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Charlotte!
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I know you're listening to me Charlotte.
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Hear me
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I've just read the new manuscript.
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What do you want me to make of it Charlotte?
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You know I can't stand still for this, I won't!
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It's as simple as that.
Charlotte? Charlotte!!
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It's 11 o'clock and the phone hasn't rung.
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Nobody's waiting in reception.
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Laura!
It's been this way for a week!
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It happens every year this time
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Holidays, peace on earth,
goodwill to all men.
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Nice thought...
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but it really raises havoc with
the balance sheet.
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Laura, ten letter word for lexicon?
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- Did you look it up?
- Of course I did.
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Dictionary!
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How long does this usually last?
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Till after New Years
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Have to give everyone's resolutions
time to wear off.
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What I wouldn't give for
a nice, juicy murder.
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What?
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"Seen about town,
famous sleuth Remington Steele...
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and publishing kingpin Russell Forsyth,
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can a Remington Steele book
be far behind?".
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He writes?
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When I get through with him,
he won't be able to read!
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Where is Dostoevsky?
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Chapter One.
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It was the best of times...
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it was the worst of times.
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Shouldn't that be : "it was both
the best and the worst of times?"?
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Really?
Yes, you're quite right.
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Much more economical.
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How dare you?
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Ah...ha...I, uh,
I feel the creative juices ebbing,
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perhaps we should call it a day.
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- Who is Russell Forsyth?
- Russell Forsyth?
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A most successful publisher,
a man of great taste.
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He's asked me to write a book
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Mm-hmm, "Remington Steele's
Ten Most Famous Cases.".
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Planning a career in fiction, are we?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, Miss Holt,...
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but I sense a certain lack of
enthusiasm on your behalf.
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You haven't had ten most famous cases.
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You haven't had ten cases!
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Really, Laura,
this preoccupation with details...
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I'm going to tell you something,
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listen to it...
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digest it, try to remember it.
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You are NOT Remington Steele,
I made him up.
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You are playing a part!... For me!
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I want you to pick up that phone,
call Russell Forsyth...
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and tell him you've had a change of heart.
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- Or shall I?
- A book by and about Remington Steele...
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could create a demand for
the Agency's services...
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where people have never even
heard of us before.
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Imagine! Branches in New York,
Paris, London!
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Why we could end up in shopping malls,
think of it Laura.
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Whole families going to the mall...
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buying sneakers, picking up snow tires,
leaving clues?
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- Dial!
- As it happens...
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Russell's invited me to a party
this evening
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I'd truly hate to spoil the frivolities
with business talk...
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- but, if I must...
- You must!
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What time will you be picking me up?
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So who else is going to be at this party?
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Actually, it's being held to
celebrate the completion...
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of a new manuscript
by Charlotte Knight.
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Charlotte Knight?
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Have you ever read any of her books?
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Every thigh is creamy white,
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every breast is full and heaving.
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Men don't caress their women,
they seize them
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and people don't meet
and fall in love...
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they have zipless encounters
and disappear into the night.
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How quaint. Sounds as if you're
quite a fan of this Ms Knight's.
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Well, no, no...
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- I've never actually read any of her books
- Of course.
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I've just heard about them.
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- Mm-hmm, reading is such a chore
- Yes.
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Do you see him yet?
I don't want to waste a lot of time on this.
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Laura, I do think we should wait
for an opportune moment.
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- I just don't want you beating around the bush
- Bush beating? Me?
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Do keep in mind, these people
think you work for me
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I see you took me up on my invitation
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Does this mean you're serious about
my proposition?
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Russell Forsyth, Laura Holt,
my most valued associate....
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AND an integral part of whatever
arrangement we finally agree to.
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- Agree to?
- Oh, that's another conversation
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I'm just thrilled the
both of you came.
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Now, why don't you go, nosh,
drink and then...
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when you're under the influence...
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I'll come back and
we'll hammer out a deal, OK?
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- I don't think he got the message.
- Don't think so.
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- Just a second.
- Remington Steele?
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- Yes?
- Oh, this is a treat.
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When Russ told me you might be coming...
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My wife Charlotte reads about you
all the time.
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Charlotte? Charlotte Knight?
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Are you married to Charlotte Knight?
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The man behind the woman.
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Not what you expected huh?
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Mr. Knight, Laura Holt, my associate.
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very much the woman behind the man.
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- It's a real pleasure, I've read all of...
- Really?
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Don't be embarrassed. Nobody admits to
reading Charlotte's books,
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but they sell 3 million copies.
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Listen, I realize this is hardly
the place to discuss business,
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but I wondered if I could impose...
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on the two of you to step out
on the balcony with me.
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- Thirty five floors up.
- Beautiful.
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- Magnificent.
- Idiotic.
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Living 35 floors up in Los Angeles...
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but Charlotte adores it.
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Look at her.
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She's...
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she's inspirational, isn't she?
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Sometimes I sit for hours...
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just watching her move,
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the way her body rises and falls
when she breathes...
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the way it glistens when she perspires.
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The man with her is Tony, our gardener.
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Can't let the lawn go
when you're 35 floors up!
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Last year she wrote him off
on her taxes as research.
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Good thing I'm not the jealous type, huh?
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Have you heard about the new manuscript?
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Between us, I don't think that it
quite measures up to the first two,
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but then they can't all be gems,
can they?
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I suppose not.
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The reason I asked you both
to come out here...
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I think I might have a little
something you'll find interesting.
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As you know,
my wife is a famous author...
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with a reputation for writing...
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shall we say provocative literature.
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My wife's first book,
Twice Nightly, a work of fiction?
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Hardly. The first four years
of our marriage.
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My wife's second book,
Baited Breath
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the second four years
of our marriage.
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The new book, Prone Positions,
it's an erotic thriller,
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- you know what it's about?
- One could only imagine.
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It's about a woman who kills her husband.
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Mr. Steele, Miss Holt,
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- I'm concerned.
- Erotic thriller...
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husband murdered, may I ask how?
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He's thrown off a 35th floor balcony
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Magnificent! Can we go in now?
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You think I've had too much scotch
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I saw it with my own two eyes,
neatly typed, right there...
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in black and white.
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Mr. Knight, if you're truly afraid
your wife is planning to murder you...
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Leave?
Leave Charlotte?
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I couldn't do that.
I can't leave her
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and she can't leave me.
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We're supposed to be a team, you know.
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Then how can we help you?
That is, if you're asking for our help.
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You're right. Maybe this is premature.
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- Sí.
- Bueno.
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Well, I'm sorry to have bothered you.
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I do hope you enjoy the party.
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I suspect it may prove to be quite...
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revealing.
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What an odd little man
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Hard to believe he is married to her
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The secrets that bind two people
together, what a confounding mystery
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I don't like this place.
I don't like these people.
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Why don't we just find Russell Forsyth...
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tell him the sad tale of your writing
career and get out of...
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I don't think this is the opportune
moment to discuss business.
