I shrugged my shoulders, not understanding Dad's reasoning either. “We go three months without a single Sports Day and now two in three weeks?” Mark asks. “Did something happen?”
When Bar-Lev asks Laura and Mark point-blank whether they might have helped Marla a little and got in over their heads, their straight-faced reactions, ending with Laura in tears, do less to alleviate doubts than to add a layer of discomfort, which is all the more dismaying because no one wins.