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Yale thing?
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Yeah...Yale thing.
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What do you mean...Yale thing?
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So...there's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?
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He led what I suppose was an orderly life. He... ate a balanced diet.
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What kind of man was he? Besides... the information you've just given.
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I hope I'm not being crossexamined here.
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Do you feel that way?
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No. Not really.
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Where did Paul hang out?
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Hang...out?
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Yeah. You know...hang out.
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Let me think. The Newport. Harry's. Fluties. Endochine. Nell's. Comell Club. The New York Yacht Club. The regular places.
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He had a yacht?
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No, he just hung out there.
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And where did he go to school?
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Don't you know this?
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I just wanted to know if you know. BATEMAN Before Yale? If I remember correctly, Saint Paul's... Listen, I just...I just want to help.
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Anything else you can tell me about Owen?
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We were both seven in 1969.
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So was I.
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Do you have any witnesses or fingerprints?
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Well, there's a message on his answering machine saying he went to London.
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Well, maybe he did, huh?
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His girlfriend doesn't think so.
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But...has anyone seen him in London?
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Actually, yes.
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Hmmm.
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Well, I've had a hard time getting an actual verification. A Stephen Hughes says he saw him at a restaurant there, but I checked it out and what happened is, he mistook a Hubert Ainsworth for Paul, so...
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Oh.
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Was he involved at all , do you think, in occultism or Satan worship?
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What?
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I know it sounds like a lame question, but in New Jersey I know this sounds like a lame question, but last monthI don't know if you've heard about this, but a young stockbroker was recently arrested and charged with murdering a young Chicano girl and performing voodoo rituals with various body parts
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Yikes! No. Paul wasn't into that. He followed a balanced diet and
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Yeah, I know, and was into that whole Yale thing.
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Have you consulted a psychic?
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No.
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Had his apartment been burglarized?
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No, it actually hadn't. Toiletries were missing. A suit was gone. So was some luggage. That's it.
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I mean no one's dealing with the homicide squad yet or anything, right?
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No, not yet. As I said, we're not sure. But... basically no one has seen or heard anything.
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That's so typical, isn't it?
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It's just strange. One day someone's walking around, going to work, alive, and then...
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Nothing.
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People just...disappear.
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The earth just opens up and swallows people.
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Eerie. Really eerie.
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You'll have to excuse me. I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at Four Seasons in twenty minutes.
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Isn't the Four Seasons a little far uptown? I mean aren't you going to be late?
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Uh, no. There's one...down here.
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Oh really? I didn't know that.
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Listen, if anything occurs to you, any information at all...
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Absolutely, I'm 100% with you.
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Great, and thanks for your, uh, time, Mr. Bateman.
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Detective Kendall...uh Campbell? KIMBALL Kimball. Call me Don.
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Don.
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So...you hang out here a lot?
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Uh, yes...I mean...whenever necessary. You know.
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How's the investigation going? Taken anyone in for "formal questioning?"
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0h no. Informal conversations, mostly. What's that, Stoli?
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Yeah. No Finlandia, as usual. Fucking dump.
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Too true. You know, Batemanpeople tend to reveal so much more about themselves when they're in a relaxed setting, don't you think?
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I mean they want to get caught.
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Dan, great to see you again. Like I said, you need anything at all, I'm your man. I don't envy your job. I mean Owen was a...complex man.
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I actually came to see Timothy Price, but he's taken a leave of absence.
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Yeah, gone into rehab. Shame. Is he a suspect?
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Not really.
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Do you remember where you were on the night of Paul's disappearance? Which was on the twentieth of December?
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God...I guess...I was probably returning videotapes.
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I had a date with a girl named Veronica.
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Wait. That's not what I've got.
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What?
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That's not the information I've received.
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Well...I...Wait...What information have you received?
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Let's see... That you were with
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Well, I could he wrong.
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Well...When was the last time you were with Paul Owen?
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We had...gone to a new musical called...Oh Africa, Brave Africa. It was...a laugh riot...and that's about it. I think we had dinner at Orso's. No, Petaluma. No, Orso's. The...last time I physically saw him was...at an automated teller. I can't remember which...just one that was near, um, Nell's.
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Well, thank you, Mr. Bateman.
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Patrick, please. I hope I've been informative. Long daya bit scattered.
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Listen, I'm a little spent for now but how about lunch in a week or so when I've sorted out all this information?
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Great, yes, I'd like that.
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And if you could try and pin down where you were the night of Owen's disappearance, it would make my job a lot easier.
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Absolutely. I'm with you on that one.
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Never. I mean...I don't really like... singers.
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Not a big music fan, eh?
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No, I like music. Justthey'reHuey's too... black sounding. For me.
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Well, to each his own. Solunch, Thursday? I'll call your secretary about reservations.
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I'll be there.
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No hash browns?
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Not in the mood, I guess.
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But...everyone orders the hash browns here. I mean it'shave you been here before?
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Yes, of course. The hash browns are delicious. I'm just...not... ordering them.
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Suit yourself, I guess.
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So, the night he disappeared? Any new thoughts on what you did?
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I'm not really sure. I had a shower...and some sorbet?
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I think maybe you've got your dates mixed up.
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But how? Where do you place Paul that night?
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According to his date book, and this was verified by his secretary, he had dinner with...Marcus Halberstam.
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And?
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