Crime Story Skeptic Prints

"Are you okay, Ms. Yoon?"

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

hard-boiled egg...

'You know too much,'

"The numbers don't lie . . . but we do."

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

'When you get up on the stand be sure to keep your answers short. A whole lot of barking will only frighten the jury.'

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

"Well did he?"

'They're very proud of me. I'm the first in my family to be convicted of a white-collar crime.'

'During the break, my client stole my wallet.'

'I don't know officer: They all look alike to me...'

'All right pal, just hand over the nose and nobody gets hurt.'

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

"Then leave the horses head in the Futon." Middle-class mafia

Mafia Short-Term Memory Clinic. 'Fuhgettaboutit.'

'Why is it always about me?'

"It's a forgery―and a recent one, too."

"I did, boss, I swear, I buried him myself."

Meet John Henderson. - The only journalist NOT to have interviewed serial killers in prison...

"By Ned, you're right, inspector—the body has been moved."

"Paper or plastic?"

The old good-cop, psycho-cop routine.

The Ballad of the Lavender Dot - Part Three

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

Fish mobsters.

Cop Shop/Fake evidence/Plant now for spring.

"I told you we should have had separate trials."

"Daddy, can I have a pony killed?"

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

"Sorry, Boss, I thought you wanted me to make it look like an accident."

'Aghh! I've been visited by the Russian mafia.'