EPISODE
XVII: FEAR IN DOWNTOWN
It was
Tuesday night and the downtown was invaded by bikers. All were from twenty to
twenty-five and they were pumping loud music in stereo that they were carrying
secured in the rear seats.
A red 2002
Harley-Davidson FLSTC / FLSTCI Heritage Softail Classic flanked a 2012 Harley
Davidson Softail FLS Slim Chopper Bike near
"I bet
I can beat you here and now!" the first rider said
"That
bike is ten years older than mine! It’s a museum bike! It’s not made for
racing rookie!" the mate replied
"I
want to beat you Stew! I won’t hear the stories! I want to be the king of this
year!"
"You
might not get to Rave Party alive, Darren!" the other laughed "If you
really want to play hardball, let's play!"
The two
pulled over and they unloaded the stereo on the sidewalk, the other riders
followed suit.
"Oh
Darren! If Stew makes you the butt, you avoid to go to cry after mom!" a
biker sitting on his CVO Softail Deluxe said
"My
dear sister, that with your last salary you bought a bike for more than $
28,000, you knock it off!" the boy climbed into the saddle of his bike and
revved up "Are you ready, Stew?"
"And
you, Darren?" he made him hear the roar of its engine "You can always
pick up the challenge!"
Darren
flanked Stew and prepared to depart.
At the
start they darted fast among the cars on 5th Avenue. The friends had raised
their visors of the helmets to better observe the scene
"Shit!
Darren has learned to run!" his sister exulted
"Oh!
What the fuck is Stew doing?" one of the friends shouted.
The sound
of braking and crumpled car bodies was soon replaced by that of police sirens
"Shit,
let's go! Here they bring us all away!" one yelled
"I
want to know how Darren is!" the girl screamed
"Your
brother died, in all probability! Go at home Maddie and stay there! Remember:
you've never been here!" one of the boys shouted.
Mac looked
at the file again
"Hello
Mac!" a voice greeted him from the door "I'm back! Actually, we're
back!"
"Jo?!
I thought you and Sheldon would have been in Canada a little more!"
"You
know when the food looks sickening to you and certain smells bother you?"
"No!
But I saw it with Christine!"
Jo stepped
to the desk and hugged her from behind Mac, not making him get up from the
chair
"Did
you miss me so much?"
Jo kissed
him on the cheek "You have no idea! Sheldon, poor him, he tried to don’t weigh
this back to me, but it is better to go to visit Canada without kids incoming!"
her eyes fell on the file of the Mac "Look here! I read the news in the
papers! Did you really found a stitching awl in the victim’s neck?”
"Yes!"
he pulled out the file on a girl “Madeleine Porter, the victim's sister! You
may not believe it, but in the garage we found a bike of this year while Darren
Porter’s bike is 2002!"
"Both
must cost a lot! How can the case be solved?"
"The
curious thing is that there were several riders Tuesday night, according to
witnesses, and we found several tire tracks!"
"Have
you then any suspect?"
"No!"
Mac said with regret "But the bike of Darren's sister was one of those!
The tread pattern has a match!"
Sheldon
smiled at Danny entering the lab "Hey!"
"Hey!
Shouldn’t you be in Canada?" Danny said hugging his friend
"I had
to! Jo wasn’t feeling well and so we had to return!" he looked at the file
in the hands of Danny "What's in your hand?"
"The
results of the DNA of the case I'm working on and the evidence! While you are
here, help me!"
"Willingly!
I hope Jo is now by Mac! Maybe even with her help we will solve the case
earlier than expected!"
Danny
opened the envelope with the DNA results "Stewart Miller! The other rider
involved in the accident! I would love to deepen the knowledge with him!"
Sheldon
took down the name and inserted it into the research system
"He
hasn’t criminal record! But we know that he works for the stables in Central
Park! Shall we go pay him a visit?"
