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[Hiroaki Sone]

I was watching an episode of "7th Heaven" a minute ago, and came across pronunciation that I couldn't figure out. The story was up to the point like this:
(episode title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil)
Annie and Matt, her son, are carjacked when they pull their car over for a check-up at night. Annie look seemingly unaffected by the incident, and Matt is so afraid to leave their house. The police call them up one evening, telling Annie they have caught a suspect, and want them to go down to identify him in a line-up next morning. But she intentionally doesn't go, afraid. The police eventually reach Matt, and they go to the station.

After the line-up, she apologizes to one of the officers for not showing up in the first place, saying "Sorry for the mix-up." Apparently she does not tell him the truth. In response to that, he utters what sounds to me like "Might happens." Now, it no doubt has the s sound at the end. (I repeated it about fifty times) The closed caption says "It happens," but often cc shows dialogues with different words, expressions etc. Could it be "My, it happens"? I rarely hear 'My!' in modern conversations except by senior ladies. This is what a young police officer says.

Incidentally, the officer adds "More often than you know, it happens."

Thanks,

Hiro
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[redset]

I can only guess really - maybe he said 'ah, it happens'? That could run together and sound like 'ight happens', close to might.

I can think of another (less polite) possibility but since it's not a British show it's not likely