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good evening
sorry to keep you waiting but i had to
make my bed
it will surprise you i know but to be
perfectly honest
this is not really my bed i'm making it
for my brother
he insists on coming home late at night
and making a great deal of noise in the
dark
before he tumbles into bed i thought
that this orthopedic mattress
would be precisely what he needs to cure
him of that bothersome habit
our story does not concern a bed like
this but it does
take place in a sleepy little town
apparently nothing
much ever happens in lindvale but i have
the uneasy feeling that if we watch
closely
something will in case you're doing the
driving
linvale lies just on the other side
of this one-minute billboard
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ah
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hey
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hey mister you see flipper i think he
came back here
why my cat i'm looking for him
well look somewhere else but he came
around the side of your house
well he was trespassing just like you a
take off
you hear what i said
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sheriff's office oh i'd like to speak to
the sheriff please
uh well i'm sorry ma'am he's all tied up
right now
well when can i talk to her it's rather
urgent it's urgent
yes so if you could have him get in
touch with me as soon as possible
do you want to hold on while i just get
a pencil yeah
do you uh just uh want to give me your
name and address it's
mrs logan walnut lane
yes ma'am i'll give you the sheriff your
message
tell him it's important all right
how's that sharon henry you're a regular
wizard with a pair of scissors
thanks how about some half tonic hmm
what do you got
sweet lilac evergreen or a wild tiger
it's that green bottle over there
it's it's pretty potent stuff sure tell
me he goes over big with the ladies
maybe i better leave well enough alone
morning sheriff i just got a phone call
who's mine in the store well i just got
a phone call from a lady named
logan she says that she has to talk to
you she says it's urgent urgent
last time i saw that word was a
crossword puzzle
but that's what she said probably some
old spencer with a cat up a tree
is that uh mrs logan up on walnut lane
yeah
will not rain that's no spencer henry
she's a widow heard she moved into the
archer house a couple of months ago
oh is that the one yeah i've seen her
around town she's kind of pretty
well maybe his fate ben you and a
good-looking woman like that something
might develop
sure all right i'll take a ride out
there
well you don't have to see a band always
give her a call
unless maybe i've wet your appetite
look at that charlie we got a barber
who's a regular cupid
hey mister you seen a cat why are you
missing one uh-huh
i think you ran away well that's too bad
you're the sheriff aren't you that's
right well maybe you can find him
his name's flipper he's sort of gray
i'll keep an eye peeled
uh yes uh sheriff whister ma'am you call
my office
oh yes please come in
i uh hope i didn't call you away from
anything well it wasn't important
what can i do for you well it
it's something that might only be my
imagination i
almost feel like a fool bringing your
way out here
why don't you let me be the judge of
that you see i'm new here and
i don't want to get involved in
something that's none of my business
i've been debating with myself for the
last three days but
well i had to tell someone mind being a
bit more specific
well that's just it it's nothing i can
quite put my finger on
maybe you better come upstairs beg
pardon
i'll have to show you
oh take a look through the window at the
yard next door
it's been going on like that for the
past three days
the drinking yes he doesn't seem to want
to do anything he just
hangs around the house all day
that's harry jarvis isn't it you know
him
oh by sight i know most of the people in
this town by sight
he's in real estate never knew he was
much of a drinker
well he only started a few days ago
after his
wife disappeared
i'm not quite sure i follow you oh it's
a lot of little things
ever since i moved in i used to hear
them arguing they used to shout so loud
they'd keep me awake and all of a sudden
the argument stopped
and you haven't seen her since no oh
once
she used to walk her dog in the mornings
a little white mongrel named timmy but
for the past three days she hasn't come
out of the house
when was the last time you saw her late
friday afternoon
she was out there sitting in a deck
chair
he was mowing the lawn once or twice i
saw him look at her
she didn't notice she was playing with
the dog
but you should have seen the expression
on his face
he looked like he wanted to k*ll her
well mrs logan this is all
pretty circumstantial maybe his wife is
sick or she might be visiting relatives
i can think of a hundred different
explanations but
why does he do his own laundry
and why does he sit in the yard all day
about eight years ago we had a homicide
in lynn vale
man got clubbed with a bottle in one of
those taverns out by the highway
that's just about it this is a peaceable
town
well i i told you it might only be my
imagination
but if you could have seen the way he
looked at her
well look there's no sense and i are
going off half cut
before we start assuming things why
don't i do a little quiet checking
would that make you feel better oh
