The motel managers know we all want exactly the same things.

She had checked into the room Saturday, the motel manager said.

The soul singer was 33 when died after being shot by a female motel manager on Dec. 11, 1964.

She asked the motel manager to enter the room and "look for envelopes."

She gets a call from the motel manager about Bill, and finds him curled up in their old room.

Cancel all probabilities: it hadn't been the motel manager or anything to do with him.

It would make no difference to the motel manager, the fact of my not checking out conventionally.

The motel manager, seeing her with a gun, calls the police.

Having noticed very little further activity over the weekend, the motel manager and his nephew decided to check on the room.

Mark Hammer as the motel manager does a canny comic turn.