Voight heard loud noise made by slamming doors. He already knew that commander Fisher is going upstairs to his office. He and Alvin just sat and waited for him.
"You told me you can easily handle a case like this." Commander Fisher appeared on the doorstep with his hands on his hips, looking at Voight angrily.
"Would you sit down for a moment so we can talk?"
"No! I 'll stand here and you are going to explain me why commander Jacobs was found dead in his own house!"
For a few seconds silence filled the room. Olinsky decided not to interrupt this two and just stand on his place and observe the situation.
Voight got up from his chair before he spoke "I won't lie to you, last night's events got a little bit out of control…"
"A little bit? Don't make a fool of yourself, Voight."
"Commander, we did everything we could to protect our people and solve the case!" Voight raised his voice although while meeting Fisher's look he lowered it, just to not piss him of more than he already have. "It's just… I think we may be bugged."
Even Olinsky looked at Voight shocked by his suspicion.
"What?" The commander was as surprised as Olinsky but given the circumstances, he also thought that Voight may be just looking for excuses.
"Cause it doesn't make sense, look, they've been killing only businessmen who donates funds to the Police. And now? Why to kill the commander? The killer must have found out that it was a set up."
"Maybe that's true. Or maybe not. You don't have to worry about it anymore. I'm taking you off the case." Voight slammed his fist on his desk manifesting his furry "Internal Affairs will take it from here."
"You can't just do it!"
"I can't? Watch it -" he snapped his fingers "I just did."
Voight wasn't the guy who gives up easily without the fight.
"Give me one day, commander"
Fisher laughed "Let me get this straight – you want to solve the case in one day while the days you had weren't enough?"
"You can have the Internal Affairs guys to look into that case. Give them one day for that and we will still be doing our work. If we fail – the case is theirs." Fisher and Voight stared at Alvin who remained silent since now.
"Interesting." Said Fisher.
Hell yeah interesting – thought Hank.
"Can we have the deal?" Olinsky held out his hand to the commander.
Uncertain of his actions, commander shook Alvin's hand looking at him closely. But the man was as calm as always and you could guess nothing by looking at him.
Alvin nodded at Voight who stood there and still couldn't figure out what are Alvin's plans.
"If Voight finds out the truth…"
"He won't if you don't tell him."
Lindsay and Halstead were driving in her car to the precinct.
"You're sure you're okay?"
"I told you ten times that yes, I'm ready to go back to work." Jay liked the fact that she cared but he wasn't the best liar on Earth so he would rather she stopped asking this time.
"Cheater."
The rest of the way they spend in silence. While they entered the precinct Platt stopped them before they reached the stairs.
"Why did you bring him here?"
Lindsay was pretending she's confused "He's name is detective Jay Halstead, he's a detective and he's working in the intelligence here." She smiled at her. Platt liked her so she didn't have to be afraid of her.
Sergeant just raised her eyebrows and said: "I just want you to know that I know."
"Copy that." Was all Lindsay responded before she and Jay went upstairs to talk to Voight. They met him in the bullpen. He looked surprised to see both Lindsay and Halstead but he needed as much people as possible to finish the case.
"Good to see you. Both of you." Halstead lightly nodded at Voight as he heard that words.
"What do we do now with the case?" Erin asked.
"They want to take it away from us."
"What? Right now?"
"You know the rules."
Halstead sat behind his desk and started to look through the files on his desk before he would have to pass them to Internal Affairs officers.
"But…" Hank smiled lightly seeing the expressions on his teammates' faces "we have one more day to find this bastard. Can I count on you?"
He didn't even have to ask or wait for them to answer.
Atwater was searching the cars that the intelligence uses. If Voight's theory was true, the cars and their phones may be bugged.
"Have you found anything?" Burgess appeared next to Kevin.
"So far no luck. Or is it luck that the car is clean?" He smiled at his former partner. "Better tell me how is Ruzek doing?"
"He's okay. Should be home by tomorrow."
She suspected that he might know what is between her and Adam. She wasn't good liar but she had to do her best in case she wants to make her dreams come true. But lately she was bothered by another question: is her love to Adam stronger than the desire to join intelligence? Is it fair to pretend that she doesn't love him just to be promoted? The only thing she knew right now is that she really needs to rethink it all over again. Life is life. You cannot have everything you want. You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Sometimes you have to choose just one option.
"So why are you so worried?"
"I'm not. Just tired and annoyed."
"Roman pissed you off?"
"No, not him. There's this new guy who works with Daniel."
"Oh yeah, Matthews. I've seen him a few times."
"That's the guy. He's asking me a lot about the case and seems amused that we can't catch the guy. Idiot. Real police work doesn't look like they show it on the TV series, we can't catch the guy in 40 minutes."
Atwater laughed. "Yeah, just ignore'em. He did ask me too, but just once."
She like to talk to him. He always makes her smile. Just like before, when they were on patrols together.
"Can you do something for me?"
"Sure, go ahead."
"Get Halstead here, I'm gonna need his help."
She went back to the bullpen and told Jay that Atwater needs him. Just in that second Lindsay finished talking on the phone.
"Antonio watched all the videos and is on his way back. He's got some footages, but didn't tell me more. He should be here in ten."
"Good, good. Erin, do we have anything on the car that hit Burgess' and Roman's patrol car?"
"Not yet, I'm waiting for a call from another district, then I'll know more."
"Okay, everybody, remember that we are short of time, do what you can." Olinsky, Lindsay and Burgess acknowledged the message and got back to their work.
After a few minutes somebody came up the stairs very fast. They all were sure it's Antonio but when they turned around, Nadia stood in front of them.
"What happened? Shouldn't you be at home?"
"I couldn't just sit still and wait for the Internal Affairs to take the case from us." She answered to Voight who lightly smiled seeing the determination. "So I did a little ask around among my old… let's say, people I used to know. And I think I've got something."
Everybody stared at Nadia what made her more nervous than she was before she came there.
"I may have found somebody who knows the killer."
