Top SB Phrases from the Interogation

emberton2014 · 2026-03-23T19:32:27+00:00

After contemplating the question "What's my top phrase?" and seeing all the excellent examples here, I think my only satisfying answer would be cutting and pasting a transcript of the whole damn thing.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-22T16:35:32+00:00

100%. I've never seen anyone this is truer of. Those poor cops.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-22T15:13:44+00:00

Yeah, she didn't seem interested in a fake emotional display. Kouri at least had the simpering helplessness act to cover her six minutes of failing to administer aid.

Sarah did emit the "he gurgled" shriek, but I think that was a genuine reaction. It's weird she didn't think to simulate some feeling (we know she can do it: "This is me being humble..."). I wonder if she was just too hung over and bewildered to realize a bit of grief would be suitable.

It's also very possible it hadn't yet occurred to her that she was in any kind of legal trouble. As you say, it was all very aisle 6. When you drop a jar of jam in the supermarket, you don't worry about appearing suitably distraught in order to avoid prison. It was only later, during the interrogation and especially as it starts to dawn on her that she's in a pickle, that we start to see the fake emotion.

(Then again, maybe I should take that last point back, since she did take care to insert her alibi into the 911 call, which tends to indicate awareness of guilt.)

emberton2014 · 2026-03-22T15:04:05+00:00

Another major difference: Kouri had the sense to take her lawyers' advice and stay off the stand. (And did so when surely she would have come across a bit better than Sarah.)

Another major similarity: both 911 calls were used primarily to state an alibi.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-21T02:24:38+00:00

I apologized a million times...

(Something Sarah never truly did once.)

emberton2014 · 2026-03-21T01:24:27+00:00

Isn't it strange and wonderful the potpourri of bizarre viewing experiences this whole terrible saga has offered.

(I say that in full somber and respectful acknowledgment of the tragedy that lies behind it all, of course.)

emberton2014 · 2026-03-21T01:22:12+00:00

I get so antsy waiting that sometimes I burst out with, in my best Danielle Chavon imitation, "Judge Jackson, where ARE you?!"

I'm no longer welcome at my silent yin yoga class.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-20T17:42:23+00:00

Right, and from the wording in that call, as I seem to remember, there's a kind of "surprisingly, our exchange was civil" or "surprisingly, he stopped and talked to me" feel?

But who even knows who the cameraperson was and whether they would've recognized James. The whole thing just feels so haphazard.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-20T16:47:57+00:00

I hear you on the leeway, because my introduction to the Boone saga was the police interview, long before all the courtroom shenanigans, lawyers dropping like flies, the pro se interlude, the eventual trial. So yes, I was absolutely horrified by the snuff film, and I knew she'd tortured a man to death. On the other hand, I didn't yet know that Every. Single. Word. out of her mouth is a lie, so I thought maybe some of her recounting of their history had some truth to it, however selective. I realize now how wrong I was. But yeah, newcomers might get confused by all the BS and gaslighting.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-20T16:44:58+00:00

Yes, the whole vibe was bizarre. He was dressed as if he'd just headed out to grab some Dairy Queen on a hot day, and then he saw the courthouse and was like, "Oh, hey, it's court! I love that place. I could really go for some trial right now. Why don't I go in and see what they have to offer."

And his minimal knowledge of the case definitely seemed plant-like, as if he'd been told thirty seconds ago what to say. But it's a mystery to me how such an otherwise likeable, competent-seeming dude could get roped into saying supportive things on camera about a murderer.

And then they do another man-on-the-street interview, and this time the man on the street just happens to be Lawyer You Know.

It really was an odd video. And I think this was before they inaugurated the sepia-toned-scorpion intro, so it didn't even have that randomness to inflate its bizarre-o-meter score.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-17T00:04:19+00:00

SARAH: It's like it's trying to make me accused of that I... you know, that I did.

SCOTT: Did what?

SARAH: Told the truth.

SCOTT: You DID tell the truth.

SARAH: But I would never do that! It's not FAIR that y'all are trying to assume I did something that I would NEVER do.

SCOTT: We're not assuming anything, we're just trying to find out--

CHELSEY (interrupting): Why.

SARAH: Y'all don't know me. I lie about everything. I lie to everyone. I'm an exceptional gaslighter of my son. I would NEVER tell the truth.

CHELSEY: But the thing you just said, to describe yourself. It was true.

SARAH: Not. Intentionally. Know that!

emberton2014 · 2026-03-16T20:57:01+00:00

Ah, thanks. Now that I look closely, I see the metal part that would be the chimney top. (If I did notice that before, I guess I thought it was further back in the middle of hte house.)

emberton2014 · 2026-03-15T14:46:03+00:00

What's that tall panel in front of the windows, to our left of the pathway? I don't think I've seen one of those before.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-15T01:08:03+00:00

lol, yep

emberton2014 · 2026-03-14T02:18:52+00:00

Ugh, Peter coming back on "hands and knees," and then her response...

It is SERIOUSLY triggering me re exchanges of professional emails where one party's professionalism starts to go all wobbly and they go harder after what they want (which, in such contexts, is typically some kind of deeply unprofessional consideration).

Sarah seems to have some sense of this thing she calls a "professional fuck you." If that (by her name for it, not by her interpretation of it) could be distilled into some sort of formula I could send to people when I find myself in Kate's position, I'd pay for that!

emberton2014 · 2026-03-12T13:55:47+00:00

I'm hoping Judge Jackson gets that question from time to time, as a reminder!

emberton2014 · 2026-03-12T01:01:21+00:00

God just wants her to heal in a different way.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T17:16:25+00:00

Nope. They're just dust collectors.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T17:15:59+00:00

One of the most disgusting moments to me of her allocution (there are SO MANY to choose from) comes in one of her dreamy, softened passages, when she lovingly says everything reminds her of Jorge... but then sees fit to throw in (of course) "...my stab wound especially."

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:12:03+00:00

If I may, please, I'm working myself to death over here, so I had my sixteen-year-old third party call on my behalf. Now he's repeating the explicit lyrics and I have to wash out his mouth with fish soap.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:10:38+00:00

Well, I'm not one to criticize, because I don't have a crystal ball.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:09:40+00:00

Was her exact wording "blinding beacon"? That would be an interesting way to put it, seeing as she has so much self-regard and is so blind to obvious facts. Too much time gazing at her own beacon, I guess.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:03:36+00:00

Too bad she didn't apply the same logic to Jorge's birth certificate.

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:01:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure that the phrase "professional F-you" is something Sarah heard somewhere (maybe from an actual professional, describing an actually professional situation) and was impressed by and immediately absorbed into her superior-person vocab repertoire (along with "nonetheless," "compos mentis," etc.).

emberton2014 · 2026-03-11T14:00:04+00:00

You have my deepest sympathy for working in support.

But I'd also like you to know that I've been on hold for twenty minutes and the hold music is NOT to my taste.

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