A stocking stuffer. A teaser. Drabble. Call it what you will. I call it

It Takes One to Know One

"Your Honor, do you think that last sentence was appropriate?" The magistrate's clerk was wide-eyed as they exited the courtroom.

"What did you expect me to do, Spinelli?" Judge Falkner asked testily, "Send him off to Slam for taking a leak in public?"

"Richard B. Riddick? Yes!" Her nose wrinkled fastidiously.

"Don't be ridiculous. Community service will give him something useful to do." Falkner's thin lips wore a grim smile.

"Piloting a shipful of juvenile offenders on a run to Rehab?" she gasped.

"He's a qualified pilot. It'll do those little punks good. It takes one to know one."


I own the video, nothing more. Batteries not included, Richard B. Riddick sold separately.