What if Diana and Pete were in cahoots?
Diana and Pete headed back to the room where they had left Sam after they heard Dean's "confession."
"Can you believe that guy?" Pete asked.
"Well, we can hardly expect him to confess to a crime he didn't commit," Diana pointed out, after checking to make sure nobody was around.
"Yeah, but come on, vengeful spirits. And what was that other thing he was talking about? Shapeshifters? The guy's crazy."
"Well, that's probably to our advantage, so let's not complain about it," Diana said, as she opened the door. The room was empty.
"Where did he go?" Pete asked.
Diana picked up a note that had been left on the table. "These guys," she said, rolling her eyes.
Pete looked over her shoulder and read the note. Something about Hilts and McQueen. "What is it?" he asked.
"A reference to the Great Escape. Dean somehow got a message to his brother to escape. So, apparently he did," Diana explained.
"Why wait for instructions if he could just escape?" Pete asked, confused.
"I don't know. It doesn't matter. We have to get him back so we can get rid of both of them. They were supposed to escape on the way to St. Louis, remember?" Diana reminded her partner of their plan to frame and off the brothers.
"Yeah, OK. You go after Sam and I'll "transfer" Dean to St. Louis. We'll meet in the woods at around midnight to kill them," Pete suggested.
"I think I can use Dean's delusions to help me find Sam," Diana said, formulating a plan.
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Diana walked into Dean's interrogation room hesitantly. She was trying to act scared without overdoing it.
"Want to make it quick. I'm kind of tired, what with your partner assaulting me and everything."
Diana quickly hid a smile. He had no idea what Pete had in store for him. She decided to get down to business. "These things that you were talking about earlier, what would it look like?"
"A vengeful spirit? It would look the person of whose ghost it was," Dean said, thinking that was a really stupid question. Then he looked at the detective and realized she was a little shaky. "Did you see something?"
"I'm not sure. I was in the bathroom and there was a reflection. I turned around, and there was a woman with red eyes." She tried to keep her sentences short. Like she was afraid of a ghost and afraid to admit that she had seen one.
"You have seen it, then," Dean said.
"No, there's no such thing. It's crazy," Diana protested, knowing she had him on the hook. She needed to reel him in carefully, though, if she was going to find out where Sam was.
"Let's just skip the I'm crazy part. The last two people who saw this thing wound up dead soon after that," Dean pointed out.
"What should I do?" Diana asked, almost as if to herself. She didn't want Dean thinking she came in here to ask him that. It had to seem as if it's a last resort.
"You need to go to Sam."
"You're giving up your brother?" she asked. This was easier than she thought.
"Go to the first hotel in the yellow pages and look for Jim Rockford. It's how we find each other when we're separated. You can arrest him or let him save you."
"Thanks," Diana said and left.
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Sam was sitting at his computer trying to get a fix on this vengeful spirit. He was looking for people who had gone missing or died near Ashland Street. There was a knock at the door. Maybe Dean had escaped, too, he thought. He got up to answer the door and was very surprised to see the detective who had been questioning him all night.
"How did you find me this time?" he asked, amazed.
"Your brother told me where to find you," she answered.
Why would he do that? Sam wondered.
"I saw the ghost or whatever," Diana said, answering the question he hadn't bothered asking aloud.
"OK, let's see if we can get rid of it before it gets to you," Sam said picking up some pictures from the little table in the room.
Diana couldn't believe this. These guys were really insane. She and Pete would actually be doing the world a favor by getting rid of them. She decided to console herself with that thought. She hadn't set out to become a murderer.
"Do you recognize any of these people?" Sam asked.
Diana began flipping through the pictures when she came across the mug shot of Claire Adams. She and Pete had killed her when she had wanted to go straight. These guys might be psycho but she had to admit they were good. "This one," she said, handing him the picture. Why not throw him a bone? He was going to be dead in a few hours anyway.
"Claire Adams. She was busted for dealing heroine. You ever work vice?"
"Yeah, Pete and I did, before homicide. But I don't recognize her." Play it cool until you figure out how to get him to the woods without being suspicious of you.
"Alright, she was last seeing going into 2300 Ashland Street. Let's go."
"What for?" Diana asked.
"We have to salt and burn the bones," Sam answered.
"What?" Diana asked. Again, these guys were crazy.
"It's the only way of getting rid of her spirit."
"Of course it is," Diana said, deciding to humor him. They had two hours before Pete and Dean would be in the woods waiting for them.
