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it, like my heart's going to cave in." This drug dealer sounds like a total psycho if you ask me. Who films stuff like that? Who talks like that? Maybe he did it, after all.

Him and the daughter turn up and say they didn't flee the scene after all. He says the victim looked serene when they found the body. "When you see something like that, it's like God is looking right at you, just for a second. And if you're careful, you can look right back. And what do you see? Beauty." I think the kid's a screw-up but Danno seems to think this makes sense. Actually, Danno isn't really a police officer at all, he is the drug dealer, the marine's son, and he's been here the whole time. Damn. I really should have noticed that. Now my review, erm, police report, is like Fight Club too, bet you didn't see that coming, did you. Where would America be without drug dealers? I guess people aren't always who you think they look like on the surface. I've always said that you know. I said so at the start. Go back and check if you don't believe me. I'm a detective. And a good one. The kid looks beat up pretty bad and says his father is a dangerous man. Perhaps we should speak to him again. He might have a secret. I don't know. I still think the wife did it. Or the blackmailed boss, remember him? Or the real-estate agent. Or the daughter. Or the drug-dealer. Or the cheerleader. Or the marine. Or the audience. Maybe we ALL killed Lester Burnham. Now there's an idea. I'm going to put that in my police report.

If only the victim could talk to us for himself, to give us, like, a voiceover of his last year of life, the one he spent reliving his lost youth, and what he learnt from it, at the end, as he was dying. If only he could tell us what really happened, on that last day, in this quiet suburban house, full of American beauty. He'd probably say: "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die... First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time...I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... You will someday."

But, that can only happen in movies...

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