DTF St. Louis

Floyd saw him nix it,

- you're saying? - Yes.

Okay. Well... Why did he go to the pool the next day,

in the very early morning, if no one was gonna be there?

I don't know.

Name. Tiger Tiger's name.

I don't have his name. It was a no-name scenario, he said.

Yeah, that's... that's

that's really convenient for you.

There's no way I can find him

and get him to attest to any of this bullshit.

How can I find this guy, Clark, to verify your story?

You know anything about him? Any details?

- He's on DTF. - Tiger Tiger?

Well, no. As himself.

He had a vous.

A rendezvous at a roller rink.

- Local, here? - Yeah.

"No one's normal. Just looks like that from across the street." That guy.

- He said that, too. - Said what?

He said that sentence to me. Tiger Tiger. I remember.

Carol Smernitch. Go interview her about the second bike.

I signed your clearance.

I'm gonna go talk to Modern Love.

The day before Floyd Smernitch was killed

and visited by someone on a bicycle

like this,

you recovered this bicycle,

of Clark Forrest's,

from the Twyla Bicycle Shop.

Why?

Can you speak up?

You heard me.

My son wanted to ride that bicycle to school,

for his first day at a new school.

He thought it was cool, even though it's not.

But that's what he thought,

and that's what he wanted to do. So...

I paid all that sprocket money, and yeah.

The morning.

That early morning

when Floyd was at the Kevin Kline,

in the pool shed,

where were you?

On the morning of November 8th,

that's the day before Floyd Smernitch was discovered dead,

you had a DTF encounter.

Yes, I had a DTF encounter the morning before.

Where was that encounter?

Here.

I had a roller-skating scenario that I wanted to explore.

And you made that arrangement with someone on DTF?

Couples skate was the

thing. Just rolling and holding hands. That was my...

- Rolling and holding hands? - Yeah.

Uh-huh. So, you arranged to m...

Was it a man you were...?

Yeah, it could've been a woman, but roller-skating aptitude was

part of the thing, and only a man answered.

How did that work?

Just... like

we had the rink to ourselves,

and we rolled around holding hands.

- Holding hands? - It's a pretty common thing.

Like, your dad takes your hand when you cross the street

or enter a haunted house to make you feel safe, you know?

And you do it on dates.

There's a thrill

at the beginning.

And years can go by without that now.

- Without holding hands? - It's a nice feeling.

When was the last time you did it?

My...

My wife.

Yeah, I guess. Years ago.

It's a very positive one.

Like, you don't really end anymore where you used to.

You just keep on going.

You did this with a man that morning, November 8th?

Yes.

Did you talk to this man?

Yeah, plenty.

Kevin.

From Chicago.

He was visiting from Chicago?

Yeah, he was in town for a couple of days.

Do you have his full name?

Kevin...

Van Der Lonse.

S... E.

Where were you between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m., then?

Beside my son.

He had had a rough night.

I slept in a chair in there, in his room.

Beside my son.

I just have one last question.

What happened to Mr. Smernitch's penis?

We've heard accounts of the day of the trauma.

Cars, a motorcycle.

But those events weren't...

Right, that's a day...

That's a day that I don't like to think about.

And it...

You don't need to know.

Floyd wasn't killed because he had a crooked dick.

So, thank you for asking, but no.

Our lives were changed that day and not because of dick reasons.

Okay. That's fine.

We learned the husband, he knew.

He knew about the affair his wife was having with Forrest.

Yeah, then he threatened Forrest. Then he was killed.

- That's motive. - No, no.

He knew about the affair in the sense that

in the sense that

he would watch.

The husband, we learned.

- Watch what? - The affair.

From the closet.

He was a part of it.

I mean, that was a part of it.

They were all consenting.

That's... Really?

The other guy?

He watched too.

It was a thing. Just all of them, you know.

What are you saying, Detective?

The case was sound.

- It's less sound the more I... - The more you believe him.

Yeah.

Well, I don't believe him.

Forrest gets a prescription for Amphezyne, yeah?

To help some other guy fuck his girlfriend?

Have you ever done a favor for a friend like that?

I have not. No.

There's another bike.

The wife had it.

She has a record.

We're trying to determine for what.

Tiger Tiger, that meetup? I found him.

What if he corroborates?

Corroborates the weatherman's story?

Yeah.

Then I'm listening.

I think I can prove Forrest didn't do it.

Tiger Tiger.

I think I can prove Carol didn't do it.

Stephen Queece.

Kevin Van Der Lonse?

Are you Kevin Van Der Lonse?

Yeah.

They want you.

Kevin.

Did Clark Forrest hire you to come to St. Louis

and pretend to be a Tiger Tiger

to meet a man at the Kevin Kline Junior Pools

early November?

Yes.

But...

But I see him the day before, the sign language guy.

Nice face. Okay, great.

Just, the whole package wasn't my kind of...

Wasn't my kind of package.

Older than like...

Not real together, so...

And I know that sounds harsh, but...

I didn't wanna go there and disappoint everyone.

You know, make him feel worse.

Because the other guy said that he had been feeling like

like sad for a while.

So, I just left.

You never went to that meeting?

At the pools?

No.

I left the day before.

And Clark Forrest never asked you to show up

and bring a Bloody Mary with you, or anything like that?

You know, give this guy a drink, or anything like that?

No. Clark just wanted me to come and be around his friend.

And if I got aroused, hey, all right.

He said that would be great for the other guy,

in terms of his feelings and stuff.

If it so happened.

But... you know, it wasn't gonna so happen,

so... so I left.

Why did he go?

- To the pools? - Yeah.

Because I called it off.

So why did he still go?

Tiger Tiger, man...

I just don't know.

I'm sorry about the nix.

This is a good idea.

Just get out and have some fun.

Yeah.

Tough week.

Yeah.

I don't really wanna shoot you with a paintball gun, though.

You know, I don't... I don't really wanna shoot you either.

Maybe we just

sit in the forest and talk?