you would know that. what are you trying to tell me? that we made love that morning. reporter: but even as the seemingly confident fred grew clearly irritated, the agent wasn t deterred. what about those scratches on his face the day leslie died? so these vertical scratches, you re saying you got from bushes? bushes or that ground or running down this hill. falling a few times, which i did fall, but it had to have been from some of that. there s no other explanation. okay, well then that s factual. there was no altercation up there? no, ma am. no, ma am. cause it looks check underneath her fingernails if you think there s something under her nails that s missing off my face. it didn t happen. there was no altercation. write it down. none. reporter: for now it seemed that was all the agents could do. document fred s story and let him leave. i m sorry to be a crude open book. time is 11:23. i am turning off the recording.