Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
I want to come back to Mr. Smith.
In the last round of questioning, you told me that you rushed to settle with the victim, without being aware of the underlying facts, without taking the time to alert the other defendants, because you wanted to act wholly in the victim's best interests. Let's look at the victim's best interests.
Mr. Smith, would it have been in the victim's best interests, in the initial version of the settlement agreement, to have a clause preventing her from speaking to any third party about anything that happened to her, with no carve-out for the police or investigators or to respond to players that may be speaking about her? Would that have been in her best interest, Mr. Smith?