Thursday

P G Wodehouse said that 'to find a man's true character, play golf with him.' Well then Jerry Polevich is a real piece of work. But more on him later. First, I have some things I must put down in writing:

Who owns opera glasses? Opera glasses, really? I swear, sometimes the DLO and its inhabitants feel like another place and time. Rita has opera glasses.

Oliver O'Toole drives like an old lady on her way to church. That is all.

Norman is living in some alternate universe (seriously aren't they all?) where he is some clandestine operative. Too many episodes of 'The Man From U. N. C. L. E.' or possibly 'The Saint' as a child?

The old nursery rhyme says that Thursday's child has far to go. That was certainly the staff of the DLO's (must come up with a better description for us) mantra today. I woke up early, just knowing that today was going to be a day of results. Kelly's fate was still a cloud over everything, but there was also an underlying hope too.

Today, was the day we would hijack Jerry Polevich and force him to see the evidence we had collected that proved Charlie was innocent. A short foray into the tee times of the Pine Cobble Country Club, revealed that our Jerry had a tee slot booked at 9:00 a.m. (Seriously that place needs to upgrade their security. Maybe that should be my next job? IT consultant to those still using AOL.) That meant we had an appointment with him on the approach to the 18th hole at approximately 10:15 a.m. We came armed with photographic proof that Eugene Mossley and not Charlie Riggs was the killer, and a bribe in the form of food from the Mile High Deli.

I would like to think that an appeal to Polevich's conscience and sense of decency was what moved him, but I don't think it was that. I don't even think it was the appeal to his stomach in the form of a deli sandwich. I rather think that it was Oliver's threat that sealed the deal. I couldn't hear him at the time, but he told he later that he simply asked Jerry if he knew what Montana steaks looked like when re-routed a few times. That is cold!

Whatever it was, it worked. Jerry Polevich was going to see the DA. Result!