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So. You're the famous Shamus, eh?
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Dennis Baker, Charlotte's agent.
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- Ah, Laura Holt, my associate.
- Hello.
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Quite an evening.
You two know Mitch well?
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Actually, we met him for the
first time tonight
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- He seemed very...
- Drunk?
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That was Mitch.
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People would see Charlotte Knight
on television and say to themselves:
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"what I wouldn't give to
spend a night next to that".
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But it takes its toll,
like owning Fort Knox:
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you're so busy guarding it,
you can't enjoy spending it.
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Mitch.
stupid fool, never could hold his liquor.
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He would have had to be a fairly athletic...
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alcoholic in order to fall over that railing...
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- Don't you think?
- What are you getting at?
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She'll be all right. Tony's with her.
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- Everybody know everyone here?
- Aren't either of you concerned?
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Mitchell Knight just died
in a manner identical...
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to the one in his wife's new book.
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I'm sorry Miss Holt, you've lost me
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You mean to say there is no scene of a man
falling 35 floors to his death in the new book?
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In Prone Positions?
I wish there was, that sounds great.
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In the book, the people are so
busy jumping on each other...
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that nobody has the chance to
fall 35 floors.
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Here's a copy of the manuscript.
Read it... if you can.
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I was in the Navy and I blushed.
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I see a look in your eye.
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That mean that you know
something that we should?
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Forgive us gentlemen, Miss Holt
and I deal in death daily.
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occasionally our imaginations tend to
run away with us and we tend to...
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look for treachery where
there clearly is none.
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Gee, that's too bad.
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A little treachery could have
gone a long way this evening.
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I'm not opposed to calling your book
"Remington Steele's...
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- Eleven Most Famous Cases".
- Russ.
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They haven't even hosed Mitch's
blood off the sidewalk.
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You wouldn't negotiate the deal Dennis?
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About that... book...
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Yes! Won't it be wonderful?
Remington Steele's book.
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Who knows,
maybe someday...
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he'll even have his own cartoon
show on Saturday mornings.
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Look at that!
It's already twice it's normal size.
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We really must develop
a more practical signal for you...
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- to use when you wish to silence me.
- You can smell it, can't you?
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Oh, my humblest apologies
And I suppose your feet have no odor.
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I mean... the murder.
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- Murder, what murder?
- The murder of Mitchell Knight.
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So that's why you tap danced
on my toes last night,
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you didn't want me to cancel that
book deal because you wanted to...
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keep your hand in this
ridiculous murder business.
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Charlotte Knight killed her husband.
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Laura, Mitchell Knight fell,
he was highly intoxicated
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Did you see the look in the man's eyes?
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He was seeing a lot of shows
that aren't listed in the TV Guide.
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She wrote about it,
made it part of the new manuscript...
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described every detail, Then
made sure that her husband saw it...
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made sure it sent him
running for the bottle.
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and then Charlotte waited. waited
until she had plenty of witnesses...
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to see just how drunk Mitchell was.
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and then she did it.
She pushed or coaxed him over the side.
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Laura, Russell Forsyth told you
there is no such murder in the new book
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I said she was cocky, Not an imbecile.
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Once Mitchell had read that scenario...
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it would be foolhardy to
keep it in there.
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certainly would make things easier
if we could find that scene
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Laura, you haven't been listening.
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there is no scene because
there was no murder. I have an idea.
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business is slow, why don't we
close down for a week or two?
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perhaps all four of us could go away
somewhere. The Caribbean, how about it?
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- I've got work to do!
- Work? What work? We don't even have a client
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Do you wanna keep it down in here? There are
people trying to sleep in the next office
241
00:18:08,986 --> 00:18:10,817
Murphy! I'm glad you're here.
242
00:18:10,922 --> 00:18:14,289
Charlotte Knight.
Russell Forsyth. Dennis Baker.
243
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find out everything you can about them.
244
00:18:16,928 --> 00:18:19,055
Take it from me Murphy, don't waste your time.
Laura.
245
00:18:19,163 --> 00:18:22,326
will you agree that if there is
no death scene, there is no murder??
246
00:18:22,434 --> 00:18:24,732
Nothing personal.
But all I've got is time.
247
00:18:24,836 --> 00:18:28,863
- What are you driving at??
- I'm going to get every single scrap of...
248
00:18:28,973 --> 00:18:30,998
- paper ever written by Charlotte Knight
- How are you going to do that?
249
00:18:31,108 --> 00:18:33,474
- My mother, Mrs. Steele...
- Yeah?
250
00:18:33,579 --> 00:18:35,479
Always taught me...
it never hurts to ask
251
00:18:37,181 --> 00:18:41,242
I'm also going to pick up four
tickets to Jamaica. Pack light!
252
00:18:54,865 --> 00:18:56,958
Charlotte Knight?
I'm Remington Steele.
253
00:18:57,068 --> 00:18:59,866
Oh my goodness, you are, aren't you?
254
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:03,601
Let me just get rid of
a couple of things in here first
255
00:19:03,709 --> 00:19:06,610
and we'll have a chat, OK?
256
00:19:19,591 --> 00:19:22,424
It certainly is wonderful of
you to see me now,
257
00:19:22,527 --> 00:19:26,361
especially now,
in your hour of grief.
258
00:19:28,667 --> 00:19:31,500
Grief, right.
259
00:19:31,604 --> 00:19:33,765
Let's be honest with
each other Mr. Steele.
260
00:19:33,873 --> 00:19:36,034
It must be more than apparent to you....
261
00:19:36,142 --> 00:19:39,407
that I'm far from devastated
by Mitchell's passing.
262
00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:43,505
I had noticed a certain...
casual indifference.
263
00:19:43,616 --> 00:19:45,641
I just assumed you were putting
up a god front.
264
00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:50,444
Really? Isn't that sweet.
265
00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:58,991
Don't misunderstand,
I'm not made of stone Mr. Steele.
266
00:20:04,504 --> 00:20:08,497
I loved Mitchell, I loved him very much,
267
00:20:08,609 --> 00:20:12,306
it just wasn't the love of
a woman for her man.
268
00:20:18,017 --> 00:20:19,848
Am I making myself clear?
269
00:20:20,621 --> 00:20:24,648
As a bell, Mrs. Knight
As a bell.
270
00:20:28,562 --> 00:20:30,496
What's the matter?
271
00:20:31,799 --> 00:20:34,324
Do I make you nervous?
272
00:20:35,869 --> 00:20:38,030
Let me tell you why I'm here.
273
00:20:38,138 --> 00:20:41,630
Perhaps you've heard, Russell Forsyth
has asked me to write a book.
274
00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,038
Mmm, isn't that thrilling?
275
00:20:43,143 --> 00:20:46,374
- We are going to have so much in common.
- Yes, well.
276
00:20:48,048 --> 00:20:51,211
I was just wondering,
if I'm not being too personal.....
