In my country we have a proverb: Lies have short legs and take you nowhere.

But watching this interrogation made me rethink the limits I thought would be possible for the poor writing of a minimally consistent narrative about how it's not possible for him to have hit his wife.

• "She is crazy and suicidal."
• "She doesn't speak the language, therefore people at the hospital confused her and she asked for her husband by saying his name."
• "I was passed out in my friend's couch. My neighbor texted me saying the police was at my house."
• "You can't pinpoint my phone at my friend's house because it was discharged."
• "You can't pinpoint my phone's motions leaving my house during the attack because I don't like cellphones, therefore I dig a hole and bury it every time I leave my house."
• "I can't give you ways to contact my friend because I just met the guy at Wallmart. I don't even know his address. Yes, we are close enough for me to pass out on his couch."
• "I can't take police there because it was too dark for me to see where I was going."
• "My car was in my garage path because I prefer to walk to my friend's house."
• "My other close friend who I just met saw me bury my cellphone many times before we went to the other friend's house."
• "Of course I just went to his house once or twice."

And on, and on..

Empire is a TV series famous for it's particular collection of actors whose favorite hobby is to tell the most poorly written lies to the police.