Christine
and Erika walked the streets of New York pushing baby carriages
"If we
stop at the usual bar for a coffee?" Christine suggested " I have to
go to work later! I promised to Stephane that I would be dealt with the lunches
and dinners!"
"What
a busy woman! Where you leave your children?" Erika said glancing at her
one sleeping peacefully
"To my
father!"
"If he
were not there!"
"Yeah!"
Christine admitted pushing the door to the bar and they sat down at one of them
tables.
A maid of
twenty came immediately to them
"Hello
girls! I was beginning to think that you would no longer come!"
"Hello
Dahlia! As usual we can surprise you!" Erika exclaimed moving closer to
her "How is your coverage?"
“Great!
Your and Christine's teachings have been very useful!" she rose up and
exclaimed aloud "I bring you the usual and special!"
"Thank
you!" Erika looked at Christine "Why are you making that face?"
"I
washed one of Mac’s shirts, early this morning, and I found a patch of coral
lipstick! Your lipstick!"
"I
have to remind me to don’t wear makeup when I embrace the husbands of my
friends!"
"I'm
serious!" Christine remarked to her "I no longer have to hide him a
part of me! You make in a way that he betray me and I'll break your face!"
Dalia
returned with the tray laden with pastries and two cappuccinos
"How
beautiful are these kids! Am I wrong, or the male is becoming more and more
similar to the father?"
"But
he has my eyes and he's blond!" Christine smiled
"Even
Mac has blue eyes like her! I envy you! You know, Chris? "Dahlia said
noting that Faith had opened her eyes.
Erika
laughed heartily, drinking cappuccino and biting into a sweet
"I'd
say we can safely go home!"
"You
maybe! I have to get to work!" Christine said getting up from the table
and greeted with a hug Dalia "The next lesson at my place!"
"I
cannot wait, Chris!"
The two came
out of the bar and smiled
"You
know I would never do anything with Mac! Let's stop arguing like two children!"
"All right!
You are advised, however!" Christine said noting with one eye some
movement behind her. She spun around and saw two men in ski masks enter the bar
"Call JJ! I’ll warn Mac! Dalia is not ready for a robbery! She will be
killed if they pull out a gun!"
Stewart
Miller saw Danny and Sheldon approaching
"Bloody
hell! They are here to seize me the bike!"
Danny
looked up at the sky and began to chase him, while Sheldon took another path.
The two
found themselves to surround him and Sheldon was on him in a flash
"Now I
know what you missed the most during the holidays!"
"You
think so? It is a little time, that I don’t run after most a suspect for
murder!"
"Murder?
No wait! You are not here to seize me the bike?" he asked surprised
"I
think you need to refresh him some ideas Sheldon!"
Mac came
immediately with Flack and Jaime
"Christine!"
he hugged her and looked immediately that both his children were all right
"Thank goodness you're not in there!"
Jaime
meanwhile took care of Erika
"Mac
in there, there is the agent who must take my place in a few years! If she dies
I will have to return to perform dangerous tasks!" Mac looked at her worried
and surprised "They haven’t left me completely free! Now you know that
duty I carry out for the FBI!"
"So,
now are you taking care of the training of your replacement?"
"Yes,
and believe me when I tell you that she is not ready for this kind of thing! A
robbery is not an espionage!"
"She
might as well be hiding, then!"
"I
hope for her that she hasn’t done it or they'll kill her!" Christine said
putting a hand in the cradle of that Faith who was stirring
"Bring
the kids at home! I'll handle this situation!" Mac noticed that Christine
had posed a hard look on Erika, who was preparing to enter and he exclaimed
what his wife was probably thinking "What's she planning to do?! Does she
want to get killed?!"
"Let
there be clear! If she goes in there, I will go in too!"
"Don’t
be stupid Christine!" Mac scolded her
"My
best friend enters there and I should sit quiet out here?" Mac looked at
her and nodded "You asshole! I’ll go with her!"
"And
the children?"
"Turn
yourself and you'll see that they'll be fine!"
