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math riddles from the new york sentinel

crossword puzzle editor tess harper

let's go one more time please if last

take was an eight maybe bring it down to

a five

oh right okay five i got it sorry i'm

just

a little nervous

math riddles from the new york sentinel

crossword puzzle editor tess harper

perfect cut tail slate

[Music]

that was great tess we're going to light

a new angle for when you read the

individual riddles so you can take 30.

right thank you how'd i do you've heard

the term fixing in post right

tess you're natural well please i'm just

trying to get the words out in the right

order yeah well luckily that's your

forte the audience is going to love this

sentinel's crossword editor and riddle

me this it's the perfect marriage

well you had a lot of people you could

have asked to do this um why'd you ask

me

you're everybody's first choice this i

mean mine included

and what happened between us that's

ancient history

no thank you i appreciate that and this

has been great

it's been nice to reconnect yeah i feel

the same way

i mean since you have a few minutes you

want to go pillage the craft service

table how much longer do you think we'll

be filming tonight i could probably have

you out of here by

10 p.m or so why you got a hot date

a dinner with a friend

um yeah you know what let's grab

something good

be nice to settle my nerves i hear that

my aunt is such a huge fan of the show

she never misses an episode

i was kind of stealing i mean that

thanksgiving we spent with her and your

uncle brian is still one of my top five

ever yeah he passed away about six years

ago in a car accident

yes i'm so sorry he was a great guy he

was

why don't you have candace come with you

to the taping tomorrow i'll make sure

she's on the list

really oh my goodness she would

absolutely love that i mean

love it and if there was any way you

could um

manage an introduction to aiden brooks

you might just be from your favorite

person

i don't see why that can't be arranged

yeah i'm gonna need those casting tapes

asap

i contestantly have just a dropped out

all right thanks

yikes you feeling good about the video

segment yeah it's going great

all right well if you need anything i am

around okay

anyone here so nice yeah

oh my gosh

[Music]

i need help

chair behind you sit down yeah come on

[Music]

jeez

thank you guys man i was just doing my

rounds and uh

i saw a light under aidan's door and i

knew he wasn't supposed to be in it

so i want to go take a look when i came

in i saw this place was a mess and then

wham

did you get a look at the person it was

a guy

yep he had brown hair about my height

could have been two of them for all i

know

i mean why would someone break into the

host dressing room

who knows maybe it was a riddler looking

for a souvenir

wait what's a riddler what riddle me

this super fans call themselves

trust me they can get a little intense

obsessive is more like it um hey i heard

about ian is he okay

yeah it's just a pounding headache he's

giving a statement to the police

tess this is dana's husband graham the

show's editor oh hi

tess harper nice to meet you um i'm

sorry i gotta go

of course you know what excuse me just a

second sorry

okay logan hey

hey hollywood yeah so listen we're all

set for 7 30 tonight

union square cafe i'm so sorry i was

just about to call you i didn't realize

but we're going to be filming until

about 10.

raincheck uh yeah i know of course

uh everything everything going well so

far yeah everything's

been fine until someone broke into the

host dressing room and knocked out head

of

wow is he all right yeah i think so

listen if there's anything i can do to

help

you know look i'll let you get back to

it

break a leg but you know please be

careful all right i will

talk to you soon so all set to see the

stage

yeah sure right this way

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you heard that didn't you mm-hmm great

detecting a little melancholy in the air

yeah

she had to reschedule dinner was it a

day no it's a meal between friends it's

not a date you can't get over it

definitely sounds like no it is not a

date okay

i'm not gonna take advice from someone

who met their husband back in second

grade

hey uh what when you know you know how

can you know anything from degree too

taste this whoa

that's incredible pop no no no there's a

container with your name on it in the

fridge

candace and i just finished our last

naples class next up

tuscany oh oh by the way

yeah now that winston has left us for

the fbi

i'm making your partnership official

well then partner

i want to focus on puzzles with unifying

themes over the next couple of weeks

oh we could start with season-based

puzzles for the spring oh that's good

graduation's coming up we could do one

that focuses on college and university

terminology

oh is that tess harper's star a riddle

me this

well you're half right we're gonna have

to have a viewing party when the episode

airs yeah you get to go to the taping

right yeah later today as soon as i get

tomorrow's puzzle out

you know something kind of crazy

happened yesterday when i was there

someone broke into aiden's dressing room

and attacked a security guard

what that's terrible yeah the police

think it might be an obsessed fan

rulers do love them some adam brooks how

do you know about riddlers

i'm a riddler okay i love the show my

whole family loves it

i've been freaking out knowing that

you're going to be on the show all week

sonia why didn't you say something

i was embarrassed well i could see if

hunter could get you into the taping oh

uh yeah no i

don't think that i could handle being in

the same room as aiden brooks i mean the

man's a

fox

special delivery test wow they're

gorgeous

a measure of time not found on a clock

but in your heart

sounds romantic what do you think it

means

i don't know i didn't think logan had it

in him

they're not from logan they're from

hunter

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so i think you get for inviting me only

a couple dozen times

oh look look riddle me this

show just meant so much to your uncle

brian and me oh i always thought it was

so sweet the way you guys would

keep your scores

i miss him too yeah seriously this is so

nice of hunter

i would have thought maybe he would have

held a grudge after the way things ended

between you two

oh you know what you couldn't have been

more supportive or nicer

really yeah we were together he was so

focused on himself and his career

maybe success has taught him that there

is more to life than getting ahead

hello it is tess harper and candace

wentworth

she's going to be on the show tonight

it's her debut i'll enjoy the show

ladies

[Music]

