EPISODE XXIII: LE CADAVRE EXQUIS
BOIRA LE VIN NOUVEAU
Jo was
sitting in front of the television, she was boringly zapping through the
channels
"Why
Mac makes me strange speeches, Jo?" Sheldon churches a little nervous
coming into the house
“What did
he say exactly?" Jo asked turning off TV
"He
said that you can do your job without any problems and I shouldn’t be
concerned!"
Jo crossed
her legs and leaned her elbows on her knees
"You
don’t trust my abilities! I repeated to you, I do not know how many times, that
I am well! I don’t have nauseas or strange hassles! Swollen ankles in the
evening are absolutely normal!"
Sheldon
sighed "I know you're a good Detective! I only care for you!"
"I'm
asking you to don’t do it now! How will you be when the baby will be born?"
"Too
bad you weren’t in that dark and cold basement to see Mac’s children birth in
December! Probably I will have the same face!"
Jo laughed
"Let me guess, sheer terror?"
"Terror?"
Sheldon replied "Maybe you could classify that face! It was a mixture of
emotions: joy, fear, terror, pain, fright, worry, confusion..."
"It
almost seems that Mac was about to die, by how you talk!"
"Mom!"
Ellie's voice interrupted the two "I'm going out to dinner!"
"Ok!
By eleven o'clock at home!" Jo ordered
"Mom,
I'm almost seventeen! After we go to a bar to drink! Let me come back by one in
the morning!"
"Eleven-thirty!"
"Midnight!"
“Agreed!"
Jo concluded "And don’t drink too much! One cocktail, maximum two!"
"Mom!"
Ellie complained
"Don’t
use that tone with me! Neurons don’t regenerate once destroyed!"
Ellie
sighed "But which figure I’ll do if I don’t drink like other people!"
"You’ll
cut a good figure of the one who cares about her own health!" Sheldon
ruled "I'll bring you a good book to read!"
Ellie took
the bag next to the living room table and she gave him a kiss on Jo’s forehead
"You
go to bed early!"
"I'm
pregnant, Ellie! I didn’t become an old wheelbarrow all at once!"
Ellie
hugged Sheldon
"Let
her rest! Since your partner is at the hospital she hasn’t been sleeping well!"
"Don’t
worry Ellie! Have a nice night!"
Ellie left
the house waving.
Mac looked
at Christine struggling with restaurant customers from behind the curtain of
the office by checking the twins. She was anxious and she could not concentrate,
Mac noticed it and the bemused smile on his face gave way to concern.
Christine
grabbed the sleeve of Stephane and she whispered something in her ear and she
walked away towards of the office.
Mac hugged
her "What's going on?"
"J.J.
wrote to me that Dalia has trouble to fit in the new program! He wants me in
Toronto Friday!"
"Did
you tell him you cannot go?"
"Yes
and no! I mean, I tried to convince him to call Erika! His new mate could look
after her children and..."
"And
it didn’t help!" Mac concluded the phrase "Go to Toronto! On
condition that you will be out of the woods!"
"Thank
you, Mac!" Christine said leaving herself soothed in his arms.
Faith
became agitated
"We
have to deal with an attack of jealousy!" Christine smiled.
Mac pulled
away from Christine and picked Faith
"I
think there is another reason: full diaper!"
Christine
pulled back the curtain and she looked out the glass
'Other
customers! Stephane cannot do it alone! You will change diaper to Faith!" and
she disappeared smiling.
Mac looked
at Faith in the eyes
"With
this move, you gambled away your driver's license at age sixteen!" he looked
out and saw a group of girls "Ellie?"
Ellie
looked around
"Tell
me that you haven’t really booked in here!"
“Why?” a
blonde girl in front of her asked "Everyone is talking about this
place!"
"The fact
is that I know the landlady..." Ellie murmured.
Another
brunette exclaimed "Really! Maybe they make us discount!"
"It's like
my mother was keeping an eye on me through the eyes of another person!"
Ellie huffed.
Mac stepped
in front of Ellie with the two babies in the baby carriage
"Look
who it is!! Hello Ellie!"
"Hello
Mac..." the girl replied embarrassed
"Wow!
You know Detective Taylor?!" the blonde girl churches
"Yes!
