"Shut up. You only think you know what that guy meant."
"Yeah? And you would know?"
"I tell you, my cousin did time upstate and those cops are paid to make stuff up, you know, to get the tough convictions. Gotta take it with some sense."
"Whatever. You two are wise guys. I reckon that lady's the key. She swore she done seen him outside that liquor store and..."
"Lady? You calling that piece of..."
"Whoa, whoa, hold on everybody. We need to take our time and think things through like the good, rational citizens we are."
"Remind me how he got to be the foreman."
"Harvard-educated."
"Oh yeah."
"I gots something to say."
"Hey everybody, quiet down. Granny wants to talk. Go on, then, Granny. Whatcha thinking?"
"Well, I been walkin' this here God's green earth for nigh on eighty years and I done heard a lot of stories. Mmmhmm. I heard lies and I heard truths and I don't know 'bout youalls but that one witness, that chinaman, he seemed to be talking straight. Why, he even had that picture on he whatchamacallit...oh yeah, smart phone. Ain't no way you can fake that technologies now is there."
"Well, I heard that sometimes..."
"Quiet, Danny. Them technological experts said it wasn't fake."
"Like Billy said, so'un if'n he was in midtown when he says he was at them Hamptons, well, that's what I call pretty suspicious. And I think you all can see the sense in that. Mmhmm."
"Yeah? And you would know?"
"I tell you, my cousin did time upstate and those cops are paid to make stuff up, you know, to get the tough convictions. Gotta take it with some sense."
"Whatever. You two are wise guys. I reckon that lady's the key. She swore she done seen him outside that liquor store and..."
"Lady? You calling that piece of..."
"Whoa, whoa, hold on everybody. We need to take our time and think things through like the good, rational citizens we are."
"Remind me how he got to be the foreman."
"Harvard-educated."
"Oh yeah."
"I gots something to say."
"Hey everybody, quiet down. Granny wants to talk. Go on, then, Granny. Whatcha thinking?"
"Well, I been walkin' this here God's green earth for nigh on eighty years and I done heard a lot of stories. Mmmhmm. I heard lies and I heard truths and I don't know 'bout youalls but that one witness, that chinaman, he seemed to be talking straight. Why, he even had that picture on he whatchamacallit...oh yeah, smart phone. Ain't no way you can fake that technologies now is there."
"Well, I heard that sometimes..."
"Quiet, Danny. Them technological experts said it wasn't fake."
"Like Billy said, so'un if'n he was in midtown when he says he was at them Hamptons, well, that's what I call pretty suspicious. And I think you all can see the sense in that. Mmhmm."
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