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(theme music playing)
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NARRATOR:
Man lives in the sunlit world
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of what he believes
to be reality.
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But... there is,
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unseen by most, an underworld.
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A place that is just as real
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but not as brightly lit.
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A dark side.
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It should have been
just another Thursday.
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Thirst-day, I call it.
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Of course,
as far as I'm concerned,
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every day is Thirst-day.
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The only thing on my mind
was the sweet music
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and some jingling ice cubes.
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That's where it all started.
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Benny's Lounge.
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All I was looking for
was a little quick amnesia.
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I mean, you try ten hours a day
selling life insurance.
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You got to make them think
about death, not life.
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Well, an hour or so in Benny's
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always made me forget
about death.
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My own death,
and the death of my marriage.
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After my divorce,
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I got to spending
all my evenings at Benny's.
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I'm two up on you already.
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(laughs)
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No contest.
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(bill rustling)
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Keep 'em filled
till that's gone.
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That's where I met Curtis.
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Curtis was a regular--
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a regular customer
and a regular guy.
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They say misery loves company.
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Well, Curtis was great company.
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Must be pay day, huh?
Huh.
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Yep. Company pays me,
then I pay the ex.
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First the IRS,
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then the dress.
This is all that's left.
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(laughing)
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Even the roaches
moved out.
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They were starving,
living with me.
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(chuckling)
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I say,
"Good riddance to 'em."
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Roaches?
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The dames.
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We're better off without them.
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Yeah, except that what gets me
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is the way everyone treats you
once you're solo.
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You ever notice that?
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Ah, come on. Don't go
into that again, will you?
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Nah, nah. You get the worst
tables in restaurants.
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Your married friends
don't call you anymore.
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(sighs)
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Ah...
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Without the other half,
you're strictly half-assed.
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I know the routine, Curtis.
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See, what you and I need
is-is-is something
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between married and single,
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something in the middle
of the road.
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The middle of the road, huh?
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Mm-hmm.
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The middle of the road's
where the white line is.
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That's the most dangerous
place to drive.
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(laughing): Is that so?
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Well, then, let's take a drive.
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I know the perfect girl.
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Come off it, will you?
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I'm not in the mood.
Anyway, I'm broke.
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Nah, nah. No hanky-panky.
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Trust me.
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I just want to have
some fun, that's all.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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I should have listened
to that little voice,
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telling me to stay put.
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I mean,
Curtis always had funny ideas,
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but this one was out of bounds.
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(laughing)
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Shh, shh, shh.
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(laughing)
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There's some scotch
in the icebox.
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Aren't they gonna miss
that thing down at the store?
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Hell, no.
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Store's got more of these
than we ever use.
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She's just as lonely as we are.
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Everybody needs a little love,
right, doll?
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Here you go.
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(laughing)
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Ah, to Estelle.
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Estelle.
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I should have checked out
right then and there.
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Estelle, listen to this.
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But it was so crazy,
it was fun.
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What happens when you cross
a cantaloupe and a collie?
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Huh?
I don't know.
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You don't know?
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You get a melancholy baby!
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(both laughing)
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And Curtis could be
a real charmer,
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even with a dummy like Estelle.
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So, I went along with it,
telling jokes,
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reminiscing about the war,
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all kinds of nonsense.
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I got one.
Go ahead.
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She just sat there,
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quiet and attentive,
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not like these mouthy dames
you meet nowadays.
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Just about ready
to blast this guy.
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He turns around, and
it's one of our own men.
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Estelle doesn't want
to hear any war stories.
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Let's liven this
up a little.
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I got another
one for you.
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What happens when
you cross an elephant
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with peanut butter?
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You get peanut butter
that never forgets!
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(Curtis laughing)
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Yeah, we were drunk,
real drunk.
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When Curtis started dancing
with the doll,
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I started to feel
like the odd man out.
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Like a, like a
jealous school boy.
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Crazy, huh?
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I mean, after all, it was just
a damn piece of wood, right?
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What happened next,
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I guess I just wrote off
to all the booze.
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But, as I was leaving,
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I could swear
the damn thing stared at me.
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Just stared at me.
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I didn't see Curtis
for a few days after that.
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I figured he might be sick.
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When I called the store
where he worked,
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they said he took a week off.
