Carol, instead of becoming defensive or answering back simply shrugs and looks down. "I suppose I have been rather a monster", she says, without looking up.
"Here, Carol", says Carl, "There is something else here that you need to see. It is footage I found here of your sister's Skype visits with your mother the last few months before she died."
"They weren't on Skype. I heard nothing about it, Mom mentioned nothing about it."
"She wanted to protect both of you, knowing how bad things had turned between both her daughters."
"But how did you get hold of that information?", says Carol her voice rising in indignation. "Father Griffin, I should suppose!"
"Your mother asked him to intervene. And to do what he could to track down your sister, which he did with due diligence." Carl is doing another search on his laptop. Then an image appears on the large television screen overhead. There are two images appearing, juxtaposed, of one old woman, and another very old woman.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" says Carol, just barely containing her ire.
"This would be Tina's last conversation with your mother, whom, I believe, passed away just three days later."
Carol appears to be trying to leave the room, but she remains seated, as though not even she can resist sitting through the spectacle that is awaiting her...
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