“I was winding him up,” he said. “He asked what we’d been doing, looking at a car. I said we weren’t. Said we’d told Baker we weren’t going far, but he’d misheard it as we’re looking at a car.”
“I don’t know,” I said. “That’s what I’m trying to find out.”
“OK,” I said. “Your plan is as good as you’re going to get. Go for it.”
“Who was the guy with the shaved head?” he asked me.
“There’s never a reason,” he said. “I just do what I’m told.”
“Because all that evidence is old,” the doctor said. “Looks to me like he was driving a lot for a long period, but then he stopped. I think he’s done very little driving for nine months, maybe a year. So I make him a truck driver, but an unemployed truck driver.”