Disclaimer: What can I say. JE still owns these amazing characters

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Tank phoned Ranger. He was smiling as he relayed the information.

He had just returned from visiting the District Attorney. He had to take Zero and Hal with him to help him bring all the evidence to the D.A. Box after box of information now sat in the office. The DA just looked at him in disbelief. After getting a short briefing what was in the boxes, he promised that he would start working on the case. He had already enlisted the aid of a number of colleagues and they would be working over the weekend. Hoping that they would be finished by Monday, he had made application for the Appeals Judge to hear the case and decide if Stephanie could be released from custody pending new information.

Tank was quick to credit the work of Frank, Edna, members of the TPD and members of Rangeman.

The warden was on the warpath. She was up for a promotion and to have someone in her institution get attacked was like her being attacked.

After viewing the films and interviewing many inmates, she was able to formally charge four women for assault with intent to kill. The State Police had just taken them away and they would be tried for yet another crime.

She had received a great number of tips as to the identities of the women and felt the right assailants had been arrested. About the same time, she had received notification from the Trenton Police Department and the D.A.'s office in Trenton that new evidence was being submitted shortly in the case of Stephanie Plum.

Looking over the preliminary report, she was under the impression that inmate Stephanie Michelle Plum, Prisoner Number 1980737, might not be returning to the Edwina Mulligan Correctional Centre for Women.

Back at the hospital, Stephanie lay recovering in her room. Ranger had sent his men back to Trenton. Frank, Helen, Edna, and he were the only visitors allowed and they had worked out a schedule where at least one person was in her room at all times, except when the medical staff were there.

After being away from her for so long, they wanted to be with her. Many times she would wake up and feel someone holding her hand in theirs.

Ranger tried to spend as much time as he could there, but realized that her family needed to be near her too. If he could have, he would have spirited her out of the hospital and kept her for himself.

Stephanie slept a good part of the time, but gradually she was staying awake for longer periods. The Doctors were pleased with her progress and were preparing to release her, but Ranger stepped in and asked that they delay her return to the Penitentiary.

After a sizable donation to the hospital, her surgeon suspected that she might be running a fever and ordered her release halted.

Monday came, and an exhausted District Attorney stood in front of the Appeals Judge. He presented his case carefully, providing evidence for each argument. After complimenting him, the judge proceeded to order that pending a review, Stephanie Michelle Plum be temporarily released from custody.

Rangeman could now take over the protection of their favorite Bombshell as she healed in the hospital. He ordered that upon her hospital release she stay with either her parents at their home or in a secure apartment at Rangeman. She was ordered not to leave New Jersey.

Moving on, he ordered arrest warrants be issued for Officer Gary Gaspick, Lawyer Richard Orr and Judge Mary Werrick. At the same time, he approved search warrants for each of their houses, offices and automobiles.

The Trenton Police Department was in an uproar. Officers were lining up wanting to be in on the captures.

There were many volunteers wanting to serve the warrants on Picky and Dickie and finally it was decided that Eddie and Robin Russell would be given the privilege of bringing in Gary Gaspick.

Carl and Big Dog got the nod to collect Dickie Orr.

As there was a judge involved, two senior plain clothes members of the Vice squad were selected to serve the warrant on Mary Werrick.

As the squad cars left the station, a feeling of relief and excitement threatened to turn the normally businesslike building into a holiday atmosphere. A great weight had been lifted.

Very soon, the cars dispatched to apprehend the three suspects reported they were returning to the station with their accused.

First to arrive was Eddie and Robin fighting to control a livid Gary Gaspick. He was yelling that he would be filing charges of improper police procedures. He was sporting some bruises on his face, and complaining that the handcuffs were too tight and cutting off his circulation.

When Robin and Eddie were asked why there was blood on Picky's face, they shrugged their shoulders and stated that he kept falling down the stairs, the step and the sidewalk on the way to the car. He seemed to have trouble keeping his balance and they suspected that although he did not smell of liquor he must have been drinking. Gary Gaspick was quickly moved upstairs.

Next to arrive was Carl and Big Dog with Dickie. He looked a bit rumpled in his Armani suit. Dickie had been in a client meeting when the officers arrived and tried to escape out the side door of the conference room. The receptionist had mentioned there was a second entrance and as Carl came in the main door, Big Dog was waiting at the other door. Dickie, who would never be mistaken for a hero, collapsed as he saw the two officers cornering him preventing his escape.

Carl and Big Dog had discussed on the way over the best way to leave the building with the least exposure, but at the sad sight of Dickie sweating and blubbering, they quickly decided that they would leave the building through the front door in front of everyone. They were not going to do him any favors and from the looks of the employees as he was led out, he was not a popular man.

By far, the most interesting capture was Judge Mary Werrick. She was holding court, and after the Deputy Sherriff's had been appraised of the warrant, wasted no time in assisting the capture.

Armed with the warrant, the Sherriff's and the Vice detectives marched into the courtroom. Reading the warrant out loud, they assisted a struggling Mary off the bench and out the side door. She was dressed in her robe and her wig was sliding sideways down over an eye. She was shouting obscenities at anyone who was near her.

Another Judge, who had been advised of the situation, was waiting in the hallway. After watching the little procession move toward the elevator, he quickly strode into the courtroom to finish with the business on the docket. As he banged his gavel for silence, there was a tiny smile on his face.