CONGRATULATONS phyl7375!

Number one, it's funny. Number two, this is the reason. Every time I hear Hudson, I think of the Hudson River in New York. So I put another H river in New York, Hackensack. I know, I'm wacky. (and I'm not good at creating names, especially last ones!)

?-?

"MY FRIEND IN JAIL. HE DO NOTHING." Amy signed. Mya translated for Myles and Josh, who knew the least ASL.

"HAPPENED WHAT?" Mya asked.

"DON'T KNOW. POLICE COME. ARREST HIM."

"FOR NOTHING?" Mya asked, confused.

Amy nodded.

"NAME WHAT?" Mya asked.

"E-R-I-C C-A-S-E."

Once Amy gave the name, she turned to Tara. "Tara, can you-"

"Already on it." Tara replied before Mya could even finish the sentence. After a few moments, Tara had some information. "Eric was convicted of a terrorist threat in Virginia yesterday. Some people saw him at the scene where the threat was left."

Mya translated the information, plus added the address.

"HE WORK NEAR BUILDING. THAT WHY."

Mya sat there in thought. "MAYBE HE SEE PERSON WHO LEFT THREAT?"

"DON'T KNOW." Was all Amy could respond.

"We need to go talk to this Eric." Josh said, everyone nodded in response.

?-?

Sue was analyzing Mark's calendar and comparing the one on her computer to his personal one, so she was focused on her work. To get Sue's attention, Jack quickly leaned himself on the desk, creating a slight vibration throughout the whole desk. Sue looked up from her computer to his smiling face. She returned the smile.

"You're done already?" she asked.

He nodded. "But I'll see you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" she said and signed, smiling hopefully.

"Tomorrow." He returned the sign and smile. With that, he gave her a wink, and wheeled around to walk out the door. Before he went through the door, he wheeled around again.

"I forgot to give you my card." He smiled as he gave Sue one of his undercover cards, so that if she needed to call him, no one would be suspicious.

Sue smiled as she took the card. This undercover work was wayyy too easy.

With that, Jack left.

"I think someone has a crush on you." A woman said behind Sue's back, so she didn't even know that she was there. Sue went back to her work on the computer.

"Hello?" the woman asked, walking closer to Sue. Once she got closer, Sue saw her in her peripheral vision, and looked at her and smiled.

"Hi."

"Hi, I was talking to you, but you didn't answer."

"Oh, sorry, I'm Deaf. I need to see you to know if you're talking to me."

The woman looked a little confused. "Oh, OK. How you know what I'm saying?"

"I read lips. That's why I need you to be looking at me." Sue smiled.

"Oh, OK. I'm Kiara, Mark's assistant."

"Tara? I'm sorry, I don't think I got your name right."

Kiara laughed and shook her head. "No, not Tara, Kiara."

Sue squinted to focus, but still couldn't determine the name correctly. "I'm sorry, could you write it down, I'm not catching it."

"That's OK," Kiara said and smiled as she grabbed a pen and paper. Once she finished writing, she handed it to Sue.

"Kiara! It's nice to meet you Kiara. I'm Sue. Sorry, sometimes it's hard for me to identify certain names. They look almost the same." Sue smiled at her.

Kiara smiled back. "You too. Now that we've gotten the name thing down, how about I show you around the office? I know Carrie didn't really do a good job this morning."

"Sure! Just one thing, you need to look at me when you talk, otherwise I won't understand a single thing."

"No problem." Kiara smiled.

"I think I just made a friend." Sue thought as she got up.

?-?

Myles, Josh, Mya and Amy walked into the police station where Eric was held at.

"FBI. We'd like to see Eric Case." Myles stated.

The officer behind the desk nodded and motioned for them to sit in the tiny waiting area.

Once sitting, Myles looked around disgustedly at the dirty seats and dust around. "These places should be shut down, or at least have regulations or something."

"Hey, this is cleaner then the hospital I grew up near in Michigan." Josh replied, laughing.

Myles disgusted look changed from the floor, to a look of horror at Josh. "What?"

"I lived right by a tiny hospital. Once I fell off my bike and broke my arm and my Mom rushed me to the hospital. She was so disgusted by it, we never went there again. My Mom says I was lucky I never got an infection."

"That is purely disgusting." Myles replied.

During this conversation, the women were having their own, less disgusting conversation.

"YOU LIKE HIM YOU?" Amy asked when she saw Mya lovestruck, staring at Josh.

Mya smiled widely and quickly nodded and signed yes.

"HE CUTE." Amy signed, then signed in amazement.

