On Tuesday, Rieker gave damaging testimony against Ken Lay saying he misled investors, even after she corrected him.

Wednesday and Thursday, Collins attacked Rieker's credibility. She didn't waver. Always polite. Often with a smile.

But by mid-morning, after a day and a half of questioning by Collins, Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli took over. With a more accusatory tone, Petrocelli targeted Rieker's earlier testimony when she said she only repeated the false information about the company which she heard Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say first.

"You were paid three million dollars a year in 2001 to do more than just hear managements answers and repeat them. You weren't a tape recorder, fair statement?," Petrocelli asked walking back and forth between the podium and the witness stand.

"Fair statement," Rieker told him, still unshaken.

She went on to say she just packaged the company message for analysts and investors.

"You were the architect of that company message, right?," Petrocelli charged.

"No sir," Rieker responded.

But in her own self-review for higher ups, Rieker said she was the architect of the company message.

In court, Thursday morning, she admitted "I over stretched on my own accomplishments for the purpose of my own review."

Petrocelli's style of cross-examination has awakened a day and a half of sleepy testimony. Trial watchers expect he'll likely take the rest of the day and perhaps part of Monday grilling Rieker.