00:00I graduated from the academy top of my class, flying colours in a horseshoe band, sweet ace if I say so myself.
00:07So they threw me in a desk job like some drip, wasn't half bad when I could root to some tunes, till the paperwork came floating in.
00:13That's when the fish went missing.
00:21Some schmuck thought it'd be a smart one to throw the broad on the beloved pet, so the chief asked me to run the case, gave me nothing but peanuts to deal with.
00:29But I'd do it. Anything to get away from the geezers at the station.
00:33You'd think starting off simple like, where's the fish, would produce mantis.
00:37It's just a real cookie so I wouldn't nag.
00:40It's hard in situations like these, bless you.
00:43Trying to avoid being a pain in the neck and not running out of gas.
00:46With every angle led to zilch. No leads.
00:49The case was crummy.
00:51Made me out to be some sort of cockle-eyed knucklehead, a goof.
00:54Chief snapped his cap, flipped his wig.
00:57I almost went belly up.
00:59It was buzzing my chops hard.
01:01Calling me a whistling Dixie.
01:03A dead hoofer.
01:05A whiffle waffle.
01:07I was close to calling it quits.
01:09But they ain't no chicken.
01:12I fell for the hooch.
01:14I gotta admit.
01:16I was fucking sourced from that moment.
01:19I was fucking sourced from that moment.
01:20But I was committed.
01:21I ain't letting some words get in the way.
01:22That's getting ain't easy, you know.
01:26I was cooking the gas for once.
01:27Yet behind every door I found myself in the sticks.
01:28It takes a toll on you.
01:29The buzz was the only thing keeping me operational.
01:30I became a real swigger.
01:31A souse.
01:32But it kept me on the beam.
01:33But it kept me on the beam.
01:34I bottle wouldn't go far.
01:35With every bit of lettuce a chief gave me
02:03gave me for the caves going towards the valley. Where'd the fish go? Who would have taken it?
02:09I thought about passing a buck, I really did.
02:16But the key is to persist, you see. Without sharp peepers and a strong wheel,
02:20cases like these get swept under the rug all the time.
02:23Eighteen months in, I got my first kick in the right direction.
02:26A sweet tether evidence led me to believe some yuck across town was behind it all.
02:33That's what said to me apart from the rest of these bozos. I called up to him.
02:54Dame's ex-boyfriend read it out for her, Clarence Wedman Sainwell.
03:03I put him in the big house for life.
03:08He'd earned me a spot in the front page newspaper.
03:12And a promotion.
03:14Some stories aren't always sweet kids, not full of glitz and glamour, not so black and white.
03:19There's good guys and bad guys, then there's guys like me.
03:22I'm a real dish. I'm a dreamboat. I'm a moxie.
03:27I'm also a hard motherfucker with an alcohol addiction.
03:30My name's Dirk Mason. And I'm an A for you, look.