Mac turned
and saw the father of Christine appear
"I've
got used to it by now! Most of the time I had to drag away her mother!"
Mac put his
hand on the shoulder of his father in law "I will protect her! You can be
sure!"
"More
than for yourself, do it for them!" Christine's father said nodding the
twins.
Jo smiled
at Sheldon and Danny alongside them in the hallway of the precinct
"I'm
glad to see you're okay Jo!" Sheldon said
"Being
back is great! In addition, Mac decides to leave me a case already started with
all the evidence settled! I'm really happy!"
"Do
you believe that you have already got the murderer?" Danny asked seeing
Sheldon get into the room where he could see what was going on behind the
mirror
"No!
We will find it out now!" and she walked with Danny in the interrogation
room
"Where's
your black colleague? Who are you?" the boy said visibly frightened
"Stewart
Miller calm down! We aren’t here to kill you!" Danny addressed him
"I'm
Detective Hawkes and I'm here to ask some questions, nothing else!" she
looked at the boy's eyes filled with fear "We know that the handling you
take care of repairing the saddles of the riders. What tools do you use?"
Stewart
broke away from the back "I use various tools such as hammers and the stitching
awl for passing the string into the skin of the saddles...”
"You
said you use the stitching awl! If we seek between your gear we will find it?"
"Detective
Hawkes, even I was looking for it until shortly before being arrested!"
Danny took
a photo "Is this beautiful bike your?”
"Yes!
Recently, I went a little too fast! I thought you were there to take it!"
Danny
laughed "Well, things are looking badly for you! The impressions of the
tires are compatible to those found on 5th Avenue!"
The boy
paled "OK! Look, I was there to have fun with friends and one of my
friends challenged me with a bike of 2002! I had the easy victory, until he
began to run faster!"
Jo drummed
his hands on the table "Because your friend was winning you pitched to him
in the neck the stitching awl and now you pretend to not know that your friend
Darren Porter died!"
"Listen
to me, there were five witnesses! You ask Madeleine, Darren Porter's sister,
she knows what happened! She was present!"
Jo looked
at Danny in the eye
"I
understand what you mean to me!" he said going out.
Jo was left
alone with the suspect "Now you listen to me, now I want you to tell the
truth!"
The boy
began to cry "I am the leader of my group of friends, we enjoy a lot with
our Harley-Davidson and occasionally we do a few races for fun. That evening, a
race wasn’t scheduled, we had to go to a party with a group in Central Park,
Darren has challenged me and I accepted to run on 5th Avenue in the middle of
traffic. He was winning! At a certain point he skidded and fell and the car
went on him! I swear it's the truth! Someone wants to set-up me!"
Jo looked
at the boy and nodded "Let's see what Madeleine can tell us more about it!"
Mac looked
at Christine load the gun at his side
"Mac,
stop staring at me!"
"You
seem to have more familiar than me with weapons! At what age did you start to
use them?"
"At
eighteen I knew perfectly assemble and disassemble a Beretta and then I
switched to the refiles at the age of nineteen.
Enough? Can we think about my rookie now?"
Mac nodded
"Of course!"
Mac looked
at the building. Something caught his eye on the roof "Again that
eagle!"
Christine
immediately lifted her gaze "But it's huge! Are you sure it's the same
one?"
"Very
secure!" he took Christine's hand and went to Flack "I want to know
what's on the roof! Get me a plan of the building!"
"All
right! But you talk to this guy!" he said to him handing him the phone.
Mac picked
up the phone "I'm Lieutenant Mac Taylor!”
"Good
morning, Lieutenant ! Would you be so kind as to move all your men from here?” the
man replied on the other end of the phone "You know, I'm supposed to go
out with my injured colleague!"
"It's
out of the question! You do get out your friend, because he receives medical care
and you surrender now!"
Christine
looked at her husband and moved toward the fire stairs towards the roof
"I cannot
wait any longer, Mac! You keep him busy! I’ll try to get in!"
