Thank you."Ted slipped a bill into the tips jar and escorted me back out of the casino. "That wasn't very helpful." Sure it was," I disagreed. "We did...'t know if he was meeting a man or a woman before. Or possibly several people."Ted shrugged. "Sure, but how can we know who he met?"I thought furiously. "Well, if Hawk can get some help from Hans, she could get the camera footage from the casino."Ted rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "That's true, but it's a big if. What now, O great investigator?". I was targeting those who had killed my parents. Harbored the terrorists and allowed them to do what they did on 9/11/2001. I walked along with the chatter of the reporters in the background like a sing-song of night bugs behind me. I ignored them all. The gag prevented them from photographing my face and the manacles and handcuffs drug me down to near the point where I could no longer walk. I had a tall Marine on each side of me giving me assistance in moving forward. I was not built. “See, gentlemen, that wasn’t so hard now, was it? Only seventy-eight more bodies to go.”We were halfway done with the first row, when Esteban and Ed came out the courthouse door pushing two men with their hands tied in front of them. Two other men followed them carrying another body.Esteban told the men to stop in front of me. “Sorry it took so long, Paul. These two and the other Sheriff’s Deputy over there decided to rob the county clerk and the land office before leaving out the back door. We. He didn’t like that I didn’t call him back. He kept calling me constantly every minute. He said that I am to call him every day when I get off work and check in with him. I told him to fuck off. Then he said I am nothing but a stupid bitch because she had connections and couldn’t do it on her own. Obviously he wasn’t a fan of the Governor who was in office at that time. He also said that if I had played my cards right he could have gotten me a position where he worked. I had told him.