Narrator: With no time to spare before the competition’s official start, Max hurries below deck to retrieve his food processor.
SOUND EFFECT: footstep (man clopping)
Narrator: Making his way back to the deck, Max is ambushed by a woman who is blocking his path. It’s the stylish Millicent Merriweather. And she’s holding the stolen pearl handled pistol.
Millicent: Stop right there and hand over that box!
Max: This box? It’s just a kitchen appliance! Granted it has 8 speeds and reversible blades but still –
Millicent: I saw you handing cash to Britannia for that food processor in the parking lot after you left without buying anything. I searched Britannia’s trunk after I ran her over and the whales’ there weren’t there. The only place they can be is in that box.
Max: So that’s why Britannia put those Botox receipts in my pocket. She was warning me about you. They’re yours! You get Botox shots to numb your feet so you can wear sky high heels.
Millicent: It’s a small price to pay for how great my legs look in these Manolo Blahniks. Now this gun is going to eliminate another source of my pain.
Max: Wait! Those heels don’t have any scuff marks. If a robber had dragged you into the storeroom then there would at least be scuff marks or a broken heel.
Millicent: Yes, Captain Obvious, I faked the robbery to give me an alibi. Britannia Coffin betrayed me. I had no choice but to kill her. We planned this heist for months. She couldn’t pull it off alone in her condition. We agreed she would get the insurance money and I would sell the teeth to the highest bidder. I even had a buyer lined up but then she went behind my back and made a deal herself.
Max: That’s why you killed her?
Millicent: The retail business is dead thanks to Amazon. Those whales’ teeth were my ticket to a new life. After she came into my shop this morning and didn’t bring me the whales’ teeth like we’d agreed, I thought Britannia might be planning to double cross me. That’s when I called the buyer and found out she’d made a new deal with him and had cut me out. Then I remembered seeing her give you that box in the parking lot. I was heading over to her house to confront her when I saw her coming out of the Treasure Island Antique Shoppe. I just saw red!!! She was an easy target without her poles.
Max: You won’t get away with this. My friends are probably already looking for me.
Millicent: Open that box and give me what’s inside!
Max: Look! It’s only a food processor.
Millicent: I can’t see. Move your mangy stuffed parrot out of my way. Where are they?
Max: I swear I don’t know. I don’t have them. But why don’t you let me help you find them?
Millicent: Not unless they are at the bottom of the ocean. Let’s go, Jolly Roger!
Max: No, you don’t want to do this!
Millicent: You know too much! I’m going to make you walk the plank like in one of those old pirate movies. You’re already dressed for the part.
Max: You do know I can swim, right?
Millicent: Not with a bullet in you. Goodbye, Captain Bartholomew Maxwell!
SOUND EFFECT: gun shot and splash
Narrator: Max falls headfirst into the ocean with his food processor.
TO BE CONTINUED
Divabetic’s Mystery podcast, Kill Me Madam, cast includes USA Best-Selling Author Tonya Kappes, Patricia Addie-Gentle RN, CDE, MaryAnn Horst-Nicolay MEd, NDRT, Lorraine Brooks, Catherine Schuller, Wendy Radford, Coach The Cure‘s Trisha Artman, Mama Rose Marie, Seveda Williams, and Max ‘Mr. Divabetic’ Szadek. Produced by Leisa Chester-Weir.
Throughout the podcast we will be featuring music from the Broadway Cast Album of ‘Call Me Madam’ courtesy of SONY Music.
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