Olivia Benson sat at her desk staring off into the air when her phone started ringing. Grabbing the receiver, she answered, "Benson."
To her surprise, Dean Porter was on the other end. "Olivia, can you meet me at my office in an hour? I need to talk to you."
Arriving at Dean's office, Olivia sat down asking, "What's up?"
"Olivia, what exactly happened with Deputy Eyebolt in Oregon?"
"What do you mean? Why are you asking about this now?"
"He just called me and wants my help locating you, and returning you to stand trial for assaulting him, and for jumping bail."
Olivia just stared at him for a moment before responding, "I thought you were going to take care of those charges when you blew my cover."
"I talked to the Sheriff Barkley and he assured me it was taken care of. But, according to Deputy Eyebolt this morning, he talked to the Sheriff and he doesn't want to drop the charges. He is still insisting that you assaulted him and he wants the charge to stand."
"Does he know, I am a cop?"
"I don't know if the Sheriff let him in on our secret or not? Tell me what happened."
Glaring at him, she told him what had happened. How the deputy had been fighting with T-Bone and how she had stepped between the two of them, and raised her arm in a defensive motion to stop him from hitting T-Bone again. She continued that the deputy responded to her intrusion by hitting her in the head with his nightstick.
"So, he is lying."
"Of course he is! You need to make him realize he isn't going to get away with this."
"Let's call Deputy Eyebolt and talk to him."
Agent Porter grabbed the phone and dialed the ? Sheriff's department, putting the call on the speakerphone, so Olivia could hear the exchange. A few minutes later the deputy came to the phone.
"This is Deputy Eyebolt."
"Deputy Eyebolt, this is Agent Dean Porter with the FBI, and I have Detective Olivia Benson of the NYPD here with me. Have you meet her?"
"No, I haven't. Nice to meet you Detective."
Olivia responded by glaring at Dean and the phone. Dean continued, "I am returning your call from this morning. Can you please tell me what happened on the night Peresphone assaulted you?"
"Peresphone and her environmental group were protesting. The Sheriff ordered us to break them up, declaring it an unlawful demonistration. T-Bone started swinging at me, so I struggled with him trying to get him under control. Just as I had regained control, Peresphone ran up screaming and swinging at me to leave him alone.
Dean glanced up at Olivia just in time to see her start to rise, and open her mouth to argue with the Deputy. He shook his head at her and put his finger to his lips to quite her response. She glared at him, but sat back down without saying anything.
Deputy Eyebolt continued completely oblivious to what was happening on the other end of the line. "I tried ot calm her down by talking to her, but she kept hitting me. So I tried to hit her on the back of the nect to incompaticate her without hurting her. She turned just as I started to swing, and I wound up hitting her on the top of the head knocking her unconscious."
"Do you have anything else to add to your account deputy?" asked Agent Porter.
"No, that is the whole story. So can you help me find this Peresphone character before she looses her temper and hurts someone else. You know she is bad news."
"Deputy, what would you say if I asked to you drop the charges as a favor to me and the FBI? We have worked out an deal with Peresphone and have promised her immunity to prosecution on any charges."
"No way! She assaulted me, and she needs to pay for her crime. The sheriff will back me up if you force the issue."
"Is Sheriff Bartley there? I would like to talk to him."
"No, he had a heart attack last week."
"Who is acting sheriff while he is out?"
"That would be me."
"I am going to go talk to Peresephone, and then I will get back to you."
"So you are going to help bring her back for trial?"
"I'll let you know after I talk to her," added Agent Porter as he hung up the phone.
He looked at Olivia, and noticed she was watching him with a shocked look on her face. "So what are you going to do?"
"I think you and I need to go back to Walton County and talk to the Sheriff and his deputy face to face."
"You are crazy, if you think I am going back there. Deputy Eyebalt wants to arrest me, and my partener and I have a full case load. I can't just leave."
"Olivia do you really want to have to watch out while there is a warrant out for your arrest for assaulting an officer? If you are spotted by cops who don't know you, what do you think they are going to do?"
"Alright you have a point. What am I going to tell my Captain?"
"I'll go with you, we can just tell him I need to help wrapping up a few issues from your underdcover assignment.