He never answered that question.

Not to me, not to an investigator, not in a courtroom, not to his own attorney in any document I have ever seen.

And I have come to believe — and Dr.

Sorokin thinks this is right and Marisol Tejeda thinks it is right and it is the only conclusion the material supports — that the reason he never answered it is that there was no plan.

There was never a plan.

There was a man who had been getting away with running two lives for three years, who had found that each new thing he got away with cost less than the last one, and who had arrived at a point where he could sign a sworn document twice, take a four-hour premarital course, and stand under a live oak in front of three hundred people, without ever once sitting down and asking himself what Tuesday was going to look like.