Presuming Bob was telling him the friendship was over. They had in one of the clips his last interview on the radio and he was just about to turn 50 and he sounded like someone who was taking a long look at his life and wanting to turn it around and jettisoning someone like Carpenter was at the top of his to-do list. It seemed like Hollywood was waiting for him to offer a comeback as long as he got his act together.
Agree with all you wrote.
Why was there so much blood in Carpenter’s rental car? Really. He did it; the local PD screwed the investigation up from the beginning.
He got away with murder.