[Music]

i made this especially for aiden the new

york winters can be so frigid i'd hate

for him to catch cold and miss a show

oh that's so sweet here we go the fans

love him

hey welcome to the show ladies how are

you doing good to see you

thank you so is there a special place

we're supposed to see it

i got y'all friends oh yeah you didn't

have to do that

what are you talking about you're the

guest of honor

candice i'm so glad you can make it oh

thank you tess told me that you are the

head riddle writer on the show

wow you're bragging about me maybe a

little

i want to tell you tonight it's going to

be a great show matthew nasser's on fire

he's only a few wins away from the show

rick

i know he's so smart and fearless honey

he goes all in on the double up dilemma

every single time

that's why he's the champ right over

here

oh and thank you for the flowers

did you figure out the riddle not yet

i look forward to hearing what you think

when you do oh

stick around after the show okay got a

little surprise for you

is this about flowers oh it's nothing it

was just a

thank you for being on the show

and now ladies and gentlemen let's give

a warm welcome to america's favorite

host

aiden brooks

thank you welcome to america's number

one

rated game show riddle me

now who's here to see matthew nasser

break the record

and once again a returning champion a

high school english teacher from norman

oklahoma

matthew nasser

36 wins in a row matthew i'm running out

of stories to ask you about well aidan

uh i guess i should have led a more

interesting life

well if you break a record of 41 wins in

a row you'll never want for stories

again

wow now is everyone ready to play

[Applause]

are you excited okay let's get started

our first categories are

time flies which came first

no direction home a matter of life and

death

sports dynasties and finally

math riddles from the new york sentinel

crossword puzzle editor tess harper

[Applause]

okay matthew start us off all right

we'll take math riddles

for 400.

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how do you make the number seven even

without addition subtraction

multiplication or division matthew

you dropped the s that's correct

your next collection which came

first 300 matthew again

math riddles for 500. that's correct

what goes up

but never comes down a person's age

that's correct a man leans home

turns left three times only to come home

finding

two men in masks who are they a catcher

and an umpire

that's right yeah naturals one thousand

how much would you like to wager matthew

oh aidan

all of it see

in 1990 a person is 15 years old in 1995

that same person is 10 years old how can

this be

the person was born in 2005 bc

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that's right

that was a trick question you got it

well i guess the only question left to

answer matthew is how much you'll have

made today

and you wagered all of it again making

today's total

44 600

which brings this 37 day earnings to 2

252 600

tune in tomorrow for matthew's march

towards history

until then i'm aiden brooks thanks for

watching

and good night

[Applause]

oh you're so good i'm so proud the

camera loves you

right i mean how did it feel seeing

yourself broadcast an entire studio

audience

i was very self-conscious another

fantastic show hunter

hey thank you mr freeman marlon freeman

the man who writes the checks for all

this

you are wonderful miss harper let me

know if you'd like to come back all

right i will thank you so much

let me see oh honey tess

he would have said that if you didn't

mean it you might have gotten yourself

another career

[Music]

okay you all ready for your surprise

we actually get to meet him oh yeah oh

okay it's official you are my new

favorite person hunter no offense to us

i told you

there's only one thing

no neither do i you're fired

oh

last week he said he didn't want any

lemon in his teeth just

don't worry about it okay i'm going to

talk to myself it's not your fault

uh well maybe this isn't a good time

yeah we don't want to impose he's

expecting us

it's gonna be fine

aiden uh what a great episode tess i

keep telling hunter here we need to

shake things up like that more often

it's very nice of you to say you must be

candace hunter tells me you're a big fan

of the show

well i never miss it if i can help it

well on behalf of everyone here at

riddle me this

let me say thank you we wouldn't be

where we are without our fans

well my husband i got some technical

issues to go over for the next episode

but it was a delight meeting both of you

please

come in get in here okay thank you i had

an idea for some future categories would

you walk with me

of course yeah ladies make yourselves at

home

okay ah

wow he was so

phony i was gonna say full of himself

but that works too

[Music]

hey i want to drop these off for someone

huh anyone put you on the list no

actually it's a it's a surprise for a

tess harper

if anyone's got eyes on dana i wanted to

get a visitor approval

no i haven't seen her all day i'll check

the stage

security's tighter than usual today all

visitors need to be approved by our

producer i understand

uh aidan's face down he's not moving

we need some help where's your stage

you're clear to the right here

[Music]

okay you're the one who called in yeah

all right step back call my woman right

now

[Music]

detectable conor nypd this stage is now

an active crime scene so please

to stay back

he's dead

preliminary cause of death was

asphyxiation by strangulation

someone wrapped that red scarf around

aidan's neck

and didn't let go until he was dead well

strangulation takes time

no leverage and strength necessary to

apply that kind of pressure for that

long

probably means our killer was male it's

a big place

someone had to have seen something well

one of the security guards told me the

stage area has a ghost town after

tapings

and the killer probably already knew

that which is why they chose to do it

here

okay nobody leaves until they give a

statement run background checks the

works

i'll get the unis to start collecting

contact information very good

let's do it let's go to work so you said

the

security was stricter than usual because

of the break-in yesterday

do you think it couldn't be the same

person well it's quite possible

listen when you found the body did you

notice anything unusual did you see

anyone

no i was doing my normal sweep after the

taping okay

and i saw aidan's body on the floor

i was here in my dressing room when i

heard the commotion

anybody account for your whereabouts at

the time of the murder uh no

i was alone prepping for the next show

okay so aside from the visitors list how

else would you get access to the studio

id badges are to everyone on the crew

they can be used at any entrance but

every time they scan in it gets locked

into our system

what about the audience that was here

today everyone's pre-screened

their ids and matched the game start

list before they entered the building

i'm gonna be that list and any names

that had access to the studio all right

sure thing all right

thanks what was your relationship with

mr brooks like

well contestants and anyone else

involved with the questions

are kept away from each other it's

broadcast standards and practices rules

the only conversations i had with aiden

were in front of a live studio audience

they on tape oh they're on tape you can

watch them i look pretty good in them

too

i would imagine so ian gave you a scarf

that you gave to aiden right

any idea what he didn't do with it he

threw it in the trash can over by where

his body was found

okay aidan wasn't the sentimental type

uh where were you around the time of the

murder i was looking at casting tapes in

my office and then i went to see my

husband in editorial

when i heard what happened over the

walking

okay thank you for your time

[Music]