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A week off?
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Curtis's idea of a vacation
was an extra hour at Benny's,
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and I knew
he hadn't been there.
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So, when he called
to invite me to dinner,
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I figured, "What the hell?"
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I hadn't had a good meal
in months.
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Although the idea of Curtis
enjoying domestic chores
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was a new one on me.
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(knocking at door)
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Right on time.
Come on in.
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I can't believe
I'm actually going
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to eat something
that you cooked.
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(laughing)
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Hey, there's someone here
who wants to see you.
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Ha-ha.
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You got to be kidding.
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(dishes clattering)
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Scotch, right?
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Here you go, pal.
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How about one
for the lady?
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Estelle doesn't
like liquor.
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Mmm.
Don't worry, though.
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She's no prude.
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Never gives me
any grief, either.
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Isn't that right, honey?
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Huh? You're right.
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You hungry?
I'm famished.
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Uh, hey, uh, they told me you,
uh, you took a week off
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from work, huh?
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Yeah, that was
Estelle's idea.
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Estelle?
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Yeah.
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She'd never been
to Atlantic City.
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So I took her.
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We had a ball.
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Yeah, sure.
Uh, how was the water, Estelle?
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(chuckling)
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Estelle doesn't swim.
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Hey.
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How about that necklace
I bought her?
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Are you serious?
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You went to Atlantic City
with that thing?
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We got the red carpet.
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They really know
how to treat a couple.
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A couple of what?
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Here's to you, doll.
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Uh...
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I guess she doesn't
like your cooking, huh?
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Eats like a bird.
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Fanatic about her figure.
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Hey, Curtis.
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Don-Don't you think
you're taking this thing
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a little too far?
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Carrying what
a little too far?
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This business
with Estelle.
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I mean, uh, people might
think you're off your nut.
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Nah.
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It's like I always said,
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"When you're solo,
you get second-class treatment."
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Ever since me and Estelle
have been going out...
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Hey, get off it,
will ya, Curtis?
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What do you take me for,
an idiot?
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This is a dummy--
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a lifeless,
soulless piece of wood.
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See what you've done?
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You've upset her.
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What did you want
to go and do that for?
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Okay, look.
I-I know I've had a few drinks,
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but you don't really expect me
to believe this.
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Keep your opinions
to yourself, pal.
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Okay. Okay.
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Maybe I was wrong, Curtis.
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Maybe you're a
real lucky guy.
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Luckiest around.
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Oh, sure.
Yeah, I can see that.
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I mean, she's pretty.
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Keeps her mouth shut.
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Hey, I bet she's real good
in the sack, huh?
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Don't you
talk that way.
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Oh, yeah.
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She could probably do
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a real fancy dance with these
double joints of hers.
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Probably keep old Curtis's head
spinning like a roulette wheel.
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CURTIS:
Cut it out, Roberts!
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Yeah, I bet it wouldn't take
much to stew a tomato like you.
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Roberts!
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Hey, maybe you'd really
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come alive for me, huh, babe?
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(groans)
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Don't you ever act like that
around Estelle again,
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you hear me?
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Sure, Curtis.
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Who needs a stiff
like her, anyway?
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Get out! Get out!!
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(whispering)
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(whispering continues)
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Look, I know I was drunk.
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But, I mean,
something was cracked.
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I couldn't stop
thinking about it.
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Boy, your mind can sure play
some weird tricks on you.
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(distant, distorted):
Why are you looking at us
so strange?
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(scoffing laugh)
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I think you're doing
a great job.
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(chuckles)
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(chuckles)
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(laughing)
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MAN:
Roberts. Roberts.
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Hey, Roberts.
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Come on, Roberts.
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Roberts. Roberts!
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Roberts.
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Hey, Roberts.
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(mutters):
What...?
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Come on, pal,
let's rejoin the living.
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(quiet groan)
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What do you
say, Sergeant?
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It's Lieutenant now.
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And I say
you seen better days.
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You ought to know.
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Seen him around lately?
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Yeah, uh,
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I had dinner with him and...
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I mean, uh, just me and him
a couple of weeks ago.
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Why? What's up?
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Well, the store where he works
is coming up a little short
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in Curtis's department.
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Eh, they're missing some jewelry
and some women's clothes.