i think so good i'll give you a call
tomorrow
well i just as soon deal with mr jarvis
himself if you don't mind
i see where can i set up an appointment
uh-huh okay i'll call back next week
yeah the name is uh johnson
that's right bye-bye
that was his real estate office i get
the feeling they haven't seen him lately
well maybe he's just gold-breaking maybe
kind of pointless though considering
he's the boss
no i got to do some checking on this
baby
wonder who his friends are oh i can tell
you that
him and doc wyatt are big buddies
charlie you amazed me
how did you know that i see them all the
time up at the country club
they're always playing golf together
country club
you getting social on me when ain't that
i just caddy up there every once in a
while you don't pick up a couple of
books
moonlighting huh just on sundays it's my
day off sheriff
i wouldn't want to stand in the way of a
man's self-improvement
now what about jarvis well
he doesn't seem to have many friends
just just to stop quiet
well i guess i better have a talk with
him
you knows around walnut lane see what
you can find out from the neighbors
but charlie uh do it quietly
i don't want any phone calls
oh sheriff they said you wanted to see
me yes sir sorry to bother you doctor oh
it's not bother
rather look at your faith than the
babies i've been in delivery all morning
well this won't take long
take all the time you like you look
healthy so i assume that this is
official
sort of i understand you're a friend of
harry jarvis
harry i don't know if he is i was
wondering if you'd noticed any
well changes in him lately it's funny
you should ask
he has been out of sorts the past few
days seems to be worrying about
something
thank you senator strain it's possible
probably worried about business problems
happened to the best of us
well i guess it didn't serious then
thanks doctor
appreciate it if you keep this
confidential so it's me
uh i wonder if his wife has noticed
anything
have you seen her lately by the way
margaery not for quite a while
though she is coming to see me tonight
oh no she's coming in for a checkup
you mean she'll be in your office
tonight uh-huh eight o'clock
are you sure of course i'm sure come and
see for yourself
excuse me miss uh i just want to see if
my watch is right i have
past state that's what i have
well maybe i might be fast
well wasn't she here yet she's usually
on the dot
uh give mrs jarvis a ring and see what's
keeping her yes doctor
oh what is it well that appointment was
canceled
i forgot to tell you i substituted mrs
phillips when you're out of luck sheriff
she canceled oh she didn't cancel doctor
it was her husband
her husband yes he called a few hours
ago
what's the trouble sheriff oh nothing if
you want to why don't you give her a
ring
no uh i have a feeling mrs jarvis
sitting in
thank you thanks scotland
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got myself into now let's see i'll leave
excuse me girls
sheriff whister oh come in what a
pleasant surprise
oh mrs burgin that i'm not disturbing
anything oh no no no no it's just the
girls come over for a little bridge a
little tea
would you like a cup of tea oh no thanks
not just a little cup
i keep telling my husband i never see
the sheriff anymore
well i've been kind of busy man i was
just thinking about you the other day
do you know that new teacher over at
school miss gunderson
oh you want to give her a call you would
have a lot in common
and if you're interested in slides she
has the most wonderful collection
all of those marvelous european
cathedrals well ma'am
oh i know you think i'm a matchmaker but
remember sheriff after all you're the
last bachelor left in town
oh well that's not exactly true you know
there's uh uh
charlie my deputy and tom down at the
firehouse ah but you
you're the prize catch oh if i wasn't
married
i'd be running after you myself well
that that's very flattering mrs bergen
um
i wonder if you would mind if i asked
you a couple of questions
police business well in a way you know
mrs jarvis don't you
of course marjorie and i are co-chairman
of the home for the agent committee
well have you seen her recently no no i
haven't
and it's rather odd if you ask me she
missed a meeting of the famous books
club the other day
and it was one of her favorites too mo
be d*ck
well did she call to let you know she
wasn't coming no her husband called me
he said she wasn't feeling well
have you talked to her since i can't
reach her every time i call her her
husband says she's either out or washing
her hair
well thanks mrs bergen you've been very
helpful oh
what's it all about sheriff you can
trust me
well it's nothing serious just routine
ah you're being very mysterious
but i won't pry oh just a minute
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uh what's this miss gundersen's
telephone number
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hi come up with anything
well it's hard to say i talked to most
of the neighbors and i tried not to
raise any eyebrows
i think i did a pretty good job charlie
get to the point has anyone seen mrs
jarvis
no not for three days
she hasn't even taken the garbage out
well that still doesn't prove anything
no but it's kind of strange the way i
hear it is she used to be all over town
all the time
clubs and meetings it seems that she
used to spend hardly any time with her
husband
hmm oh by the way that mrs logan called
