010 --> 01:02:01.329
consultant. He can give you the idea, then you do the idea.

01:02:01.329 --> 01:02:03.250
Not don't let mulch do the idea. Mulch will screw

01:02:03.250 --> 01:02:03.890
<v Eric>it up. No.

01:02:04.050 --> 01:02:07.090
<v Sara>Just hire him to come up with ideas because the ideas are fine.

01:02:07.184 --> 01:02:10.865
It's just the execution that always some you know, somehow Yeah.

01:02:11.025 --> 01:02:11.744
Screws the pieces.

01:02:11.744 --> 01:02:12.224
<v Eric>Yes.

01:02:14.465 --> 01:02:18.785
Well, Mildred, mouth open, stares at Mulch in total disbelief,

01:02:19.105 --> 01:02:21.985
then not without some sympathy, puts her hands to her face and

01:02:21.985 --> 01:02:25.579
declares, you've cracked. You've gone over.

01:02:25.579 --> 01:02:26.940
You've lost your marbles.

01:02:27.260 --> 01:02:31.260
How are you ever going to explain this to mister Steele, let

01:02:31.260 --> 01:02:32.540
alone miss Holt?

01:02:33.180 --> 01:02:38.094
And in her distress, and with that phrase, let alone miss Holt,

01:02:38.094 --> 01:02:40.175
Mildred just let a hint slip.

01:02:40.494 --> 01:02:41.934
<v Sara>I know. I thought that too.

01:02:41.934 --> 01:02:43.934
I thought that too because it's like that's betraying where the

01:02:43.934 --> 01:02:45.135
real power lies. Right?

01:02:45.135 --> 01:02:45.614
<v Eric>Oh, yes.

01:02:45.614 --> 01:02:49.079
<v Sara>She, you know, she knows that it's not just, I mean, Steel's 1

01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:49.319
thing.

01:02:49.319 --> 01:02:52.679
Steel might even see the dollar signs, but Laura, you know,

01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:54.679
Laura's gonna be like, uh-uh. No. And

01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.039
<v Eric>again We know he sees the dollar signs at the very end.

01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:02.644
<v Sara>Again, it's 1 of those things where if it weren't for the fact

01:03:02.644 --> 01:03:06.405
that Remington Steele is not a real person Mhmm.

01:03:06.885 --> 01:03:10.724
I think Laura would see the the potential in an idea like this as

01:03:10.724 --> 01:03:11.204
well.

01:03:11.605 --> 01:03:15.204
But I think she would she would shoot the idea down simply

01:03:15.204 --> 01:03:19.980
because she wouldn't want anyone looking too closely at if it was

01:03:19.980 --> 01:03:23.099
a franchise operation with locations everywhere in The US and

01:03:23.099 --> 01:03:25.579
then possibly going international, that's a lot more scrutiny on

01:03:25.579 --> 01:03:29.500
them and a lot more looking into who they are and possibly

01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:32.755
uncovering the truth about the boss.

01:03:33.074 --> 01:03:36.755
So it it pay like, she wants recognition for the agency, but

01:03:36.755 --> 01:03:39.394
there's maybe a line where you don't wanna get too much

01:03:39.394 --> 01:03:42.355
recognition because then you're you're under the parrot the not

01:03:42.355 --> 01:03:45.730
the periscope, the microscope, and that wouldn't turn out well

01:03:45.730 --> 01:03:46.130
for you.

01:03:46.130 --> 01:03:48.769
So I could see why Laura would veto this, but it's not a bad

01:03:48.769 --> 01:03:49.250
idea.

01:03:49.250 --> 01:03:51.889
You just gotta have the right people involved, and mulch does

01:03:51.889 --> 01:03:53.170
not. Yeah.

01:03:53.250 --> 01:04:01.214
<v Eric>Well, of course, they might be able to make it work if they if

01:04:01.214 --> 01:04:06.094
they sold him as the spokesperson and not necessarily the real

01:04:06.094 --> 01:04:07.214
Remington Steele.

01:04:07.214 --> 01:04:10.255
You know, like aunt Jemima was a was a real person.

01:04:10.255 --> 01:04:12.414
She her name wasn't Jemima. Yeah.

01:04:12.414 --> 01:04:17.190
She was she was somebody that, as I recall the history, she was a

01:04:17.190 --> 01:04:22.070
huge advocate for this particular brand of of, like, pancake mix

01:04:22.070 --> 01:04:23.110
or something like this.

01:04:23.190 --> 01:04:26.789
And so the company hired her as a spokesperson to be the Aunt

01:04:26.789 --> 01:04:28.230
Jemima figure.

01:04:28.550 --> 01:04:34.014
And she made the company millions and didn't do too bad herself.

01:04:34.014 --> 01:04:34.255
But

01:04:34.494 --> 01:04:36.175
<v Sara>I thought she died penniless.

01:04:36.574 --> 01:04:37.855
<v Eric>I don't I didn't think she did.

01:04:37.855 --> 01:04:40.974
<v Sara>I read some like Nancy Green. Let's see.

01:04:41.054 --> 01:04:43.454
She didn't become a millionaire contrary to some viral social

01:04:43.454 --> 01:04:48.280
claims. She lived a modest life. Yeah.

01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:50.519
I read somewhere that they kinda screwed her over, but anyway,

01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:51.800
not really relevant to this.

01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:54.519
<v Eric>Well, companies had a tendency to do that to anybody and

01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:55.239
everybody anyway.

01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:58.280
But, I mean, the point is that Steele could be presented as the

01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:02.175
kind of the figurehead and not necessarily the guy.

01:05:02.414 --> 01:05:03.694
<v Sara>Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. I mean,

01:05:03.694 --> 01:05:05.694
<v Eric>it was like with, colonel Sanders too.

01:05:05.694 --> 01:05:06.894
I mean, he was a real person.

01:05:06.894 --> 01:05:07.775
<v Sara>He was a real person.

01:05:07.775 --> 01:05:08.014
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:05:08.014 --> 01:05:12.494
But he after he sold the company, he was just basically the face.

01:05:13.299 --> 01:05:15.940
<v Sara>Well, nobody expects the founder of McDonald's to be in every

01:05:15.940 --> 01:05:17.460
McDonald's either. So, like

01:05:17.299 --> 01:05:18.420
<v Eric>That's true. Exactly.

01:05:18.420 --> 01:05:19.699
<v Sara>Well and fun fact

01:05:19.859 --> 01:05:23.380
<v Eric>And Ray Kroc did not invent and start McDonald's.

01:05:23.380 --> 01:05:25.460
He bought it from the McDonald brothers.

01:05:25.619 --> 01:05:28.980
<v Sara>Yes. I did know that. I did know that. I saw a documentary on it.

01:05:28.980 --> 01:05:34.554
But fun fact about McDonald's, it is not the most, it it doesn't

01:05:34.554 --> 01:05:38.315
have the most fast food franchises all over the world as a lot of

01:05:38.315 --> 01:05:39.195
people might think.

01:05:39.195 --> 01:05:42.474
The company that has the most fast, fast food franchises all over

01:05:42.474 --> 01:05:43.355
the world is Subway.

01:05:47.710 --> 01:05:48.510
<v Eric>I've got a Anyway.

01:05:48.510 --> 01:05:53.550
I've got a Subway that's about 1, 2, 3, maybe 4 blocks from my

01:05:53.550 --> 01:05:54.030
house.

01:05:54.829 --> 01:05:59.125
Few years ago, I went to the only firehouse subs in Anchorage.

01:05:59.125 --> 01:06:01.045
It's clear on the other day into town from my house.

01:06:01.045 --> 01:06:01.605
<v Sara>Right.

01:06:02.324 --> 01:06:04.244
<v Eric>I have not been to a subway since.

01:06:04.324 --> 01:06:08.005
I will drive across town to get a firehouse before I'll go to a

01:06:08.005 --> 01:06:08.324
subway.

01:06:08.324 --> 01:06:10.005
<v Sara>Yeah. Firehouse is good. I've been at firehouse.

01:06:10.005 --> 01:06:10.484
<v Eric>Oh, yeah.

01:06:10.484 --> 01:06:11.750
<v Sara>They're pretty tasty. Great.

01:06:11.750 --> 01:06:15.510
<v Eric>Yeah. Anyway, where were we? Yes. Oh, here we go.

01:06:16.070 --> 01:06:19.989
Back into the episode, Mulch grins, waving his arms over the

01:06:19.989 --> 01:06:23.909
scene, and then he he tells Mildred, a picture is worth 1000

01:06:23.909 --> 01:06:24.469
words.

01:06:24.949 --> 01:06:27.885
And this is in reference to, you know, investors giving up the

01:06:27.885 --> 01:06:30.365
green and steel buying in.

01:06:30.684 --> 01:06:34.285
And then, of course, a realization dawns on Mildred.

01:06:34.605 --> 01:06:37.565
The guy in the morgue probably got himself killed because of all

01:06:37.565 --> 01:06:38.125
of this.

01:06:38.445 --> 01:06:39.485
<v Sara>Bingo. And

01:06:39.485 --> 01:06:43.150
<v Eric>Maltz nods, frowning, telling Mildred that Larry would play any

01:06:43.150 --> 01:06:44.750
angle to turn a fast buck.

01:06:45.070 --> 01:06:48.670
Then as if a man being killed as a result of Moulch's scheme was

01:06:48.670 --> 01:06:52.269
only an unfortunate collateral occurrence, cheerfully observes

01:06:52.269 --> 01:06:55.715
that in spite of himself getting himself killed, Larry did a

01:06:55.715 --> 01:06:57.875
beautiful job with the furniture. Don't you think?

01:06:58.994 --> 01:07:01.875
And Mildred is speechless.

01:07:01.875 --> 01:07:04.914
And she's again looking over the scene as the postman walks in,

01:07:05.074 --> 01:07:06.914
happy that somebody's finally there.

01:07:07.739 --> 01:07:11.340
He hands Mildred a slip of paper, and she asks, what is this?

01:07:12.300 --> 01:07:13.660
Postage due, he says.

01:07:13.739 --> 01:07:16.139
Normally, he would have just left it with a little envelope for

01:07:16.139 --> 01:07:17.980
them to pay the additional postage later.

01:07:17.980 --> 01:07:22.025
But seeing as how they're, you know, new and all, they can claim

01:07:22.025 --> 01:07:24.184
it at the post office. Just bring some pocket change.

01:07:24.585 --> 01:07:27.144
<v Sara>So this was another thing I was confused about. Mhmm.

01:07:27.144 --> 01:07:32.425
Because we get the impression because Larry was hired by missus

01:07:32.425 --> 01:07:32.905
Underwood.

01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:38.760
We get the impression that this place is operational, but the

01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:43.400
signs are not even on the door yet. So are they operational?

01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:47.914
Or like you said, did Larry just take a call and then take a case

01:07:47.914 --> 01:07:49.675
that he shouldn't have taken? Like, how

01:07:50.715 --> 01:07:54.474
<v Eric>He may have been there working in the office, you know, getting

01:07:54.474 --> 01:07:56.474
the furniture brought in and set up.

01:07:56.875 --> 01:08:02.289
He could have made himself a key and was setting himself up to

01:08:02.289 --> 01:08:05.730
operate as Remington Steele under the radar before Mulch got the

01:08:05.730 --> 01:08:08.210
thing going. I don't know. Somehow he was there.

01:08:08.769 --> 01:08:11.250
The phone was obviously operating because

01:08:11.170 --> 01:08:11.650
<v Sara>Yeah. The phone

01:08:11.650 --> 01:08:12.449
<v Eric>got them.

01:08:12.449 --> 01:08:13.489
<v Sara>They're getting mail.

01:08:13.489 --> 01:08:18.604
So, like, it it feels like they're up and running, but also mulch

01:08:18.604 --> 01:08:23.725
says it's a prototype. So Yeah. Yeah. I'm confused. Yeah. It's

01:08:25.005 --> 01:08:27.484
<v Eric>it's it's a soft opening.

01:08:28.369 --> 01:08:29.649
<v Sara>Sure. Okay.

01:08:30.849 --> 01:08:34.369
<v Eric>You you know how those how those work where a store opens, but

01:08:34.369 --> 01:08:36.449
they're they haven't had their official grand opening yet.

01:08:36.449 --> 01:08:37.169
So yeah.

01:08:37.889 --> 01:08:42.114
Anyway oh, and about the postage due thing and the postman saying

01:08:42.114 --> 01:08:45.635
he would have normally left it with an envelope to pay, mailman

01:08:45.635 --> 01:08:46.515
used to do that.

01:08:46.675 --> 01:08:51.314
If you had postage due, they would leave the item envelope

01:08:51.314 --> 01:08:55.869
package, whatever it was, with a note and an envelope for you to

01:08:55.869 --> 01:09:00.829
pay pay them the additional postage and just leave it in the

01:09:00.829 --> 01:09:04.189
mailbox, they pick it up the next day. Don't do that anymore.

01:09:04.429 --> 01:09:05.869
In fact, nowadays No.

01:09:05.949 --> 01:09:08.429
You're lucky if you can get a mailman to deliver the mail

01:09:08.429 --> 01:09:11.595
correctly to the right address. Did I say that? I'm sorry.

01:09:11.595 --> 01:09:14.395
<v Sara>Well, our government's trying to get rid of address delivery

01:09:14.395 --> 01:09:15.114
altogether.

01:09:15.114 --> 01:09:18.074
So, you know, it's pretty soon it's gonna be just all community

01:09:18.074 --> 01:09:20.635
mailboxes and no home delivery whatsoever.

01:09:21.914 --> 01:09:24.875
Hence, why our constant postal strikes. Yeah.

01:09:25.470 --> 01:09:29.149
<v Eric>Well, I think I heard that our US post office is considering

01:09:29.229 --> 01:09:33.310
canceling Saturday mail delivery. I mean, they they used to

01:09:33.310 --> 01:09:36.110
<v Sara>have people don't need to pay their bills on time. That's Yeah.

01:09:36.110 --> 01:09:37.470
Right. You know? I

01:09:37.789 --> 01:09:40.935
<v Eric>mean, they used to have Saturday and Sunday mail deliveries, and

01:09:40.935 --> 01:09:42.454
they went to 2 Saturday deliveries.

01:09:42.454 --> 01:09:44.694
Now then they went to 1 Saturday delivery.

01:09:44.694 --> 01:09:47.255
Now they're talking about eliminating that as well.

01:09:47.255 --> 01:09:50.614
So it's like but but we get to pay the same amount of money.

01:09:50.614 --> 01:09:51.574
<v Sara>Yeah. Of course.

01:09:52.375 --> 01:09:56.649
<v Eric>Well, anyway, as the mailman leaves, Mulch snatches the paper

01:09:56.649 --> 01:09:59.929
from her hand telling Mildred excitedly, that's a clue.

01:10:00.409 --> 01:10:01.689
What's a clue?

01:10:01.689 --> 01:10:04.969
She asks in a tone that suggests that she thinks that Mulch has

01:10:04.969 --> 01:10:07.770
again gone off the deep end on in Yep. 1 of his rants.

01:10:08.324 --> 01:10:10.404
The Maltese falcon, he tells her.

01:10:10.404 --> 01:10:14.724
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Aster, you know, all those other guys.

01:10:14.885 --> 01:10:16.324
Boggy got the bird.

01:10:16.484 --> 01:10:18.965
But to protect himself, he put it in the mail.

01:10:18.965 --> 01:10:22.869
This could be the same thing. Don't you see? See what?

01:10:22.869 --> 01:10:24.469
Mildred asks, frustrated.

01:10:24.789 --> 01:10:27.350
Maltz tells her to come on, and then he heads toward the door.

01:10:27.350 --> 01:10:31.109
But as he does, it opens, and Dallas, Detroit, and San Diego

01:10:31.109 --> 01:10:31.829
enter.

01:10:31.909 --> 01:10:35.510
There you are, you sly dog, San Francisco says with a grin.

01:10:35.510 --> 01:10:37.590
Did you forget about us at the restaurant, George?

01:10:38.204 --> 01:10:42.125
Dallas takes Mildred's hand and says, well, we hardly even had a

01:10:42.125 --> 01:10:45.645
chance to say howdy to miss Krebs as he leans down and kisses the

01:10:45.645 --> 01:10:50.364
back of her hand. Detroit. Right? She asks a man. No, ma'am.

01:10:50.364 --> 01:10:52.840
Dallas. I mean, come on, Mildred.

01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:55.960
<v Sara>Detroit is is Detroit is hilarious, though.

01:10:55.960 --> 01:10:59.880
The actor playing Detroit plays Detroit like this puppy, you

01:10:59.880 --> 01:11:01.880
know, that's constantly wanting to be pet.

01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:02.599
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:06.135
But, I mean, if you can't tell Dallas from the accent, I mean,

01:11:06.135 --> 01:11:06.454
come on.

01:11:06.454 --> 01:11:07.734
<v Sara>The accent is pretty clear.

01:11:08.055 --> 01:11:10.534
<v Eric>And then she turns to San Francisco and asks, then you're

01:11:10.534 --> 01:11:13.015
Detroit. And San Francisco, he corrects.

01:11:13.015 --> 01:11:18.229
And not to be politically incorrect, but, I mean, there's some

01:11:18.229 --> 01:11:22.869
associations here that she could use. Hillbilly Twang, Dallas.

01:11:23.109 --> 01:11:25.429
Asian man, San Francisco, Chinatown.

01:11:25.429 --> 01:11:28.389
<v Sara>Are there a lot of Asian people in San Francisco? Chinatown.

01:11:29.385 --> 01:11:32.984
I just assume every large city has a Chinatown, don't they?

01:11:32.984 --> 01:11:35.625
Like, don't all large cities have Chinatown somewhere?

01:11:36.505 --> 01:11:37.465
<v Eric>I don't know.

01:11:37.704 --> 01:11:41.545
I I think in San Francisco is San Francisco I'm thinking of or

01:11:41.545 --> 01:11:41.944
Los Angeles?

01:11:41.944 --> 01:11:44.210
<v Sara>New York has a Chinatown, and, like, I know there's

01:11:44.369 --> 01:11:45.890
<v Eric>Well, there's 1 in California.

01:11:45.890 --> 01:11:50.289
I think it's, San Francisco is kind of like the the mecca of

01:11:50.289 --> 01:11:53.489
Chinatowns, as I as I get depression.

01:11:53.489 --> 01:11:56.529
<v Sara>I just make that assumption because if you've got a large city

01:11:56.529 --> 01:11:59.354
that's highly multicultural, you're going to have little pocket

01:11:59.354 --> 01:12:01.914
areas where you're gonna be able to find ethnic food of of

01:12:01.914 --> 01:12:03.835
different right? So I just But

01:12:03.835 --> 01:12:06.395
<v Eric>I'm just saying from the standpoint of of Mildred doing

01:12:06.395 --> 01:12:10.539
associations, she's got these stereotypes that are admitted.

01:12:10.539 --> 01:12:10.699
<v Sara>Fair

01:12:10.699 --> 01:12:11.180
<v Eric>enough.

01:12:11.180 --> 01:12:14.939
Stereotypes, but she could apply them here because, you know,

01:12:14.939 --> 01:12:19.260
like I said, Asian man, Chinatown, San Francisco, hillbilly

01:12:19.260 --> 01:12:22.220
twang, Dallas, and then by process of elimination, mister Bland

01:12:22.220 --> 01:12:22.780
is Detroit.

01:12:25.684 --> 01:12:28.804
Well, she apologizes, explaining that geography was never her

01:12:28.804 --> 01:12:29.604
strong suit.

01:12:29.604 --> 01:12:32.324
And George starts to say something, but Detroit steps further

01:12:32.324 --> 01:12:35.524
into the office, interrupting by rhetorically asking, so this is

01:12:35.524 --> 01:12:38.850
what our branch offices are gonna look like, Adding that it's

01:12:38.850 --> 01:12:39.569
impressive.

01:12:40.210 --> 01:12:43.729
Art Deco, San Francisco notes approvingly, calling it a classy

01:12:43.729 --> 01:12:47.170
touch. Dallas agrees. He likes it a lot.

01:12:47.969 --> 01:12:51.010
And George begins to make apologies to the trio saying that he

01:12:51.010 --> 01:12:53.409
wishes that they had more time to discuss the ambiance.

01:12:53.704 --> 01:12:58.425
Unfortunately, he and miss Krebs have a urgent private eye matter

01:12:58.505 --> 01:13:01.784
to attend to, you know, type of situation.

01:13:02.104 --> 01:13:04.104
And so he's sure that they're gonna understand.

01:13:04.585 --> 01:13:07.385
And breathlessly, Detroit asks if they can tell him something

01:13:07.385 --> 01:13:07.944
about the case.

01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:13.000
And enthusiastically, Mulch says, have you ever seen the Maltese

01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:16.520
Falcon? No. Detroit admits.

01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:18.919
See it, George and says, without delay.

01:13:19.639 --> 01:13:22.119
And then he herds the tree out of the office, closing the doors

01:13:22.119 --> 01:13:22.599
they leave.

01:13:23.234 --> 01:13:26.274
Mildred grabs him by the arm and informs him that this franchise

01:13:26.274 --> 01:13:27.715
bird is never gonna fly.

01:13:27.715 --> 01:13:30.675
She guarantees it, and he should tell them that now.

01:13:31.074 --> 01:13:33.715
Sympathetically, Mulch asks, why burst their bubble?

01:13:33.715 --> 01:13:35.074
Besides, they've got a clue.

01:13:35.970 --> 01:13:40.530
And as they exit the office, Maltz locks the door, they leave,

01:13:40.690 --> 01:13:44.130
all the while being observed by an unidentified man who follows

01:13:44.130 --> 01:13:44.609
them.

01:13:46.289 --> 01:13:49.409
Next, we see that Laura and Steele are driving through a canyon

01:13:49.409 --> 01:13:53.494
in the stolen truck, which is pouring out a cloud of burning oil,

01:13:54.135 --> 01:13:56.614
and they are being followed by a police car.

01:13:57.574 --> 01:14:00.295
Observing the law behind them, Steele declares in frustration

01:14:00.295 --> 01:14:03.734
that getting arrested for driving a stolen lawnmower would be the

01:14:03.734 --> 01:14:05.494
perfect way to cap off their morning.

01:14:05.494 --> 01:14:11.060
<v Sara>I I I I can feel the anxiety from the scene because, like, I feel

01:14:11.060 --> 01:14:14.420
this anxiety anytime there's a police car behind me, even if I'm

01:14:14.420 --> 01:14:17.380
doing nothing wrong. And I'm never doing anything wrong.

01:14:17.380 --> 01:14:20.545
To be fair, I obey the rules of the road.

01:14:20.864 --> 01:14:23.664
But anytime there's a cop car behind me, I'm just like 10 and 2,

01:14:23.664 --> 01:14:24.465
10 and 2.

01:14:24.625 --> 01:14:28.064
Look, look at us and don't let them you just like It's human

01:14:28.064 --> 01:14:28.625
nature.

01:14:30.305 --> 01:14:33.149
Like the the principles behind you, and you know you're in

01:14:33.149 --> 01:14:33.470
trouble.

01:14:33.470 --> 01:14:35.869
And you're just like, make sure they don't have any reason to

01:14:35.869 --> 01:14:36.510
stop you.

01:14:36.750 --> 01:14:39.949
So in this in this case, they are driving a stolen vehicle, so

01:14:39.949 --> 01:14:40.909
it's even worse. Not

01:14:41.390 --> 01:14:43.149
<v Eric>only that, but it's just pouring out smoke.

01:14:45.425 --> 01:14:50.545
I I'm sure Sanford or that California, like a lot of places, has

01:14:50.704 --> 01:14:56.145
laws to address visible smoke and such coming out of vehicles.

01:14:57.185 --> 01:15:00.840
It's actually a sizable offense. Like,

01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:03.800
<v Sara>do you think did they have those laws back in the eighties

01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:04.279
though?

01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:04.760
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:15:04.760 --> 01:15:05.479
<v Sara>Because, like Yeah.

01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:07.880
Seat belts weren't even mandatory at that point. So

01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:12.119
<v Eric>No. But but they they had, I don't know what they called them.

