.. ?" I showed them to my friends, like proving you actually knew my dad and stuff, but they called me a liar and a bullshit artist and stuck up like ...y shit don't stink. I wanted nothing to do with them after that and the feeling was mutual. Except Randy of course and Mindy. We became the three lepers and proud of it. They didn't believe me either, but my weird fantasy sort of endeared me to them." So are they into the whole goth thing with piercing and so forth?" I asked."Bothers you, doesn't. He sneaked off into the night and just left them to their fate." Pretty much." And they're still not saying anything?" Nope." Almost like..." What?" What was the name of our suspect, the one from Bosnia?" Henry Wright." You've got a good memory, Paul." I live and sleep this case." He was accused of rape?" The Muslim girl, yes."And he was saved by medical evidence from a regimental doctor." That's right." It would kind of put you in his debt wouldn't it? Have we got a name for the doctor?" The. Luckily Maria wasn't the type to ignore her friends suffering and happily insisted that they go home.Even the cab ride home was fun as Maria just talked and talked and even occasionally sang while encouraging both Carrie and the cab driver to join her which Carrie did gladly while the cab driver just checked them both out in the mirror and declined with a tired grin. Normally Carrie would've been deeply offended by the obvious ogle, but at that moment she couldn't have cared less. She was far. Around 8pm. We were in a grimey part of town. The buildings were all run down shambles, the type of place you expect to see near a bay area dock. We pulled over and parked, Kristen made a call to her connect. He instructed us to meet at the next block, a couple of streets down.when we arrived at the new location there was some shadow figure standing near a tree. I pulled up and he jumped into the back seat and we drove away. He didn't say much but Kristen handed him a bundle of money, in.