The Perfect Marriage

Sarah enters the interrogation room where Adam is waiting. He notes, “She’s been crying. I’ve never seen her cry. What the fuck did I do?” (60). Adam apologizes for cheating and tells Sarah he did not kill Kelly/Jenna. Sarah responds, “Adam, I need you to understand, I am here as your lawyer, not your wife” (62). Adam asks Sarah why she is defending him. She replies, “I’m the only person that has any chance in hell of getting you off” (62). Sarah starts questioning Adam about Kelly/Jenna.

Adam tells Sarah how he met Kelly/Jenna. It was shortly after Sarah and Adam bought the lake house. Adam visited the café in the nearby town where Kelly/Jenna worked: Seth’s Coffee. They got into a deep conversation; Kelly/Jenna even hinted that her husband was abusive—“It was the cracks in her voice that gave it away. Scott had hurt her. She didn’t need to tell me for me to know” (66). The same day they met, Kelly/Jenna and Adam slept together.

Sarah takes notes as Adam describes his first meeting with Kelly/Jenna. Sarah probes deeper when he suggests that Kelly/Jenna’s husband, Scott, was abusive. Sarah suggests that if they can prove Scott was abusive, it will help exonerate Adam—creating enough reasonable doubt that he is the murderer.