mr. seacat was not the least bit secretive when he asked you this question? >> new york city -- no, he was not. >> he goes and asks someone to help him find an overhead projector? takes him to where it is. he carries it down in full view of anybody who is possibly in that place, and he carries it back. that sounds like somebody who didn't have anything to hide. >> and what about the state's point that no soot was found in vashti's lungs? coroner allowed that it could be possible under the defense scenario that vashti lit a fire just before killing herself. >> if someone lit a fire and shot themselves within seconds, would you expect to see soot in their lungs? >> not necessarily, no. >> as for the powerpoint found on the seacats' dining room table, the one that discussed homicide and suicide and fire investigations, meaningless, said the defense. >> what the prosecution would have you assume, right, is that this really, really smart cop was stupid enough to be looking at all of this stuff the night he tries to burn the house down? please. i certainly wouldn't

mr. seacat, will you tell us your full name please. >> brett theodore seacat. >> at his own request, no video audio recording only. as brett set out, with confidence, to tell the jury what happened beginning 21 hours or so before the fire. >> on that morning when i said goodbye, she said see you tonight and actually gave me a big kiss, which i thought was odd. >> why did you think that was odd? >> um, because in the last week, week and a half, we had been back and forth about 50 times on divorce, and so it just let me know that we were back on the not divorce track. >> by the time he returned to the house that evening, said brett, things had changed. >>> i couldn't figure out why she was -- she was in a big hurry to get a divorce, which was something that had never happened before. i told her we haven't really much. my angle in the discussion was, i'll give you a collaborative divorce if we work on the marriage for three to six months. >> brett said vashti seemed to agree to that, especially when he made it clear what he would do if she went forward with the divorce right then. >> basically,

mr. seacat was not the least bit secretive when he asked you this question?omeone to help him find an overhead projector? takes him to where it is. he carries it down in full view of anybody who is possibly in that place, and he carries it back. that sounds like somebody who didn't have anything to hide. >> and what about the state's point that no soot was found in vashti's lungs? under cross-examination, the coroner allowed that it could be possible under the defense scenario that vashti lit a fire just before killing herself. >> if someone lit a fire and shot themselves within seconds, would you expect to see soot in their lungs? >> not necessarily, no. >> as for the powerpoint found on the seacats' dining room table, the one that discussed homicide and suicide and fire investigations, meaningless, said the defense. >> what the prosecution would have you assume, right, is that this really, really smart cop was stupid enough to be look he tries to burn the house down? please. i certainly wouldn't try to hide evidence by setting a house four blocks from the f