“So the murder weapon was found in a sewer two blocks away from his home?”

“That’s correct.”

“Where does Ms. Goodwin live?”

“Astoria, Queens.”

“I see. So not very close to where you found the murder weapon, then.”

“She lives in Queens. The gun was found in Manhattan.”

“Queens to Manhattan . . . that’s too far to walk, wouldn’t you say, Lieutenant?”

“I would say that most people don’t walk from Queens to Manhattan.”

“Did you check the footage from the toll plazas to see if there was any evidence that Ms. Goodwin came to Manhattan by car on the night of the murder?”

“We did. She was not on them. We suspect she took public transportation.”

“I see. So, I assume you checked the train platform surveillance cameras and found her image there, then. It’s the N train, isn’t it, that goes from Astoria to Manhattan?”

“We did check the platform cameras for the N train in Astoria and Manhattan.”

“Was she there? Did you see Ms. Goodwin?”

“No, though it’s easy to avoid being photographed by those cameras.”

“Is it, now? Then why’d you check if you figured it was easy to avoid them?”

“Sometimes we get lucky.”

“I see. In this case you didn’t get . . . lucky. But I think we can agree that you’re not as unlucky as Ms. Goodwin, who wasn’t on the cameras but still has the police thinking she took the N train anyway.”

Ella objects, which causes Judge Gold to raise an eyebrow at LeMarcus. It’s not on the record, but everyone knows he’s telling LeMarcus that he’s made his point and it’s now time to move on.

“Lieutenant Velasquez, you testified on direct examination that the reason Ms. Goodwin was arrested was because of what was found on Ms. Wright’s cell phone. However, you didn’t discuss much of what happened before Ms. Wright’s phone was reviewed. How many days passed between Ms. Wright’s murder and the retrieval of the texts from her iPhone?”

“Seven.”

“And during that time, is it fair to say that you were actively investigating the case?”

“Yes.”

“Full-time, correct?”

“More than full-time,” Gabriel counters. “Fifteen-hour days.”

“You were partners with Ms. Goodwin during those fifteen-hour days, were you not?”

“I was.”

“And so is it fair to say that you spent many of those hours in Ms. Goodwin’s company?”

“Yes.”

“Was there a single moment during those fifteen-hour days when you suspected that Dana Goodwin had killed Ms. Wright?”

“No, but as I said, she didn’t tell me that she was sleeping with the victim either. If she had, my view would have certainly changed.”