[Grabbing a tissue] I just want to thank you again for seeing me on such short notice. Were you sleeping?
No, no, no, happy to do it.
Your wife wasn't too happy. I could hear her in the background.
No, Madeleine is fine. It's part of the job and she knows that.
Does she have Tourette syndrome?
[Thinking for a while] Yes! Yes she does. So, uh, a glass eyeball?
The mother died three months ago, the son never reported it.
Now, hang on, did the son kill the mother?
Well the doctors say no. It was a heart aneurysm. Her son, Matthew, is an amateur taxidermist. He stuffed her body, carried her from room to room, like nothing happened.
Yeah, I've heard of cases like that. You see, he couldn't function without her. And they call it radical cognitive bonding.
At least I never dug Trudy up and had her stuffed and mounted, right?
Yes, and I've always been very proud of you for that.
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