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Even one of them
new television things.
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Well, I-I haven't
seen him for a while.
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Uh... well, we-we
had a fight.
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About what?
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Oh, just a dame.
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Nothing serious.
265
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Uh, but I haven't
seen him since then.
266
00:13:52,732 --> 00:13:54,865
You don't think he's embezzling
from the store, do you?
267
00:13:54,868 --> 00:13:58,135
I don't think
anything... yet.
268
00:13:58,203 --> 00:14:00,771
This argument-- he's been
acting strange lately?
269
00:14:02,909 --> 00:14:04,275
No, I didn't mean
anything like that.
270
00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:05,709
Uh...
271
00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:09,280
hey, he got divorced a little
while ago, the same as me,
272
00:14:09,348 --> 00:14:12,283
and, uh, we used to drown
the sorrows together, you know?
273
00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:13,284
That's all.
274
00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:14,985
Maybe you ought
to talk to his ex.
275
00:14:14,987 --> 00:14:17,087
You know where
we could find her?
276
00:14:17,090 --> 00:14:18,588
No, I never met her.
277
00:14:18,658 --> 00:14:20,290
We never talked much
about the wives.
278
00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:21,625
I don't even know her name.
279
00:14:21,627 --> 00:14:22,726
Estelle.
280
00:14:22,729 --> 00:14:24,461
What?!
281
00:14:24,530 --> 00:14:26,196
Estelle-- that's her name.
282
00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:28,899
Yeah, we'd like
to talk to her, all right.
283
00:14:28,968 --> 00:14:30,034
See, that's another thing--
284
00:14:30,036 --> 00:14:31,435
he was married, like you say,
285
00:14:31,504 --> 00:14:34,004
but there's no record
of any divorce.
286
00:14:34,006 --> 00:14:36,106
Lady's gone now.
287
00:14:36,175 --> 00:14:38,676
Poof, not a trace.
288
00:14:38,678 --> 00:14:41,178
Kind of suspicious,
wouldn't you say?
289
00:14:51,590 --> 00:14:53,423
I stayed at Benny's
a couple more hours,
290
00:14:53,492 --> 00:14:56,260
and the more I sat,
the more I drank.
291
00:14:56,328 --> 00:14:58,863
Something inside me kept saying,
"You gotta help him out.
292
00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:01,331
"He's-he's just a poor slob
going through a bad time.
293
00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,300
You know what it's like."
294
00:15:03,369 --> 00:15:05,302
I should've had
another drink instead.
295
00:15:16,983 --> 00:15:18,916
(knocking)
296
00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,892
(knocking continues)
297
00:15:35,801 --> 00:15:37,768
My God, man, you're a wreck.
298
00:15:37,837 --> 00:15:38,769
Roberts!
299
00:15:38,838 --> 00:15:40,470
(game show playing
quietly over TV)
300
00:15:40,539 --> 00:15:42,405
Oh, good to see
you, old boy.
301
00:15:42,474 --> 00:15:46,409
Uh... I been
thinking about you.
302
00:15:46,478 --> 00:15:49,179
Um, same here, pal.
303
00:15:49,248 --> 00:15:53,017
We were thinking about having
you over for dinner this week.
304
00:15:53,085 --> 00:15:55,019
Weren't we, babe?
305
00:15:57,023 --> 00:15:58,522
Hello, Estelle.
306
00:15:58,557 --> 00:16:01,124
Uh, how you doing?
307
00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:02,125
See?
308
00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:03,994
No hard feelings.
309
00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:08,465
You want me to turn
that up a little?
310
00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:10,100
It's awfully low.
311
00:16:10,169 --> 00:16:11,836
(volume increases,
audience laughing over TV)
312
00:16:11,904 --> 00:16:13,137
(chuckles)
313
00:16:13,206 --> 00:16:15,139
So, how about
a little libation?
314
00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:19,543
GAME SHOW HOST (over TV):
Okay, that's one...
315
00:16:19,612 --> 00:16:21,078
All right, good.
316
00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:24,881
Listen, uh, Lieutenant Mann
came to see me at Benny's.
317
00:16:30,890 --> 00:16:32,656
(chuckles softly)
318
00:16:32,692 --> 00:16:34,491
She won't let me
out of her sight.