01:15:13.265 --> 01:15:16.704
But, yeah, they they definitely had laws that they could have

01:15:16.704 --> 01:15:21.664
cited them for for excessive smoke and such.

01:15:21.984 --> 01:15:26.465
But very most of the case most of the time, they they didn't.

01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:28.920
They just kinda drove on their way.

01:15:28.920 --> 01:15:33.399
It's kinda like here in Alaska where if you've got 1 element of

01:15:33.399 --> 01:15:35.960
your taillight that's burned out, they'll pull you over.

01:15:36.680 --> 01:15:39.319
But somebody driving down the road at night with all of their

01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:41.774
lights out, yeah, go on. It's okay.

01:15:41.774 --> 01:15:42.654
<v Sara>Not a problem.

01:15:44.095 --> 01:15:45.935
<v Eric>Anyway, let's see.

01:15:45.935 --> 01:15:49.215
Laura counsels Steele to just drive slowly, sure that there's

01:15:49.215 --> 01:15:50.335
nothing to worry about.

01:15:50.734 --> 01:15:54.175
But Steele refuses to be appeased by her advice, retorting, oh,

01:15:54.175 --> 01:15:54.895
nothing to worry about.

01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:58.880
I've been impersonated, assaulted, kidnapped, shot at, murdered.

01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:00.239
It's not even noon yet.

01:16:00.239 --> 01:16:03.039
San Diego's quickly losing its appeal for me.

01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:06.239
<v Sara>I like how he he lists himself as having been murdered.

01:16:08.425 --> 01:16:11.864
<v Eric>Well, optimistically, Laura tells him that at least they have

01:16:11.864 --> 01:16:12.664
something to work with.

01:16:12.664 --> 01:16:15.784
They know that missus Underwood desperately wants some sort of

01:16:15.784 --> 01:16:19.784
package, and they know that she hired him or rather the impostor

01:16:19.784 --> 01:16:23.789
to retrieve it for Steele comments that obviously she never saw

01:16:23.789 --> 01:16:25.149
the fraud face to face.

01:16:25.630 --> 01:16:28.510
Laura speculates that the impostor must have answered the phone

01:16:28.510 --> 01:16:30.590
when she called the bogus office.

01:16:30.590 --> 01:16:33.069
He took the hire but was killed before he could deliver the

01:16:33.069 --> 01:16:33.630
package.

01:16:33.869 --> 01:16:37.355
And the result is that missus Underwood and her enchanting shadow

01:16:37.355 --> 01:16:39.515
believe that he has her package.

01:16:40.074 --> 01:16:43.835
<v Sara>I find it interesting after they're basically abducted by missus

01:16:43.835 --> 01:16:45.755
Underwood's thug Mhmm.

01:16:45.835 --> 01:16:49.275
That that Laura sort of drops the accusation on Steele that he

01:16:49.275 --> 01:16:50.315
had something to do with it.

01:16:50.315 --> 01:16:54.289
Like, after that happens, it's not mentioned again. So it Yeah.

01:16:54.529 --> 01:16:57.729
1 of those things where she sees obviously that there's something

01:16:57.729 --> 01:17:00.449
bigger going on and that this was not some sort of scheme he was

01:17:00.449 --> 01:17:03.649
working, but it it might have been funny just to have a little

01:17:03.649 --> 01:17:05.974
more of that joke throughout the episode.

01:17:05.974 --> 01:17:07.334
<v Eric>It could have been. Yeah.

01:17:07.654 --> 01:17:10.854
Well, anyway, just as Steele is commenting this last part, the

01:17:10.854 --> 01:17:12.534
patrol car pulls up alongside.

01:17:12.534 --> 01:17:15.654
The officer in the front passenger seat is looking at Steele with

01:17:15.654 --> 01:17:19.099
a hard expression, no doubt annoyed at having to have been behind

01:17:19.099 --> 01:17:21.899
a smoking truck as long as they had before they reached a passing

01:17:21.899 --> 01:17:23.340
lane to get around it.

01:17:24.059 --> 01:17:27.420
Steele waves, and the car continues past, leaving them alone,

01:17:27.420 --> 01:17:28.379
trailing smoke.

01:17:28.460 --> 01:17:30.300
<v Sara>He looks so suspicious when he waves.

01:17:30.345 --> 01:17:33.065
It's like, if I were a cop, I would have pulled this guy over for

01:17:33.065 --> 01:17:33.704
that alone.

01:17:33.704 --> 01:17:36.905
Like, there's something on his face that's just not quite right.

01:17:36.905 --> 01:17:37.944
<v Eric>That's right.

01:17:38.824 --> 01:17:41.864
Well, Laura and Steele conclude that the first order of the day

01:17:41.864 --> 01:17:45.289
is to find that package and that their impostor might be able to

01:17:45.289 --> 01:17:46.649
shed some light on the subject.

01:17:46.730 --> 01:17:49.530
Laura adds that they ought to check with Mildred as well.

01:17:50.489 --> 01:17:54.250
Well, Mildred and George are at the post office terminal annex.

01:17:54.329 --> 01:17:58.135
George hands the postage due slip to the clerk who moves off to

01:17:58.135 --> 01:17:59.975
retrieve the associated envelope.

01:18:00.375 --> 01:18:03.734
Mildred scolds George that he can run, but he can't hide.

01:18:03.735 --> 01:18:06.695
And sooner or later, he's gonna have to explain this whole thing

01:18:06.695 --> 01:18:08.375
to mister Steele and miss Holt.

01:18:08.695 --> 01:18:11.930
But George, rarely 1 to let reality get in the way of his

01:18:11.930 --> 01:18:14.969
fantasies, tells Mildred that she isn't understanding what

01:18:14.969 --> 01:18:18.890
they've got here. This could be the clue to Larry's murder.

01:18:18.890 --> 01:18:21.369
And what better way to smooth things over with miss Holt and

01:18:21.369 --> 01:18:24.729
mister Steele than by solving the crime? Old mulch.

01:18:24.975 --> 01:18:31.055
<v Sara>And Mildred sweet little cinnamon roll. I just he is.

01:18:31.055 --> 01:18:32.574
He's a sweet little cinnamon roll.

01:18:32.574 --> 01:18:35.935
He just he thinks everything's just gonna turn out with sunshine

01:18:35.935 --> 01:18:39.295
and roses and unicorns farting rainbows, and that's just not how

01:18:39.295 --> 01:18:40.094
it works.

01:18:40.095 --> 01:18:40.494
<v Eric>Nope.

01:18:41.110 --> 01:18:44.229
Well, Mildred shrugs, seemingly not able to come up with a

01:18:44.229 --> 01:18:46.149
suitable argument to the contrary.

01:18:46.630 --> 01:18:49.190
The clerk comes back and says that the envelope in question is

01:18:49.190 --> 01:18:51.989
addressed to Remington Steele. Is he Steele?

01:18:52.390 --> 01:18:54.630
In the flesh, George says.

01:18:55.784 --> 01:18:58.824
Clerk tells him that there's 22¢ postage due.

01:18:59.625 --> 01:19:02.265
<v Sara>Wouldn't they ask to see some identification?

01:19:02.585 --> 01:19:07.225
Because mail is kind of like a it's if that isn't it like a

01:19:07.225 --> 01:19:08.985
federal offense to take somebody's mail?

01:19:08.985 --> 01:19:09.305
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:19:09.859 --> 01:19:13.779
<v Sara>Wouldn't they wanna just at least see a driver's license or some

01:19:13.779 --> 01:19:14.499
sort of

01:19:15.139 --> 01:19:16.260
<v Eric>Well, no.

01:19:16.260 --> 01:19:20.899
Because typically, at least with packages, that I've picked up

01:19:20.899 --> 01:19:23.779
from the post office in the past, if you got the paper from the

01:19:23.779 --> 01:19:25.465
mailman, they just accept that.

01:19:25.465 --> 01:19:28.744
<v Sara>See, UPS and Purolator, which I realize aren't like the post

01:19:28.744 --> 01:19:31.145
office, they have been downright militant about picking up

01:19:31.145 --> 01:19:33.385
packages whenever I've gone to get my stuff.

01:19:33.385 --> 01:19:36.265
Like, there have been times where they there was 1 time I was

01:19:36.265 --> 01:19:40.989
picking up something, and I don't remember why I had forgotten my

01:19:41.150 --> 01:19:43.949
I didn't have my driver's license or whatever ID it was on me,

01:19:43.949 --> 01:19:47.550
but it was like I had the slip that had my name and I had other

01:19:47.550 --> 01:19:50.270
cards on me that had my name on them, like credit cards.

01:19:50.675 --> 01:19:53.715
They would not give it to me without that piece of government ID.

01:19:53.715 --> 01:19:55.635
And I was like, but you can see, this is me.

01:19:55.635 --> 01:19:56.595
Look at all my cards.

01:19:56.595 --> 01:19:58.515
Like, this is my wallet for crying out loud.

01:19:58.515 --> 01:20:00.034
They would not do it. So

01:20:00.275 --> 01:20:00.595
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:20:00.595 --> 01:20:03.875
I've I've never had a problem picking up a package by just having

01:20:03.875 --> 01:20:07.989
the slip that the mailman left because it's on their form.

01:20:07.989 --> 01:20:11.030
<v Sara>I keep I I always run into these, like, issues with this guy.

01:20:11.030 --> 01:20:11.670
Like, if especially

01:20:11.750 --> 01:20:12.550
<v Eric>It's just you.

01:20:12.550 --> 01:20:16.949
People people see you, and it's like, oh, we we got 1 now. Right?

01:20:16.949 --> 01:20:19.829
<v Sara>Like because it's been not just can like, Canada Post has done

01:20:19.829 --> 01:20:23.034
it. Purolator has done it. UPS has done it.

01:20:23.435 --> 01:20:26.635
And UPS drives me bonkers because I know they're not actually

01:20:26.635 --> 01:20:28.234
attempting to deliver the package.

01:20:28.795 --> 01:20:33.034
A friend of mine had a dashcam, literally outside well, not

01:20:33.034 --> 01:20:33.835
dashcam, like 1 of

01:20:33.835 --> 01:20:34.554
<v Eric>those doorbell

01:20:34.715 --> 01:20:40.350
<v Sara>cameras that saw the UPS guy drive by the house, and then, like,

01:20:40.670 --> 01:20:44.430
they got the email saying, somebody tried to deliver your package

01:20:44.430 --> 01:20:48.189
today. And they were like, no, they didn't. No, they did not.

01:20:48.525 --> 01:20:50.525
<v Eric>I've had that happen too. Oh.

01:20:50.525 --> 01:20:53.965
I think I mentioned before that we had a post office delivery

01:20:53.965 --> 01:20:57.885
that had 2 packages arriving on the same day with the same

01:20:57.885 --> 01:21:02.125
carrier, delivered 1, didn't deliver the other, and they used the

01:21:02.125 --> 01:21:05.199
excuse that the doorway where they were going to leave it was

01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:06.239
inaccessible.

01:21:07.760 --> 01:21:10.159
<v Sara>Meanwhile, you order something from Amazon, you come home, and

01:21:10.159 --> 01:21:13.360
the person is in your living room like here. You know?

01:21:13.360 --> 01:21:14.479
Like, how did you get here?

01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:15.680
<v Eric>Not necessarily.

01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:19.395
I have I have had I think I mentioned this before too.

01:21:19.395 --> 01:21:22.675
I think Amazon drivers, you know, they've got the the old deal in

01:21:22.675 --> 01:21:24.835
in the app where you can follow the driver and

01:21:24.835 --> 01:21:25.475
<v Sara>Right. Shows you

01:21:25.475 --> 01:21:30.195
<v Eric>getting close. And got a package, and it's due it's on the truck.

01:21:30.195 --> 01:21:32.914
It's it's a couple of blocks away, literally a couple blocks

01:21:32.914 --> 01:21:33.155
away.

01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:37.720
Drives right past and then right back down to the depot and calls

01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:38.199
it a night.

01:21:38.199 --> 01:21:40.039
<v Sara>Weird. I I've never had that happen.

01:21:40.039 --> 01:21:42.920
In fact, they are routinely the only ones that can get into our

01:21:42.920 --> 01:21:46.439
building with our building managers being really, really strict

01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:49.625
about who gets in. Anyway Well,

01:21:49.625 --> 01:21:52.904
<v Eric>anyway, the clerk tells George that there's 22¢ postage due.

01:21:53.064 --> 01:21:55.784
Mulch digs into his pocket, pulls out some change, and tosses it

01:21:55.784 --> 01:21:56.425
on the counter.

01:21:56.425 --> 01:21:59.784
But just then, the white haired man who had followed them back

01:21:59.784 --> 01:22:04.199
from the faux office steps behind Mulch, jabs a gun in Mulch's

01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:06.359
back, telling him, you're slippery steel.

01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:08.279
You thought you could pull a fast 1.

01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:13.239
Well, now back up real slowly. You too, he tells Mildred.

01:22:13.560 --> 01:22:17.744
And as they begin backing up, the postal clerk, totally oblivious

01:22:17.904 --> 01:22:18.064
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:22:18.145 --> 01:22:18.864
<v Eric>To what is happening

01:22:18.864 --> 01:22:23.024
<v Sara>right not how is how how does she miss this? How?

01:22:23.024 --> 01:22:24.064
Like, it's not easy.

01:22:24.145 --> 01:22:25.664
<v Eric>Government, and I don't care.

01:22:26.784 --> 01:22:29.024
<v Sara>It's not as if it's hard to hear what the guy's saying.

01:22:29.949 --> 01:22:30.590
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:22:31.069 --> 01:22:33.390
But she's totally oblivious to what's happening right in front of

01:22:33.390 --> 01:22:36.590
her eyes and just simply asks George if he wants his change.

01:22:36.909 --> 01:22:40.510
And George gestures with his head and eyes, futilely trying to

01:22:40.510 --> 01:22:45.474
convey to the woman, we got a problem here. There's a situation.

01:22:45.555 --> 01:22:46.994
Come on. Pay attention.

01:22:47.395 --> 01:22:50.274
Well, he finally gives up, telling her to keep the change.

01:22:50.274 --> 01:22:53.314
And with a nervous giggle, Mildred rushes forward, grabs the

01:22:53.314 --> 01:22:56.755
envelope, stuffs it into her purse, then turns toward the door,

01:22:56.755 --> 01:22:58.194
followed by George and mister Hare.

01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:01.760
Back at the morgue, the technician greets Laura and Steele with

01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:04.479
the comment that they're starting to become regulars around

01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:08.079
there. Laura asks where Mildred is.

01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:11.119
The technician asks for the last name, mistakenly believing that

01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:13.520
they're referring to 1 of the morgue guests.

01:23:14.074 --> 01:23:17.435
And Steele corrects her assumption saying, Laura means the lady

01:23:17.435 --> 01:23:21.034
who wasn't feeling very well, you know, the the woman that we

01:23:21.034 --> 01:23:23.994
left there earlier. Oh, yeah, she says.

01:23:24.074 --> 01:23:25.755
She's come and gone a couple times herself.

01:23:26.460 --> 01:23:28.060
Lauren Steele are confused.

01:23:28.539 --> 01:23:30.860
The technician dismissively tells them, hey. Yeah.

01:23:30.860 --> 01:23:32.060
Whatever turns you on.

01:23:33.500 --> 01:23:36.460
<v Sara>Wow. She must see some stuff. You know?

01:23:36.460 --> 01:23:37.659
Like because here's the thing.

01:23:37.659 --> 01:23:40.539
When Mildred suggests that she she'll just wait there for a

01:23:40.539 --> 01:23:43.064
while. Mhmm. Initially, thought this isn't a library.

01:23:43.064 --> 01:23:45.465
You can't just hang out in the morgue.

01:23:45.465 --> 01:23:46.585
<v Eric>Well, apparently, you can.

01:23:46.585 --> 01:23:49.385
<v Sara>And but apparently, with this comment, I'm wondering how many

01:23:49.385 --> 01:23:51.704
people show up and they're just like, can I see a body?

01:23:51.864 --> 01:23:53.864
How many have you got here? And

01:23:55.789 --> 01:23:57.149
<v Eric>and what is it that

01:23:57.469 --> 01:23:59.469
<v Sara>Yeah. Exactly. Right? Like Yeah.

01:23:59.469 --> 01:24:02.750
We're just what does rigor mortis mean anyway? Gross.

01:24:05.869 --> 01:24:08.109
<v Eric>It's a whole new meaning to the word stiff.

01:24:08.270 --> 01:24:08.989
<v Sara>Yeah. Right?

01:24:12.055 --> 01:24:15.175
I thought I I I I had it bad when I worked at that call center,

01:24:15.175 --> 01:24:17.895
but this this must be a whole new level of weird.

01:24:20.854 --> 01:24:23.094
<v Eric>Just don't leave them unattended with the bodies.

01:24:23.655 --> 01:24:26.630
Asks if they can have another another Steele asked if they could

01:24:26.630 --> 01:24:27.989
have another look at the body.

01:24:28.149 --> 01:24:31.989
Technician dismissively says, you too, Then asks the name.

01:24:31.989 --> 01:24:36.069
Steele says Remington Steele. She tells them, oh, Steele's gone.

01:24:36.069 --> 01:24:40.175
Somebody claimed him. Confused, they ask who? Yeah.

01:24:40.175 --> 01:24:42.814
It was his widow, missus Steele, the technician tells them.

01:24:43.375 --> 01:24:46.734
Steele repeats her identification in stunned confusion.

01:24:47.295 --> 01:24:51.534
Laura crosses her arms and with a slight smirk tells Steele,

01:24:51.630 --> 01:24:54.829
congratulations. Who's the lucky lady?

01:24:54.829 --> 01:24:56.829
<v Sara>I love Laura's attitude in all of this.

01:24:56.829 --> 01:25:00.510
Like, she's not even worried that that he's a target or anything.

01:25:00.510 --> 01:25:03.149
She's congrats. Who is she?

01:25:05.914 --> 01:25:11.435
<v Eric>I mean, it's I mean, you know, at at some point, it's so weird

01:25:11.755 --> 01:25:12.395
that you just

01:25:12.555 --> 01:25:12.795
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:25:12.795 --> 01:25:14.715
<v Eric>You just go in fluff out to her.

01:25:14.715 --> 01:25:17.435
<v Sara>Sure. Whatever. He's dead. Now he's married. Okay.

01:25:19.800 --> 01:25:22.599
<v Eric>Well, next we see Laura and Steele are climbing the gate of the

01:25:22.599 --> 01:25:25.479
estate to missus Underwood's no.

01:25:25.559 --> 01:25:29.719
Climbing the gate at the estate of mister the gate climbing the

01:25:29.719 --> 01:25:31.000
gate to the estate.

01:25:31.079 --> 01:25:33.479
<v Sara>Book here. Climbing the gate at the estate.

01:25:35.944 --> 01:25:36.585
<v Eric>Red 1

01:25:36.585 --> 01:25:38.504
<v Sara>fish, 2 fish, red fish, blue fish.

01:25:39.944 --> 01:25:41.704
<v Eric>I do like green eggs and ham.

01:25:41.784 --> 01:25:42.585
<v Sara>I do like

01:25:42.585 --> 01:25:44.264
<v Eric>I do like them, Sam A. M.

01:25:44.264 --> 01:25:47.944
As they as I'm not even gonna try that sentence again.

01:25:49.270 --> 01:25:52.550
As they're doing so, Steele asks how they can be certain that it

01:25:52.550 --> 01:25:54.469
was Vicki Underwood that claimed the body.

01:25:55.189 --> 01:25:58.869
Laura asks if he knows of anyone else who fits the mortgage

01:25:58.869 --> 01:25:59.909
tenant's description.

01:26:00.550 --> 01:26:03.350
Steele admits that he doesn't, but then amends his statement with

01:26:03.350 --> 01:26:06.145
the disclaimer that, well, you know, he's new in town.

01:26:06.385 --> 01:26:09.985
And as they reach the ground on the inside of the gate, Laura

01:26:09.985 --> 01:26:12.864
admits being puzzled as to why Vicky Underwood would claim the

01:26:12.864 --> 01:26:13.425
body.

01:26:14.385 --> 01:26:17.789
Straightening his tie, Steele complains that he hates it when she

01:26:17.789 --> 01:26:24.909
puts it that way. Yeah. They walk up to the drive.

01:26:25.149 --> 01:26:29.414
I I guess, technically, actually, what she said was claim his

01:26:29.414 --> 01:26:29.814
body.

01:26:29.814 --> 01:26:31.175
<v Sara>Your him your body. Yeah.

01:26:31.175 --> 01:26:33.015
Why why you're never claiming your body?

01:26:33.015 --> 01:26:36.215
And he's like, I don't which,

01:26:37.335 --> 01:26:39.895
<v Eric>yeah, has some implications.

01:26:39.895 --> 01:26:40.614
<v Sara>2 2 yeah.

01:26:40.614 --> 01:26:42.935
I was gonna say it could be taken 1 of 2 ways and neither of

01:26:42.935 --> 01:26:45.699
which is probably something that he wants to think about.

01:26:46.739 --> 01:26:49.300
<v Eric>Well, they walk up to the driveway, they spot a Mercedes sedan

01:26:49.300 --> 01:26:51.460
with obvious signs of damage to the front end.

01:26:51.460 --> 01:26:54.739
Still concludes that Larry's killer is undoubtedly an Underwood,

01:26:54.820 --> 01:26:59.015
which I believe to be an unwarranted conclusion because, first of

01:26:59.015 --> 01:27:03.015
all, that damage doesn't necessarily look like it was from

01:27:03.015 --> 01:27:04.375
running into somebody.

01:27:04.454 --> 01:27:09.655
And second of all, he doesn't know that that damage wasn't there

01:27:09.655 --> 01:27:09.895
before.

01:27:10.470 --> 01:27:13.030
<v Sara>Well and there's also isn't there a gunshot in the grill?

01:27:13.030 --> 01:27:13.670
I don't I mean

01:27:13.829 --> 01:27:14.869
<v Eric>That's what it looks like to me.

01:27:14.869 --> 01:27:17.909
<v Sara>Yeah. When they hit Larry, he didn't shoot at them.

01:27:17.909 --> 01:27:18.470
<v Eric>No. He didn't.

01:27:18.470 --> 01:27:19.829
<v Sara>They just ran him down. So

01:27:20.070 --> 01:27:21.510
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah.

01:27:21.909 --> 01:27:25.204
And I would have expected it to be a little bit different style

01:27:25.204 --> 01:27:26.885
damage than what they see. But anyway

01:27:27.204 --> 01:27:30.324
<v Sara>And, also, if you had run somebody over with your car, wouldn't

01:27:30.324 --> 01:27:33.364
you get that car fixed rather than just leave it sitting in your

01:27:33.364 --> 01:27:34.084
driveway?

01:27:34.724 --> 01:27:36.324
<v Eric>Probably. Yeah. Yeah.

01:27:37.045 --> 01:27:41.119
You'd find some little out of the way shop, shady operator.

01:27:41.119 --> 01:27:42.560
<v Sara>Yeah. That doesn't ask questions.

01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:43.359
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:47.920
Well, from inside of the house, suddenly comes the sound of a

01:27:47.920 --> 01:27:50.640
violent confrontation, including the sounds of items being

01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:51.439
smashed.

01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:55.284
Steele and Laura move toward a window where they peek in, and

01:27:55.284 --> 01:27:58.164
they see Vicky and her mother down in the main room below them.

01:27:58.965 --> 01:28:02.804
Vicky is yelling, crying at her mother, accusing her of having

01:28:02.804 --> 01:28:05.284
always hated her, and calling her an old hag.

01:28:05.284 --> 01:28:09.659
And in response, the mother hauls off and slaps her, causing

01:28:09.659 --> 01:28:13.899
Vicky to turn and run off. Trouble in paradise, Steele observes.

01:28:14.140 --> 01:28:17.659
But before they can discuss the matter further, surfer dude comes

01:28:17.659 --> 01:28:21.100
out of the house carrying what appears to be a body.

01:28:21.484 --> 01:28:21.804
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:28:21.804 --> 01:28:23.965
They're apparently not worried about anybody noticing them

01:28:23.965 --> 01:28:26.045
because he's just, like, walking around in broad daylight with

01:28:26.045 --> 01:28:26.684
this thing.

