Sarah Koenig

Adnan helped plan a memorial for Hay at school.

They'd plant a tree for her.

It's still there in front of the school with a plaque.

This time for Adnan is a blur, he says.

Giant events kept coming, one after the other.

He didn't have time to wrestle them into comprehension.

The cops came to Adnan's house to speak to him on February 26, 1999, two days before they'd arrest him.

They hadn't interviewed Jen or Jay yet.

There was a report in their files about that meeting, which oddly is dated September 14th, almost seven months after the fact.

I don't know why.

Detectives Ritz and McGillivary come to Adnan's house and ask about Hay.

Quote, when asked if Syed had a relationship with Hay Min Lee, Syed replied in a soft voice, yes.

However, he didn't want his father to know.

Even after that conversation where your dad was there, you didn't think like, uh-oh?

Very early in the morning on February 28th, after they've spoken to Jay, after Jay has shown them where Hay's car was parked off Edgewood Road, the detectives come into Adnan's bedroom and wake him up, tell him to put some clothes on, it's time to go.

He dresses, sees his mother is watching, his older brother, his little brother Yusuf is crying.

Then they drive Adnan into the city, to an interrogation room and homicide, and handcuff him to what he describes as a little hook in the wall.

This, by the way, is what Jim Traynham calls offering a theme.

You give the suspect an explanation, one that minimizes the crime as a starting point.

Okay.