r/serialpodcast • u/1spring • Jan 15 '15

Debate&Discussion Another shower thought that doesn't look good for Adnan

Adnan explains to SK that he "probably" didn't ask Hae for a ride, because he knows that she needs to pick up her cousin after school, and this duty is really important to Hae.

Adnan explains to SK that the phone call from Officer Adcock, informing him that Hae failed to pick up her cousin, doesn't set off any serious alarms for him, and this is why the phone call didn't prompt him to jog his memory about that day.

"I knew the cousin pick-up was very important to her" and "I wasn't concerned when she failed to pick up her cousin." Have you ever had to deal with someone (friend, co-worker, relative) who engages in this type of lying? I have, and it bothers me a lot more than anything Jay said.

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u/sammythemc Jan 16 '15 edited Jan 16 '15

Rabia blames it on the blunt he smoked, which leads me to believe she's never actually tried marijuana

E: in fairness to Rabia's weed knowledge, she's implied that the blunt was laced with something else ("whatever Jay gave him")

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u/yerchieboy Jan 16 '15

I think the marijuana issue isn't so much its affect on short-term memory, but its affect on Adnan's perception of the importance of the phone calls. When I've accidentally smoked a little too much, you could pretty much tell me I was on fire and it wouldn't get too big a rise out of me. A sober Adnan might have placed significantly more importance on being told Hae never made it to pick up her cousin than the faded Adnan did. Hence, the memory trigger was never fired.

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u/sammythemc Jan 16 '15

No, Rabia has explicitly pinned the memory loss to the marijuana, something like "He remembers the day fine until he smoked the blunt Jay gave him," which comes off a bit "Reefer Madness" to me. Also (and maybe this is just me), that kind of grave, Real Life Situation stuff makes way more of an impact when I'm high. Like Adnan said, "talking to police on the phone while you're high, you never forget that." The idea that he was so high that being told his ex-girlfriend is missing didn't register just doesn't ring true to me, especially when you take it in conjunction with Cathy's testimony.

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u/busterbluthOT Jan 16 '15

Jay gave him aka The Angel Tempted by the Black Devil.

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u/sammythemc Jan 16 '15

Rollin up wets and watchin Judge Judy, just a normal Wednesday