"Lieutenant,
I'm not an idiot! I know you're trying to hold back because the building is
surrounded!" the robber grinned "If you don’t fuck off within ten
minutes I will kill one of the customers and when those will end I will start
with waiters!"
"No don’t
do it! We'll move from here! You have my word that we'll let you go out without
any problems!"
"I
hope for all the present hostages!"
Mac
observed Erika follow Christine on the fire escape
"I'm
going to manage operations to clear the way! I leave the phone to a colleague,
talk to her if you think there's something wrong!" he handed the phone to
Jaime
"Detective
Flack !"
"Another
Flack? The whole family is there?"
"Hey !
Do you have something against my husband and me?"
Mac looked
her grim before getting to the fire stairs "Jaime, no one has to die!"
Jaime
raised her thumb up "What do you mean how am I dressed? Thou rather, how
are you dressed?"
Mac shook
his head and hurried to climb the fire escapes "Where do you think you're
going?" he said to Erika and Christine once he reached them.
Erika
motioned for Christine to grip on that matter
"Mac
is not here to interfere, but to help us! Right?"
Mac sighed
and at that time the eagle began to fly majestically over their head.
The animal
laid on one of the neighboring buildings and it peered at the three on the roof
of the bar
"I
wonder if that eagle means something!" Christine asked.
Erika
laughed "Chris is an animal! Let us save Dalia and get it over! Do you come,
Mac?"
"Yes!"
he walked over to Christine "I wanted to call animal protection, but I
think the best solution is to leave it free!"
Christine
walked toward Erika "Let us open this door!"
Danny and
Lindsay sat in front of Madeline Porter, who was staring at them with a blank
look
"Maddie!
You have to tell us what you saw Tuesday!" Lindsay said quietly
"I wasn’t
there!"
Danny
showed understanding "I know how it is run on a motorbike! It's a unique
feeling the wind on your skin, the friends around you, the speed, the roar of
the engine... Your brother loved these things and you share his passions and
his group of friends!" he noted with pleasure that Madeline looked at him
with curiosity "Do it for your brother, tell us what you saw!"
Madeline
wiped away her tears "I love my brother and I’m Stew’s girlfriend! I wish
Darren had never launched the challenge! Stewart Miller has nothing to do with
it!"
"We're
listening!" Danny said
"I was
with them that night! We stopped to look at the challenge! At the end Stew won
because Darren fell... a car came up, it stood between Stew and Darren’s bikes!"
she paused catching her breath "I think it was for that reason that Darren
fell!"
"They
have killed him, Madeline!" Danny explained to her "We're doing
everything we can to find out whether Stewart can have been!”
"No!
It’s not true! Darren cannot be killed! It has not been Stew! He's a hothead,
ok, but it was not him! I'm sure!"
"We
have found a stitching awl and it belongs to Stewart!" Lindsay explained
"Darren had enemies?"
"He
had quarreled once on working with the owner of the riding school! It's
called... Charles Malloy!"
Lindsay
nodded "Are you willing to take a break Madeline?"
"Yes!
Thank Detective!" she cried "I need to go to the toilet! I’m not feeling
so much good..."
"Go!
Don’t worry!" Lindsay said.
Mac was
with Christine and Erika in the basement of the bar
"I
should have liked to take a look at the plan of the building!"
"It is
seen that you have been in the Marines! You always need to plan everything and
act according to precise patterns! Have you never heard of secret missions by
black dot?" Erika asked
"What?"
"Mac,
sweetheart, our program gives color to the missions according to their
difficulty: white, green, blue, yellow, red and black!" Christine said placing
him side by side on the stairs which led to a trap door under the counter
"And with
which color have you started?"
"Black!
I needed money! Stan was ill and I could pay him the medicine with pay! He died
without knowing what I did for him!"
"Now
we need a strategy to make sure we do not have a hitch!" Mac said taking
the gun
"We've
already got a strategy! Isn’t it, Chris?" Erika said with enthusiasm
"And does
it work?"
