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Sergeant Nash: The phone company's on the other line, sir. They say they got a trace on this one.
Lieutenant Fuller: Yeah, let's have it!
Nash: He says the calls are coming from #6 Belmont Street.
Fuller: For Christ's sakes, Nash, you got it wrong. That's where the calls are going into.
Nash: That's where they're coming from too, sir.
Fuller: Oh, shit...

Temrash 114: You know that old joke, about how the babysitter keeps getting calls from some asshole who wants to kill her, and eventually she figures out that, all along, the calls were coming from inside the goddamn house? That’s what my life feels like right about now.
Rachel: It wasn’t a joke, you dumbass, it was a horror story.
Temrash 114: [Shrugs] Depends on your point of view, I guess.
Marco: Won’t you get in trouble, then? If Jake was here the whole time and you didn’t even know it? Doesn’t that make you a raging moron?
— "What if they were caught during their first mission?", All Assorted Animorphs AUs

Roger: (on the phone) You guys watching the news?
Stan: How... How did you know?
Roger: Because I'm right behind you.
(Stan gasps and looks; he's not there)
Roger: Just kidding! I'm at the Indianapolis airport on a layover, watching a Hoosiers game at a bar. Comin' to kill ya! (hangs up)
American Dad!, "Great Space Roaster"

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