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Oh, God.

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Never again.

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Vodka and Coco Pops?

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Are you serious?

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There's no milk.

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Do you want me to eat them dry?

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You've only just got out of bed.

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I know, I'm a walking cliche. What can I tell you?

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Fetch me a spoon.

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So, is this why they took you off the case?

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What, the drinking? Ah...

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I can run round for round with any of those plods,

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and still not lose my lunch at an autopsy.

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-You bounce back. -Exactly.

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Well, they do call you "Nine Lives Kat".

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-Do they? -Yeah. Short for Katrina.

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Mm! Hear that, Kitney?

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I've got a nickname, just like you.

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Kitney Spears.

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Funny.

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I used to have two,

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but David Meowie got run over.

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That's good.

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So, go on, then, why did they take you off the case?

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They're dinosaurs.

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They can't stand being told the truth by a woman.

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Simple as that. My ex-husband is exactly the same.

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Erm, ex-husbands.

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-There's been more than one, remember? -Who's counting?

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You know what?

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I'll show them.

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I will show them you do not need a cock and balls to crack a case,

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or stack a dishwasher in the most ergonomic way possible.

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You just need...

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..a brain and a heart, and guts.

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And that's what I've got.

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You going to help me, or what?

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Of course I am...

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..Nine Lives Kat.

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OK, bring me up to speed.

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So, we've got five suspects who were all seen on CCTV

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in and around the area at the time of the abduction.

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I'm still in the process of fleshing out their stories,

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but it seems two of them have links to the family that could

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throw up some interesting leads.

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Let's not talk about throwing up.

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Not until these Coco Pops have settled.

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What about the stepfather? Surely he's our prime suspect.

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I'd rather say he's "helping us with our inquiries".

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Let's arrange a press conference for this afternoon.

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If he breaks down in tears and says, "We just want our angel back,"

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we know it's definitely him.

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Will do.

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I thought you were off the case.

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There's a little boy out there tonight who's frightened.

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He's trapped, he can't breathe...

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..and I'm going to find him.

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I'm going to bring him out into the light

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and I don't care whose toes I have to tread on to do it.

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When you were little and your milk teeth fell out,

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I used to take them from under your pillow and leave 50p.

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And I'd keep them in a Tic Tac box in the bathroom cabinet.

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When the job got too much for me,

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or your dad was being difficult...

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..I'd empty them into the palm of my hand

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and squeeze as hard as I could...

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..your teeth in my fist...

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..until I felt...blood.

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Until I felt...

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..alive.

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Right, take me through it again.

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11.15am, Ashley finishes his karate lesson

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and is picked up from the Methodist church by his mum.

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11.30, they pull into the retail park,

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where Mum goes to McDonald's to buy a Happy Meal,

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telling Ashley to stay in the car.

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Now, five minutes prior to this,

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we have the green Vauxhall Corsa parking up outside Hollywood Bowl

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driven by sunglasses man...

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Mummy?

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Ohhh! God.

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Trust you to be here.

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Charming!

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Have you seen Kitney Spears?

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No. She's, er, she's gone.

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Ha! Dirty stop-out.

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Mind you, I can talk.

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So, what have you got for me?

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-How do you mean? -The missing boy.

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Have you checked out the alibis of the five suspects?

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-That was a long time ago. -What do you mean?

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Kat, I haven't seen you in several months.

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I saw you two days ago.

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What are you talking about?!

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Just...give me time to catch up.

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-Where's it gone? -What?

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The entire investigation!

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Er, I've still got the notes.

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I just didn't think it was good to put it up on the wall.

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You have no right to tell me how to run this case.

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No right at all! Do you hear me?

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I was...I was this close to making a breakthrough.

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You're up.

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Er, Katrina...

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She prefers to be called Kat.

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Ah. I don't know what happened last night.

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You seemed very agitated.

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We'd both had a lot to drink.

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But if it's any consolation, I don't think we actually...

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Actually what?

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Elvis did not enter the building.

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-Is this guy for real? -Sorry, you are...?

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Er, DI Bull. Barnabus Bull.

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I'm a colleague of Katrina's.

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We have a, sort of, love-hate relationship.

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I'm sensing a hate phase at the moment...

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Just shut up, Barney! I'm trying to think.

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Sure, sure, although, er, strictly speaking, of course,

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all thinking is subconscious,

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because consciousness is an awareness of thoughts,

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not thinking itself, so you can't actually try to think.

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Why don't you go and put the kettle on?

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I'm not sure it would fit.

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No, I mean SWITCH the kettle on.

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-I think we could all do with a drink. -Oh, yeah, sure.

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He's quite a character.

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A bit spectrum-y, perhaps.

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I'm not shagging him.

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I know, I didn't say you were!

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It's just an interesting development, that's all.

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Look, I know you think I'm taking this case too personally.

