Page 215 of Murder in the Family

(hesitates)

OK, yes, you’re right, I was there – but—

JJ NORTON

(intervening)

Hang on, hang on. Hugo – what you just said about Mitch, it doesn’t tally with the timeline.

Mitch couldn’t have been sneaking in to see Maura that night because the girls were at the cinema the whole evening. Caroline bought their tickets, remember, and the film didn’t finish till 10.15—

HUGO FRASER

Just because she saw the girls go in, doesn’t mean they actuallystayed.

BILL SERAFINI

You think they slipped out early?

HUGO FRASER

I think Maura may well have done – I know for a fact she’d done that before. And it was only a twenty-minute walk back to the house.

BILL SERAFINI

So your theory is she and Mitch had already arranged to meet in her room over the workshop? Only neither of them realized that Luke would be in the house because he only decided to bail on the partyafterCaroline had dropped the girls off?

HUGO FRASER

Precisely.

MITCHELL CLARKE

For fuck’s sake, this is allbollocks—

ALAN CANNING

(quietly)

So why don’t you tell us what really happened? Were you in a relationship with Maura Howard or not?

Or would you prefer we get her in here and ask her? Maybe we should ask Guy what he thinks of that?

He turns and looks towards the other side of the room. The CAMERA FOLLOWS his gaze, swinging round slowly to a wide-angle shot and we see not just the team but Guy, where he’s been sitting this whole time. He’s on a chair on the far side, his head in his hands. After a moment he looks up. He looks angry.

GUY HOWARD

You leave Maura out of this, you hear me?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

Bit late to be coming the Big Man, mate—

GUY HOWARD

(getting up and coming towards him)

Fuck off, Nick – just fuckright off—

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