by Brian1976 » Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:15 pm
I think enough has been figured out in different posts so I'll close it: Mike was a private eye, a woman hired him to watch her husband to see if he was cheating on her, for work purposes the husband was living at his apartment at the time, Mike wanted to see if the husband went out late at night and if so, at what time, but instead of surveilling he and his car all night he used a clever investigative trick, he took off his wrist watch and hid it under one of the husband's tires, thus the watch would break when he left, stopping the watch at the precise time he left. This puzzle was inspired by a scene in the movie Chinatown btw.