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Tyler: I guess I didn’t think of that.
Detective Hardy: Why do you think that was?
Tyler: I don’t know. I guess I should’ve done that. But at the time, I wasn’t really thinking that straight.
Detective Hardy: I see. You know that doesn’t look good, don’t you, Tyler? Fleeing a crime scene like that?
Tyler: Maybe it wasn’t. You know, a crime scene. Maybe she just fell.
Detective Hardy: Is that how it looked to you, when you saw all that blood?
Tyler: I wanted to get home. I needed to think about what I should do. I wanted to talk to my sister.
Detective Hardy: I see.
Tyler: I would never, ever do anything like that. I didn’t hurt her. I didn’t touch her or anything. You have to believe me.
Detective Hardy: You’d never lose your temper, maybe do something you really didn’t mean to do?
Tyler: Never.
Detective Hardy: How’s your aunt doing? Clara, isn’t it?
Tyler: What?
Detective Hardy: How’s her eye coming along?
Tyler: That was a totally different—who told you about her?
Detective Hardy: Before I came in here I got off the phone with some folks in Providence. Seems you had a little trouble there.
Tyler: It was an accident.
Detective Hardy: Just looking at the report here … Here we go. Smashed a glass and some shards went into her eye. That sound about right?
Tyler: I didn’t throw it at her. I wasn’t aiming at her. I didn’t know that would happen. I tried to get it out. I took her to the hospital.
Detective Hardy: What would make you so angry that you would do something like that, Tyler? Did she provoke you? Had she thrown something at you? Was she abusive?
Tyler: It wasn’t like that.
Detective Hardy: Help me understand. You’d gone to live with her after your father died, right? Was she mean to you? Demanding? Not understanding everything that you’d been through?
Tyler: She was always trying to be so … so nice.
Detective Hardy: I’m sorry?
Tyler: She was always worried about my feelings, like, how I was dealing with my dad, you know, dying and everything. It was like she wanted me to have a meltdown or something, like it would be a breakthrough, and I wanted her to just leave me alone.
Detective Hardy: So your aunt nearly loses an eye because she cared too much. That what you’re saying?
Tyler: It makes it sound bad when you put it like that.
Detective Hardy: I guess what I’m sitting here wondering, Tyler, is, if you could get that angry with someone who was trying to help you, how angry might you get with someone who was threatening the very stability of your home situation?
Tyler: I don’t … it wasn’t …
Detective Hardy: What do you think might have happened if this woman had been Brie Mason? And if Andrew decided to leave your sister and resume married life with Brie?
