Before a House Falls on You

Hi, my name is Hank.

ME: Did somebody seriously push Bart off the roof?
LIAM: Looks like the city won't be spending any money on a trial.
BEN: Yeah, so it's totally worth somebody becoming a human sidewalk stain.
KEN: He tried to kill us.
ME: Even Ken understands the divine karma of this moment, Ben
BEN: It's just a little traumatic.

We were all sitting around Cheesecake Factory with blankets around us--as if tragedy somehow makes you colder.

Jeremy, Jackson, Nathan, and Paige all came down to give statements.

Ritchie was interviewing people, while Joey was being loaded into an ambulance with a concussion.

ME: Maybe when they x-ray him they'll find traces of a brain.

I was sitting next to Ben, and I could see him looking at Jeremy with that old twinkle in his eye.

ME: Don't even think about it.
BEN: What?
ME: Jackson and Paige are safe. Jeremy's probably going to take off again.
BEN: You don't know that.
ME: Why would he stay?
BEN: I'm sure people are going to have questions about Bart's death.
ME: He got out of prison, did a lot of messed up shit, and Nathan shot him. End of story.
BEN: Maybe it's more complicated than that.

I hate to say this, but Ben was right.

It was way more complicated than that.

We just didn't know it at the time.