aidan had some thoughts about riddle

categories you wanted to go over

oh thanks so i walked him towards the

stage you do realize you're the last

person to seem alive right

except the killer you mean did anyone

else see you and aiden part ways

not that i'm aware of why do you think

aidan went to the stage

he didn't say i imagine just wanted some

peace and quiet

did you guys have a good relationship

i'd like to think so when he gave me my

break

i'll demand my career right

detective you're not

you're not suggesting that i'm a suspect

in all of this

everybody's a suspect pal but

i've known hunter a long time he's not a

killer

well he was the last person to see aiden

alive as far as you know

dad you guys haven't seen each other in

a few years but he's not a violent

person

trust me and how do you know for sure

[Music]

we we used to date

i know him he would never do something

like this

if you say

[Music]

oh so fired me over nothing and that

would make you upset

look i have to ask can you account for

your whereabouts around the time of the

murder

uh i was in the alley getting some air

that's where i

saw this guy exit the studio and head

down the alley towards 49th street did

you get a good look at him

no he was like 50 yards away i just

thought that he was

blonde and tall

i uh gotta pack my things is that all

yeah

stay in touch yeah

who do we have a tall blonde male

was seen exiting the studio running

towards 49th street

around the time of the murder uh the guy

that broke into ayden's dressing room

medium height brown hair

i called the officers who were looking

into the case and they said they uh

wiped all the prints clean off the

award that was used to attack the

security guard you get anything off the

security cameras

no the system's down for an upgrade just

our luck

is there any possibility that somebody

in the audience might have done this no

security says that they do a full sweep

of the auditorium after every tape

it's highly unlikely okay let's get some

unis over to 49th street see if those

cameras or atms might have captured this

guy exiting the alley

okay okay

[Music]

hey just can't believe he's dead i'm so

sorry

it's it's been such a long day you

should go home and get some rest

[Music]

hey hey

what's going on well you know our best

leader right now is a tall blonde male

no there's just not much to go on yeah i

mean

that's better enough you know you got

here so fast

well i was just just happy to be in the

area when the call came in

i should get back yeah i should i should

go

yeah all right

[Music]

riddler forum uh the riddle me this fan

forum thought i'd see how people are

reacting online

and what are they saying oh how

devastated they are mostly

i mean aiden made the show special

everybody loved him

what okay there is this one poster

they keep writing digs about aiden like

what

how pompous they think he is how he

probably couldn't answer a single riddle

you know junk like that you know what

it's easy to be mean when you're hiding

behind a screen name do they post

anything that look like it could be a

threat

not that i can remember but i'll go back

and take a look at all posts

do you think that someone could actually

take their hatred for eating offline and

into real life

no i mean anything's possible right yeah

if you

find any information i'm sure it'll be

helpful for the detectives you know what

i got to be friends with one of the

forum moderators i'll see if he can get

me any details

[Music]

thanks

[Music]

something wrong yeah you lied to us

no a video footage didn't show anybody

exiting the alley onto 49th

they must have gone the other way

towards 50th

i i must have gotten confused

you know there's a big difference

between confusion and total fiction

mine's a misdemeanor you signed a false

witness statement

i'm sorry with aidan firing me

and then him getting killed

i was worried you might think i had

something to do with it

if we find out you're not being straight

with us i am

i swear well then i suggest you keep

yourself available in case we speak with

you again

thank you

[Music]

that's a pretty big reaction for an

honest mistake huh pull our phone

records

take a closer look

so we couldn't confirm pa story there's

no cameras facing the alleyway on 50th

but you think there's more to it than

that i definitely think she's hiding

something pops we're looking indoors

anybody in the crew raised any red flags

so far nothing jumps out did you get

that id scan list from

security just came in

here oh that's interesting

what there's an idea that was scanned

and the south entrance 30 minutes before

aiden's death

there's no name associated to the badge

numbers could it be a system error

maybe or a killer got access to the

building

let's head over to the studio and see if

anything knows anything about it

talk to you later yep

yeah this right here we can just cinch

it up okay

do we color correct this segment looks

like

tess hey i was i was just gonna leave

these but security said i could come

back so i

didn't want to interrupt though am i

interrupting no no

not at all you want to take five yeah i

could stretch my legs for a bit

look at these oh these are so cool

baseball fan

yeah cincinnati red oh i thought we had

it bad

30 years since our last world series

appearance go reds

uh coffee yeah please what brings you by

well i didn't know if you still got a

chocolate craving when you were stressed

so i

i thought if you did maybe these would

help you bathe for me

oh no who has time to bake

i stopped it ma'am on in little italy

the best i still can't believe you

remembered

no some details just stay with you

so how are you doing how are you feeling

about everything i'm

still in shock mostly yeah do you know

what's gonna happen with the show

we're in the dark while studio network

sorts out our fate they've asked us to

finish editing the episodes that we've

already

shot then we wait and see so there's a

chance the show might not come back

we weathered hard times before but now

that aidan's not

not at the helm who knows

what other hard times just a few months

ago we had a former contestant accuse

the show of helping nassar win

that's a pretty serious accusation

broadcast standards and practices looked

right into it

guess what they didn't find any evidence

because of course there wasn't

any just another sore loser kind of

happens

oh sorry detectives hey

hi would you like a cookie hey don't

worry they're not mine

test brought them sure

i'm good actually i'm i'm allergic to

chocolate really i'd

i didn't know that about you well you

know when you really think you

you know someone they can still surprise

you tell me about it

i didn't know tess here kept a journal

until well into our engagement

[Music]

it's uh dana's office around here uh

yeah

it's just somehow okay yeah um

[Music]

logan i um

sorry i'll see you later sure

[Music]

