Chapter Ten : Confession in Interrogation
" Why am I here?" asked Coach Patrick. " Because you were involved with Gary Long's disappearance" said Sam who sat next to Elena. " Where is Agent Taylor? I wanted him right now because he is the only FBI I know right now." asked an angry Patrick. " Danny Taylor is on an assignment with Agent Katie Carter and cannot be here right now." said Elena. " That is shit." said Patrick. Sam jumped out of her seat. She got to Patrick's face and said " that is shit and you have talk to us right now." said Sam. " Can you be not an asshole and tell us what really happened last weekend?" asked Sam who was still at Patrick's face. " Fine I tell you what happened expect for one thing." said Patrick. " What?" asked Sam. " Can you stay away from my face." said Patrick. Sam realized that she is about five inches away from Patrick's face. " Oh, sorry." said Sam and sat back to her seat." That is better." said Patrick when Sam went back to her seat. A few seconds later, Sam talked to Patrick. " Now that I am back to my seat, can I ask you what happened?" asked Samantha. Patrick smiled at them and said " I can now."
Meanwhile, at the other interrogation room across the hall, Martin was seating uncomfortably in his seat. He was still mad that Jack gave Danny the job instead of him. " Don't act angry in front of Jack or he don't let me see her for the rest of my career." thought Martin. In front of Martin and Jack was a red headed football playing freshman named Kevin Baker. Kevin looked very scared when he saw two tall FBI agents staring at him. Kevin is about to tell them the truth but shut his mouth so he can see what they are going to do with him. Jack turned to Martin and gave him a ' this kid is going to pee in his pants ' look on his face. Martin knew the look that he had to talk to Kevin first. First at all, Martin is about not do it to make Jack pissed but he decided to do what Jack told him to do. " Listen to Jack. Talk to him. Forget about Katie. It is about two hours ago. Do this before you lose your job." thought Martin. Martin stopped thinking and start to clear his voice. " Well, Kevin. Can you tell us what happened?" asked Martin.
Kevin looked up to them and said " No." " Come on, Coach isn't here to see you about to pee your pants off." said Martin. Kevin looked at Martin liked Martin can read his mind. " Where is Coach?" asked Kevin. " In the other interrogation room across the hall." said Jack. " Oh, I am safe here?" asked Kevin. Jack nodded yes. Kevin sighed. After Kevin has sighed, Jack had asked him from his point of view what had happened last Saturday night. When Kevin heard Jack's question, he got quiet again. Martin heard nothing but silence for almost a minute. From that, Martin figured out that Kevin is scared again that Coach Patrick is in the same room, probably listening to their conversation. To tell Kevin that Coach Patrick is not here, Martin stared at Kevin straight in the eyes and told him that Coach is not there. He is at another interrogation room with two strong, female FBI agents twenty feet away.
When Kevin heard that, he quickly calmed down in the last two minutes. After he calmed down, Kevin answered Jack's question, "It is the most horrible thing that I ever been involved in."
It was late Saturday night. Kevin was walking toward the bar to get something to drink. After the game had ended a few hours, Kevin and the rest of the team was getting yelled at by Coach, telling them that is the worst thing that had ever happened in more than twenty years back then half of the Alumni are college students. After he yelled about it some more, Coach quickly stopped yelling and began to clear his voice from all of the yelling he did. When he was done clearing his voice, Coach put his hand to his face to cover it and told the whole team to take a shower and had fun for the rest of the day but not too much fun because they are doing practice at 12 pm sharp to be better for the next game.
That was Kevin did. He took a shower with the other players, put on his street clothes, and walked to his dorm room to rest. While he was reading a book for his Ethics class, there are a lot of noise coming out of the open window. To not hear the noise and keeping his focus on the book, Kevin closed the window and went back to his reading but he can't. He can't because his mind was not on the studying, it is on the day he suppose to had fun which is Homecoming. Knowing that his mind was on that, Kevin put his book away on the book shelf, grabbed a jacket to put it on, turned off the lamp, and opened the door to leave to do what his mind is telling him : Go out and enjoy it!!
While Kevin was at the bar, he had a couple cans of Spite so he can fall asleep very quickly and played some pool with some people from his dorm. During the pool playing, Kevin heard some noise from the bar. From the bar, the noise was the two drunken, a-holes Peter and Larry and his smart, quiet roommate Gary. Kevin can't hear that much from all of the other voices in the bar but he did hear was drinks, and money which probably from Peter and Larry by their drunken voices. Kevin didn't heard the rest because he was busy playing pool but he did saw Gary walking with Pete and Larry to the doors and got out. "Probably for the money." thought Kevin and went back playing pool a few seconds later.
When Kevin told Jack and Martin all of that, Martin asked him if he heard anything outside, wanting to know what he is involved with that. Kevin nodded yes to Martin's question and Jack asked Kevin whose voices he had heard. In response, Kevin said to the guys in his Boston accent, "I heard Gary's, Peter's, Larry's, and Coach's." After he said their names, Martin asked Kevin again from learning about it from Sam and Viv why he went outside? In front of Jack and Martin, Kevin said to them, "to stop them."
Back to the interrogation room twenty feet away, Sam received a phone call from Jack to ask her and Elena to talk to Coach Patrick about what Kevin had just told him. When Sam had received it, she put it away and turned to Elena to tell what Jack is telling what to do. When Elena received the information, Sam and Elena turned to Coach to ask in his point of view, what had happened at the ATM machine. When Coach heard the question, he nodded 'no way' at him and wanted to talk to Danny again since Danny seem like he is the only agent that he trusted right now.