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But I'm a woman.

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And I empathise.

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And I know how to fight,

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and I know how to dig my heels in.

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And let me tell you

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size eight stilettos dig in deep.

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Now, what have you done with my case notes?

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Erm, do you have any loose-leaf tea?

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I can't bear the bags.

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They never steep in quite the right way.

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One second.

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Is that really the best we can do?

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Jump-scares with a cat?

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Why...are you always here?

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I don't remember giving you a key.

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What happened to the missing boy - Ashley?

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What are you not telling me?

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I've tried with you, Katrina, I really, really have...

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..but I just don't think it's working.

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Oh, please do not come in here! I have a system.

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-I know where everything is. -It's all right, Barnabus.

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We can pick this up later.

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What's he doing here?

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Get out of my bloody house!

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It's not your house, Kat.

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It never was.

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Come on, Katy.

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Katy, there's a good girl.

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Katy Purry. A bit more contemporary.

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I'd written a couple of collections of short stories,

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been nominated for a Gold Dagger, pretty healthy sales,

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when my publisher decided I ought to write a series of detective novels.

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Well, I wasn't that keen,

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but I made a few notes, had a brainstorm,

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and out of nowhere, I wrote down "Nine Lives Kat".

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-It's a good title. -It is, yes. Thank you.

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So, I tinkered with the idea,

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er, made up some bog-standard case

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of a missing child just so I could interrogate the character

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and see if it added up to anything.

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The character...based on me?

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No, the character OF you.

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Katrina...surname.

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Never got that far.

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Erm, late 40s, a couple of divorces,

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single mum, booze, pills,

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clashes with authority.

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And what I realised when I read it back was...

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..it's all a bit cliched.

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-I said that. -I know.

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I said that on page bloody one!

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I know you did and I should learn to listen to that critical voice.

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But at the time, I was watching episodes of Cracker and Prime Suspect,

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and I thought, "I can write one of those!"

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So I tried, and you just turned out to be a bit...

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Generic.

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Fuck off, Rain Man.

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It's all right, Katy! It's all right.

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Anyway, I popped you down here in the bottom drawer for a while,

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and every now and again, I dig you out,

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see if there's anything I could work with.

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I do a lot of screenwriting now,

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and the streaming platforms are always dying for female-led content.

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That and dystopian fucking fantasy worlds, anyway.

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You think you're some... patriarchal creator?

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God of your own little universe?

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Well, sorry. I'm real.

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My life is real.

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No, it isn't.

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It isn't.

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You're a fictional construct.

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I mean, look around you.

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Would a real person live like this?

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You know, one spoon, one bowl, one box of cereal?

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You're just...a sketch, Kat, a first-thought idea.

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-No, no. -The boss, the ex-husbands, What are they?

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-They're just ciphers. -No, I-I-I have a daughter.

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And what's her name?

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You don't know, do you?

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Sh! Her name is...

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You don't know, cos I never bothered to give her one.

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She was just an afterthought,

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tacked on to try and make you more interesting.

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No!

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No, no...

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No! No!

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I've wrestled with this idea for some time, getting writer's block.

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It was quite difficult,

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so I tried pairing you with another character

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to see if that would freshen things up a bit.

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DI Barnabus Bull.

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I just love that name. It's so satisfying to say.

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"Barnabus Bull." My publisher likes it, too.

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I found out today. Three-book deal.

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Yes! Red Rag To A Bull, The Bull's-Eye, Bull...

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Shit.

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..In A China Shop.

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There's a long way to go yet before we have to worry about titles.

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So...he gets to have a life,

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and I go back in the bottom drawer just because he's got a...

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..unspecified mental illness?

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Stop shouting. Stop shouting!

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Stop shouting! Stop shouting!

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There might be a victim's mother

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or a jealous mistress I can use you for,

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but in terms of this,

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Nine Lives Kat, flawed detective with inner demons...

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..we've seen it all before.

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And whose fault is that?

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Yes, you're right.

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It's not you, it's me.

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So...the missing boy, he's your son, isn't he?

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Ashley? Yeah,

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just a placeholder.Something to visualise.

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You know, people think that writing's all in the head,

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but sometimes you have to make it real for yourself.

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Are those my notes?

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I've got to let you go.

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Please don't.

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You've run out of lives, Kat.

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Oh, hi, Georgie. I was just about to call you, actually.

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Yeah, I'm just, er, finishing the synopsis for the new Bull.

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It's a sort of locked-room mystery.

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Quite pleased with it, actually.

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Yeah, I will do.

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Erm, now, listen, I was just wondering

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where we are with the TV rights.

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Are they still with whatshisname at ITV?

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OK, cos I was watching

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Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley last night,

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and I was thinking he could be really good.

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Or Matt Damon.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he, er...he'd get the intensity, and, er,

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he was great in that Sky thing a couple of years ago.