01:28:26.925 --> 01:28:29.085
<v Eric>Well, they're inside a gated estate. Sure.

01:28:29.085 --> 01:28:31.965
You know, high walls, bushes all around.

01:28:31.965 --> 01:28:33.244
So, yeah, nobody's gonna see.

01:28:33.244 --> 01:28:35.300
<v Sara>Yeah. But they've got staff. Right?

01:28:35.539 --> 01:28:37.779
Like, oh, there he is with another body.

01:28:38.180 --> 01:28:39.619
<v Eric>Yeah. Really? You know?

01:28:40.500 --> 01:28:43.779
Well, it's wrapped in heavy black plastic, and it's tied with

01:28:43.779 --> 01:28:44.340
ropes.

01:28:44.340 --> 01:28:48.465
He carries it to the trunk of the Mercedes, dumps it in, and then

01:28:48.465 --> 01:28:50.305
closes the trunk lid and drives off.

01:28:51.104 --> 01:28:52.784
I think we found Wilson's body.

01:28:54.305 --> 01:28:56.704
Laura and Steele come out from behind the bushes where they've

01:28:56.704 --> 01:29:00.225
ducked to hide from surfer dude, and they begin to race down the

01:29:00.225 --> 01:29:03.529
driveway toward the gate, which having opened to let surfer dude

01:29:03.529 --> 01:29:05.129
out is now closing.

01:29:05.609 --> 01:29:08.729
The gate closes just as they get there, so Laura starts to climb

01:29:08.729 --> 01:29:09.209
it.

01:29:09.369 --> 01:29:12.250
Steele runs back up the drive a short distance and stomps on the

01:29:12.250 --> 01:29:14.649
sensor pad to activate the gate opening function.

01:29:15.685 --> 01:29:18.484
Just as Laura reaches the top of the gate, Steele's efforts are

01:29:18.484 --> 01:29:20.564
rewarded as the gate begins to open.

01:29:20.725 --> 01:29:23.604
Steele runs back to the gate and through it, hollering to Laura

01:29:23.604 --> 01:29:26.644
not to dawdle. They don't wanna lose their quarry.

01:29:26.965 --> 01:29:29.920
<v Sara>And then he laughs. This is a hilarious visual gag.

01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:32.719
This is probably 1 of my favorite visual gags of the entire

01:29:32.719 --> 01:29:37.039
series just simply because it's so like, the look on Laura's face

01:29:37.039 --> 01:29:37.679
as she claims

01:29:37.679 --> 01:29:39.039
<v Eric>that she's right in the top of

01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:39.760
<v Sara>the gate.

01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:44.079
The look on his face as he gleefully runs through, like, don't

01:29:43.395 --> 01:29:45.875
don't Donald us all. We don't wanna lose our quarry.

01:29:46.515 --> 01:29:48.274
Like, he's having a great time.

01:29:48.435 --> 01:29:51.395
<v Eric>Yeah. I I I do have a problem with this, though.

01:29:51.555 --> 01:29:54.914
It wouldn't happen that way. These kids are usually

01:29:55.074 --> 01:29:56.034
<v Sara>these gates.

01:29:56.034 --> 01:30:00.090
<v Eric>So Well, there's there's 2 types of systems.

01:30:00.090 --> 01:30:03.770
1 is loop detector, which is the most common type and works by

01:30:03.770 --> 01:30:07.050
detecting the change in a magnetic field caused by a car's metal

01:30:07.050 --> 01:30:10.890
chassis, which is a problem for motorcycles, which is why many

01:30:10.890 --> 01:30:14.445
states in The US have what are called dead light laws, where a

01:30:14.445 --> 01:30:17.965
motorcycle pulls up to an intersection, it doesn't get sensed by

01:30:17.965 --> 01:30:22.445
the sensors under the the driveway, and it will not give them a

01:30:22.445 --> 01:30:23.164
green light.

01:30:23.164 --> 01:30:29.420
And so after so long, the motorcycle rider has the legal right to

01:30:29.420 --> 01:30:31.020
proceed on through a red light.

01:30:31.020 --> 01:30:34.300
The other system is pressure mats, which work by detecting the

01:30:34.300 --> 01:30:36.939
change in weight on a specific area of the ground opening the

01:30:36.939 --> 01:30:39.819
gate once a certain pressure limit is reached.

01:30:40.060 --> 01:30:44.395
I couldn't find any specifics, but since the systems are intended

01:30:44.395 --> 01:30:45.755
for automobiles

01:30:46.074 --> 01:30:47.114
<v Sara>Yeah. You wouldn't think he'd

01:30:47.114 --> 01:30:48.635
<v Eric>be able to do it. Just Yeah.

01:30:48.635 --> 01:30:52.954
They would be designed to allow the system to ignore lesser

01:30:52.954 --> 01:30:55.675
weights for both security and practicality reasons.

01:30:56.270 --> 01:30:59.149
So I doubt that stomping on a on a something like that would

01:30:59.149 --> 01:30:59.630
activate it.

01:30:59.630 --> 01:31:03.789
<v Sara>To be fair, those sensors don't always like, you know how in your

01:31:03.789 --> 01:31:08.029
in your car when you get in and, like, there's weight put down on

01:31:08.029 --> 01:31:11.024
the seat and that signals that there's somebody sitting there, so

01:31:11.024 --> 01:31:12.304
it starts beeping.

01:31:12.385 --> 01:31:16.864
If the seatbelt's not on, I have to have if I'm driving alone in

01:31:16.864 --> 01:31:20.145
my car and there's nobody in the passenger seat, I have to have

01:31:20.145 --> 01:31:22.625
my seatbelt buckled for that seat at all times.

01:31:22.625 --> 01:31:27.039
Because if I even put my phone or my purse on the seat, it will

01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:29.680
register that as a person, and it'll be like, beep, beep, beep.

01:31:29.680 --> 01:31:32.319
And it's annoying as hell because I'm like, that's not a person.

01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:33.680
There's nobody sitting there.

01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:36.880
<v Eric>Yeah. That's because the the sensitivity on those is set so low.

01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:37.840
<v Sara>It's too sensitive. Yeah.

01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:40.534
So maybe it's a low sensitivity thing, and that's why he's able

01:31:40.534 --> 01:31:41.255
to do it.

01:31:42.055 --> 01:31:44.454
<v Eric>I've seen those things before, and I've tried it.

01:31:44.454 --> 01:31:48.454
I'm not ashamed to admit it, but it it it it didn't work for me.

01:31:48.454 --> 01:31:49.335
Anyway Don't

01:31:50.055 --> 01:31:51.175
<v Sara>ruin this for me.

01:31:52.375 --> 01:31:55.199
<v Eric>I know. But the gag of writing that

01:31:54.960 --> 01:31:55.520
<v Sara>Oh, it's so

01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:57.520
<v Eric>funny. Back and forth is is good.

01:31:58.000 --> 01:32:02.079
Next, we are at a local TV station, channel 53, and we see a

01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:05.119
signboard on the side of the building that reads, reverend Randy

01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:10.864
Rawlinson. Praises the lord. Friday, 3 to 6PM, Saturday, noon.

01:32:10.944 --> 01:32:12.545
Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

01:32:12.545 --> 01:32:17.104
Inside, the reverend Randy Rawlinson is standing at a podium that

01:32:17.104 --> 01:32:21.119
seems to be in a room that more closely resembles a mortuary,

01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:22.000
quite frankly. He

01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:24.399
<v Sara>does, actually. That's what I thought too. I'm like, With

01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:28.640
<v Eric>the podium resembling the coffin and the flowers behind it on

01:32:28.640 --> 01:32:30.960
either side and the curtain beyond that, you know, with the light

01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:32.319
glowing from behind the curtain.

01:32:33.215 --> 01:32:37.295
Anyway, the reverend Randy Rawlinson is preaching a typical

01:32:37.295 --> 01:32:42.255
sermon that 1 hears in a TV show, which features a preacher that

01:32:42.255 --> 01:32:46.014
is being portrayed as being disreputable, full of inane,

01:32:46.014 --> 01:32:49.050
meaningless prattle, spoken by an idiot, full of sound and fury

01:32:49.050 --> 01:32:52.570
and signifying nothing, and, of course, ending with a plea for

01:32:52.570 --> 01:32:53.130
money.

01:32:53.610 --> 01:32:56.810
Well, as the reverend Randy Rollinson is preaching, Mildred and

01:32:56.810 --> 01:32:59.770
Mulch step into the back of the studio, mister Hare behind them.

01:33:00.404 --> 01:33:03.925
As they stand just inside the door to the studio, Mildred and

01:33:03.925 --> 01:33:05.684
Mulch look at each other in confusion.

01:33:06.244 --> 01:33:09.124
Why is a TV preacher having them kidnapped at gunpoint?

01:33:09.925 --> 01:33:13.204
Well, the reverend Randy Rollinson signals to mister Hare to

01:33:13.204 --> 01:33:14.645
bring Mildred and Mulch on in.

01:33:15.210 --> 01:33:19.210
Mister Hare directs the 2 across the back behind the assembled

01:33:19.210 --> 01:33:21.449
studio audience and into a dressing room.

01:33:21.770 --> 01:33:23.609
There are men inside relaxing.

01:33:23.930 --> 01:33:27.210
2 of them are obviously the reverend Randy Rollinson's makeup

01:33:27.210 --> 01:33:31.204
artists, and 1 appears to be 1 of the reverend Randy Rollinson's

01:33:31.204 --> 01:33:36.085
staff. Mister Hare tells the 2 makeup artists to take 5 brothers.

01:33:36.564 --> 01:33:39.845
After they leave, mister Hare steps up to the last man standing

01:33:39.845 --> 01:33:42.965
and tells him, don't let anyone in unless I tell you.

01:33:43.609 --> 01:33:46.970
The third man leaves, and mister Harris steps over to mulch and

01:33:46.970 --> 01:33:50.090
warns him, when I return with the reverend, you had better come

01:33:50.090 --> 01:33:53.529
up with some answers or you better say your prayers, Steele.

01:33:53.930 --> 01:33:54.649
As mister Harris

01:33:54.729 --> 01:33:56.675
<v Sara>sounds like a man of god. Like

01:33:56.835 --> 01:33:57.395
<v Eric>Oh, yes.

01:33:57.395 --> 01:34:02.835
As mister Hare turns to leave, Walsh begins to explain, you don't

01:34:02.835 --> 01:34:04.434
understand. I'm not.

01:34:04.435 --> 01:34:06.914
But instead of finishing, he lets out a yelp.

01:34:07.314 --> 01:34:09.314
Mildred has kicked him. Yep.

01:34:09.699 --> 01:34:11.859
Mulch demands to know what she's doing.

01:34:11.939 --> 01:34:15.619
Saving our hides, she tells him. Mulch doesn't get it.

01:34:15.619 --> 01:34:18.659
He calls Meldred crazy telling her that that man wants to kill

01:34:18.659 --> 01:34:20.899
him because he thinks that he's steel.

01:34:21.539 --> 01:34:25.694
And it's as if she's he thinks she's too stupid to figure it out.

01:34:25.774 --> 01:34:26.094
Yeah.

01:34:26.094 --> 01:34:29.054
Mops continues telling her that if she'd only let him explain,

01:34:29.135 --> 01:34:29.614
and Melvin

01:34:29.614 --> 01:34:32.414
<v Sara>finishes for it. Gonna just be like, yeah. Go ahead. Oh, sorry.

01:34:32.414 --> 01:34:34.734
Our bad. You can leave now. That's

01:34:34.859 --> 01:34:37.659
<v Eric>Well, that's what Meldner basically says is that Yeah. Yeah.

01:34:37.659 --> 01:34:40.859
If if he had explained, they would have had their heads blown off

01:34:40.859 --> 01:34:43.979
because the only reason he hasn't bumped them off yet is because

01:34:43.979 --> 01:34:45.420
he thinks Maltz is steel.

01:34:45.659 --> 01:34:48.145
If he wanted them out of the picture, he would have done it by

01:34:48.145 --> 01:34:49.824
now. He wants something from steel.

01:34:49.824 --> 01:34:53.024
And Merrill Lynch says that she would hate to disappoint the man.

01:34:53.024 --> 01:34:54.704
He seems a little bit edgy.

01:34:54.945 --> 01:34:55.425
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:34:55.425 --> 01:34:58.704
<v Eric>And it takes a moment, but Mulch finally gets it.

01:34:59.510 --> 01:35:03.189
And he isn't happy, rhetorically asking how he gets into these

01:35:03.189 --> 01:35:06.789
situations. After all, all he ever wanted was fame and fortune.

01:35:06.789 --> 01:35:08.630
Was that too much to ask?

01:35:09.030 --> 01:35:10.150
<v Sara>Kind of. Yeah.

01:35:10.150 --> 01:35:13.270
Usually, for most people, it is because most people don't get

01:35:13.270 --> 01:35:14.229
fame and fortune.

01:35:14.229 --> 01:35:18.104
It's the that 3% of the population that actually achieve it.

01:35:18.104 --> 01:35:21.145
But for Maltz, it's 1 of those things where he wants the fame and

01:35:21.145 --> 01:35:24.265
fortune, but he doesn't wants it to come.

01:35:24.425 --> 01:35:26.824
He wants it to come like, like, get rich quick.

01:35:26.824 --> 01:35:29.279
Like, I have a great idea and boom, I'm gonna be rich.

01:35:29.279 --> 01:35:30.000
Whereas Mhmm.

01:35:30.079 --> 01:35:34.880
If he took a bit more time with these ideas, well, it might pan

01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:36.239
out. You know? You know?

01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:40.960
<v Eric>If he if he put as much energy into actually doing the work with

01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:45.574
his ideas as he does in trying to to schmooze people and and get

01:35:45.574 --> 01:35:47.655
them to buy into his ideas, he

01:35:47.655 --> 01:35:47.815
<v Sara>would

01:35:47.815 --> 01:35:48.534
<v Eric>succeed.

01:35:49.255 --> 01:35:51.494
Maybe not to the level he wants to, but he would succeed.

01:35:51.494 --> 01:35:54.935
And, you know, like a lot of people, they see, oh, this person's

01:35:54.935 --> 01:35:56.689
an overnight success. Yeah.

01:35:56.689 --> 01:36:00.929
They don't see the 10, 15, 20 years of work that went into it

01:36:00.929 --> 01:36:03.409
beforehand. It's just yeah.

01:36:03.649 --> 01:36:03.969
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:36:03.969 --> 01:36:06.770
I I read somewhere, and you might know who this artist is, but

01:36:06.770 --> 01:36:09.409
the singer, Jewel, she's,

01:36:09.965 --> 01:36:11.885
<v Eric>I know the name. She's from Alaska.

01:36:11.885 --> 01:36:14.444
<v Sara>Yeah. I was gonna say that's why she's from Alaska.

01:36:14.444 --> 01:36:18.765
I read somewhere that she like, she was big in the nineties.

01:36:19.005 --> 01:36:20.444
She's not really so much

01:36:20.604 --> 01:36:21.164
<v Eric>Mhmm.

01:36:21.244 --> 01:36:23.885
<v Sara>You know, now, but I read somewhere like, she just sort of popped

01:36:23.885 --> 01:36:25.244
up out of nowhere, so it seemed.

01:36:25.860 --> 01:36:30.979
But I had read that she the art the album that she went her debut

01:36:30.979 --> 01:36:34.340
album that she, like, sold so many albums with, like Pieces of

01:36:34.340 --> 01:36:35.380
You, I think it was called.

01:36:35.619 --> 01:36:39.255
Prior to that, she was living in her car, like Mhmm.

01:36:39.255 --> 01:36:41.494
Hustling, trying to get her music out there.

01:36:41.494 --> 01:36:44.375
And then eventually, it did. It paid off.

01:36:44.375 --> 01:36:48.055
But like it it took, from what I remember reading somewhere, like

01:36:48.055 --> 01:36:49.414
years for that to happen.

01:36:49.414 --> 01:36:52.430
So, yeah, you don't just, I mean, yeah, some people blow up

01:36:52.430 --> 01:36:54.989
overnight, but it's very, very, very rare.

01:36:55.070 --> 01:37:03.630
<v Eric>Well, but they blow up overnight after a long period of work at

01:37:03.135 --> 01:37:06.494
their craft in some some manner, whether it's Yeah.

01:37:06.574 --> 01:37:11.294
Going to acting school or working in community theaters or or,

01:37:11.375 --> 01:37:15.614
you know, performing gigs at bars and and clubs that get 20

01:37:15.614 --> 01:37:20.289
people a night in there, and they get $50 to split between 6

01:37:20.289 --> 01:37:22.210
members of the band or whatever. You know?

01:37:22.210 --> 01:37:27.489
It's there's there's a lot you look at anybody who's an overnight

01:37:27.489 --> 01:37:30.690
success, and you're gonna find a lot of hard work that went into

01:37:30.690 --> 01:37:33.489
their career before they blew up overnight.

01:37:34.015 --> 01:37:36.095
<v Sara>Listen to that, Mulch. Listen to that.

01:37:36.095 --> 01:37:36.654
<v Eric>Yes.

01:37:37.614 --> 01:37:40.895
Anyway, after Mulch complains that all he ever wanted was fame

01:37:40.895 --> 01:37:44.414
and fortune, Mildred goes over to him trying to encourage him,

01:37:45.295 --> 01:37:48.175
reminding him that he was the 1 who said that they were gonna

01:37:48.175 --> 01:37:51.650
solve this problem themselves. Yeah.

01:37:51.650 --> 01:37:54.289
Maltz says, but that was before there were guns involved.

01:37:56.050 --> 01:38:00.210
And suddenly, Mildred has an idea, or rather she borrows 1 of

01:38:00.210 --> 01:38:01.650
Laura's ideas. Yep.

01:38:01.650 --> 01:38:04.210
If this man wants to think that Maltz is Remington Steele, then

01:38:04.210 --> 01:38:06.554
by God, he's gonna be Remington Steele.

01:38:06.795 --> 01:38:10.395
All Mulch has to do is look good, take the bows, but let Mildred

01:38:10.395 --> 01:38:15.114
do all the work. He functions best in an advisory capacity.

01:38:15.515 --> 01:38:17.114
You got that, mister Steele.

01:38:17.850 --> 01:38:21.930
And Mulch initially protests, and it takes a few minutes for him

01:38:21.930 --> 01:38:22.729
to get on board.

01:38:22.729 --> 01:38:27.530
But when he does, he raises his hands, staples the tips of his

01:38:27.530 --> 01:38:30.649
fingers together, scrunches his face, causing him to look a bit

01:38:30.649 --> 01:38:33.225
more like mister Bean in pain than himself.

01:38:33.225 --> 01:38:34.904
<v Sara>Yeah. He does look like mister Bean.

01:38:34.984 --> 01:38:39.784
<v Eric>And in a terrible English accent says, absolutely, miss Holt,

01:38:40.824 --> 01:38:42.505
which I find this is a great twist.

01:38:42.505 --> 01:38:42.824
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:38:42.824 --> 01:38:44.664
<v Eric>This is serious premise.

01:38:45.145 --> 01:38:45.944
<v Sara>It's funny.

01:38:45.944 --> 01:38:50.270
It is funny to watch Mildred pretend to be Laura and Mulch

01:38:50.270 --> 01:38:52.030
pretend to be Steele. I'm like

01:38:52.270 --> 01:38:52.909
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:38:53.710 --> 01:38:57.710
But, yeah, I mean, it takes the entire series premise and and

01:38:57.710 --> 01:38:58.829
reframes it.

01:38:58.909 --> 01:38:59.869
<v Sara>Oh, for sure. Yeah.

01:39:00.694 --> 01:39:04.375
<v Eric>Next, we are in a wooded area where we see Laura and Steele in

01:39:04.375 --> 01:39:05.494
their stolen truck.

01:39:05.494 --> 01:39:09.734
Steele is steepening the tips of his fingers together in the same

01:39:09.734 --> 01:39:13.255
way that Maltz just did as they sit watching surfer dudes

01:39:13.255 --> 01:39:17.430
struggle to pull the wrapped body or whatever it is out of the

01:39:17.430 --> 01:39:18.550
trunk of the Mercedes.

01:39:18.869 --> 01:39:22.390
He finally gets it out and tosses it into the woods with a loud

01:39:22.390 --> 01:39:23.109
grunt.

01:39:23.510 --> 01:39:26.869
Laura comments that this murder is turning into a family affair.

01:39:27.350 --> 01:39:30.069
Steele comments that kinda makes you feel warm all over.

01:39:30.734 --> 01:39:35.454
<v Sara>Yeah. I mean Not really.

01:39:35.454 --> 01:39:37.614
<v Eric>The the family that kills together stays together, I guess.

01:39:37.614 --> 01:39:38.574
<v Sara>Yeah. Exactly.

01:39:39.135 --> 01:39:42.094
<v Eric>As surfer dude drives off, Laura and Steele run to the spot where

01:39:42.094 --> 01:39:44.175
he disposed of his apparent victim.

01:39:44.335 --> 01:39:47.569
As they climb down the embankment, they see an arm sticking out

01:39:47.569 --> 01:39:50.770
of the wrap, leading Steele to remark, I'd recognize Remington

01:39:50.770 --> 01:39:52.129
Steele's arm anywhere.

01:39:53.090 --> 01:39:55.889
Laura turns and starts back up the hill prompting Steele to ask

01:39:55.889 --> 01:39:59.454
where she's going. Well, to get the rabbit. For what?

01:39:59.454 --> 01:40:02.335
So you could bring the body back up the ravine, and we can return

01:40:02.335 --> 01:40:06.414
it to its rightful murderer. Then we can bring the police in

01:40:06.414 --> 01:40:09.695
<v Sara>on this. I like that return it to its rightful murderer.

01:40:10.869 --> 01:40:13.029
<v Eric>Laura departs, leaving Steele with Larry.

01:40:13.029 --> 01:40:15.989
He grabs Larry's arm and begins to try to drag him up the side of

01:40:15.989 --> 01:40:16.869
the ravine.

01:40:17.510 --> 01:40:22.229
Back at the TV studio, the reverend Randy Rawlinson, victims,

01:40:22.229 --> 01:40:27.284
shills, and such are singing as as the reverend Randy Rawlinson

01:40:27.284 --> 01:40:30.564
walks off the platform accompanied by mister Hare, and they head

01:40:30.564 --> 01:40:31.685
towards the dressing room.

01:40:31.685 --> 01:40:33.284
<v Sara>This is funny for 2 reasons.

01:40:33.284 --> 01:40:37.600
1, what you said about him and, like, the the gibberish that he

01:40:37.600 --> 01:40:40.399
speaks is basically what I like to call word salad. You know?

01:40:40.399 --> 01:40:43.520
It sounds good, but when you think about it, it means nothing.

01:40:43.920 --> 01:40:45.760
<v Eric>It's a lot of words that say nothing. Yes.

01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:48.479
<v Sara>But this song okay. He's got the whole word in his hands.

01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:49.840
Lovely song. Religious song.

01:40:50.045 --> 01:40:53.164
The only time I ever see it used in movies is when it's being

01:40:53.164 --> 01:40:54.604
used for, like, evil.

01:40:54.925 --> 01:40:57.885
Because this episode, you see, they're all singing that, and the

01:40:57.885 --> 01:40:59.724
reverend is is obviously a shill.

01:40:59.724 --> 01:41:01.965
Like, he's, you know, he's a con man.

01:41:01.965 --> 01:41:03.404
<v Eric>He's a con man. And yeah.

01:41:03.404 --> 01:41:03.645
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:41:03.869 --> 01:41:08.270
If you've ever seen the movie Con Air with Nicholas Cage, he

01:41:08.270 --> 01:41:14.189
plays a he's a basically a vet who is discharged from military,

01:41:14.189 --> 01:41:18.444
comes home to see his his his wife, and he's attacked outside a

01:41:18.444 --> 01:41:21.965
bar and he uses his military training and and kills a guy and

01:41:21.965 --> 01:41:22.925
gets sent to jail.

