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- We're very sorry for your loss. - Thank you.

Well, let me start, please.

Floyd Smernitch held a life insurance policy we've discovered.

And it pays out to you, 1,100,000.

- Can you speak up, please? - I'm sorry?

Can you speak up? No one can hear you.

- There was a policy. - Okay.

- Payable to you. - Okay.

And... you had stated previously, you stated to Detective Plumb

that you knew nothing about this policy.

I knew of no such policy. No. No way, Jose. I mean

we had to prioritize our expenses,

and a life insurance plan would not have been a priority for us

at that time. No way, Jose.

So, the fact that, indeed, Floyd Smernitch's life was insured,

as the state learned this morning, that's been a surprise to you?

Totally. I mean, I'm like, "Oh my God, what?"

You know, like, "Oh, what?"

- Floyd Smernitch never discussed it? - No.

No, I would not have been on board with that.

- No way, Jose. - "No way, Jose"?

Yeah, that was the thing that Floyd and I used to say to each other.

Like a cute thing, you know?

Like, he would say, "Can we get a new TV?" And I would say, "No way, Jose."

You know? Or like, "Can we get that martial arts pay-per-view show?"

And I would say, "No way, Jose."

It was just like my cute way of saying that there was not gonna be a discussion

because of our priorities, which were

mortgage, and school expenses, and household-ish expenses,

and medications, and groceries, okay, and stuff.

And then there wasn't really any money after that.

It's like I was trying to get us out of debt,

but it was, like, fucking impossible. Come on, you know? I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, it's effing impossible. I'm sorry if I used the wrong word there.

Just that... It's just effing hard to get out from under, you know?

It's like, you know, everybody has some... at first.

And you think, "Oh, well, I'll get a raise or a promotion",

"and we'll counterbalance it," you know, like a fresh start, of course. And...

And then they just don't come.

And so then you're left kind of trying to prioritize from then on, and it's...

You just know that you're gonna have to say "no way, Jose"

to a lot of things for the rest of your life.

And a life insurance policy was one of those things for us.

Do you have any secondary mailing addresses

besides your office, Mrs. Love-Smernitch?

Can you speak up, too?

Wow.

Do you have any secondary mailing addresses?

I do not. Thank you.

- Date of birth? - August 1st, 1979.

- Place of birth. - Nerton, Missouri. Thank you.

You ever been convicted of a crime?

Okay, so, I don't have to answer that.

There is a law that says that I don't have to answer that.

Thank you very much.

Maybe you should know more about the laws.

Well, which laws should we learn more about?

Missouri, J-H, 2-6-17, Compliance Y-4.

- And that's the... - That's the one that I'm talking about.

- The one that you should know. - Okay, let me get that.

J-H, 2...

- 6? - Yes.

- 17. Compliance. - Y-4.

Y... Okay, that's what I meant.

Well, that was weird.

- That was weird. - She was weird.

- She was weird. - "Can you speak up?"

- Jeez, I mean, you could hear me fine. - I could totally hear you.

- "Wow." - What?

"Wow!"

- Lots of wows with that lady. - A lot of wows there.

- Oh, that was weird. - It was weird.

Compliance Y-4?

- Here it is. - What's it say?

"Citizens with sealed or expunged convictions

are not compelled to acknowledge their cases."

Fuck me.

- She's got a sealed conviction. - Yeah.

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If it was her, how did she get the bike?

I rolled it on a wipe out. I nailed the sprockets.

Yeah, your sprockets are nailed. Were you okay?

Yeah, I took it in the face. I... use my hands for my profession,

so I couldn't break my fall with my hands, so I...

Well, you need a new sprocket set. It's gonna be a couple weeks.

What have you disclosed?

- To them? - Yes.

Various... about... Floyd's penis,

and various...

You know, weight placement sex events, and robot...

Signing up...

Going on sex sites, signing up for them.

And why did you ask for me now?

Because I don't want them to know anything further.

You know, before anything, it's okay.

It's just intimacy's been missing for so long.

Things have been blue around our house for so long.

You know, trying to get to Richard, and failing, mostly,

and with work, debts, and

stuff.

It just seemed so simple... to me that her being happy being with you.

Happy being with you sometimes.

It was okay with me.

I just...

- I have one question. - Yeah?

You know, lately, Clark, I've been...

I've been kind of worried, like the last couple months,

something funny will happen between you two, between you and Carol,

like at the Quality Garden.

Like a lamp will fall on you guys while you're fucking or something.

Or a cool bird will fly into the room when you're having a quiet moment,

and you guys will be like,

"Oh, my God, look, there's a bird's nest in the closet."

"We never noticed."

And then when we talk about it, I wouldn't really know it.

And

you know, you could probably tell that I wasn't part of it.

Because sex isn't... It isn't the sex.

What you really share is... just time alone from the world.

And, man, I don't have that.

I kind of just wanna be there with you on the cool side of the curtains.

It would just be once in a while.

Just so I'm really part of it.

I got the

the Old Friends discount

at the Quality Garden.

I wanted to reciprocate for all the... for all that you've

all that you've done for me.

I was in the Old Friends program, the frequent guest program.

- Welcome back. - Oh, thank you very much.

Anyway, I was in the program when I worked for Pressmer Quill Supplies.

Perhaps, does that ring a...

- No. - I sold toner, printer cartridges.

And I thought it might help me feel a little more included.

Like, a little included.

Well, I have been... frequently again.

My wife has been at the Quality Garden frequently again.

- Your family? - Yeah.

Yeah, some of them, some of them. And a friend.

And... maybe we could be retroactive.

Old Friends.

Old Friends for new friends.

This matter concerns the ongoing investigation

of a murder case.

We discovered a bank account that was used to pay

for multiple visits here.

- This Quality Garden Suites? - Yes.

There's a period of reimbursements, several in a series.

Can you explain this?

This would be a retroactive application of a frequent guest discount.

That was an unusual request.

So, yeah, I know what this is. I remember this.

And this man made the request?

No, that man. He made the request.

He would come sometimes on some of those dates

as a member of that party.

He would come with this party?

Yes. And go. They would come and go together sometimes.

In a group of three? Together?

They would come in a group of three, yes. As a

threesome, if you will.

Threesome.

They all look alike.

Christ.

I'm Donoghue Homer. I'm working with Detective Plumb.

Wonder if I could have a word with her, please?

- Yeah, she's told me a lot about you. - All good I hope, huh?

Come on in.

I never lived in the suburbs. I grew up in Chicago.

I worked Chicago for 26 years, St. Louis for ten.

And I thought this case was gonna be open and shut,

'cause it's the suburbs, it's regular people, it's normal people.

Forrest has a thing with the wife.

Husband gets in the way, husband winds up dead.

Dark, but normal.

But Forrest says he had a thing with the wife, okay,

then he started to have a little feeling for the husband too,

that he would never hurt Floyd.

He's saying that he loved Floyd in some way.

- That's not real normal. - I mean, no one's normal.

It just looks like that from across the street.

Modern Love said that.

Where was the other bike that early morning?

That's why I came here tonight, the other bike.

What other bike?

Forrest said it wasn't him at the pools on that peculiar bicycle.

And it dawned on me, maybe he's telling the truth.

- Because there were two. - He owned two of them.

And we never asked where the other one was that morning.

Wanna take a ride with me over to Forrest's?

Well, he... You know, there's something... that I want to...

I'm kind of embarrassed. I kind of can't say it.

- I wanna say it. - Scratch it on my back.