Ultimately, she confesses to Cop 663 about how she got the keys, but keeps delaying giving him the letter itself. After breaking into his apartment courtesy of the keys, she doesn’t steal anything, but improves his living conditions by doing a little judicious redecorating. Instead, everyone currently in the snack bar gets the chance to find out the contents of the letter, which, it turns out, is a breakup letter, accompanied by a set of spare keys to the cop’s apartment.įaye, in love with Cop 663, takes advantage of this unique opportunity to do something even more unique. She’s got a letter for him and decides to leave it with the owner, who promises to make sure the cop gets it. His girlfriend, a flight attendant, is waiting for him at the snack bar, where he usually comes during the work day, only to find out that today is his day off. He goes to the food store where he’s been purchasing the tins and runs into a new employee named Faye.įaye, the new girl at the food store, is smitten with another cop: Cop 663, who is also undergoing a breakup.
While Cop 223 is jogging he receives a happy birthday message on his beeper from the mysterious wigged woman. When she wakes up, she shoots a drug lord that betrayed her. Before he leaves her still sleeping on the bed in the morning, he gives her shoes a rough shine.
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Up in the hotel room, however, she falls asleep and he winds up essentially alone watching old movies on TV and eating take-out. Cop 223 spots a woman in a blonde wig at the Bottoms Up Club and approaches her with romance in mind. May 1 comes and there is no reconciliation with May.
Thus he endows with the tins with symbolism: May (his ex-girlfriend) is the fruit, and the expiration date is the day when his hope of ever getting her back passes by forever. Every day he buys a can of sliced pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 with the intention of eating all the contents by the time his birthday arrives. His birthday is exactly one month away, and he has set that date as the day they will either be reunited or he will move on. Cop 223 gets a really lousy April Fool’s Day present, and one that is not a prank: his girlfriend May chooses that day to break up with him.
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