Jake Randolph, Private Investigator Pt. 119

He continued fiddling around with something on a table, his back to me. I kept pulling up on the leather straps across my arms. There was a little bit of slack in them, and I kept slowly working to loosen them, little by little.

"Mr. Randolph," the doc said as if he were calling me up for an annual physical, "when I was working at Abbott Laboratories back in the 30's, we developed a drug called sodium thiopental, later marketed as Pentothal. Ever heard of it?"

I nodded slowly, "Yeah, Doc. I think we common folk call it truth serum."