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BECCA: I’ll stay here.
ASHFORD: Are you sure that’s—
BECCA: I’m staying here. I’m not afraid of my sister.
She puts a possessive hand on Sara’s shoulder. Sara hunches over the table. Ashford hesitates, then nods.
ASHFORD: Very well. I’ll be back shortly.
SUPPLEMENT C
Text messages between Abigail Ryder and Andrew Ashford
Ashford | Abby
Where did you go?
Checking something out.
Specificity, Abigail.
Mel said something was bothering her, Andrew. _Specifically_ Anthony’s phone.
What about it?
Sara said that Anthony gave it to her. But we don’t have it.
As far as I know, no one else does, either. I checked the police report, it says he took it with him when he “ran away.”
Seriously, I know that this stuff makes people’s brains into goo but how do you just decide that five teenagers “ran away” on the same night and it’s not connected or suspicious?
It’s a survival mechanism, and a canny one our species has developed.
Better to ignore such things than to become part of them.
Sure. But point is, we’re going to the Donoghue house to see if we can find the phone.
Mel says she knows where Sara used to hide things when she didn’t want Becca to find them.
Why wouldn’t she want Becca to find the phone?
Don’t get started on the de-ghostening without me.
I would remind you that time is of the essence.
VIDEO EVIDENCE
Recorded by Abigail Ryder
Recorded May 9, 2017, 9:16 p.m.
The camera pans across a fairly unremarkable bedroom. A few art prints adorn the walls—a woman with a birdcage for a chest, a manipulated photograph of a girl falling from the sky over a field of wheat, a painting of a girl plucking a star from the night sky. A desk sits against one wall; a twin bed, gray sheets, rumpled, against another. Melanie Whittaker steps into frame and crosses to the closet.
MEL: If she hid it, it should be in here.
ABBY: Do you mind starting from the top, introducing what we’re doing? For the official records.
MEL: Official?