319
00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,994
HOST:
Okay, Susan, four darts left.
320
00:16:37,063 --> 00:16:39,763
I can't eat,
can't sleep.
321
00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:44,602
It's-it's, "Get me this.
I want that."
322
00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:47,104
It's worse than
when I was married.
323
00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:48,639
The only time
I've been out is
324
00:16:48,707 --> 00:16:51,341
to pick up that-that
television set.
325
00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:55,012
Yeah, where'd you get the dough
to buy something like that?
326
00:16:55,081 --> 00:16:57,414
That's-that's my business.
327
00:16:57,483 --> 00:17:00,584
Curtis, listen, you're in
more trouble than you realize.
328
00:17:00,586 --> 00:17:02,486
We gotta get you
pulled together.
329
00:17:02,554 --> 00:17:03,888
I know this
doctor, see?
330
00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:05,022
He can tell
the cops...
331
00:17:05,090 --> 00:17:06,156
You think I'm twisted.
332
00:17:06,225 --> 00:17:07,691
Is that it?
333
00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,761
No, you just got to get a
grip on yourself, that's all.
334
00:17:10,830 --> 00:17:12,630
Hey, why don't you
come over to my place?
335
00:17:12,698 --> 00:17:15,098
You can really
relax there.
336
00:17:15,167 --> 00:17:16,733
Hey, what stinks
so bad in here?
337
00:17:16,802 --> 00:17:18,502
What about Estelle?
338
00:17:18,571 --> 00:17:19,737
I'll take
care of her.
339
00:17:19,739 --> 00:17:22,006
We won't have any
problems with her.
340
00:17:22,074 --> 00:17:23,307
By the time you wake up,
341
00:17:23,309 --> 00:17:26,109
she'll be back in the
store selling purses.
342
00:17:26,178 --> 00:17:27,344
No, you can't.
343
00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:28,545
She won't stand for it.
344
00:17:28,614 --> 00:17:29,979
All right.
345
00:17:29,982 --> 00:17:32,482
If it'll make you feel any
better, she's firewood.
346
00:17:32,485 --> 00:17:34,718
No! You don't understand.
347
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,220
You don't understand!
Curtis, Curtis!
348
00:17:36,288 --> 00:17:37,254
Don't be a fool!
349
00:17:38,091 --> 00:17:39,422
No!
350
00:17:41,527 --> 00:17:44,227
He hit you then.
351
00:17:44,296 --> 00:17:46,096
No. That's where
you don't get it.
352
00:17:46,165 --> 00:17:49,332
We were struggling, all right,
but I got hit from behind.
353
00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:50,834
(fading in):
She won't stand for it.
354
00:17:50,902 --> 00:17:52,302
(speaking low
and indistinct)
355
00:17:52,371 --> 00:17:53,804
ROBERTS:
I didn't want to hit him.
356
00:17:53,873 --> 00:17:55,238
I figured he was panicked,
that's all.
357
00:17:55,241 --> 00:17:57,308
I figured if I could
just get him out of there,
358
00:17:57,376 --> 00:17:58,309
he'd calm down.
359
00:18:00,379 --> 00:18:02,579
No!
360
00:18:04,684 --> 00:18:06,917
LIEUTENANT:
You were unconscious?
361
00:18:06,986 --> 00:18:09,419
ROBERTS:
Yeah, like I was dead.
362
00:18:09,488 --> 00:18:13,590
LIEUTENANT:
You couldn't see
or hear anything?
363
00:18:13,659 --> 00:18:16,360
ROBERTS:
Not till I came to, I told you.
364
00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:19,530
That's when I saw Curtis
sitting across the room.
365
00:18:19,532 --> 00:18:21,197
Curtis.
366
00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,367
Curtis.
367
00:18:23,435 --> 00:18:24,968
Then I heard the door.
368
00:18:25,037 --> 00:18:26,436
I thought I was seeing things.
369
00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:29,106
It was like a-a vise
on my head.
370
00:18:29,174 --> 00:18:31,675
And the stench
in that room was so bad.
371
00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:34,044
Well, anyway,
I went over to Curtis and...
372
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,312
Curtis.
373
00:18:35,347 --> 00:18:37,447
You all right, pal?