He works with my mother! As far as I know, they have promoted him to Lieutenant
quite some time ago!" Ellie explained very summarily
"I can’t
believe it! These in the baby carriage, are they your babies?" the
brunette asked to Mac
"Yes,
and Ellie made them babysit once!" Mac smiled turning towards the
embarrassed Ellie "As soon as Christine sees you, tell her I went
home!"
"Of
course! See you Mac!" Ellie greeted him.
Mac winked
at Ellie's friends and left the restaurant.
"He
should go around with a sign on his back!" the blonde girl joked
"Something like: -Warning! sexy police officer about fifty years old!-"
"Megan
Stop it!" Ellie shushed her "Now we have to try as well his wife
Christine!"
Stephane
approached the three girls "Hey! I know you! You are the daughter of Jo Danville!"
"Yes!
Hello Stephane!"
"Ellie!
Right?" the waiter and the chef asked not too sure about it "You must
forgive me, both your mother and Macs have repeated me your name a thousand
times, but I'm still not sure!"
"You're
not wrong!"
"I'm
going to call you Christine! For sure she wants to greet you!" he smiled
leaving.
The friends
turned to Ellie with an interested look
"This
one's got a girlfriend?" they asked in unison
"Please,
stop it!"
Danny
looked at Lucy looking back on the steps of kindergarten
"Bye
Daddy!"
"See
you later, Lucy!"
Danny got
into the car and he received a message on the phone. He started the car and he
immersed himself in traffic.
Flack
looked at him frowning get off out of the car
"Don’t
look at me wrong! Mac must stay locked up at home with the twins! Do not ask me
what happened between him and Christine because I do not know!" they began
to enter the old warehouse and Flack went on "Don’t even ask me what Jo! I
just know that the case is completely yours! Who knows, one day instead of Mac
there could be you!"
"And
him? Where will he be?"
"Maybe
in retirement if he doesn’t get killed by cancer that could explode in any
moment!"
Danny froze
Flack with his eyes before adding "What happened?"
"The
victim is in there! Tell me you have not eaten at breakfast!"
"Before
the joke on Mac and now this?" Danny asked the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown "They have just resigned you from hospital! If I were you I'd be
home to rest!"
"I
passed here by accident while I was going at home! I don’t want to remain!
Jaime will be a perfect partner and so Adam will be!" he said pointing
with his face bent in a bag "As soon as he stops to throw up!" he
laughed "At breakfast he ate bacon and eggs! Now do you believe me when I
say that the view is striking?"
Danny
nodded "You're in a bad mood today, Don! Go home!"
"Happy
to do it! I'm going to take a cab!"
Danny
walked over to Adam
"That’s
an evidence bag, right? Do you know that the content of your stomach will be
meticulously analyzed?"
"Hey,
Danny! Err is that I cannot not have breakfast in the morning! Now that
Cristina lives with me I started eating regularly!"
"You really
fond of that little girl!" Danny smiled
"I
wonder what Stella would have thought of her!"
"She
would have adored her!" Danny smiled "Shall we focus on job?"
"Jaime
is there with Angela and Isabella! Soon even Peyton will come!" Adam
pointed out "What you're about to see makes a certain effect!"
Danny
walked into the near room and he saw Isabella struggling with blood samples
"What
a pleasure to see you Danny!" Jaime greeted him by appearing with a
brunette "They're taking pictures of the scene! If you want to go to see
it yourself, the body is near the stairs!"
Danny
walked over the stairs and he saw the body of a young man disfigured and cut
into pieces
"So this
is what Adam wanted to say!" he said.
Peyton
appeared with Sheldon at her side
"Will
you be this way all the time or do you think you begin to make
observations?" Sheldon asked.
Peyton
approached the body
"Isabella
wrote that these are bite marks.." she said observing injuries on the neck
"While these were caused by a knife..." she said observing the
missing hand and a damaged piece of leg "In some places the meat is
totally absent! I'd like to know what happened!"
Sheldon
looked at a pile of rags and he found there a T-shirt with the symbol of a
school and other victim's clothes "Ellie goes to this school too!" he
said by pointing out the particular to Danny "Probably we are dealing with
a student!"
Jo opened
her eyes and got out of bed very slowly. She yawned and she headed for the
kitchen putting on her dressing gown and she found a note from Ellie hung on
the fridge
“I’ll be back for dinner! I’ve to study hard for my
test! I’m staying at Jennifer’s place
Lovely,
Ellie”
Jo opened
the refrigerator and picked up fruit juice
"Oh,
Ellie! You're getting older every day!"
