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Fran:
Where's Manny?

Bernard:
Him? He left. That's what happens when you love someone and nurture them and take care of them.

Fran:
You mean you fired him.

Bernard:
There may have been an incident involving a hand and a kitchen item and maybe the item was a sandwich toaster and maybe the hand was Manny's and maybe I introduced them to one another.

Fran:
So he's gone.

Bernard:
Oh no, he still sleeps here, burrowed in like the little tick he is. But he leaves every day. Every day is another betrayal.