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20 minutes later they found themselves inside Best's office, standing behind closed doors and facing the people they both feared the most this day – Best, Callaghan and Boyde. Once they were inside, Best walked up to the glass walls of the office, and started pulling all the curtains down. The office walls closing in fast on them making both Sam and Andy inhale deeply, as if this is the last grasp of air they'll ever have.

Luke looked at Best as if asking for permission to talk, and then started talking:

"Emily Starling was found dead two hours ago in Montreal. She didn't come to work today, so a friend stopped by her place and found her body – or should I say – her body parts".

Sam looked shocked, and Andy gasped as a look of mortification took over her face. She remembered Emily very well. They met the first day she worked with Sam. At the end of the day, after Andy found the USB drive with the incriminating data on it, they gave it back to Anton Hill in exchange for Emily. Andy didn't know where Emily went from the bus stop after they dropped her, and Sam was purposely misleading her, saying that the less she knew the less harm could be done to her in the future.

"There's more" Boyde took over the lead, causing both Sam and Andy to snap out of their gaze.

"The killer used Emily's blood to re-decorate the walls" as he was saying this he tapped his finger on his cell phone's screen and flipped it towards them, revealing a picture sent to him by one of the Montreal detectives. The picture showed 6 thick dark red words:

TPD 15D

Swarek

McNally

You're next

Sam's first response was to look at Andy, reaching his hands to catch her as it seemed to him she's about to faint. Somehow she managed to pull herself together in the last moment and grabbed one of the seats in the office, letting her body drop on it as all the air came out of her lungs.

Sam looked at Best and plainly said "Well, that's concise. I get why Hill's guys are after me, but why McNally?"

"We guess it's because she was with you that day. Maybe they think you both were in this together" Boyde answered. The room was silent for a minute or two. Andy was sure it will take forever for someone to talk again. She turned her head from Sam to Luke, then Boyde and Best and back to Sam again, not knowing whom to look at.

"So what's next?" the walls echoed Andy's first verbal response, though the words were barely noticeable as she was still struggling to hold herself together.

"You go under. First for several days, then we'll see what's next" Luke answered rather harshly. Sam raised an eyebrow, but he knew there's no other option. If one of the largest scumbags of Toronto wants you dead – you need to disappear from the face of the earth, literally speaking.

"Give me the keys to your places, and I'll have someone over there to water your plants and walk your dogs when you're gone. Your salaries will be deposited at secured bank accounts under your names until your return; money will be transferred to you by email request to the detective in charge. As of now you are both officially on indefinite paid vacation, you are not allowed to talk to anyone in and out of the barn. Hair and makeup artists are waiting for both of you at interrogation room 1, to give you an overall change and to match you with wigs. Once done, we will prepare you your new ID, driver's license and OHIP card. For your convenience you shall both keep your first names, but I need to know what will be your new surname for these cards. We will also give you new pre-paid phones. The numbers will be written on the back for you to know them. We have these numbers here as well, to contact you if needed. You're not allowed to copy any of your old numbers to the new phones. You can take whatever clothes you have here at the barn, but I strongly suggest you'll take the bare minimum. Could be Hill's people already followed you and know your outfits. Anything else you need, you'll have to buy on your way. We shall give you some cash money to get along for a while. Once we're done here we'll bring a black-windowed SUV to the Sally port, you'll get inside end we'll drop you off at a bus station 15 KM distant from city limits. From there – you're on your own. Do you have any obligations for the next few days that are needed to be sorted out? Do you have any questions?" Luke's speech was fast and concise.

Andy lost him somewhere after 'hair and makeup'. Would it really come to that? Just like that? Giving up her hopes and dreams and just start running from one mean guy and his huge gang? Will she just loose her car? Her car….

"Wait!" Andy called out to Luke "I've just bought a car and I was about to pick it up today after shift. I still need to register it and all".

Both Luke and Sam looked at her surprised. "What? I got tired of asking favors for rides and I can't walk in this heat not even one more day" she said apologetically, raising her shoulders just a bit, biting her lower lip in the process. Sam was so proud of her for taking this initiative, but he'll have to tell her that some other time. Now everything was a mess and there were too many people in the audience. Actually, only one too many people. Luke.

Boyde was the first to get the meaning of what she was saying and told them all it was actually great news. Seeing this was done in such short notice – he could not give them a car yet, not without risking them by using a car Hill guys might already marked as police cars. And renting a car is way too expensive and noticeable. This way, they can get Andy's new car and register it under her new name and they'll have a legitimate car for them to use. Once the IDs are done, Luke will go to the dealer's and get the car for Andy, then he will meet them at a decided location outside of Toronto.

All people present in the room looked at each other without saying a word, knowing Boyde's idea is much better than taking public buses in this case.