"My
love, twenty years are that it works! Trust in your wife!" Christine came
close and just touched her lips with his ones "When we’ll get out of here,
do you have to get back to work?"
"Yes!"
he whispered "I've been wondering for some time, you know... how you
managed to hide all this to me?"
"It
wasn’t easy! I opened the restaurant when I had planned to quit my secret agent
life! When I kissed you that night, at the anniversary of my parents, I
realized that I had to become independent and to protect the people I love by
other means! Until the last I didn’t believe I'd be in love with you!"
"Do
you regret your feelings? Because I do not do it! I'm glad that you can
understand the reality that I face every day! I admire you for attempting to
protect me and I still haven’t thanked you enough for saving my life!" he
said snapping the gun
"I don’t
regret my feelings for you! You are remained beside me while our children were
born in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital!" Christine said
moving away from Mac with a smile "Without the epidural, I suffered like a
dog! I was worried about you that you were hurt and you lost blood! I was
really afraid that it was over for us!"
Mac
prepared to climb the few steps that separated him from the trap door
"I'll go ahead!"
"Stop
Mac! Or it turns into a mission by black dot with a skull and crossbones on it!"
Erika held him back
"What
does it mean in everyday language?"
"Suicide
mission!"
Erika
beckoned Christine to follow her and they opened the trap door slightly seeing
the man with the ski mask walking back and forth holding firmly in his hand a
revolver
"Call me
Lieutenant Taylor!" he walked pointing the gun at every hostage on his way
"What do you mean, he is no longer there?! Where is he gone?!” Mac watched
behind Christine the situation with concern and he heard the man yell "Now
I'm pissed off! I'll show you I'm not kidding! You women get up!"
Erika
sprang into action by pointing the gun at the man "FBI! Throw the weapon!"
"But
what?!" the man turned and Christine took the opportunity to sneak,
unseen, to the shoulders of the man
"Drop
the gun if you don’t want this woman to lose her life!" he continued.
At a nod
from Christine, Mac moved toward the door
"I am
also of the FBI! What do we do now? We're two and you are only one!"
Christine said exposing herself and making him turn
"Wow! A
lot of chicks are working at the FBI! I almost convert me to the good!"
Mac opened
the door of the bar "Not today!"
The robber
turned toward the voice and saw a long line of cops enter.
Mac smiled
"NYPD! Now that you have twenty guns on you, leave the woman you’re keeping
in as hostage!"
Jo and
Stewart Miller reached Madeleine Porter, Danny and Lindsay
"Do I
have to do an interrogation with my girlfriend?"
"Yes
Stewart! It is vitally important to know what happened! Do you also want that
the murderer of Darren is brought to justice?"
"Yes,
Detective Hawkes!"
The three
Detective sat down in front of the two boys
"So,
question for Stew! Do you know Charles Malloy?" Lindsay said
The boy
nodded "Yes I know him!"
"Where
you work, what role does he play?" Danny asked
"This
is the chief's son! He will play a role when his old won’t be there more!"
Jo leaned
forward “Question for Madeline! Why did you lie about your presence on Tuesday
night?"
"I was
scared! Friends told me that it was better if I said that I never went with
them and so..."
Jo grew
dark "You know that we could have already had the murderer of Darren if
you had cooperated from the beginning, do you?"
"I
understand it just now!"
Jo shook
her head "We hope to take him anyway!"
"Can I
go to the bathroom?" Madeline asked "I'm really bad!"
Stewart
showed worried "Did you eat something before you came here?"
"Days
are that I do not eat, you idiot!" she yelled getting up
"Damn!
It is better to check how she is!" Lindsay said getting up and going to
the bathroom
"You've
seen the car which divided you and Darren?" Danny asked
"Yes,
I saw it and I also remember the license plate!"
"You
see that you're an idiot!" Danny exclaimed
"Hey!
I don’t trust the police! Are you happy now that I've said this?"
Jo handed
him a pencil and paper "The license plate number! Now!"
