BONUS: The Rita Minute

What does Rita do when Juno Steel, Private Eye, is out of the office? Why, everything she's not supposed to, naturally.

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Transcript:

A transcript of the spoken lines in this episode can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-y86BiJZDUmZVJBanh2djVDN1U

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(Transcript by Wendy Wang and edited by Kevin Vibert.)

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