When Sam heard that, she got up and told him again that Danny is not here and if he don't answered her question, he will go to jail for 25 years to life for killing a minor since Gary is seventeen which they don't know if Gary is alive or not. After Sam had threatened him with the in jail card, Coach quickly answered her question."Yes. I was there." said the coach. "What you did at the ATM machine?" asked Elena. When Coach Patrick heard the question, he said to the both of them, "I had to do something."
It was early Sunday morning. Coach Sean Patrick was walking around the main campus street for his weekly check in. Every football season on every weekend or maybe everyday, Coach had to walk through the campus to make sure that his players aren't doing something dumb like being extremely drunk or hooking up with the wrong person since the varsity football team was widely known in the five boroughs of New York and had to keep it reputation as being good and Coach wanted it keep it that way.
After ten minutes of walking around, Coach got to the area where the campus bar is that to check around for any misbehaving of his players. The bar had to be checked at because most of his senior players are 21 years old and older and had access to alcohol, mostly from Pete and Larry who should be in AA meetings for drinking so much and their beer bellies had been grown a lot during the years.
Two buildings away from the bar, Coach Patrick heard something. It sounded like it came from the ATM machine which stood at the end of the building. The noises he heard sounded like two drunken voices, and a very scared one. He recognized the two drunken ones. It sounded like his starting wide receiver and his starting running back. When he walked toward the yelling, he saw them. Two of his main stars. To stop them from embarrassing themselves, the team, and the college for god's sake, Coach walked toward them to stop but he made it worse.
When Coach got there, he yelled at the two young men to stop it. After he had yelled at them, Peter and Larry turned around and saw their coach. In front of Coach Sean Patrick was Gary who was very scared right now with his frightened face and body language. After he saw that, Patrick put the two football players aside and asked them what are they doing? With his drunken voice, Peter said to the coach, "we need to get some cash for our drinks, sir." and out came a really loud and smelly burp. When the burp had came out, Coach said to himself, "kid, get a breath mint or something." After Peter had burped, Coach turned to Larry, pointed at Gary and asked Larry why they needed it from him. In response, Larry told him about the halftime show, how Gary had ruined the game, and had to punish for it.
When Coach heard all of it, he got an idea. For one part of the punishment, he could made Gary pay for a new custom made costume to replace the burned one while the other part will be for Peter and Larry to think of. Coach think that is a good idea and decided to use. To do it, Coach put his players aside and walked toward Gary. When he got to Gary, in his angry but scary voice, he said to Gary, "kid. You are going to get a punishment for what you did today." Gary stared at the coach and got very scared that he is going to get a very bad punishment that he will ever had. When Coach got to Gary, he asked him to withdraw three hundred and fifty dollars for both Peter and Larry. After he told him that, Gary did what Coach had told him to do because it felt like Coach was putting a gun to his head and the safely was off.
While Gary was withdrawing money from his bank account, thinking that his parents will be furious when they see this, someone came out. When the person stepped outside, the first thing that had said from the person's mouth is "What the hell are you guys doing?" Coach, Peter, and Larry turned around from their spots and to Kevin the newbie from Beantown in front of them, shocked by what he saw. Coach saw Kevin's shocked face and with a face when he get mad, he threatened Kevin with one thing. The thing is that if Kevin tell anybody about this, he swear to God that Kevin will go down from his current second string to third string which mean no playing at all. With his football scholarship on the line, Kevin said "yes" to Coach and walked away from the scene to not get in trouble.
After Kevin had left, with the money in his hand, Gary turned around to Coach and gave him the money. When he got, Coach gave Peter and Larry their share and kept the rest in his jacket pocket. A minute later, Peter and Larry had left for the bar to pay for their drinks while Coach stayed behind. After the two Seniors had left, Coach walked toward, got into his face, and said to the Freshman," you better get there in the same spot for my part of the punishment tomorrow at 1840, which is 5:45 pm in case you don't know. Get it?" "Yes, sir." said back Gary. When Gary's last word came out, Coach smiled but back to a frown a minute later and said to Gary, "be there." and left the block. After Coach Patrick had left, Gary sighed and walked back to his dorm room to call it a day and face the punishment.
When Coach was done talking, Samantha and Elena got up from their seats and both said to him, "that is enough." They also told him that they are going to talk to their two colleagues about it and think of something to do. When Sam and Elena walked out of the door, Sam said to the agent who is guarding the door to watch Coach Patrick because he is the main suspect right now. After the agent/guard agreed to do it, Sam and Elena walked over to Jack and Martin to talk about it.
When they got to Jack and Martin who both got out of the other interrogation room a few seconds later, the two women told the two male agents what Coach Patrick had told them. In return, Jack and Martin told them about Kevin. After they are done talking about the people they had to talk with in the interrogation rooms, Jack was thinking of a plan. While Martin, Sam, and Elena was staring at Jack for the plan telling, Jack was thinking of something. When Jack told his team members that they are making Kevin leave now and keeping Coach here because he is the main suspect right now.
A minute later, Jack was giving everybody their parts. He made Martin and Sam go to the tech to see if the security camera near the ATM show any footage of their missing person and Coach Patrick together. If there are, tell Jack right away. Jack made Elena go back to Vivian to get some more information about Coach Patrick to see if he got any criminal record or something.
When Samantha, Martin, and Elena went to the places where Jack told them to be at, Jack took out his cell phone and dial Danny's number to ask him to talk to the person who was in the shop last Sunday evening to find out more of this case.