Rafael was completely exhausted from the sheer overtime he'd put in the last few days, which didn't look like it was going to end anytime soon, as he found out that morning that yet another ADA was put into quarantine, and was more than relieved when court was done for the day. At least the end of the week was quickly nearing.

He'd had a trial for a misdemeanour case, that honestly hadn't taken long. By two o'clock that afternoon the jury had been dismissed for deliberations and it was now another case off his hands.

He had a working lunch, managing his files, had an impromptu meeting with several defence attorneys, and finally got some rather good news from the detectives on the Capezio nightmare.

"There are benefits to her being ex-vice," Olivia said with a light chuckle. "Watch."

He nodded, pressing play on the audio recording that they'd gotten from Officer Tamin's undercover escapade at M. Malreaux's Bistro.

Tamin was dealing with a man when a redhead walked in.

Officer Tamin turned around. "Hi, can I help you?"

"Tiffany Reynolds, Harrington Pharma." The woman offered her hand to Tamin who shook it with no hesitation. "I'm the sales rep."

"Kathy Montes," the officer replied, a friendly smile on her face.

"I know," the other woman said. "You're temping for Rhonda, right?"

Tamin dipped her head in confirmation and started to walk away, gesturing for the woman to walk and talk. "I am."

The woman started to follow her over to a desk. "Dr. Capezio was right. It's a waste to put a body like yours behind a desk."

"Oh, uh," Tamin replied, taking a seat, the smile never leaving her face, "Dr. Capezio's with a patient right now."

"Oh, I don't need him," Reynolds said. "How do you feel about lunch? We can order from this hot new bistro up the block and go to the conference room?"

"Oh. Okay," Tamin said, getting up to go with the woman.

Not much of substance transpired over the next few minutes, but finally, the pair sat down to talk.

"You're right," Tamin said, deliberately opening the door. "I'm not really a desk person." She leaned forward slightly. "Do you get to travel?"

"All the time," Reynolds confirmed. "All expenses paid."

"How did you break into it?" Tamin inquired. "As a pharmacist?"

"It's more of, um, a people business," the woman explained. Tamin just nodded in response. "A lot of these doctors are busy. Tons of stress. You have to make a good first impression. Let them know your main concern is their happiness."

Tamin gave the woman a pointed look. "I haven't finished community college."

"Oh, neither have I." The woman was chuckling while she spoke. "When I interviewed, Mr. Rudolph told me I was already a Ph.D."

Tamin shot her a questioning look.

"Poor, hungry, and desperate," the woman explained, taking a sip of her wine.

Tamin nodded. "Well, you've come a long way."

"You can too," Reynolds said, giving Tamin a funny look. "There's a lot of lonely doctors in this world. Just use what God gave you, and, God gave you plenty." Tamin gave a chuckle that was somewhere between awkward and flattered. "The happier you make the doctors, the more they prescribe," she continued.

"So you just get paid to party?" Tamin inquired rather enthusiastically.

"Bingo," the woman said, pleased that she'd roped Tamin in. "You wouldn't believe what I got for my Christmas bonus." She smiled even warmer now. "We're having a luncheon tomorrow, to roll out a new drug, for some of our biggest prescribers. Why not come with? See if it's for you."

"Sure," Tamin said happily, "I'd love to."

Rafael paused the video as Tamin took a sip of her own wine, and turned to face Olivia while they talked. "She's money when it comes to undercover work." The police captain gave him a look of amusement. "How did you get vice to give her away?"

Olivia chuckled. "I don't even know." She paused. "She's a little over-eager, not unlike Carisi was, but I think we'll brown-beat her into a very good detective yet." She gave him a funny look.

"What?" he said, fighting back a yawn.

"I may have pulled a Dodds," she said with a chuckle. "Don't say anything yet, but while we're on the topic of promotions... Amanda has been a third-grade detective for eight years." He nodded. "She's getting promoted to first-grade."

"Good for her," he said earnestly. He meant it. The woman was still going to therapy and was definitely working on improving herself, despite past mistakes. There was also no question that she was good at her job when focused.

They chatted for another minute before Rafael brought the topic back around to the original topic. "So, Officer Tamin has made contact with a sales rep from Harrington Pharma who was a former adult film actress. Now she's making high six figures peddling Oxy." She made a vague gesture. "She was also rather explicit, although technically subject to interpretation, but it'll do." He shook his head. "Is this coming from the top down or are we looking at a rogue sales division?"

Olivia eyed him. "That's what we need to figure out. So, Kat will go with Tiffany to the pre-sales event tomorrow and we'll go from there."

"Good," he said, "because, they're going to close ranks and put up a fight. If their sales team is crossing the line, we need to prove it."

She gave him a sideways smile. "Smelling blood in the water?"

He smirked back. "Aren't you?" He leaned in and gave her a quick kiss. "Go deal with your band of loony-tunes, and I'll try and get home again by a decent hour."

"No files at home tonight," she said, squeezing his hand. "Even you need to sleep at some point. One can not subsist on coffee alone."

He gave a little snort. "Sleep is for the weak." He gave her a more serious look though as he continued. "But, I'll concede your point."

"Good," she said, "and besides, dinner's on you tonight."

"Noted," he said with a light chuckle, watching as his wife walked to the door of his office. "Love you."

She smiled. "Love you too. See you at home."

As his wife closed the door behind her, he walked over to his coffee pot, pouring himself another cup of coffee, before he sat back down at his desk, throwing himself fully into his files once more.