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I was following orders. Staying put. Trying to get outside help. That was the right thing to do.
Sordello:
Yet you gave that particular task to a suspect in your custody rather than try yourself. You sent one of your girlfriends off to try to work the shortwave radio rather than do it yourself.
Maro:
I’m one person. I had to delegate. I needed to think. Part of me wanted to get out in the streets, but if I’d left the house and tried to defuse one situation after another, there was a good chance I would have gotten myself killed and Ellie would have been alone. The only law left. Something happens to her, and there’s no one. We needed a better plan. We needed options, and we had none.
Sordello:
Because the inmates were running the asylum? Is that how you see it?
Maro:
We were completely outnumbered.
Sordello:
Why do you think you were spared?
Maro:
Spared? We weren’t spared. Things were just as crazy in that house as they were everywhere else. Maybe worse. Nobody was spared. We were all one wrong comment away from killing each other, same as the rest of the town. [Grows visibly agitated] How about you explain why you cut us off? One phone call—that’s all we needed—one call to bring in help, but you let nothing out.
Sordello:
That wasn’t us.