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Matt Damon!

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They're not going to get Matt Damon, all right? He's American!

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No, sorry, sorry, I was just talking to Philippa,

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Erm, OK, well, listen, I'll send it to you, and, er,

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you can let me know what you think.

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Thanks, Georgie. Bye for now.

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Will you stop interfering in my private phone calls, please?

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-I'm only saying what you're thinking. -Well, it's irritating.

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You just concentrate on how Bull knew about

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the false floor in the basement.

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Carpet tiles.

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-What? -Carpet tiles.

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Should've been black square to the left, like a chessboard.

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When we got there, it was cream square to the left

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ergo someone must've taken them up and re-laid them.

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Yes, like a chessboard.

283
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So, if we make Colin gay

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and Alan a sir or something,

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we can say the...

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Queen was taken by the knight! Brilliant!

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Hi!

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Hi.

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Did you get everything?

290
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Yes. It was busy, though.

291
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Do you know how to do find my phone?

292
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What? I can't find it.

293
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I think I had it in the car park when I arrived.

294
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Someone must've had it out of my pocket.

295
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Well, if you will go to Asda

296
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and not Waitrose...

297
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Where were you when you sent me that text?

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-Which text? -About picking Ash up from swimming.

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You were picking Ash up from swimming.

300
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,359
No, you texted me to say not to.

301
00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,839
-No, I didn't. -Yes, you did. Look!

302
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That's not my text!

303
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Where is he?

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Ashley? Ashley?!

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He's not here. I just told you.

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-Why didn't you pick him up?! -Cos you said you were going to!

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What if someone took your wife's phone to send the text?

308
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What the fuck are you talking about?

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The fuck are YOU talking about?

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Where is he? Ezra!

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Where's my son?!

312
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Any news?

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Not yet.

314
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Where is he, Ez? I can't bear it.

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Sh. He's going to be all right.

316
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OK? He's going to be all right, I promise.

317
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Oh, hello.I thought I heard another voice. I made some tea.

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Thanks.

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I'm Matilda Gordon.

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Your wife's probably told you.

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-I'm family liaison. -She did, yes.

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I'm a big fan.

323
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Oh, thank you.

324
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I'd love a selfie at... at some point.

325
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Erm, not now.

326
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No. No.

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I was just asking your wife if you could

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think of anyone who might have a grudge against you.

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Anyone you might have upset or offended?

330
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,599
No. No, I don't think so.

331
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Nobody you based one of your characters on in your stories?

332
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I'm a writer. I invent characters.

333
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Of course.

334
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And your son...sorry, stepson...

335
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..has he had any fallings-out or arguments recently?

336
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,519
No, we've been through this already.

337
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He was always well liked.

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"Was"?!

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Is.

340
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Sorry, Phil, I've just woken up.

341
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I'm sorry.

342
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It's the shock. The body shuts down.

343
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I went through your medicine cabinet...

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..to see if you were on any medication,

345
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and I found this hidden at the back.

346
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They're teeth.

347
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Children's teeth.

348
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Are they Ashley's?

349
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Philippa said she didn't remember keeping them.

350
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I, er, I think maybe they belong to a colleague of mine

351
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who was helping me with a story.

352
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I see.

353
00:22:18,679 --> 00:22:20,638
Another case for Barnabus Bull?

354
00:22:20,639 --> 00:22:24,359
No. No, it's-it's-it's literally nothing,

355
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just background research.

356
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I never even finished it.

357
00:22:27,639 --> 00:22:30,839
I would very much like to read it, Mr. Jones...

358
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...as a fan, as much as anything else.

359
00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:37,599
Sure.

360
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I can't seem to, er...find it.

361
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Barnabus,

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you haven't seen my notes for Nine Lives Kat, have you?

363
00:22:59,999 --> 00:23:03,238
No, my name's Matilda, dear.

364
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Barnabus is a fictional character.

365
00:23:07,159 --> 00:23:08,959
He doesn't exist.

366
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Ashley?

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Hello?

368
00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:05,418
Well! It's true what they say.

369
00:24:05,419 --> 00:24:08,759
You can't put a good book down.

370
00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:12,398
What are you doing here?

371
00:24:12,399 --> 00:24:16,239
I had to come for the final chapter...

372
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..see how it all turns out.

373
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,278
I didn't write this.

374
00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:23,718
No, this is not a fictional construct,

375
00:24:23,719 --> 00:24:28,039
this is actually happening. In your kitchen.

376
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Exciting, isn't it?

377
00:24:29,639 --> 00:24:32,519
Maybe I'm not so generic after all.

378
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,399
Where's Ashley?

379
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,198
He's safe.

380
00:24:36,199 --> 00:24:37,878
He'll come to no harm...

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00:24:37,879 --> 00:24:40,279
..unlike our friendly liaison officer.

