🎬 PART 3: "The Dead Mother’s Chart"
"He was reaching for a toy," Daniel said.
"That's what you told the hospital."
"That's what you told me."
"He's clumsy—" Marissa stammered.
"Mr. Vale," Evelyn broke in.
Daniel looked at her.
"There's something else," she said.
She had been building to this.
She had been building to this for four months.
Since the afternoon she sat in a hospital corridor three floors below.
A room where a woman named Catherine Vale lay dying.
Daniel’s first wife.
The doctors described it as a rapid-onset cardiac event.
But Evelyn had looked at the chart.
And she had thought: something is wrong with these numbers.
She had been a pediatric trauma nurse then.
She was not supposed to be looking at adult cardiology charts.
But she had looked anyway.
She thought about it for three months before she resigned.
And she thought about it for another month.
Before she answered a job listing for a babysitter in the Vale household.
A listing Marissa had personally vetted.
Marissa had been looking for someone naive and unobservant.
But Marissa had made a mistake with Evelyn Hart.
She was not naive.
She was not unobservant.
"Four months ago," Evelyn said to Daniel.
"I was a nurse at Mercy General."
"I was present on the floor the night your wife died."
The room went dead silent.
The kind of silence before something very large happens.
"I had concerns about her chart."
"I was overruled. I resigned."
She looked directly at Marissa.
"I took this job because I needed to understand."
"I needed to know whether my concerns were correct."
Marissa's hand dropped from her mouth.
"You're lying," she said.
"I'm not," Evelyn said.
"You can't prove—"
"I can," Evelyn said. "Not alone. But I'm not alone."
She reached into her bag for the third time.
She removed a phone.
She placed it on the tray beside the beetle.
"For the past six weeks, I've been in contact with a detective."
"Detective Patricia Marsh."
"She's been investigating your wife's death, Mr. Vale."
"An anonymous tip came from a hospital pharmacist."
"A discrepancy in your wife's medication log."
She looked at Daniel.
May you like
"Detective Marsh is outside."
"She has a warrant."
