Wine and Gun

Witness 1: I was locked up in my room as usual that day - those people kept the children they caught in the basement of a building, separate compartments with wooden planks, and the soundproofing was poor. . So I could hear a commotion outside, and in the afternoon, a man who normally guards us kicked me and the other kids out of our cubicles and put us in a separate room...that's It was the first time I met other kids who had the same experience as me.

Hardy: Who else did you see besides the guards?

Witness 1: Mr. Rowan. He seemed to be the boss of the guards, coming in about once a week, going around the basement and checking on the kids. I didn't actually see his face, but could hear him yelling at the other kids standing in the hallway, so I'm pretty sure it was Mr. Rowan who came.

Hardy: Has he been in the room with the other guards?

Witness 1: No, he just walked around the room and kept looking at his watch. Then he said to the guards, "I'm almost ready, I'll show Mr. Slade. If there's no problem, we'll start in the early morning."... He left the room after saying this. , only the guards were left watching us.

Hardy: Didn't he come back?

Witness 1: No. The other guards took turns watching us until night, when suddenly another man burst into the house and shouted to the man who was guarding us at the time: "The note is coming! Boss let us take these children away first!" - and they put the We were taken out of the room, trying to drive us into a van.

Hardy: Do you think the "boss" in the person who came to the letter was Rowan?

Witness 1: I don't think so. The guards never just called each other "Mr. Rowan" because they talked about him a lot in our neighborhood, and I've never heard them call Mr. Rowan "Boss."

Hardy: So do you think that the "boss" these guards refer to is someone else?

Witness 1: I think so.

Hardy: All right. Your Honor, I have no further questions.

Judge: Mr. Armalette, it's your time to ask.

Amarette: Mr. Pullman, who was the person you met most often when you and the other children were being held at the former church orphanage site in the suburbs?

Witness 1: In the cubicle we were locked in, each door had a small window, and the guards pushed the food in from there, so we couldn't actually see their faces. About once a week, we can hear Mr. Rowan come round.

Amarette: You said that Rowan spoke loudly, but you didn't actually see his face, so how did you know who he was?

Witness 1: The guards would call him by name, I heard them call him "Mr. Rowan". And since the police officers at the police station showed me his interrogation tapes after his arrest, I'm pretty sure he's the same voice as the people who show up outside the house every week.

Armalite: What was the conversation like when the guards and Rowan were outside the house?

Witness 1: The guards report to him on a weekly basis, and Mr. Rowan arranges for them- (breathing) Well, which kid to bring to the next 'dinner', or who 'severely tries to resist Hit him up" or something. But of course, I'm usually the one who gets "beaten up".

(Hesitant, sparse laughter in the jury box)

Armalite: Did Rowan ever communicate someone else's order to the guards? Or is it that all his arrangements are based on "I"? Did the guards' conversation with him reveal that they had other leaders in mind?

Witness 1: …No, Mr. Rowan arranged everything himself, and the guards never mentioned anyone else by name. Except the night we were rescued, they...

Armalite: But actually, you can't be objectively sure that the "boss" the guard mentioned that night was really not Rowan, right?

Witness 1: But—

Armalite: In an emergency, it's really possible that they'd call Rowan "boss", wouldn't they?

Hardy: No. Mr. Armalite, this wordplay doesn't make sense—

Judge: Please be silent. Mr. Armalite, continue.

Armalite: So, Mr. Pullman, although you subjectively infer that because "the guards never called Rowan 'boss'", you subjectively infer that they were calling someone else who wasn't there, but in fact, you also Can't tell who they are referring to, right?

(long pause)

Witness 1: …Yes.

Armalite: So let's talk about what happened after that. Were you ever taken to Sequoia Manor?

Witness 1: Been there. twice.

Armalite: Did you have any contact with those club members at Sequoia Manor? - Or, have they violated you?

(murmurs in the gallery)

Witness 1: (long silence) No, no. (Pauses) I think maybe it's because I'm too old and no one chooses me twice. I just stayed in a small room on the ground floor of the manor and waited, and they took me back without seeing any club members.

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