Joe and Jimmy Find the Evidence, Explained：by the nuts

What's really going on

The chapter is where the case stops being a murder and becomes a conspiracy, and where Joe's guilt arrives. He reads the evidence with professional calm, noting they now hold the two most powerful men in California, and even jokes about it. Then the tape is destroyed by a careless fast-forward, which is both a gag and a threat — their proof is gone. The real blow is quieter: Joe works out that Cory was blackmailing Marcone to get his old job back for him. "She's dead because of me," he says, and for the first time the case is personal in a way he cannot joke his way out of. The scene ends with a second discovery, a plastic explosive wired to the wrong car, which tells them someone planned to kill her and nearly succeeded.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Evidence can turn a case around and still be destroyed by a car.
• One guilty line can outweigh a whole file of proof.
• The patriotic boast is really about power, not country.
• Understatement makes a near-death escape land harder.

発音のポイント

• what's all this — The t in what's drops, so what's all this rushes into one sound.
• heard or saw — An r links heard and or, sounding like hear-dor.
• give you a — Link give you a into one blur, close to giv-ya.