2. Take the money and run

"I heard Morgan is working again." Sofia handed Sara her beer when the brunette arrived at the bar.

"She is. With somebody by her side, who is very protecting and would rather see her on a couch than in the lab."

"Greg."

"Yes. I'm not sure he still has a crush on her or if it's friendship, but he worries a lot."

"She replaced you."

"Oh please." Sara laughed. "It's a long time ago he had a crush on me. Over a decade."

"You can't say he has a bad taste in women. Except for this school teacher, who played him."

"Ellen."

"Right. He and Morgan would be a great couple, I hope one day they're more than friends." Sofia took a sip of beer. "Tell me about your case. The motorcyclist made quite a mess on Freemont Street before he died. For nothing. Our suspect killed four people."

"All for the money?"

"Kind of. Archer told us, he took the money because his wife died five months ago, she had cancer and left a lot of medical bills. He needed to money to cover them and he wanted to offer his son something, raise him good."

"A cheap excuse. He wanted the money to make it easier for himself. His son doesn't care about money, about bills, his son cares about love and you can't buy love with money. What kind of father risks to be taken away from his son after the mother died? What kind of father risks that his son will grow up in foster families, will be adopted by strangers or finds out one day, his father is in jail for killing four people. For money. If he had thought about his son, he had not taken the money, not killed a person. He had worked his ass off and still made time to play with his son and be there for him."

Sara raised an eyebrow. She had never seen Sofia this angry. "Are you okay?"

"Just mad at people, who kill other people because it makes their own life easier and then blame it on a baby. Life isn't easy as a single parents, life isn't easy with bills left behind, but damn it, there are thousands of people, who have the same problem and they don't go berserk and kill four people to get money. They work their ass off, come home, prepare dinner and read a damn good night story to their kid before they tuck it in."

"People tend to go for the easy way out."

"People are idiots sometimes."

Now Sara grinned.

"What? Yes I know, I sound like you. I'm right anyway."

"Yes you are." Sara put her hand on Sofia's for second. "I can understand why you're angry. Believe me, I've been through the same feelings when we found out what really happened."

"What will happen to the baby? What's his name?"

"Christopher. Child Service took care of him, they're looking for the grandparents. Hopefully they can take care of him, so he doesn't have to grow up with strangers."

"He will never have the chance to play with his father in the park."

"No."

"He might be allowed to see him, unless he's getting the needle."

"Four people are dead because of him." There was a big possibility that Ryan Archer got the needle and would never see his son again.