Witness Interview (Continued)
5ACC:ย Okay, okay. Can we focus on my questions nowแนข
ROGER:ย That bloody rabbit. Itโs people like him who are manipulating the market. Bankers and real estate agents and bloody rabbits. Manipulating everything. Itโs all just fake.
5ACC:ย This would be Lennart that youโre talking about nowแนข Heโs on my list of witnesses, but he wasnโt wearing the rabbitโs head when he came out of the apartment. What do you mean about it all being fakeแนข
ROGER:ย Everything. The whole worldโs fake. They were even faking where I used to work.
5ACC:ย I meant at the apartment viewing.
ROGER:ย Ha, yes, of course I got ill at work but obviously that doesnโt matter to you. People are all interchangeable in this bloody consumer society, arenโt theyแนข
5ACC:ย No, thatโs not what I meant at all.
ROGER:ย Some idiot doctor decided I was โburnt-out.โ I wasnโt burnt-out, I was just a bit tired. But suddenly everyone started making a fuss, my boss wanted to talk to me about my โworking environment.โ I wanted to work, can you understand thatแนข Iโm a man. But for the whole of that last year they just kept making up things for me to do, projects that didnโt exist. They didnโt have any use for me, they just felt sorry for me. They didnโt think I
understood, but I understood all right, Iโm a man, arenโt Iแนข Do you understandแนข
5ACC:ย Absolutely.
ROGER:ย A man wants to be looked in the eye and told the truth when heโs no longer needed. But they faked it. And now Anna-Lenaโs doing the same thing. Turns out I was never a good negotiator, that bloody rabbit was doing all the work.
5ACC:ย I understand.
ROGER:ย I can assure you that you donโt, you little bastard.
5ACC:ย I understand that you feel hurt, I mean.
ROGER:ย Do you know what happened to that business after I leftแนข
5ACC:ย No.
ROGER:ย Nothing. Absolutely nothing happened. Everything just carried on as normal.
5ACC:ย Iโm sorry.
ROGER:ย I doubt that.
5ACC:ย Could you possibly tell me more about the gap between the walls nowแนข Show me again on the plans. How large a space are we talking aboutแนข Big enough for a grown man to stand up inแนข
ROGER:ย There. At least a yard. When they turned the old apartment into two separate ones they probably put an extra wall in rather than make the existing one thicker.
5ACC:ย Whyแนข
ROGER:ย Because they were idiots.
5ACC:ย So they left a space here between themแนข
ROGER:ย Yes.
5ACC:ย So you mean I could be dealing with a perpetrator who might have vanished into the wall, even if he didnโt exactly ๏ฌtแนข
ROGER:ย Thatโs no laughing matter.
5ACC:ย Wait here.
ROGER:ย Where are you going nowแนข
5ACC:ย I need to talk to my colleague.
