Notes to readers: Don�t let part 2 get you down. Remember that technical difficulties are part of life. This plot mechanism is all part of the plan. Remember that and realize that looking for clues now is easier than in the deposition. TPTB tell us all the time that suspense and curiosity are good for us. There are at least 5 crucial clues in this piece which are essential to solving this before the piece ends�which is the goal of this mystery writer.
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Date and Time: Labor Day, 1999 at approximately 5 am.
Location: Chicago Field Office for FBI (CIA operatives use this facility as a professional courtesy)
David Grant, CIA Officer and Part-time Springfield police officer has just finished listening to Dietz�s statement regarding the events of June 3, 1999. The transciber has left the room and promised to return within the hour with the written report. Grant has asked Dietz to hang around so that they can go through the crucial points in greater detail. Dietz agrees saying what else would he do? Sleep or watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon? Now the two men are kicking back and brushing up on some of the high points of the deposition.
Grant tells Dietz that he isn't so sure he would ever believe the things he had heard during the two hour deposition if Dietz hadn't been hooked up to a polygraph. Dietz asks again about the time delay and reminds Grant he is due in court and is expected to look fresh as a daisy for the Dragon Lady. Grant offers that if the transcriber isn't done within the hour, Dietz can leave and they'll go over the report next week with a fine tooth comb.
The rest of their conversation follows:
David Grant begins the dialogue asking Dietz, Well what are you gonna do about all of this? I mean how can you live with the knowledge of what has gone down and knowing that there is no way to ever pin this on the real criminals? Is it your love for the family or something else that keeps you going?
David, man, you gotta understand, I was nothing before old man Santos picked me up out of the gutter and entrusted me with the care of his family.
Yeah, David said, it must have been rough growing up poor in Spain.
Spain, what the hell you talking about man? I'm from Toledo, Ohio and my real last name is spelled Deets. The Santos family changed it so I�d fit in better with them. But as we all know they never really treated me as a family member did they? No, I always heard things a little bit too late to take any positive action. But David seriously, you gotta realize that my debt is to the Santos family and not just to Carmen. As you can see, my allegiance to the family is so strong that I'm selling Carmen out in order to give the kid a chance at life. You know, old man Santos told me while he was drawing his last breath to watch over our boy and I promised to. It has been hard watching the kid grow up and being proud of him without ever being able to tell him the truth. Hell, I hope all of the truth never comes out. I just want him safe. As I always told him as a kid, sometimes you just gotta have blind faith and close your eyes and jump! That is how you get over things in this life and that is how you move on and learn to trust again.
Ooh, Dietz, you are getting pretty philosophical aren't you?
Tell me about Ho�
Wait a minute man, didn't I tell you that you could never talk about that lady? That topic is off limits to you and to everyone.
All right, tell me a little bit about Carmen and her relationship with Mick and with Danny.
Her relationship with Mick was totally different. Although she adopted Mick after she and the old man got married (yeah she was the second wife) she never doted on him like she did on Danny. Danny was like a God to her. She breast fed him until he was 4 and everything. Even changed all his diapers herself. Like I said earlier, strange relationship right from the start, I mean 3 nannies and she is changing the nappies?
Well, then what was it like for Carmen to come into the house as the second wife and a pregnant one at that?
Not too good at all, old Abuela disliked her from the start. She never trusted Carmen since she wasn't Spanish either. No, our Carlotta (yeah she changed her name too), came from a small little place called San Cristobel, she still has a house down there, although its a real improvement over the hovel she grew up in. She made her way into the old man's life when he was down there one year and she was just way too hot to handle and he could never put her out of his mind. Within the year, she was the wife, the other wife was missing in action (their marriage was later annulled) and she was with child. I saw it all and Carmen and I were the best of friends then, I was with her always.
She called Mick her little Sonny Corleone and Danny the other one. Ha, I wonder now if she realized then that the two would end up playing the parts of the two characters from that movie, The Godfather.