you this morning she wanted a car right
back
well why didn't you leave me a note i
couldn't find a pencil
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hello sheriff worcester ma'am oh
i've been trying to reach you all
morning why what happened
now i'm sure something's wrong last
night mr jarvis came out into his
backyard
and he started digging in his garden
digging
can you think of any reason on earth why
i'd do a thing like that
only one and i'm not sure i like it
tell you what mrs logan suppose i
dropped by your place tonight
oh i wish you would i'll be expecting
you
thank you all right
well what you want problems charlie
problems
see you in the morning oh say uh do you
know that new teacher up at the school
uh
miss gunderson oh sure the fat one
uh-huh
may not come out again tonight but you
can
see the hole
i i went to bed early last night
and then i heard him working in the
garden first i thought i was dreaming
but
there he was in his shirt sleeves he had
a shovel
he was whistling to himself while he dug
whistling and
digging after a while i went back to bed
but i could still hear him
just doesn't make any sense well it
makes a lot of sense
he's probably k*lled that poor woman and
he's going to bury her out there
now now we can't jump to conclusions
what else can we do you said yourself
she didn't show up for the
her doctor's appointment no one's seen
her for days it's got to be m*rder
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see why don't you go down there and
arrest him
on what charge there's no law against a
man digging in his own backyard
sheriff i don't understand why you're so
hesitant well because i don't want a
suit for false arrest
what more do you need it's obvious he's
digging a grave out there
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what is it i think he saw me
get away from that wonder
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well he's gone he must have frightened
him away he looked straight at me
now he knows i've been watching him well
it was bound to happen sooner or later
sheriff i don't like it i'm alone here
if he decides i know something
that's him maybe not i didn't hear any
car drive
up who else could it be better answer it
it's all right i'm here
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i'll be two feet away
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i'm jarvis your next-door neighbor
oh hell can i come in oh
yes of course
is there something i can do for you
you tell me i beg your pardon
i saw you spying on me from your bedroom
window why
spying i think you're mistaken i just
happened to look out oh just happened
huh
i heard a noise and i was curious i
suppose you think it's funny me digging
in the garden at night
well it's really none of my business
that's exactly right it's none of your
business
but i wouldn't want you to get the wrong
idea you see i like to do my gardening
at night
during the day it's too hot too many
bugs
but after dark it's cool quiet
you can hear yourself think well that's
perfectly understandable i'm glad you
feel that way
maybe now you'll stop watching me
honestly mr jarvis i had no intention
forget it i think we understand each
other
oh mr jarvis i'm new here and
this town isn't very friendly
so well uh i'd like to get to know you
and your wife better
maybe you two could come over for dinner
one evening i'm sorry i
my wife doesn't like to go out much but
we're
right next door to each other i said she
doesn't like to go out
besides you've probably seen enough of
us from your bedroom window
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you heard that i heard now do you
believe me
well i never said i doubted janet's
logan that still doesn't prove anything
all he's done is calling his next-door
neighbor
the way he talked to me the way he
looked at me
that still doesn't prove he's burying
his wife in his backyard
sheriff wisdom do like me
of course i do man then remember this
he knows that i saw him if he did k*ll
his wife
then i am a thr*at to him think about
that
aristotle once said that a play should
have a beginning
a middle and an end but what did he know
today a play must have a first half a
second half and the station break
you have seen only one of these the
other two
follow
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so
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hey
hello sheriff what do you want i'd like
to talk with you mr jarvis
is this police business yes sir i'll
come in
the place needs a good cleaning but i
guess you can see that for yourself
then again i wasn't expecting any
company
well i'll try to be brief is your wife
at home
my wife why there was an automobile
accident in town yesterday
i'm investigating it and we think maybe
your wife was a witness
must be some mistake one of the drivers
of the cars gave a pretty good
description of her
that she was walking her dog so if i
could just
talk with her a few minutes
she isn't here well i can come back
tomorrow no no i mean she's away
oh vacation well something
like that she's uh she's been gone for
three days
so she couldn't have been witnessed any
accident i see
well just for the record so we can write
it off uh where can we get in touch with
her
no she went upstate uh she was gonna
write me and tell me the name of her
hotel but
i haven't heard from her yet and she's
been gone three days
that's right tell me did she take the
dog with her
