“I need a smoke.” “Not in here.” “You need my help.” “Go outside.” “If I go out there, those vultures will tear me apart.” “Chew some gum.” Cora fed a stick of Juicy Fruit into her mouth, continued to pace. “So, what does this mean?” “In the first place, those alibis are no good.” “They were no good anyway.” “Yeah, but now even at face value they’re moot. We need to know where they were between nine and ten.” “Why?” “What do you mean, why?” Harper said. “That’s when the murder took place.” “Yeah, but we just lost the motive. If the murder happened before the broadcast, the murder wasn’t triggered by the broadcast. So the idea it’s cause and effect is suspect.”