Page 58 of The Wrong Play

Jagger: Technically, he died somewhere else.

Me: WHY DOES THAT MAKE IT WORSE?

Me: Is this an organ trafficking thing?

Jagger: Jace.

Me: What about a former Russian spy?

Jagger: Stop.

Me: A parking ticket enforcer?

Jagger: …

Me: OMG. IT WAS.

Jagger: IT WAS NOT.

Me: JUST ADMIT IT. You finally snapped after too many unpaid parking tickets.

Jagger: Jace.

Me: THEY BOOTED YOUR CAR ONE TOO MANY TIMES, DIDN’T THEY?

Jagger: …

Me: HOLY SHIT.

Jagger: I did not kill a parking ticket enforcer.

Me: …

Me: Jagger, I need to know if I should be looking into extradition laws.

Jagger: No.

Me: Was he a rival blow-up doll distributor, and you had to take him out?

Jagger: STOP.

Me: I’m just trying to understand what kind of dead person scenario we’re dealing with here.

Jagger : If I tell you, will you just go along with the doll excuse?

Me: …

Me: Maybe.

Jagger: Forget it.

Me: So it was a parking ticket guy.

Jagger: I’M DONE.

Me: Did they believe that the doll was yours? Because Mom has that weird lie detector thing.

Jagger: I told them you were lonely.

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