Page 170 of Murder in the Family

MITCHELL CLARKE

Why the hell didn’t you say? OK, maybe at the beginning of all this you didn’t know he and Luke Ryder were one and the same person, but as soon as that was obvious—

ALAN CANNING

I think you’ll find that onlybecameobvious in the first place because Bill was already three steps ahead of the rest of us.

LAILA FURNESS

(to Nick, who’s still standing by the window)

Did you know?

JJ NORTON

(to Bill)

You’ve been on Fulton’s trail right from the start, haven’t you? I’m right, aren’t I?

You knew about Rose Shulman. You knew ‘Eric Fulton’ had stolen at least one identity already, and you knew the real Eric Fulton was in all probability dead—

BILL SERAFINI

Whoa – hold on a minute there—

JJ NORTON

(gesturing at the screen)

That thing’s dated September 1997. You’ve been on this casetwenty-fiveyears.

ALAN CANNING

I spoke to that colleague of yours – the one you trained up. He said you wereobsessedwith Fulton – you just wouldn’t let it go, even when your captain told you to drop it. He said you worked evenings, weekends—

BILL SERAFINI

(dismissively)

He’s exaggerating—

ALAN CANNING

He also told me you’ve been working for the Shulmans ever since you retired – you went to Alabama, you even went to bloodyBeirut—

CAMERA PANS round table; they are literally open-mouthed.

JJ NORTON

(looking at Bill and then at Alan)

Fuck me – seriously?

ALAN CANNING

Seriously.

That’s how he knew it was Luke Ryder who really died in that bombing. And that’s how he knew ‘Eric Fulton’ was in the wind.

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