Mac sent
down Christine from the car
"I
hope you will go to work and be a mom now!" he told her
"I'm
so tired! I am no longer trained to do certain things!" she smiled holding
open the door with her right hand
"In
fact, you won’t do this kind of work anymore!"
"The phone
is ringing you! Answer it!" Christine smiled
"Angela?"
"Have
you solved the matter of the bar?" the trilling voice of the girl asked
"Yes!
Why?"
Angela
sighed "Come here in the office! There is a person who wants to see you!"
"You
have a strange voice! What's going on? Aren’t you well?"
"Come at
the office and you'll understand!" she said sighing again.
Mac hung up
and looked at Christine "Get on! I know you want to come!"
"Thank
you!"
Sheldon had
just found the owner of the car
"Jo!
Malloy is the owner of the car! We need only to compare his tires with tracks
on 5th Avenue!"
Jo was
distracted, Angela watched her dry her tears as she stared at the computer
screen.
Sheldon
looked up and looked in the same direction.
Both had
the worried faces and decided to go by Angela
"Angela!
What's the matter?" Jo asked
She didn’t
answer and hugged her.
Sheldon
found himself to embrace Angela along with Jo too, without knowing what was
wrong with the girl.
Danny saw
the scene from a distance, he didn’t bother about anything and took the results
"Come
to draw, asshole!" he said looking at the picture of the car owner.
Flack and
Jaime smiled
"Ready
to give support to Danny, Mrs. Flack?"
"With
you by my side I'm always ready Mr. Flack!" Jaime smiled.
Danny Mac
and Christine waited outside the door of a luxury building
"Look!
It seems that the Taylors want to do an encore today!" Flack smiled
"The
face of Mac doesn’t communicate enthusiasm! I guess he doesn’t want Christine
to enter with him in that building!"
The two
Detectives parked the car and looked at Mac
"Are
you worried?" Flack asked
"No, I
want to go at the office! Danny has confirmed me that something is going on!"
Mac explained "This time Christine, you’ll stay out here!"
"As
you wish!" she said leaning against the hood of the black Chevrolet
Avalanche.
Flack
smiled and looked at Jaime "Flacks 2, Taylors 1!"
"Don!
Avoid making these cracks!" his wife called out "Excuse him,
Christine! He doesn’t understand anything!"
Mac and Danny
entered and went up first into the attic
"NYPD!
Malloy open the door!" Mac shouted clapping a hand on the door
"No
answer!" Danny said
"Let's
go!" Mac said by pulling at the door a kick.
Flack and
Jaime reached Mac and Danny in the attic
"Clear!"
Jaime said entering the kitchen
Danny
walked into the bedroom "Clear!"
"Clear!"
Flack confirmed by opening the closet.
Mac looked
out the window and noticed the eagle a little earlier resting on the balcony. The
animal bowed his gaze downward and Mac saw the suspect run into the street
below, followed by Christine
"FBI!
Stop!" she screamed pointing against him the gun
"Oh no!"
Mac shouted worried by taking the fire escape.
Flack,
Danny and Jaime looked at him concerned to reach the sidewalk and running at
breakneck speed in the direction where just before Malloy and Christine had
disappeared.
Christine
had the gun aimed at Malloy, but he was not intimidated.
The alley
was narrow and damp, it smelled like a sewer and there were no escapes.
Malloy
approached Christine holding a knife.
Mac was
about to reach the alley when he heard a gunshot. Alarmed, he jumped and rushed
to see pulling out the gun.
Christine
was leaning against the wall and she was holding the gun in his right hand,
from the left hand went down slow drops of blood.
On the
ground, Charles Malloy was holding his arm moaning "Ugly bitch!"
"Next
time you'll think twice before using a knife!" Christine said breaking
away from the wall.
Mac saw in
her left shoulder the jutted handle of a box cutter
"Christine!
Come here, let me see!"
Christine
dropped to her knees on the asphalt covered in mud.