got a second come in i just had a quick

question about an id that was used

yesterday

sure an id was used to get access to

that entrance there

but what's odd is that there's no name

associated with the id login number

maybe anal no security office downstairs

aiden told me to do it do what make an

idea for him

well not for him but for someone else

you want to have access to the building

who he didn't say what was this

just about a week ago why am i just

hearing about this

aiden told me to keep quiet about it

dana he said if i mentioned it to anyone

that had me fired

so every aiden gave access to the

building they had free reign to come in

and out of the studio whenever they

wanted

yeah that's the long and the short of it

and we have no footage of them using the

card because

cameras are down look if it had been

anyone else

anyone else i'd have said no way

i'm sorry dana mm-hmm

you have any idea who aiden might want

to done this for no

but his behavior lately has been erratic

to say the least how do you mean

showing up late for walkthroughs more

irritable than usual blowing off

meetings

he came in with a bruise around his eye

the week before last did he say what

happened

he said he banged it on a coffee table

reaching to pick something up

you believe him no but what was i going

to do i had the makeup department work

their magic and the show went on

well with something going on in his

personal life he wouldn't share it with

me even if there was

the only person that aiden spent any

time with outside of the show was hunter

how close were they they would have

dinner together i think they went on a

trip to vegas

last year hunter realized that if he was

chummy with aiden

good things would happen you know they

say some people know how to play the

game

thank you

o'connor

really okay all right thanks

wow i guess all those trips and

expensive dinners were adding up for

eating

i was chauncey you pulled his financials

that was broke

flat broke elissima fantastico

chef lorenzo ciao ciao

hey since you signed us up last time i'm

gonna take care of the tuscany classes

next okay

you know actually i was gonna tell you

that i need to take a break for a few

weeks actually

what's the problem i thought you were

enjoying yourself no i

am really it's just that my schedule's

gonna change

some of my clients had to adjust their

appointments and i'm gonna have to work

some nights

it's all right i get it being a

therapist isn't really a

normal nine-to-five job i mean you have

scheduling changes as you said and

your clients really do depend on you

yeah they do

thank you for understanding

do you need a lift no i'm

good bye okay

find them

[Music]

every post by the kid three two four oh

wow that was pretty prolific

was your moderator friend able to get us

any information on the identity but

because of the forum's privacy rules

they were only able to give me an ip

address

i think we can identify a person with

that i feel like frank might know

what's up you're just wondering can you

find out a person's identity from an ip

address no not unless you got a warrant

hmm well what about their location yeah

that's very possible

you got the number yeah right there

okay

um well i can't give you an exact

address but it looks like the post

came from a computer in williamsburg

williamsburg

that that's where the riddle me the

studio is located

according to his credit card statements

aiden spent a lot of time in atlantic

city

vegas yeah i guess uh hunter are humping

them one of his trips i'll be asking

fade and had a gambling problem

hey tess hey

hey um coffee

what brings you by you know i was

looking at um

some riddle me this fan forums and

there's one poster who just said some

pretty harsh things about aiden

okay so somebody in ohio was saying some

things about some tv hosts so that's the

thing

they're not actually in ohio they're in

williamsburg which is where the studio

is okay and the user used the name

the kid 324 and i had sonia do some

research for a baseball puzzle and it

turns out that

gary lopez was the pitcher for the

brooklyn bears in the 90s

his nickname was the kid and his

lifetime home run total was 3 24.

tess i think you're spending too much

time on left field here i know sorry but

it's graham miller

he he's a huge huge fan of the bears i

mean his desk was

covered with memorabilia and souvenirs

i think maybe he posted this

well thank you for putting all this

together i uh i appreciate it

you're welcome

i i should have told you

about me and hunter yeah uh

you kind of threw me a curveball i'm

sorry and i was going to i

was and then i just with everything

going on i kind of

lost my chance look you guys history to

the other side

i still think hunter knows a lot more

he's letting on

are you flying i'm not applying anything

test abstaining

i think hunter is hiding something

you know there was a short period there

where i thought maybe you weren't the

most cynical person i'd ever met

anything interesting well hundred

mentioned that a former contestant

accused the show of giving nasser an

advantage over other contestants

tom's pros uh lost to nassar earlier in

his run by only a few dollars

probably the only time anyone really

challenged nasser

so maybe spro's just got tired of trying

to bring it to light legally and

he took it out on aiden we need to get

his reaction to aiden's death

you know for the article we're writing

okay

what what what article oh do i think he

had a gambling problem

yeah and you guys went to vegas together

man well yeah and he gambled while he

was there but

you know he was in a much different tax

bracket than i am just figured this out

somebody with money to burn blows off

steam

right right never say anything to you

about using a bookie

not that i recall although he did have a

regular poker game he played in

you see he would oh sounded high-end

five-figure buy-in

okay thanks is grandma uh yeah it's

upstairs in the editing day okay

appreciate it

[Music]

how do you make the number seven even

without addition subtraction

multiplication or division

detective sorry i had i didn't hear you

come in

the kid 324 the what your username on

the riddler forum

the one you used to trash aiden

if i ever saw aidan cross in the street

i'd step on the gas

i don't want you graham that's a threat

to me

how'd you find out that's not really

important it's important here

is why would you be posting threatening

messages about a man who was recently

heard

those posts it was just me venting

fans of the show were convinced that

aidan was the charming woody person they

saw on tv every night

but in reality he was just this cruel

petty jerk

and you wanted to drop them down a pig

or two in their eyes

if working here was so bad why not just

quit

dana if i left i

would never see her she gives everything

to this place

16-hour days six days a week she's the

real reason the show is as good as it is

you said that you were in here editing

around the time of the murder

that's right yeah and your computer can

log all of your work

yeah every step right well good then i'm

gonna need a copy of your hard drive

because if you were indeed in here

working

the log will confirm it okay oh

excuse me i'm ready what's up

really so that's why she lied to us then

okay i'm on my way an officer will swim

by to collect it

okay

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you're from the sentinel you said yeah i

