He exhaled. “I couldn’t bear my home without Anita. I moved to Orlando. And then...well, after Orlando, with half those who knew me still suspicious, I changed my name. A friend there knew some people up here who were new to the movie business and hiring and...it was something to do. I had to have something to do. I couldn’t bear living with just myself hour after hour, thinking about the past.”

“Okay,” Dan said. “Tell me again what you can remember about what happened on the boat before you were struck.”

George was thoughtful.

“Anita had just come up, wondering if Katie had returned to the boat. She was distressed, not sure how she could have lost Katie. So I was on the dive platform, watching for Katie, while Anita ran down to talk to Lou and the group. She was going to get them all out and looking for Katie in the water. She had to be near.” He grimaced, looking at Katie. “You were a good diver, but Anita was worried. She just didn’t understand how you had lost each other.”

Katie shook her head and took his hand. “George, I’m so sorry.”

“Katie, you’re alive because you were in the water, and you didn’t cause any of what happened,” Dan said sharply. “If you had come up with Anita, you’d have been dead, too.”

“Katie, that’s true,” George told her. “I was aft. The scariest part of it now is that I was curious, not frightened, when I sensed the darkness of a shadow behind me. And all I remember—I’ve tried, I’ve tried so hard—is that darkness. And before that... I’d been in the water, too, for a while. I knew there were other boats around, but it was a popular dive spot.” He paused again. “That’s why I believed Neil and Jennie had been killed, too. I believed someone came off another boat, and maybe they’d been struck or killed and thrown over.”

“But their bodies never turned up,” Dan said.

“Right,” George agreed. “And there was a massive search for them.” He shook his head again. “They seemed like the nicest people in the world when we met them. And Lou was always so welcoming to new people. Your parents were great, Katie.”

“I know,” she said.

“I will forever be so sorry and hate myself for believing in strangers.”

“We’ve all believed the best in people who haven’t deserved to be trusted,” Dan assured him.

“I have an alibi for the night of the murders here, though! We worked until one in the morning,” he said. “This football star was ending the filming with a free kick. The star player couldn’t make the kick that night to save his life!”