277
00:20:51,985 --> 00:20:53,782
I don't think that's possible.
278
00:20:53,887 --> 00:20:56,788
Just how do you do it?
279
00:20:57,958 --> 00:21:00,518
Do you mind repeating that question?
280
00:21:00,627 --> 00:21:02,390
How do you do it?
281
00:21:03,263 --> 00:21:05,561
Do what?
282
00:21:05,667 --> 00:21:07,225
Write.
283
00:21:07,335 --> 00:21:10,566
What kind of a question is that?
How do I write?
284
00:21:12,573 --> 00:21:16,134
I write, um,... wonderfully.
285
00:21:16,243 --> 00:21:18,473
No, no. I mean, ah:
286
00:21:18,580 --> 00:21:21,640
Do you use a pencil and paper,
or do you type?
287
00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:23,980
Do you know what every chapter is going
to be about before you put it on paper...
288
00:21:24,085 --> 00:21:26,645
or do you make it up as you go along?
289
00:21:27,422 --> 00:21:30,050
That really is why you came here,
isn't it?
290
00:21:42,002 --> 00:21:44,163
I just want to make this clear
from the outset:
291
00:21:44,272 --> 00:21:46,206
that I think this is
a terrible waste of time
292
00:21:46,307 --> 00:21:48,275
Good to see you too.
293
00:21:48,376 --> 00:21:51,937
I brought popcorn, diet soda...
294
00:21:52,046 --> 00:21:54,810
a little salami, some cheese...
295
00:21:54,916 --> 00:21:56,907
You really want to spend
an evening doing this?
296
00:21:57,018 --> 00:21:58,781
Bring on the papers.
297
00:22:01,089 --> 00:22:04,422
- I never knew you wore glasses.
- I don't.
298
00:22:04,526 --> 00:22:07,825
I go `em in college when I had
a crush on my calc professor.
299
00:22:07,929 --> 00:22:09,556
Thought it would make me look brainier.
300
00:22:10,331 --> 00:22:11,923
Did it work?
301
00:22:14,069 --> 00:22:16,094
Wouldn't you like to know?
302
00:22:16,205 --> 00:22:18,139
All right, let's read.
303
00:22:18,908 --> 00:22:20,432
Not read.
304
00:22:21,543 --> 00:22:23,670
Listen.
305
00:22:23,779 --> 00:22:27,271
Charlotte Knight doesn't write
at all, she dictates.
306
00:22:27,383 --> 00:22:30,580
- Dictates?
- Into one of these.
307
00:22:30,686 --> 00:22:32,984
Tiny tape recorder, works on batteries.
That way, wherever she is...
308
00:22:33,088 --> 00:22:34,988
whenever an idea strikes...
309
00:22:35,758 --> 00:22:38,818
- And all these are...
- Each one is a chapter.
310
00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:42,392
- Chapters.
- Shall we begin?
311
00:22:42,498 --> 00:22:44,261
Let's,
312
00:22:45,034 --> 00:22:49,596
He couldn't get over her
313
00:22:49,705 --> 00:22:53,232
velvet thighs
and crimson smile...
314
00:22:53,342 --> 00:22:56,505
Well, No-one jumping out of windows
in that chapter, are they?
315
00:22:56,613 --> 00:22:59,241
Velvet thighs? Oh my.
316
00:22:59,348 --> 00:23:01,339
Shall we... press on?
317
00:23:01,451 --> 00:23:04,978
- Know what I mean?
- Yes. By all means, press on.
318
00:23:05,087 --> 00:23:08,648
He stood there all of him
319
00:23:08,758 --> 00:23:11,784
his body was... a dare.
320
00:23:11,895 --> 00:23:14,796
a dare she had decided to... take.
321
00:23:14,898 --> 00:23:16,695
What say we break out the salami?
322
00:23:18,601 --> 00:23:20,967
What is it you think
you're protecting me from?
323
00:23:21,070 --> 00:23:23,038
Who me? Protecting you?
324
00:23:23,139 --> 00:23:25,107
Why, I wouldn't presume to do such a thing.
325
00:23:27,210 --> 00:23:29,838
Remember the calc professor?
326
00:23:31,413 --> 00:23:35,213
- The glasses worked.
- Did the trick, did they?
327
00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:40,617
So why don't you turn the tape back on
and let's get this over with, OK?
328
00:23:41,391 --> 00:23:43,382
OK.
329
00:23:43,493 --> 00:23:46,656
And... at that moment...
330
00:23:46,763 --> 00:23:51,791
they knew more about each other
than either had thought possible.
331
00:23:54,104 --> 00:23:55,867
They didn't need...
332
00:23:55,972 --> 00:23:58,372
words, only time...
333
00:23:59,075 --> 00:24:00,406
and each other.
334
00:24:02,078 --> 00:24:06,606
First one rung... and then another.
335
00:24:08,652 --> 00:24:11,018
and then...
336
00:24:11,122 --> 00:24:13,317
he reached it...
337
00:24:13,423 --> 00:24:15,391
the window.
338
00:24:17,929 --> 00:24:21,387
and it was as if she had known.
339
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,125
- for just the slightest...
- The batteries.
340
00:24:28,072 --> 00:24:31,269
Barely enough for anyone on
the street below to see anything
341
00:24:32,743 --> 00:24:35,007
- I'll be out in a minute, Mother.
- Listen.
342
00:24:35,112 --> 00:24:38,673
- His face pressed to the glass.
- Disgusting.
343
00:24:38,783 --> 00:24:41,650
- No, no, listen, listen.
- And he watched her...
344
00:24:41,752 --> 00:24:43,447
Sounds like...
345
00:24:44,155 --> 00:24:45,679
Mitchell Knight.
346
00:24:46,524 --> 00:24:50,290
Day after day, studying her.
347
00:24:50,394 --> 00:24:54,023
the way her body would rise and
fall every time she took a breath...
348
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,133
the way it glistened when
she would perspire.
349
00:24:58,236 --> 00:25:00,136
It is Mitchell Knight.
350
00:25:00,905 --> 00:25:03,840
He wrote the books.
351
00:25:03,941 --> 00:25:05,465
Where does that leave us?
352
00:25:06,578 --> 00:25:08,671
Nowhere near the Caribbean.
353
00:25:11,483 --> 00:25:15,613
He watched her. Day after day...
354
00:25:15,721 --> 00:25:19,521
studying her, the way her
body would rise and fall every time...
355
00:25:19,624 --> 00:25:22,718
she took a breath...
356
00:25:22,828 --> 00:25:25,456
the way it glistened when
she would perspire.
357
00:25:25,564 --> 00:25:27,964
As I was explaining to
my associate, Miss Holt...
358
00:25:28,066 --> 00:25:30,296
I'm sure there's a logical
explanation for all of this,
359
00:25:30,403 --> 00:25:33,531
From these tape recordings,
it would almost appear that...
360
00:25:33,639 --> 00:25:35,607
Mitchell Knight is the writer.