tried to get something to listen to my

story there but no one gave me any time

today

well we're here now so you believe

nassar's getting an unfair advantage no

way it would have lost that guy if it

was a fair game

broadcast standards and practices said

otherwise didn't want a scandal on their

hands

they didn't want to find anything so

they didn't which should they have been

looking for

why he gets 10 double up dilemmas for

every other contestants one you're

saying that

nassar knows where they are beforehand

but how that's the part i can't quite

figure out

it's not like they're doing it out in

the open there's got to be some sort of

secret code or

a buzzer i thought but maybe that's too

obvious

thomas froze nypd i need you to come

with me

all units i got a suspect on foot south

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[Applause]

now

i didn't do anything yeah why she keeps

lying to herself wait who

sally jenkins remember the production

assistant from writing me this

it's his girlfriend let's go

talk to you later yeah

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great girlfriend

think i killed aidan come on

told everybody and their mother you got

a wrong deal the show was fixed because

it's true

it costs you a chance to make quite a

bundle huh

i mean how much has nasser made so far

he's got to be north of two million

right

he's doing the morning talk shows all

the late night appearances

guy's a household name now she's a fraud

that's what i was looking to prove

that's why i tossed eden's dressing room

because you were looking for vindication

right

until unfortunately they had a security

camera i didn't want to get caught

so when i saw the award on the shelf i

hit him with it

good now we're getting somewhere you

admit to that yeah you know admit to

murdering aiden no

absolutely not he didn't do it

well you must have thought he did

something worth lying to us over

he'd been so upset about the show it was

all he talked about and so you offered

to help him

knowing the security cameras were down i

stuck him into the studio using my id

he went through aidan's dressing room

looking for any evidence that they'd

been

cheating but he came up empty

i lied because i didn't know if after he

didn't find anything he didn't go back

that's why you made up that story about

that blonde guy but he didn't

he was working that day his parents dry

cleaners every customer that came in

came it swear to it oh it's not what he

told you

check for yourself you'll see okay

if i tell you something that might help

the investigation could that help tom

get him a lighter charge it depends on

how helpful what you've got to say is

all right let's hear it sally said she

heard aiden on the phone with someone

he told them when i leave the table

he'll be the one owing me 75 000.

aiden was into somebody for 75k that's

not trump change

do you think she was telling the truth

assistant i do now she knows telling the

truth is the only thing that'll help her

boyfriend

sally mentioned who aiden owed the money

to no just that it sounded like they

played in the same poker game together a

hundred did mention there was a high in

poverty and that paid him frequently it

could be whoever it was

got tired of waiting for the debt to be

repaid took matters into their own hands

first thing let's check out tom's alibi

for the day of the taping okay yep

customers confirm thomas ross was indeed

at the stanley strasbounders

at the time of the murder okay and what

about how about sally

medical examiner said that with the

angle of the brizzy the killer had to be

taller than aiden and the strength that

was necessary to strangulate and

most likely male but not for certain but

they both had motive

well if ayden and nasa were cheating

that's uh that's impossible no

oh there's a history of game show

scandals michael larson was memorizing

patterns on press your luck

ted slawson was memorizing you know the

prices of common items to help his bids

on the price is right

and there's that 21 quizzes game show

from the 50s right that had a scammer

saw the movie okay so let's just say

they are cheating okay if aiden or

nasser was threatening to

go public about it then but that would

destroy the reputation test

and uh aiden would not get his new

contract yeah master would have to get

back

over two million dollars in winnings

mutually for sure

reputation killer so maybe someone else

found out about it

maybe they were being blackmailed to

keep the secret okay

maybe it was the guy that uh note 75k

too yeah but if sanderson practices was

keeping you know nasa and aiden from

seeing each other or even talking to

each other outside of being on camera

then

how was he feeding him information

that's the 64 000 question

what what no nothing no it's nothing

it's just

okay hunter writes the riddles right

wouldn't it be safe to assume that he

would know what the double up dilemmas

are logan he wouldn't

him and adam were close what if they

didn't pull him up the scout so what

hunter blackmails aiden then he

finds out he's broke and he kills him

instead

it's just a theory yeah and it's a wrong

theory logan

you have mustard sugar

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every episode master's competed in i

really appreciate it

is this for a puzzle that you're working

on or i

i talked to tom's froze you're looking

into the cheating thing

that accusation is total nonsense if

anything like that was going on i would

have known about it you're probably

right

but i did a little research and he was

right about nassar finding double up

dilemmas at a higher rate than any other

contestant

he also answered more questions

correctly sure giving him a higher

chance of

uncovering the deities i understand all

of which doesn't matter because aidan

didn't know where the deities were

until they were revealed on the board

what can i say

i love a pointless exercise should i get

this back to you

oh not that i think that you would

pirate it but i'll get it back to you i

promise

i'm sorry i i should know how to leave

here by now but i

swear i get confused every time all

right just hang i write at the end of

the hall

shortcut through set and keep on going

till you hit the security desk

okay thank you so much

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who's there

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see your choice of wardrobe hasn't

