I did it because I needed to know one thing, and because I knew that after that week there would never be a moment when he would answer a question without a lawyer sitting beside him, and because there was something I had to hear in his actual voice.

He picked up on the second ring and he said, “Hey.

Where have you been?”

And I said: “I was in the third row.”

There was a pause.

I have listened to that pause in my memory perhaps a thousand times and I have never decided how long it was.