"Hello..." "I called you because..." "You might be missing me." "Isn't Nurcan there?" "She moved?" "Where?" "Who'd believe there was so much graft going on in a place like this?" "The kids who died..." "Didn't they have anything to tell?" "They were both in a coma and neither recovered." "The elder one gabbled something about the little girl a few times." "Was the younger one a girl?" "No." "A boy of five." "Nothing's been leaked to the press, has it?" "The governor's especially sensitive on that front." "He's worked with us at HQ before now." "If it gets out to the press, we're talking a burst sewer." "Whoever gets wind of it will show up." "The local reporters can't do a thing without us knowing." "You may get the odd upstart but we have a close eye on them." "Anything channelled from here to the news desks..." "Has to get through out filter first." "If there's still a leak, we can intervene at editor level." "Whatever happens, this shit must be put to bed here." "I'm with you, sir." " Where in the car was the bag?" " In the boot." "The stuff's a bit damp." "I think you'll find a few small holes in the bag." "The bag hasn't been opened before, has it?" "We had orders from HQ to seal it." "So that's what we did." "Get out!" "Gentlemen, you don't seem to realise how serious this case is." "As soon as the case was referred to us we briefed the governor here..." "And forwarded the file to HQ." "If people want drinks in this office while we're investigating the case" "It's you who gets those drinks, chief." "From now on, you mention the case to no one, not even your families." "I've issued the necessary warnings." " I spent some time at..." " I know." "You worked with us at HQ." "In that case, you should know better in a sensitive situation like this" "Than to let a mundane tea man into the office." "You're right." "It's my mistake." "I'm sorry about that." " Is the teacher ready?" " We did as you asked." "She hasn't been allowed a moment's sleep." "Now that everyone knows what they need to know..." "We can make a start." "I hope you're bearing up, Aylin Hanim." "I trust you'll do everything you can to help us." "I've told them everything I know." "I know." "I've read it." "But I also want to hear it from your own lips." "I haven't slept for days." "Neither have I. Not since the day this file arrived on my desk." "The case has to be cleared up." "And once it is, everyone can go back to bed." "Listen, Aylin Hanim..." "Before coming here, I thought I'd take a look..." "At the criminal history of this town." "You know what I found?" "A long time ago now, in the early years of the Republic..." "Another inspector had to come here like me." "He returned to Ankara after hanging a whole 10 people." "Now let's go back to the beginning." "To the day you arrived here..." "You know about the accident?" "Yes, I read about it in the file." "But start from the day you got here." "The day you first met him." "He had a moped." "A cheap, beat-up moped." "It was the first sound I heard as the ferry was coming in to dock." " Hello?" " Are you there yet?" "Almost." " What's the place like?" " Ideal for making a new start." "What's Bahar up to?" "She's playing in the garden." "Mind she doesn't go out into the road." "How are you doing?" "Hello?" "How are you doing?" "I asked." "Can you hear me?" "You're not drinking, are you?" "But you promised!" "The older boy's dead..." "Dead?" "When did he die?" "Late last night." "It'll blow over." "It'll all blow over." "You'll find it much easier to forget once you get here." "You did everything you could." "Try and be strong." "I can't handle it, Aylin." "Alcohol makes you more highly strung." "Don't drink!" "I can't sleep if I don't drink." "If you can't sleep, take one of those little green pills." "Hello?" "Little green pills?" "Sleeping pills." "The kind sold on prescription?" "Yes." "Then they don't just help you sleep." "They're tranquillisers." "Sedatives." "Or drugs once you've popped a few." "Yes." "I guess some people use them as drugs." "How long had your husband been having treatment?" "Since his business went bankrupt." " Meaning?" " Two years." " The diagnosis?" " Depression." "Did you go along to any of the treatment sessions?" "I spoke to his doctor a few times." " His name?" " Hasan." " The doctor's name?" " I don't remember." " Your husband's profession?" " Mechanical engineer." "When did you first see him?" "Bekir..." "He was up a telegraph pole." "What was he doing?" "Spying on me probably." "Something hit the windscreen." "You OK?" "You got off lightly there." "Something hit the windscreen." "I guess you lost control of the steering when the tyre burst." "When something hit the windscreen I swerved." "And when I swerved, the tyre burst." "Whatever, you had a lucky escape" "You have a spare tyre?" "If there's any air left in it." "There's a petrol station in town." "It'll get you that far at least." "Where are you heading?" "I guess you could say I arrived." "You're visiting people or something?" "I'm a teacher." "I've been posted here." "In the middle of the year?" "There's no