The home
phone rang and Jo answered putting a toaster in a slice of white bread
"I
thought you'd have done it well without me!"
"How
did you know it was me?" Sheldon asked
"I
know you!" she smiled.
Sheldon
sighed "The victim was in the school of Ellie! His name is Malcolm Jordan!
We believe that those who killed him has done so to feed himself with him. On
the bones we found some dental records, but they are not in archives!"
Jo smiled
"During my day off you hope that I can help you!"
"You
could just go into Ellie's school to ask questions!"
"I don’t
know... I don’t feel up to go around!" Jo snorted "Imagine if then
Ellie sees me!"
"Then
you could send Mac there! Call him and offer yourself as a babysitter!" Sheldon
proposed
"It's
not a bad idea! Oh Ellie will return for dinner!"
Sheldon
muttered something that Jo could not understand and then he added "I'll
call even Lindsay now because she will go to help Mac! I love you!"
"I
love you too!" Jo said hanging up.
Lindsay was
in the car and she decided to park not far from the school. She got out
slamming the door and she walked toward the entrance where she saw Mac sitting
on the steps
"Good
morning!" she greeted him
"Hello!"
Mac replied standing up "Ready to interrogate the students?"
"Well
prepared!" Lindsay said with enthusiasm "Who was in Malcolm Jordan’s
class?"
"You
won’t believe this, but he was in class with Ellie!"
Lindsay
smiled and she walked into the building alongside Mac.
The two
found themselves in a corridor full of lockers and a guy was returning to class
whistling
"Excuse
me!" a voice called out them from above.
Mac looked
up and saw a guy with a large T-shirt hanging to his underpants on bulletin
board
"Will
you help me to get down?"
Mac sighed
"I thought these games were no longer in fashion!"
"The
wedgies are fashionable only on those of the freshmen, cop! They can only be
made by seniors!"
"How
do you know that we are cops?" Lindsay asked
"Don’t
play this game please! Seniors have written about Malcolm Jordan’s death on the
most widely read blog in the school! I would say it was more like a presumption...
Can you pull me down? Soon I'll stop being male!"
Mac took
him and put him on the ground
"Lindsay,
take him in class and begins to question all those who are present!"
"All
right, Mac!"
Mac walked
up to Ellie's class and he saw her to exhibit a research carried out with three
other girls, two were the same with whom she was in the company at the
restaurant the night before.
The group
was singing a song, Ellie was playing the guitar while the others were
accompanying her with bass and electric guitar
“…Born in
the heartland, raised up a family
of king
James and uncle Sam!
He’s got
the red, white, and blue flyin' high on the farm
semper fi
tattooed on his left arm
spends a
little more at the store for a tag in the back that says USA
won't buy
nothin' that he can't fix,
with wd40
and a craftsman wrench
he ain't
prejudice he's just, made in America!
Made in
America!
Made in
America!
My old
man's that old man,
he's made
in America”
Mac stood
at the door to hear the girls finish the piece of music and the class broke
into applause
"Thank
you!" Ellie smiled "This song has a special meaning for all of
us!"
"Our
friend Ellie is saying that we dedicate this song to all Americans who served
and are serving our country!" a blonde girl said
"This
day must be remembered also for the fact that in 1973 the World Trade Center
has been inaugurated! We would like to dedicate this song even to those who
lost their lives in the attack of September 11!" a brunette girl
concluded.
Mac entered
clapping
"I wasn’t
here before, during the presentation, but only for the words that they said now
I would give to all A +!"
Ellie turned pale "Mac?!"
"Hi Ellie!"
The friends
of Ellie smiled
"To
see him on live two consecutive days, I guess it's an event more unique than
rare!" the blonde said in her ear
"I
could kill you!" Ellie muttered.
The teacher
got up from the desk "Are you a cop?"
"Yes!
I'm Lieutenant Mac Taylor!" he said introducing himself to her and the
class "I'm here to talk about Malcolm Jordan! He was murdered! I would
need the cooperation of all of you!"
A boy stood
up "What happens now? Are we all suspects?"
"It’s
not said!" Mac assured him "We have to question the whole school then,
please, advise household that you will be here during the afternoon!"