361
00:25:35,707 --> 00:25:39,234
Steele, stop it already.
It's not necessary, you got us.
362
00:25:39,344 --> 00:25:41,710
Mitchell is the...
Mitchell was the writer.
363
00:25:41,813 --> 00:25:43,872
We had this machine made
he could dictate...
364
00:25:43,983 --> 00:25:46,349
and then when you played it back
on a regular machine...
365
00:25:46,452 --> 00:25:48,613
the voice was higher,
sounded like a woman
366
00:25:48,721 --> 00:25:52,657
hopefully like Charlotte.
So you got us, Steele.
367
00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:54,488
Damn, you're sharp!
368
00:25:55,660 --> 00:25:57,651
Then you didn't write any of the books?
369
00:25:57,764 --> 00:26:01,860
It was Mitchell. It was all Mitchell.
370
00:26:01,967 --> 00:26:06,267
I represented Mitchell Knight
for 17 years.
371
00:26:06,372 --> 00:26:10,274
If he made three $3000 a year,
it was a banner year.
372
00:26:10,376 --> 00:26:15,814
Then, seven years ago, I sent Russ
Mitch's manuscript for Twice Nightly.
373
00:26:15,915 --> 00:26:18,713
It left a stain on my fingers.
374
00:26:18,818 --> 00:26:20,115
Garbage
375
00:26:20,987 --> 00:26:22,887
pure garbage.
376
00:26:22,989 --> 00:26:27,119
I read the first 25 pages
and threw it away
377
00:26:27,226 --> 00:26:29,660
But, that night, I went to a party.
378
00:26:29,763 --> 00:26:32,231
Dennis was there; Mitch was there...
379
00:26:32,332 --> 00:26:34,232
and so was his new wife Charlotte.
380
00:26:34,333 --> 00:26:36,164
Remember that night Charlotte?
381
00:26:36,270 --> 00:26:39,262
Charlotte did everything she could to...
382
00:26:40,740 --> 00:26:43,800
persuade me to purchase
her husbands manuscript.
383
00:26:43,910 --> 00:26:45,969
Oh, we spent a lot of time together.
384
00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:49,515
she'd go on and on, she'd talk about
this character and that character...
385
00:26:49,616 --> 00:26:51,516
and didn't I like this little plot twist.
386
00:26:51,618 --> 00:26:54,587
I was entranced.
387
00:26:54,688 --> 00:26:57,156
Out of his mouth,
it sounded like pornography,
388
00:26:57,257 --> 00:27:00,988
but, out of her mouth, it was...
389
00:27:01,695 --> 00:27:02,992
erotica.
390
00:27:03,763 --> 00:27:08,132
Charlotte was a natural for
the talk shows. Very visual.
391
00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:09,896
it seemed like a wonderful idea.
392
00:27:10,003 --> 00:27:13,837
So you created a fictitious person
to sell the books to the public
393
00:27:13,941 --> 00:27:17,342
Which brings us to a rather
delicate point in the conversation
394
00:27:17,444 --> 00:27:22,848
Charlotte Knight is more than just a lady
who writes acceptably dirty books
395
00:27:22,951 --> 00:27:25,146
She's a whole industry.
396
00:27:25,253 --> 00:27:28,120
Loose talk could put an awful
lot of people out of work.
397
00:27:28,889 --> 00:27:32,552
Look, isn't there something we can do
to help you see your way clear to...
398
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,057
ah, forget all this?
399
00:27:37,999 --> 00:27:41,093
Does it matter? Does it really matter...
400
00:27:41,202 --> 00:27:44,501
whether or not the Charlotte that we see
on television or read in the magazines...
401
00:27:44,606 --> 00:27:46,733
is the same person
who writes the books?
402
00:27:46,841 --> 00:27:49,207
Of course not. What's important...
403
00:27:49,310 --> 00:27:51,210
is the myth.
404
00:27:51,311 --> 00:27:55,213
I've heard a rumour that Thomas Edison
didn't really invent the lightbulb
405
00:27:55,315 --> 00:27:57,442
Some man who worked for him did.
406
00:27:57,552 --> 00:27:59,486
And for that matter, William Shakespeare...
407
00:27:59,587 --> 00:28:02,147
a lot of scholars don't think
he really wrote all those plays.
408
00:28:02,257 --> 00:28:06,216
but does that matter? What matters
is what gives the public pleasure
409
00:28:07,529 --> 00:28:10,521
and if lonely people, all over the world...
410
00:28:10,632 --> 00:28:15,001
prefer to think that
this beautiful, sensuous woman...
411
00:28:15,103 --> 00:28:20,598
writes those vividly evocative books...
412
00:28:20,709 --> 00:28:25,146
then I say, what a beautiful secret
to be asked to keep.
413
00:28:25,246 --> 00:28:27,407
I think you can rest assured...
414
00:28:27,515 --> 00:28:30,006
that Mr. Steele and I
understand your problem.
415
00:28:30,118 --> 00:28:32,484
Better than you know.
416
00:28:32,588 --> 00:28:36,354
However, we're still left with
one unfortunate complication
417
00:28:36,457 --> 00:28:40,120
- What's that?
- Mr. Steele is convinced that...
418
00:28:40,229 --> 00:28:43,596
- someone murdered Mitchell Knight.
- I am?
419
00:28:45,701 --> 00:28:47,168
Convinced.
420
00:28:48,971 --> 00:28:50,905
Convinced? Am I really?
421
00:28:51,006 --> 00:28:53,133
Absolutely, positively.
422
00:28:53,242 --> 00:28:56,405
- May I ask why?
- I can still smell it.
423
00:28:56,512 --> 00:28:58,605
Of course you can.
424
00:28:59,381 --> 00:29:00,678
Any calls?
425
00:29:07,490 --> 00:29:10,288
- Would you like to know what I think?
- About the murder?
426
00:29:10,392 --> 00:29:13,725
About you. You know what you are??
A workaholic. That's what you are!
427
00:29:14,496 --> 00:29:17,624
No? Really? Terrible vice,
you oughta try it some time.
428
00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:20,600
Te enloquece que no haya misterios
que resolver...
429
00:29:20,703 --> 00:29:23,035
It just drives you crazy that
there are no mysteries to solve...
430
00:29:23,138 --> 00:29:26,301
- No clues to, to ponder,
- no suspects to, ah, suspect!
431
00:29:26,408 --> 00:29:29,844
Hah! Speak for yourself
I have a mystery to solve
432
00:29:29,946 --> 00:29:31,846
I have clues to ponder,
I have suspects to suspect!
433
00:29:31,947 --> 00:29:35,144
Ho, yes indeed! Nothing frightens
Laura Holt like having time on her hands
434
00:29:35,252 --> 00:29:38,517
Or heaven forbid that she has a second
to stop and think and feel, and perhaps...
435
00:29:38,622 --> 00:29:42,114
perhaps actually get to close to
some of the people she works with!
