Vince Hurley

So you're engaging him on his kind of...

theory that his father is the devil in this case, were you able then to weaken his resolve to go about doing this terrible thing?

Or how did you then proceed from there?

But you've been doing this for 12 hours now.

Is the plan to exhaust him really and the exhaust his resolve?

Is that the idea?

So October 2010, Vince, you retired from the police service.

What led you to want to retire?

Because you're still a man who's quite in good health and in fine condition, I would have thought.

What brought about you wanting to leave the force?

And there's three of them?

It seems a bit odd that you had to be discharged for valour in the line of duty, you know, chasing after three really nasty, really nasty people who pushed you off a building and then stabbed in the thumb with a full syringe.

Are you all right after that?

Were you contaminated with anything from that syringe?

So you made the transition to university life.

Far more genteel.

Far more genteel, but nonetheless must be a lot less stressful, a lot more peaceful, or isn't it?

I don't know a lot of happy academics these days, I've got to say.

How are you finding life on the campus?

Are you saying that as someone who is a former hostage negotiator, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in this job?