DOOC challenge part deux... but still from films...

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I found another passage I really liked, this time from sleuth:  The shortest way to a man's heart is through humiliation.

This seemed particularly appropriate given the teasing nature and prank pulling that seems to be the status quo at CI5.  With Doyle and Bodie, however, I thought it had a more personal, and maybe deeper psychological meaning, which I couldn't help but imagine here...

Acts of War and Other Foreplay

Special thanks go to Elizabeth O’Shea for Brit Reading this with her extra-special be-kind-to-silly-American-writer-glasses… Any mistakes are absolutely mine...

Bodie’s record for going to ground, up until that moment, not counting the dreadful aftermath of the cock-up which got Marikka killed was three and a half hours.  Usually, he let Doyle find him long before that, and Doyle was getting worried.  Six hours earlier they’d parted company, albeit not on the best of terms. 

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