I said it would go through the court.

He said, “You’ve changed.”

And I said, “No.

You just never checked.”

He drove away.

And then, because the porch scene is the part everybody wants and the next part is the part that matters:

Arthur Vance had just told the subject of a confidential independent investigation, in a driveway, on the fourth weekend of that investigation, exactly what was being looked at.

Part Twenty: The Laptop