Chapter 4
It was the day after the arrest of Mister Rodriguez. They had put him in the interrogation room and made him sit there alone for hours.
Even Thompson had interrogated him without any success, not even hitting him had worked. He hadn't told him how he got the black smoke, how he made those dark magical machines he used to kill innocent people.
Agent Brandon was still in the hospital. He wasn't released from the hospital yet and that would take a while. But he had said to all of them to break him, to get him behind bars.
They had done research on Mister Rodriguez and they found out that there where no records of him before the war. Nothing, he was like an adult that just walked straight out of the ground. They looked further, to missing criminals and murderers. That's when they found a mental insane man that had gone missing just before the second world war broke out.
They had called the police and mental hospital in Mississippi and asked for the man's file. And there he was. Mister Rodriguez was the mental insane, vicious Henrique Gallante.
"He is an assassin, a crazy mental assassin. I know exactly how to deal with people like him." Peggy said. "And how do you know how to deal with him, with serial killers?" Thompson asked her and crossed his arms, waiting for her answer.
"Let me in and I show you, all of you." She said determined, looking straight at him. "I believe she can." Daniel said. He always believed she could do more when they still where in New York City. Daniel knows that she is a true agent who get's things done.
"I go first. We have to fuel the fire." Daniel said. Thompson agreed to that. "How do you plan on doing that Agent Sousa?" their boss came in.
Daniel spoke when Thompson and gave their boss the file they had from him. "We have figured out who he truly is. Before the war he was the mental unstable Henrique Gallante. He escaped from the Asylum in Mississippi the moment the war broke out in 1939. They hadn't found him ever since and now here he is, a new identity." Daniel stopped speaking and Peggy continued.
"When he was in the newspapers they didn't know it was him. They thought he had died, because of his mental state. They lost track of him near here. They found his mental hospital uniform at the shore of the beach of San Diego, near Mexico. They thought he had drowned, that he took his own life." She told her boss.
"Daniel push him. I want him to break for everything that he has done. Carter once Sousa is done you can do your part."Their boss said and they started walking to the interrogation room where he still was in.
Peggy was glad she finally could do more here in LA, that they gave her the opportunity to show them what she was capable of.
Daniel got in the interrogation room first and Peggy, Jack and her boss of the SSR in Los Angeles stood behind the glass mirror.
"Hello Mister Rodriguez or should I say Gallante." His face changed. "Well done. You know my real last name." Was the only thing he said and he kept silent yet again.
"We looked things up about you. An abusive Household, drunk parental figures, drugs. You got a whole record." Daniel shoved the file, his file, before him. "Do you got something to say about that?" No response, only Henrique got a dark expression in his eyes.
"I'm not going to speak to a miserable piece like you." Gallante said to Sousa. Daniel took the file and walked out of the room.
He got into the room where the others stood did he speak again. It was Peggy's turn. She got in and took place before Gallante. Her legs crossed under the table and her hands folded together before her.
"You." He said bitterly. "You bitch." She just looked at him, she didn't say a single word for five minutes.
A sick smile spread across his face."Dear Siobhan or should I say Agent Carter, the lover of Captain America. You are quite the performer with your act. Who has taught you, Mister Stark?" he said. "I can get him killed along with his butler do you want that?" He asked her.
Peggy stayed calm, but on the inside she knew she had to protect her friends. She could not lose Howard or Jarvis as well. She didn't show her worry but got further with her task.
"I will make a deal." She said. "You will tell me the information that I want and I will make sure you will not end up in a mental hospital with screaming people all day long and with piss everywhere."
That got his attention. His eyes darkened so dark like she looked in the eyes of a devil. "You wouldn't." He said. Peggy moved closer to him. "Believe me. I. Would." She said so close to his face.
"I knew she was good but did you know she was this good?" Thompson said to Daniel while pointing to Carter with his right hand. "If you believed her full war records you would have known Jack." He responded.
"What was the black stuff that burned the young girl in half?" He didn't answer on the question. "Why did you do it? Did you do it because your childhood and upbringing was so unloving and full of abuse?" she kept telling those things over and over to get under his skin.
"And now you take it out on other people, innocent people. Innocent people that have done nothing to you." She said sternly. She wanted to see him break.
It wasn't working. "Very well. I can stick you in an electric chair. I think it is quite suiting for a person like you." She said as she walked out of the room. Henrique was screaming for her to come back in the room, he was furious, he was screaming and cursing and trying to get loose from the chair he was positioned and the table he was bound to.
