Mario Hernandez: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] What was I gonna do? I mean, you gotta understand, Garcia had been bleeding me for months. When he challenged me to the match race, that's when I hit on the idea how to get rid of him. The two that left Montauk were my racing birds, but they had phony I.D. bands, and they both flew back to my loft. The two that were supposed to race, Garcia's and mine, I never took them out of the cage. I drove them back to Manhattan. I used the fire escape to get up to Garcia's roof and brought my own racing clock with me. I had Garcia remove the racing I.D. band from his bird, put his bird back in his cage, then clock it in. The time punched by the clock showed that the bird had arrived at 6:07. Then I got rid of him. Then I used my own racing clock to prove that my bird had arrived at my loft at 6:08. It made no difference that it took me ten minutes to get back to my own loft. It would always look like I was on that roof to punch in Red at 6:08. Finally, I put Garcia's bird in his loft and got out of there. I went down to the club and that gave me an alibi for the rest of the night. It was perfect. Except for me accidentally pulling out that damn feather when I went to get his I.D. band.
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