436
00:29:42,224 --> 00:29:44,920
I heard fighting so
I knew Mom and Dad were home.
437
00:29:45,028 --> 00:29:47,462
Murphy, In all the time that
you have known Laura...
438
00:29:47,564 --> 00:29:51,261
have you ever come into this office and
found her sitting here doing nothing?
439
00:29:51,368 --> 00:29:53,598
- Because you haven't.
- Because she's always doing something.
440
00:29:53,703 --> 00:29:56,297
because she's always thinking,
441
00:29:56,406 --> 00:29:59,842
- because she's always making little lists!
- Get out of my office!!!
442
00:29:59,943 --> 00:30:02,036
Check her top drawer Murphy
I bet it's chock full of lists.
443
00:30:02,146 --> 00:30:04,046
- I'd really rather not,
- OUT!!
444
00:30:04,147 --> 00:30:06,581
- I bet you're one of those kinds of people who never forgets a birthday,
- Can I go now?
445
00:30:06,683 --> 00:30:09,083
I bet you know what kind of clothes you're
going to wear to work the day after tomorrow
446
00:30:09,185 --> 00:30:11,949
- That's it! I'm going.
- That's it, is it? That's it then, go, go home.
447
00:30:12,055 --> 00:30:15,286
you'll probably do something
useful like line your shelves,
448
00:30:15,392 --> 00:30:17,087
darn your stockings, eh?
449
00:30:24,502 --> 00:30:27,369
Wait, wait, wait
Last chance,
450
00:30:27,470 --> 00:30:29,199
go away with me?
451
00:30:33,911 --> 00:30:36,209
- What about the case?
- Laura, there is no case
452
00:30:36,314 --> 00:30:38,282
- How can you say that?
- In order for there to be a case...
453
00:30:38,382 --> 00:30:40,373
here has to be a mystery,
a circumstance...
454
00:30:40,484 --> 00:30:42,918
an occurrence that remains unexplained.
455
00:30:43,988 --> 00:30:46,422
- Who told you that?
- You.
456
00:30:48,526 --> 00:30:51,256
Mitchell Knight fell
35 floors to his death!
457
00:30:51,363 --> 00:30:53,456
- Why?
- He was drunk as a skunk in a funk.
458
00:30:53,564 --> 00:30:55,464
- Next case!
- You're wrong!
459
00:30:56,233 --> 00:30:59,134
About Mitchell Knight... Or about you?
460
00:31:16,688 --> 00:31:19,919
I know Charlotte'll be upset
that she missed you.
461
00:31:21,059 --> 00:31:23,027
Do you know what you're looking for?
462
00:31:23,128 --> 00:31:26,894
Ah, well, physical um...
463
00:31:26,998 --> 00:31:28,863
ah, evidence.
464
00:31:28,967 --> 00:31:32,698
- Gotcha.
- I, uh, I just find it hard to believe...
465
00:31:32,804 --> 00:31:36,968
that a man would trip and fall over
a three and a half foot wall.
466
00:31:37,075 --> 00:31:40,238
Ever since Mitchell Knight's death
I've, I've had this feeling...
467
00:31:40,345 --> 00:31:42,074
That people are keeping things from you?
468
00:31:42,180 --> 00:31:45,081
That all is not as it appears to be
469
00:31:45,184 --> 00:31:48,449
that there's a deep dark secret somewhere?
470
00:31:48,553 --> 00:31:50,817
Pick a cliche, any cliche.
471
00:31:50,923 --> 00:31:53,448
Well, thank you for letting me look around.
472
00:31:53,558 --> 00:31:56,686
- And tell Charlotte I'm sorry I missed her.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
473
00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:00,128
Now listen, ah I've never met
a female private investigator before,
474
00:32:00,233 --> 00:32:03,964
I was just trying to be funny.
Harvard isn't know for turning out comedians.
475
00:32:04,069 --> 00:32:07,266
- You went to Harvard?
- Well, somebody's got to.
476
00:32:07,373 --> 00:32:08,931
Now, don't be so quick to run away.
477
00:32:09,041 --> 00:32:11,305
How often do you meet
an ivy league gigolo?
478
00:32:11,411 --> 00:32:14,141
Is that what you are?
A gigolo?
479
00:32:14,247 --> 00:32:16,306
Well, that's what
some people like to think.
480
00:32:16,416 --> 00:32:20,750
Like I said before:
"whatever gives the public pleasure".
481
00:32:20,853 --> 00:32:22,946
I'm not the public.
482
00:32:23,055 --> 00:32:25,250
Then I'm not a gigolo.
483
00:32:26,592 --> 00:32:30,585
I graduated with an MFA in 1977.
484
00:32:30,696 --> 00:32:33,893
I wrote a novel for my thesis,
Lamplight.
485
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,434
A mutual friend introduced me to Charlotte...
486
00:32:36,536 --> 00:32:39,004
and, ah, she's been something of a mentor.
487
00:32:39,772 --> 00:32:42,935
As a matter of fact, she's persuaded Forsyth
to publish Lamplight.
488
00:32:43,043 --> 00:32:46,137
and I've been living here revising
it for the last six months.
489
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,072
How did Mitchell feel about that?
490
00:32:50,883 --> 00:32:54,182
Mitchell didn't feel much of anything,
Mitchell was pickled most of the time.
491
00:32:54,955 --> 00:32:58,015
Actually, he read the book, was moved by it.
492
00:32:59,827 --> 00:33:01,488
Ah, I don't think it was his cup of tea.
493
00:33:01,595 --> 00:33:04,257
In my book, when two people meet, they talk.
494
00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:10,196
This thing is really under your skin, isn't it?
495
00:33:11,171 --> 00:33:13,662
Mitchell Knight's death?
496
00:33:13,774 --> 00:33:17,870
I suppose I react to a mystery the same way
you do to a half written chapter.
497
00:33:17,978 --> 00:33:20,310
I've been known to simply throw
the first half out.
498
00:33:20,414 --> 00:33:23,577
Are you suggesting I should throw away
my questions about Mitchell Knight's death?
499
00:33:23,684 --> 00:33:26,312
I'm suggesting that
you're asking the wrong questions
500
00:33:27,988 --> 00:33:32,322
You're right, Mitchell Knight
didn't fall in a drunken accident.
501
00:33:32,426 --> 00:33:34,724
- He didn't?
- But he wasn't murdered either.
502
00:33:35,497 --> 00:33:37,727
This may be difficult for
you and me to appreciate.
503
00:33:37,832 --> 00:33:43,498
but, in his own mind, Mitchell Knight
was a very accomplished man
504
00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:45,595
except no-one knew it.
505
00:33:46,373 --> 00:33:48,238
Can you imagine
what it must have been like...
506
00:33:48,343 --> 00:33:51,335
working very hard but
having someone else win the plaudits?
507
00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:56,015
Miss Holt, the answer to your mystery
is very simple...