"And
who will study the events of the eighties in our stead for history interrogation?"
a guy asked from the back of the classroom
“I think
that professors will be able to justify you!" Mac said "Now we will
ask for a place where we can question you without forcing everyone to come to
the precinct!" he turned to Ellie "Now I will call your mother to
warn her!"
"Who
is taking care of your kids?" Ellie asked
"She
is doing it!"
The professor
picked up in a ponytail her long black curls and she accompanied Mac at the
door
"Can you
tell me how Jordan died?" she asked once they exited
"By
now I cannot say anything to you! I have to question you too!"
"I
understand! How do you know Ellie Danville?"
"Her
mother is one of my colleagues!" Mac explained "Can you ask to
Headmaster a room not too big to allow pupils to enter one at a time?"
"Of
course!" Professor said disappearing.
Lindsay
reached Mac "Soon I will begin able to question the students of freshmen!
How did Ellie react?"
"I
took her by surprise!"
Danny stood
up from his chair and walked out the door of the classroom "Jo!" he
called seeing her in the hallway leaning against the wall. He walked over
quickly "Are you okay?"
"Yes!
Don’t worry! I'm just tired!" Danny peered at her with his green eyes "To
tell you the truth, Mac and Lindsay are questioning Ellie and I'm worried!"
she confessed
"If
she knows something she will talk! She doesn’t seem to me the kind of girl who
is not willing to help us! In addition, you're her mother!"
Angela
arrived with files in her hand
"Here
you are!" she gave the files in Jo’s hands "If I tell you that some
students of this school disappeared in mysterious circumstances?"
Danny
looked at the names "They're all in different years!"
"All
the disappearances have occurred since the end of last year! The parents
believed that they were simply run away from home! Now that it has been heard
about Jordan, several of them have asked to find their sons with greater
urgency!" Angela explained " Jaime’s phone seems to be a call center
and at her desk it is as if there was a bank run!"
"Reassuring
view!" Danny concluded "It seems that Ellie has finished!" he
said to Jo indicating the door opening.
Ellie came
out with a tired face
"Not a
word mum! If you want to know what I said, read the report of your colleagues!"
"Ellie,
I'm sorry for what happened! You know it's not our fault!"
Ellie
stepped back "I'm studying at home! See you later! All the professors have
filled us with homework -to distract you from bad thoughts-! "
Jo looked
at Mac and Lindsay exit "May I ask why she is so upset?"
"Because
she and Jordan were dating and because she had something to tell him!" Mac
said "She doesn’t want to tell you about it!"
"Ellie
is almost an adult! She can choose what to tell you in this case!" Lindsay
said "But you need to talk to her, Jo!" she said holding the report
"Give
it to me Lindsay!"
"Do
you promise to remain calm?" Mac added
"I'll
be calm!" Jo concluded taking the report and starting to read "What?
My daughter was leading an inquiry into the disappearance of some classmates
and she is one of the guys who are running the blog?"
"She
told us it of her own free will!" Mac said “Jordan, she and two other girls
have opened the blog and, in addition to publishing things related to school
initiatives, there is a secret section in which they write of the
disappearances of schoolmates!"
"They
had told it to the police, but they didn’t believe them!" Lindsay
intervened "Has Ellie ever spoken with you?"
"In a
vague way! She said that some of her schoolmates disappeared and never
returned, but I never thought..."
Lindsay
looked at Jo by sighing "From interrogations we did in Ellie's class, many
people have confirmed us this fact!" Jo's expression changed and she
became even more serious "Some of the juniors said to know bewildering things
about disappearances of students and they said that Jordan could be one of
them! Ellie has discovered that the canteen doesn’t order the meat for a long
time! She had to communicate this to Malcolm Jordan!"
"Are Flack
and Sheldon finishing query freshmen and sophomores?" Mac asked
"Yes!
Shortly even they should end up and we should have to query only the teachers!"
Danny said
"Adam
and I have done our homework!" Angela said giving the files to Mac
"Here's life, death and miracles of the teachers!"
Mac flipped
through the files and recognized the picture of the teacher he saw in the
morning
"Luciana
Honey, responsible for canteen service!"
"I
know that look!" Angela said "Without evidence you cannot prove
anything!"
Mac looked
at Angela in her eyes "But I didn’t say anything!"