telling what they'll do." "You did well to get here from Istanbul in this." "Was it red once?" "Was what red?" "I'm talking about this beetle." "Was it originally red?" "Yes." "But that was before we got it." "It's been in an accident." "They did a rush job with the point." "Is there no network coverage round here?" "Maybe up on the hill." "So what do you do?" "Run up the hill whenever the phone rings?" "No one uses mobile phones here." "If you're moving into the lodgings I'll connect up the phone right away." "Thank you for your help." "No problem." "The petrol station's on the square when you first drive into town." "How did you realise that's when he took the finger?" "How did you realise that's when he took the finger?" "I didn't." "He told me later on the phone." "I asked if it would take much longer." "Ten minutes." "Fifteen at the most." "Didn't you sense anything when he came out from under the car?" "There was so much to think about." "I didn't even notice." "Was anyone else suspicious of the car?" "No." "Because as soon as I got to the school grounds..." "You'll find it hard after Istanbul." "Everywhere has problems of its own." "The people before left some stuff in the storeroom." "I expect you can make do with that for the time being." "Let me go and get you some soap and water." "You're like those writers who wear out the reader with redundant symbols." "I don't understand." "Why did you bother to tell us about that big bug?" " Because it really scared me." " Are you scared of small bugs too?" "Not scared." "But yes, I find them disgusting." "What kind of bug was Bekir?" "The kind that both scares and disgusts you." "Meaning?" "He sparked this hideous kind of fear..." "Did he tell you what he did with the finger?" "He rushed straight home" "Come." "Come." "Is it the first time you've seen these tapes?" "I'd seen a couple before." "You know what's on them, don't you?" "Blackmail conversations." "Blackmailing who?" "Helpless women of course." "Women with a secret to hide." "Yes." " Hello?" " Hello?" " I thought you'd forgotten me." " He's had no night shifts all month." " We could have met during the day." " Easier said than done." "I miss you so much." " He's on night shift today." " I know." "Same time, same place." "OK?" " Don't be late." " OK." "I won't." "If you don't want your husband to hear that conversation..." "Tonight, same time, same place..." "Did he describe everything he did?" "When he sensed I was afraid..." "He got this perverse kick out of talking about it." "He was sick." "Sick and sickening." "Why did he do it all?" "He wanted me to admire him, to fall in love with him." "He saw himself as someone chosen to drive the devil out of women." "Did he pull off all these stunts by himself?" "No, there were other people involved." "People behind him." "Big guys." "What do you know about them?" "They called themselves the 'company'." "Bekir tapped and recorded some of the calls for them." "What else?" "He'd set up this special system at work..." "How many times is that now?" "Where the hell have you been?" " Hey, I'm here now." " Well Halil was here." "He said if it happened again, he'd report you to Cevat." " Just so you know." " OK." "Like I give a fuck..." "You think I'm stupid enough to cover for you all the time?" "Hey, I'm here now." "Go fuck yourself." "It's pointless doing you any favours." "What makes you so sure of yourself?" "You ordinary temp." "What's so special about being permanent, asshole?" "Don't you spend the whole day kissing the boss's ass?" "You're warped." "One of these days you'll get what you deserve." "Well, I have already." "So what's going on?" "Found a bit of skirt, have you?" "God answered my prayers at last and sent an angel to this desert." "Fuck off!" "Why would an angel bother with a devil like you?" "Runt!" "Take a look at your own wife, sad cuckold!" "What does the bastard want?" "Give him whatever he wants so he shuts up." "He's not after money, Abi." "He's looking for trouble." "His time's up, son of a bitch!" "It's his job to put the country to rights, is it?" " Is it the new electrical engineer?" " Yes, Abi." "Whatever's wrong with this country you can blame it on the 'educated'." "You should see the report he wrote on that plastic bag factory..." "For stealing electricity." "They say it'll mean a fine of 150 billion." "The owners reckon the gifts they've slipped us have been useless." "That bastard's up to something else." "Offer him something sweeter." "They found a photograph of you in his bag." " Did you give it to him?" " No." "Stealing a photo was child's play for him." "I came to install telepnone connection for the teacher." "Did she know about that?" "Here you go." "Here, try calling from your house." "Let's see if it works." "Tell the teacher her phone's working." "Jerk!" "That student who committed suicide..." "Gül" " She was your student, wasn't she?" " Yes." " When did you first meet her?" " On the first day of school." "Poor thing." "She'd long since fallen into his trap." "Don't get in such a state." "It's OK for you." "Your belly isn't