“Well, after a while the guy she was with gets up to go take a leak or go outside for a smoke, and as soon as he’s gone she gets up and slides on down the bar to me and asks if I’m interested. I said I was but what about the guy she’s already with? She says don’t worry about him, he’ll be out the door by ten and then she’s free the rest of the night. She wrote her address down for me and said to come by after ten. I told her I’d be there.”
“What did she write the address down on?”
“A napkin, but the answer to your next question is no, I don’t still have it. I memorized the address and threw out the napkin. I work in real estate. I can remember addresses.”
“About what time was this?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, she said come by at ten. Did you look at your watch at any point to see how long you would have to wait until then?”
“I think it was between eight and nine. As soon as the guy came back in they left.”
“When did you leave the bar?”
“I stayed for a few minutes and then I left. I made one more stop before I went to her place.”
“Where was that?”
“Well, she lived in an apartment in Tarzana so I went up to the Lamplighter. It was on the way.”
“Why?”
“Well, you know, I wanted to see what the possibilities were. You know, see if there was something better out there, something I didn’t have to wait around for or…”
“Or what?”
He still didn’t finish the thought.
“Take seconds on?”
He nodded.
“Okay, so who’d you talk to at the Lamplighter? Where is that, by the way?”
It was the only place so far I was unfamiliar with.
“It’s on Ventura near White Oak. I didn’t really talk to anybody. It was crowded but there really wasn’t anybody I was interested in there.”
“The bartenders know you there?”
“No, not really. I don’t go there all that much.”
“You usually get lucky before you hit the third option?”
“Nah, I usually just give up after two.”
I nodded just to buy a little time to think about what else to ask before we got to what happened at the victim’s house.
“How long were you at the Lamplighter?”
“About an hour, I’d say. Maybe a little less.”
“At the bar? How many drinks?”
“Yeah, two drinks at the bar.”
“How many drinks in all did you have last night before getting to Reggie Campo’s apartment?”