01:41:22.925 --> 01:41:25.244
And they basically determine that because he was considered a

01:41:25.244 --> 01:41:27.564
lethal weapon, he gets a harsher sentence, blah blah blah.

01:41:27.564 --> 01:41:30.364
So the plot of the movie is that he's finally done his time and

01:41:30.364 --> 01:41:33.789
he's getting out, but he's being transferred home on a plane that

01:41:33.789 --> 01:41:36.190
also includes all these like really hardened criminals, like

01:41:36.190 --> 01:41:37.630
really, really serious people.

01:41:37.630 --> 01:41:40.350
And 1 of them is played by Steve Buscemi, who is basically a

01:41:40.350 --> 01:41:43.550
cannibal. And they put him on there. Yeah.

01:41:43.550 --> 01:41:47.284
And like at 1 point, the plot of the film is that the criminals

01:41:47.284 --> 01:41:48.965
end up hijacking the plane.

01:41:49.444 --> 01:41:52.484
And Nicolas Cage has got to do a diehard and try to like bring

01:41:52.484 --> 01:41:55.204
the plane down and save them because he's trying to get home to

01:41:55.204 --> 01:41:55.764
his kid.

01:41:56.085 --> 01:41:59.960
And at 1 point, the plane gets like, lands and they they switch

01:41:59.960 --> 01:42:02.840
planes and they take off, but they leave Bussemi's cannibal

01:42:02.840 --> 01:42:05.079
character, like, in this junkyard.

01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:08.039
And he's sitting there singing to himself, he's got the whole

01:42:08.039 --> 01:42:12.119
world in his and it's just like so every time I see this in a

01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:15.595
movie or a TV show, I'm like, this song is now creepy to me, not

01:42:15.595 --> 01:42:18.235
because it's a bad song, but because it keeps getting used in

01:42:18.235 --> 01:42:21.914
these situations where I'm just like, ee, that's not the that's

01:42:21.914 --> 01:42:23.835
not what that song is supposed to be about.

01:42:24.074 --> 01:42:29.329
But, yeah, it's this whole setup is and we were talking about

01:42:29.329 --> 01:42:33.969
this reminiscent of like those those television, like, people

01:42:33.969 --> 01:42:36.849
that get on TV and they basically just milk you for your money.

01:42:36.929 --> 01:42:40.194
Mhmm. And they're not actual holy people at all.

01:42:40.194 --> 01:42:43.795
They're not in many cases, it's just it's it's a con.

01:42:43.795 --> 01:42:45.954
<v Eric>And They're they're Yeah.

01:42:45.954 --> 01:42:50.114
Scam artists, pure and simple, and they found a way to do it that

01:42:50.114 --> 01:42:53.795
limits the amount of scrutiny that they are subjected to because

01:42:53.880 --> 01:43:00.279
as a preacher, a man of the cloth, you know, they they it's it's

01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:03.880
easier to sucker people, and and the government is a little more

01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:07.800
lenient typically, although these days maybe not so much Yeah.

01:43:07.800 --> 01:43:12.554
In terms of they they're given a lot more leeway in what they

01:43:12.554 --> 01:43:14.875
spend their money on if as long as they can come up with a good

01:43:14.875 --> 01:43:15.354
story.

01:43:15.675 --> 01:43:16.635
<v Sara>Yeah. Pretty much.

01:43:16.635 --> 01:43:20.154
<v Eric>But, anyway, the inside the dressing room, the reverend Randy

01:43:20.154 --> 01:43:23.835
Rawlinson stomps over to Mulch, who's still seated, and angrily

01:43:23.835 --> 01:43:27.649
tells Steele he doesn't have the time or the patience to play

01:43:27.649 --> 01:43:30.369
games with him demanding to know where the package is.

01:43:31.010 --> 01:43:35.409
And Mulch nervously stutters the package.

01:43:36.210 --> 01:43:39.889
And Mildred steps in telling Mulch, I see calm, mister Steele.

01:43:39.890 --> 01:43:42.494
I see calm. Who are you?

01:43:42.494 --> 01:43:45.454
The reverend Randy Rawlinson demands of Mildred.

01:43:45.775 --> 01:43:48.494
I'm Laura Holt, mister Steele's associate, she tells him,

01:43:48.494 --> 01:43:51.215
explaining that she handles most of the nuts and bolts while

01:43:51.215 --> 01:43:54.494
mister Steele functions best in an advisory capacity.

01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:57.399
Mulch nervously nods in agreement.

01:43:58.280 --> 01:44:01.479
And in keeping with the tradition of miss Holt being largely

01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:05.159
ignored, the reverend Randy Rollinson pays Mildred no more

01:44:05.159 --> 01:44:05.720
attention as

01:44:05.720 --> 01:44:07.399
<v Sara>he right over her. Yep.

01:44:07.960 --> 01:44:11.994
<v Eric>As he angrily reminds Steele that missus Underwood hired him to

01:44:11.994 --> 01:44:15.994
handle the simple task of delivering a package from himself to

01:44:15.994 --> 01:44:16.474
her.

01:44:16.715 --> 01:44:21.034
Now until she receives that package, his church cannot reap its

01:44:21.034 --> 01:44:22.074
just rewards.

01:44:22.600 --> 01:44:26.279
Repent your sin, my children, before brother Nick here banishes

01:44:26.279 --> 01:44:27.639
you both to eternity.

01:44:27.719 --> 01:44:28.840
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:44:28.840 --> 01:44:33.560
That sounds real, real, loving and kind and all the stuff that

01:44:33.560 --> 01:44:35.494
you're supposed to be representing.

01:44:36.135 --> 01:44:38.614
<v Eric>Mister Hare steps forward with an amen.

01:44:39.895 --> 01:44:43.335
Mildred asks what exactly is the package he's referring to.

01:44:43.895 --> 01:44:49.734
Mister Hare shoves his gun into Malch's side, prompting Malch to

01:44:49.734 --> 01:44:54.479
exclaim, oh, that package. I remember now. Don't you, miss Holt?

01:44:54.960 --> 01:44:57.920
And Mildred, having no option but to play along, agrees that,

01:44:57.920 --> 01:44:59.600
yes, she remembers the package.

01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:01.679
After all, who could forget that package?

01:45:01.679 --> 01:45:02.319
<v Sara>That package.

01:45:04.244 --> 01:45:07.204
<v Eric>The third man steps into the room and tells the reverend Randy

01:45:07.204 --> 01:45:09.045
Rollinson, 30 seconds.

01:45:09.764 --> 01:45:13.204
The reverend Randy Rollinson stares hard at Mulch demanding to

01:45:13.204 --> 01:45:14.724
know where is it.

01:45:15.125 --> 01:45:18.804
Mulch nervously begins telling the reverend Randy Rollinson that

01:45:19.289 --> 01:45:24.010
ordinarily, he functions in a advisory capacity, but he thinks he

01:45:24.010 --> 01:45:25.929
could make an exception in your case.

01:45:26.890 --> 01:45:30.250
Mildred gently places her hand on his shoulders, her signal to

01:45:30.250 --> 01:45:32.175
him to shut up. Yep.

01:45:32.175 --> 01:45:35.935
Then she tells the reverend Randy Rawlinson to give them an hour,

01:45:36.175 --> 01:45:37.215
2 tops.

01:45:37.295 --> 01:45:40.895
And she can assure him without a doubt that he will have what

01:45:40.895 --> 01:45:45.774
he's looking for, or my name isn't dribbling and steel mulch ads.

01:45:46.739 --> 01:45:51.539
And so so much of this it's it's callbacks to previous episodes.

01:45:51.539 --> 01:45:52.500
<v Sara>It it is. It is.

01:45:52.500 --> 01:45:55.699
It's really funny because how many times has Steele actually said

01:45:55.699 --> 01:45:59.595
that only to have Laura tell him your name isn't Irving Pesterl.

01:45:59.595 --> 01:46:01.354
<v Eric>And the icy calm.

01:46:01.354 --> 01:46:01.755
<v Sara>Icy calm.

01:46:01.755 --> 01:46:05.994
The the this with the fingers and just, like, the whole I

01:46:05.994 --> 01:46:09.354
function best in advisory. It's great. It's really great.

01:46:09.835 --> 01:46:13.595
<v Eric>Well, the reverend Randy Rollinson tells them, may the lord be

01:46:13.595 --> 01:46:17.789
with you. And he pauses and then adds, as well as brother Nicky.

01:46:18.670 --> 01:46:21.949
And Meldrin and Maltz had their own amen as the reverend Randy

01:46:21.949 --> 01:46:23.389
Rawlinson leaves.

01:46:24.270 --> 01:46:27.869
Back out into the studio, the reverend Randy Rawlinson tells his

01:46:27.869 --> 01:46:30.465
victims in chills, come up, brothers and sisters.

01:46:30.465 --> 01:46:32.545
Come up and let the Lord see us together.

01:46:32.784 --> 01:46:36.225
<v Sara>So I was gonna tell that story that I I told you that I had to go

01:46:36.225 --> 01:46:37.345
to 1 of these once. Mhmm.

01:46:37.345 --> 01:46:40.145
And my grandfather was unfortunately the kind of person who would

01:46:40.145 --> 01:46:44.449
be taken in by this sort of, like, spectacle without Mhmm.

01:46:44.530 --> 01:46:46.369
Actual religious substance to it.

01:46:46.369 --> 01:46:51.010
And he took me on this trip to a small town further north in

01:46:51.010 --> 01:46:54.449
Ontario, and I didn't really know why we were going, but he was,

01:46:54.449 --> 01:46:56.130
you know, my grandfather, so I went with him.

01:46:56.130 --> 01:46:56.289
<v Eric>Mhmm.

01:46:56.585 --> 01:46:59.064
<v Sara>And we went to this televised service.

01:46:59.064 --> 01:47:02.425
And this was in it was in a room that was very similar to this 1.

01:47:02.824 --> 01:47:07.465
And the reverend was calling people up to be healed, claiming to

01:47:07.465 --> 01:47:10.770
be a healer. And I am a severe asthmatic.

01:47:10.770 --> 01:47:12.369
I've been a severe asthmatic all my life.

01:47:12.369 --> 01:47:14.529
Spoiler alert, still a severe asthmatic.

01:47:16.689 --> 01:47:18.930
<v Eric>My dad was You were cured of your asthma.

01:47:18.930 --> 01:47:21.570
<v Sara>Well, I I told him I was because I was only 10. Okay?

01:47:21.570 --> 01:47:22.289
I was just a kid.

01:47:22.289 --> 01:47:26.125
I was like, and my grandfather shoved me up there, going, go, go,

01:47:26.125 --> 01:47:27.404
go. He'll heal you. Right?

01:47:27.404 --> 01:47:29.564
And I so I'm standing there in front of all these people.

01:47:29.564 --> 01:47:30.925
And I'm just like, terrified.

01:47:30.925 --> 01:47:33.885
And this guy puts his hand on my forehead, and literally shoves

01:47:33.885 --> 01:47:35.645
like with my with his hand.

01:47:35.645 --> 01:47:39.969
So, thought that moment, that half second, I thought, if I just

01:47:39.969 --> 01:47:42.770
fall down, I can go back to my seat. Right?

01:47:42.770 --> 01:47:45.329
Like, you know, because otherwise, I'm just gonna stand there and

01:47:45.329 --> 01:47:46.770
be like, no, you're not pushing me over.

01:47:46.770 --> 01:47:50.289
And then it becomes a power struggle. So I toppled to the ground.

01:47:50.529 --> 01:47:54.045
I get up and I'm like, I'm healed. I'm healed. Yay.

01:47:54.045 --> 01:47:57.404
And then I sat because I was just like, if I say I'm healed, I'm

01:47:57.404 --> 01:47:57.645
good.

01:47:57.645 --> 01:48:00.765
So I went and I sat down, and and I guess my grandfather thought,

01:48:00.765 --> 01:48:04.204
hey, job done. And it's just like, no. No. I still have asthma.

01:48:04.204 --> 01:48:08.170
But it was 1 of those things where I recognized that this guy was

01:48:08.170 --> 01:48:12.170
not an actual even if he was an actual reverend, he wasn't.

01:48:12.170 --> 01:48:15.449
He was using that title to swindle people, which is a shame

01:48:15.449 --> 01:48:19.929
because you get people like my grandfather who genuinely believed

01:48:20.170 --> 01:48:24.945
Mhmm. Given money to people that are not good people.

01:48:24.945 --> 01:48:25.744
And this is Yeah.

01:48:26.145 --> 01:48:29.585
Why the reverend is such a scummy character because he's using

01:48:29.585 --> 01:48:32.784
what should be something that brings people together to take

01:48:32.784 --> 01:48:34.784
their money, and that's crappy.

01:48:36.109 --> 01:48:38.989
<v Eric>Well, Mildred Mulch and brother Hare have followed the reverend

01:48:38.989 --> 01:48:43.229
out, and the reverend goes into his faith healing act, placing

01:48:43.229 --> 01:48:46.429
his hand on an older man's forehead and declaring, praise the

01:48:46.429 --> 01:48:48.429
lord, you're healed. Yeah.

01:48:48.429 --> 01:48:52.604
Well, Mildred spots a pair of crutches, And as the reverend Randy

01:48:52.604 --> 01:48:56.604
Rawlinson is telling the crowd, everybody come and be healed.

01:48:56.604 --> 01:49:00.044
She grabs them. Then she throws them up in the air and screams.

01:49:00.125 --> 01:49:03.659
Then as everybody turns to face her, she shouts, I can walk.

01:49:03.739 --> 01:49:05.579
I can hear. I can see.

01:49:05.579 --> 01:49:08.859
<v Sara>I love this. I she's just throwing it all together.

01:49:08.859 --> 01:49:11.979
Like, not just that she can walk, but she can hear. She can see.

01:49:11.979 --> 01:49:13.099
She can do it all.

01:49:13.579 --> 01:49:15.020
<v Eric>That's right. She can dance.

01:49:15.500 --> 01:49:19.145
<v Sara>Yeah. He reminds me of that episode of Doctor Who.

01:49:19.145 --> 01:49:22.264
And I know this is totally irrelevant to the plot going on, but

01:49:22.264 --> 01:49:23.704
there's an episode of Doctor Who.

01:49:23.944 --> 01:49:26.744
Well, it's a 2 parter called, the empty child and the doctor

01:49:26.744 --> 01:49:28.664
dances where they go back to World War 2.

01:49:28.984 --> 01:49:33.310
And there's this little boy who's been genetically modified by

01:49:33.310 --> 01:49:35.949
these nano genes that found his body on the ground.

01:49:35.949 --> 01:49:37.309
He was wearing a gas mask.

01:49:37.869 --> 01:49:39.309
<v Eric>Are they those like fought blue jeans?

01:49:39.550 --> 01:49:40.989
<v Sara>No. No. No.

01:49:40.989 --> 01:49:43.710
They like basically, were meant to heal and they thought they

01:49:43.710 --> 01:49:45.789
couldn't figure out they'd never seen a human, so they didn't

01:49:45.789 --> 01:49:49.545
know how much of him was person and how much was gas masks.

01:49:49.545 --> 01:49:52.824
So they basically, when they heal him, the gas mask becomes part

01:49:52.824 --> 01:49:53.704
of his face.

01:49:53.704 --> 01:49:56.345
And that's the whole, like, terrifying plot of the episode.

01:49:56.345 --> 01:50:01.680
But it's not until Nancy, the the young girl who was a teenage

01:50:01.680 --> 01:50:04.320
mother, she lied to him about who she really was, told him that

01:50:04.320 --> 01:50:07.920
she was his sister, admits to him that she's his mother and they

01:50:07.920 --> 01:50:12.640
hug and the nanogenes figure out like the the parent DNA and re,

01:50:12.875 --> 01:50:13.914
like do everybody.

01:50:13.914 --> 01:50:16.795
So everybody goes back to being healed, but they don't just heal

01:50:16.795 --> 01:50:20.154
the face thing. They heal everybody, like everything.

01:50:20.475 --> 01:50:24.314
So the doctor says to the actual medical doctor, because this was

01:50:24.314 --> 01:50:26.930
in a hospital, like, I think you're going to find that a lot of

01:50:26.930 --> 01:50:29.810
patients, whatever they came in with, they don't have it anymore.

01:50:29.810 --> 01:50:31.010
Don't make a big thing out of it.

01:50:31.010 --> 01:50:33.170
Just, you know, send them on their way.

01:50:33.170 --> 01:50:36.289
And this old woman comes up to doctor Constantine and says to

01:50:36.289 --> 01:50:40.369
him, doctor, when I came in here, I only had 1 leg.

01:50:40.369 --> 01:50:42.904
My leg's grown back. I've got 2.

01:50:42.984 --> 01:50:45.545
And he says, well, there is a war on.

01:50:45.545 --> 01:50:46.984
Do you suppose you miscounted?

01:50:47.465 --> 01:50:52.185
I don't know why, but it made me think of Mildred.

01:50:52.185 --> 01:50:54.984
Like, I can hear. I can see. I can walk. I can do it all.

01:50:56.800 --> 01:51:00.719
<v Eric>Well, the crowd of the faithful and the shells rush over to her

01:51:00.719 --> 01:51:03.359
surrounding her and mulch, making themselves a human shield

01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:07.999
between themselves and brother Hare and reverend Randy Rawlinson,

01:51:08.319 --> 01:51:11.199
leading the faithful and the manipulators to the exit, allowing

01:51:11.199 --> 01:51:15.335
them to get away much to the reverend Randy Rawlinson's dismay.

01:51:15.335 --> 01:51:15.654
<v Sara>Yeah.

01:51:15.654 --> 01:51:18.295
Like, that was a really smart move for Mildred to grab the I

01:51:18.295 --> 01:51:20.534
mean, some poor person just lost their crutches.

01:51:20.854 --> 01:51:22.694
I mean, other than that,

01:51:22.694 --> 01:51:23.734
<v Eric>you know Well, they didn't need them.

01:51:23.734 --> 01:51:24.614
They were gonna be healing anyway.

01:51:24.614 --> 01:51:26.614
<v Sara>Right? She dropped them. Yeah. That's right.

01:51:28.319 --> 01:51:30.719
<v Eric>Mildred and Mulch are running away laughing.

01:51:31.119 --> 01:51:34.159
And as they get into Mulch's car, he declares that they were

01:51:34.159 --> 01:51:37.039
great and wishing that miss Holt and mister Steele could have

01:51:37.039 --> 01:51:41.119
seen them in action. And I don't care what anybody says.

01:51:42.204 --> 01:51:44.524
I love the original AMC Pacer.

01:51:44.524 --> 01:51:46.604
It was an amazing and cool looking car.

01:51:46.604 --> 01:51:50.764
<v Sara>Yeah. No. I I I had a note in my notes. I like Welch's car.

01:51:50.765 --> 01:51:54.125
<v Eric>It's just that most people were too unsophisticated and lacking

01:51:54.125 --> 01:51:56.284
taste and refinement to appreciate it. So there.

01:51:57.020 --> 01:52:00.779
<v Sara>I also when they when you see them running out, they're laughing

01:52:00.779 --> 01:52:01.340
together.

01:52:01.579 --> 01:52:05.020
I thought to myself, I would watch a show just that that was just

01:52:05.020 --> 01:52:07.899
entirely Mildred and Mulch. Like, I would I would watch that.

01:52:07.899 --> 01:52:09.020
I would watch that spin off.

01:52:09.725 --> 01:52:13.244
I would find it hilarious because they're just like, they're

01:52:13.484 --> 01:52:16.045
there's and I when I say chemistry, I'm not talking romantic

01:52:16.045 --> 01:52:18.284
chemistry, but there's chemistry between these characters. Yeah.

01:52:18.284 --> 01:52:21.564
Like, she's it's similar to the chemistry that Lauren and Steele

01:52:21.564 --> 01:52:23.260
have, but without the romantic element.

01:52:23.260 --> 01:52:25.579
<v Eric>Right? Cross me and hope. The rogue movies.

01:52:26.139 --> 01:52:26.939
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

01:52:26.939 --> 01:52:31.340
Like, he's the sort of hapless screw up, and she's the 1 that's,

01:52:31.340 --> 01:52:33.819
like, constantly fixing his mistakes, and it's funny.

01:52:33.819 --> 01:52:34.460
It's really good.

01:52:35.395 --> 01:52:38.034
<v Eric>Well, as they're driving away, Mildred pulls out the envelope

01:52:38.034 --> 01:52:40.835
that they picked up from the post office, sees that it's

01:52:40.835 --> 01:52:43.795
addressed to Remington Steele, care of the Bay Building Suite 101

01:52:43.795 --> 01:52:48.034
Mission Bay, California 92109. Postage due 22¢.

01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:52.239
She rips open the envelope and pulls out a bus locker key, number

01:52:52.239 --> 01:52:57.280
445. Excitedly, Mulch says, isn't this exciting or what?

01:52:57.280 --> 01:52:59.840
I told you the franchise was a brilliant idea.

01:52:59.920 --> 01:53:01.920
I bet I could run the whole office myself.

01:53:02.765 --> 01:53:05.805
<v Sara>Oh, mulch. Oh, sweet baby cinnamon roll.

01:53:05.805 --> 01:53:08.604
<v Eric>No. Mildred tells him to shut up and drive.

01:53:08.604 --> 01:53:13.005
His brother Hare, now out of the studio, gun in hand, watches

01:53:13.005 --> 01:53:15.405
them drive away. He then rushes to his own car.

01:53:16.989 --> 01:53:18.510
Well, next, it's night.

01:53:18.510 --> 01:53:21.310
Laura and Steele are in the rabbit, and they pull up in front of

01:53:21.310 --> 01:53:22.989
the gate to the Underwood Estate.

01:53:23.869 --> 01:53:26.749
Steele gets out, telling Laura that he'll trip to censor.

01:53:27.149 --> 01:53:30.264
As he approaches the gate, he begins to climb it.

01:53:30.264 --> 01:53:33.944
But as he reaches the top and starts to crawl over, the gate

01:53:33.944 --> 01:53:37.385
starts to open, leaving him hanging on in a prone position on the

01:53:37.385 --> 01:53:38.904
top rail as it does.

01:53:39.545 --> 01:53:42.664
<v Sara>Has gotta be even more uncomfortable for him because he's got a

01:53:42.664 --> 01:53:45.699
few body parts. Well, not a few. He's got a body part.

01:53:46.260 --> 01:53:47.219
<v Eric>No. Well doesn't

01:53:47.219 --> 01:53:47.939
<v Sara>have. And I'm

01:53:47.939 --> 01:53:51.300
<v Eric>just And a couple of accessories that go along with it.

01:53:51.300 --> 01:53:52.260
<v Sara>Yeah. That's what I was saying.

01:53:52.260 --> 01:53:54.260
Like, when I said a few, but, like, he's got his legs wrapped

01:53:54.260 --> 01:53:56.805
around it, so I can't imagine that's comfortable.

01:53:57.604 --> 01:54:02.885
<v Eric>No. No. No. No.

01:54:02.885 --> 01:54:07.525
Anyway, Laura yells at him to get down, but still stuck riding

01:54:07.525 --> 01:54:10.250
the rail. Laura quickly backs the rep

01:54:11.529 --> 01:54:12.489
<v Sara>Literally.

01:54:12.890 --> 01:54:17.050
<v Eric>Laura quickly backs the rabbit out of the way just as the

01:54:17.050 --> 01:54:19.850
Underwoods black Mercedes comes flying out of the gate, tires

01:54:19.850 --> 01:54:23.444
screeching as the driver turns out of the driveway and out onto

01:54:23.444 --> 01:54:25.444
the street. Yeah. Really flying.

01:54:26.404 --> 01:54:29.524
Well, after the Mercedes is gone, Laura pulls back into the

01:54:29.524 --> 01:54:32.965
driveway, the gate's still open, and begins stage whispering to

01:54:32.965 --> 01:54:36.404
Steele. And after a moment, the gate begins to close.

01:54:36.404 --> 01:54:37.764
Steele's still riding the rail.

01:54:38.210 --> 01:54:40.449
Branches branches snuck those head

01:54:40.449 --> 01:54:42.289
<v Sara>and waist is hanging down.