getting bigger." "If we wait any longer, everyone will realise it's not flab." "There's a doctor in Akyurt." "He's a bit expensive." "But I'll find the money somehow." " How are we going to get to Akyurt?" " I don't know." "We'll find a way." "We can say it's for exam practice." "I can't take it, YýImaz." "I'm terrified someone will realise." " I don't see how it happened." " What's that supposed to mean?" "I mean, we didn't do anything." "Well we did, but nothing that meant you should get pregnant." "What are you trying to say?" "Come on, Gül!" "I'm not trying to say anything." "I'm just trying to get my head round how we made a mistake like that." "Please don't cry or someone will see." "We can..." "We can run away if you want." "We can get married and have the baby." "You promised." "You swore on your mother's life..." "Don't bring my mother into this." "This won't happen ever again." " What if I ask?" " I won't come." "Then the whole town will find out you're pregnant." "I'll kill myself." "I won't come!" "That secret of yours..." "Or as Bekir put it, the crime you should be punished for" "How did Bekir find out about it?" "Can I have a cigarette?" "The neighbours haven't stopped watching the house lately." "Not since you left." "That's how you see it." "The neighbours know about my posting." "You've tidied the place up, haven't you?" " The younger one's going to die too." "I know it." " Don't be ridiculous." "He's been in a coma all week." "It was an accident." "It could have happened to anyone." "The younger one has a finger missing." " What do you mean?" " The younger one lost a finger." "They couldn't find it at the scene of the accident." "The papers are talking about a 'heartless child murderer'." "Don't read the papers any more." "Don't watch TV." "Go and stay at my mother's." "Get done the official paperwork done and come down here." "Don't think about anything else." "And I beg you, please stop drinking." "Where the hell have you been?" "I'm here now." "Here, drink till you burst." "Where are the papers?" "Here." "Hey, what is this?" "What's with this sudden interest in reading the papers?" "You think you can wise up at this age, asshole?" " Are they all here?" " Yes." "I fell out with Remzi the papermaker because of you." "If it hadn't been for the beers you could kiss goodbye to the papers." "Do not take off your clothes." "I'm terrified, Aylin." "I don't want to go to jail." "I'm not a child murderer." "You didn't mean to kill them." "It was an accident, this." "You even risked being lynched." "You took them to hospital." "And ran away because you were scared." "Isn't that right?" "OK..." "OK, calm down." "It'll all blow over." "You'll forget the whole thing." "We'll start all over again." "Now get some sleep and don't think about anything else." "I love you very much." "Leave the creatures alone, old man." "You'll turn the poor things into food addicts." "Living things can die of overeating as well as starvation, so they say." "If that was true, you should have died ages ago, you buffalo-on-steroids." "No one else feeds the little nymphs." "If I didn't show up for three days, they'd die of starvation." "9,5!" "Why not do a good deed and keep the nymphs fed" "Instead of fouling up and feeding these no-goods?" "Don't give them a hard time, old man." "What's up, Bekir?" "You're down-in-the-mouth today." "What do you expect?" "Look how filthy that tank is." "The water's so murky, you can't tell..." "If there are water nymphs in there or oversized devils." "Just like this place." "If it's too smoky, let's switch on the air-con, old man." "Old pompous ass Üstün Bey is going to start spouting again." "He's coming this way." "Üstün Bey!" "You honour our table with your presence." "You're blind, all of you." "You can't see what you ought to see." "You're stupid." "You don't know what you ought to know." "He's talking to you." " Hello?" " Good evening, Aylin Hanim." "I'm sorry." "I can't hear you too well." "I have something very important of yours." "That's why I'm calling." "Who is this?" "It's disappointing you don't recognise my voice." "But still..." "I won't rest easy until I've given this little thing back to you." "Look, if this is some kind ofjoke..." "You've called the wrong person at the wrong time." "I found the thing in the mud guard of a VW that was once red." "I don't know if you remember now." "Look, Aylin Hanim." "I called you because I was tired of being alone." "But you're not even talking to me." "If you carry on not saying anything..." "I could hand over this little thing to the police for them to give to you." "But I'd rather give it to you in person." "Then I might forget my loneliness just a little bit." "What do you want?" "In 15 minutes." "Be where I found this little thing, the finger, in your mud guard..." "Don't forget to wear that nice skirt of yours." "Hello, Hasan?" " Hasan?" " Hello?" "Damn you!" "Can't you be sober for once?" "If you hadn't done a runner you'd have been out in five years." "As it is, you'll get at least 20 years." "What do you want?" "You could use a