Mya, embarrassed, looked at the floor. Amy tapped her shoulder.

"ME REMEMBER MY FISRT SWEETHEART." She smiled, remembering. "HE CUTE, FUNNY, BOTH." Amy looked up. "KISS AMAZING."

They both laughed.

"HAPPENED WHAT?" Mya asked.

Amy looked sad. "MY DAD DON'T LIKE HIM. ME NOT SEE HIM OFTEN. ONE DAY HE MOVE AWAY. ME NEVER SEE AGAIN."

Mya looked sadly at her. "YOU REMEMBER NAME YOU?"

Amy smiled again. "ALWAYS. J-O-N C-H-R-I-S-T-A-N-S-O-N."

Mya smiled, but just as she was about to reply, a police officer came up to the group. "You guys here about Eric?" he asked.

Myles stood up proudly and professionally. "Yes."

The officer shrugged. "C'mon." he said as he turned around and started walking. The group quickly got up and followed him. He lead them to a man in a suit.

Myles held up his badge. "FBI. We'd like to see Eric Case." He repeated to the new man.

"I'm detective William McCoy. Why are the FBI interested in an open and shut case?" The man replied.

"Is it?" Myles interrogated.

"Is it not?" William countered.

"Can we just talk to Eric?"

"Woah, not all of you."

"That's fine, Mya, Amy, you go see Eric. Josh, you're with me. We'd like to see all your evidence pertaining to this case." Myles said, his eyes not leaving William's.

William looked almost like a scared puppy. Myles had several years' experience above him, but he wasn't a newbie. Still, William was scared since he never worked with the FBI before, so he did what the FBI agent said.

?-?

"So, do you like working here?" Sue asked Kiara on their little tour of the office.

Kiara nodded. "Mostly." She then frowned. "My boss, Mark, has been acting a bit weird lately, but other than that, everything's great!" She smiled.

"Weird?" Sue pried.

Kiara looked around, making sure no one could hear. "I'm not one to say, but sometimes he just acts weird. He says he's going home or to court, but then he comes back, and acts weird, not himself. He's rude to everyone. It's only happened a handful of times in the past few months and he usually leaves soon after, but still. I hope nothing is wrong at home."

Just then, Mark came over to the women.

"I'm going home. I'll see you tomorrow Kiara."

"OK, this is Sue, the new receptionist." Kiara smiled at Sue.

"Sue, nice to meet you." Mark replied, shaking her hand. He did a good job pretending like he didn't know her.

"Well, I'd better go." Mark said as he walked towards the door. The two woman waved goodbye after him.

"What about everyone else? Are they nice?" Sue asked, continuing their conversation.

Kiara nodded. "And that new lawyer." She looked up. "He's sooooo dreamy!" she swooned. Sue just blushed.

Upon seeing this, Kiara replied, "Ooh! You have something for him, don't you?!"

Sue just blushed some more. The two women continued to talk and Kiara introduced Sue to all the people in the office.

"Outta my way!" a man yelled. Kiara looked towards the direction of the sound. Sue followed in the direction of her eyes.

What they saw was a gruff version of Mark, stomping towards his office. Sue noticed something different about him, but she couldn't place it. As soon as he got to his office, he slammed the door.

Kiara touched Sue's shoulder to get her direction. "Remember what I was saying about Mark? That is what I mean." She nodded her head towards him. Sue just nodded.

?-?

While everyone except Sarah was out, Tara was glad for the peace and quiet of the bullpen to get some of her work done. She was furiously typing away at the computer when her phone rang. As soon as she saw who the caller was, she smiled widely and immediately answered.

"Hi."

"It's been too long."

"Two hours has been too long?" Tara played with the caller.

"Hey, when the love of my life is involved, two minutes is too long."

Tara smiled and giggled. "Whatchya doin'?"

"Just writing your part in the script." Caleb replied, a smile evident in his voice.

"Ooh, so what happens to her?" Tara teased.

"Can't tell you till I'm finished. What are you doing?"

"Just looking up something for a case. There are some major discrepancies on this thing." She frowned at her computer.

"Mhm, I assume you can't tell me?" Caleb pried.

"Nope!" Tara smiled.

"Y'know, I was thinking, maybe we could go to this great little diner I saw a while back that we could go to this weekend, you interested?"

While Caleb was talking, Tara was searching deeper and deeper, ignoring completely what he was saying. She was finding a pattern, nothing could break her focus.

"Tara?"

"That's it!" She screamed, then hung up the phone so she could call Jack.

In Virginia, Caleb looked at his phone, completely confused at what had happened. "What'd I do?"