Jo walked
into the hallway of the Crime Lab and she saw Mac sitting at the table in his
office with a feeding bottle in his right hand and McKenna resting on his left
arm. Without thinking she went into the office
"Has your
father in law bail out you?" she asked approaching the pushchair in which
Faith was asleep "I hope that Sinclair does not see you! Or he will cause
you reduction in grade! "
"Any
news on the Jordan case?" Mac asked.
Jo cheered
up "To be honest, yes!" she sat down "I have the list of the
last orders of meat, woman cook says that to procure everything is Professor
Honey! We questioned her and she says she has a family butcher! Danny went to
check it!"
" Has
Flack managed to go home? They recently released him from the hospital and he
would do better to rest!"
Jo shrugged
her shoulders "What can I say, tomorrow they will give him a day
off!"
"The
interrogations of the Professors?" Mac asked seeing McKenna break away
from the feeding bottle and yawn "Would you provide me the paper towels?
For sure he’ll regurgitate!"
Jo was
handed over to him a couple of handkerchiefs, that Mac positioned them on his
left shoulder, and she continued to talk with him about the case "The
professors seem to be all clean! None of them suspected attitudes!"
Mac began
tapping the back of his son "We have a madman who is suffering from
anthropophagy out there! I don’t want that there are other victims!" he
looked at the child in his eyes "Are you kidding me Kenny?"
"Maybe
this time he didn’t have to throw up!" Jo said rising to her feet
"I'll check if by chance there are possibilities to connect Jordan’s case
to the other disappeared students!" and she left the office.
Adam came
with some papers in his hands
"Danny
did not find any butcher! We have problems with Professor Honey!" he
glanced at the hallway "And now with Sinclair! Hide the children!"
Mac put his
son in the stroller "The only day that I transgress the rules, Sinclair
arrives!"
When
Sinclair entered the office of the Mac was surprised
"I didn’t
expect to see you struggling with your children, Taylor!"
"Good
morning, boss, how can I help you?" Mac asked respectful
"You've
done a lot of chores for the Department recently and in Italy they do nothing,
but talk about you, Ross and DB Russell!” he paused for a while “I'm here to
give you a promotion!"
"I
have already been promoted from Detective to Lieutenant!" Mac smiled
humbly
"That's
an old story, Inspector Taylor!"
Mac turned
pale "What? Inspector?"
"You
were expecting Supervisor Inspector! Tell the truth!" Sinclair quipped
"Actually...
no! I was expecting a downgrading!" Mac said alluding to the children
"But I
love children! When my children were so small as yours, they used to cry all
the time!" he looked at McKenna smile and extend out his hands to him
"New
people intrigue him a lot!" Mac admitted "He can be very
insistent!"
"I
see!"
"Take
him in your arm or he starts to cry!" Mac pointed out
"Do
you accept to continue with your work here in the lab despite the promotion,
Taylor?" he said taking the child in his arms
"Yes,
accept it!"
Adam looked
at Sinclair to raise the child in the air "I wouldn’t do it! The child has...”
a regurgitation ended up on the face of Sinclair “... just eaten!" Adam
concluded.
Sinclair
laughed cleaning himself with one of paper towels on the desk
"The
future of Detective Taylor likes joking!"
"How
can you say that it will become a Detective?" Adam asked
"Of
course I won’t encourage him to join the FBI! Among the secret agent and the
police officer, it is better the police officer!"
Mac laughed
"My wife is no longer an active agent! When she is completely out of that
world, I’ll be able to say to be happy and peaceful!"
"But
now she is in Toronto on a mission instead of his rookie! I guess you already
know that!" Sinclair said putting the baby in the stroller.
Mac had to
control himself and nod
"It's
getting late! I gotta go! See you soon Inspector!" Sinclair said exiting
"I'm
going to pick up Christine!" Mac said to Adam
"No
Mac! Don’t do it! Who will take care of children? Christine is independent, she
knows how to get away with it!"
Mac frowned
"Adam, has she gotten away with it by herself when she was kidnapped and I
was convinced she was safe in Las Vegas? Has she made out just fine when the Pimpernel
kidnapped her? I never found out that the FBI had given her support and
coverage recently! I am worried for her because her colleague J.J. lives and
breathes with dangerous missions and he hates failure! She had to go in Toronto
as moral support for Dalia who was to fulfill the mission!" he grabbed his
jacket and slipped it on "Not to mention that the threats against me are visibly
growing! I swear that if anything happens to her, I'll break him up!"
