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Yes, but Alex didn’t know that.

JESS:

So, you think she wasn’t wicked, but deluded?

ZEALY:

[pause] She thought the little girl was Lottie. They look so similar—

JESS:

But DNA tests proved the childwasn’thers. If Alexa Martini had just allowed the police to do their job, she’d have spared Helen Birch ten days of hell, wouldn’t she?

ZEALY:

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