gentler tone when you're talking to me." "What do you want from me?" "I could forget everything I know about you." "Supposing I don't agree?" "Twenty years." "Bahar..." "It's a beautiful name." "How old is your daughter?" "Seven." " Where is she now?" " At the school lodgings." "Who's with her?" "The school caretaker is looking after her." " Does she know her father's dead?" " No." "I can't tell her that." "When you met Bekir, he didn't know you had a family, did he?" "No." " That's why he thought it was you who had the accident." " Yes." "I wanted to clear the whole thing up by the time they got here, but..." "I failed there." "You don't seem too happy to see us." "It's just I'm really wound up." "If you lose it as well..." "I'll go out of my mind." "Aylin." "It'll blow over." "It'll all blow over." "We'll forget everything and make a whole new start." "The thing I dreaded most was them meeting." "It didn't take Hasan long to sniff out where he could get a drink." "On his third day here he found his way to the taverna." "You mean, you follow wherever the wife goes." "Yes, until I get my head together." "Don't worry about it." "You can set up a new one." "Fuck the past." "The important thing is to be able to see where you're going." "Look at that tank there." "Can you see anything?" " Murky water." " Anything else?" "I guess there's a couple of fish in there." "How do you know?" "Given you were throwing fish food in there..." "Maybe I throw fish food in there to make the water murkier." "We'll never know how many fish live in this murky water." "To find out we'd need to clean the tank." "But the fish can't live in clean water any more." "I mean, if we cleaned the tank we'd find out..." "Not how many fish were alive, but how many we'd killed." "Can a fish put up a fight against whoever muddies the water?" "No." "So what does it do then?" "It does its best to survive in murky water." "The fish goes blind over time." "Because it doesn't need to see in murky water." "It tracks down things to eat with feelers like an insect." "It forgets what clean, crystal clear water is like." "And thinks there's no life other than murky water." "Old Üstünüpüstün has waylaid the teacher's husband again." "He must be soaked inside and out in murky water." "He'll be throwing up any minute." "Hey, old boy." "I see you've found a fresh victim to tell your murky water story to." "Welcome, buffalo-on-steroids." "9,5" "Stick a nosebag round his neck so he can have a good feed." "Come on, gentlemen." "We're closing." "Hey!" "We're closing." "Damn it!" "It's been 20 years and I still can't fill you." "Let go." "I can walk on my own." "Get off me." "I'm not drunk." "I can walk on my own." "I couldn't take any more." "He'd call every day." "If Hasan picked up, he wouldn't say anything." "If I answered, he'd describe in detail what he'd done to those poor women." "He said he really missed me." "He was a monster." "A repulsive monster." "I want this torture to end!" "I can't take any more." "I want to get out of this place." "I've had enough!" "Enough!" "Enough!" "Do you remember where we left off?" "No." "Those friends of Bekir's, the guys in the taverna" "Did they know?" "Tahir was stupid." "He'd get suspicious of Mehmet every now and then." "Tomorrow's the day." "Is the guy ready?" "Yes." "He's waiting for the gun..." "Do it at the firstjunction after the transformer station." "The gun will be there ready and waiting." "Toss it in the lake once the job's done." "Hey, how are you doing?" "Keep reading, go on." "You'll become a professor." "Right, Bekir." "Have you heard?" "They pumped the guy full of bullets." "It happened by the transformer station, right?" "Yes." "At the firstjunction." "He was an electrical engineer." "Why did do him in?" "They say it was an honour thing." "Pry into other people's sex lives and you've got it coming." "If you ask me, this business isn't what it seems." "Don't you get started on old stn's murky water trip now." "Go on, sweetheart." "Go and play with your doll inside." "So that's your way of saying thank you." "What do you want?" "Is that all you can say?" ""What do you want?"" "You've settled your scores." "What do you want now?" "One hour in return for 20 years." "Wouldn't you say there's an injustice here?" "You promised." " Your husband wasn't around then." " My husband has nothing to do with this." "I want you." "But you sleep with him every night." "Shut up, will you?" "They're paying anyone who helps find the child murderer 20 billion." "Twenty billion." "That's not a bad amount at all." "I could upgrade my car." "The shock absorbers are worn out." "They make a racket." "But there are some things that money won't buy." "Shut up and say what you want." "I want you to make me forget that 20 billion." "I don't supposed that drunk of yours will make a problem." "Wait for my call." "Four or five months, I think." "If the bleeding's stopped there's no problem." "She should start antibiotics at once." "And a vitamin supplement." " What next?" " How old is she?" " Seventeen." " Her family should know." " Do you want