Mac touched
her shoulder and he looked her slightly jump "Don’t worry!"
Danny
peeped and froze to the ground Charles Malloy
"Where
are you running?" he then turned his attention to Mac and Christine
"Are you okay?"
"I am,
and she'll be well soon! The knife didn’t go too deep!" he said calling
the 911 "I'm Lieutenant Taylor, I need an ambulance at Hell's Kitchen …"
Shortly
after, Charles Malloy was in front of Lindsay and Danny in the interrogation
room
"Why
murder Darren Porter?" Lindsay asked
"Why?
He was a son of a bitch, that's why!" snorted Malloy
"Why
do you keep saying you're innocent?" interjected Danny
"Why
it was not me! I hated him, but I'm not able to kill! Killing is an art, and I
don’t have that kind of art!"
"Your
tread coincides with that found at the scene and you had access to stitching awl!"
"It’s
not enough to say that was me!"
Lindsay
looked at Mac enter and ask "Do you know to be an idiot?"
"How
sorry?" Malloy shouted "I want my lawyer!"
"Well,
I do not know you, but if you were to put a knife in the shoulder of my wife I
would react exactly like him!" said Danny.
Lindsay
looked at him with approving "Anyway Lieutenant Taylor seems to have
brought something for us!"
Mac sat
next to Danny
"On
the stitching awl we found a trace of hair gel, the same gel that we found on a
hair that was found in the bathroom of your home! Do you know what is enough
for me? A sample of your DNA!"
"The
gel is also lacking, Lieutenant! I'm sorry I hurt your wife, but I do not think
you're here to apologize, since your beloved consort shot me!" he said
with irony
"She
is not here, but she's out here! If you like to tell her the story in any case
it's okay!" he took a picture from the file "And I think this is
yours, as it was in your house, in your bathroom, in the drawer of the
furniture under the sink, under the towels! I was sufficiently fulfilment?"
Malloy laughed
"You'll never have my DNA!"
"You'd
better talk! As an innocent was likely to ending up in jail!" said Lindsay
"Not
another word!" said a man in a suit and tie entering "My client will
not add more!"
"Advocate
Connery! Long time no see!"
"Lieutenant
Taylor! Congratulations on your promotion! This time will it last?"
Mac laughed
mockingly "You know very well that it is the fault of a mad serial killer
and not mine! Sinclair is more suitable to serve as the Chief of Detectives, I
don’t see why send him to an early retirement!"
Jo
continued to walk back and forth to the lab
"I do
not know whether to go in the office of the Mac!"
Sheldon
came up to her "Honey, it's better to wait until Mac arrives! The case is
almost solved!"
"I
feel guilty about the fact that I'm not even helping him!"
"Keep
Calm!" Sheldon hugged her "I know you want to go in Mac’s office,
like me and Angela, but you cannot do it! You'd make suffer him even more and
he doesn’t need it!"
"You're
right! Mac is the only one who can understand him! Matter how sorry and sad I
am, I can only tell him that I'm sorry!" Jo looked down and cried in
silence
"Come
on Jo! We must be strong!"
Mac smiled
triumphantly to the lawyer Connery
"What's
so funny, Taylor?"
In response
Mac gave him an envelope in his hand "Read it carefully Connery!"
Danny and
Lindsay smiled mockingly, Flack and Jaime looked at Christine to get up from
the chair and heading to Mac
"Can I
come with you?"
"I'm
glad you asked me that!" smiled Mac brushing her a lock of hair "How is
your shoulder?"
"Much
better! It is nothing serious and I am glad for that! Where is the buffer to
take the DNA of that bastard?"
Mac smiled
showing it to her " Will you even teach these beautiful words to our
children?"
"You
funny!" she said coming into the interrogation room.
Danny came
up with Lindsay Flack "Taylors 3, Flacks 1!"
"Excuse
me, what game is it?" asked Lindsay
"The
latest idea of Don" said Jaime "He says that if Mac and Christine
worked together they would be very efficient! So he has fun to compare them
with us!"
