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too. I got one year, nine months, to three-six in Sing Sing.”
    â€œHow much time did you serve?”
    â€œI did two year and a half.”
    â€œListen, you know what the score is then,” said Sam. “If you’re giving me a story, and we go into court and get buried, it’s your hide that’s going to burn, you understand that?”
    â€œYes, sir, I understand.”
    â€œWhat movie did you go to?” prodded Sandro.
    â€œI think it was something called It Happened at the World’s Fair , with Elvis Presley. And there was another picture with Steve Reeves, The Son of Spartacus , something like that.”
    â€œHow much time did it take to see the movie?”
    â€œI don’t know, a few hours. I was nodding in the show.”
    â€œWhat time did you go into the show?” asked Sam.
    â€œAbout six.”
    â€œYou left Jorge about what time?”
    â€œAbout three twenty, three thirty,” Alvarado replied.
    â€œOkay, three thirty. How did you go to Times Square?”
    â€œI took the subway. At Marcy Avenue. I change at Delancey Street and get the express to Times Square.”
    â€œHow long did that take?” Sam pressed.
    â€œI don’t know, forty minutes, forty-five minutes.”
    â€œThat makes it about four fifteen when you got to Times Square. What happened to the other hour and forty-five minutes?”
    â€œWhen I got to the Times Square I walked, you know. I look in some windows. I look at things. I bought a cigarette lighter. I look at the pictures in the theaters. I ate a hot dog.” He was more calm than Sam at this point.
    â€œThen you went inside and saw the pictures?”
    â€œRight.”
    â€œTwo pictures?” asked Sandro.
    â€œYes, sir.”
    â€œAnd you arrived home about one in the morning?”
    â€œThat’s what time the cops got me, about one. They took the ticket from the movies, too. I had the little ticket, you know, that they give back to you. A cop took it from me.”
    â€œDid you get it back?”
    â€œNo, and my money. They took my things. Maybe the ticket is with my things.”
    â€œMake a note of that, Sandro. We’ll have to check that stub out.”
    â€œDid you take a fix in the movie?” asked Sandro.
    â€œYeah. While I was there, I had my fix. That’s why I was nodding, you know.”
    â€œWhere did you get the works to take the fix?”
    â€œI had it with me.”
    â€œThen when the cops arrested you, you had the works with you?” asked Sandro, trying to shake his calm.
    â€œNo. When Jorge told me the cops were waiting for me, I threw the stuff in a garbage can. They didn’t see me.”
    â€œListen, Sandro. I have to get going,” said Sam. “I have another appointment back at my office. You can stay. Or we can come back and continue this in a couple of days.”
    â€œI have to get going, too,” said Sandro.
    â€œOkay, Mr. Alvarado, we’ll be back. Meanwhile, try to remember everything that happened. There may be something you haven’t told us. Okay?” Sam stood.
    â€œOkay. When you coming back?” Alvarado stood.
    â€œIn a few days. We have to scout up some facts in addition to what you tell us. Meanwhile, I want you to remember everything you possibly can about what happened.”
    â€œOkay, sir. I remember.” He smiled and shook hands with both lawyers.
    Sam and Sandro walked to the door. Sam took out a coin and tapped on one of the thick glass panels. The guard in the lawyers’ waiting area unlocked it and let them out. As gates and doors were being locked and unlocked for them, Sandro thought of Judge Porta’s words. In the abstract, a murder case was dramatic, exciting. But now, faced with an actual corpse, tangible death and violence, holding a man’s life in the palm of his hand, Sandro felt the weight of the responsibility. At this moment, Sandro wasn’t as much concerned with