‘I’m in pursuit of a green Ford pickup truck, westbound on Lincoln! The operator of the vehicle is Rod Billingham, he’s armed, he’s shot two o...ficers!’ ‘Operations copies, County Nine,’ the dispatcher replied. Tim and Alex had heard the radio traffic and were headed toward the scene of the shooting in the Tim’s unmarked cruiser. ‘Step on it, Tim!’ Alex yelled. ‘I think we’ll be able to intercept them,’ Tim said, guiding the car around a corner, tires squealing. ‘Luke’s going to need help if he. Clint sent a CV for Daddy and another one for me to his ten fellow agents. And he sent us brief bios of them. Six men, four women. That there were that many women surprised and pleased me. Clint and the other ten retired, or retiring agents, had plenty of street experience; not a paper pusher among them.I would be the youngest of the group and Daddy would be the other bookend, age-wise.All of the info that Clint shared was couched in discreet terms. He did not mention that I’d shot and killed. Steve blushed hard when she looked at him, and Jackson’s confident smile wavered only slightly when he felt challenged by her look. Brenden was almost puppy dog earnest in his willing eagerness to be nice to her, that she had to smile. Goosh, still recovering, smiled warmly back at her, and Robbie simply looked nervous, as if afraid she would say no.Moving around the table and standing in front of Steve, she said “Help me up?”, pulling on his hand and getting the large boy up and out of the. That’s the only good thing I got from this experience.”Ayame spoke then. “Cindy, tell them what you heard about that other school.”“Oh, right. Last night my brother and Ayame were talking about not knowing anything about how the Program runs in other places. Our psych teacher said she’s heard stories about kids having bad experiences but when I tried to search on the web, there was nothing.”“Yeah,” Dennis said, “I looked too. Someone on one site said that the feds shut down all those.