There's a really comical place, in which Scott reads another poem to Amber. It is by some poet named Belloc, and it goes sort of like this, How was the party in Portland Square? I do not know, Juliet was not there; What of Lady [Somebody's] tea? Juliet stood by me, I did not see.
Well, what girl could fail to be moved?
Amber indicates that she doesn't see what he's driving at. So he says he's comparing her to the Juliet of the poem. So then he starts over, reciting, so she can hear it again. He says, "How was the party in Portland Square?" And Amber says, "Okay. Portland Square. Got it."
Scott pauses and says, "No, Amber, Portland Square's not important, it's that he can't be happy unless he is in Juliet's presence." (paraphrasing) Then, feeling that he needs to explain still further, he says something like, "Okay. Two guys are talking. Let's say John is talking to Jim. Now, John is in love with Juliet..."
Amber is still unmoved after the explanation.
So Scott decides to move on to something she knows. He starts talking about the book of Matthew, which she had quoted to him previously. He tells her he has been reading up on it. They end up talking about "the seed". At one point, Amber speaks of the seed which the sower drops on the rocky soil--it puts down roots which are shallow, and "it burns up." At this point I really thought Scott might interject a comment about some chicken he had burned...
Then he compares himself to the sower, and says he wants to get it right this time, that he wants to sow the seed in the fertile soil. HMMMM!!!! Does that mean he previously "sowed the seed" in the "wrong soil"?
In the 2nd Jan. 12 call, Scott says something weird on about pg. 30. He says, "I saw you in the mirror the other day." He tells Amber he saw her in the mirror, wearing a red sweater. Amber replies that in fact, on that very day, she had been standing in front of HER mirror, holding the red sweater up to see how it would look on her. Weird.
It is also revealed that one evening, Scott called Amber and couldn't reach her. So he called Shawn Sibley and asked her if there was anything wrong with Amber. Sounds to me like he's a little possessive of Amber.
And Scott again refers to the Covena house, and still does not claim ownership of it. He says, "I was at that house the other day, the house Laci disappeared from." Something like that. Amber replies, in essence, that she knows darn well that that house was the home of Scott and Laci Peterson. Yet Scott continues to refer to the house as "that house". He also refers to his warehouse as "the warehouse in Modesto".
Sounded like Scott was scared to death that Amber would show up at his door in Modesto. Right in the midst of all the uproar, and with the media standing by.
Scott wanted to totally detach, separate himself from Laci"the girl he was married to", the baby, "her" baby...his home with Laci"the house", " that house"..the business where he had only reached 23% of his sales quota.
He wanted his fantasy life..world traveller,bon vivant, multiple homes, holidays fishing in Alaska and hunting from Kennebunkport..
As to his vision of Amber..Recall his sign to the volunteers about telling Laci and he thought she heard about their efforts?..(He identified himself only as Laci's husband, not Scott Peterson.)..Weird indeed.
"Sounds to me like he's a little possessive of Amber."
Really obsessed. I did my homework and read many of the phone transcripts! What jumps out at me is his willingness/desire to keep talking to her in light of the "grilling". If Amber was just a fling he would have handled her differently. I'm still sticking with what I said earlier. He made a decision long before Amber to "get rid" of his wife and child in some manner. He wanted a "new wife" or partner and Amber was it. I don't think he would have necessarily been faithful to her - I think he just likes to have someone to take care of domestic needs while he has fun "on the side". Laci was probably making demands that would have precluded the aforementioned lifestyle. As always, JMO.
Hellluuuu, Scott? You were also at that house the very day Laci disappeared.
possibly...
Time will tell, but I bet the police can put him at Ambers that day, peeping into her windows!! Now that would be a new one, Peeping Tom to add to his other attributes!!! LOL