changed since the academy there to take

the bell

right and look out for a bus tonight

need to be inconspicuous you know how it

is

beats wearing a suit any day of the week

well i'll agree with you there yeah

so what can i do for you detectives we

have a murder victim

aiden brooks game show host turns out he

was in the hall 75k

to some guy who was running a high-end

card game he wouldn't have been known

ea-less games out there would you well

there's a few around town that cater to

a celebrity crowd okay i could shake a

few trees try to find out which one ate

them plated

no i'd appreciate it brother all the

time

connor

is she okay all right i'm on my way

something happened to us thanks

you okay yeah i'm i'm i'm just a little

shaken up

okay what happened a light fell from

above the stage

test jumped out of the way just in time

well lights don't fall on their own

there was someone in the control booth

could you make it who it was they had a

spotlight on me so i only saw a

silhouette i just

i think i just want to go home let me

let you know my car's ready um

tess oh honey

oh i'm so glad you're all right

i'm gonna take you home come on uh thank

you

both for the offer yeah of course

come on sweetie are you sure what was

security

then we're shut down they cut back on

the number of personnel and who was

inside

dana some assistance uh i think nasa's

packing up his dressing room

graham's editing hey uh listen i need a

crime scene unit some meetings down here

in my location asap okay

listen detective if there's anything

else i can do to help um

i'll let you know what i'm guessing it's

right up here

yeah why go after tess

because dana said that tess was looking

into the cheating allegations

maybe somebody found out got scared if

anyone should be worried

it's nasty

come in so listen um

apparently someone tried to drop a light

on tess harper you wouldn't know

anything about that would you

no i wouldn't you guys think i would

just hang around waiting for the police

to show up if i did

you planning to go somewhere yeah today

was my last day of press commitments

so i was thinking of going back to

oklahoma security guys said it was okay

for me to come get my stuff

are you planning on letting us know

because we're in the middle of a

homicide investigation here and

last time i checked you have no alibi

well the show is dark

and no idea when it'll continue if at

all i miss my home

i miss my bed better to ask for

forgiveness than for permission right

well don't expect either one of us to

give you that are you aware of all these

accusations brought against you in the

show from your former contestant

spro's yeah my guy's off his rocker

i beat him just like i've beaten

everybody else

on the level but if someone can prove

otherwise

puff there goes all your winnings right

don't forget all those little talk show

invites

too right you know if you guys are

looking for someone with an axe to grind

with aiden

i would look at dana miller why's that

she tell you tried to torpedo a job

offer that she got

no before the last show i heard dana

tell aidan that

she was thinking about taking a job

opera in los angeles

and we can figure this out i can just

tell malcolm that my decision to leave

has nothing to do with you i'm only

asking you for a few more weeks

they want me to start next week there'll

be other jobs

i have worked myself to a nub for you in

this show and i've never ask for

anything in return my answer is no

and drop it or i'll start telling

stories

i can set your reputation on fire with

just a few phone calls

he said that once his new deal came

through she'd be free to do what she

wanted

but if she jumped [ __ ] before that it'd

be clear to marlon that aidan

and his behavior was becoming too much

and then marlon would have to replace

him and there goes that

seven figure a year contract dana said

that as soon as the ink was dry

she was out listen detectives

i had every reason for wanting the show

to go on

for all the reasons that you mentioned

hey don't you have your cooking class

with chauncey tonight

nope the last one was last week

and i don't think we're going to be

doing that anymore we're together why

not

the other day when we went to the taping

it just hit me

how much i still miss your uncle and i

started to feel guilty

guilty about what just all these

wonderful experiences

i'm doing without him all these things

that he and i had planned to do together

your cooking class with chauncey

yeah i told joncia white lie

that my work schedule was changing

there's no one who would want you to be

out there having fun and doing things

that bring you joy more than uncle brian

i mean aside from me of course

ugh i should talk to chelsea shouldn't i

yeah i think you'd really appreciate

knowing how you feel

thanks i'm a phone call away if you need

anything

all right all right thank you

oh red roses are those the flowers that

hunter sent you

they are very pretty i i don't

really know how i feel about them but

flowers can be just flowers you know

winter flowers ever just flowers

must be nice knowing that somebody is

thinking about you that way

i don't know i think i'm having a hard

time deciding what to think about hunter

when

i know how i feel about logan and yet i

have no idea where i stand with logan

ah

well maybe it's time that you figure out

where he stands with you

what do you mean honey maybe he's just

waiting for a sign from you

that you feel the same way about him as

he does for you

you know despite the way logan acts he

is just as afraid of getting his heart

broken as the rest of us honey

yeah okay take care

and i'll check you later okay

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love you love you more

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welcome back to riddle me

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this

surprise since you might not be in the

head space to go out

thought i'd bring the food to you or

just be the delivery

person cash tips preferred

i mean i didn't even realize i was

hungry that smells delicious come on in

it's chicken fried rice veggie egg rolls

my favorite some things just stay with

you you know

hmm actually that's the thing

i spent a lot of time thinking about why

you broke off our engagement

and eventually i came to the conclusion

that

you know it's one of the best things

that ever happened to me uh you're

welcome

i was just so in my own head you know so

focused on starting a career that

i was blind to all of the amazing things

and people that i already had right in

front of me

anyway it's something i promised myself

i wouldn't let happen ever again

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should i figure out the riddle on the

card a measure of time

not found on a clock but in your heart

a second chance so what do you think

i uh i i think that's

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i think that's a lot to think about

well you don't have to give me an answer

tonight what do you say we just enjoy it

dinner

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crime scene guys pulled a whole mess of

prince out of the control room but one

stood out

who matthew nasser

did you tell you to stay in town yeah i

this guy doesn't have all the answers

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your fingerprints were found on the door

