Page 163

I locate it in my bag and pull it out. It’s got a green cover and the words “REVISION #5”written on it with a date from near the end of filming. I’m a bit anal about certain things, so I’d collated the new pages along with the old, which means my script is multicolored.

The cover page says that the script is co-written by David Liu and Simone Banerjee. I hadn’t noticed it at the time, and Simone’s name isn’t on the script that was found in Shawna’s room. This means Simone had to have changed at least 50 percent of the script since filming began.Which, now that I think about it, David mentioned before.

Is that relevant to this, though? It’s not a crime to make changes to a script.

Only a book.

Ha.

“Remember what Harper said earlier about David?” Oliver asks. “About how he had hardly any credits?”

“You think it’s relevant?”

“I’m not sure.” Oliver rubs at his stubble. “This is all too familiar.”

“I was thinking the same thing. You think he’s involved in what’s been happening?”

“Maybe, maybe not. But I don’t think Shawna was working alone. She also doesn’t have a motive. And she’s too junior to have enough sway over what happened...”

“You think she was working for David?”

“She could be.”

“Why?”

“Call it a hunch.”

“Do you know something you’re not telling me?”

“No,” Oliver says. “But it feels like we’re missing something.Someone.You know how when you’re working out the plot and you can’t quite close the loop on the mystery?”

“Of course.”95

“That’s what this is like.”

“You think there needs to be a third-act twist.”

“Doesn’t there?”

“I wish there wasn’t. Maybe we should talk to David and find out.”

“I’m sure Officer Anderson wants us to keep out of it.”

“She does for sure.” In fact, she’d said that very thing to me when I was getting Harper out of the bar.Don’t go investigating this yourself...96“But I feel like we can get things out of people that she can’t.”

“Magical thinking.”

“Is it? She doesn’t know us. She doesn’t know the personalities at work.”

“Lucky her.”

“And wedidfigure it out in Italy.”

“Not before you almost died.”

“True, but that was the drinking. I’m sharper than that now.”

Oliver gives me a look because I’ve been drinking tonight, too.