“Where did it all start? That’s always what people want to know, isn’t it? Where it began. I have to say, I never really understood this obsession with the beginning until I inadvertently developed it myself, watching true-crime documentaries. Surreptitiously watching them, mind you. I never do it openly. Not because it would, you know, arouse suspicion or anything. Please. I just don’t want to be known as someone who does that. Because let’s be clear . . .”
