They can't seem to get anything else out of him. It was raining and someone with running shoes with red lettering came to the car and opened the door. They ask what he saw when the number was 065739.0. There never were any suspects to the carjacking but six months earlier, the Harris' tropical fish store was burned down.īrent is asked about the murders but he just repeats the odometer number. They were a block from home and Ruby said they were on the way to the local drive-through. The theory at the time was a carjacking gone wrong. Stillman reads Steve and Lisa Harris' files. Lilly figures Brent must have been in the car and saw his parents murdered.

Then Lilly notices the car odometer in a photograph: it's set at that number. Scotty asks again, but Brent remains silent. Lilly asks what the number has to do with the murders. They mention the murder and he spouts out the number: 065739.1. Brent used to be high-functioning, but that changed after his parents' murders. Joseph explains that autistic people often have photographic memories. Brent was at home at the time of the murders, and later, he would blurt out a long number. Joseph says an orderly told him about Brent when he was working a DHS job. A clerk at the police department puts two file boxes marked 'Harris' on the shelf. At exactly 6:30 pm, Brent, who is autistic, says it's dinnertime and they dig in. It seems he believes his fish, Sammy, doesn't like yellow. While they are waiting for the clock to reach 6:30 pm exactly, Ruby teases Brent about his removing the yellow pieces.

Ruby says the racket at Doug's makes studying impossible at his house.

Ruby says she's going to study with Doug later, if that's OK with her parents. Eventually, she complies and sits down for dinner. Their parents arrive with 'take-out Tuesday' food-Brent's favorite. His sister, Ruby, is on the phone with her boyfriend, Doug. Brent is sitting at kitchen table working on a mosaic, putting the yellow pieces off to the side. Meanwhile, Lilly pays a price in her relationship with Joseph for seeing Ray.Īpril 18, 2003. Lilly reopens a 2003 case in which an autistic boy's parents were shot and killed in their car when Lilly's boyfriend, Joseph, brings her information that the boy might have witnessed their murder.

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