Yes — I’ll continue from Part 1 and give you Parts 2–5 as one continuous story, so your automatic site system can divide it itself.
The next morning, I drove to my shop before sunrise.
Daniel Harris, the insurance investigator, was already waiting for me.
He was standing beside the Mercedes with a folder under his arm.
“Mr. Brooks,” he said, shaking my hand, “I need to ask you a few questions.”
I unlocked the shop.
“About the repairs?”
“About what happened before the repairs.”
I looked at him carefully.
“What did Brent tell you?”
Daniel opened his folder.
“He reported that the Mercedes was damaged in a collision at approximately 11:40 p.m. last Saturday.”
I frowned.
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“Why?”
“Because Laura brought it to me Monday afternoon.”
Daniel nodded.
“We know that.”
He pulled out several photographs.
“The problem is that the damage doesn’t match the accident description.”
I studied the pictures.
Daniel continued.
“According to Brent’s statement, the Mercedes hit a concrete barrier at high speed. He said the front end was destroyed and that the vehicle was barely drivable.”
“That sounds about right.”
“The damage does,” Daniel said. “But the timeline doesn’t.”
He placed another photograph on my desk.
