The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Look. This is a big claim. The cops

want to nail the guy who stole it too.

The difference is we have to make good

the 30, 000 bucks. They don't.

To them it's another heist.

Or, has the owner stashed it

away someplace,

and is she trying to defraud us

out of a lot of money?

If you have large sums

of cash around the house,

we would insist on certain

alarm and security precautions,

which my supervisor

would have to approve.

What we usually do in a case like this

is handle the installation ourselves.

Sweetheart, can I get you?

John, can I bother you for a minute?

- I haven't had lunch yet.

- What do you want?

Let me have a cherry cheesecake, a prune

Danish and a couple of Hershey bars.

And I should have something sweet. Let

me have some chocolate-covered raisins.

- I found the missing Picasso.

- I don't believe it.

I-- It's at Galaxy Opticals.

They cut the thing out of the frame.

They rolled the canvas up,

and it's in one of the telescopes.

- How'd you figure it out?

- It wasn't easy.

I'm supposed to be looking

for a picture of a woman with a guitar.

But it's all little cubes.

It took me two hours to find the nose.

- You should call the cops.

- Yeah, right away.

Would you excuse me?

Rosie, would you get me the fingerprints

on the Leland claim?

- Who won the sixth race at Aqueduct?

- Your horse came in seventh.

Seventh? Never bet on a horse

who has Parkinson's.

Congratulations. I heard

you recovered the stolen Picasso.

- Yeah, congrats on the art burglary.

- It was a breeze.

C.W., I brought you something

till your order gets here.

Thank you.

You want to be my date tonight?

- What's tonight?

- George's birthday.

- We're taking George out.

- All right. I'd love to.

But you have to have me home

and in bed by midnight.

That's exactly what I was planning.

[Man] My God, that girl's got

a body that won't quit.

Quit? It won't take

five minutes off for a coffee break.

- Oh, Briggsie, I forgot to tell ya.

- What?

- Hey, where are my-- Rosie!

- What?

- Where are my files? Where's my files?

- They're moved.

- What do you mean moved?

- They're all moved.

- Why?

- They're streamlining.

- This is Fitzgerald?

- Who else?

Did you take the files

out of my office?

Would you like to go out and try

coming back in like a human being?

- Did you move my files?

- if you don't like the human

idea, come in like an orangutan.

- That would be a step up too.

- Put them back... now-- this instant.

You knew we were

rearranging this floor.

Take my files--

Put them back in my office now.

You had plenty of time

to transfer them yourself.

Fitzgerald, if you were a man,

I would slam you in the teeth.

If I was a man,

you'd be hiding under the desk.

- This is what you do

- when I give you an order?

- Give me an order? You?

Who do you think I am,

some peroxide little stenographer...

with her brains in her sweater

whose rear end you pinch?

Pinch it?

I couldn't get my arms around it.

I don't take orders from you.

I work directly for Mr. Magruder.

We're in the process

of turning this place around.

I've been working here 20 years.

You're here six months.

I'm not interested in

your ideas about turning--

Get my files. Put 'em back now.

- Or what?

- "Or what?"

This is the question

you ask me? "Or what?"

"Or what?"

Are you saying "or what" to me?

If you don't get off my toe,

you're going to be singing

castrati with a glee club.

I... hated you, Fitzgerald, from

the day you set foot into this office.

You'd hate any woman who doesn't have

a double-digit I. Q

I'm a good judge of character.

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