to the control room

that's why you dragged me all the way in

here

sit down

you know i've been on the show a few

weeks now right

gone up to the control room at least

once or twice yeah you know i thought

about that yeah

that's why i called dana and i asked her

would there be a reason for you to be

near or in that control room and guess

what our answer was

no never i had nothing to do with the

light falling

i can place you there really yeah can

you find my fingerprints on the console

the one that actually controls the rig

cause i never touched it why are we

finding your fingerprints all over the

door then

curiosity yeah went up there the other

day to take a couple pictures

pictures i oversee the av club at the

high school i teach at and i thought hey

look why don't i show these students

what it's like behind the scenes of a

real tv show yeah

yeah teacher of the year huh

oh yeah two years and running actually

now listen detective

if you're not going to charge me for

anything

can i go home now we let him walk he

leaves the state

we can't hold him for a fingerprint on a

door dad he doesn't have an alibi

for aiden's murder not to mention he was

one of the only few people in that

studio at the time that was an attempted

murder on tessa's life and you know it

his hands are not clean i can feel it

feel is one thing proof is another

okay what about the computer guys they

find anything on graham's hard drive

there was a 10 minute window between

keystrokes around the time of aiden's

murder 10 minutes

according to studio layout in his office

10 minutes is not enough time for graham

to walk over their strangling and get

back

hey guys you okay no are you

yeah detective bell and vice gave us the

details of aiden's poker game tomorrow

night

warehouse down by the docks 9 p.m

tomorrow night

great fantastic okay but there's a catch

it's only open to known high rollers or

celebrities

do we know any i have a cousin that's a

music producer

hey he's in atlanta i know someone

her name's in the paper every day tess

no papa no she almost died 24 hours ago

nutez can handle herself she's proven

that

even in the short time i've known her

okay so you guys are telling me you're

okay with putting her in a situation

where she could be sitting across from

me and killer you're fine with that

son we'll be with her for every step

i mean if you have a better idea

tomorrow yours

still trying to figure out how nasty and

agent might have been cheating yeah i've

watched like 12 episodes and i just i

can't spot anything

i don't know maybe i'm wasting my time

well maybe i can

put your time to better use uh hey

detective

no frank

you're good

you got him in of course

you play poker right yeah my monthly

texas hold'em game with the girls

why well we managed to get an invite

to a game that we think aidan was

playing in and

what you think the guy that ain't no

money too might be there might be

but we need someone recognizable to get

us in the door are you gonna get

me yeah yeah you test come on you're in

six million papers worldwide logan

i you really think this might help catch

aidan's killer

i'm in all right i'll uh i'll pick up

your place

say ap yeah to date

okay thanks

yes this microphone is for you okay

okay put this in your ear that way you

can hear me

and we can hear what's going on okay

okay

yeah i'll never take it off you look

lovely by the way

thanks and you're buying money uh

how much is this it's 20 thousand yeah

yeah you're not gonna get in that door

for anything less okay

wow all right so i go in

i play poker and i just try to get

people talking yeah but you've gotta do

it in a way

they don't think you're fishing for

information okay all right just

be yourself okay if you feel like you're

in any kind of danger you say the word

and we'll come running

okay okay oh fyi you're gonna have to

personally reimburse the department if

you lose any money

i'm kidding okay it's a joke all right

all right

wish me luck you're into great right

good luck

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can you still hear me yeah i can hear a

little static

picasso

hi uh pablo picasso

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i'll make sure it's all here

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[Applause]

hello

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thanks so much well

thanks for letting me join your game

gotta admit i'm nervous

just keep just going as long as you can

okay keep talking

your blinds please

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so where's everybody from

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do you hear about eden brooks it's just

awful isn't it

i spent a lot of money to sit and watch

people play poker lady

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raise 5

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all in

if you bust out now i'm closer to

finding out who they need

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nice bluff

he needs to play here sometimes man

could have played cards to save his life

yeah he owed some people uh

easy task easy

oh we used to we played together a few

times

yes that even was a talker big talker

oh which game might have that been at

was this happening those place

make sure

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you might have bluffed me out of that

last hand

but i'm not buying it this time

now with all the money that aydah knows

me if he set foot in another card game

i would have heard about it tess

that's cool i should probably call it a

night and quit while i'm ahead

right now why don't you stay

and tell us what you're really doing

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here

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keep your hands in view race don't move

nypd

let her go it took long enough

that single went out better late than

never right

put your hands behind your back

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you okay please tell me you didn't lose

at all

great fantastic got the wrong guy

joseph cheever that's quite a record you

got here

racketeering assault with a deadly

weapon theft

theft theft theft you like to steal

don't you

when was the last time you saw aidan

brooks aiden who

god that owes you 75k why would i kill a

guy that owes me money

that's bad business as a lesson to

everyone else who doesn't pay up

sure aidan owed me money you couldn't

place a bed anywhere else

so i took his action but i sit down at

my poker games

did it worry he was blacklisted anywhere

i only took his bets in person

made him show me the collateral first

but he kept talking about how his plan

was foolproof

how everything would get sorted out soon

his plan

what do you mean something to do with

his game show

and a new contract did he replace bets

with you at the studio

sure he got me an id so i can come and

go whenever he wanted to place a wager

and you went to see him there the day he

was murdered and when i left him

he was very much alive

the guy was broke so what'd he put down

for collateral

his car sounded over to me

and you can prove that sit in my

driveway titles in the glove box

what do you think

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sarah actually came here today to talk

to you about aiden brooks

you know before the last show i saw you

talking in the wings and

it looked like an argument well i mean

argument

might be too strong a word i told him if

he didn't want to

act professionally i'd find someone who

would and

did you between us hunter came to me a

week before aidan's murder

pitching himself as an option should we

not move forward with aiden

i'm i'm sorry a week before i must say

hunter impressed me

you reminded me of a young aiden we

focus

tested him and he was a hit i don't

think the show is going to miss a step

with him as host

so the show is continuing after a

respectable period of time off

with nassar still going for the record

the network agreed we'd be foolish not

to keep going

of course well

thank you so much for your time

well i did have some clients who needed

to change their schedules

i uh i could have made it work

to continue our cooking classes together

but was it something i said i mean i

know i can be

a bit exuberant but i've just been

having such a good time

me too chauncey

and that's the problem i just felt so

guilty about it guilty guilty why

because i haven't had that much fun

since

my husband passed away oh and part of me

just feels like

somehow this is just being unfair to

what

he and i had together my kids were in

high school

when my wife walked out on us i put

everything i had into making sure that

they were okay

then they went off to college and i

didn't know what to do with myself

i started to hide in my routine

you know work home work

exactly and now i'm having more fun than

i've had in years

you know and i feel like i've got my old

joan de vivre again i feel the exact

same way

chauncy

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so i uh tried to sign us up for those

