Part 3: Alanda - four

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The flat is very large.

It is decorated to perfection; it's grand.

Penn sees on the coffee table the book: MIND.

The book makes Penn smile.

His mother is here: she's with him.

He must face Alanda and find out the truth.

Penn hands Alanda a paper.

'So you found me in this letter?'

For a brief second, Alanda wants to run away.

'It was the only clue.

Before now, I've never heard of you.

My mother never mentioned you or anything of it.

She wanted to forget you.

It was before she married Julius Sabitov.

Her murder came as a shock to us all.'

Alanda nods and faces Penn.

She promised this reaction from the start.

She will never deny killing that woman that night.

'I killed your mother, Penn.

I did it without thinking or hesitating.

We have some unfinished business. She lived a lie...'

Outside, New York is vibrant.

Alanda sees how Penn becomes even paler.

He did not expect Alanda to confess to murder.

'I would do it again.'

These words make Penn want to rage.

He has found the murderer; he needs to understand.

'Tell me how it happened.

Please, tell me how my mother died.

Explain to me what she did to deserve death.'

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