Jeffrey pulled his badge out, flashing it to the airport security guard. "I'm with the FBI…" he said. "I need to speak to the eyewitness who spotted this man, here…" he pulled out the photo of Jonathan and Sandy, pointing to Jonathan.
The security guard looked over at the man asleep on the chairs. "He's right over there…" he said, pointing to him.
Jeffrey looked at the security guard skeptically as Gus moved over to the eyewitness. He cleared his throat loudly, but the man didn't budge. "Excuse me, sir…" he said, pulling out his badge. "I'm with the police… I need to talk to you…"
Jeffrey rolled his eyes at Gus and pushed his way past him. He put his hand on the man's arm, shaking him.
"Ima wake…. Ima… Wake…" the man mumbled sleepily as his eyes opened and he moved to sit up in the chair. He pulled the dirty, brown, blanket back over himself as he looked up at Jeffrey. "What do you want?" he muttered.
"I'm with the FBI…" Jeffrey said, showing him his badge. "I need to talk to you about what you saw earlier…"
The man raised an eyebrow as he stared up at Jeffrey. "I ain't seen nothin'…" he said.
Jeffrey pulled out the picture of Sandy and Jonathan and pointed to Jonathan. "Are you telling me that you didn't see this man here, earlier?" he asked.
"I told you…" the man said. "I ain't seen nothin'…"
"Oh, really?" Jeffrey said. "Because the security guard over there said that you told him otherwise…"
"Well, he's telled ya wrong…" the man said. "Now leaves me be…"
"Maybe a trip down to the police station will refresh your memory…" Gus said.
The man turned his gaze from Jeffrey to Gus, a crooked, half-toothless smile crossing his face. "You's threatened me with three squares and a roof over my head…" he asked with a laugh. "Well… All right… That don't sound so bad then… Maybe I's just stay quiet forevah…"
Jeffrey sighed and pulled out his wallet. "Some incentive to refresh your memory…" he said, throwing a fifty dollar bill onto the man's lap.
The man's gaze turned back to Jeffrey as his smile grew even wider. "Yeah, I's seem 'im…" he said. "He'ssa tried ta burn down the lavatree…"
Jeffery raised an eyebrow. "The what?" he asked.
"La… Va… Tree…" the man enunciated.
"The lavatory?" Gus asked. "You mean the lavatory?"
"Yessa… I mean'ses that… The lavatree…" the man said. "Hessa tried ta burn down the men'ses lavatree…"
"Is that all that you saw?" Jeffrey asked.
"I sees him meets and kisses a beautiful woman…" the man said. "I sees her meet hims when hessa leaves the lavatree… He'ssa gone kissed her anda grabbed her hiney… And I see's them walka thataways…" the man added, pointing.
"Was this the woman?" Jeffrey asked, pulling out a picture of Dinah.
"Yessa… that's her…" the man said. "And if yousa likeses them pretty pictures so much, maybe yousa go check out the lavetree…"
"Did he leave something in there?" Jeffery asked.
The man smiled again. "Yessa… Hessa leaved a picture like that first one you's showed me… And hessa leaved a picture of you…"
"Me?" Jeffrey asked confused.
"Yessa, you…" the man replied. "You's is da man from da picture…" He smiled even more brightly as he stood up and touched Jeffrey's beard. "But you'sa face was clean…" he said.
Jeffrey pulled away from the man, looking at him awkwardly for a second before turning to look at Gus. But Gus was already gone. "Thank you for your time…" he said, turning back to the man for a moment.
"No Sir…" the man said, still grinning from ear to ear. "Thanksa you…"