tuscan cooking classes

but we're too late that's too bad um

what about salsa classes salsa i love

mexican food

salsa dancing oh

i'm cursed with two left feet wouldn't

be good

how about um bowling

bowling oh oh

you've done that since high school you

should try it

you're on

so i stayed up all night watching

episodes of riddle meet us and

i don't think nasser and adam were

communicating not on camera at least

all right well if cheever didn't kill

aidan had to be somebody from the show

i mean aidan also torpedoed a job off of

didn't had on the table wait you said

the emmy thought the killer was likely

male

1 most likely it is but can't move

around all right so that's graham and

nesser

yeah and as much as i don't like the guy

i can't attach a motive to nassar

so then there's hunter yeah

he was angling for aiden's job a week

before the murder

when did you find this out i went to see

marlon freeman

earlier today and he said he officially

offered hunter the host drops when the

show comes back

really

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hey you okay yeah

yeah sorry um i'll talk to you later

[Music]

okay

[Music]

that's it

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look at his hands okay

what about them and there is your friend

he has three fingers facing towards

nassar

keep watching i might even have married

you so he taps the note card

yeah he does it so smoothly that it

looks absent-minded but

it's not look this time he has four

fingers on the back of the card and then

one

two three the number of times he taps

the card

oh come on that's got to be a

coincidence

the number of fingers showing and taps

changes but

he does this every single episode

he was signaling nasa where the d's are

located tom spruce was right

but the only person on this show who

knows where the double-ups are located

is hunter

i can explain

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aidan came to me early on in nasa's run

saying that he was smart enough to

challenge the record

you know that it would be a ratings

bonanza and you helped him he gave me my

shot he

promoted me not like iota

and the more naster won yeah bigger our

ratings got

and then aiden was murdered which i had

nothing to do with dennis

i swear how do you expect us to believe

anything you say i

may have made a bad decision and aidan

could be unsafe every once in a while we

all know that

but at the end of the day he was my

friend i'm not a murderer tess

who else knows about this it's just me

hayden and nasser

i promise when i'm the host i mean i'm

gonna make things right again you know

the show will be completely on the level

but if you tell anybody

hey what he does then my career is over

i've been completely over

where are you going to do what you

should have done in the first place when

aiden came to you

the right thing

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where are you going what what are you

doing

logan i can prove adam was giving us her

an advantage on the show

you know i'm gonna have to bring him in

right i know

you know tess said from the very

beginning that you weren't capable of

murder

despite the fact that you lied to her

despite the fact that you asked her to

lie for you

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i'm certainly hoping that her faith in

you

was not completely misplaced i didn't

kill aiden why should i believe you

i went to see an astronomer's dressing

room i thought you weren't supposed to

have direct contact with you no i'm not

which is why i didn't mention it before

but aidan's dead i'm not going to

torpedo my own career if i don't need to

me go to nasa's dressing room i was

going to give nasa the next day's

categories when i saw him in the hall

we locked eyes detective he saw me

he grabbed something nothing nothing

i don't know why he didn't then or after

nassar said the same thing why would he

protect them why not tell us what he saw

because keeping it to himself protects a

bigger secret

graham killed aiden

hey i'm so sorry i left in a hurry

earlier and i i forgot to return this

oh dana told me what you were doing

no luck huh uh it turns out that

hunter and aiden were giving nasser an

advantage

oh

that's

wow graham what are you doing

she's worked so hard

given everything to the show no one

would ever believe

that she didn't know what aiden and

nasser were doing

you killed hayden listen you're only

gonna make things worse just unlock the

door and let's go to the police

i'm sorry i can't let you tell anyone

they already know about the cheating i

don't believe you

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so

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i know you're in here

aidan threatened her too

when she told him about the job offer in

l.a he said

that if i left before he signed his deal

he would see to it that i never worked

anywhere again ever

he said he would destroy me that's

ridiculous you can't do that you don't

know that

he said if she left it'd signal to

marlon that he was too difficult

that he'd destroy her reputation if she

left before he

signed

followed him to this very stage

just wanted to talk to him try to reason

with him

he wouldn't listen you know my grandma

and i used to watch game shows all the

time when i was a kid

riddle me this how's that

get off the podium until i get my new

car

did anybody see you come in

keith

wow not now graham jane has earned the

right to leave

whenever she wants well if dana would

just have a little patience

she could leave whenever she likes i'm

going to make nasa the new record holder

what are you talking about i've been

giving him the locations of the double

up dilemma

what now dana doesn't know anything

about it but that doesn't mean

i won't implicate her i mean who'd ever

believed she wasn't involved

i will not let you do that to her but i

hold all the cards

and there is nothing you can do about it

told me about his scheme with nassar

that he'd implicate dana

her career would be

i didn't over to kill him

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i didn't

game over

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drop it

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hands above your head you have the right

to remain silent you all right

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got him yep

i guess it'll get the final cut do you

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graham admitted he was the one that

tried to drop the lighting rig on you

tess

i was trying to scare you off and dana

didn't know anything about this

no i guess uh hunter and asher said that

they didn't want to keep this game from

down

well first she learned that this theme

was when you show them

did everything to protect her the things

we do for love

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jury the news only this has officially

been canceled

well i'm sorry i know how much you love

the show that's okay at least i've got

my rom-coms

by the way whatever ended up happening

to hunter he was banned from ever

working on a game show again

and i heard that he got a book deal to

write the riddle me this tell-all

some people always land on their feet

huh

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hi hi um it's now the time to cash into

that dinner rain check

yeah i could eat okay come in hope

you're hungry

now i can have it

let's go

this is a tasso

i'm sorry about hunter what

why well i'm just sorry because you know

you believe that he was a better person

than he actually was and you let you

down

yeah it was naive of me to think he was

any different than the person i knew

before

well people can't change like take me

for example when you first met me

i was a cynical emotionally closed-off

homicide detective

and now and now i'm a less

cynical emotionally closed-off homicide

detective

so what you're saying is change comes in

small increments

it does what i'm also trying to say is

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you interfering in my case

was the best thing that ever happened to

me

you're wondering why i'm here nope

dr jennings is dead angie's one

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so

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