Smoke Screen

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Jay?

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This is gonna sound strange...

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...but I don't remember

anything from last night.

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Jay?

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Jay?

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Detective Jay Burgess,

one of the heroes...

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...from the Charleston

Police Station fire, is dead.

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Police apparently received a 91 1 call

from an unidentified woman...

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i...who spent the night/i

iat Burgess' house./i

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iPolice aren't yet saying/i

iif foul play was involved./i

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iWe will continue to bring you/i

imore as this story unfolds./i

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iSue Share for/i Channel 8 News.

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Detective, can you tell me

what happened?

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Do you have any idea

how Jay died?

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My wife and I watch you

almost every night, Ms. Shelley.

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Thank you.

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TVN says you're the number one

news reporter in Charleston.

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-My, my.

-Yes, I've been very fortunate.

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I was asking you--

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Truth be told, I'm surprised CNN

or Fox hasn't scooped you up yet.

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I bet you end up

on one of those national broadcasts.

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Because it's the same

everywhere, isn't it?

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It's just easier for people

to hear bad news...

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...when they're looking

at a pretty face.

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Look, I'm just trying

to understand here.

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Do you think Jay died

from respiratory failure...

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...or heart attack?

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Actually, Ms. Shelley,

we were hoping you could tell us.

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This isn't exactly your first brush

with this type of incident, is it?

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Sorry, I'm Bill Alexander,

Ms. Shelley's attorney.

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Your station manager said...

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...that I'm at your disposal

as long as you need.

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Thank you.

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Quite frankly, I was surprised that

Sam thought I needed an attorney...

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...but now I'm actually

glad that he suggested it.

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Well, since we're all here...

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...why don't we go

into the interrogation room.

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Just to be clear,

I'm not just giving a statement.

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I mean, this is an interrogation...

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...so you see me

as some sort of suspect.

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Well, shall we?

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How well did you know

Jay Burgess?

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He had given me

a lead on a story, that was it.

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When?

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Five years ago

right after the fire.

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-Were you intimate?

-You don't have to answer that.

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No, I wasn't.

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-Not until you got the story.

-Again.

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No. Not at all.

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He did hit on me...

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...but I heard he was a player

and I just wasn't interested.

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-Not that kind of girl?

-That's completely unnecessary.

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And then yesterday

out of the blue, he called.

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-Britt Shelley.

-Britt, it's Jay Burgess.

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Oh, Detective Burgess,

it's been way too long.

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Yeah, it has.

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iSaid he had another story for me./i

iA big one./i

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iBut he needed to tell me/i

iabout it in person./i

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My partner on the force, Patty,

passed a few weeks back.

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It's hit me hard,

harder than I expected.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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It just got me thinking about life

and how short it is...

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...and, you know, if a man can right

the wrongs that he's done...

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...well, he should try,

you know, before it's too late.

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iI don't know/i

iif this means anything or not.../i

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i...but I remember a man watching us/i

iwhile we were there./i

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-Had you ever seen this man before?

-No.

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No, I thought maybe he was a fan.

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A fan.

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Or maybe he recognized Jay

from the police station fire.

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Just the way he was looking at us

was so careful not to look at us.

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It was strange.

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I'm guessing you'll help our sketch

artist come up with a rendering?

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-Probably.

-Great.

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Mighty convenient, though,

a guy watching you at a bar...

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...and you happen to notice

and then Burgess happens to die.

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You know, I'm a reporter.

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That's what I do.

I'm trained to focus on details.

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Is that why you left the bar?

Because of this man?

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No.

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You know what,

straight up, Britt, if--

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I prefer to talk about this in private.

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Is it all right if we go

to my apartment? It's up the road.

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You know what,

all I wanna do is talk.

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Scout's honor.

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iSo, what was this big secret?/i

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Okay.

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Actually, I never found out.

Everything after that is cloudy.

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-What do you mean, cloudy?

-I mean, I don't remember anything.

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I can't remember a thing.

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