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        The thing about the Kathleen Turner character, Matty Walker, at the end of Body Heat was -- all she wanted was to be left alone.

        All the money -- and to be left alone.

Although -- she isn't actually, technically alone at the end of the film, lying back on the beach with ocean waves and a blue sky.  There is a lanky, dark-haired man next to her on the beach.

        You can tell she isn't too involved with him, however.  (We don't really see him - he just kind of bobs up at the edge of the screen - we see the back of his head.)    He says something to her, it sounds like it's in French.  And she turns her head ever so slightly in his direction and says, still lost in her own thoughts, "What?"

"It is hot," he says, in English.

Matty pauses, staring out to sea, and then says, "Yes."

So -- not technically, physically alone, but -- that guy is a Daiquiri, to her.  Like -- whatever.  

Finally, everybody has to -- leave her alone.

She was so focused on that goal, she got it, by hook or by crook.  

I don't think Brian Laundrie was that focused.  I went from seeing him as an evil person to -- this week -- remembering that he is (was?) surely mentally ill, and does not have the focus to light out for a foreign country with a beach.

The elder Laundries' lawyer is out there on the news shows being belligerent on their behalf.  I don't know....

        A You Tuber I sometimes listen to, Dr. Grande, said Brian L. couldn't face taking responsibility for what he did.

        Some parents teach their children responsibility.  Other parents do everything for their children, and protect them from having to take responsibility for their actions.

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OSCAR:  Do you hear what you're saying?  It's crazy!  This Matty would've have to been one quick smart broad.

NED:  Oooh--Oscar, don't you understand?  That was her special gift.  She was relentless.

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