Rerun: Steele of the Day #81
At Johnny's, Steele and Laura have searched the apartment to no avail. "Where would Johnny hide the paintings?" Laura says, rising from checking inside the fireplace. "If you were Johnny, where would you hide the paintings?"
"That all depends on what I'd want to do with them after I stole them," he tells her, still looking around.
"Well, we know he didn't want to sell them. All he wanted was to get them away from Harlow."
"Which implies he'd merely want to store the lot of them."
Laura goes through some pictures of the museum that are on the counter. "Wait a minute. Remember when you stole the 'Five Nudes of Cairo'?"
"Which time?" he asks, smiling.
"Four years ago? With me? When you were being blackmailed?"
"Oh, yes. The good old days," he says, closing a cabinet.
"We were in the museum. They caught me, but you got away, and you hid the painting-"
He smiles again. "Inside the museum."
"Never hide a needle in a haystack, always with other needles, right?"
"The last place anyone thinks of looking."
"And the best place for us to start," Laura says with a smile.
Steele Blue Yonder
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"That all depends on what I'd want to do with them after I stole them," he tells her, still looking around.
"Well, we know he didn't want to sell them. All he wanted was to get them away from Harlow."
"Which implies he'd merely want to store the lot of them."
Laura goes through some pictures of the museum that are on the counter. "Wait a minute. Remember when you stole the 'Five Nudes of Cairo'?"
"Which time?" he asks, smiling.
"Four years ago? With me? When you were being blackmailed?"
"Oh, yes. The good old days," he says, closing a cabinet.
"We were in the museum. They caught me, but you got away, and you hid the painting-"
He smiles again. "Inside the museum."
"Never hide a needle in a haystack, always with other needles, right?"
"The last place anyone thinks of looking."
"And the best place for us to start," Laura says with a smile.
Steele Blue Yonder
scrap scene