508
00:33:56,117 --> 00:33:58,847
and also very tragic.
509
00:33:58,952 --> 00:34:00,886
Mitchell Knight...
510
00:34:03,358 --> 00:34:04,825
jumped.
511
00:34:25,547 --> 00:34:27,014
- I realized you were right.
- Laura, you were right all along.
512
00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:29,345
- there is no case.
- of course there's a case.
513
00:34:29,450 --> 00:34:30,883
What?
514
00:34:33,454 --> 00:34:36,946
Prone Positions,
chapter one.
515
00:34:37,058 --> 00:34:39,583
Damn, damn, damn! Capítulo I.
516
00:34:40,629 --> 00:34:44,497
¡: Rayos, rayos.!
517
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,694
- What am I supposed to make of this?
- The Shining.
518
00:34:47,803 --> 00:34:49,566
- The what?
- Did you see The Shining?
519
00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:51,502
Did anyone see The Shining?
520
00:34:51,607 --> 00:34:53,871
Jack Nicholson plays a writer
who agrees...
521
00:34:53,976 --> 00:34:55,944
to become the care taker of a lodge
that's inaccessible all winter long
522
00:34:56,044 --> 00:34:58,877
unfortunately he falls victim to cabin fever,
becomes a stark raving looney,
523
00:34:58,981 --> 00:35:01,745
wanders around with a hatchet and does
a lot of jokes about The Tonight Show
524
00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:03,647
You see everything, don't you?
525
00:35:03,752 --> 00:35:06,414
At one point in the show,
he sits down to write.
526
00:35:06,522 --> 00:35:10,549
The camera slowly circles him
as he types, and then, we see it!
527
00:35:10,659 --> 00:35:14,857
All he's written is one line
over and over again,
528
00:35:14,964 --> 00:35:18,559
"All work and no play,
makes Jack a dull boy!".
529
00:35:19,903 --> 00:35:22,337
He was blocked!
He couldn't write anything else!
530
00:35:22,439 --> 00:35:25,704
So maybe, just maybe,
our ghost writer had a ghost writer?
531
00:35:25,808 --> 00:35:28,276
- Exactly!
- That doesn't change the fact...
532
00:35:28,377 --> 00:35:30,709
that there was no motive
for killing Mitchell Knight.
533
00:35:30,813 --> 00:35:33,543
All those people stood to lose
by his death.
534
00:35:33,650 --> 00:35:36,346
Don't you see, you were right all along.
535
00:35:36,452 --> 00:35:38,647
Laura, I know there's a case here.
536
00:35:38,754 --> 00:35:41,279
Based on what?
Based on this tape?
537
00:35:41,391 --> 00:35:45,657
OK, he was blocked, maybe they even hired
someone else to write the third book,
538
00:35:45,762 --> 00:35:48,356
- What does that prove?
- It proves they didn't tell us everything
539
00:35:48,465 --> 00:35:51,025
These people...
these people are creating fictions...
540
00:35:51,134 --> 00:35:53,034
foisting frauds on the public...
541
00:35:53,135 --> 00:35:55,467
exploiting talented underlings for...
542
00:35:55,572 --> 00:35:57,540
the aggrandizement of a figurehead...
543
00:35:57,641 --> 00:36:00,439
who contributes nothing but
a winning personality and good looks!
544
00:36:00,543 --> 00:36:02,534
Trust me Laura, it's my area.
545
00:36:03,313 --> 00:36:04,644
And that's why you think there's a case?
546
00:36:04,748 --> 00:36:06,648
There's more than that, much more
547
00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:09,742
I know that whoever wrote the
third book, killed Mitchell Knight.
548
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,751
- How do you know that?
- I can smell it!
549
00:36:20,231 --> 00:36:23,462
- So we have no motive.
- The motive depends on the guilty party.
550
00:36:23,567 --> 00:36:25,467
It's important that
we remain flexible, Laura.
551
00:36:25,568 --> 00:36:27,536
- No suspect.
- Oh, on the contrary, three.
552
00:36:27,638 --> 00:36:29,538
Russell, Dennis, Charlotte.
553
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,837
- Any one of them could have done it.
- Or not done it.
554
00:36:32,943 --> 00:36:36,071
- Exciting, isn't it?
- In fact we really don't have a case.
555
00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:38,273
Nonsense, Laura.
If I've learned nothing else from you...
556
00:36:38,382 --> 00:36:40,282
I've learned to trust your instincts.
557
00:36:40,384 --> 00:36:42,579
You smelled a case and
that's good enough for me.
558
00:36:42,687 --> 00:36:45,019
But, I don't smell it anymore.
559
00:36:45,122 --> 00:36:48,250
That's because now...
I'm on the scent.
560
00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:03,932
I'd love to know how you were able to
get Russell, Charlotte and Dennis together
561
00:37:04,041 --> 00:37:06,032
Well, Steele, it's about time.
562
00:37:06,144 --> 00:37:08,476
The man calls and tells me he
wants to nail down a book deal
563
00:37:08,580 --> 00:37:11,242
asks me if he gets a party like
the one I threw for Charlotte
564
00:37:11,348 --> 00:37:13,908
I put it all together and invite
over the world and what happens?
565
00:37:14,019 --> 00:37:16,988
- The man is a half hour late.
- Ah, yes, yes.
566
00:37:17,088 --> 00:37:21,184
- Playful little bugger, isn't he?
- Ajá.
567
00:37:24,061 --> 00:37:26,791
Could I have everybody's attention please?
568
00:37:28,833 --> 00:37:31,802
Now, the reason I've asked all
you free loaders here...
569
00:37:33,804 --> 00:37:38,173
Well, aside from the fact that I
keep hoping you'll return the favour...
570
00:37:38,276 --> 00:37:40,801
someday, is that I'd like you
to meet an exciting man...
571
00:37:40,911 --> 00:37:44,176
who's going to be writing his
very first book for Forsyth House.
572
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:47,544
I guess it's no secret, the man
is Remington Steele
573
00:37:47,652 --> 00:37:51,144
and the book: "Remington Steele's
Ten Most Famous Cases!".
574
00:37:53,091 --> 00:37:56,527
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much.
575
00:37:56,628 --> 00:37:59,461
I, too, am excited at the
prospect of sharing my most, uh...
576
00:37:59,564 --> 00:38:03,864
exciting and intriguing cases
with the reading public.
577
00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:08,771
Take, for instance,
the case of the late ghost writer.
578
00:38:08,875 --> 00:38:12,606
It's about a writer who
falls 35 floors to his death.
579
00:38:15,348 --> 00:38:17,612
What the hell are you doing?
580
00:38:17,717 --> 00:38:20,277
About 20 minutes, depends though,
this looks like a tough room
581
00:38:21,754 --> 00:38:25,315
It all started at a party
582
00:38:25,424 --> 00:38:30,088
a party, very much like this one
583
00:38:32,765 --> 00:38:34,960
And so, I quickly deduced...