to get her killed?" " No one can take responsibility." " So she should die, should she?" " Look, Aylin." "I'd do a lot for you..." "But there are some hard and fast rules in this profession." "Besides, you could land yourself in real trouble." " Is that your final word?" " I'm sorry, Aylin." "Was it Yilmaz?" "Does anyone else know?" "I mean, anyone else apart from Oya?" " Who?" " Bekir." " Bekir?" " The telephone man." "He taped her conversations with Yilmaz." "He won't stop threatening her." "You're early today." "I was bored at home." "What bastards there are out there!" "It makes you want to drop everything and go after the son of a bitch." "But not because of the 20 billion." "No..." "For the satisfaction of catching him and punishing him with your own hands." "What do you say to this business?" "It's a crying shame." "What would you do if you had an accident like that?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "Wouldn't you at least take the kids to hospital?" "I guess I would." "The car that knocked them down was a red VW." "You know that VW you have?" "A red one of those." "Though actually yours used to be red." "They did a rush job with the paint." "The red really shows through." "Some things you can't cover up no matter how hard you try." "They always show through." "They break out somehow." "They bleed..." "And come into the open sooner or later." "Well anyway, never mind." "We don't want to get you any more depressed." "Let's cheer ourselves up a bit." "You know why this asshole is called 9=?" "Have a guess." "Go on!" "Make something up." "Show him." "Now count the fingers." "Count." "Count!" "Go on!" "Seven, eight, nine..." "And a half." "That makes nine and a half!" "Bekir knows everything." "Don't worry, we'll find a woman midwife." "I can't take any more." "Don't let yourself go." "Even if I had an abortion how would I get off Bekir's list?" "What list?" "The list of victims he keeps in his diary." "If he calls again I'll kill myself." "So the bastard will get away with what he's done?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "But I sense something bad will happen." " It's never going to end, is it?" " Big romances don't end easily." "So there's no escape, is there?" "Big sins call for big punishment." "I thought you weren't coming again." "This was the last time." "To say goodbye?" "Where are we going to run to now?" "We can't run anywhere." "What could he want from us?" "I don't know." "We should do whatever he wants." "Whatever he wants?" "I..." "I know." "If I go to jail, I won't come out alive." "Fine." "We'll do whatever he wants then." " Hello?" " Don't forget to wear that nice skirt of yours." "When did you find out your husband left the kids..." "And walked away from the accident?" "When the younger one died." "What did you do?" "Hugged Bahar and cried." "Your husband?" "He didn't care about anything." "The younger one's died as well." "I know." "You said you'd taken them to hospital." "I didn't take them." "That's what it says in the paper." "If you'd taken them they'd both be alive now." "I'd had a lot to drink." "I didn't know what I was doing." "Really?" "So you'd had a lot to drink." "Well, that's understandable then." "If someone had killed our daughter and said..." ""Sorry." "I had a lot to drink." what would you have done?" "What would you have done?" "Huh?" "What would you have done?" "Have you noticed?" "It never moves." "I wouldn't know." "Every day it seems to get bigger." "I hadn't noticed." "Then look more carefully." "Look when you're sober." "That bug isn't a corpse." "It's a living bug." "It clings on somewhere and grows without moving." "Don't you dare touch me!" "Did the calls carry on?" "They stopped for a while but that didn't last long." "He flipped when he heard we had the diary." "We said if he carried on calling we'd give the diary to the police." "Blackmail against blackmail." "I really missed you." "And because I thought you'd missed me too..." "I made you this tape which I'll play in a minute." "But for now you'll have to make do with my voice." "I'll be seeing you very soon." "You're mine." "If you happen to forget that I have powerful friends..." "And you're crazy enough to go to the police..." "I have a bunch of tapes to be given to the chief of police." "This woman is slandering me..." "Because I discovered her husband's a child murderer." "There are also rumours that she sells the girls at school." "I heard her phone conversations with the girl who committed suicide." "The girl was pregnant." "The woman was trying to find a doctor to do an abortion." "As evidence of this, I've recorded some of her conversations for you." "The poor girl was pregnant because she was sold by this woman." "You'll hear more about the woman's dirty work on these tapes." " How old is she?" " Seventeen." "Her family should know." " Do you want to get her killed?" " No one can take responsibility." " So she should die, should she?" " Look, Aylin." "I'd do a lot for you..." "But there are some hard and fast rules in this profession." "Besides, you could land