The Girls
Extenuating circumstances, that’s what they call them.
When you did something bad but you had good reasons for it.
A logical explanation. A rationale that sounded extremely coherent…after the fact.
Clearly there were some calculations to it. It didn’t just happen. But calling it a premeditated murder sounds so serious. So jail-timey. So violent.
Do we strike you as violent people?
The problem was, we were there. Everybody saw us.
We are entirely devoid of alibis.
What we do have, in spades, is motive.
Lots and lots of motives.
The headlines practically wrote themselves in our heads: Cold-Blooded Attack Leaves One Dead on the Eve of the Cannes Film Festival’s Closing Ceremony.
It sounded bad.
And exactly like the truth.
The cold-blooded truth.