Volume 1: First Arrival Chapter 82 Trapped in Love
"…What if it wasn't Fisher, but another love-struck woman on Channel 11?"
Clues and details slowly come together, one by one, and naturally lead to the truth.
In fact, the truth has always been there. What is lacking is just the inspiration to connect all the clues.
From the police to the prosecutors, they were so sure that Fisher was the real murderer that they fell into their own blind spots. Even when they encountered some inexplicable or contradictory points, they would give a reason to convince themselves.
For example, "drunk amnesia".
If Fisher had not been determined enough and refused to believe that he could have committed such a brutal crime in the face of solid evidence from surveillance videos, he himself might have been dragged into it, using "blackouts" to convince himself and ending up in jail without knowing it.
But now, following Kirk's words, Nate discovered that the whole case opened up a whole new world.
Kirk's words were still not finished.
"Of course, there are many possibilities. I just followed the clues and motives to come up with the smoothest guess."
"I think."
"There's a woman on Channel 11 who has a crush on MacDonald."
"Then she watched MacDonald strutting his stuff around the TV station, and she kept thinking she might be next."
"But McDonald never launched any offensive."
"Of course, this woman shouldn't be just a random cleaner or an intern who has nothing to do with the team. She is most likely a member of the MacDonald team. We are together day and night, so close yet so far away."
"She should be inconspicuous at all. MacDonald had no idea of crossing the line with her. Even if she herself lacked confidence, the glasses in the silhouette should be a clue. She might never dare to take them off because glasses are a cover, covering the window to the soul and hiding her inferiority complex."
"so."
"She may have often watched MacDonald and different women in front of the monitor. It is even possible that MacDonald knew that someone was watching in front of the monitor and deliberately chose this place to 'perform' again and again."
"But she never moved."
"There were no accidents or incidents, and the TV station did not receive any internal complaints. She just watched silently. It was obvious from the side that she lacked confidence."
"She is contradictory."
"On the one hand, she didn't believe that MacDonald would be interested in her, so she kept silent about her crush."
"On the other hand, she couldn't help but have expectations, because MacDonald was almost not picky, he was willing to hook up with any woman in the Channel 11 office, does this mean that she might also have a chance, turn by turn, one day it should be her turn."
"Until Fisher showed up."
"Fisher didn't belong to Channel 11. She was an outsider. When McDonald and Fisher appeared on the monitor screen together, it was a death notice for this woman, completely declaring that there would never be a chance for her and McDonald."
"So, she got angry and then committed a crime impulsively."
The motive of the crime, the whole story, everything can be explained.
But Nate didn't expect that Kirk would turn around and immediately overturn his words.
"However, I prefer another possibility."
"Fisher isn't the first woman Macdonald has brought back from outside of Channel Eleven, it's happened before."
"That woman had already realized that her fantasy had been shattered."
"So, she started to plot, to seek revenge, to try to put all her pain on MacDonald and let those women have a taste of it, too."
"From the scene, it looked like a crime of passion; but in fact, it was a carefully planned crime."
"It includes how to use angles to avoid surveillance cameras, how to choose the right time to commit a crime, and how to create perfect evidence of a crime so that a scapegoat will bear all the consequences."
"You only need to confirm a few clues to find the real suspect."
"First, square-frame glasses."
"Second, there is no relationship with MacDonald, the program team, or the team that has worked closely with him in the past year."
"Third, when McDonald brought a woman back to the TV station in the past few months, the woman was also on duty or in the company."
"By cross-checking, the suspect will emerge."
Well-organized and clearly structured.
Originally, Nate's mind was filled with a lot of complicated information, and they had to sort out the evidence from scratch. All previous judgments and cognitions of the case had to be overturned and start from scratch.
But in the blink of an eye, all the confusing information had been sorted out, and the useful and invalid information had been sorted out along the thread of Kirk's thoughts.
Nate couldn't help but look up at Kirk.
Kirk had just picked up the entire fruit bowl and was about to eat the last few cherries when he noticed Nate's gaze and handed the fruit bowl over with a smile. One could clearly feel the happiness surging .
Nate was slightly stunned, and without realizing it, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Nate thought about it, took a cherry from the fruit bowl and put it in his mouth: sweet.
The full and rich sweetness bursts on the tip of the tongue, just like running wildly with arms open towards the sunshine on a midsummer afternoon, diving into the flowers all over the mountains, the charming fragrance enveloping every cell in the body, and you can't help but wander around.
Then, when Nate spoke again, he no longer had the anxiety and irritability he had just shown, and finally regained his usual familiar self.
"But it's not that simple."
"Let's assume your hypothesis is correct. The problem is, from DNA to fingerprints to the timeline, Fisher is still the number one suspect."
"Even if we find this third person quickly, there is no direct evidence to link the murder to her."
"All we have is a blurry silhouette in the surveillance video and a wildly conjectured story."
Kirk agrees with this.
Investigation is one thing; judgment is another.
During the investigation, they should trust their intuition, which can often open up a new situation; but during the judgment process, evidence is the only thing they can rely on.
Now, what they lack is evidence, neither direct nor indirect evidence, only a silhouette and a guess.
But Kirk wasn't worried.
"Nate, prosecution is your specialty. Interrogation is my specialty."
"In my opinion, the suspects don't know what evidence we have and how much evidence we have."
"In the final analysis, this suspect was also an 'impulsive crime' and she was not sure how perfect her layout was and whether she left any clues."
"So, you should keep it secret and question the suspect as an ordinary witness. At the same time, secretly collect all the indirect evidence that can be used in the trial, play the good guy and bad guy game with the police, and throw out evidence one by one to break her psychological defenses."
“Perhaps, without direct evidence, she will break down and sign a plea agreement.”
"After all, she is just a little woman trapped in love."
"Attack the heart first."
