‘I did say that, didn’t I? Yes, you could say I had suspicions. I don’t know where to begin. Another Bad Day at the Office opened a lot of doors. We both went to the Oscar ceremony. Jeremy was totally focused on that. Win or lose, it was about where it could get him next. The nomination wasn’t an end in itself, like it would be for some people. He kept saying to me that it was small potatoes, it was about what it could lead to. He had his eye on the future, not the past, he said. Used the trip to Hollywood to set up meetings, make contacts, sell himself, and his next project. Which just happened to be a feature that I’d co-written with him, so I got brought along to all the studio meetings and played my part. But I was kind of along for the ride. Jeremy was the engine of it all. So – he got money to make his first feature Giveaway, a small caper movie. Smart, pacy, funny. It was a good script – but it was the direction that lifted it above the ordinary. I wasn’t under any illusions. You’ve seen it, right? Giveaway did well – made its money back, and then some. Won lots of critical acclaim and the audience prize at Toronto. New is good in Hollywood. They’re always looking for the next big thing. Jeremy got a lot of money for his second feature, 59 Seconds. Another co-write credit for me, though I wrote most of it, in fact. Actually, I’d intended it to be a novel but Jeremy persuaded me to make a script of it instead. So, em, shooting started …’

‘And your suspicions?’

‘Yes. This is where it gets more awkward because it involves an individual I don’t want to name.’

‘A young girl?’

‘Yes.’

‘There’s no young girl in the film, though.’

‘No. But 59 Seconds was a full production, not low budget. Not the highest budget either, but there was studio backing, plenty of money. So, of course, Jeremy had a Winnebago. I suspected that he used it for … no, it was more than a suspicion. I knew that he took women there for sex. We were on location, multiple locations. The story had been set in Ireland originally, but we adapted it for the States. It was better, actually. More convincing. We filmed in and around Boston, New England, upstate New York. Wherever we went, Jeremy used to make a big deal of going to visit the local diner. And the school. Wanting to give back, he said. I knew there was probably more to it but I didn’t … well, I didn’t do anything about it.’

‘But you had your suspicions, you said.’