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Title: The Shadows Grow Long 2/18
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Tuesday, 4:05am, Secret Service Headquarters, Wash, D.C.
�You wanna know what went wrong? YOU WANNA KNOW WHO TURNED YOU IN?� Ron was inches from Carl Leroy�s face as he yelled.
�Stephanie Abbott, that�s who! Man, you really blew that one. Never guessed that she�d live, did ya? That she�d contact police? That she'd be able to describe you PERFECTLY! To even TELL US WHERE TO FIND YOU?!�
As Ron told him who had turned him in, Carl went from an outraged pink to an ill-looking pale, recognizing his stupid mistake. He hadn�t killed the bitch.
Ron stepped back, letting that information sink in. Right now Ron�s goal was to get everything he could from Carl - absolutely everything - and he had to get it asap. He had to hammer down every detail, so he could go back to the President and tell him that the immediate danger was over, that the public could sleep safely.
To do that he had to get Carl to talk. From years of training Ron knew that to motivate a person to talk you had to make them believe that you knew more that you actually knew. You had to get them to believe that talking wasn�t going to help anyone except themselves.
�Know this� after everything you put that woman through, Stephanie is more than willing to testify against you for every little thing you bragged to her about!�
And with that, Carl Leroy knew he was at the end of his �mission�, and spilled his guts.
An hour later Ron walked out of the interrogation room with the information he needed. Damn, that �Good Cop/ Bad Cop� thing was wearing. It was ironic... he had spent years in the Secret Service perfecting �Neutral Cop�, but that never seemed to fit into this part of the game.
And � no matter what he told anyone else - his hand hurt like a sum-bitch.
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