I Am You, I Am Me, Will Somebody Set Me Free?

PART 3 – MEMORIES, PART UN.

Lilly and Scotty arrived at the airport, where Detective Mabry was already waiting for them.

We first see him the way he was in 1985, and he says "You the Cold Case Detectives?"

Lilly answers "Yes."

He is still showed like he was in 1985, then there is a quick flash, and we see how he is now.

"Well, it's already 17: 58, they could call us…"

The loudspeakers interrupted him, saying "All passengers of the 18:00 flight for Boston, please go to gate 4."

"at any time." Mabry finished.

After a while, already on the flying plane, Lilly began to ask Mabry questions about the Sorsey case.

"Well, one thing I know for sure. That boy didn't kill her."

The sentence confused our young policewoman.

"You sure?" she asked.

"More than that." Mabry answered. "He had a solid alibi, and was in the hospital for the whole afternoon. There are tapes in that box," he pointed at it, "aren't they?"

"Yes." She said. "So, if he is not the killer…"

"Maybe he's another victim?" Scotty interjected.

"Well, exactly what I was trying to say." Lilly said. "Could you tell us a little more about that day?" she continued, while Scotty continued to read all the paperwork.

While he speaks we FLASH to the past; he speaks over the movie which is still going on, a woman screaming while discovering Catherine's body, Douglas Mabry and a colleague questioning everybody.

"It was a hot summer day, in a well-populated theatre, so it was not really easy to convince people to leave the crime scene. A lot wanted to do the investigation themselves, probably because of that old hag on that TV show on CBS… 'Murder Who Spoke'?"

We FLASH back to the plane.

Lilly cringed at how that sounded. "'Murder She Wrote'."

Again, a FLASH to 1985.

"Well, anyway, somebody had sneaked behind her and slit her throat. It didn't take a lot of force to do that. We questioned everyone who was in the theatre, including the people at the entrance, and it seemed that this… Lucy Arnold had seen a woman, or a man, or… anyway, somebody with too make-up, well, it was the '80s, on, enter the theatre without a ticket, and leaving soon after. We thought she was the killer – I mean, the 'painted face' – because of a smudge of make-up found on the victim's left cheek, but apart from that…" We see Mabry shaking his head in 1985, and then FLASH back to Mabry shaking his head as he narrates. "Nil."

TBC