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into confessing by pretending to be interested in learning how to execute the con himself. Medavoy was also a skillful improviser; he was commended for bluffing a murder suspect by matching the suspect's rapid fire lies with lies of his own that were so fast and skillful that the suspect believed he
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were usually able to get him to focus again with "Let's go, Greg!" or "Come on, Greg!". He was also sometimes the subject of practical jokes, including one where
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toast "to the guy that invented this job". In the final episode of the series, Medavoy stopped by the 15th
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more frequently used the appearance of sympathy to lull suspects into confessing. In undercover assignments, he especially excelled at playing dimwitted 'suckers' to whom suspects could feel superior. This skill earned him a commendation when
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