Page 169 of Murder in the Family

JJ NORTON

(turns to Bill, clearly shocked)

It wasyour case? Why didn’t you say anything?

BILL SERAFINI

(shifting slightly)

I don’t think I ever explicitly denied it.

LAILA FURNESS

Oh come on, Bill, I’m sure you never said anything about being the – what does it say there? – ‘Assigned Investigator’.

BILL SERAFINI

Look, if I omitted to mention—

ALAN CANNING

(quietly)

It was rather more than an ‘omission’.

He taps his keyboard again; the screen changes to FOOTAGE from the previous episode.

LAILA FURNESS

So you think this conman was active in New York in the mid ’90s? Weren’t you in NYPD yourself then?

BILL SERAFINI

I was.

LAILA FURNESS

But you don’t remember anything like this at the time?

BILL SERAFINI

It’s a lot of years ago, Laila, and it’s a big city. But let’s see what the guys back home come up with.

CUT TO: Wide shot of whole team; no one is making eye contact.

HUGO FRASER

With the benefit of hindsight, that last response was a classic lawyer’s answer – not strictly speaking a lie, but not the whole truth either. Not by averylong way.

LAILA FURNESS

(staring at Bill)

So you’ve known about Eric Fulton all along.

BILL SERAFINI

It’s not as simple as that—

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