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Clips from Ned Rifle

"Thank you for seeing me on such short notice."
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"Not at all, please, come on in."
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"Simon Grim."
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"I thought he was dead."
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"I know."
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"[ Tools whirring ]"
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"Wow, you're a sight for sore eyes."
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"Where's Ned?"
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"Ned? Ned who? Who's Ned?"
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"Come on, Bud. We're friends, right?"
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"Oh, yes."
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"I've been writing a poem about you even."
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"So you have to tell me where Ned's gone."
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"But this poem, you see, requires a certain creatural detail."
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"The currency of lived experience, so to speak."
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"What's it about, this poem?"
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"Your thigh."
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"Which one?"
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"Wow, now there's an idea."
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"Bud, concentrate."
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"This one."
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"-You want to touch it? -I have to."
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"How long?"
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"60 seconds is the structural prerequisite of my poetic expression."
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"A formalist."
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"Interesting, but where has Ned gone?"
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"Ashbrook Pharmaceuticals, Portland, Oregon."
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"O.K., let's do it."
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"I'm interested in the young woman you've hired to"
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"ghost-write my sister's autobiography."
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"Man: Susan."
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"It's come to my attention she's written a quite thorough"
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"analysis of my own work."
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"Ah, yes."
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"Well, so you know about this then?"
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"I was impressed."
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"Really, you've read it?"
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"Yes, I'd like to know more about her."
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"She'd been writing movie reviews for a small, city-wide"
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"entertainment guide."
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"She developed quite a following because, well,"
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"because no matter what she was reviewing, it always came"
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"around to a discussion of your poetry."
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"I see."
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"It's quite hilariously obsessive."
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"But well-written?"
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"One couldn't fault the grammar, but the irony was"
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"a bit too intense for me."
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"Nevertheless, she became popularly associated"
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"with you and Fay, the infamous Grims."
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"So when I had this idea for the Fay autobiography,"
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"I thought, of course."
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"Get this well-read, fringe iconoclast to ghost it."
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"That turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated."
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"Why?"
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"Because she was, as I should've expected,"
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"in a mental hospital."
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"Ah."
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"Olive, tell Simon here about Susan."
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"She presented her dissertation at Columbia University and--"
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"Man: Go ahead."
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"Well, Mr. Grim, it was, of course, a dissertation on your poetry."
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"I understand."
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"They refused outright to grant her diploma, and apparently,"
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"she had a nervous breakdown and stabbed her"
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"academic advisor."
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"So, she's violent."
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"Man: Turns out, she's been in and out of psychiatric care"
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"since she was 13."
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"Olive: The charges were eventually dropped."
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"She's a loaded pistol, Simon, and I like that."
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"Comes across in her prose."
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"Biting, precise, and, well, yes, obsessive."
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"When will you see her next?"
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"Us? Oh, we never see her."
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"She transcribes her interviews with Fay each week, reworks"
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"them into chapters, and emails them to me."
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"We're about a third of the way through the book."
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"It's incendiary."
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"Olive: It'll be huge."
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"We're negotiating with the penitentiary to get"
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"a photo shoot done with Fay."
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""Esquire's" on board, maybe "GQ," "Vanity Fair.""
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"And the controversy is more than likely to generate"
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"a renewed interest in even your work, Mr. Grim."
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"Good thinking, Olive."
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"Simon, who are you with these days? Anyone?"
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"[ Door Opens and Shuts ]"
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"Fay, you have a visitor."
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"[ Bell Rings ]"
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"[ Buzzer Rings ]"
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"Please have a seat."
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"My name is Daniel. Reverend Gardner."
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"Ned may have mentioned me to you."
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"Yes."
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"If I may say so, Fay, Ned is like a son to me."
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"Me too."
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"Fay, I believe Ned intends to do something terrible."
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"Oh, man."
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"He loves you very much."
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"Of course he does."
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"What do you mean by that?"
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"It means he'll kill the man he thinks is responsible"
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"for your incarceration."
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"Henry?"
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"Fool."
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"With an "e"?"
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"Could be."
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"The man you describe is here."
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"Can I see him?"
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"You say he's your father."
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"Yes."
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"He's been here for a little over a year."
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"He replied to an ad we placed asking for volunteers"
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"on the testing of certain drugs we were developing."
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"However, we were advised to cease experimenting with these"
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"particular medications, but by then, unfortunately, Henry had"
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"begun to exhibit side effects."
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"Like what?"
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"Well, there are certain physio-optical manifestations."
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