You make a great point and I just want to add to it. If he were really fearful of this happening he would do EVERYTHING he could to not forget. Instead of forgetting in a matter of seconds.
:gathering::gathering::gathering:
We know what Ross was doing that morning pretty much. Slept late. Watched cartoons. Took Cooper to dine inside C4L for breakfast. Such a sweet Daddy.
Parked with Cooper locked inside that small car while in the sun, after he drove into his work parking lot, without taking Cooper to daycare. Ross forgot Cooper. On purpose.
Here's 100%. Ross searched hot car deaths online.
Ross got 2WM co-workers to drop him off at his car that was sitting in the hot parking lot, after lunch, to make sure he catches a glimpse of what Cooper is doing locked in the backseat since dining that morning at Chick Fi-let earlier at 9:00ish. We know Cooper got so hot that he scratched his face off. The overheating of his body was unbearable. Cooper was probably dead when Ross, his father, glanced into the the backseat when the tossed the package of light bulbs into the car.
Ross would have smelled Cooper's special odor of death. Urine. Feces. Tears. Perspiration. Vomit. Blood boiling. From sitting there for appx seven hours in the intense heat, Cooper tried ripping at his clothes before he finally gave up from exhaustion and overheated. Ross knew the dastardly deed had worked when he stuck his head inside the door of the car in the parking lot after lunch and got a wink and a whiff.
Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! He starts sexting more than ever while back in his office. He sexts five or six women at a time, iirrc.
Then, Ross leaves work to meet buddies at the movie theater. Appx three and a half hours later, leaving the sexting and his job, Ross heads outside to his hot and smelly car where Cooper is sitting dead from the heat then, Ross drives for miles before he pulls over and stays on the phone, once he finally pulls over, into the parking lot where the police gather around Cooper and Ross. Ross hops out of his car and begins pacing and screaming.
How convenient. Ross manages to ignore the smell and distinct odor of his own dead child; he also could drive about seven miles without noticing his child was in the car; Cooper was strapped in the backseat with his head hung over and smelled dreadful; Ross stayed on the phone about six minutes, without cooperating, in the parking lot almost as soon as he pulled off the road.
That was his ninth mistake.
:fishy: There's the matter of the insurance policy on Cooper. $24Gs, irrc.
R&L's combined debt will not be allowed into evidence. Wrong decision on judge's part, imho, but I'm no attorney-at-law or judge of the trial.
It's real terribly sad when your own father wants you so very little that he'll let you die a very painful, slow, death in the backseat of a hot car. That requires a dark soul and an evil core of a sex addict who cannot be rehabilitated.
Justice for Cooper