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Maro:

No. None of them.

Analysis Note: As instructed, at this point, Special Agent Beatrice Sordello reached into a box at the side of her chair and retrieved several files. She placed them in the carrier of the pass-through between both sections of the Manfred booth but didn’t slide them through to the subject. Maro took note of the names (which matched the people she’d just asked him about) but otherwise disregarded them. He settled back in his chair.

Maro:

Could I have a glass of water?

Sordello:

You’re thirsty?

Maro:

Yes.

[Silence]

Maro:

Is that some kind of problem? People get thirsty.

Sordello:

How often doyouget thirsty?

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