Why did Arina find the main character of a talk show so unpleasant, even though she became a participant against her will? Is it just ordinary human antipathy—or is it professional intuition telling her that the death of little Vitya Kasyov isn’t the mystery that has already been “solved,” despite how obvious it seems?
Like the death of a businessman who fell out of his penthouse—where the obvious guilt of the widow is shattered by the certainty of her alibi, which Arina uncovered while studying the materials of the late detective Shubin. He never finished his hunt for the elusive—or perhaps totally nonexistent—killer.