yeah yeah she took the dog any more
questions
no that's all thanks for your
cooperation
oh you can uh go out the front door
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sheriff
not kind of late aren't you sonny i can
stay up as long as i want
find your cat yeah it was home under the
bed good
what'd you see on that jarvis floor why
isn't he your friend he's nobody's
friend always he can get me on my cat
timmy uh timmy's his dog isn't he
tell me something son have you seen him
today
oh mr jarvis no the dog sure
i saw him this afternoon he was sitting
in the window
boxing up a storm your positive it was
timmy
yep honestly got two dogs thanks
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food
look now mrs bergen why did you do a
thing like that
i was only trying to help after all it
was obvious you were suspicious about
something
so i just i just baked a cake and went
over there
i really wasn't in any danger that's not
exactly the point
when mr jarvis answered the door i said
i want to see marjorie
i said i have a new recipe that she's
interested in
mocha madre is very fond of mocha
well what did mr jarvis have to say for
himself
he was positively rude he said marjorie
isn't well
and he grabbed the cake and he slammed
the door in my face
wait a minute you mean to say he didn't
say his wife was out of town
oh of course not why would marjorie go
out of town she hasn't been anywhere
since i've known her and that's years
excuse me sheriff worcester
it's me sheriff a little while ago he
hopped in his car and he drove off
you follow him yeah he went right to
bell's hardware store
i'm across the street right now hey wait
a minute
charlie
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charlie
charlie charlie
i'm all right here i'm registered listen
he just got in his car and drove off
he had a package with him should i
follow him no you stay where you are
i'll meet you
he's got to run mr bergen what's he up
to do you think he's
done something to marjorie tell you what
ms bergen if he has you'll be the first
to know
well howdy sheriff sorry uh you come for
your fishing rod sheriff no
i'll pick that up next week hmm uh
actually uh
i came to inquire by one of your
customers oh who's that
harry jarvis i understand he was just in
that's right mind telling me what he
bought
well let me see he uh he picked up a
sack of grass seed
mm-hmm anything else yeah
a can of rat poison that was it
seemed like he was in a hurry well
thanks mr bell
come on charlie
well the grass is easy to figure he
wants to see the garden but
why the rat poison well maybe he has
is it rats that his wife isn't dead yet
do you mean you think he's kind of
locked up in that house
no he wouldn't take a chance like that
why the poison
well like i said maybe he has this
charlie get in touch with al and tell
him to meet us at mrs logan's house
tonight
what fun we're going to see if jarvis
has dropped anything that holey's been
digging
and charlie bring shovels
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my
coffee charlie oh uh actually i'd like
something a little bit uh
stronger ma'am charlie you're on duty
uh coffee will be fine
how long are we gonna keep waiting on
that guy sheriff
you got anything better to do well no no
but
that whistling's getting on my nerves i
wish you'd learn a tune
yeah he's been at it since before you
came
first he started digging
now he's covering up did he put anything
in the hole
he might have i i couldn't watch that
carefully because he kept looking up
here i'm afraid sheriff he might do
something to me
after last night i don't want to take
any chances
all right we may as well move in
charlie now let's go
charlie get the shovels sheriff
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you'll let me know what happens just
watch from the window
you can see for yourself
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right
what are you doing here sorry mr jarvis
we're gonna have to do a little digging
what you've got no right to go around
here digging into my garden
that busy body next door she calls you
didn't she
there i just saw her at the window
she called you didn't she we got a tip
mr jarvis
we want to know why you come out here
and dig at night
i can't dig in my own property a man
can't dig in his own property
you've got to admit it looks mighty
suspicious i'm sorry i'm eccentric
do i have to plan my life to suit you
charlie well
excuse me
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sarah yeah you better come here
something buried here
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make out what it is yeah
keep
there's something down there all right
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want to start talking no
charlie let me have your life
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what is it
can you make it out
jeff it's a dog
what
all this digging and it ain't nothing
but a dead dog
what did you expect a body
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i hated myself for doing it not a cruel
man
and the dog was sick anyway
marjorie being gone i suppose i just
wanted to put it out of its misery
so i dug the hole and bought the rat
poison
yep to the dog who else would i give it
to
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wait a minute you mean you were looking
for her
you mean that character next door said
that i might have m*rder*d marjorie
let's be frank mr jarvis there's still
