The call came from the Carter Family.
"Caitlin! Your younger brother has gone mad. He refused Mr. Rieste, insisting on having Purple Summers as his defense attorney! No matter how we try to persuade him, he won't listen! What can we do? What can we do?!" sobbed Caitlin's mother over the phone.
Edward Carter is an adult; he has the right to choose his own defense attorney, and his family has no say in the matter.
Thinking of Edward Carter's petulant guilty plea the day before, his parents simply thought he was giving up on himself, deliberately choosing a young girl without hope to be his defense attorney!
Stunned, Caitlin held the phone, no longer clearly hearing what was being said on the other end, as she stared at Purple Summers and blurted out, "Why?"
Everyone was puzzled, not understanding why Caitlin would ask this.
Caitlin was already speaking incoherently, "My younger brother... how could he, why... why does he insist it must be you?"
