Perfect Stranger Page #8

Don't be such a f***ing hypocrite,

Ro.

-F*** you.

-No. F*** you.

I've been working my ass off

on this for you the whole time.

-Everybody has secrets, Ro.

-Right. Everybody's got secrets, huh?

Until they get caught.

Let's see.

Take a f***ing look at something.

You told me to take the virtual tour

of H2A.

When you do...

...when you click on the photographs

hanging in the reception area...

...it links you to Mia Hill's webpage.

She took photographs of dilated eyes,

Ro.

They're eyes. Look.

"Mia Rheinhart Hill replicates...

...a phenomenon fashionable

in the 1 920s...

...the dilation of a woman's pupils

with the use of belladonna."

This is it.

This puts the poison in his hands...

...or it puts the poison

in his wife's hands.

This is it.

This is what we've been looking for.

You need to get help.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

This is the story.

Can I go now?

I have a history of powerful men

squashing stories...

...and hiding facts...

...so I wanted to get this together.

Give it to you before Harrison Hill

had a chance to do just that.

"Veronica. What's new?"

"Boyfriend's out of town."

"Which means?" You tell me.

"Hotel Gansevoort."

"I'll leave a key under your name. "

"From room 1801,

the view is spectacular...

...especially the sunrise."

Are you Harrison Hill?

Yeah.

Mr. Hill, I'm gonna need you to put

your hands behind your back.

You're under arrest for the murder

of Grace Clayton.

-Who?

-"Fast Filly."

You have the right to remain silent

and refuse to answer any questions.

Anything you say can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

you have the right to hire an attorney

before speaking to the police...

..and have an attorney present during

questioning any time now...

...or in the future.

The State of New york will prove

beyond a reasonable doubt...

... that the defendant, Harrison

Matthew Hill, did intentionally...

...and with premeditation commit

the heinous murder...

...of Grace Alexandra Clayton.

Are you aware of the hundreds

of e-mails...

...between your husband

and other women?

Now I am.

Mrs. Hill, where do you keep

your belladonna?

It's in my medicine cabinet

in my photography studio downtown.

The state will present irrefutable

physical evidence...

... that places the murder weapon,

poison called belladonna...

...in the defendant's car

commingled with the victim's blood...

...hair and bodily secretions.

We got blood.

And, finally, you will learn

about Grace Clayton...

...a young woman

who believed the lies...

...that this ad man was selling...

...never realizing the price

that she would pay...

...would be her own tragic death.

Thank you for your time

and consideration.

I look forward to your

verdict at the close.

All over the city, really.

But most often at his hotel suite.

He kept one at the Gansevoort.

He liked to watch the sun rise

over the city.

He just didn't want his wife to find out.

If she did, it was over.

The hair, blood and secretions

all matched the victim, Grace Clayton.

Additionally, we did find some trace

elements of belladonna extract.

All significant financial holdings

are in the name of his wife...

-...Mia Rheinhart Hill.

-lt was after midnight on the 5th.

I just started my shift.

This blond woman was freaking out,

wanting to see Mr. Hill.

I buzzed him. There was no answer.

She left an envelope,

but she wasn't happy.

About an hour later, Mr. Hill came

down, he took the envelope and left.

I didn't see him the rest of the night.

I'm holding in my hand a copy...

...of State's Exhibit Number Three

in evidence which reads:

"Grace. Don't come by my house.

Don't come by my office.

We are done.

Leave me the f*** alone."

Can you please tell the jury

where this came from?

I retrieved it from Harrison's hard drive

after the police seized his computer.

It starts with a quiet hum,

an empty screen inviting you.

-Has the jury reached a verdict?

-Yes, we have, Your Honor.

"Come inside, " it says.

"We're always open. "

Will the defendant please rise?

How do you find on the charge

of murder in the first degree?

It's a world, you think, where

actions have no consequence...

...where guilt is cloaked

by anonymity...

...where there are no fingerprints.

An invisible universe...

...filled with strangers...

...interconnected online...

...and disconnected in life.

It will steal your secrets...

...corrupt your dreams...

...and co-opt your identity.

Because in this world...

... where you can be anything

you want...

...anyone you want...

...you just might lose sight...

...of who you are.

Hello, Rowena.

You know how much Daddy

likes bath time.

My great big beautiful girl.

You are so--

-Put her down, now.

-She needed help.

-lsn't that right, Rowena?

-Get out.

Oh, you better get out of here.

-You put that thing down.

-No, I mean it.

Put it down, now.

Do you hear me?

Are you okay, honey?

Are you okay?

Mommy, he's coming.

I said, get out. Get out.

She was blackmailing you,

wasn't she?

That's why you did her those favors

all those years...

...even after she slept

with your boyfriend.

You just couldn't say no, could you?

What was it?

What did Grace know about you?

We're just gonna tell people

he disappeared.

Like last August.

He just never came home.

He just went away

and he never came home.

You got that?

Rowena, look at me.

You got that?

God, you must have hated her.

I hated her. I hated her for you.

I still do.

-Rowena.

-Grace.

-She just kept coming back.

-You can't just forget people.

Bury them and pretend

like they never existed?

And then she handed you Hill

that night.

She f***ing handed him to you.

Regards to your mother.

At some point, you must have thought,

"This has to end.

This all has to end."

So you did a little research.

you took the virtual tour.

That's how you found out about

the belladonna.

That's how you knew you could pin it

on Hill.

And then that's how

I knew it was you.

You remember that night

at my apartment?

When I was looking for Mia Hill's

webpage...

...and your computer finished

the address for me.

Didn't register for me at the time.

It occurred to me that you already

had everything you needed to know.

- you led me right to him.

-Belladonna is used to dilate eyes.

-Are those planets?

-No, eyes.

Mrs. Hill did a whole series:

"lnside the Dilated Eye."

Every step of the f***ing way.

And then, all you needed

was the belladonna.

And l--

And I remembered your mother...

...and that pathetic little pharmacy

they have there...

...and how you always used to

complain how understaffed they were.

And it really wasn't that difficult

to get.

you called her to let her think

you were gonna do a story on Hill.

"Bring your computer, " you said,

"show me everything you've got. "

you laced her drink good enough

to knock her out. you got some hair.

you took some blood.

you placed the belladonna

in her eyes...

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