Barofsky repeats an adage familiar to all auditors: Be a good watchdog, rather than a lapdog or a junkyard dog.

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It touts the use of cameras to, in the same evening, track down the killer of a 9-year-old boy and the abuser of a small lapdog.

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Rigoletto is a nasty, Don Rickles-style comedian, the Duke's lapdog, alternately encouraged and kicked, whose mockery of Monterone (here, a sheik), whose daughter has been raped by the Duke, comes back to haunt him when his own daughter, Gilda, is taken and destroyed.

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