@profanemouth left a voicemail: no! it's just dumb!
charlie beams in agreement. the one thing she's learned from all of this, from months of running around the country and stumbling into death after death, is: mostly, murderers aren't that smart. not that she's a genius or anything. she can see lies and she's got a decent way to connect point a to point b.
most murderers think they can get away with it. you wouldn't do something like that if you weren't sure of it. losing a fortune or something versus going to jail for a decade at least? yeah. it's an ego thing. charlie hasn't lived like that in a long time, not since her days playing poker and thinking she was invincible.
yeah. she's well past that time in her life, and she didn't even kill anyone back then.
she leans forward slightly. "see, the thing about a lot of these guys—don't ask how many of these guys i've met by now, it's way too many—is that they think they're smart. also, a lot of them are rich, so they've insane to begin with. but they're not smart! the rest of them are so desperate that they get stupid."
she wants to say something about how a pair of washed-up actors used a fake argument stolen from a monologue and a piece of dry ice to kill one of said actors' rich wife. but that also sounds insane when you just say it, as she's learned by now, so she'll keep that one close to her chest.
thespians are just a different kind of person.
"i've seen weirder, okay? trust me. saying that in this situation it's very possible that this guy was killed by a freak accident that was not a freak accident is pretty likely. like, okay. when our guy here, pat the stock broker, said he hadn't worn gloves recently? he was lying. weird thing to lie about. unless you climbed up there and knocked out that piece of 'loose brickwork' or whatever, wearing gloves to avoid leaving prints."
she pauses. her hands gesture, from left to right, one step to the next. "then he schedules a business call so that someone'll ping his cell phone, which is in his apartment at the time of the murder. so he's not lying when he said he had a business call that he missed—and mike wasn't lying when he said that pat set up the call, and that he's usually reliable about these things. pat just kind of... doesn't see people as people, who might contradict him or have thoughts and feelings on him. he's a facts and logic guy or whatever."
a pause. "so, yeah. just dumb."