yourself in real trouble." " Is that your final word?" " I'm sorry, Aylin." "When did your husband decide to kill him?" "When he realised Bekir was afraid of nothing..." "And would never stop doing what he did." "Your Honour, by virtue of your office you represent the supreme state." "Like every patriotic citizen, I believe we must always be vigilant..." "Against enemies within and without who seek to poison the nation." "As a watchful citizen, it's my duty to warn the state of any endeavour..." "To destroy the nation from within by corrupting its moral values." "I haven't tapped the calls of decent, self-respecting people." "No, my motive has been to counter the treacherous seeds of discord..." "Intent on poisoning the young, on betraying their own culture..." "And becoming the pawn of alien values, in the same way as this woman." "My purpose in forwarding these tapes to the highest offices of the state..." "Is to fulfil my responsibilities as an individual to the state." "As someone committed to my nation, I admit that I tapped phone calls..." "In order to prove what this husband and wife did." "If this was a crime, I acknowledge my crime." "I am prepared to pay the price for my motherland." "Where are the tapes?" "Somewhere safe." "Don't worry." "You're up to some kind of shit." "But at least don't make a mess of it." "Sure, there's been the odd affair." "But with them there's always been give and take on both sides." "You put us at risk too." "Don't worry." "I'll soon sort this out and get back to my job." "But with your help, of course." "There was nothing in our agreement about helping you." "There was nothing in our agreement about taking photos of a murder." "What do you want?" "If they arrest me, I don't think there'll be any witnesses in court." "But someone may try something crazy." "If they do, just help them come to their senses." "Meanwhile, I expect you'd tell the authorities..." "How hard I've worked for the nation and its people." "His powerful friends were now stepping in too." "Anyway, without them Bekir was just a sad pervert." "The people really in control..." "The people calling themselves the 'company'" "Are shadows whose faces we'll never see." "What happened next?" "There was no going back now." "Either the man had to die or we'd have to do whatever he wanted." "Hasan had made up his mind." "Yes." "Everything you've said is just about the same as what's on file." "Is there anything else you want to add?" "I want everyone who's guilty to be punished." "Anything else?" "Let me go." "I want to be with my daughter." "Now we're going to make a deal with you." "You're going to forget everything you've been through..." "And we're going to send you back to your daughter." "Then we'll sort out a posting for you wherever you want..." "And the matter will then be closed." "It's best for everyone." "So he'll get away with everything he did?" "Divine justice." "Everyone guilty has been punished." "And they died as they deserved." "Don't you agree?" "What about the people helping Bekir?" "The powerful friends?" "The company?" "The company..." "We don't know who they are." "They sank in the water with Bekir." "And everyone who turned a blind eye to so many women being raped?" "And the suffering I've been through?" "The people who committed murder?" "As for the rape victims..." "If anyone was gratified by Bekir's demise, it was them." "I expect the last thing they'd want is for the matter to be raised again." "So why did my husband die?" "They were driving under the influence and went sailing into the lake." "That simple, huh?" "Didn't he drink with Bekir before?" "This time, they drank on the lakeshore." "They got drunk and They plunged into the lake." "It'll go down on record as an isolated car accident." "Isolated accident?" "No, my husband didn't deserve that." "A man responsible for the deaths of two children, and a rapist..." "I don't suppose there's much difference between them." "His was an accident." "He walked away from the kids as they fought for their lives." "He'd had a lot to drink." "He was terrified." "He was sober enough to consider there'd be no witnesses left behind." "How can you think that?" "How long has Bahar not been talking?" "What's it got to do with my daughter?" "She ought to have been talking long ago." "She was." "So when did she stop talking?" "Let me take a guess if you like." "Could it have been the night of the accident?" "Yes, it was the night of the accident." "This way is much better for everyone, Aylin Hanim." "To forget." "Both you and us..." "Together we must forget everything." "I never imagined it would be so easy." "Neither did I." "At least I never thought you'd win round the teacher so easily." "Neither did I." "Can I ask you why did she accept with no fuss?" "In the photos of the VW after it was trawled from the lake..." "The lock mechanism on both doors was jammed shut." " But that's impossible." " Why?" "Because they were both in the car." "Could a third person not have tampered with the doors on the outside?" "Like everything rotten you're doomed to demise."