Adam Graham

Well, an interesting case, and in some ways it calls to mind a Sam Spade episode, The Dry Martini Keeper.

Although it's more a case of similarity, it's not direct script reuse.

But The Dry Martini Keeper, which we played earlier,

a few years ago, featured a businessman coming to Sam Spade for help.

And in order to get revenge on the horrible people in his life, he spent some of his last money to have someone kill him.

Sam finds this out eventually, but not before making plenty of trouble for everyone involved, including Sam billing the last $200 of the grief-stricken widow.

Of course, here we've got a sort of nature-taking-its-course sort of death.

and setting up a suggestion that would lead to our financiers' enemies bringing about their own punishment.

Now, there was an interesting scene in here when Louie picked up Simon in his cab, where the writers just decided to lampshade the absurdity of this.

Louie is a regular recurring character, which I think makes more sense in terms of drama and a sense of continuity than having a bunch of random cabby characters.

But in terms of realism, the odds are astronomically against one person running into the same cabbie over and over and over again.

And they just decide to handle that with a little bit of a wink to the audience.

One thing I didn't like was the conversation with the ventriloquist.

The question was simple, and it's surprising Simon didn't know it.

And if Simon didn't know for some reason, then to paraphrase a modern saying but put it in 1950s language, that could have been a phone call.

felt like padding to make sure there was enough run time to the story.

You just imagine the writer's thoughts.

Okay, well, this is not long enough.

What can I do to fill out the time?

I know I'm going to work in my most insane Shakespeare fan theory.