Once she was out of the room Peggy almost ran to the phone. She called Howard's residence. Come on, pick up the bloody phone. She thought to herself as she waited for someone on the other side to pick up the phone.
"Mister Stark's residence, how can I help you?" Jarvis asked through the phone. "Mister Jarvis where is Howard? You two must come to the SSR immediately. You two possibly can be in danger." She said.
"In danger, o for the love of God." Jarvis responded rather calmly, but concerned. "Take your wife with you. I want to make sure it was just a treat and not the real deal do you understand?" she said through the phone. She now looked at her co workers who had come after her.
"Understood. I will notice Mister Stark of the problem. I'll see you there Miss Carter." And Jarvis hang up.
"Do you really think that is necessary?" Thompson asked. "Yes Agent Thompson, it is. I don't want someone else's blood on my hands." Peggy said. Better safe than sorry was what she had learned from her mother when she still was a little girl. Just like her father told her she had to take care of people who possibly couldn't take care of themselves or needed help in a way.
And Peggy was doing just that. She lived to protect the world that she wanted to protect.
Howard and Jarvis arrived at the SSR safely. "Hello Miss Carter." Jarvis said when he saw her. "So Peg. Why did we have to come here exactly. What was the reason, I was making myself ready for demonstrating a new invention in my lab." Howard said.
"Howard did you know Henrique Gallante before the war?" Peggy asked him. She needed to know if they knew each other. Stark was thinking for a moment. "I don't think I have." Howard said. "Jarvis do you know a man named Henrique, have I met him?" He asked his butler.
"In a matter of fact, no, you haven't Mister Stark. Jarvis responded to his boss. Thompson showed Howard and Mister Jarvis the photo of Henrique. "You can't be serious?" Howard said while looking at Agent Thompson.
"This is Mister Rodriguez… or was. So this is the guy you just asked me about?" Howard asked. Peggy shook her head.
Howard and Jarvis looked at each other for a second. "Very good." Jarvis said. His wife was waiting in the room across the hall.
Daniel had been to the lab and came back with the invention that had been found at the scene. "Let's see what he can do with this shall we." So they did for the third time going to try to get some answers.
Thompson got in again. After every fifth teen minutes they would change person, to push the phase. He put the invention on the table before him and opened the file. "So what is this for? Can you show me?" He said.
Gallante was just looking at him, he was boiling inside, you could tell it by the look in his brown eyes. "We can destroy this? Use it on you? Oh wait. I have a better idea. I can put you in a mental hospital like we plan to do anyway and make you suffer more than you ever have." Thompson said and Gallante snapped.
He came forward, flipping the table on the side and he broke the chain of the cuffs. He took the invention and shot at Thompson, he missed just an inch. Gallante's hands had black smoke come out of them, and he could shoot it with the invention saw.
That was how the invention worked, the murder machine. It was not as how he imagined to found out, to almost be cut in half himself.
The table was burning, cut in half by the black stuff. Thompson took him by the neck and tried to choke him.
Outside the interrogation room everyone reacted fast. "Where is that invention that controls those muscles?!" Peggy yelled. "I get it!" Howard said and a moment later he got back from the lab. They used that invention to stop people from doing crazy things like what was happening now. But only if they didn't have a choice.
Peggy took it from him and ran inside. The two grown men fought, kicking each other, when Peggy saw an opening she putted the invention on his spine and suspect fell on the ground in pain.
"Good job Carter." He said as he whipped the blood from his busted under lip. "He isn't able to move for a while. Gallante was screaming in pain and also from anger.
"They bounded him together with more cuffs, putted his hands in special handcuffs, his hands where not visible in there. Lucky they got that invention from Stark. It was an invention to stop people from using hands at all. It was like pavement so the black stuff that came out of his hands earlier wouldn't get a change again to come out.
Once he was bound to the table and the ground, as well as the iron table that was much harder to push over did they go out of the room and took the invention with them.
"We know how it works." Thompson said. "Let him for today. Tomorrow we will try to get more information out of him. I want to know if he works alone or not."Their boss said.
"Go home, you all have done an excellent job. He will not escape. I will make sure of that. Mister Stark." Their boss turned to him. "You made the security system of the SSR before, may you want to make it even better. We can't let him escape, ever."
Howard smiled his smile. "Count me in." He said.
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