#combined of course with a dash of due south's brand of magical realism (is he actually conversing with the rat??? who knows)

[itwoodbeprefect]

i rewatched body language recently and i'm still thinking about the "benny, you're holding a rat."/"yes, i'm aware of that, ray." scene. this one:

because he is! he is holding a rat! and then he smells her breath (for detective purposes, of course) and says "come along" (to the rat, while still holding the rat) and he puts her down just outside the door and when she doesn't scamper off immediately he goes "you have nothing to be afraid of", and then, realizing that he may be misrepresenting the truth to this rat (who has already been through a whole thing! almost getting trampled by scared strippers!), he admits "well, that may not be true in the larger scheme of things, but at least this ordeal is over. so, off you go. toodeloo" and then he does the silly little wave that you would expect a person to do when saying toodeloo. visual aides because i personally think the face of this little rat is very important:

and look, i'm not saying the world would be a better place if we had more fictional men saving rats and giving them encouraging yet realistic little peptalks and saying toodeloo to them, but i AM saying that, actually. the world would probably be a better place if we had more fictional men (or real ones! or women! or neither! why restrict this by gender and/or fictionality!) saying toodeloo to rats they saved from strip clubs.