"Hollywood is an interesting culture," Brennan says. "Everything is image, and therefore subterfuge. There's a degree of that in all human interaction, true, but here it's like that's all there is."

"Just like in the case of the woman at the airport." That had been back when their partnership had been fairly new and uneasy. "Everyone is trying to present themselves as someone different."

"It makes it very hard to work out who is lying simply by observing them and employing psychology. If the Vickers look like good suspects, there must be some sort of physical evidence to tie them to the Echollses."