584
00:38:35,067 --> 00:38:38,503
whoever it was who wrote the third
book also murdered the ghost writer.
585
00:38:38,604 --> 00:38:41,630
Suddenly, suddenly,
a baffling mystery fell into place
586
00:38:41,741 --> 00:38:44,073
for there was but
one person who fits the bill
587
00:38:44,177 --> 00:38:47,806
A woman who longed for the day she
could enjoy all the spoils of her fame...
588
00:38:47,914 --> 00:38:52,146
and not have to share them with the man she
regretfully... regretfully called her husband.
589
00:38:52,251 --> 00:38:55,277
The woman who, in fact,
wrote the third book...
590
00:38:55,388 --> 00:38:58,152
then pushed her husband off the
35th floor balcony to his death...
591
00:38:58,257 --> 00:39:00,623
hoping to bury the secret of
his ghost writing forever.
592
00:39:00,726 --> 00:39:02,990
I am speaking, of course...
593
00:39:03,095 --> 00:39:06,121
of none other than... Charlotte Knight!
594
00:39:10,938 --> 00:39:14,806
All right. I didn't write the books.
595
00:39:14,908 --> 00:39:16,273
Shoot me!
596
00:39:16,376 --> 00:39:18,936
But I didn't kill my husband.
597
00:39:19,045 --> 00:39:23,243
Mitchell made me who I am;
Mitchell made me Charlotte Knight.
598
00:39:23,350 --> 00:39:26,046
Without Mitchell, I was nothing.
599
00:39:26,153 --> 00:39:28,553
Besides, if I could have written
the third book...
600
00:39:28,654 --> 00:39:30,087
I could have written the first two, too.
601
00:39:32,125 --> 00:39:33,422
That makes sense, doesn't it?
602
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,598
Of course it does. Which is why I
quickly dismissed Charlotte as a suspect...
603
00:39:42,703 --> 00:39:46,298
and turned my attention to a man who
had been part of this charade all along.
604
00:39:46,406 --> 00:39:49,102
The man, in fact, who had negotiated
the unprecedented...
605
00:39:49,209 --> 00:39:51,803
film and paperback deals
on the third book.
606
00:39:51,913 --> 00:39:53,813
an especially important negotiation...
607
00:39:53,914 --> 00:39:56,849
because he knew he would receive
the lion's share of the money...
608
00:39:56,950 --> 00:39:58,941
since he, in fact, authored the third book.
609
00:39:59,053 --> 00:40:02,545
I am speaking, of course, of Dennis Baker.
610
00:40:03,958 --> 00:40:05,619
Are you crazy?
611
00:40:06,327 --> 00:40:09,262
I didn't kill Mitchell Knight.
612
00:40:09,364 --> 00:40:12,765
Mitchell was one of my closest
friends in all the world.
613
00:40:12,867 --> 00:40:15,631
which is why I didn't negotiate
the deal on the third.
614
00:40:17,171 --> 00:40:20,504
If he wasn't writing it,
I didn't want anything to do with it.
615
00:40:23,845 --> 00:40:27,212
You didn't negotiate the deal
on the third book?
616
00:40:27,315 --> 00:40:30,079
So I certainly didn't write it.
617
00:40:33,521 --> 00:40:36,012
Of course you didn't!
The man who wrote the third book didn't need an agent,
618
00:40:36,125 --> 00:40:40,721
he would only be negotiating with himself.
Russell Forsyth!
619
00:40:43,865 --> 00:40:47,266
This is not going to bode well
for your next book deal, Steele
620
00:40:47,369 --> 00:40:49,803
Knight was sick and tired of
writing under his wife's name,
621
00:40:49,904 --> 00:40:52,737
he wanted to go public,
expose the whole fraud to the world,
622
00:40:52,841 --> 00:40:55,002
write under his own name,
but you couldn't allow him to do that
623
00:40:55,110 --> 00:40:58,170
because you knew Charlotte Knight
was Forsyth House's biggest success,
624
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,272
so you wrote the third book,
625
00:41:02,050 --> 00:41:04,917
then killed Mitchell Knight...
to keep the secret!
626
00:41:05,020 --> 00:41:07,682
The day before he died, Mitchell
signed Charlotte's name...
627
00:41:07,790 --> 00:41:10,088
to a brand new, three book deal, Steele
628
00:41:10,192 --> 00:41:13,923
- He did?
- He was thrilled about it.
629
00:41:14,029 --> 00:41:15,860
- He was?
- Sure.
630
00:41:15,965 --> 00:41:20,766
the block was broken. He couldn't wait
to get back to the tape recorder.
631
00:41:23,806 --> 00:41:25,296
Really?
632
00:41:29,212 --> 00:41:31,407
would you, ah,
excuse me for a moment please?
633
00:41:39,589 --> 00:41:42,581
- All right, who did it?
- Who did what?
634
00:41:43,926 --> 00:41:47,384
Laura, I seem to be missing the final pages of
the chapter, and an awful lot of people are waiting.
635
00:41:47,497 --> 00:41:49,795
- I need an ending, fast!
- I don't have an ending.
636
00:41:49,899 --> 00:41:52,231
- I don't know who did it.
- What?
637
00:41:57,473 --> 00:41:58,963
It's all right.
638
00:41:59,975 --> 00:42:02,876
It's all right, nothing's wrong.
639
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,147
I'll, uh, I'll be with you in a minute.
640
00:42:09,085 --> 00:42:11,451
What do you mean, you don't know who did it?
You always know who did it!
641
00:42:11,554 --> 00:42:13,784
Well I don't this time.
I told you I didn't even think there was a case!
642
00:42:13,890 --> 00:42:15,858
You think I would have dragged us
all the way up here...
643
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,951
accused all these nice people
of murder...
644
00:42:18,061 --> 00:42:20,552
made a blooming idiot out of myself...
645
00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:25,430
if I didn't think that when everything
went awry, you'd be there to jump in?
646
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:28,337
I don't ask for much Laura.
647
00:42:33,377 --> 00:42:36,471
Ladies and gentlemen,
my associate, Miss Holt, has, ah...
648
00:42:36,580 --> 00:42:39,777
pointed out to me, that I
would be doing myself...
649
00:42:39,884 --> 00:42:42,478
and Forsyth House...
a huge disservice by
650
00:42:42,585 --> 00:42:45,679
divulging the ending to this
case at this particular time.
651
00:42:50,828 --> 00:42:54,286
However, I do pledge to you
that the answer to this crime...
652
00:42:54,398 --> 00:42:56,423
shall be contained in the pages
of my new book...
653
00:42:56,534 --> 00:42:59,196
and I encourage you to
go out and buy a copy...
654
00:42:59,303 --> 00:43:01,498
and discover for yourselves...
655
00:43:01,605 --> 00:43:03,470
the solution to
656
00:43:03,474 --> 00:43:04,372
this fascinating mystery.
