Ros is telling the story of what happened leading up to Rex’s murder. Aram told her to start at the beginning with how they got the mug. “When Nick showed me the mug he had a clever idea. We have a nice little business going selling undocumented antiques. Most are copies but every now and then we come across something museum quality. Can’t be sold that way with no papers. So we hold onto them waiting for a customer who wants to buy at discount. He didn’t say how he got the mug but he thinks the owner sometimes buys at discount.” “Nick said the guy would pay a lot to get his mug back, So why not sell him one of our special items at full auction price, signed receipt and all and he gets his mug back for free. He wanted me to write up the note with the offer and draft sales contract. So I wrote up a draft and gave it to Nick. Oh, and Nick suggested I hide the mug deep in Emily’s prop box. Didn’t want to mix it up with our inventory. And if anything goes wrong they would suspect it was Emily, not us.”