Carl Costanza and Eddie Garza responded to the call on Desmond Street. Carl walked over to Eddie who was out of his patrol car and leaned up against the cruiser watching the blazing fire. The fire truck pulled into the apartments next and scrambling around getting all the hoses and everything hooked up. They saw two feds shaking their heads at the devastation.

"Not as smooth as her normal explosions." Carl said smiling.

"Nope, but you got to love it. She took out the feds van. I don't think anything with the feds are up on the board." Eddie was smiling with pride as he watched the flames lick higher and higher.

Darvarus and Jackson walked over to Carl and Eddie.

"We need to get an alert out on two women that dumped the body." Jackson told them. He then flipped his note pad to where he had written down the descriptions of Lula and Stephanie and started giving out everything.

"Wait a second. You can't believe either one of these women actually dumped a body." Eddie said in disbelief to what he was hearing.

Jackson then informed them of what had taken place this morning, he continued explaining the importance of the message being left inside the apartment. He told them about how the body was displayed and that Stephanie and Lula were the only ones in the room with the body when they had entered in their process of rearranging the message for the kid. Darvarus explained that if they weren't guilty then they shouldn't have ran if they had a real reason to be inside the apartment.

Eddie shook his head, "Of course she's going to run away if you start shooting at her. Look, you just don't understand. I bet you a phone call was made and they reported this in." Eddie touched his mic on the two way that was attached to his shoulder to get in touch with the dispatch. He asked for dispatch to check on calls coming in concerning what had happened on Desmond. When dispatch came back with a negative, he sent back to get in touch with Morelli and see what time Stephanie had called him. Eddie was certain if Stephanie didn't call it in to dispatch, she would have called it in to Morelli.

The mic squacked on Eddie's shoulder, "Morelli received a call, forty minutes ago at 9:38am. Miss Plum and Miss Fletcher reported that a body was inside the apartment. Morelli also stated that if Mr. Jackson would check his cell phone he left a message at 9:45am leaving Mr. Jackson the information."

"Not your perps." Carl stated grinning.

Eddie nodded, "My cousin-in-law isn't who you are looking for." Eddie said possessively.

"We still need to talk to them. They could have seen who did drop off the body, they shouldn't have ran so that it looked so suspicious." Darvarus stated.

"We'll see if we can find them." Carl said and punched Eddie in the shoulder and nodded in the opposite direction.

Eddie walked a ways with Carl so they wouldn't be over head.

"This doesn't sound like Steph. Steph never ran away before. We didn't even get to tease her about the body and the explosion. Upsets my day." Carl said.

"I know." Eddie shook his head, "Steph has been getting worse since the kidnapping and the shooting. I tried telling Joe, he wouldn't listen to me. Steph has been getting worse with her skips, and the last time I was at her apartment a few weeks back she had prescription sleeping medication in her medicine cabinet. She keeps telling me nothing is wrong, she's in denial."

Carl shook his head, "I hate seeing her like this. I know I haven't known her as long as you have Eddie, but we dated for awhile after Orr, I knew I was a rebound guy, but with her, I didn't mind being a rebound guy. She was a hell of a lot of fun even after Orr screwed her over."

"I think she needs some friendly intervention." Eddie said with a big grin on his face.

"What about Morelli?" Carl asked. "He'll go ape shit with your type of intervention, if I think I know what your planning."

Eddie grinned even more, "Joe will just have to understand. I'm not seeing my cousin-in-law go down this road anymore. I want my best friend back to what she was like when she first started this job. The one I helped teach how to shoot, the one who used to be in control of her life, before life started spinning her in a whirlwind of beautiful disasters."

Carl smiled, "I liked that Stephanie, that Stephanie was fun, we were still going out dancing every now and then. I see her there underneath this wall she's built up. She needs a shove to come back out of hiding."

Eddie nodded, "I'll call Mary Lou. This may take a little bit of time and planning. And with Mary Lou in on it, you know we'll talk some sense back into her."

At 2:30pm that afternoon Lester knocked on the door to the apartment across from his at headquarters. He had woken Alex up only two hours ago to make sure she was fed and medicated again. He leaned on the wall beside the door, he knocked again two minutes later. Three minutes! That is all she's getting then I'm going in. Lester thought. A few minutes later the door was opened up and Lester stayed where he was. Lester noted she looked drugged out more than what she had at lunch time, her eyes not really focusing on anything at all.

Alex turned her head to look at Lester and felt the drug induced weight feeling that sat over her brain. Her eyes blinked a few times and her brows furrowed. "What?"

"We need to leave for your meeting with Jamie." Lester told her.

