Page 185 of Murder in the Family

OK, Bill, I’ll bite. What have you got?

Bill smiles and nods to Nick behind the camera. The screen changes to a STILL of Bill, once again in his trademark shades and short-sleeved shirt, sitting at a table in the sun with a beer in front of him.

MITCHELL CLARKE

(shaking his head)

How come I never get any of the good gigs?

LAILA FURNESS

(waspishly, under her breath)

Ithoughthe was looking suspiciously tanned—

HUGO FRASER

Hold on – I recognize that bar. Isn’t that the place Tarek went to—

BILL SERAFINI

(smiling)

In Assos. Right.

LAILA FURNESS

You went toAssos? But I thought—

BILL SERAFINI

—that we’d run into a dead end on that one? That even if ‘Luke’ did con another older woman over there we’d never be able to track her down?

Yeah, that’s what we all thought, Laila. But I took a page out of Alan’s book and decided to go back myself and take a closer look.

Alan flashes him a glance but says nothing. The still on the screen changes to FOOTAGE showing Bill talking to a series of elderly Greek ladies. Most shake their heads and look blank, but one nods and starts talking animatedly in Greek.

LAILA FURNESS

Don’t tell me – someone remembered that woman after all?

BILL SERAFINI

Ah, it’s not that straightforward.

HUGO FRASER

You’ve lost me.

LAILA FURNESS

Ditto.

BILL SERAFINI

Sorry, guys. Rewind. So like I said, I started wondering whether we might have missed a trick on the whole Assos thing. That maybe we needed to approach it from a different angle.

LAILA FURNESS

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