Name: Rat Race
Released: 2018-06-05
Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill

Words to remember

Nouns

1) tranquillizer

I can't take a tranquillizer, but if it's not too much trouble,
2) fowk

FOWKES: Uh, respectfully, Mr. Holmes,
3) 6th

I had elective surgery August 6th, 2003.
4) 7th

He left August 7th.
5) sociopath

I think you may have a sociopath in your midst,
6) disinterest

Yet his apparent mutual disinterest irks you.
7) predilection

you did concealing Peter Talbott's predilection for expensive hookers.
8) letdown

Bit of a letdown, actually. Could've got 20 times my normal rate.
9) fingernail

to remove fingernail polish from your hands.
10) tox

But a drug other than heroin would surely show up on tox screens.
11) weirdo

All due respect, but you know your boss is a weirdo, right?
12) slush

We steer a little bit of his paycheck into a quiet little slush fund.
13) lifeguard

he was a beach lifeguard at Martha's Vineyard.
14) delusion

and all the deceits and delusion that inform everything they do,
15) interceptor

to run a cellular interceptor on my phone, find my location,
16) deceit

and all the deceit and delusions that inform everything they do,
17) ambush

I think this is what you call an ambush setup.
18) binge

And if he were using this slush fund to binge on his favorite bad habit,
19) crook

instead of the crook that they are.
20) fascination

but you, I've a certain fascination with.
21) murderer

in trying to figure out whether there's a murderer working there.
22) disappearance

You're not even sure Miles Durham's disappearance was a murder.
23) salesman

Mr. Fowkes was a bonds salesman back in Denver.

Verbs

1) irk

Yet his apparent mutual disinterest irk you.
2) suffocate

She suffocate in 2005
3) invigorate

It invigorate and restores.
4) subside

That's all right. After all the bubbles subside, there was food underneath.
5) loathe

I loathe bankers. They rigged the roulette wheel of commerce,
6) summon

We have been summon to a meeting
7) accuse

And you accuse me of murder.
8) rupture

when the natural-gas line running into her house rupture.
9) drown

then drown while swimming in a lake near his home in the Catskills.
10) crave

that they crave oblivion.
11) whisper

When these people whisper,
12) steer

We steer a little bit of his paycheck into a quiet little slush fund.
13) beg

I beg your pardon?
14) groom

which everybody knows is where they groom you for the big chair.
15) rig

I loathe bankers. They rig the roulette wheel of commerce,
16) swear

But the chef swear he didn't slip up.
17) owe

And he probably owe some of that to you, doesn't he, Donna?
18) disappear

Mr. Holmes, millions of dollars disappear.
19) intern

Yes, Dan Cho intern in Denver during the summer of 2003.
20) deserve

So I'm sorry, because you deserve to know.
21) smell

I'd forgotten what it smell like, cooked heroin.
22) observe

See that couple over there? I observe them while you were in the bathroom.
23) attract

We're both equally aware that you're attract to this man.

Adverbs

1) categorically

I categorically refuse to dig a hole for you to bury me in, sorry.
2) unexpectedly

Ergo, you unexpectedly met a man you found attractive.
3) respectfully

FOWKES: Uh, respectfully, Mr. Holmes,
4) luckily

Bodyguard. Luckily for you, Mr. Fowkes,
5) underneath

That's all right. After all the bubbles subsided, there was food underneath.
6) meantime

Meantime, I gotta notify Talbott's wife of all this.
7) technically

Not technically, but I think they're gonna want my help
8) privately

Uh, could we talk privately?
9) strictly

Is it strictly legal, the private executive accounting business? I bet not.
10) perfectly

I'd wager even the food is perfectly arranged.
11) aside

and I didn't get a chance to pull you aside.
12) besides

Besides, if I wanted drugs, I could always just climb out the window,
13) personally

He prepared that meal personally,
14) hence

Hence my use of the word "mysterious."
15) obviously

I don't know why, because you are obviously capable of being articulate.
16) apparently

Apparently, Gregson recommended my services
17) definitely

And you definitely don't accept dates on my behalf.
18) apart

We're not to be apart for more than two hours,
19) eventually

I would have told you eventually, if there was an eventually.
20) possibly

and these three unfortunate souls, possibly one or two others as well.
21) normally

Do you normally drink spirits before, um, what, 10 in the morning?
22) doubt

And some of these, no doubt, are random.
23) indeed

Indeed. But I don't think we need to wait on the examiner.

Adjectives

1) insensate

The killer would need Peter to be insensate
2) indecipherable

That's it. No emoticons, no indecipherable acronyms.
3) squalid

usually you find them in squalid apartments or alleyways.
4) meteoric

He's certainly had a meteoric rise.
5) untoward

That's a big-five firm, nothing untoward there.
6) unwitting

so I assume you haven't become an unwitting adulteress.
7) erudite

Typical. Every stuffed-shirt who wants to pass for erudite
8) deductive

Flexing our deductive muscles, are we?
9) fanatical

Did you know he was fanatical about avoiding peanut products?
10) parochial

I went to parochial school, Mr. Holmes.
11) rigged

If I'm gonna get in bed with the croupiers of a rigged game,
12) cunning

a particularly cunning, methodical killer.
13) borderline

Your abbreviations are becoming borderline indecipherable.
14) arrogant

Dan Cho, arrogant little pissant,
15) respectable

and they still think if they wear suits, they'll be treated like respectable folk
16) embarrassed

[STAMMERS] L... I was embarrassed.
17) sober

I'm a sober companion. I work with recovering drug addicts.
18) plausible

Now, I can't find a plausible motive for anyone outside the company
19) articulate

I don't know why, because you are obviously capable of being articulate.
20) overwhelmed

He's been overwhelmed ever since they named him COO.
21) awkward

Well, this is a bit awkward,
22) unconscious

No, you would need them to be unconscious first.
23) vain

I guess I'm more vain about that than I would care to admit.

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