Alex breathed in deeply, I shouldn't have taken that extra pill. Her thought process was slow and sluggish. Alex only caught a few of the words. "What?"

Lester grinned at her, she was going to be easy to handle now. Her speech wasn't too slurred but it was slowed down considerably. "Your meeting, with your probation officer." Lester told her and stood away from the wall when Tank approached them.

"Miss Ramono, are you ready?" Tank asked.

"The meeting." Alex said fully in the drugged stupor. I got to ride over there, see Jamie. She padded her pockets, "I don't have my keys."

Tank and Lester both raised their eyebrows. "Keys to what?" Lester asked with a half smile. She was totally out of it on this medication. He filed this away in the back of his mind.

"To my bike, so I can ride over." Alex said.

Tank looked at Lester, "How much meds did she take after lunch?"

Lester shrugged his shoulders. "Not sure, she wouldn't let me near the medication at lunch."

One, I think, Alex thought, two, or three, I don't remember. No pain in my ribs. This is good. Maybe, still so sleepy. Alex leaned up against the open door and started slowly sliding down it.

Both Tank and Lester reached for her at the same time. Tank got her by her left arm as Lester got her right. "Next time, make sure you know. She wasn't like this on them before lunch."

"It is easy to find out how many, we'll just count them." Lester said as he reached around and found the pocket that had a slight bulge in it and pulled the bottle out and read the label, he placed the antibiotic bottle under his chin and went digging in Alex's pocket again.

"What are you doing?" Alex got out slowly.

"He's just getting the pain medicine." Tank said.

Lester pulled out the pain medication bottle and then he pulled the other bottle out from under his chin. "You got her?"

"Yes." Tank said and then pulled Alex closer to him so more of his body was supporting her weight so she wouldn't go sliding to the floor.

Lester pocketed the antibiotic and then opened the pain med and started counting pills. "She's down four. No more than what she should be down." He looked up at Tank and shrugged his shoulder. He replaced the pills and closed the bottle and put that in his pocket.

Tank's brow furrowed and thought back to what Stephanie had said, "She took an extra pill, she only had one the first time. That was what Stephanie said."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Lester said shaking his finger in front of Alex, "Naughty girl, I think I'll be keeping these for right now."

"Mine. Give them…" Alex started to say as she felt Tank start walking her out of room.

"They are yours, but you'll be getting them only when you are supposed too and not any extra." Tank told her, "Don't want you turning into no junkie."

Alex was shaking her head, "I'm not that. I'm not my mother." She growled out.

"We know you aren't." Lester said, "We just don't want you to get addicted to this."

Tank and Lester got her loaded in the SUV and Tank drove them over to the probation office, the ride over was quiet, Alex had fallen back asleep in the back seat. When they got there Tank parked and looked back at her.

"It would be better if we could let her sleep." Tank said.

"You think Jamie will meet her out here without us having to wake her up?" Lester asked.

"Worth a try. Sit tight." Tank told him and got out. He went inside and introduced himself and told Jamie that Alex was outside and explained that she was medicated because of her injuries.

Jamie Moore ran a hand through his wavy brown hair. "Okay, this is very unorthadox. I'll see her outside." Jamie grabbed the file on Alex and a pen and followed Tank back to the SUV. "We need to wait for Sharlene, she'll be very angry if she doesn't get to see Alex. I've been on the phone with her half the afternoon while she's been filing motions on behalf of her."

"Filing what motions?" Tank asked as they walked down the stairs. "Sharlene who?"

"Sharlene Tarlton, she Alex's lawyer. She's filing motions on making Alex an emancipated minor." Jamie stopped and touched Tank's arm to make him stop. "Exactly how long has Alex been with you Mr. Baker?"

"We found her in a situation late last night. She got away from us and we picked her back up again this morning. Why? Why is her lawyer filing for emancipation? They have to have special circumstances for emancipation, and how can her lawyer file that without talking to her client first." Tank said.

"I received a phone call at eleven this morning from Detective Lebeau in the homicide section of the Trenton Police Department. He's wanting Alex for questioning, her mother was found dead in her bedroom this morning. I called Sharlene immediately after I talked with him. Sharlene has been working on emancipation for Alex for the last two months." Jamie told him. "How much trouble is Alex really in?"

Tank could hear the concern in this man's voice. "Enough that the FBI want her as well." Tank shook his head. Ranger isn't going to like this. He shook his head no at the look on Jamie's face. "Not my story to tell."

