:19:00
I imagine it rang a bell, didn't it?
:19:03
Oh, it certainly did.
:19:06
When did you write it?
:19:07
I thought you'd ask that.
:19:09
That's the whole point.
:19:11
Two writers have the same story,
it's all about who wrote the words first.
:19:14
-Wouldn't you say that's true?
-I suppose so.
:19:17
I suppose that's why I came
all the way up here from Mississippi.
:19:29
I wrote it seven years ago, 1 997.
:19:33
How'd you get it?
:19:35
That's what I really want to know.
:19:37
How in the hell did a big
money-scribbling asshole like you...
:19:41
...get down to a little shitsplat town
in Mississippi...
:19:44
...and steal my goddamn story?
:19:47
-Drop it.
-Drop it?
:19:49
Drop it. What in the hell
do you mean, drop it?
:19:53
You said you wrote your story in 1 997.
I wrote mine in late '94.
:19:57
It was published for the first time
in June 1 995 in a magazine.
:20:01
Nice try, Mr. Shooter,
but I beat you by two years.
:20:04
If anybody's got a bitch about
plagiarism, it's me.
:20:06
You lie!
:20:08
-No, I don't!
-Prove it!
:20:11
I don't have to prove a thing to you.
:20:13
Go look for yourself. Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine, June 1 995.
:20:18
-And how am I supposed to find that?
-That's not my problem.
:20:21
Am I supposed to drive down to your
house in Riverdale, New York...
:20:25
...and ask your wife, Amy, for it?
:20:29
I read it on your book jacket.
:20:33
That's not my house. That's hers.
:20:34
What the hell does that mean?
:20:36
What do you think, you ignorant hick?
I'm in the middle of a divorce.
:20:39
D-l-V-O-R-C-E. Divorce.
:20:44
You strike me as the kind of guy...
:20:47
...who's on the lookout for a head
he can knock off with a shovel.
:20:51
But what you don't understand is,
if we do start to fight...
:20:57
...it's not going to end...
:20:59
...until one or the other of us
is dead.