382
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,238
She doesn't look too clever.

383
00:24:42,239 --> 00:24:45,119
Oh, she was onto you, wasn't she?

384
00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,718
The shifty stepfather?

385
00:24:47,719 --> 00:24:49,918
So, you had to silence her.

386
00:24:49,919 --> 00:24:52,319
I never touched her, and you know I didn't!

387
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,638
Not how it looks.

388
00:24:54,639 --> 00:24:59,478
Maybe...she found your wife's mobile...

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..hidden away in your bottom drawer.

390
00:25:06,159 --> 00:25:08,119
You're framing me.

391
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:09,999
Yes, I am.

392
00:25:10,999 --> 00:25:14,319
Or is that too cliched, Ezra?

393
00:25:15,959 --> 00:25:17,439
What do you want me to do next?

394
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:21,559
This?

395
00:25:25,639 --> 00:25:29,079
Or.....this?

396
00:25:45,879 --> 00:25:49,079
You always were a lousy lay, Ezra.

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00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,079
Oh, come on, Mr. Writer.

398
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,819
We're in your hands.

399
00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:54,559
What's a better ending?

400
00:25:56,399 --> 00:25:58,158
What do you want?

401
00:25:58,159 --> 00:26:00,598
I want you to finish my story.

402
00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:04,359
I want to find the boy seconds before he runs out of oxygen.

403
00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:05,718
I want to expose the affair

404
00:26:05,719 --> 00:26:07,679
between the neighbour and the stepfather.

405
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,558
I want to walk out of an AA meeting

406
00:26:09,559 --> 00:26:12,279
and throw my police badge into the river!

407
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,918
-Really? -And I want it...

408
00:26:14,919 --> 00:26:18,439
I want it in paperback and hardback on the shelf!

409
00:26:19,959 --> 00:26:22,999
Not self-published on Amazon as a shitty Kindle exclusive.

410
00:26:26,919 --> 00:26:29,558
All right.

411
00:26:29,559 --> 00:26:30,578
All right, I'll do it,

412
00:26:30,579 --> 00:26:35,039
but then, you have to leave me and my family alone. Deal?

413
00:26:39,199 --> 00:26:40,599
Deal.

414
00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:48,318
Sorry, am I dead now?

415
00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:50,478
And am I a lesbian now?

416
00:26:50,479 --> 00:26:52,639
Or is that all in his head?

417
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,278
Quiet!

418
00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,159
I am trying to think!

419
00:27:01,999 --> 00:27:05,399
Ohh, I've written myself into a corner.

420
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,399
I knew this was going to happen.

421
00:27:09,479 --> 00:27:12,319
You know how some artists can't do hands?

422
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,638
Well, I can't do endings.

423
00:27:14,639 --> 00:27:18,679
Resolving everything on the final page, it's just...

424
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,879
it's just not believable!

425
00:27:23,399 --> 00:27:27,339
But then... But then, it wouldn't be a Matilda Gordon novel

426
00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:30,529
if it didn't have that final twist.

427
00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:33,558
What's going on?

428
00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:37,039
I thought I was writing an updated Frankenstein

429
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,418
The Postmodern Prometheus,

430
00:27:39,419 --> 00:27:43,399
but it's all gone a bit... Stephen King.

431
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,738
A hack horror novelist

432
00:27:44,739 --> 00:27:46,479
haunted by his own characters.

433
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,639
-I'm not a hack. -No.

434
00:27:50,399 --> 00:27:53,038
A good story's a good story.

435
00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:55,979
And this isn't bad... for a first draft.

436
00:27:56,219 --> 00:27:58,988
Still, I think I'll have to leave you

437
00:27:58,989 --> 00:28:01,759
in the bottom drawer for a while,

438
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:02,858
see if I can't come up

439
00:28:02,859 --> 00:28:04,739
with a more satisfactory denouement.

440
00:28:05,399 --> 00:28:08,919
No, no, no, no, wait, wait! Wait, I can help you.

441
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,519
I've won a Gold Dagger. My books are bestsellers!

442
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,359
Well, they're not, really, though.

443
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,959
Are they, darling?

444
00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:24,279
They are a figment of my imagination.

445
00:28:25,919 --> 00:28:27,639
Just like you.

446
00:28:29,479 --> 00:28:30,858
Oh, God.

447
00:28:30,859 --> 00:28:36,519
And I am afraid you are not quite leaping off the page.

448
00:28:38,119 --> 00:28:39,599
Please don't.

449
00:28:40,919 --> 00:28:42,319
Bye for now!

450
00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:44,559
Oh, sh...

451
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:52,359
# Two little ducks went swimming one day

452
00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:58,119
# Over the hill and far away

453
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:04,559
# Mother duck said, "Quack, quack quack, quack,"

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♪ But only one little duck came back. ♪