Columbo: Short Fuse
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You really know that stuff, don't you?
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I noticed your medal.
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That's an honour society medal, isn't it?
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It's a national science fraternity.
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I had my PhD in chemistry before I was 21.
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But that's before my MBA and lawyer.
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You don't say.
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You know, I knew you'd be
the one that could help me.

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Would you come?
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Now, my problem with chemistry,
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that started way back in high school.
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Because in my junior year,
I had to get a better grade.

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So I said, "To heck with this chemistry stuff,"
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- "I'll take another year of wood shop."
- (Laughs)

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You know, you just build a birdhouse
and if you paint it red, you get an A.

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- (Roger chuckles)
- So that's what I did.

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Because that chemistry stuff is too hard.
You follow my meaning?

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So?
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You see, the fellows over at our lab,
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they tell me that you can make
all sorts of trigger devices

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that don't use any powder.
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Er, they're like explosive fire things, maybe.
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- Is that true?
- Oh...

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So you think someone put a bomb in his car.
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There could have been an explosion
before they went off the cliff.

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You see, if that's the case,
then we got a whole different...

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- Lieutenant.
- See what I mean?

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I... I would not light that cigar now
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unless you wish to witness
an explosion right now.

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- Oh, yeah, right, I'm sorry. I won't light it.
- OK.

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And for your information,
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there are 30 PhDs in this plant
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and over 60 qualified chemists.
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There are 10 private experiment rooms,
just like mine back there.

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And that is not even to mention
the main laboratory building right over there,

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where 2,000 more employees toil away
like merry little gnomes.


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