Gone-Girl-by-Gillian-Flynn

hits TV, we tell Boney and Gilpin about Andie and about our discovery in the
woodshed. Oh my gosh, we’ve put it all together for you: Amy is alive and
she’s framing Nick! She’s crazy, jealous, and she is framing Nick! Oh, the
humanity!’
‘Why not tell Sharon Schieber, then? About Amy framing me?’
‘Reason one. You come clean about Andie, you beg forgiveness, the
nation is primed to forgive you, they’ll feel sorry for you – Americans love to
see sinners apologize. But you can reveal nothing to make your wife look
bad; no one wants to see the cheating husband blame the wife for anything.
Let someone else do it sometime the next day: Sources close to the police
reveal that Nick’s wife – the one he swore he loved with all his heart – is
framing him! It’s great TV.’
‘What’s reason two?’
‘It’s too complicated to explain exactly how Amy is framing you. You
can’t do it in a sound bite. It’s bad TV.’
‘I feel sick,’ I said.
‘Nick, it’s—’ Go started.
‘I know, I know, it has to be done. But can you imagine, your biggest
secret and you have to tell the world about it? I know I have to do it. And it
works for us, ultimately, I think. It’s the only way Amy might come back,’ I
said. ‘She wants me to be publicly humiliated—’
‘Chastened,’ Tanner interrupted. ‘Humiliated makes it sound like you feel
sorry for yourself.’
‘—and to publicly apologize,’ I continued. ‘But it’s going to be fucking
awful.’
‘Before we go forward, I want to be honest here,’ Tanner said. ‘Telling the
police the whole story – Amy’s framing Nick – it is a risk. Most cops, they
decide on a suspect and they don’t want to veer at all. They’re not open to any
other options. So there’s the risk that we tell them and they laugh us out of the
station and they arrest you – and then theoretically we’ve just given them a
preview of our defense. So they can plan exactly how to destroy it at trial.’
‘Okay, wait, that sounds really, really bad, Tanner,’ Go said. ‘Like, bad,
inadvisable bad.’
‘Let me finish,’ Tanner said. ‘One, I think you’re right, Nick. I think
Boney isn’t convinced you’re a killer. I think she would be open to an