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Detective Lester Ybarra: If that's how you want it, then I guess we're done here. Tell county jail we're remanding him for trial.

Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I didn't do anything. I wasn't even here when it happened.

Detective Lester Ybarra: By pretending to be Walter Collins, you're interfering in a police investigation of a kidnapping and murder. We can try you as accomplice to that murder after the fact. That's too bad. County jail is a lot worse than a juvenile hall or a foster home. It's a lot worse.

Arthur Hutchins: You can't do that. I'm just a kid.

Detective Lester Ybarra: Mm. Sanford Clark's a kid, too. Fifteen. He's going to jail. All murderers and their accomplices go to jail. Everybody knows that. Get him out of here. It's out of my hands now.

Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I don't want to go to jail.

Detective Lester Ybarra: [pause] Prove it.

Arthur Hutchins: I... I knew Los Angeles is where they make the Tom Mix movies. I figured if I could meet Tom Mix, maybe he would let me ride on his horse. His horse is named Tony. Did you know that?

Dr. Jonathan Steele: According to your file, you believe that the police substituted a fake boy for your son.

Christine Collins: No, I didn't say he was a fake boy. He's not *my* boy. They brought home the wrong boy. My son is still missing.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's strange, because I have here a newspaper article with a photo of you at the train station, welcoming home your son.

[shows her the article]

Dr. Jonathan Steele: That is you in the photo, isn't it?

Christine Collins: Yes.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: So, at first, he was your son and now he's not your son. Has this been going on for a long time? People changing, becoming something other than what they are?

Christine Collins: People don't change.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: You don't think people change?

Christine Collins: No, that's not what I...

Dr. Jonathan Steele: Shh! The police, they're not out to persecute you?

Christine Collins: No, they're not.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: No, they're not. The police are here to protect you.

Christine Collins: Yes.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: Really?

Christine Collins: Yes.

Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's odd, because when you were admitted, you told the head nurse that the police were conspiring *deliberately* to punish you. So, either the head nurse and the interns are also conspiring to punish you or you're changing your story.

[pause]

Dr. Jonathan Steele: Do you often have trouble telling reality from fantasy, Mrs. Collins?

Christine Collins: No...