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      "use_text": "You ask him about the string.  He says nothing for a very long time, and then says: 'It's about my ex-wife.'  You point out that it is a wall of a stranger's telephone records.  He looks at it properly for the first time in four series."
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      "use_text": "Your grandfather takes the chair opposite and does not say anything either.  What follows is nine minutes of two men not speaking, and it is the most one-sided contest in the history of the medium, because the channel's detective is performing silence and your grandfather simply has nothing he needs to say.  At nine minutes the suspect confesses. At eleven he is still confessing. He confesses to the case, then to two others, then to a thing he did in 1994 that no one had ever connected to anybody, and finally, weeping, to the fact that he does not think this channel is very good.  Your grandfather writes all of it down, in full, in his own hand, and reads it back, and asks him to initial each page, which nobody in four series has ever done, which is why nothing in four series has ever stood up.  This one stands up.  (+20)"
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      "use_text": "He asks the channel's detective whether he has eaten today.  The channel's detective bursts into tears. It is the first question anybody has asked him in four series that was not about a corpse."
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