Page 24 of Murder in the Family

Sounds good.

CAMERA TRACKS Bill as he gets up and pins up a map and a second sheet of paper next to the existing timeline.

BILL SERAFINI

OK, so this is what the earlier part of that day looked like in Dorney Place.

BILL SERAFINI

October third was a Friday, so all three kids were at school. Caroline drove Guy to Holland Park Primary, while the girls walked to their own school, which was three blocks away in Bicester Street—

ALAN CANNING

It’s pronounced ‘Bister’.

BILL SERAFINI

Really? I never can get my head round the way you folks mess with the English language.

(realizes what he’s just said and smiles)

I guess that’s what you Brits call irony, huh?

Anyway, they all left Dorney Place around 8.35 a.m., leaving Luke alone in the house.

JJ NORTON

Do we know if anyone came round or called during that time?

BILL SERAFINI

The cleaning woman, Beatriz Alves, arrived at just gone nine, but she told the police she didn’t see anyone come to the house between then and when she left at two.

She also didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary in Luke’s manner – she said he was polite but not particularly chatty, which was apparently par for the course. He certainly didn’t seem upset or agitated. Not according to her, at least.

HUGO FRASER

Which suggests to me he either wasn’t expecting anyone to come to the house that evening, or if he was, he certainly wasn’t expecting it to turn nasty.

BILL SERAFINI

Right. And of course the police checked the LUDs for the house—

LAILA FURNESS

Sorry – LUDs – what’s that?

BILL SERAFINI

Apologies – it’s just shorthand for phone records. In the US, at least. Though judging by the looks on your faces, evidently not here.

ALAN CANNING

So what calls were made to the house that day?

BILL SERAFINI

Two.

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