"What do you mean she’s gonna let me take the rap for this? For what exactly?" Eric was speaking much clearer now.

"For the repeated attempts on Miss Kennard’s life" Dana informed him.

"What? Look, how am I the one getting the most shit for this?"

"Mind your language Mr Martin" Bette warned him.

"She’s the one who paid me, right? This whole thing is down to her" he said, folding his arms.

"But you were the one who actually tried to kill her" Dana pointed out.

"She wasn’t even in the parking lot, it was you guys" Eric looked at Bette bitterly.

"Which you have admitted and been charged for. I’m now more interested in the shooting, the poisoning and the fire"

"What?" Eric stared at her wide eyed.

"I think you heard me. You want to tell me about those incidents?" Bette stared at him.

"Wait a minute, you’re not trying to pin the blame on me for all that are you?" Eric asked.

"You’re in a big mess here Mr Martin. You’ve admitted to taking payments in exhange for killing Miss Kennard, and here we have a list of attempts on her life. That, added to the statement of Helena Peabody, makes the outlook pretty bleak for you" Bette leant back in her chair and folded her arms.

"Look" Eric shifted nervously in his chair, glancing between Bette and his lawyer "I’ll admit I tampered with the breaks on her car. Helena didn’t know how to, so she paid me to do it. But it never would have killed her anyway, Tina never drove fast enough"

"That might not have killed her, but the gun certainly could have" Bette pointed out.

"I never shot at Tina"

"What about in the parking lot? You were planning to"

"I don’t think I could have ever actually gone through with it, not face to face" Eric reflected.

"But you managed a shot at me just fine" Bette stated.

"That was different, you scared me and I panicked, it was a reflex action. I know you think I’m a terrible person, but you have to believe me when I tell you that I never did all those things you said" Eric pleaded.

"Then what did happen?" asked Dana.