meta: Expiration Date scene
Apr. 6th, 2015 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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“Final Question… You have a dinner date for seven… what time do you arrive?
“Seven. A.M. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30…”
Every time this scene comes around, I’m just struck how Spy might be rolling his eyes at Scout’s logic, but Miss Pauling would’ve gone “Oh, that’s a great idea, I’ll go get the shovel.”
In fact, I could see a Gift of the Magi scenario happening. “Oh, you killed the Chef and replaced him? I killed the chef and replaced him! Actually, I might have killed your replacement, oops. Well, I better get a shovel.”
It turns into this anecdote they laugh about and tell years later, the way most people tell anecdotes about bumping into each other on the bus or grocery store, or getting lost on the first date.
“See, I killed the chef.” “And then so did I!”
“Final Question… You have a dinner date for seven… what time do you arrive?
“Seven. A.M. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30…”
Every time this scene comes around, I’m just struck how Spy might be rolling his eyes at Scout’s logic, but Miss Pauling would’ve gone “Oh, that’s a great idea, I’ll go get the shovel.”
In fact, I could see a Gift of the Magi scenario happening. “Oh, you killed the Chef and replaced him? I killed the chef and replaced him! Actually, I might have killed your replacement, oops. Well, I better get a shovel.”
It turns into this anecdote they laugh about and tell years later, the way most people tell anecdotes about bumping into each other on the bus or grocery store, or getting lost on the first date.
“See, I killed the chef.” “And then so did I!”