374
00:18:40,553 --> 00:18:43,253
(screaming)
375
00:18:43,322 --> 00:18:45,255
That's when
I started screaming.
376
00:18:48,127 --> 00:18:50,060
(typewriter clacking)
377
00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:58,035
You're saying a store mannequin
knocked you on the head
378
00:18:58,103 --> 00:18:59,637
and then killed Curtis?
379
00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:01,438
Yes! That's it!
380
00:19:01,507 --> 00:19:03,873
That's the only way
it could've happened.
381
00:19:03,942 --> 00:19:06,710
Curtis was in front of me,
I got hit from behind.
382
00:19:06,778 --> 00:19:07,811
Who else
could've done it?
383
00:19:07,879 --> 00:19:08,878
By what? By whom?
384
00:19:08,947 --> 00:19:09,879
Come on.
385
00:19:09,948 --> 00:19:10,914
So he's the one?
386
00:19:10,982 --> 00:19:12,449
Definitely.
387
00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:14,418
I'd recognize him anywhere.
388
00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:17,988
See, he'd always get there
first, and then she'd show up.
389
00:19:18,056 --> 00:19:19,756
Real nervous-like.
390
00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:21,224
I waited on 'em
several times,
391
00:19:21,293 --> 00:19:23,193
and I remember
what they ordered.
392
00:19:23,261 --> 00:19:26,429
Steak for him
and seafood for her.
393
00:19:28,534 --> 00:19:29,966
You knew his wife?
394
00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:32,369
No!
395
00:19:32,438 --> 00:19:34,538
I told you, I never met her.
396
00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:37,708
I knew they were
messin' around.
397
00:19:37,777 --> 00:19:39,809
We figure it
that way, too.
398
00:19:39,812 --> 00:19:43,881
Curtis must have found out
and carved her up.
399
00:19:43,949 --> 00:19:46,350
We found her--
or what was left of her--
400
00:19:46,418 --> 00:19:47,751
under the kitchen sink.
401
00:19:47,753 --> 00:19:51,054
Then Roberts must
have found out,
402
00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:54,892
went berserk and
killed Curtis.
403
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,796
Tight as the lock
on Fort Knox.
404
00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,497
Except for one thing.
405
00:20:00,565 --> 00:20:02,099
What's that?
406
00:20:02,168 --> 00:20:03,733
ROBERTS:
There's only one thing
that could've happened...
407
00:20:03,803 --> 00:20:05,169
No fingerprints.
408
00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:06,569
The knife had no
prints at all.
409
00:20:06,638 --> 00:20:07,938
ROBERTS: I saw somebody
go out the door...
410
00:20:08,006 --> 00:20:10,174
Roberts probably got the bump
on the head in the struggle,
411
00:20:10,242 --> 00:20:12,576
but no prints.
412
00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:14,344
ROBERTS:
The mannequin did it.
413
00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:16,880
Strange, huh?
414
00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:18,748
ROBERTS:
I saw somebody
go out the door.
415
00:20:18,751 --> 00:20:20,284
It had to be Estelle!
416
00:20:20,352 --> 00:20:21,384
I mean, the mannequin!
417
00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:23,219
The mannequin!
418
00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:27,223
What's all this mannequin
business he keeps blabbin'?
419
00:20:27,293 --> 00:20:29,526
Oh, the store's
missing one, all right.
420
00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:32,962
Probably misplaced in
inventory, they say.
421
00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:35,198
No trace of one
at Curtis's.
422
00:20:35,267 --> 00:20:38,669
It'll turn up in some
warehouse eventually.
423
00:20:38,738 --> 00:20:40,203
Got a light?
424
00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:56,320
I told you,
it was the mannequin!
425
00:20:56,322 --> 00:20:58,555
He called it Estelle,
just like his wife!
426
00:20:58,623 --> 00:21:00,157
It was alive, I'm telling you!
427
00:21:00,192 --> 00:21:02,192
The mannequin
was alive!
428
00:21:18,377 --> 00:21:22,145
NARRATOR:
The dark side is always there.
429
00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:24,714
Waiting for us to enter.
430
00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:27,951
Waiting to enter us.
431
00:21:28,019 --> 00:21:34,190
Until next time, try
to enjoy the daylight.