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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 67 – Missing Person, Part 7: “An Accident?”

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 67. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

This episode is the seventh in our 12-part special series: Missing Person, a murder mystery. In our previous episode, Dr. Reeves took Anne and Bill back to Bill and Sarah’s apartment building and then went to see his old friend, Kathy. He was late, and Kathy was not very happy, but she let him into her apartment where she had made dinner for them.

We also found out that Kathy and Dr. Reeves – or “Darren,” as Kathy calls him – used to date each other, and that Dr. Reeves thinks that Kathy is still in love with him. Kathy works as a reporter for a television station. At the end of the episode, Kathy and Dr. Reeves were just about to sit down and eat their dinner.

Now, we continue with part 7 of Missing Person: “An Accident?”

Kathy came back in the room with tonight’s dinner: Italian