"Told me? No. I'm not deaf, either, though. Snapping off a conversation when someone walks in works about as well as telling the jury to disregard on those law shows."

Mark knows very well it's an attempt at 'protecting', but there's been enough protecting already. "That boyfriend and your patient helped her run away, and now she's something else weird and older and made a run for it. I don't know if they believe it, but they're trying to stick the boyfriend blame somewhere. I think they're just blaming the laptop itself and the internet as a whole so at least that's over."