The Mystery of Mamo1978

[Detective Scott and his Police Commissioner are eating in a Japanese restaurant in Colombia, Scott is rapidly eating a bowl of rice]

Commissioner:
Detective Scott… [Scott stops eating, surprised] Eat slowly now. Have some pickled radishes.

Detective Ed Scott:
Thank you for bringing me here, but couldn't we have gone somewhere and had a steak?

Commissioner:
Well, I thought that this would be a… special treat for you. On your expense account, you could never go to a restaurant like this!

Detective Ed Scott:
[upset] Yah! [chomps on a radish, crying] Commissioner! I am… I really am… fortunate… to have a chief like you!

Commissioner:
[hands him a handkerchief] Your nose is running.

Detective Ed Scott:
[blows his nose] I'm sorry, being treated so kindly by you, and not being able to catch Lupin… but I'll get him, even if it costs my life!

Commissioner:
Well, about that…

Detective Ed Scott:
I'll get that thief!

Commissioner:
No, forget about him.

Detective Ed Scott:
Wha…?

Commissioner:
The reason I came such a long way to this little town in Colombia… was to order you to stop pursuing Lupin. He’s got something to do with a very important man now. It’s international… no, it… concerns the whole universe!

Detective Ed Scott:
I’m afraid… I don’t quite get what you mean.

Commissioner:
Well, anyway, the Lupin case is way above our level. Oh, that’s right! [hands a small document with Scott’s “name” on it] Here’s a special bonus for all the trouble you went through. [chuckles] You’ve been a way for a long time now, and your daughter has grown up. Now I came to take you back home with me.

Detective Ed Scott:
I happen to be the only one who can capture Lupin.

Commissioner:
Oh… well, I appreciate how you feel…

Detective Ed Scott:
[shouting] Commissioner, I won’t give up!

Commissioner:
That’s an order!

Detective Ed Scott:
[angrily growls] Damn! [tears up the bonus, and kicks away the table he and the Commissioner are eating at] I resign! I’ll go after him on my own! I’ll get that Lupin! [he storms out of the restaurant to the surprise of the customers]

Commissioner:
Detective Scott!

[Detective Scott stands on the outskirts of the city as the sun sets]

Detective Ed Scott:
[narrating] Positive Lupin's hiding somewhere here in South America...