Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:43 — 8.6MB)
Joe is a man ing trouble over gambling debts and is in it deep to the underworld. To save his skin, and raise money, he asks for his wife’s wedding rings. Doesn’t she suspect that he’ll just pawn them, like the rest of their valuables? This could be the last straw in a strained relationship.
In the pawnshop, and though the rings bring $500, a fair amount, it isn’t anywhere enough to cover the debt by the deadline. As Joe is about to step out of the shop, a watch catches his eye. Might the shop owner sell it for a reasonable price? What’s going on with a phone caller who asks for Joe, then hangs up?
Figuring on going back in time, a bank robbery is carried out. There’s enough cash to pay off the gangsters, and have a nice nest egg to live on for a while. Time to return to the present to drop off the cash to Molly, and then a little more jump in time to make a quick phone call, and make that payoff when… oops… the watch broke. Just what time is it when the 32nd of December rolls around?