01:54:43.569 --> 01:54:47.329
<v Eric>Steele begins grunting. Wait. Wait. Wait. What about the body?

01:54:47.649 --> 01:54:52.449
As the gate slams shut, Laura glances into the back seat, eyes

01:54:52.449 --> 01:54:54.965
the body, then calls to Steele. He won't mind.

01:54:55.284 --> 01:54:58.244
And then throwing his earlier words back at him, urges Steele to

01:54:58.244 --> 01:54:59.764
hurry up. Don't dawdle.

01:55:00.085 --> 01:55:02.404
<v Sara>This visual gag just keeps giving.

01:55:02.404 --> 01:55:05.364
It just keeps like, the twigs sticking out of him, the fact that

01:55:05.364 --> 01:55:07.764
he's clutching it for dear life. It's funny.

01:55:08.880 --> 01:55:12.479
<v Eric>Steele is struggling to climb down, and Laura sarcastically urges

01:55:12.479 --> 01:55:14.719
urges him to come on.

01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:18.479
And finally making it to the bottom and the back on the ground,

01:55:18.720 --> 01:55:20.960
Steele begins mumbling. Don't worry, miss Halt.

01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:23.439
I'm fairly sure nothing is broken. Thanks for asking. Really.

01:55:25.965 --> 01:55:30.364
He reaches the car and begins to get in, but not not quite before

01:55:30.364 --> 01:55:33.085
Laura hits the gas and starts to feel out.

01:55:33.324 --> 01:55:35.164
<v Sara>Tormenting him just a little bit.

01:55:35.164 --> 01:55:35.645
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:55:36.859 --> 01:55:41.340
Well, back at the Transway bus lines depot, Mildred and Mulch are

01:55:41.340 --> 01:55:44.380
inspecting for the lockers looking for 4 45.

01:55:44.780 --> 01:55:47.979
And Mildred asks Mulch if he's sure no 1 followed them.

01:55:48.755 --> 01:55:49.954
Are you kidding?

01:55:49.954 --> 01:55:53.954
We were a memory before he even got into his car, he assures her.

01:55:54.194 --> 01:55:56.994
They find the locker. Mildred inserts the key and opens it.

01:55:56.994 --> 01:56:00.114
She pulls out the package. Maltz shouts, bingo.

01:56:00.514 --> 01:56:04.194
Then he and Mildred embrace in the excitement of their success,

01:56:05.010 --> 01:56:08.210
except that brother Hare steps up behind them, shoves his gun

01:56:08.210 --> 01:56:11.569
into Maltz's side as he grabs the package from Mildred's hand,

01:56:11.569 --> 01:56:13.489
telling them that he'll take that.

01:56:14.289 --> 01:56:17.489
Maltz stomps on the floor in frustration, slams his fist down,

01:56:17.489 --> 01:56:19.409
demanding to know how brother Hare found them.

01:56:19.715 --> 01:56:22.514
<v Sara>He's like an angry child. Don't just find us.

01:56:22.514 --> 01:56:27.714
<v Eric>Brother Hare simply says, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

01:56:28.194 --> 01:56:32.034
Angrily, Mildred sarcastically asks Mulch. Just a memory.

01:56:33.409 --> 01:56:35.729
And then the 2 of them follow brother Hare.

01:56:36.609 --> 01:56:38.529
Laura and Steele are parked, sitting.

01:56:38.529 --> 01:56:41.569
The rabbit slides out, watching the Underwood Mercedes, which is

01:56:41.569 --> 01:56:43.489
also parked and also dark.

01:56:44.210 --> 01:56:47.010
Thinking out loud, Laura wonders who it is in the car.

01:56:47.805 --> 01:56:52.364
Steele lists the possibilities. Surfer dude or maybe Vicky.

01:56:52.765 --> 01:56:54.444
<v Sara>Oh, okay. He says, Vicky. Okay.

01:56:54.444 --> 01:56:57.484
I was gonna ask you about this because up until this point, they

01:56:57.484 --> 01:56:59.645
don't actually say surfer dude's name.

01:56:59.645 --> 01:57:02.989
So that the first 1 confused me because Steele says Sean, but I

01:57:02.989 --> 01:57:05.630
don't recall missus Underwood ever saying Sean. Maybe she didn't.

01:57:05.630 --> 01:57:07.390
<v Eric>Just I think she she did a couple times.

01:57:07.390 --> 01:57:09.869
<v Sara>But But it's mentioned later, so that's when I clued in that that

01:57:09.869 --> 01:57:13.390
was Sean. But I didn't hear Vicky. I heard Iggy.

01:57:13.390 --> 01:57:16.414
So I was like, Iggy? Who the heck is Iggy?

01:57:16.574 --> 01:57:17.614
Well, that's what that was the thing.

01:57:17.614 --> 01:57:19.454
I was like, is is he making a reference?

01:57:19.454 --> 01:57:21.694
Like, is this a pop culture reference I'm not in on?

01:57:21.694 --> 01:57:24.494
Thank you for clarifying that.

01:57:24.494 --> 01:57:28.014
Makes way more sense as if it's Sean and Vicky instead of Sean

01:57:28.014 --> 01:57:31.270
and Iggy. Because I'm like, who's Sean? And who's why Iggy?

01:57:31.270 --> 01:57:32.229
I don't get it.

01:57:32.869 --> 01:57:33.670
<v Eric>Okay.

01:57:33.909 --> 01:57:37.349
Well, brother Hare comes casually strolling out of the bus depot,

01:57:37.350 --> 01:57:39.829
and suddenly, the lights of the Mercedes come on.

01:57:40.229 --> 01:57:43.350
Laura and Steele sit up realizing that something's about to go

01:57:43.350 --> 01:57:43.829
down.

01:57:43.829 --> 01:57:44.310
<v Sara>Oh, yeah.

01:57:45.125 --> 01:57:48.085
<v Eric>At the sound of tires squealing, brother Hare pauses and then

01:57:48.085 --> 01:57:49.284
looks toward the sound.

01:57:49.524 --> 01:57:52.885
The Mercedes slams into brother Hare causing Laura and Steele to

01:57:52.885 --> 01:57:55.604
jerk in a sort of sympathetic response.

01:57:56.244 --> 01:57:59.204
And as they jump out of the rabbit, the Mercedes backs up.

01:57:59.500 --> 01:58:03.260
The driver's door opens, a man's hand a man's hand.

01:58:04.539 --> 01:58:06.539
<v Sara>I noticed this too. This is a yeah.

01:58:06.539 --> 01:58:10.699
I it was confusing because that is definitely not a woman's hand.

01:58:10.779 --> 01:58:17.375
<v Eric>And I don't see any point in the episode that I recall where this

01:58:17.375 --> 01:58:18.734
is explained. No.

01:58:18.734 --> 01:58:22.015
Anyway, a man's hand reaches down to pick up the package formerly

01:58:22.015 --> 01:58:23.215
held by brother Hare.

01:58:23.215 --> 01:58:25.774
The door closes, then the car speeds off into the night.

01:58:26.569 --> 01:58:29.929
At the same time, Laura and Steele reach brother Hare, and so do

01:58:29.929 --> 01:58:32.250
Mildred and Mulch. And they all greet each other in surprise.

01:58:32.250 --> 01:58:32.889
Well

01:58:33.449 --> 01:58:37.130
<v Sara>and also, it's it's nighttime, and Laura and Steele, they found

01:58:37.130 --> 01:58:39.975
out earlier in the day that Mildred is not there anymore, but it

01:58:39.975 --> 01:58:42.614
doesn't seem like they spared any thought or wonder as to where

01:58:42.614 --> 01:58:43.574
she went beyond that.

01:58:43.574 --> 01:58:46.135
They were just like, oh, I guess she's not here. Yeah.

01:58:46.135 --> 01:58:49.814
They they Were you not worried about where she went? Like

01:58:50.774 --> 01:58:53.869
<v Eric>Well, maybe they just assumed that she was babysitting mulch and,

01:58:53.869 --> 01:58:55.550
you know, keeping them under wraps.

01:58:55.630 --> 01:58:57.630
<v Sara>Well, no. Because they don't know that mulch is in cold.

01:58:57.630 --> 01:58:58.189
<v Eric>That's right.

01:58:58.189 --> 01:59:00.270
<v Sara>That's right. Know? The first time they see mulch.

01:59:00.270 --> 01:59:01.949
So they're they're just like this.

01:59:04.270 --> 01:59:04.750
<v Eric>Yeah.

01:59:04.750 --> 01:59:07.975
They I guess they just figured she's maybe she's in hospital.

01:59:08.055 --> 01:59:10.775
<v Sara>Maybe she went to maybe she went to kiss a sperm whale.

01:59:10.775 --> 01:59:11.895
Who knows? Yes.

01:59:13.574 --> 01:59:14.695
<v Eric>Be sure and bring protection.

01:59:14.695 --> 01:59:18.375
From the background, someone calls out, hit and run. Murder.

01:59:18.375 --> 01:59:19.814
Someone call the police.

01:59:20.534 --> 01:59:23.710
Nervously, Steele tells Laura that he doesn't mean to sound

01:59:23.710 --> 01:59:26.349
paranoid, but they do have a murder victim of their own in the

01:59:26.349 --> 01:59:26.829
car.

01:59:28.109 --> 01:59:31.469
And in a panic voice, Laura agrees that he's got a good point.

01:59:31.789 --> 01:59:35.630
So they take off on a run, and Mildred and Mulch take off on a

01:59:35.630 --> 01:59:36.909
run as well. Yeah.

01:59:37.654 --> 01:59:40.135
The next morning, Mildred and Mulch entered the alternate

01:59:40.135 --> 01:59:43.255
universe office of the Remington Steele investigations at the Bay

01:59:43.255 --> 01:59:46.935
Building, being greeted unexpectedly by Laura, 2 cups of coffee

01:59:46.935 --> 01:59:49.014
in hand, who wants to know where they've been.

01:59:49.335 --> 01:59:52.960
Well, they found a motel up the road, and never mind about the

01:59:52.960 --> 01:59:55.520
motel, Laura interrupts. She wants an explanation.

01:59:55.760 --> 01:59:58.079
And as she's saying this, steel enters.

01:59:58.320 --> 02:00:03.039
He is disheveled, loose tie, top shirt button open, hair must,

02:00:03.039 --> 02:00:05.039
generally looking like he had a rough night.

02:00:05.255 --> 02:00:05.974
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:00:06.054 --> 02:00:09.335
<v Eric>And he amends Laura's demand for an explanation saying that they

02:00:09.335 --> 02:00:11.094
both want an explanation.

02:00:11.814 --> 02:00:14.774
Offended, Mildred asks if they really think that she had anything

02:00:14.774 --> 02:00:15.814
to do with this.

02:00:16.614 --> 02:00:19.814
And frustrated, Laura hisses that they still don't know what this

02:00:19.814 --> 02:00:21.399
is. Fair.

02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:26.119
Well, the reverend Randy Rawlinson storms in followed by the

02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:29.560
third man and bellows, we have unfinished business, Steele.

02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:30.359
Steele

02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:32.840
<v Sara>asked I like how he just replaced his henchman without a thought.

02:00:32.895 --> 02:00:35.215
Right? His henchman's dead. Brother Nick is dead.

02:00:35.215 --> 02:00:37.935
So it's just like, okay. Brother brother Kurt, you're now up.

02:00:37.935 --> 02:00:38.494
Like,

02:00:38.814 --> 02:00:38.975
<v Eric>you

02:00:38.975 --> 02:00:40.734
<v Sara>know, yes. Yes. Very sad.

02:00:40.734 --> 02:00:43.614
<v Eric>Return. Got a deep bench. Got a really deep bench.

02:00:43.614 --> 02:00:45.454
<v Sara>Got a lot of people willing to kill for him.

02:00:45.454 --> 02:00:48.510
That's an interesting, congregation he's got there. You know?

02:00:48.510 --> 02:00:49.069
Yes. Like

02:00:49.550 --> 02:00:51.389
<v Eric>Interesting bunch of followers. Yes.

02:00:51.389 --> 02:00:51.710
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:00:51.710 --> 02:00:53.229
<v Eric>Anyway, Steele asks who he is.

02:00:53.229 --> 02:00:56.989
Maltz jumps in suggesting that the reverend Randy Rawlinson that

02:00:56.989 --> 02:00:59.149
perhaps they should step into his office.

02:00:59.789 --> 02:01:02.829
The reverend Randy Rawlinson points to Milton saying, you too,

02:01:02.829 --> 02:01:03.229
miss Holt.

02:01:03.664 --> 02:01:08.545
And as the group leaves reception area, Lauren Steele glanced at

02:01:08.545 --> 02:01:12.065
each other, and they're totally confused as to what's happening.

02:01:12.065 --> 02:01:13.345
<v Sara>Yep. Next idea

02:01:13.345 --> 02:01:13.585
<v Eric>what's happening.

02:01:13.824 --> 02:01:17.425
Detroit, San Francisco enter with Dallas exclaiming, if it isn't

02:01:17.425 --> 02:01:18.465
the boss man himself.

02:01:19.020 --> 02:01:22.219
Shaking Steel's hand, he declares that it's good to meet him, and

02:01:22.219 --> 02:01:26.139
it's a pleasure to be on his team. My team? Steel Perks?

02:01:26.619 --> 02:01:29.179
The 3 men introduce themselves by their location.

02:01:29.500 --> 02:01:32.219
Laura asks, National Football League?

02:01:32.219 --> 02:01:32.859
<v Sara>NFL?

02:01:34.345 --> 02:01:37.465
<v Eric>Before anyone can clarify anything, surfer dude wheels miss

02:01:37.465 --> 02:01:40.505
Underwood in as she hollers, Steele, your time's up.

02:01:40.505 --> 02:01:41.704
Where's my package?

02:01:42.425 --> 02:01:45.545
Steele hides behind his coffee cup as she comes in.

02:01:46.585 --> 02:01:49.545
Steele then begins making incoherent noises, finally suggesting

02:01:49.545 --> 02:01:52.689
that Dallas, Detroit, and San Francisco wait in Laura's office

02:01:52.850 --> 02:01:55.250
and that he and miss Holt will take care of the whole thing,

02:01:55.489 --> 02:01:57.969
though he has no idea what the whole thing is.

02:01:57.970 --> 02:01:58.289
<v Sara>No.

02:01:58.289 --> 02:02:00.930
They've they're this is just getting more and more confusing by

02:02:00.930 --> 02:02:02.210
the second. I love it.

02:02:02.689 --> 02:02:07.625
<v Eric>And as as the 3 men move into the inner office, surfer dude pulls

02:02:07.625 --> 02:02:09.784
out the pistol he's been holding under his jacket.

02:02:09.784 --> 02:02:12.664
And just then, a workman enters asking if this is Remington

02:02:12.664 --> 02:02:18.905
Steele investigations. Laura, frustrated, asks, who are you?

02:02:19.600 --> 02:02:22.720
Sign painter, he says, smiling and chomping his gum.

02:02:23.280 --> 02:02:24.800
Laura and Steele don't answer.

02:02:24.960 --> 02:02:27.680
Steele tells missus Underwood and surfer dude that they'll be

02:02:27.680 --> 02:02:30.880
more comfortable in here, referring to the utility office. Yeah.

02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:34.345
Steele Steel hands his coffee cup to Laura, then rolls missus

02:02:34.345 --> 02:02:37.465
Underwood in followed by Laura and surfer dude who is still

02:02:37.465 --> 02:02:38.664
holding the gun on them.

02:02:39.064 --> 02:02:42.345
Sign painter shrugs, turns to the door, and gets to work.

02:02:43.659 --> 02:02:46.539
Steele asks surfer dude to lower the gun a tad, and then miss

02:02:47.100 --> 02:02:51.180
Underwood demands that Steele stop screwing around and wanting to

02:02:51.180 --> 02:02:52.380
know where is it.

02:02:52.859 --> 02:02:55.420
Steele, who had not been wearing his jacket up to this point,

02:02:55.835 --> 02:02:58.875
begins putting it on, telling missus Underwood that they've run

02:02:58.875 --> 02:03:00.314
into a bit of a snag.

02:03:00.715 --> 02:03:03.354
Detroit comes in, apologizing, saying that he just wanted to get

02:03:03.354 --> 02:03:04.074
some coffee.

02:03:04.314 --> 02:03:09.274
<v Sara>This entire sequence from from this moment to where they're just,

02:03:09.274 --> 02:03:13.010
like, switching odd like, offices left, right, and center to

02:03:13.010 --> 02:03:15.250
where they're all in the same room screaming at each other to

02:03:15.250 --> 02:03:18.210
where they're like, this is so brilliantly done.

02:03:18.210 --> 02:03:19.889
It is so brilliantly executed.

02:03:19.889 --> 02:03:22.210
This this back and forth of, okay, you're supposed to be you, and

02:03:22.210 --> 02:03:24.130
you're supposed to be you, and I'm supposed to be him, and I

02:03:24.130 --> 02:03:28.564
don't you know, it's exactly what this show does really, really

02:03:28.564 --> 02:03:29.685
well Mhmm.

02:03:29.765 --> 02:03:34.324
And why it's so fun to watch because it this could get really

02:03:34.324 --> 02:03:35.764
confusing really fast

02:03:36.085 --> 02:03:36.244
<v Eric>Mhmm.

02:03:36.324 --> 02:03:38.885
<v Sara>But it's not. It's just it's hilarious.

02:03:39.045 --> 02:03:42.619
<v Eric>It's the classic madcap comedy where you are following

02:03:42.619 --> 02:03:45.899
everything, but the characters have no clue what's going on, and

02:03:45.899 --> 02:03:47.260
they're totally confused.

02:03:47.340 --> 02:03:49.899
<v Sara>It's funnier that they're not getting the explanations for it

02:03:49.899 --> 02:03:52.699
because then it just creates even more confusion where they're

02:03:52.780 --> 02:03:55.180
switching back and forth. And, yeah, it's great. I love it.

02:03:56.385 --> 02:03:59.425
<v Eric>Well, incorrectly calling him Dallas, Steele welcomes him in and

02:03:59.425 --> 02:04:02.144
then begins to step forward to help with the coffee.

02:04:02.545 --> 02:04:06.385
A surfer dude shoves his gun in Steele's back, so Steele asks

02:04:06.385 --> 02:04:09.585
Laura to step forward to help with the coffee.

02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:14.280
Nervously, Laura agrees saying that, oh, they wouldn't want

02:04:14.280 --> 02:04:15.720
coffee to get cold.

02:04:16.039 --> 02:04:19.479
So she and Detroit carry coffee cups back through the office

02:04:19.479 --> 02:04:21.000
store into her office.

02:04:21.560 --> 02:04:25.814
And as she begins to step towards Steele's office, Dallas stops

02:04:25.814 --> 02:04:27.734
her asking if they have any saccharin.

02:04:27.734 --> 02:04:28.694
<v Sara>What is that?

02:04:28.774 --> 02:04:30.294
<v Eric>It's an artificial sweetener.

02:04:30.375 --> 02:04:32.935
<v Sara>Oh, okay. I I want I I never heard of that 1.

02:04:32.935 --> 02:04:35.255
I've heard of, like, Stevia and, like, all the others, but not

02:04:35.255 --> 02:04:35.814
saccharin.

02:04:35.814 --> 02:04:38.439
<v Eric>It's an old classic artificial sweetener.

02:04:38.439 --> 02:04:40.039
It's been around for decades.

02:04:40.359 --> 02:04:41.079
<v Sara>Gotcha.

02:04:41.159 --> 02:04:43.159
<v Eric>But I'm sorry.

02:04:43.159 --> 02:04:47.320
Maybe I'm falling for a stereotype here, but I can't imagine any

02:04:47.320 --> 02:04:49.640
true Texan asking for saccharin.

02:04:49.640 --> 02:04:51.640
<v Sara>I thought it was San Francisco that asked for it.

02:04:52.875 --> 02:04:55.835
I'm almost certain it was because that's what I have in my notes,

02:04:55.835 --> 02:04:56.234
but

02:04:56.554 --> 02:04:57.434
<v Eric>Hang on.

02:04:57.594 --> 02:05:01.274
<v Sara>I could be wrong. Either way, like, I know what he meant. So

02:05:05.729 --> 02:05:07.329
<v Eric>Hang on. Hang on.

02:05:07.329 --> 02:05:07.729
<v Sara>Hang on.

02:05:07.729 --> 02:05:10.210
Oh, also, while you're looking for that, I I have to issue a

02:05:10.210 --> 02:05:11.729
correction. I am wrong.

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As of 2024, Starbucks has the most locations.

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It beat out something.

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<v Eric>It is San Francisco asking her that.

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<v Sara>Okay. I'm sorry. Well, you're right as well.

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No Texan would ever ask that because no Texan does it.

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It's San Francisco that does it.

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<v Eric>Well, over in Steele's office, Mulch as Remington Steele, is

02:05:31.965 --> 02:05:36.100
assuring the reverend Rawlinson that the situation is completely

02:05:36.100 --> 02:05:38.899
under control, and he can explain about brother Nick.

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And angrily, the reverend the reverend Rawlinson tells Mulch to

02:05:43.380 --> 02:05:44.739
forget about brother Nick.

02:05:44.739 --> 02:05:46.020
<v Sara>Does not care. No.

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<v Eric>All he cares about is what happened to the but he stops as Laura

02:05:50.954 --> 02:05:55.034
walks in and then in a low menacing tone asks, who is she?

02:05:55.274 --> 02:05:56.635
While pointing to Laura.

02:05:56.875 --> 02:05:59.914
Mildred jumps in to save the situation, introducing Laura as

02:05:59.914 --> 02:06:00.875
Mildred Krebs.

02:06:01.070 --> 02:06:04.989
Oh my Unable to resist heaping praises upon herself, calls

02:06:04.989 --> 02:06:08.989
Mildred 1 of the top secretary receptionists in the building,

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declaring her to soon be a private eye in her own right, which

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<v Sara>is Mildred. You do you. You you you toot your own horn.

02:06:16.364 --> 02:06:17.965
You do that. Good for you.

02:06:18.604 --> 02:06:20.925
<v Eric>Well, it's it's doubly fun when you think about all the times

02:06:20.925 --> 02:06:24.204
that Laura herself was treated by clients with press as a mere

02:06:24.204 --> 02:06:24.764
secretary.

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<v Sara>Yeah. Best Laura has to pretend to be his secretary, will she?

02:06:30.060 --> 02:06:31.340
Yeah. Well,

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<v Eric>Laura is stonily livid about her demotion and misrepresentation.

02:06:38.175 --> 02:06:42.494
She grabs Mildred and through gritted teeth asks, could I see you

02:06:42.494 --> 02:06:45.534
a moment, miss Holt? Yeah.

02:06:45.534 --> 02:06:48.335
She drags Mildred by the arm out of the office into reception

02:06:48.335 --> 02:06:52.015
then angrily, though quietly, demands to know what she and Maltz

02:06:52.015 --> 02:06:55.550
are doing. Mildred assures her that it's not our fault.

02:06:55.550 --> 02:06:58.590
Honest, miss Holt, the reverend Rawlinson who's the reverend

02:06:58.590 --> 02:07:00.510
Rawlinson? The guy in the white suit.

02:07:00.510 --> 02:07:03.070
He must took Maltz for the bus when we found the key in the

02:07:03.070 --> 02:07:04.750
package. You know about the package?

02:07:04.909 --> 02:07:07.229
We had it in our hands before brother Nick took it.

02:07:07.655 --> 02:07:10.774
Who's brother Nick? The guy that got nailed at the bus station.

02:07:10.935 --> 02:07:13.095
<v Sara>The vessel from the pestle has the brew that is true.

02:07:13.095 --> 02:07:14.614
This is what this protects me.

02:07:14.614 --> 02:07:18.695
Like, it just it's you know about the package. You know?

02:07:18.695 --> 02:07:20.375
Who's the reverend? Who's brother Nick?

02:07:22.829 --> 02:07:24.989
<v Eric>Yeah. There's a reference to an old Danny Kaye movie.

02:07:24.989 --> 02:07:30.189
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Which It's a court jester, isn't it?