657
00:43:20,024 --> 00:43:23,790
- Feeling pretty low, huh?
- Uh-huh.
658
00:43:23,894 --> 00:43:25,794
Why don't we...
659
00:43:25,897 --> 00:43:29,890
just sign those book contracts, then
And call it a night?
660
00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:35,304
You really think Forsyth House is
gonna want to publish my book now?
661
00:43:35,407 --> 00:43:37,432
You're still Remington Steele.
662
00:43:44,683 --> 00:43:47,243
Tony darling.
Could we borrow your typewriter?
663
00:43:47,352 --> 00:43:51,118
Russell has some final clauses
to type into a book contract.
664
00:43:57,696 --> 00:44:00,164
I heard you typing away in here.
665
00:44:00,265 --> 00:44:02,529
Couldn't you spare even a minute
for the party??
666
00:44:02,634 --> 00:44:04,864
Deadline pressure.
Making revisions.
667
00:44:05,637 --> 00:44:08,629
- A lot?
- Well, one big one...
668
00:44:08,740 --> 00:44:12,039
And then a lot of small ones
that were affected by the big one.
669
00:44:12,144 --> 00:44:15,204
All right, Let's get
this all down in a memo.
670
00:44:15,313 --> 00:44:16,712
Does anybody here type?
671
00:44:17,482 --> 00:44:21,714
The only Remington these nails
have ever touched, didn't have keys.
672
00:44:22,487 --> 00:44:24,148
Miss Holt typed...
673
00:44:24,256 --> 00:44:26,190
You don't have to tell the whole world.
674
00:44:26,926 --> 00:44:28,484
Never could type.
675
00:44:28,594 --> 00:44:30,494
But surely someone...
676
00:44:38,838 --> 00:44:40,669
All right.
677
00:44:40,772 --> 00:44:43,400
65 words per minute
678
00:44:43,509 --> 00:44:45,067
fire when ready.
679
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,683
Didn't Mitchell Knight say the scene
he read describing his death...
680
00:44:57,790 --> 00:44:59,280
was neatly typed?
681
00:45:00,794 --> 00:45:02,762
Yes.
682
00:45:02,862 --> 00:45:04,830
Not dictated, typed.
683
00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:08,591
Which would explain why there are
no tapes at all for the third book.
684
00:45:08,702 --> 00:45:11,227
Tony wrote the third book, didn't he?
685
00:45:16,209 --> 00:45:18,643
Yes indeed
Tony wrote the third book.
686
00:45:20,513 --> 00:45:23,676
What does that prove?
These people were in a jam.
687
00:45:23,784 --> 00:45:27,720
The stores expected a book for
the holidays and there was no book.
688
00:45:27,821 --> 00:45:29,721
So we made a deal,
689
00:45:29,823 --> 00:45:32,849
they promised to publish my book
if I wrote their book.
690
00:45:33,627 --> 00:45:38,394
They also promised not to
tell anyone that I wrote it.
691
00:45:38,498 --> 00:45:42,662
I'm a serious writer;
I have my reputation to think of.
692
00:45:44,004 --> 00:45:45,904
Mystery solved, case closed.
693
00:45:46,673 --> 00:45:49,233
The case of who wrote
the third book perhaps...
694
00:45:49,343 --> 00:45:51,243
But not of who killed Mitchell Knight.
695
00:45:52,012 --> 00:45:54,810
Laura, I thought we'd been through this.
696
00:45:54,915 --> 00:45:59,875
No-one killed Mitch, certainly not me.
What possible motive could I have had?
697
00:45:59,987 --> 00:46:05,084
With Mitchell out of the way, You
would write the Charlotte Knight books
698
00:46:05,193 --> 00:46:07,218
could be worth millions.
699
00:46:07,328 --> 00:46:11,389
Me? Write sleazy Charlotte Knight
novels for the rest of my life?
700
00:46:12,766 --> 00:46:14,893
I'm a serious writer, Steele.
701
00:46:15,002 --> 00:46:17,061
Of course you are.
702
00:46:17,171 --> 00:46:21,938
Here you are, finally about to
get your novel published.
703
00:46:22,043 --> 00:46:25,035
- Is that why you killed him?
- What?
704
00:46:25,146 --> 00:46:27,046
He said it would be
a revealing evening.
705
00:46:28,483 --> 00:46:30,747
Mitchell Knight planned
to tell, didn't he?
706
00:46:30,852 --> 00:46:34,754
Walk out into that party and tell the world
you wrote a tawdry little sex thriller.
707
00:46:35,523 --> 00:46:39,391
Goodbye New York Times.
goodbye Pulitzer Committee.
708
00:46:39,494 --> 00:46:41,462
Goodbye Dick Cavett.
709
00:46:41,562 --> 00:46:44,759
What kind of revisions
are you working on?
710
00:46:44,866 --> 00:46:47,164
Could it be that you had to
replace a scene...
711
00:46:47,268 --> 00:46:49,862
involving a man being thrown
from a balcony?
712
00:46:52,173 --> 00:46:54,971
- You can't prove that.
- No, but I can.
713
00:46:55,077 --> 00:46:57,511
I have a copy of the original
manuscript in my office.
714
00:46:57,612 --> 00:47:00,103
I've been meaning to read it.
715
00:47:15,197 --> 00:47:17,427
Lucky I had no feeling in
that foot anyway.
716
00:47:20,935 --> 00:47:24,598
STEELE TRAPS LITERARY KILLER
She watched him.
717
00:47:24,707 --> 00:47:28,973
watched him even as he refused
to look up and see her.
718
00:47:29,078 --> 00:47:31,376
For she was the one...
719
00:47:32,916 --> 00:47:37,012
Who watched, the watcher, wound here.
720
00:47:38,721 --> 00:47:40,916
You did that just a lick too well.
721
00:47:41,023 --> 00:47:45,119
Could it be that, deep down inside, you
were born to write hot and steamy novels?
722
00:47:45,227 --> 00:47:49,596
A person should always have a
little something to fall back on.
723
00:47:52,001 --> 00:47:55,027
- What are you doing?
- I'm reading about us in the local paper.
724
00:47:55,138 --> 00:47:58,164
- Ask me what I'm doing.
- What are you doing?
725
00:47:58,941 --> 00:48:00,340
Nothing.
726
00:48:02,345 --> 00:48:05,508
- Oh, How do you like it?
- I don't know.
727
00:48:05,615 --> 00:48:08,345
It's not as easy as it looks.
728
00:48:08,450 --> 00:48:10,975
I have this burning desire to
balance my check book.
729
00:48:11,087 --> 00:48:16,252
You have to fight it. I find it helps to take
a stroll at the height of the business day.
730
00:48:16,358 --> 00:48:18,383
- Really?
- Truly.
731
00:48:18,495 --> 00:48:22,363
Irresponsibility is not a sickness.
It's an art.
732
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,629
Stick with me. I'm a master.
733
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:32,229
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