He's sullen and he's smoking and
from the first moment Nancy sets eyes on him, she hates him.
"Guess he really doesn't
think I have a chance, if he's sending in a cheerleader for the
interview."
She glances down at her outfit,
biting back a retort, and throws herself into the hardback chair opposite. She
was practically raised in this interview room, and he's grinding out his
cigarette on the scarred wood of the table.
"We need to go over your
testimony."
He leans forward. "All my
other attorneys, and I've had many... have all said that 'No comment' generally
serves pretty well."
"Not when you're the main
suspect, and both you and your father have been tried for murder."
He shrugs. "Acquitted."
Nancy sighs, frustrated. "Mr.
Echolls..."
"Call me Logan." He
smirks and starts fumbling in his pocket for his cigarettes, not looking at
her.
"I'd call you Tom Hanks if I
thought it would do any good. But Tom Hanks hasn't ever had his fingerprints
found on a murder weapon."
"Guess that makes me better
than him, huh."
They are glaring across the table
at each other when Carson pushes through the door and directs a smile at his
daughter.
"Thanks for holding down the
fort."
Nancy returns his smile
halfheartedly and pushes back from the table. "Sure, Dad. See you at
home."
"So this is Nancy?"
Her gaze is ice when it sweeps over him, as she glances back over her shoulder, and Carson nods and Logan's gaze turns speculative, and she is gone in a flounce of skirt and the slam of the door.