Nobody Was Present

And number four is impossible, and this is the one that nearly ended the case.

On clip three and clip four, across two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of continuous footage, my daughter’s eyes do not open.

She did not look up at her mother.

She could not have.

She was not looking at anything.

Part Twenty-Three: Where It Came From

Shanahan had already worked out where both of them came from before she called me in, which is why she is good at her job.

Stop being dramatic was said on the twenty-ninth of August, in our kitchen, at about seven in the evening, in a different argument about the same car, in which nobody touched anybody.