02:07:30.429 --> 02:07:32.429
<v Eric>Is that the actual title of it?

02:07:32.429 --> 02:07:36.375
<v Sara>I I thought so. I'm gonna I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

02:07:36.375 --> 02:07:37.975
The court jester, Danny Kaye. Yeah.

02:07:37.975 --> 02:07:40.054
The pellet and the poison, the vessel with the vessels.

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<v Eric>Just said Steele steps out of the utility room and says, miss

02:07:46.614 --> 02:07:49.734
Holt, and both Laura and Mildred turn to answering.

02:07:50.215 --> 02:07:53.510
And just said, Malt steps out of Steele's office saying, miss

02:07:53.510 --> 02:07:57.750
Holt. And both Miller Laura and Mildred turn and answer him.

02:07:58.069 --> 02:08:02.069
And George gestures inside to Mildred with his head.

02:08:02.310 --> 02:08:06.005
Steele gestures inside with his finger to Laura, and each of the

02:08:06.005 --> 02:08:07.765
women walk toward the respective rooms.

02:08:07.765 --> 02:08:11.204
But as Laura passes Steele, he tells her to take over then

02:08:11.204 --> 02:08:12.885
continues to his own office.

02:08:13.765 --> 02:08:17.445
And in the meantime, the sign painter continues to work on the

02:08:17.445 --> 02:08:18.965
sign painting really.

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<v Sara>I think it's kinda funny that the people with the guns are

02:08:22.600 --> 02:08:26.520
allowing other people to come and go into different offices when

02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:28.600
they could be going and calling the police.

02:08:28.760 --> 02:08:31.319
Like, they could just go into the outer office and call the cops

02:08:31.319 --> 02:08:33.399
and say, hey. There's a guy holding us up at gunpoint.

02:08:33.399 --> 02:08:34.600
Can you come here, please? But no. No.

02:08:34.600 --> 02:08:37.625
They're like, they figure the secretary. It's fine.

02:08:37.625 --> 02:08:40.505
<v Eric>Like Maybe they they figure that, hey. We've got guns.

02:08:40.505 --> 02:08:41.864
They wouldn't be that stupid.

02:08:42.185 --> 02:08:42.904
<v Sara>Yeah. Probably.

02:08:42.904 --> 02:08:44.824
Well, and the sign painter, as you said, he's just, like,

02:08:44.824 --> 02:08:45.864
painting the ways.

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<v Eric>Well, Steele storms into his office and with a loud, annoyed

02:08:51.840 --> 02:08:54.880
mulch gets everybody's attention.

02:08:54.880 --> 02:08:57.520
But George grabs Steele and nervously introduces him to the

02:08:57.520 --> 02:09:00.880
reverend Rawlinson as George Mulch, his associate.

02:09:01.279 --> 02:09:04.064
Then he tells Mulch that since he saw what happened to the

02:09:04.064 --> 02:09:06.704
package, would he mind sharing that information with the

02:09:06.704 --> 02:09:07.425
reverend?

02:09:08.145 --> 02:09:12.225
And through gritted teeth, Steele demands, mister Steele give him

02:09:12.225 --> 02:09:14.145
1 good reason why he should.

02:09:14.704 --> 02:09:17.899
And with a nervous laugh, George points to the third man saying,

02:09:17.899 --> 02:09:21.100
because brother Kurt here is holding divine intervention in his

02:09:21.100 --> 02:09:21.739
hands.

02:09:22.859 --> 02:09:26.380
Steele looks at the gun, back to Maltz, and back to the third

02:09:26.380 --> 02:09:26.859
man.

02:09:26.859 --> 02:09:29.579
And then the reverend Rawlinson, and with a stiff grin, tells

02:09:29.579 --> 02:09:31.885
him, no harm in asking me.

02:09:34.045 --> 02:09:38.204
Back in the utility room, Laura, arms crossed, confronts missus

02:09:38.204 --> 02:09:41.244
Underwood, telling her that they know the woman is protecting her

02:09:41.244 --> 02:09:41.805
daughter.

02:09:42.125 --> 02:09:45.619
And somewhat indignantly, missus Underwood asks why she would

02:09:45.619 --> 02:09:47.060
have to protect Vicky.

02:09:47.699 --> 02:09:50.820
Because she ran someone named brother Nick down at the bus

02:09:50.820 --> 02:09:53.140
station last night, Laura tells her as she leans against the

02:09:53.140 --> 02:09:54.100
adjoining door.

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Missus Underwood shakes her head, insisting that the accusation

02:09:57.300 --> 02:09:58.260
is preposterous.

02:09:58.574 --> 02:10:01.295
Vicky was in the house all evening, and she'll swear to it in

02:10:01.295 --> 02:10:01.854
court.

02:10:02.175 --> 02:10:04.895
Laura asks if she will also swear that she knows nothing about

02:10:04.895 --> 02:10:08.255
Sean dumping the dumping that other body into the ravine.

02:10:08.975 --> 02:10:11.775
Missus Underwood turns her head to look at surfer dude who looks

02:10:11.775 --> 02:10:17.690
back Mhmm. At her expressionless. Oh, duh.

02:10:17.690 --> 02:10:19.850
It was surfer dude that picked up the package for her.

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<v Sara>Oh, right. Right. Right.

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Now is is Sean her son, or is he just an employee?

02:10:24.810 --> 02:10:26.489
Do we ever get that information?

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<v Eric>No.

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I I think he's either an employee or maybe he's trying to get in

02:10:34.074 --> 02:10:36.555
with Vicky. I don't know. But, yeah, he's he's not family.

02:10:36.555 --> 02:10:37.114
<v Sara>Okay.

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<v Eric>Well, the door that Laura is leaning on is pushed open, knocking

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her over.

02:10:42.820 --> 02:10:45.939
As Dallas walks in, he puts down the coffee cup that he had

02:10:45.939 --> 02:10:49.460
previously been given, picks up another, and comments that his

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doctor had skinned him alive if he knew he was drinking anything

02:10:52.340 --> 02:10:54.100
in the world but decaffeinated.

02:10:54.500 --> 02:10:56.659
And everyone is silent as he pours his coffee.

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I I'm gonna question whether a true Texan would drink

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decaffeinated. But,

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<v Sara>anyway Okay.

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<v Eric>Yeah. Even if the doctor ordered it. Even if the doctor

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<v Sara>ordered it.

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I find it funny that, like, at the end of the day, I don't know

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that unless your your heart is is basically about to explode.

02:11:16.520 --> 02:11:16.920
Mhmm.

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I don't know that caffeinated coffee is going to do that much

02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:21.239
harm.

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It's 1 of those things where I guess now we know more about it,

02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:26.494
but they don't even really Yeah.

02:11:26.494 --> 02:11:29.614
Because like even in pregnancy, they don't even really say, no,

02:11:29.614 --> 02:11:30.335
you can't have it.

02:11:30.335 --> 02:11:32.655
They just say like, you know, don't drink so much.

02:11:32.655 --> 02:11:34.255
The baby's doing backflips.

02:11:34.414 --> 02:11:40.389
It's so I do find it funny to have him come out and be like, my

02:11:40.389 --> 02:11:42.469
doctor would kill me if he knew I was drinking anything.

02:11:42.469 --> 02:11:43.189
I'm like, really?

02:11:43.189 --> 02:11:45.510
Because I can't I can't have caffeine, but not because it's

02:11:45.510 --> 02:11:48.550
gonna, like it it it's a migraine thing.

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Caffeine's a migraine trigger for me. So, like, I I avoid it.

02:11:51.510 --> 02:11:55.164
But it when I would drink it, I guess maybe because of the ADHD

02:11:55.164 --> 02:11:57.164
as well, caffeine has a different effect.

02:11:57.405 --> 02:11:59.805
It would actually calm me down.

02:11:59.805 --> 02:12:02.605
Like, it wouldn't, like, make me hyper.

02:12:02.605 --> 02:12:04.525
This is me this is me on normal.

02:12:04.525 --> 02:12:06.605
Like, I tell my students that I'm like, this is me not

02:12:06.605 --> 02:12:07.164
caffeinated.

02:12:07.500 --> 02:12:11.100
Imagine what would happen if caffeine had an effect, and they're

02:12:11.100 --> 02:12:11.500
always like

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<v Eric>Well, you know, it's the same with salt. Sugar, actually.

02:12:18.619 --> 02:12:21.654
It's it's generally believed that salt causes high blood

02:12:21.654 --> 02:12:23.734
pressure, and I've had doctors tell me that, no.

02:12:23.734 --> 02:12:24.934
It it it really doesn't.

02:12:25.175 --> 02:12:28.054
It can, under certain circumstances and with excessive use,

02:12:28.054 --> 02:12:31.015
aggravate existing high blood pressure, but it doesn't cause high

02:12:31.015 --> 02:12:31.734
blood pressure.

02:12:31.734 --> 02:12:34.859
<v Sara>And and sugar is often thought to be something that kids hyper,

02:12:34.859 --> 02:12:38.460
and it it actually doesn't have any I mean, it's 1 of those cause

02:12:38.460 --> 02:12:41.579
and effect things where if you give a kid a bunch of candy Mhmm.

02:12:41.579 --> 02:12:44.300
They're gonna be excited just because they got a bunch of candy.

02:12:44.300 --> 02:12:46.859
It's not the sugar that's actually physiologically affecting

02:12:46.859 --> 02:12:47.100
them.

02:12:47.100 --> 02:12:49.545
It's the fact that they're being allowed to eat a bunch of candy

02:12:49.545 --> 02:12:51.704
when they're not normally allowed to do that. Yeah.

02:12:51.704 --> 02:12:53.465
But sugar itself, no.

02:12:53.625 --> 02:12:58.585
<v Eric>And they are discovering or maybe not discovering finally

02:12:58.585 --> 02:13:02.344
admitting that artificial sweeteners are actually worse for you

02:13:02.344 --> 02:13:03.800
than my god.

02:13:04.039 --> 02:13:07.880
Actually contribute to weight problems more than sugar itself

02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:08.360
does?

02:13:08.360 --> 02:13:11.720
<v Sara>Because they trigger the body to crave more of it, and then you

02:13:11.720 --> 02:13:14.760
end up actually, like, eating more thing.

02:13:14.760 --> 02:13:17.720
Because we don't people don't realize that there's sugar in so

02:13:17.244 --> 02:13:19.164
many things that you don't think there'd be sugar in.

02:13:19.164 --> 02:13:23.005
Like beyond just your typical cookies and candy and sweets and

02:13:23.005 --> 02:13:23.564
stuff like that.

02:13:23.564 --> 02:13:27.645
There's tons of sugar and things like bread and ketchup and like

02:13:27.645 --> 02:13:28.685
all of these other things.

02:13:28.685 --> 02:13:32.649
So like, you have these artificial sweeteners and they send

02:13:32.649 --> 02:13:35.449
signals to your brain that say, hey, we like this. We want more.

02:13:35.929 --> 02:13:39.210
And so subconsciously you eat more things that have sugar in them

02:13:39.210 --> 02:13:42.664
and things you might not necessarily associate as having lots of

02:13:42.664 --> 02:13:46.105
sugar, like bread or which carbs also have.

02:13:46.105 --> 02:13:49.065
So, yeah, there those artificial sweeteners, not great.

02:13:49.065 --> 02:13:51.864
This is not a medical podcast. Please do not take our advice.

02:13:51.864 --> 02:13:53.305
We're not medical doctors.

02:13:53.385 --> 02:13:55.560
<v Eric>But But we have played 1 on TV.

02:13:55.560 --> 02:13:57.719
<v Sara>But we have played 1 on TV. Anyway, keep going.

02:13:58.119 --> 02:14:03.239
<v Eric>Anyway, next, well, meanwhile, while all this other stuff is

02:14:03.239 --> 02:14:05.319
happening, Steele pulls Mulch out of the office into the

02:14:05.319 --> 02:14:08.119
reception area and sternly warns him that if they ever get out of

02:14:08.119 --> 02:14:09.560
this life, he's gonna kill him.

02:14:10.015 --> 02:14:10.335
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:14:10.335 --> 02:14:13.694
I love how Mulch's little shoulders just go down, and he's like,

02:14:13.694 --> 02:14:18.574
that's fair. Yeah. He's just totally defeated. Like, yep.

02:14:18.574 --> 02:14:19.454
I get it.

02:14:20.414 --> 02:14:23.454
<v Eric>Well, San Francisco opens the door and sticks his head out of

02:14:23.454 --> 02:14:27.979
Laura's office calling mister Steele, but Steele and Mulch both

02:14:27.979 --> 02:14:29.100
answer. Yeah.

02:14:29.100 --> 02:14:33.020
And San Francisco seems momentarily confused, Steele guesses

02:14:33.180 --> 02:14:36.380
Detroit? San Francisco, he corrects him.

02:14:36.460 --> 02:14:39.180
As Laura walks out of the utility room calling mister Steele.

02:14:39.515 --> 02:14:42.314
At the same time, Mildred walks out of Steele's office calling

02:14:42.314 --> 02:14:43.435
mister Steele.

02:14:44.555 --> 02:14:45.994
<v Sara>It's Steele funny.

02:14:46.234 --> 02:14:50.155
<v Eric>Steele and Mulch are momentarily confused and confounded, and San

02:14:50.155 --> 02:14:53.600
Francisco prompts, miss Holt? I know that.

02:14:53.600 --> 02:14:57.199
Mister Steele currently tells San Francisco as George follows

02:14:57.199 --> 02:14:58.880
Mildred into Steele's office.

02:14:59.119 --> 02:15:00.960
<v Sara>Yeah. They don't even know who they are anymore.

02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:02.000
They're so confused.

02:15:02.239 --> 02:15:05.359
<v Eric>Letting out a frustrated groan, Steele follows Laura back into

02:15:05.359 --> 02:15:09.335
the utility room, and San Francisco watches, raises an eyebrow in

02:15:09.335 --> 02:15:11.895
suspicion, and then steps back into the office.

02:15:12.375 --> 02:15:15.895
In the meantime, the sign painter just continues to paint on the

02:15:15.895 --> 02:15:16.774
door sign.

02:15:17.015 --> 02:15:18.935
<v Sara>He's probably thinking these people are weirdos.

02:15:20.500 --> 02:15:23.300
<v Eric>He's nowadays, he wouldn't even be paying attention.

02:15:23.300 --> 02:15:24.500
He'd have his earbuds in or

02:15:24.500 --> 02:15:26.020
<v Sara>headphones on. He'd just

02:15:26.180 --> 02:15:27.939
<v Eric>pop into some tunes or whatever.

02:15:27.939 --> 02:15:28.180
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:15:28.180 --> 02:15:30.340
The gunshots would go off, and he'd still be paying the sign.

02:15:30.340 --> 02:15:30.979
<v Eric>You know? Yeah.

02:15:30.979 --> 02:15:34.100
Because he's got noise canceling canceling your headphones on.

02:15:35.585 --> 02:15:38.944
Well, inside the utility room, missus Underwood is laying down

02:15:38.944 --> 02:15:41.744
the law with Steele and Laura warning them, no more games.

02:15:41.744 --> 02:15:43.824
You know what I want, and I want it now.

02:15:44.304 --> 02:15:46.864
Laura gives Steele a look that says, I don't believe this.

02:15:48.090 --> 02:15:51.209
She turns back to missus Underwood and demands, or else what?

02:15:51.210 --> 02:15:53.529
Are you gonna have Sean kill everyone in this office?

02:15:54.010 --> 02:15:56.969
A serfent dude raises his pistol, and we hear the sound of a

02:15:56.969 --> 02:15:59.849
hammer being pulled back to cock the gun as it does.

02:16:00.090 --> 02:16:04.305
Laura stiffens, an Urkel look on her face. Did I do that?

02:16:04.465 --> 02:16:06.305
<v Sara>Yeah. Exactly. Right?

02:16:07.025 --> 02:16:09.185
<v Eric>Did did you catch my earlier I

02:16:09.185 --> 02:16:11.345
<v Sara>got your I got your Urkel joke. Yeah.

02:16:11.345 --> 02:16:18.609
<v Eric>No. No. The the earlier, to family not family size.

02:16:18.929 --> 02:16:23.090
<v Sara>Family Matters. No. Family Matters was the Oracle show.

02:16:23.170 --> 02:16:25.329
<v Eric>No. No. But earlier, made a reference.

02:16:26.529 --> 02:16:27.969
You're in big trouble, mister.

02:16:27.969 --> 02:16:29.649
<v Sara>Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

02:16:30.529 --> 02:16:32.895
<v Eric>That show? Oh.

02:16:33.215 --> 02:16:35.854
<v Sara>0, yeah. I know what you I know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah.

02:16:36.254 --> 02:16:42.174
<v Eric>Anyway, Steele Steele groans and with the grimace on his face

02:16:42.174 --> 02:16:45.135
murmurs to Laura. Oh, I wish you hadn't said that. Right.

02:16:46.609 --> 02:16:49.809
Surfer dude opens the door to reception and gestures as missus

02:16:49.809 --> 02:16:52.450
Underwood rolls herself out followed by Laura and Steele.

02:16:52.689 --> 02:16:56.290
Meanwhile, in Steele's office, the reverend Rawlinson is telling

02:16:56.290 --> 02:16:57.969
Mulch, time's up, Steele.

02:16:57.969 --> 02:16:59.648
And then he tells the third man, let's go.

02:16:59.924 --> 02:17:02.645
And with the sound of yet another gun being caught, the group

02:17:02.645 --> 02:17:04.805
exits the office into reception.

02:17:05.364 --> 02:17:08.165
In Laura's office, San Francisco is telling Dallas and Detroit

02:17:08.165 --> 02:17:10.245
that something fishy is going on.

02:17:10.245 --> 02:17:11.924
He doesn't like it, and he's pulling out.

02:17:12.851 --> 02:17:15.569
The other 2 men look at him in silent agreement.

02:17:15.810 --> 02:17:18.690
They put their coffee cups on the desk and walk out to reception.

02:17:19.170 --> 02:17:22.770
As all 3 groups interception simultaneously, they all spot each

02:17:22.770 --> 02:17:27.170
other simultaneously. Missus Underwood hollers, Rollinson, shot.

02:17:27.344 --> 02:17:30.145
The reverend Rollinson hollers, Underwood.

02:17:30.305 --> 02:17:33.264
Missus Underwood yells, Sean, aka surfer dude.

02:17:33.264 --> 02:17:33.584
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:17:33.584 --> 02:17:37.184
<v Eric>Kurt. The reverend Rollinson yells, Kurt, aka the third man.

02:17:37.504 --> 02:17:39.984
Surfer dude and the third man begin shooting at each other.

02:17:39.984 --> 02:17:41.184
Everyone else begins to duck.

02:17:41.159 --> 02:17:44.120
The sign painter falls against the partially painted and still

02:17:44.120 --> 02:17:45.079
went sign.

02:17:45.239 --> 02:17:48.200
More shots are fired until the third man finally hits surfer dude

02:17:48.200 --> 02:17:51.079
with 1 shot causing surfer dude to fall back against the door

02:17:51.079 --> 02:17:51.560
frame.

02:17:51.799 --> 02:17:54.895
Mulch hops up to his feet in front of the third man, grabs the

02:17:54.895 --> 02:17:57.773
man's gun hand, and bites down hard on his hand, forcing the man

02:17:57.773 --> 02:18:01.055
to give up his gun in favor of grabbing his now painfully injured

02:18:01.055 --> 02:18:01.534
hand.

02:18:01.694 --> 02:18:05.934
Mildred rises to her feet, mouth agape, staring at Maltz who with

02:18:05.934 --> 02:18:07.215
an equally astonished look on

02:18:07.215 --> 02:18:08.975
<v Sara>his face, exclaims, I don't

02:18:08.975 --> 02:18:09.773
<v Eric>believe I did that.

02:18:10.079 --> 02:18:14.159
And and then apparently realizing he still has the gun in his

02:18:14.159 --> 02:18:16.799
hands, tosses it away like it's a a live snake.

02:18:16.799 --> 02:18:19.760
His Mildred response burned him. Wait in line.

02:18:20.239 --> 02:18:23.439
<v Sara>So when he does this, when he jumps up, I put in my notes.

02:18:23.604 --> 02:18:25.125
Like, this is what I have written.

02:18:25.125 --> 02:18:28.485
Wrote, Kurt hits Sean on the shoulder, and Mulch, in an act of

02:18:28.485 --> 02:18:32.245
heroism shocking to even himself, he jumps up, bites Kurt in the

02:18:32.245 --> 02:18:34.886
hand, gets his gun, and looks stunned afterwards.

02:18:34.965 --> 02:18:38.920
It's it's a really good moment for the actor who plays Walsh

02:18:38.920 --> 02:18:41.479
Michael Constantine just because the look at his face after he's

02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:43.239
bitten him. And he's just like,

02:18:43.719 --> 02:18:45.239
<v Eric>oh my god. I believe I did that.

02:18:45.239 --> 02:18:45.559
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:18:45.559 --> 02:18:48.760
And then how he throws the gun like it just burned his hand is

02:18:48.760 --> 02:18:49.399
really funny.

02:18:49.399 --> 02:18:54.546
<v Eric>It's good. Finally, the 1 thing that he did right Yeah.

02:18:57.985 --> 02:19:01.905
Laura is holding surfer dude's gun and tells Detroit, who's

02:19:01.905 --> 02:19:04.386
picking up the third man's gun, to keep his gun trained on

02:19:04.386 --> 02:19:07.511
brother Kurt, tells Mildred to call the police, tells Dallas to

02:19:07.511 --> 02:19:11.511
escort this man, Sean, to the hospital, and Dallas is all grins

02:19:11.511 --> 02:19:14.470
saying, my first outlaw. You betcha.

02:19:14.790 --> 02:19:16.149
<v Sara>He's so excited.

02:19:17.431 --> 02:19:18.069
<v Eric>He is.

02:19:18.534 --> 02:19:21.655
Lorahan's surfer dude's gun to San Francisco, instructing him to

02:19:21.655 --> 02:19:23.815
keep his eye on the reverend Rawlinson.

02:19:24.375 --> 02:19:27.895
Indignant, the reverend Rawlinson stiffens announcing that you

02:19:27.895 --> 02:19:31.014
can't hold me. I'm a man of the cloth. Sorry.

02:19:31.014 --> 02:19:33.015
Brother Kurt acted on his own free will.

02:19:33.094 --> 02:19:35.399
<v Sara>Like, no. That's not how it works, sir.

02:19:35.399 --> 02:19:37.560
You're you don't have diplomatic immunity.

02:19:37.960 --> 02:19:40.601
Being a reverend doesn't mean you get to kill and just wander

02:19:40.601 --> 02:19:43.640
off. I'm a man of the cloth. That's not how it works.

02:19:43.880 --> 02:19:46.120
<v Eric>Brother Kurt acted on his own free will.

02:19:46.555 --> 02:19:49.034
<v Sara>Sure. After you instructed him to shoot.

02:19:49.193 --> 02:19:54.475
<v Eric>Well, he turns and walks out, and no 1 attempts to stop him.

02:19:54.475 --> 02:19:56.875
<v Sara>Well, I mean, what are they they're not gonna shoot him, and I

02:19:56.875 --> 02:19:57.994
think he knows that. Right?

02:19:57.994 --> 02:19:58.635
<v Eric>Yeah. Exactly.

02:19:58.953 --> 02:20:00.299
<v Sara>Yeah. So

02:20:00.379 --> 02:20:02.939
<v Eric>Well, Laura tells Moulch to keep an eye on missus Underwood so

02:20:02.939 --> 02:20:05.500
that she doesn't get on the phone and call Vicky as she and

02:20:05.500 --> 02:20:08.540
Steele head out. Mildred wants to know where they're going.

02:20:09.180 --> 02:20:12.059
To the only person who still isn't looking for the package,

02:20:12.059 --> 02:20:15.100
Steele explains, then pointing to Laura, calls her brilliant.

02:20:15.315 --> 02:20:15.796
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:20:15.796 --> 02:20:19.716
I love how they don't even he knows exactly where she's going.

02:20:19.796 --> 02:20:21.954
Mhmm. He knows that that she's gotten there.

