McMillan & Wife (TV Series)

Murder by the Barrel (1971)

Susan Saint James: Sally McMillan

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• Commissioner Stewart McMillan : What have you found out, Enright?

  Sgt. Charles Enright : Well, we're off to see Mr. Buchanan who runs the moving company, sir, but we searched both kinds of barrels in storage there but there's no barrel with a body in it.

  Commissioner Stewart McMillan : What do you mean both kinds of barrels?

  Sgt. Charles Enright : Well, there are two kinds of barrels, there are storage barrels and there are shipping barrels.

  Commissioner Stewart McMillan : And the barrels we received are shipping barrels?

  Sgt. Charles Enright : Right. Now I found it's not possible to store a shipping barrel but a shipping barrel you can store.

  Sally McMillan : I'm not sure I follow that.

  Sgt. Charles Enright : Let me simplify things. There are two kind of barrels: there are shipping barrels and there are storage barrels. A shipping barrel you can store and ship but a storing barrel you can only ship - I mean store; so you can ship a shipping and store a shipping but for storing you can only ship - I mean store...