"The
great thing is that they don’t even play!" explained Danny
"In
the next round Danny and I are playing!" Lindsay smiled seeing Mac and
Christine return with the sample
"Hurry
up Lindsay!" Mac said "We have to go even in my own office!" he
said then turned to Christine "Faith and number 3?"
"They're
good! I heard my father before! Kenny is particularly lively today! "
"I
think I will start to call him Kenny too!"
"Surely
it is better than number 3!" Christine addressed him.
Lindsay
looked at the gloomy face of Angela
"Can
you tell me what's wrong?" asked Lindsay
"I
cannot tell you that! You'd tell to Mac! He would run here and won’t solve the
case!"
Lindsay
laid a hand on Angela's shoulder as she waited anxiously the result of the DNA.
A sheet
came out of the printer and Lindsay read it quickly
"We
have all the evidence to accuse Malloy! The DNA belongs to him!"
Angela was
taken by the hand by Lindsay and was forced to follow her to the garage
"The
case is closed!" exulted Lindsay by opening the passenger door.
Angela didn’t
smile "Hurrah!"
In less
than ten minutes, the two arrived at the district and showed the result to Mac
Mac looked
at Angela in her eyes "What's going on?"
"Mac!
Don’t worry about me!"
Mac stared
at her to the fund and Flack was to pat him on the back
"Let's
bring to our friend Malloy the news that he will pass a long stay in
prison!"
Mac went to
the interrogation room and Angela began to cry alongside Lindsay
"Angela!
What's going on?"
"Lindsay,
there is someone in Mac’s office! I still haven’t had the courage to go to him
and tell him that I'm sorry! I haven’t done it myself and not even Jo and
Sheldon have made it!"
Danny
remembered seeing the embrace of Sheldon and Jo Angela that afternoon
"Something
happened to Reed?"
Mac and
Christine arrived at the office.
Mac saw a
man sitting in the chair that he really did not expect to see
"Wait
here!" he said to Christine
Mac crossed
the threshold of the office "Hello Adam! What are you doing here in New
York?"
"Mac..."
Adam said looking up revealing his eyes swollen with tears "I'm sorry I
haven’t called you! I didn’t have the strength to tell you over the phone! I
feel alone and scared! You are the one who can understand me more!"
"Stella!"
Mac exclaimed worried "Adam, what happened to Stella?" he said
bending down in front of him
"Stella...
she... they have... Stella...”
Christine
watched the scene from outside and saw the anxious face of Mac and the
trembling body of Adam. She came up to the door in order to hear something.
Adam tried
to pronounce a sentence with tears almost prevented him from speaking
"She's
been shot! Mac!"
Mac shook
and the tears began to fall down his cheeks "You've got him?"
"Yes!
Stella is in a coma and the doctors say that she will not wake up anymore!"
Adam fell
forward and Mac hugged him.
Christine
was reached out from all the rest of the team
"Then
it's true!" exclaimed Lindsay "Stella is seriously in a vegetative
state!" tears streamed down her face and Danny hugged her crying
"Neither
I still cannot believe it!" Jo leaned on the shoulder of Sheldon.
Flack and
Jaime were there motionless with Christine trying to hold back the tears no
avail.
Adam looked
out of the glass and saw everyone gathered there, and freeing herself from Mac,
opened the door
"Hello
guys! I am in pieces and seeing you here... I do not know what to say... "
"Don’t
say anything Adam!" said Jo hugging him
"Hey buddy!
We are all here for you!" said Flack
Adam turned
to Mac
"The
last will of Stella are to unplug the machines! I don’t want to let her go!"
Mac wiped
the tears "If the doctors said that there is no hope, you cannot oppose
yourself!"
"I
love her Mac!" sobbed Adam
"I
know Adam! I know that you love her!" Mac said "I will come to New
Orleans with you and you'll be next to you!"
Adam nodded
out of gratitude.
