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Examination conclusion

Exhibit no. 7

TAPE 7

Forty-two seconds recorded from the office answering machine. The defence presents it as proof that no one entered. Behind everything you hear there's a wall clock ticking off the seconds, and that clock cannot lie: if anything is missing from the tape, the marks stop falling exactly one second apart.

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