Welcome to Case Closed. You're listening to every time I go on vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack,

narrated by Elizabeth Evans. Let's pick up where we left off last time.

Chapter 28. Whoops it, Daisy

There's this scene in the Princess Bride, maybe the movie, maybe the book, maybe both.

Both are genius.

If you haven't read the book, go do that.

I mean, not right this instant, but as soon as you finish this one.

Where it comes to a climactic moment in the action and the scene cuts,

I'm almost sure it's in the movie, and we're back with the narrator, Peter Falk,

telling a young Fred Savage, long before he was canceled,

that the protagonist does not die in this moment.

Fred's taken aback and wants to know why his

grandfather's told him that. Because you looked worried, he says, and I didn't want you to be worried.

I'm paraphrasing here for legal reasons. He wanted his grandson to know that as bad as it was

looking for Princess Buttercup and the Man in Black, they were

going to survive. It's a funny, sweet moment that I've always loved, and imitation is the

sincerest form of flattery, so I do not die in this chapter. You were looking a little worried,

and I wanted you to know that I'm going to be okay. I mean, you knew that already

since you're listening to this, but I wanted to remind you because I care about you, and I didn't

want you to worry. That doesn't mean some bad things aren't about to happen. There's one more

death in this book, and it's dramatic, if I do say so myself. And I know you're looking at the amount

you have left to read or the percentage on your Kindle, and I told you before that I'd solved

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