Page 152 of Making a Killing

Look, I may be able to swing it that you don’t need to be on-screen with Kate –

Smith:

Kate?

Tierney:

Well, we can’t exactly make this thing without her, now can we.

Smith:

I never saidanythingto you about Kate.

Tierney:

No, you’re right, you didn’t, but you’d have had to eventually, right? Did youseriouslyexpect me to just sit on my hands in the meantime, waiting for you to dole out more of your freakin’ breadcrumbs? What the fuck do you think a TV researcher does? Myjobis checking out stories like yours – making sure you’re not a fantasist or a chancer. Or maybe just a pathological liar.

Which I suspect you probably are, by the way. A pathological liar. Not that it matters. For the story, anyway. I mean, look at what the two of you pulled off back then – how else could you have gotten away with it –

Smith:

I was akid– I wasgroomed– surely you can see that I couldn’t tell you about any of that until I’d safely got away?

Tierney:

That’s your story, is it? That she groomed you?

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