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Bill: When I started to follow people, specific people, when I selected a person to follow, that's when the trouble started.
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Bill: That's it, unless you have any questions.
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The Blonde: They rifled through my underwear.
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Cobb: You're developing a taste for it - the violating, the voyeurism... it's definitely you.
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Cobb: Everyone has a box.
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Cobb: You take it away... to show them what they had.
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Cobb: [finding a house key under its doormat] Bing-fucking-go.
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Bill: And when it stopped being random, that's when it started to go wrong.
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Cobb: Just because you broke into people's homes doesn't mean you need to look like a fucking burglar.
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Bill: So what's a girl like you...
The Blonde: Doing in a place like this?
Bill: ...doing with a bald old cunt like that?
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Bill: Jesus Christ! Do you think they believed you?
Cobb: Of course they didn't fucking believe me!
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Bill: Were you, uh, "working" for him at the time?
The Blonde: That... is none of your business.
[gets up to leave]
The Blonde: I think you'd better find somebody else to start telling you little stories.
Bill: Oh come on, I was just joking!
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[last lines]
The Policeman: Is this your handwriting?
Bill: Yes
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[first lines]
Bill: The following is my explanation. Well, more of an account of what happened. I'd been on my own for a while and getting kind of lonely... and bored... nothing to do all day. And that's when I started shadowing.
The Policeman: Shadowing?
Bill: Shadowing - Following. I started to follow people
The Policeman: Who?
Bill: Anyone at first. Um,
[sniffs]
Bill: you know, that was the whole point - somebody at random, someone who didn't know who I was.
The Policeman: And then?
Bill: And then nothing.
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Cobb: It's like a diary. They hide it. But actually they want someone to see it. That's what I do.
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Cobb: That's what it's all about - interrupting someone's life, making them see all the things they took for granted. Like when they go back and buy all this stuff from the shelves with the insurance money, they'll have to think for the first time in a long time why they wanted all this stuff, what it's for. You take it away, and show them what they had.
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