Page 240 of Murder in the Family

His mystery caller from King’s Cross, for example.

JJ NORTON

(half in jest, but only half)

Oh Christ, don’t start all that up again – it’ll just give Nick another excuse to start pointing fingers at all of us—

HUGO FRASER

(cutting across him)

And what about Amelie’s injuries? As in, the lack thereof?

If the struggle with ‘Luke’ was so violent her hair got caught in his zip, how come there wasn’t a mark on her? There wasn’t even a scratch.

LAILA FURNESS

(frowning)

We know that for certain, do we?

ALAN CANNING

There’s nothing about any injuries in the file. And I can’t see the police missing that.

JJ NORTON

Actually, Hugo’s just made a very good point. What do you think, Nick? Can we find out if anyone’s ever asked Amelie about that?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

(smiling)

Oh, I think we can do a bit better than that, JJ.

He nods toward Tarek, who taps his keyboard and we begin to hear an AUDIO recording.

The sound quality isn’t very good – it’s slightly muffled and it takes the team a few minutes to recognize the voices. It’s two women – young women. One is asking the other how she is – if they’re treating her OK.

HUGO FRASER

Hold on – that’sMaura—

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

(quietly)

And Amelie. Right.

HUGO FRASER

(turning to him)

How thefuckdid you get hold of this?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

Just listen, Hugo. Just listen.

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