Adam was
shocked "I didn’t know that! I didn’t think J.J. was interfering between
you and Christine as well!"
Mac sighed
"I know that Cristina is a big engagement for you, but would you look
after them too?"
"All
right, Mac!" Adam surrendered.
Ellie was
coming out of the house when a black shape attacked her from behind and pulled
her into a dark alley that's when Mac was coming too and, recognizing the girl,
he chased the figure that was dragging her into the alley.
The gun was
still in his holster and he tried desperately to see something in the dark
"NYPD!
I know you're here! Let the girl go!"
Someone
swooped behind him and pressed a tissue soaked with chloroform over his face
"You bastard!"
Mac exclaimed in a low voice before falling to the ground unconscious.
The shape
dragged him by the arms and he loaded him into a van "This evening gala
dinner!" he cried to companions who looked after Ellie.
When Mac
was able to return to perceive the world around him, he realized that he could
not open his eyes and beside him he heard a voice calling him
"Mac!"
"Ellie!
Ellie, where are you?" Mac asked
"I'm
sitting on the ground! They said they want to invite more people!" she
exclaimed "Aren’t you cold?"
"A
little and I cannot understand why!"
"You're
on a bed Mac! You're half undressed and you have arms and feet handcuffed!"
Ellie said weeping
"All
right! Now I'll tell you what we'll do! Can you get to take anything with your
feet?"
"No!
But next to you there is an iron rod! Probably you can take it between your
teeth!"
"It’s
not very useful to us!" Mac commented "I have to free up my hands
first!"
"Mac I
can hear noises! They're coming back!" Ellie exclaimed.
Mac
stretched all the muscles ready to react.
"NYPD!
Mac? Ellie?" Sheldon's voice sounded sharp and Mac breathed a sigh of
relief
"Sheldon!
Are you here alone?" Ellie asked
"No,
there's Danny and other cops! It's all over Ellie!" he said entering the
room and freeing her from the handcuffs.
As soon as
Ellie was up, Sheldon released Mac
"Thank
God you're here! How did you know where we were?" Mac asked blinking to
get used to the light
"Easy!"
Sheldon said "We didn’t know it! We were here to arrest the culprit of
Jordan’s murder!"
"You
solved the case! How?" Mac asked
"We
have fingerprints and we found human remains kept in School’s freezer:
Professor Honey has killed a fair number of teenagers and she served the meat in
the canteen! Jordan had discovered her and he has gone in the way you know!"
Mac looked
down at his bruised wrists "Fortunately, I followed Ellie!"
"Who
are the others then?"
"Ellie,
the others are the staff of the school!" Sheldon said "A janitor was
in the wrong place and he is in shock! He was able to tell us little of what he
remembered, but he was able to utter a couple of names!"
Mac stood
up "Could you lend me something to cover me?"
"You
have the belt buckle unfastened!" Sheldon said stopping him and looking at
his pants hem "In correspondence with the pyramidalis muscle, under the
hem of your boxer shorts, there is written something, Mac! I have to move down
your pants!"
Mac sighed
and Ellie turned with her face to the wall and Sheldon used the flashlight to
read better the inscription: “Personal
Use Only”
"Someone
thought to eat all you up by himself! The area around the writing is red! It is
a tattoo made from an improvised tattoo artist! The writing is uneven!"
"Can
you recognize the handwriting?"
Sheldon
smiled "I looked at all the samples that have been left to us! This one is
by Professor Honey!"
Mac saw
Danny get there with some police officers
"Mac?!"
"Boom,
Danny!" Mac said ironically.
Jo walked
back and forth to the interrogation room
"Professor
Honey, you’d better to confess!"
"Detective!"
she calmly replied "I have nothing to say!" she made herself
comfortable on the chair "Except that I'm terribly hungry! I would have
made a nice dinner tonight and a great breakfast tomorrow!"
"You disgust
me! Yours is a disease!"
"I've
had time to taste the blood of your colleague! From the blood people is
possible to understand many things! Your colleague is falling ill! Within a few
years the disease will be evident! Advise him to start make a will!"
Jo
stiffened and she looked at the police officer at the door "Take her away
from me and bring her with her accomplices to jail!"
The woman
burst into wicked laugh.
Jo stepped
out shocked by the interrogation room and she caressed her own belly
"Fortunately,
you cannot hear yet!"
