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Okay, on to Serial, season one.

Previously, on Serial.

He left his cell phone in the car with me, told me he'd call me.

Okay, now at this point, you know why he's leaving the car with you? Yes. And why is that? Because he said he was going to kill Hay. I definitely understand that someone could look at this and say, oh man, you know, he must be lying. It's so coincidental. He told me to speak with Jay, and I was like, okay, because Jay wanted to say hi.

So I said hi to Jay, and that's all I can really recall.

The uselessness of what we're trying to do by recreating something that doesn't fit.

It's like trying to plot the coordinates of someone's dream or something. You know, perhaps I'll never be able to explain it.

And it is what it is. If someone believes me or not, you know, I have no control over it.

This is a global tell link, prepaid call from...

A non-say-it. An inmate at a Maryland Correctional Facility. Prepaid call from... Adnan Say it.

An inmate at a Maryland Correctional Facility.

This call will be recorded and monitored.

From This American Life in WBEZ Chicago, it's serial, one story told week by week.

And this, episode 12, is the final week.

Final episode of season one of this podcast.

It's been a year since I first contacted Adnan, and I'm still talking to him regularly.

I'm still asking him the basics, still thinking, I don't know, that he'll remember something,

or maybe he'll just get so frustrated with me that he'll crack. I still want to know what you were doing that afternoon.

I want to know who had your phone, and I want to know what you were doing that afternoon.

No, I don't remember anything more.

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