He had forgotten she was a costume I was only pretending to wear.

I should say a word about that pretense, the performance of frailty I put on in the weeks before the hearing, because it was the hardest acting I have ever done and it taught me something about my son that I will carry to my grave.

To gather my evidence, I had to let Michael and Rachel keep believing they were winning.

I had to seem tired when I was alert, confused when I was tracking every word, diminished when I was, in fact, running the most important investigation of my life.