Tank waved him on and Jamie left with Tank out to the front of the building and to the parking lot. The silver jag pulled into the lot and the car stopped on a dime into one of the vacant parking places. The door was opened, long slender legs appeared with black four inch heels. Tank watched as the woman exited the car, she was tall and dressed in a silver business suit. When Jamie had said Sharlene Tarlton, it hadn't registered. It did now as he saw. "Holy Shit! How did Alex get her for a lawyer?"

The woman was an exceptional lawyer with a long number of kills behind her name. Ranger had been working with his own lawyer who had mentioned that he was retiring and he had been trying to get an interview so he could retain her.

"What Sharlene? She's doing it because I'm her brother. I asked her to take on Alex as a favor for me." Jamie told Tank.

Sharlene smiled at her brother as she walked up. "Where's Alex?"

Jamie chuckled. "You are all business." He looked at Tank, "Mr. Baker, this is my sister Sharlene Tarlton."

Tank extended his hand and shook Sharlene's. He looked from Jamie to Sharlene, you could tell they were related, same wavy brown hair, dark green eyes, but Sharlene had a lighter complexion.

"Pleasure," She turned back to Jamie, "And?"

"Mr. Baker was just now taking me to Alex." Jamie stated.

She looked at Tank, "Lead on Mr. Baker."

Tank escorted Jamie and his sister towards the SUV, Lester got out and Tank made the introductions all around. Sharlene was looking in the SUV along with Jamie. "What exactly has happened to my client?"

"You better ask Alex that. I'm not sure how responsive she'll be considering she is on pain medication." Tank told her.

Lester opened the rear door and allowed Sharlene to wake Alex. "Caitlyn, wake up."

Alex opened her eyes at hearing her first name. Only one person used her first name. "Hey." Alex sat up more and winced some.

"How extensive are her injuries?" Sharlene asked looking back towards Tank and Lester.

Tank looked to Lester and then looked back to Sharlene, "We weren't with her when she visited the doctor. She did that on her own before we had her in custody."

Sharlene looked back to Alex, "What did the doctor tell you?" she asked Alex.

"I…" Alex shook her head trying to clear it. "Bruised all over, possible broken ribs, nothing I haven't had before."

Sharlene looked at Tank and then Lester, "Are you two overmedicating my client?" She asked.

"No." Lester told her, "She wouldn't let us touch her meds, we didn't find out until right before we brought her that she had taken an extra pill. She can't do that now." Lester told her as he patted his bulging pocket.

"Very well." She looked at Jamie, "Hand me the folder." Sharlene signed her name to it. Then handed it back to Jamie. She looked at Lester, "I'm holding you responsible, I want my clients medical records from where she received care. I want it Monday morning. You have four days, by that time, I want my client coherent enough to go into court. She's seeing a family judge at 11:30am, she'll have her emancipation hearing. If any detectives or anyone tries to talk to her without me present I'll nail their asses to the wall."

Lester nodded, "Yes ma'am."

Sharlene looked at Alex, "I have scheduled the court date, this family judge will give you what you want. I've already talked to Jim and have changed all the child divorce papers to emancipation papers and have them all filed. We'll worry about signatures on Monday, stay with Mr. Santos and Mr. Baker."

She turned to them and asked Lester to follow her to her car. Lester didn't need to be asked twice. While they went to her car, Jamie talked with Alex enough to get out of her that missing her probation meeting wasn't because she didn't want to come but couldn't get in to see him.

Sharlene looked at Lester, "Caitlyn doesn't know her mother is dead. She won't be allowed back into the apartment to get her things out until Monday. If I find out any of you in the company you work for has mistreated her while she is in your custody I'll make sure that business goes down."

"Miss Ramono will be well taken care of, no one will mistreat her at Rangeman, I assure you." Lester told her.

Sharlene opened her door and then slid into the car and looked back up to Lester, "Rangeman? Is the owner looking for a new lawyer?"

"Yes ma'am." Lester stated.

Sharlene grinned, "Don't disappoint me, and your boss may just find himself a new lawyer." She shut the door, started the car, and then drove off.

Lester watched her drive off, "Scary!"

He headed back to the SUV. Alex was signing the file as he came back up.

"Okay Miss Ramono, you are in Sharlene's hands until October 10th now. She can't push the court date back anymore than that, and you are off of pre-trial probation. Don't be a stranger." Jamie told her.

"I won't." Alex said her head was clearing up more but she still felt drugged.

Jamie said goodbye to Tank and Lester. Lester shut the door, "She'll be Ranger's lawyer as long as I do what she asked."

Tank looked at Lester, "What did she ask you to do?"

"Everything Ranger expects me to do with Alex already." Lester told him.

"Better do it then." Tank said and they climbed in the SUV and headed back to Rangeman.