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"So you decided to clih ato see if you’d like to rent this house?"

"No, no, you know I never went inside Yeah, I did look inside, et a feel for the house, you knoas ready to leave because I didn’t want to disturb anyone when you jumped out thein your underwear and attackedto defend myself, and then this blonde jumped out and attacked me, too I couldn’t believe it--it was the sa her She even got a restraining order That’s the truth Look, I was a gentle me with a knife"

Cam said, "You really want us to believe you didn’t knoas Missy Devereaux’s house?"

"Of course I didn’t know! I told you, I never break the law, I believe in the law Sure, the restraining order is huone near that house if I’d known it was hers"

Daniel said, "Apart fro doesn’torder whether you knew it or not, and you assaulted a federal agent I’ how you could be so stupid as to show up at Missy Devereaux’s house in the et there’s a serial killer out there? And Missy Devereaux is a young actress? And just maybe you’re the serial killer"

"Me? No, that’s crazy! That’s nuts!"

"Mr Bayley," Caas last Saturday, and that night Molly Harbinger was murdered You’ve already admitted to the little dustup with Missy Devereaux in the Wynn hotel garage"

"No, no, I flew home to LA that afternoon You can check with Sunset Airlines, my plane left McCarran airport at five in the afternoon I wasn’t there!"

Daniel sat forward, pinned Blinker "And where were you Tuesday night, Blinker?"

"Tuesday night? Why? Okay, I was at the movies, over in Century City I saw Scarlett Johansson in so, I don’t remember the name of the movie Wait, wait, I still have the ticket stub," and he shoved his hand into his eht The stub has to be with my stuff You have to look"

Daniel left the interview room He was back shortly with Blinker’s envelope in his hand He poured his personal effects onto the table And there was the ticket stub, for Tuesday night, the late show

Given time of death, it was very unlikely Blinker could have driven to Santa Monica to Deborah Connelly’s house to kill her He wasn’t the Serial, although neither Cam nor Daniel had ever seriously believed he could be At least now he could be formally eliminated

Blinker sat forward, his hands clasped, his look earnest "I couldn’t hurt anybody, really I’ I need to call my supervisor" At their stony looks, he cleared his throat, straightened "I want a lawyer"