“Are they shooting at us? Are they shooting at us?!?!? They’re shooting at us!!!”

“Yes, they appear to be shooting at us.”

“WHY are they shooting at us????”

“How should I know why they’re shooting at us!”

“THEY’RE SHOOTING AT US!!!”

“Yes… I think we established that…”

“WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING AT US?!?!?!?!?”

“I DON’T KNOW!!!”

“Why are we even here?!?!? I wanted to go to Australia! ‘No,’ you said, ‘England is much more interesting…’ ‘Australia has beaches,’ I said. ‘England has beaches made out of pebbles,’ you said.

“Will you shut up!”

“‘Australians drink nothing but beer and play a stick with a hole in it,’ you said. ‘Exactly!’ I said. ‘England has culture and history,’ you said. ‘Australia has koala bears and dingoes,’ I said…”

“What?”

“Well guess what Australia doesn’t have that England has? PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL US!!!”

“Oh, yeah, like this was in the brochure! Well, for our next trip, we’ll go to Australia!”

“You son of a…”

“Just shut up and run!”

“Bloody hell, that’s it!”

“That’s what?”

“We’ve been running around the countryside, looking for that fecking case, but what if it’s a… a…”

“A what?”

“Hold on!”

“What is it???”

“What if it’s one of those things…”

“What things?”

“Like out of a Hitchcock film…”

“Like a slasher?”

“No, one of those plot devices that wind up really meaning nothing… A Mac… Mac…”

“McNugget?”

“No, not a McNugget… A MacGuffin!”

“Is a MacGuffin like a McNugget?”

“Just shut up and listen! A MacGuffin is like a… Like a red herring. You spend all your time concentrating on this one thing that you think is important, but it’s really not - It’s the other thing that’s important.”

“Okay, so, what? The case is a MacGuffin?”

“Yes.”

“And it’s distracting us from the thing we should be looking for…”

“Yes.”

“Which is?”

“I don’t know.”

“Ah. Well. That’s a start.”

“It’s more of a start than everyone else scouring the countryside for the case has…”

“Right. So now we have to stop looking for the thing we know about, and start looking for the thing we have absolutely no clue about.”

“Yes.”

“Well, it’s settled then. Fuck ‘em. Let’s go.”