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Yes, but that's useless without explaining

how he got out of the room without a trace.

I assure you that when I

woke up, there was no one in the room.

Help!

Police!

Are you familiar with the concept

of lateral thinking, Mr. Doria?

It consists in the technique

of changing the perspective

from which events are analyzed.

For example...

in a timber barn which is completely

empty

a man is found hanging in the

center of the carrier beam.

The rope, with which he hanged

himself is three meters long

and his feet hang 30 centimeters

above the ground.

The closest wall is 6 meters away.

It's not possible to climb on

the wall, or on the beam.

Yet, the man hanged himself.

How did he do it?

He climbed on a block of ice which

gradually melted in the heat.

This is our barn.

The police's photographic archive of

your case.

And the answer must be in

the statement of the facts.

- I don't know what you expect to see.

- The details, Mr. Doria.

You dwell on the details.

They have always been

under our noses.

Adrian Doria arrested for murder

But they have to be analyzed

from a different perspective.

What if the answer to the enigma

had never been inside the room,

but rather, outside?

Now, he works near Bierge, in the

valley, 20 minutes from home.

It was no accident that he

chose a hotel so isolated.

Tomas Garrido set up

a trap for you.

He must have sent

the package to him,

so that you mistakenly assembled

the pieces of your puzzle,

Making it so you'd doubt

what actually happened'

Because he knew that this way

he would find the missing piece.

Yes?

I look forward to seeing you at the

Hotel Bellavista.

It makes no sense, he

couldn't have known about the swamp.

The area where you buried the lad

is full of swampy lakes.

And the locals know it.

For Tomas Garrido, it was

enough to toss a coin in the air

and wait for you to pick it up.

And you did.

- Is that what happened?

- You gave yourself up,

and, at the right time,

you handed Laura over.

- Good evening.

- Good evening.

I have a reservation.

Room 715...

That's how Tomas Garrido

could get in the room without

leaving any evidence.

He just had to wait for you and

Laura to get up to the room.

From there, he could send

the SMS with Laura's phone.

He just sent us a text message

with your mobile phone.

And then hit you to

put you out of action

completing the perfect crime.

If this was the case,

Tomas Garrido had set up the

stage for blaming you

and disappear through the road

that his wife had indicated.

He left the money

to incriminate you.

Left Laura's phone in the room

and made sure that your fingerprints

were on the murder weapon.

Hello.

Is everything all right?

Well, nobody left the room.

Hello?

- Good evening.

- Good evening.

- Where did the noises come from?

- In a suite, the 715.

Stand back.

Stand back, please!

Police!

Open the door.

Everybody out!

Bring forensics.

Guys, we have to call the forensics.

We found a body.

The boy's mother was the reason

why they sent us to that hotel.

All she had to do was make her

husband disappear from the room

to implicate me as the guilty one.

The police never connected

her to you

because Felix did away with

your name in her son's case.

Excuse me.

Tell me.

Confirmed?

One hundred percent?

OK. Thank you.

Is it about the prosecution witness?

We don't yet know the

name, but we know who he is.

The passerby driver.

- It forces us to think fast.

- It also means that I'm f***ed.

Not entirely, if you obey me.

Suppose that you did not stay

at the cottage with your lover

the day of the incident.

You were in Paris, as per your alibi.

It was Laura who rented the place.

Her name is on record.

So you were not present

when the accident that

killed Daniel Garrido took place.

Hey...

The license plates and other

evidence is circumstantial

and, of course, it was Laura

to put the plan into action

by faking the boy's escape

for embezzlement.

We have to convince the judge

that you were just another one

of Laura's victim,

and that you ended up in that hotel

room because she asked for your help.

It could be you might not have known anything

about Daniel Garrido until that moment,

while the father unjustly

accuse you of the disappearance.

You want to turn me into Laura's victim?

The only piece missing

is to connect her directly

with Daniel's body.

And tell me something...

how do you plan to do it?

We have to hide something of Laura's

in the boy's car.

We have to incriminate her of

Daniel's disappearance.

Your only crime

is aiding and abetting due to

a guilty conscience.

Where did you sink the car?

We'll give the location of the

body anonymously.

You won't have to admit anything.

But, without a body there

is no crime and without a crime...

there is no way to persuade a

jury that Laura's murder

was not a crime of passion.

We will stay to the true facts

just close enough,

so you don't get burned.

How could I not get burned if the

prosecution holds the most important card?

- Hello.

- Hello.

The passerby driver will place me

at the scene of the accident.

Do you need help?

Felix has been looking for

him to neutralize him.

The prosecution has no witness.

- What are you saying?

- Nobody has met with the judge.

It was my invention, which I

gradually shaped,

with the details you gave me.

You've been leading me on?

Why didn't you tell me the truth

from the beginning?

To see if it was possible to get rid

of Tomas Garrido from the room.

I've always known that

he was the culprit.

It was also easy to discover that

his wife worked at the hotel.

And did you wait for me to tell you?

To make sure that I could

put my life in your hands,

Ms. Goodman.

Where did you put it?

This is where I sunk it.

I have to tell you something else.

We thought he had died, I swear.

Laura had taken things too far and

there was no going back.

If the police found the body

the autopsy would give me away.

I had to be sure that you

would help me avoid it.

It's my job to keep you out of jail,

but I'm not going to save who

you really are, a scum, Mr. Doria.

And you're have to swallow

what I say to you because...

The boy was dead without being dead.

I had to decide in an instant.

Don't lie to yourself.

You're a murderer!

You're testing me again, right?

So I can learn to withstand the

prosecution's attacks, right?

What you told me

changes everything.

Now, you are in my hands.

If I get to the judge with what you

told me, you are lost!

You can't do that!

You hear me? You can't do that.

That's what the prosecutor

is looking for.

Your desperation.

And look how easy it was

to provoke it.

Do you want to insult me?

Go ahead.

That's also what the prosecutor is looking for.

That the arrogant idiot that is inside comes out.

Enough!

Are you are not here to defend me?

Then, do it.

I will not let your case from

staining my record, on the last day.

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