Page 238 of Murder in the Family

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

Weare all over the press, Bill. It was a team effort.

HUGO FRASER

It didn’t always feel that way, Nick. Not to us.

JJ NORTON

Though I’m still struggling to see how the police didn’t solve this case at the time. It seems so obvious now. Didn’t they notice the washing machine was on that night, for a start?

LAILA FURNESS

(shrugs)

It’s a big house. If Amelie put the machine on a short programme it could easily have ended by the time the police got round to looking in the laundry room.

JJ NORTON

And in any case, hindsight is a wonderful thing, blah, blah. None of us saw it coming either, did we? And we went over this case with a fine-tooth comb for weeks. It’s a bit rich to blame the Met on that basis.

(glancing towards Guy)

Let’s face it, those girls did one hell of a good cover-up job.

HUGO FRASER

(under his breath)

Maybe a bittoogood—

JJ NORTON

(apparently not hearing him)

Well, at least we’re all off the hook now. All those ‘coincidences’ that Nick kept wanting people to believe weren’t coincidences at all.

Hey, guess what, Nick? They really are a Thing.

Nick laughs but says nothing.

LAILA FURNESS

(looking towards Guy and then at Nick)

How’s Maura doing, do we know? This must have come as an awful shock to her.

On the TV screen, Guy is looking off left. He doesn’t appear to have heard.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

OK, I think.

LAILA FURNESS

And Amelie?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

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