02:20:21.954 --> 02:20:23.075
He's gotten there too.

02:20:23.235 --> 02:20:26.194
And it's just a really cute little half second where we see

02:20:26.595 --> 02:20:27.796
they're in sync.

02:20:27.796 --> 02:20:30.114
And and in season 1, this wouldn't have been the case.

02:20:30.114 --> 02:20:31.155
He would have been like, where are you going?

02:20:31.170 --> 02:20:33.329
Where are you going? Did you figure it out? Tell me. Tell me.

02:20:33.329 --> 02:20:35.889
Tell me. But no. No. He's gotten there.

02:20:35.889 --> 02:20:38.129
Just she has gotten there. So, yeah, it's cute.

02:20:38.770 --> 02:20:41.569
<v Eric>Well, at the Underwood Estate, Vicky is bringing luggage out of

02:20:41.569 --> 02:20:43.649
the house and placing it into the trunk of the Mercedes.

02:20:44.245 --> 02:20:47.845
Taking her by surprise, Laura asks, going somewhere, Vicky?

02:20:48.325 --> 02:20:51.125
Somewhere far away, it would appear, Steele adds.

02:20:51.524 --> 02:20:55.125
Vicky begs them to leave her alone. She's gotta get out of here.

02:20:55.364 --> 02:20:58.729
And Steele, with a bit of sarcasm, asks, didn't mommy ever tell

02:20:58.729 --> 02:21:00.649
you murder's illegal in this state?

02:21:00.649 --> 02:21:02.810
<v Sara>Pretty sure it's illegal in every state.

02:21:05.931 --> 02:21:09.210
<v Eric>Murder, she asks, seemingly genuinely shot.

02:21:09.610 --> 02:21:12.409
Steele bluffs her, telling her that they know what's in the

02:21:12.409 --> 02:21:16.064
package. And out of the corner of her mouth, Laura asks, we do?

02:21:16.064 --> 02:21:16.704
<v Sara>We do.

02:21:16.784 --> 02:21:19.264
<v Eric>Steele murmurs an unintelligible response.

02:21:19.825 --> 02:21:23.185
Vicky lowers her head in shame, asking how they found out.

02:21:23.745 --> 02:21:27.120
Moving next to her, Steele asserts that it slipped out in a

02:21:27.120 --> 02:21:29.760
little soiree between your mother and the reverend Rawlinson.

02:21:30.398 --> 02:21:32.479
That phony, Vicky retorts.

02:21:32.479 --> 02:21:35.439
He videotaped me and Nikki in bed just so he could blackmail

02:21:35.439 --> 02:21:37.760
mommy. He needed 1000000 dollars.

02:21:38.799 --> 02:21:41.120
<v Sara>How? Did he videotape them in bed?

02:21:41.584 --> 02:21:44.145
Did he sneak into the house and set up a camera in the bedroom

02:21:44.145 --> 02:21:45.023
and then turn it on?

02:21:45.023 --> 02:21:47.104
Did he know they were gonna have, like, sleep together that

02:21:47.104 --> 02:21:48.225
night? How did he do it?

02:21:48.225 --> 02:21:50.305
I would really I mean, I don't wanna know how.

02:21:50.305 --> 02:21:51.584
I I don't really wanna know how.

02:21:51.584 --> 02:21:54.064
<v Eric>But, like, I would like to know. We get the answer.

02:21:54.064 --> 02:21:55.024
<v Sara>Did did they say?

02:21:55.184 --> 02:21:56.944
<v Eric>Later on, missus Underwood says.

02:21:57.560 --> 02:21:58.761
<v Sara>Oh, I missed. Okay.

02:21:58.761 --> 02:22:01.560
<v Eric>It's a setup. The whole thing is a setup.

02:22:01.560 --> 02:22:03.079
Nikki is part of the setup.

02:22:03.079 --> 02:22:06.520
<v Sara>Oh, that's right. Because she's the 1 okay. Sorry. Ignore me.

02:22:06.761 --> 02:22:10.520
Wow. My brain just blitzed out there on that. But yeah.

02:22:10.520 --> 02:22:11.925
<v Eric>You need coffee. I

02:22:14.405 --> 02:22:18.085
<v Sara>this is me not on cap this is my brain not on caffeine.

02:22:18.886 --> 02:22:20.325
Like, this is your brain, not drugs.

02:22:20.726 --> 02:22:21.765
<v Eric>She continues.

02:22:21.765 --> 02:22:24.084
He needed 1000000 dollars for his new church, and he knew how

02:22:24.084 --> 02:22:27.389
much Bummy would pay to keep me under her thumb, to keep Nicholas

02:22:27.389 --> 02:22:30.110
away from me, and that's why I'm leaving forever.

02:22:30.750 --> 02:22:33.148
Except that she didn't want anybody to have the tape, Laura

02:22:33.148 --> 02:22:36.270
accuses, saying that Vicky found out who her mother had hired to

02:22:36.270 --> 02:22:38.750
get the package, and then Vicky killed him.

02:22:38.750 --> 02:22:41.625
And then when it wasn't with the effects at the morgue, she went

02:22:41.625 --> 02:22:43.863
back to the bus station where she killed brother Nick, finally

02:22:43.863 --> 02:22:45.305
getting her hands on the tape.

02:22:45.783 --> 02:22:49.385
Steele clasps his hands, congratulating Laura on her excellent

02:22:49.385 --> 02:22:52.584
deduction, then declaring, we have you dead to rights for double

02:22:52.584 --> 02:22:53.545
murder, Vicky.

02:22:53.783 --> 02:22:54.950
<v Sara>Well, not really.

02:22:54.950 --> 02:22:57.431
I mean, at the point at this point, there's no real proof.

02:22:57.431 --> 02:22:59.671
They just I mean, they're right. But

02:23:00.149 --> 02:23:01.270
<v Eric>Yeah. Yeah.

02:23:01.270 --> 02:23:03.431
They they know they're right, but they can't really prove

02:23:03.431 --> 02:23:04.310
anything yet.

02:23:04.390 --> 02:23:07.030
Well, on the verge of tears, Vicky asserts that she doesn't have

02:23:07.030 --> 02:23:09.935
the tape. And why would she kill Nicholas? She loved him.

02:23:09.935 --> 02:23:12.415
They were going away together to start fresh away from her

02:23:12.415 --> 02:23:13.454
mother's grasp.

02:23:14.094 --> 02:23:17.375
Steele, unwillingly to give up entirely on Vicky as the culprit,

02:23:17.375 --> 02:23:20.254
says, fine. We've got you on 1 murder. We'll take it.

02:23:21.299 --> 02:23:24.500
Vicky then begins to lose control over tears insisting that she

02:23:24.500 --> 02:23:26.979
didn't kill the first man either. Mommy did.

02:23:27.139 --> 02:23:30.020
She didn't want to have to pay the money for the tape, and then

02:23:30.020 --> 02:23:33.219
she made Vicky claim the body because she still couldn't find

02:23:33.219 --> 02:23:33.780
that tape.

02:23:33.780 --> 02:23:37.415
And then when she saw Nicholas and then she begins to break down

02:23:37.415 --> 02:23:38.055
completely.

02:23:38.055 --> 02:23:40.215
<v Sara>She really puts on the waterworks here.

02:23:40.215 --> 02:23:40.774
<v Eric>Yes.

02:23:40.774 --> 02:23:44.216
Steele pulls Laura to the side and, in some confusion, asks,

02:23:44.454 --> 02:23:45.495
missus Underwood?

02:23:45.815 --> 02:23:51.130
Laura, pondering the seemingly new revelations, admits that it

02:23:51.130 --> 02:23:54.810
makes sense. Why would Vicky kill the man she loved?

02:23:54.970 --> 02:23:57.290
And the woman's hand at the station could have been missus

02:23:57.290 --> 02:24:00.250
Underwood's. Again, it wasn't a woman's hand.

02:24:00.250 --> 02:24:02.569
It was a man's hand. Yeah.

02:24:02.569 --> 02:24:05.770
But they were a ways away, so maybe they just mistook it.

02:24:06.065 --> 02:24:06.386
<v Sara>True.

02:24:06.386 --> 02:24:08.065
<v Eric>All except for 1 thing, Steele points out.

02:24:08.065 --> 02:24:10.944
How could a person who can't even walk drive?

02:24:11.345 --> 02:24:17.024
And Laura slowly responds with, unless that person actually can

02:24:17.024 --> 02:24:17.665
walk.

02:24:17.905 --> 02:24:18.864
<v Sara>So this is okay.

02:24:18.864 --> 02:24:22.149
I know that missus Underwood is not actually the culprit and that

02:24:22.149 --> 02:24:28.149
her need for the wheelchair 100% of the time is genuine as we

02:24:28.149 --> 02:24:28.629
see.

02:24:28.870 --> 02:24:31.590
But I would like to point out that a wheelchair does not

02:24:31.590 --> 02:24:34.389
necessarily mean a person can't walk. That's true.

02:24:34.389 --> 02:24:37.864
My my dad would sometimes use a wheel like, he had mobility

02:24:37.864 --> 02:24:40.424
issues and there were times where he was perfectly capable of

02:24:40.424 --> 02:24:43.145
walking and other times where he wasn't.

02:24:43.145 --> 02:24:46.504
And so when we went to places like Canada's Wonderland or big

02:24:46.504 --> 02:24:48.665
theme parks, we would often get the wheelchair because he

02:24:48.665 --> 02:24:50.670
couldn't do lengthy A

02:24:50.829 --> 02:24:51.629
<v Eric>lot of walking. Yeah.

02:24:51.629 --> 02:24:52.350
<v Sara>Walks. Right?

02:24:52.350 --> 02:24:55.790
So he would have a wheelchair there, but it wasn't necessary all

02:24:55.790 --> 02:24:58.190
the time. So, I mean, I get it. This is a TV show.

02:24:58.190 --> 02:25:00.510
And for the purpose of the TV show, we have to assume that she's

02:25:00.510 --> 02:25:03.555
unable to walk because that's why it's a suspicion.

02:25:03.555 --> 02:25:06.114
But, yeah, a wheelchair doesn't necessarily mean you can't walk.

02:25:06.114 --> 02:25:08.834
It just means that walking is a challenge for you and you need

02:25:08.834 --> 02:25:10.114
the wheelchair to help.

02:25:10.915 --> 02:25:17.420
<v Eric>And among the crowd that constitutes, we'll call them

02:25:17.420 --> 02:25:19.659
panhandlers. Yeah.

02:25:19.899 --> 02:25:23.020
Things like wheelchairs have become popular props.

02:25:23.340 --> 02:25:26.620
<v Sara>Yeah. Oh, for sure. I and and sorry.

02:25:26.620 --> 02:25:29.180
This is just a random thing, but it popped into my head, I

02:25:28.844 --> 02:25:30.443
figured you would share my outrage at this.

02:25:30.443 --> 02:25:32.844
We were at the grocery store Friday.

02:25:33.004 --> 02:25:34.523
<v Eric>You were at the grocery store? That's outrageous.

02:25:34.523 --> 02:25:36.924
<v Sara>Yes. Know how dare I go to Sobeys.

02:25:36.924 --> 02:25:41.404
We came out of the Sobeys and there was a Mercedes in the

02:25:41.404 --> 02:25:46.489
accessible parking space and it was parked on a on an angle.

02:25:46.489 --> 02:25:49.851
So it was taking up 2 accessible parking spaces, which would be

02:25:49.851 --> 02:25:52.810
bad enough, but it had no sticker.

02:25:52.890 --> 02:25:57.610
Somebody had literally taken up 2 accessible parking spaces, got

02:25:57.610 --> 02:26:01.745
out of their car and gone inside to go shopping and left it And I

02:26:01.745 --> 02:26:04.226
was just like, seriously, dude?

02:26:04.226 --> 02:26:06.784
Like and I don't know if it's a guy, but I say dude for

02:26:06.784 --> 02:26:08.784
everybody. Like Mhmm. Why would you do that?

02:26:08.784 --> 02:26:10.704
That's just that's a crap.

02:26:10.704 --> 02:26:13.024
Like, it was on and it wasn't even Mhmm.

02:26:13.024 --> 02:26:13.905
<v Eric>Anyway, sorry.

02:26:13.905 --> 02:26:19.170
Well, you know, there are times when certain vehicles, because of

02:26:19.170 --> 02:26:22.690
their size, have to take up multiple spaces. Sure.

02:26:22.610 --> 02:26:23.329
<v Sara>Not a sedan.

02:26:23.329 --> 02:26:26.690
<v Eric>You do that when you're you're far away in the parking lot.

02:26:26.690 --> 02:26:30.215
You're away from the main main area of parking where people are

02:26:30.215 --> 02:26:32.534
going to be typically parking.

02:26:32.854 --> 02:26:35.334
But then there's the people who do it just because they're jerks,

02:26:35.334 --> 02:26:37.975
you know, I've got a expensive car, and I don't want any

02:26:38.055 --> 02:26:39.174
<v Sara>This was a it was a

02:26:39.094 --> 02:26:39.815
<v Eric>banging into it.

02:26:39.815 --> 02:26:42.454
<v Sara>Sedan, and it just decided it was gonna, like

02:26:42.614 --> 02:26:42.854
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:26:42.854 --> 02:26:45.430
<v Sara>I was. We were leaving, and I was so tempted to, like

02:26:45.590 --> 02:26:47.510
<v Eric>And where's enforcement when you want them?

02:26:47.670 --> 02:26:48.389
<v Sara>Well, that's the thing.

02:26:48.389 --> 02:26:50.629
Like, I was really tempted to go inside and say, hey.

02:26:50.629 --> 02:26:53.270
You guys wanna call and let somebody know that there's somebody

02:26:53.270 --> 02:26:57.015
parked in the I should've. Maybe next time I will.

02:26:57.174 --> 02:26:59.976
<v Eric>I don't know about in your area, but if you tried to do that

02:26:59.976 --> 02:27:03.335
here, it's not my problem.

02:27:04.056 --> 02:27:04.534
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:27:04.534 --> 02:27:06.614
<v Eric>You know, they they they wouldn't they wouldn't call.

02:27:06.614 --> 02:27:08.774
They wouldn't care. They wouldn't do anything about it.

02:27:09.290 --> 02:27:13.529
And quite frankly and I don't blame the cops for this.

02:27:13.529 --> 02:27:14.250
<v Sara>That's fair.

02:27:14.250 --> 02:27:16.409
<v Eric>Yeah. The cops wouldn't show up either.

02:27:16.729 --> 02:27:18.010
<v Sara>Probably not. Probably not.

02:27:18.010 --> 02:27:19.689
That's why I didn't ultimately, I was like, yeah.

02:27:19.689 --> 02:27:22.250
It would take more effort to but it just made me angry because my

02:27:22.250 --> 02:27:25.575
dad had a sticker, and my dad would see this all the time, and my

02:27:25.575 --> 02:27:28.055
dad legitimately needed to to use his sticker.

02:27:28.055 --> 02:27:30.774
And there were times where we would go somewhere, and he'd go to

02:27:30.774 --> 02:27:34.215
park in the spot, and some idiot would be, again, taking up a

02:27:34.215 --> 02:27:36.171
spot without a sticker. So, anyway, just

02:27:36.489 --> 02:27:40.011
<v Eric>Well, the the 1 thing that annoys me about those is that there

02:27:40.170 --> 02:27:44.091
are businesses that just go overboard with them.

02:27:44.091 --> 02:27:49.690
They will have a whole row of, like, 10 or 15 parking spaces

02:27:49.924 --> 02:27:53.363
designated for handicap, and they're not that big of a store.

02:27:53.363 --> 02:27:57.125
I'm sorry. You don't need that many for a store that size.

02:27:57.764 --> 02:27:58.084
You know?

02:27:58.084 --> 02:28:02.181
It's just anyway, yeah, somebody just goes over the over the top.

02:28:02.181 --> 02:28:06.899
Anyway, next we see Mildred and Mulch come running out of the

02:28:06.899 --> 02:28:09.940
front of the Bay Building and around the corner to the side.

02:28:10.261 --> 02:28:12.899
Laura and Steele pull up in time to see them running and follow

02:28:12.899 --> 02:28:14.739
them, demanding to know what they're doing out there.

02:28:14.739 --> 02:28:15.780
And where's missus Underwood?

02:28:16.466 --> 02:28:19.825
Excitedly, Mulch says, you know how you told us on the phone that

02:28:19.825 --> 02:28:22.226
all we have to do is prove that the old lady can walk?

02:28:22.386 --> 02:28:25.745
We figured out a way how. No, Mulch.

02:28:26.625 --> 02:28:29.185
Laura looks in through the window at the side of missus Underwood

02:28:29.360 --> 02:28:32.640
in her wheelchair in a room filling with smoke, and in a panic

02:28:32.640 --> 02:28:35.440
asks, by setting fire to the office?

02:28:35.840 --> 02:28:39.681
<v Sara>First of all, there are other offices in this building.

02:28:40.239 --> 02:28:42.879
Like, if that fire got out of control Yeah.

02:28:43.594 --> 02:28:46.635
You know, like, they could take everybody out with them.

02:28:47.033 --> 02:28:50.475
So that's maybe not a good idea. That's a bad plan.

02:28:51.514 --> 02:28:55.273
<v Eric>Well, I understand mulch's logic, and I'll put logic in sarcasm

02:28:55.273 --> 02:29:00.649
quotes. It's in a metal garbage can. How's it gonna spread? Well

02:29:01.049 --> 02:29:02.889
<v Sara>Could get knocked over. Can. It can get

02:29:02.889 --> 02:29:03.450
<v Eric>knocked over.

02:29:03.450 --> 02:29:06.809
The can can get so hot that it ignites us the carpet that it's

02:29:06.809 --> 02:29:07.450
sitting on.

02:29:07.610 --> 02:29:11.129
Sparks from it can fly out and catch something else on fire.

02:29:11.129 --> 02:29:15.443
I mean, there's lots of different ways, but in a very, very

02:29:15.443 --> 02:29:20.325
narrow sense, mulch mulch kinda makes

02:29:20.645 --> 02:29:21.204
<v Sara>Again, it's

02:29:21.204 --> 02:29:21.764
<v Eric>1 of those ideas.

02:29:21.764 --> 02:29:24.004
<v Sara>It's 1 of those things where it's like, it's a good idea in

02:29:24.004 --> 02:29:27.319
theory, but maybe we shouldn't be putting it into practice.

02:29:27.319 --> 02:29:32.040
<v Eric>That's true. Yeah. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

02:29:32.120 --> 02:29:33.079
<v Sara>You should. Yeah.

02:29:33.879 --> 02:29:36.439
<v Eric>For instance, Mildred stutters out there.

02:29:36.439 --> 02:29:39.815
She's just an observer, and Mulch assures them that it's not

02:29:39.815 --> 02:29:41.976
dangerous. It's just a few rags. That's all.

02:29:42.614 --> 02:29:45.495
And as missus Underwood is desperately trying to make a phone

02:29:45.495 --> 02:29:48.454
call on the office phone, Mulch proudly explains that he just got

02:29:48.454 --> 02:29:51.015
disconnected the phone and bolted the door.

02:29:51.334 --> 02:29:56.629
<v Sara>What the hell? Smoke inhalation is is is really dangerous.

02:29:56.629 --> 02:29:59.431
And even if she could walk and she didn't get out in time, she

02:29:59.431 --> 02:30:01.591
could still die. She's not young.

02:30:01.989 --> 02:30:06.325
<v Eric>Yeah. And what rags would he have gotten? Rags from the painter.

02:30:06.325 --> 02:30:08.405
They've got paint on them. They've got

02:30:09.204 --> 02:30:12.564
<v Sara>It's like carcin like, what's the word? Not carcinogenic.

02:30:12.564 --> 02:30:13.125
Carcinogenic.

02:30:13.125 --> 02:30:14.565
<v Eric>Yeah. I mean yeah.

02:30:15.924 --> 02:30:19.780
And in a panic at least equals to Laura's, Steele shouts, are you

02:30:19.780 --> 02:30:22.420
crazy, Maltz? The woman's choking to death. Yeah.

02:30:22.420 --> 02:30:25.780
Steele looks and grabs a big rock, prepares it to throw it

02:30:25.780 --> 02:30:28.420
through the window, but Maltz stops him as missus Underwood

02:30:28.420 --> 02:30:30.181
struggles to get up from the chair.

02:30:30.420 --> 02:30:32.579
Maltz proudly asks, so I'm crazy.

02:30:33.694 --> 02:30:37.296
And then just then, missus Underwood loses her struggle to stand,

02:30:37.614 --> 02:30:41.534
falls face down on the floor. This poor old lady.

02:30:41.534 --> 02:30:44.015
<v Sara>I realized she's been an antagonist throughout this entire

02:30:44.015 --> 02:30:45.534
episode, but she doesn't deserve this.

02:30:47.520 --> 02:30:47.920
<v Eric>You know?

02:30:47.920 --> 02:30:50.959
And and when you understand the situation, you kinda understand

02:30:50.959 --> 02:30:51.840
her attitude.

02:30:52.158 --> 02:30:55.680
It doesn't doesn't doesn't doesn't excuse it, but you can at

02:30:55.680 --> 02:30:56.479
least understand it.

02:30:56.479 --> 02:30:56.879
<v Sara>No.

02:30:56.879 --> 02:30:59.439
There's a difference between her and, say, somebody like missus

02:30:59.439 --> 02:31:01.279
Armdale who's just like, kill him, Willard.

02:31:01.279 --> 02:31:02.238
<v Eric>Kill him all. Kill him all.

02:31:04.614 --> 02:31:07.415
Steele throws the rock through the window, fights his way through

02:31:07.415 --> 02:31:10.534
the large sections of fragmented glass that are still in place,

02:31:10.854 --> 02:31:13.095
and runs over to missus Underwood, picks her up.

02:31:13.334 --> 02:31:16.454
Laura comes in, grabs the smoking garbage can, and after Mildred

02:31:16.454 --> 02:31:19.560
and Mulch climb in through the window, he throws the can out.

02:31:20.120 --> 02:31:23.239
Steele carries missus Underwood into the reception, lays her on

02:31:23.239 --> 02:31:26.680
the sofa, and asks if she's okay, and then instructs Mulch, who

02:31:26.680 --> 02:31:29.479
has also come into the reception along with Laura and Mildred, to

02:31:29.479 --> 02:31:31.079
get missus Underwood a glass of water.

02:31:32.254 --> 02:31:35.055
At Steele's prompting to say something, missus Underwood's first

02:31:35.055 --> 02:31:38.174
words are, of course, a complaint and a criticism.

02:31:38.174 --> 02:31:39.614
Your phones don't work.

02:31:41.934 --> 02:31:42.494
<v Sara>Is like

02:31:42.494 --> 02:31:43.534
<v Eric>prime lady.

02:31:44.094 --> 02:31:47.511
<v Sara>She's like, she's like the prime old lady stuff.

02:31:47.511 --> 02:31:50.229
Like, the first thing you do is, do you know your phones don't

02:31:50.229 --> 02:31:52.950
work, young man? Also, he really kills

02:31:52.870 --> 02:31:57.671
<v Eric>Steele tells her not to worry, assuring her that they will take

02:31:57.671 --> 02:31:58.710
care of the problem.

02:31:58.790 --> 02:32:01.750
And, of course, he's glaring daggers at Mulch as he says this.

02:32:02.265 --> 02:32:02.665
Yeah.

02:32:02.665 --> 02:32:05.784
Mildred takes the glass of water from Mulch, telling him that

02:32:05.784 --> 02:32:08.665
he's done enough for 1 day and then holds out the glass for the

02:32:08.665 --> 02:32:09.626
woman to drink.

02:32:10.104 --> 02:32:13.546
Laura apologizes and again asks if the woman is alright.

02:32:13.704 --> 02:32:17.420
Finally, breaking character, missus Underwood smiles up at Steele

02:32:17.420 --> 02:32:19.979
telling him that he saved her life.

02:32:21.020 --> 02:32:24.059
Nodding, Steele turns to Laura asking if she understands what

02:32:24.059 --> 02:32:27.180
this means. Realization dawns on her.

02:32:27.674 --> 02:32:30.795
They were right in the first place. It's Vicky.

