[at a restaurant with a Lloyds of London representative discussing his reward for having helped recover stolen diamonds] Mr. Cryder, I don't want to seem anxious, but I was wondering about my five percent recovery fee?
Ohhh yes. I called my people at Lloyds, they agreed.
[smiling] Five percent, a million dollar's worth of jewelry, that's fifty thousand dollars, isn't it?
Yes... Unfortunately, each of the cormorants was insured for fifteen thousand making a total of forty-five thousand.
Well, what has one got to do with the other?
Well, they feel that since you were hired to protect them, and since all three were destroyed, that you should... bear the loss...
That's preposterous!
Unfortunately, that is how they... feel. So, ah, forty-five thousand from fifty thousand leaves five thousand...
Well, I didn't break the damn things!
...I've been doing some preliminary figuring... Now from the five thousand there's of course, ah, English inheritance and English income taxes. [he starts subtracting on a pad of paper] Ah yes, we will have to inform your IRS. [he chuckles] And there's the rate of exchange to consider and, oh yes, then there's...
One minute, just one minute.
Yes?
Do you think there's going to be enough for me to pick up this tab?
I really don't know, Mr. Rockford, that depends... Do you intend to keep on drinking?
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