There is a moment that happens before the story begins.

Before the account is constructed. Before the solicitor arrives. Before the person has decided what they are going to say and how they are going to say it.

It lasts about ten seconds.

In those ten seconds the brain has not caught up yet. The machinery of managed language is not running. What comes out is produced by a system that is reacting, not planning.

And reacting language, in my experience, is the closest thing to unfiltered truth that an investigator is ever likely to hear.

This episode is about those ten seconds. What falls out of the mouth before the door has fully opened. What it tells you about everything that follows.

And why it is almost impossible to take back.

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