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Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.
Better a neat lie than a sloppy truth hints how rhyme, that proverbial standby, can get the better of reality.
The rejoinder Prudie suggests is, granted, an old standby, but it defuses the situation and everybody gets the message.
As for getting your manuscript back, it's pretty clear that Jane isn't going to ask, and you don't want to, so let's try Prudie's standby: a lawyer letter.