some mystery as to your wife's
whereabouts
but to assume that i k*lled her but
you've been giving everybody in town a
different story
you've told some people she was sick and
you told me she was on vacation
and with that hole you're digging out
and back i guess it did look a little
suspicious
well i've learned one thing anyway
you can't keep a secret in lynn vale
what kind of secret
marjorie left me sheriff she walked out
four days ago
just like that no explanations
walked in and told me we were through
packed her things took our reserve
cash and her jewelry and that was that
after years of marriage
i'm sorry to hear that mr jarvis
do you uh no she planning a divorce
who knows i don't even know why she left
me
what does go on in a woman's mind
sheriff
don't ask me sure we had our fights we
we argued a lot but to wake up one
morning and
find your wife pack in a suitcase
it's a little hard to live with i
guess i did go overboard drinking and
isolating myself probably i did take it
all out on the dog
she loved that thing i was just somebody
who brought the paper home
do you mind if i um take a look through
the house
no i'll help yourself i guess this had
to come out anyway
might have been a little easier if that
busy body next door had kept their
blinds closed
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sheriff worcester
you saw what we dug up yes the dog
i suppose i should have known why why
should you have known
because this is linville things like
that just don't happen here
what did he tell you that his wife had
left him that's all there is to it
she'll probably sue for divorce you mean
to say you believe that
sure i do it happens every day then
you're taking him out his word
well what else can i do i've searched
the house in the garage
her jewelry is gone personal effects
suitcases everything
then why did he lie to everyone
the poor guy's ashamed he didn't want to
know that she'd left him
as a matter of fact he's hoping she'll
come back when she runs out of money
oh it's the most far-fetched story i
ever heard
look mrs logan i've made a fool out of
myself and dug up a man's garden
if he wanted to he could get me in a lot
of trouble but he's been pretty decent
about it he's gonna let it drop
and that's just what i'm gonna do let it
drop suppose you're wrong
bring me some proof then i'll act but
until you do
i'm just gonna forget it sheriff
i don't feel safe with that man around
that's something wrong i tell you well
there's nothing to fear you just call me
if anything happens
it would be too late then i'm sorry man
but
there's nothing i can do i just can't
arrest him on your say-so you've made
yourself
perfectly clear good night
no reason uh why we can't be friends i
think there is
good night
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tell you one thing boys don't ever get
married
you should have told me that five years
ago yeah well thanks for helping us out
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anytime
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so
so
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oh
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foreign
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i still can't believe it what a chance
we took
it worked in it what did he say when he
left
give me some proof then i'll act but
until you do
i want to forget about it fine that's
exactly what we want
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we got work to do
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so
it's a good thing they never looked in
your yard
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give me a hand
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do you need some help no you fill in the
hole
i'll take care of things over here
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hmm
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so
hello mr jarvis sheriff what are you
doing back here
came for the dog what can we come in
well i was just getting ready for bed
well this won't take for just a minute
but i don't understand i i thought this
was all cleared up
well there's a city ordinance against
burying animals on residential property
we'll just dump in this basket and be on
our way but i i filled a hole in again
look i'll left i'll dig it up in the
morning then you come back to the door i
wouldn't think of bothering you mr
jarvis we bothered you enough already
charlie and i can take care of it yeah
but i don't you worry about a thing mr
jarvis
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darling here
you'll need this
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i think our story is further evidence to
support my belief
that in cases like this there is nothing
quite so good as burial at sea
it is simple tidy and not very
incriminating
one word of warning however if you take
your wife on a sea voyage
buy her a round trip ticket no matter
what your plans may be
next week i shall return with a story
some commercials
and more friendly tips for happy
husbands until then
good night
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so
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you
09x02 - A Nice Touch
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American anthology series featuring dramas, thrillers and mysteries.
American anthology series featuring dramas, thrillers and mysteries.