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look like you guys are keeping her against her will.
You see where I�m, going?

A.
Understood now.
Q.
And if she is completely crazy or acting
bizarre and you let her go and she gets run over by a
truck, then you don�t look so good either.

A.
Right.
Q.
I�m not trying to trick you.
A.
I understand where you�re coming from. Let
me say this then, okay?

Q.
All right.
A.
That�s tricky, isn�t it? If �� if she had --
let me say this: If she had asked to leave, then we
would have asked Alain yeah or no. I�ll tell you why.
We
-� me, I didn�t want to have a situation where she�d
take her clothes of f and go running back in the back of
the hotel and get hit by a truck or something. I
didn�t want that to happen. I didn�t know the
situation she was in I did know something was wrong,
so, obviously, I didn�t want to have a situation where
if she is gonna be some kind of risk to herself or
danger to herself and get hurt
-- I didn�t want that to
happen.

Q.
Okay. So were those feelings communicated to
Sam and Alfonso?


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