Mick was a real love and leave him type. He never went to college, got his GED through some mail in magazine coupon, you know the one all the grease monkeys and artist wanta-be�s still use today. He loved women almost as much as he hated them. I watched him a lot because he was always going off halfcocked, always in danger of losing it, always too jazzed up on caffeine or worse.
Danny just showed signs of that late this spring, which is probably what first prompted me to contact you. I love that kid. Hell, he is bright, smart, good looking, attractive�none of those qualities came from my teaching him, I can tell you. Carmen was so controlling of him. He wanted to go to Princeton but she even made him sell his MG convertible and tromp off to Yale. That boy is not a Yalie, I can tell you but he did real well there.
I spent about 2 years up there watching him while Carmen was in San Cristobel up to her usual antics. We had fun, I observed how he was with women. He loves women and is loved by them. He met some lovelies too and treated them real nice. He always was very romantic, made great speeches, quoted that Shakespeare guy, gave wonderful gifts and only sometimes made advances at them, usually after they jumped him. Two women I remember so well, beautiful women wanted to be writers�hmmm Elizabeth and Kristi, I think. He adored them. But momma nicked those two relationships in the bud, Ill tell you. She let it be known what and who they were dealing with and Danny was left heartbroken but wiser. I don't blame the women, Carmen did threaten to fit them for cement shoes, the fact that she did so both times at the local concrete plant probably added to the scare tactics.
After that, Danny just focused on his studies and after that the family business. He attracted the wrong kind of women, one's who would steal his clothes, his workout hats, even his leather jackets a couple of times. Then finally, he settled back down in little old Springfield. Man I thought when Mick died that a piece of him died as well, if only he would have known the truth, but she wouldn't or couldn't tell him. Just let him hang there and suffer and even made him feel responsible. It all stems from his loyalty to the his family and the love he feels for them. I wonder if he would love them all now, even his half-sister Pilar double crossed him this summer.
Anyway, he met Michele, the one with angel eyes, and Drew, that Skipper doll wanna be, on the same day. I was sure he'd go for the Skipper doll, she sure looked like she�d eat him up and throw him away. Hell, she looked like the kind of gal you could knock back a gallon of tequila with, have sex with and then find out she's hidden your wallet under the bed for her own purposes.
But no, our boy was immediately attracted to the angel instead.
And I gotta say once he looked at her a few times with that puppy dog/tranced look that says I love you more than life itself�even more than chocolate cream pie, she was hooked for sure. I think it was so powerful that it scared the heck out of em both.
That and all those videocameras Carmen had all over the house may have been the reason it took them so long to you know, have at it all.
And that reason�true love--my man, is what leads us here today. Where is that stenographer? I�d like to grab a shower before court.
Grant, leaves to inquire and comes back in. Sorry man, problems, I better let you go. Can you come in on Monday to review the deposition and the finer points?
Sure man, whatever you say, I like working with you. But one point has got to be made clear in that deposition. And that is that everything which went down on June 3 happened synchronistically. Not one of the major players knew that anyone else was on to them or that any implications would ever tie them together like it has. Everything that happened was in the minute details, not the big hoopla that appeared to get everyone's attention that day and night. That distinction has to be made clear to counsel.
David agrees and says that in his mind that is why the court case has been moved to another city and venue. He continued by saying, it'll be good not to have a poker playing judge on this case and not to have a shyster set of lawyers involved. Although, Ross Marler isn't exactly illegal. Its just that Carmen Santos used her power and got him so sidetracked with that kid of hers and those on Ho�oh sorry man, I won't mention that name again.
Yeah, sure, how is our kid doing? Do you think he�s got it in him to handle the whole shebang? I gotta tell you my 2 cents worth is that he�ll come through this fine, maybe then he can hear the truth. But not before that bride of his is out of the woods.
Dietz, the latest news is very optimistic, if you didn't know.
No, I didn�t know thanks man.
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