that's good there.
which one of you is davies?
you must be well thought of, agent davies. i don't do this. but i was asked nicely by the right people. they briefed me on your problems with benson clyde.
things i can neither confirm nor deny. things of which, if i'm asked, i will disavow any knowledge.
he's not. tell me you grasp the implication of what i've said, or we're done here.
spooks like me are a dime a dozen. clyde was a brain. he ran a think- tank, inventing things for use in the field. ways to kill people. you need to get rid of somebody. it's not a situation where you can get close. what do you do?
that's right. ask clyde. and he'd figure something out. gizmos, strategy. he was good at it.
you play chess?
in my line, we use an aptitude profile based on chess. a tournament- level player like you can think five to eight steps ahead of an average player, did you know that? me, i think about ten steps ahead, so i'd take you in a game.
off the charts. if you're eight steps ahead, he's twenty. or fifty. he's already got the game won on the first move, you don't even know you're playing yet. this cellmate he killed? you think that was random? bullshit. that was a pawn taken off the board. if i were you, i'd be trying to figure out what the move was.
top of my head? was the cellmate ever connected with this case? or with clyde? was anybody else in that facility? guards? cons? the janitor? any connection at all, no matter how remote. because if clyde says he has things in play, he does.
you're an average chess player, aren't you?
i can tell. but i like your tie.
there's this tie -- we call it the albert, after albert desalvo. they tiptoe in one night, thread a piano wire with a ratchet gizmo into one of your ties. sounds crazy, but * trust me it works. you put your tie * on and all day long it slowly tightens. you don't even notice it's cutting off the blood-flow to your brain. then you drop dead. brain-dead or plain dead, doesn't much matter at that point. clyde invented that.