Mac came to
meet her with Ellie
"Hello
Jo!"
"Hello
Mac!" she said and she immediately hugged Ellie "Honey, I'm
sorry!"
"It's
not your fault mom! How are you?"
"Tired!"
she admitted looking at Mac into his eyes "Thank you for having followed
her into the alley! You have been brave to take action!"
"I
just did my job!" Mac said modestly "I'm going to disinfect me the
evidence that I have on the end of the abdomen! I've spent the last few hours
in being photographed!"
"Are
you all right, Mac?"
"I
could risk an infection, but I'm fine!"
"To be
safe, do further examinations!"
Mac looked
at Jo surprised "Is there something I don’t know?"
"You
check that the cancer hasn’t developed! Promise me that!"
Mac had a
worried face "I haven’t had match from the last analysis I did! Where does
the doubt that the disease may have developed come from?"
"From
your genetic predisposition!" she lowered her voice "And from
Professor Honey!" she grabbed his right arm and lifted the sleeve of his
shirt "She took a sample of your blood!"
Mac laughed
"So what? Jo! I'm surprised that you can believe it!"
Christine
entered the precinct and she walked over to Mac sighing "Mac! How it is
that I leave for a day and you can cause harm while I'm not there?"
"I was
about to come to take you home! You never told me that it was a mission in
which you would be forced to step in! What did you do to your hand?"
Christine
looked down at her bandaged left hand "It's just a scratch! What about you?
You leave the kids to Adam in order to pick me up and then, for a mishap, you
play the hero?!"
Mac
caressed her cheek "Don’t get angry like that and don’t cry! We need to
establish new rules!"
Christine
verge of tears paused and she sighed
"I
think we need some time to calm down! I'm going to take the kids and I'll see
you at home! Have your wound medicated in the ER!" and she left him
greeting Jo and Ellie with a smile
"Mac,
I don’t like that you lie to each other and that the unexpected happens in your
relationship! You have two kids!" Jo said
"I
know! For their sake, we must find a deal! I'll do the analysis, so I will be
quiet too when I will see that nothing has happened!"
"I
hope so for you, Mac!" Jo said "Now go!"
Danny
looked at Lindsay arrange the evidence of the case
"For
our children, I want the private teacher!" Lindsay smiled preparing to
leave.
Danny stood
in the hallway in front of the office of the Mac "Inspector Mac
Taylor?!" he read the new plate "Now that's nice! They give him a
promotion and he not even tells us so!"
Lindsay
smiled leaning her head on Danny’s shoulder
"I'm
glad! The life isn’t giving him respite! The promotion is the sugar that is
used to swallow the bitter pill!"
Danny
thought about it "You're right! I'm sorry for everything that happened to
him!"
Mac
returned to the house and stroked Christine's cheek "I was anxious for
you!" he said lovingly "I don’t want anything happens to you!"
"I
know!" she clung to him "Who told you that I was on a mission and not
to give lessons to Dalia?"
"Sinclair!
Shortly after having promoted me, he tells me that you're on mission in Canada!"
he stroked her cheekbone
"You got
promotion?!" she said enthusiastically
"Yes!
I became Inspector!" he smiled for a moment before returning seriously "You
have to know one more thing: I took the opportunity to do some tests and in a
few weeks I will have the answers!"
"But
the latest exams you did confirmed that you were fine! What has changed?"
"Don’t
worry! It's just a precaution and to feel comfortable with myself!"
Christine
made him sit on the couch with her "How much do we have?"
"What
do you mean? Time? Money? Chance that I fall ill?"
Christine
sighed “Money to make sure you’ll heal if you get sick!"
Mac sighed
"Not many! I cannot make promises or tell you that I'll be fine because it
is not true!"
Christine
clung to Mac "I don’t want to be alone!"
"I
will do my best because this doesn’t happen!"
Jaime sat
on the bed next to Flack
"Bad
Day! I just want to sleep!"
"Promise
me that if you need to go on a mission on behalf of Narcotics, you will tell me
it without problems!" Flack said kissing her cheek and looking at her to
smile
"Christine,
in to Mac’s eyes, has always appeared different! To reveal your true identity,
after the most important person in your life has known you for what you want to
be, it’s not easy!" she turned to him "I promise you that I'll tell
you everything and you can make me any question!"
Flack
kissed her and turned off the light "Good night, sweetheart!"