02:32:31.354 --> 02:32:34.475
Missus Underwood tells them that Vicky went crazy when she told

02:32:34.475 --> 02:32:38.074
her that Nick didn't love her and that he only did it to help

02:32:38.074 --> 02:32:38.953
with the blackmail.

02:32:38.953 --> 02:32:42.579
<v Sara>So he okay. That's who taped them. That makes more sense.

02:32:42.579 --> 02:32:44.181
<v Eric>He set it up with the rev.

02:32:44.739 --> 02:32:48.500
<v Sara>Yeah. It makes more sense to have, like because yeah.

02:32:48.500 --> 02:32:49.140
How would you

02:32:49.300 --> 02:32:51.380
<v Eric>Well, see, they they wouldn't do it at mommy's house.

02:32:51.380 --> 02:32:54.020
They had to go somewhere, so they probably got a motel, which the

02:32:54.020 --> 02:32:57.876
rev had already set up with cameras and such. So there you go.

02:32:58.034 --> 02:32:58.515
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:32:58.515 --> 02:33:02.354
<v Eric>And Steele asks if missus Underwood knows where Vicky was going.

02:33:02.755 --> 02:33:05.875
Well, we have a scene change with a close-up of people's legs as

02:33:05.875 --> 02:33:08.114
we hear the voice of the reverend Rawlinson.

02:33:08.114 --> 02:33:08.835
<v Sara>More words.

02:33:08.835 --> 02:33:12.034
<v Eric>Let's talk about faith. Faith is not something you can buy.

02:33:12.489 --> 02:33:14.569
Faith is not something you can borrow.

02:33:14.810 --> 02:33:16.890
Faith is not something you can barter.

02:33:17.530 --> 02:33:19.930
<v Sara>Apparently, it isn't his church because he's he's bilking them

02:33:19.930 --> 02:33:22.489
for money. Like, you can buy it according to him.

02:33:23.530 --> 02:33:26.649
<v Eric>And he has faith that they will give him more money. Exactly.

02:33:27.235 --> 02:33:29.875
As we hear him speaking, we see the legs of a woman in a

02:33:29.875 --> 02:33:32.915
wheelchair as the woman's hands maneuver the chair forward.

02:33:33.395 --> 02:33:40.340
The camera pans up, revealing first a black revealing a rented

02:33:40.340 --> 02:33:44.181
lips, revealing first a blanket draped over the female figure and

02:33:44.181 --> 02:33:46.979
then up to her face, which is also draped to the blanket.

02:33:46.979 --> 02:33:48.819
And, of course, we see that it's Vicky.

02:33:49.700 --> 02:33:53.299
The reverend Rawlinson continues as Vicky continues to roll to

02:33:53.299 --> 02:33:54.181
the front of the studio.

02:33:55.415 --> 02:33:59.495
We see Laura and Steele coming into the studio from the side in

02:33:59.495 --> 02:34:02.534
some of the doors that are on on the side of the the room, and

02:34:02.534 --> 02:34:04.694
they are looking out over the congregates.

02:34:05.174 --> 02:34:08.774
As the reverend Rawlinson continues to call, do I hear an amen?

02:34:09.310 --> 02:34:13.229
Laura sees Vicky raising a pistol and aiming it at the reverend.

02:34:13.550 --> 02:34:16.911
Laura rushes at Vicky. Steele rushes it to the reverend.

02:34:16.989 --> 02:34:18.431
Steele knocks him down to the floor.

02:34:18.431 --> 02:34:21.069
Laura grabs the gun in Vicky's hand, jerking it up toward the

02:34:21.069 --> 02:34:22.351
ceiling as the shot goes off.

02:34:23.284 --> 02:34:26.405
Though, arguably, Laura may have had as much to do with the shot

02:34:26.405 --> 02:34:27.765
going off as Vicky did.

02:34:28.165 --> 02:34:30.966
And as Laura finally wrestles the gun from Vicky's hand, the

02:34:30.966 --> 02:34:32.886
gathered stand looking on.

02:34:33.284 --> 02:34:37.284
Laura firmly tells Vicky that this time, she really does have

02:34:37.284 --> 02:34:39.761
something to cry about. First degree murder.

02:34:39.840 --> 02:34:42.159
<v Sara>Well, attempted. Well, no. That's not true. She did.

02:34:42.159 --> 02:34:44.800
She ran over 2 people. So, yeah, first degree murder.

02:34:44.959 --> 02:34:47.360
<v Eric>Well, I I I still say that

02:34:48.159 --> 02:34:50.399
<v Sara>The second 1 was not her. Yeah. The second

02:34:50.399 --> 02:34:53.375
<v Eric>1 was not her, but she she's responsible for, yeah.

02:34:53.375 --> 02:34:56.575
She she didn't do Nikki, but she did the, did Larry.

02:34:56.976 --> 02:34:59.375
That sounds wrong. Poor Larry.

02:34:59.375 --> 02:34:59.935
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:35:05.310 --> 02:35:07.389
<v Eric>Especially since she picked him up from the work.

02:35:07.389 --> 02:35:09.709
Steele helps the reverend Rawlinson as the reverend Rawlinson

02:35:09.709 --> 02:35:13.069
proclaims that he could have been killed and says, thank God.

02:35:13.469 --> 02:35:16.750
Steele, jerking the reverend Rawlinson's arm behind him, warns

02:35:16.750 --> 02:35:20.155
the reverend not to be too grateful to God since he undoubtedly

02:35:20.155 --> 02:35:22.315
wants the reverend to pay for his sins.

02:35:22.395 --> 02:35:26.155
<v Sara>Amen. I'll say amen to that. What a jerk.

02:35:27.114 --> 02:35:30.315
<v Eric>Back at the Bay Building, the sign painter is scraping off the

02:35:30.315 --> 02:35:32.795
paint from the sign that he has obviously completed.

02:35:33.890 --> 02:35:38.050
Maltz is sitting on the edge of Mildred's desk, dejected as Laura

02:35:38.050 --> 02:35:40.851
and Steele assured Dallas, Detroit, and San Francisco that they

02:35:40.851 --> 02:35:43.090
really do appreciate their expressing an interest in the

02:35:43.090 --> 02:35:43.649
business.

02:35:44.209 --> 02:35:47.835
The 3 men assure Laura and Steele that they are still interested

02:35:47.915 --> 02:35:50.715
with San Francisco telling them, I think you're making a big

02:35:50.715 --> 02:35:53.915
mistake. Detroit says, it really was exciting.

02:35:54.075 --> 02:35:55.755
I'm sorry you changed your minds.

02:35:55.995 --> 02:35:59.354
And Dallas asserting that if you ever reconsider, I want you to

02:35:59.354 --> 02:36:00.155
give me a call a year.

02:36:00.829 --> 02:36:01.309
<v Sara>And

02:36:01.309 --> 02:36:06.029
<v Eric>then Dallas adds that George here is is as he puts it, 1 hell of

02:36:06.029 --> 02:36:06.829
a salesman.

02:36:07.469 --> 02:36:11.309
After the 3 men leave, Steele tries to cheer Mulch up saying, all

02:36:11.309 --> 02:36:12.109
is forgiven.

02:36:12.109 --> 02:36:14.909
Franchising the agency isn't such a bad idea on paper.

02:36:15.515 --> 02:36:16.636
<v Sara>But It's not.

02:36:17.354 --> 02:36:20.795
<v Eric>Laura adds that the last thing mister Steele and I need getting

02:36:20.795 --> 02:36:22.476
between us is more paperwork.

02:36:22.476 --> 02:36:22.954
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:36:22.954 --> 02:36:26.155
Like, on paper, it could work if they again, if they don't have a

02:36:26.395 --> 02:36:29.034
every franchise with a guy pretending to be Steele.

02:36:29.500 --> 02:36:31.739
<v Eric>And they don't have George Balch anywhere near it.

02:36:31.739 --> 02:36:32.059
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:36:32.059 --> 02:36:35.020
If they had somebody that they trust vetting everybody that's

02:36:35.020 --> 02:36:38.620
gets hired and and yeah. It could but Mhmm.

02:36:38.620 --> 02:36:41.180
Obviously, that's not what they wanna do. Yeah. So yeah.

02:36:41.180 --> 02:36:42.780
It makes sense not to do it.

02:36:42.780 --> 02:36:47.625
<v Eric>But not to be consoled, George despondently says, I don't know.

02:36:47.625 --> 02:36:50.584
It just seems like that brass ring is forever beyond my reach.

02:36:50.584 --> 02:36:51.545
<v Sara>Poor guy.

02:36:51.545 --> 02:36:54.504
<v Eric>Oh, well. It would probably corrode my hands anyway.

02:36:55.145 --> 02:36:58.023
Mildred tries her hand at cheering up mulch, telling him that

02:36:58.023 --> 02:37:00.104
when you fall off a horse, you gotta get back on.

02:37:00.640 --> 02:37:03.601
Has she not learned Don't encourage

02:37:03.601 --> 02:37:04.799
<v Sara>him. Don't encourage

02:37:04.799 --> 02:37:08.479
<v Eric>him. How many times has she gotten in trouble for for Right?

02:37:08.560 --> 02:37:09.760
Telling people that yeah.

02:37:09.760 --> 02:37:14.079
But she adds to him, of course, just don't straddle hours next

02:37:14.079 --> 02:37:14.560
time.

02:37:14.640 --> 02:37:14.959
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:37:17.174 --> 02:37:20.854
<v Eric>And phone rings. Yeah. The phone rings, and Mulch picks it up.

02:37:20.854 --> 02:37:23.814
As he's talking, Laura tells Steele that they actually didn't do

02:37:23.814 --> 02:37:24.614
too badly.

02:37:24.614 --> 02:37:28.534
They prevented 1 murder, solved 2 others, and rid the religious

02:37:28.534 --> 02:37:29.655
world of 1 bad apple.

02:37:30.409 --> 02:37:34.090
Steele reminds her that she had San Francisco or that she had

02:37:34.090 --> 02:37:36.010
called San Francisco a boring city.

02:37:36.090 --> 02:37:37.129
<v Sara>San Diego.

02:37:37.370 --> 02:37:39.770
<v Eric>That's what I said.

02:37:40.489 --> 02:37:41.370
<v Sara>Sure. Sure.

02:37:42.915 --> 02:37:46.114
<v Eric>Somebody's been in here changing my notes again, and I think I

02:37:46.114 --> 02:37:46.995
know who it was.

02:37:47.234 --> 02:37:48.674
<v Sara>Oh, yeah. I'm doing it from

02:37:48.674 --> 02:37:50.995
<v Eric>from all the way in Canada. That's right.

02:37:52.434 --> 02:37:55.395
As they turn to leave, Laura walking out ahead of Steele.

02:37:56.510 --> 02:37:59.389
Steele tells Malch goodbye, but Malch calls out to him.

02:37:59.389 --> 02:38:01.629
It's Dallas. He's calling from a phone booth.

02:38:01.629 --> 02:38:06.030
He says he'll pay us $50 cash to reconsider. Cash.

02:38:07.068 --> 02:38:13.584
Steele's eyes Gets this huge gun on his face, seemingly eager to

02:38:13.584 --> 02:38:15.185
pursue the conversation further.

02:38:15.345 --> 02:38:18.944
But Laura returns calling out, coming, mister Steele? Yep.

02:38:19.185 --> 02:38:23.425
And Steele, realizing that the moment has passed, pastes a

02:38:23.425 --> 02:38:26.930
somewhat insincere smile on his face calling out, behind you all

02:38:26.930 --> 02:38:29.329
the way, miss Holt, as he turns back toward her.

02:38:29.729 --> 02:38:32.689
Laura and Steele look back at Mulch who's gritting his teeth, and

02:38:32.689 --> 02:38:35.969
we see Steele silently mouth the words, George, I'm sorry.

02:38:36.129 --> 02:38:39.329
<v Sara>Yeah. And that's funny too. That is a cute little I'm sorry.

02:38:39.625 --> 02:38:43.225
Like, you just you know, you dangle money in front of steel, and

02:38:43.225 --> 02:38:45.783
there's gonna be a part of him that's always like, yeah. Money?

02:38:45.783 --> 02:38:48.504
He's like 1 of those meerkats. You know?

02:38:48.504 --> 02:38:50.905
He just pops up like, money, money, money, money.

02:38:51.704 --> 02:38:53.625
<v Eric>I can go for that. Yeah. Yeah.

02:38:57.200 --> 02:38:59.280
<v Sara>This is this is a cute 1. I I yeah.

02:38:59.280 --> 02:39:04.959
It's funny because, again, I not let like, scene 4 is just it's

02:39:04.959 --> 02:39:09.864
crushing it in in the sense that, like, we just had steel on the

02:39:09.864 --> 02:39:10.745
air was fun.

02:39:11.226 --> 02:39:14.425
Dancer, Prince of Daughter, like I said, that's 1 of my favorites

02:39:14.425 --> 02:39:17.306
of the entire series. Coffee to your steel is really good.

02:39:17.306 --> 02:39:18.585
Premium steel is good.

02:39:18.825 --> 02:39:21.799
Corn even corn fed, which we had said wasn't as good as some of

02:39:21.799 --> 02:39:22.760
the others, is still good.

02:39:22.760 --> 02:39:26.280
It's just it's sandwiched between forged and, you know, and then

02:39:26.280 --> 02:39:28.840
you've got, like, grappling and steel blushing.

02:39:28.840 --> 02:39:33.559
Like, the whole season so far, I don't think we've had 1 true dud

02:39:33.559 --> 02:39:37.454
yet. Like, they've just been was just funny.

02:39:37.454 --> 02:39:40.094
It's got a lot of wackiness, a lot of zaniness, a lot of that

02:39:40.094 --> 02:39:44.654
madcap screwball comedy, a lot of that, like, mistaken identity

02:39:44.654 --> 02:39:45.854
stuff that's really funny.

02:39:45.854 --> 02:39:48.094
You've got Maltz who always adds some comedy.

02:39:48.094 --> 02:39:50.829
Mildred is is a big part of the episode, which I think always

02:39:50.829 --> 02:39:53.229
makes an episode better when Mildred has a big part in it.

02:39:53.229 --> 02:39:54.909
It is just yeah. Well, I

02:39:54.909 --> 02:39:58.350
<v Eric>I think they finally found their stride, you know, after a few

02:39:58.350 --> 02:39:59.069
seasons.

02:39:59.069 --> 02:40:03.755
And we we've as we go through season 4, we've seen a lot of

02:40:03.755 --> 02:40:07.034
repeat writer names. So we've seen a few new ones.

02:40:07.034 --> 02:40:07.194
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:40:07.194 --> 02:40:09.114
<v Eric>But mostly, it's been a lot of repeats.

02:40:09.114 --> 02:40:12.875
So you've got people who have really come to know and understand

02:40:12.875 --> 02:40:13.595
the characters.

02:40:13.595 --> 02:40:14.075
<v Sara>Yeah.

02:40:14.075 --> 02:40:17.280
<v Eric>They've come to know and understand the actors and how to write

02:40:17.280 --> 02:40:20.720
for them and how to best utilize their talents. Absolutely.

02:40:20.800 --> 02:40:26.079
Because there's been so much slapstick and near slapstick and and

02:40:26.079 --> 02:40:29.235
zaniness in this season. Yeah.

02:40:29.235 --> 02:40:32.754
That wasn't necessarily present, especially in season 3.

02:40:33.155 --> 02:40:34.194
<v Sara>Yeah. Yeah.

02:40:34.194 --> 02:40:37.155
<v Eric>So so it's it's really yeah.

02:40:37.155 --> 02:40:39.795
It's it's just like they finally hit their stride.

02:40:40.114 --> 02:40:43.760
<v Sara>What I was saying before too that my my complaint in the third

02:40:43.760 --> 02:40:46.879
season wasn't necessarily that there wasn't enough romance

02:40:46.879 --> 02:40:48.560
between Steele and Laura during the freeze.

02:40:48.560 --> 02:40:51.760
It was just that it was it's they were so busy having them both

02:40:51.760 --> 02:40:57.120
pursue the cases individually that they didn't even have that

02:40:56.235 --> 02:40:59.834
that banter, that feeling of back and forth at all.

02:40:59.834 --> 02:41:01.034
Like, they just weren't there.

02:41:01.034 --> 02:41:04.715
Whereas this episode, there's not a single I mean, other other

02:41:04.715 --> 02:41:08.155
than a sperm whale comment, there's no romance between them

02:41:08.155 --> 02:41:09.674
anywhere in this episode. Mhmm.

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And it it doesn't matter because it's just really funny and it's

02:41:12.590 --> 02:41:13.229
really well done.

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And, like, that feeling, that zany sort of chemistry between them

02:41:16.030 --> 02:41:19.069
is there, the rolling their eyes, her getting stuck on the gate,

02:41:19.069 --> 02:41:22.110
him getting stuck on the gate. Like Well You know?

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<v Eric>But in in the sense that there is that interaction between the 2.

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<v Sara>Yes. It yeah.

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<v Eric>Is that that banter that you have between 2 people that have this

02:41:34.215 --> 02:41:35.575
kind of a relationship? Yeah.

02:41:35.575 --> 02:41:40.379
There is that that underpinning of romance there because you

02:41:40.379 --> 02:41:43.260
don't have this kind of relationship with somebody that you don't

02:41:43.260 --> 02:41:46.379
have Yeah. You know, a strong relationship with.

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<v Sara>There doesn't need to be a subplot of him trying to get her into

02:41:49.180 --> 02:41:50.539
some situation and then her.

02:41:50.625 --> 02:41:52.704
Like, they just don't always have to be that.

02:41:52.704 --> 02:41:55.424
Sometimes they just really play well off each other, and the

02:41:55.424 --> 02:41:55.745
writer

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<v Eric>Mhmm.

02:41:56.145 --> 02:41:59.104
<v Sara>Radkirn understands this and has them doing that throughout the

02:41:59.104 --> 02:42:01.905
entire episode, and it's funny as hell. It's really good.

02:42:01.905 --> 02:42:03.104
<v Eric>Yeah. It's I mean, it's Yeah.

02:42:03.104 --> 02:42:07.750
The it it's and that that last big sequence whether, you know,

02:42:07.750 --> 02:42:11.270
from 1 office to the next to the next, it's steel is steel, but,

02:42:11.270 --> 02:42:12.389
no, he's he's

02:42:12.389 --> 02:42:14.549
<v Sara>more mature. The noble. Yeah. I

02:42:15.189 --> 02:42:17.988
<v Eric>mean, that's that classic classic, what is it?

02:42:17.988 --> 02:42:21.034
French farce, the the doors, you know, constantly.

02:42:21.034 --> 02:42:24.475
It's that's what that is. It's it's more verbal than that.

02:42:24.475 --> 02:42:25.034
<v Sara>Yeah. It's

02:42:25.354 --> 02:42:28.795
<v Eric>But it it's it's got the physical elements, and it's got the

02:42:28.795 --> 02:42:32.075
verbal elements of that that are just heightened.

02:42:32.075 --> 02:42:33.194
It's just it's great.

02:42:33.819 --> 02:42:36.459
<v Sara>Yeah. So I'm thumbs up to this 1 because it's

02:42:36.459 --> 02:42:36.780
<v Eric>a lot

02:42:36.700 --> 02:42:39.500
<v Sara>And of I I get it. It's 1 of those ones that I forget.

02:42:40.139 --> 02:42:43.659
I I sometimes forget that it is a lot of fun until I rewatch it.

02:42:43.659 --> 02:42:46.060
I'm like, oh, yeah. I remember this 1. This is good.

02:42:46.139 --> 02:42:47.340
So, yeah, I enjoyed it.

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<v Eric>Alright.

02:42:48.796 --> 02:42:51.515
Well, if that's it, then we'll remind everybody about the

02:42:51.515 --> 02:42:55.435
website, steelwatching.com, where you'll find show notes, Amazon

02:42:55.435 --> 02:42:57.274
links to the Maltese Falcon.

02:42:57.834 --> 02:43:00.636
Should I throw in the third man since I can't probably read that

02:43:00.636 --> 02:43:01.515
as a reference?

02:43:01.675 --> 02:43:02.476
<v Sara>No. Maybe.

02:43:04.180 --> 02:43:07.700
<v Eric>And links to various resources such as?

02:43:08.180 --> 02:43:13.299
<v Sara>The Facebook page, the Instagram page, the Twitter, as well as

02:43:13.299 --> 02:43:16.738
our officially unofficial officially unofficial?

02:43:16.738 --> 02:43:19.754
That's not a word. Officially unofficial.

02:43:20.715 --> 02:43:23.594
Steel Watchers fan group, which is is not officially affiliated

02:43:23.594 --> 02:43:26.555
with the podcast, but they they have so many people.

02:43:26.555 --> 02:43:30.950
And we just had so many join that said they found the group

02:43:30.950 --> 02:43:31.989
through the podcast.

02:43:31.989 --> 02:43:35.750
So, yeah, come and join us and talk about Remington Steele as

02:43:35.750 --> 02:43:37.750
much as you like because that's what we do.

02:43:38.469 --> 02:43:42.709
<v Eric>And on our web page, you will also find links that you can use to

02:43:42.284 --> 02:43:46.204
either subscribe as our our new subscriber did and and our others

02:43:46.364 --> 02:43:50.444
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02:43:55.500 --> 02:43:56.939
<v Sara>Yeah. We're not gonna give you a sermon.

02:43:56.939 --> 02:43:59.260
We're not pulling a reverend Rawlinson. You're you're

02:43:59.500 --> 02:44:00.379
<v Eric>That's right.

02:44:00.540 --> 02:44:02.619
<v Sara>Unlike the reverend, you're actually getting something in

02:44:02.619 --> 02:44:03.260
returns.

02:44:03.578 --> 02:44:03.979
<v Eric>Yeah.

02:44:03.979 --> 02:44:07.500
And and as a reminder, if you do contribute, if you are a

02:44:07.500 --> 02:44:12.604
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02:44:21.004 --> 02:44:21.165
<v Sara>if

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<v Eric>you are a 1 time supporter, we're gonna give you a month's worth.

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That's 2 episodes of access to our live recordings. So

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<v Sara>But wait. There's more. Call now and receive yours. Sorry.

02:44:31.479 --> 02:44:33.720
I just had to do that. Anyway

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<v Eric>ShamWow. Alright. Next episode is gonna be steel spawning.

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I love I know you don't like this 1, but I love this 1.

02:44:46.363 --> 02:44:47.485
I think it's great.

02:44:47.564 --> 02:44:48.764
<v Sara>I'm saying nothing.

02:44:50.684 --> 02:44:55.750
<v Eric>So this is your version of dancer dasher dancer prancer and

02:44:56.149 --> 02:44:58.790
Dunner and Blitz and then Steele and

02:44:59.670 --> 02:45:02.629
<v Sara>for me. What what are you doing here? I'm like I don't know.

02:45:02.629 --> 02:45:05.909
<v Eric>That that's that's the 1 I that you like that I I don't

02:45:05.909 --> 02:45:08.565
particularly care for. This is this is the reverse. So Okay.

02:45:08.565 --> 02:45:09.204
<v Sara>But Alright.

02:45:09.204 --> 02:45:12.165
<v Eric>Yeah. And you get to run

02:45:12.165 --> 02:45:15.604
<v Sara>it. Yeah. I know. I know. I know.

02:45:17.125 --> 02:45:19.924
<v Eric>Alright. Well, hey. That's it, everybody. Thanks for joining us.

02:45:19.924 --> 02:45:21.284
We'll talk to you later. Bye bye.

02:45:21.284 --> 02:45:21.764
<v Sara>Bye bye.

02:45:22.799 --> 02:45:24.799
<v Eric>Hey, everybody. Eric and Sara here.

02:45:24.799 --> 02:45:28.559
Just a quick announcement to let you know that, yes, we do

02:45:28.559 --> 02:45:32.159
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<v Eric>And Sara, does that include our mistakes and screw ups and our

02:46:03.409 --> 02:46:04.209
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02:46:05.825 --> 02:46:07.344
<v Sara>Every single 1 of them.

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02:46:08.944 --> 02:46:12.305
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