CONGRATULATIONS Jason00! Yes! Marlee was the other contestant! Not sure if he was in Criminal Minds. All the same, not the show I was thinking.
NOTE: I LOVE having the team undercover, but somehow, almost every time, they're lucky if they are actually undercover for only a day or two, until they find the key to solving the case, which is so untrue in real life. I want to make it more realistic, more undercover work, but somehow, it doesn't come out that way. I hope you don't mind!
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"Do you know why Cara applied to work for you, after all the years of you both not speaking?" Sue asked. It was morning, and they were in the bullpen. No one slept that night. Once the bomb squad disengaged the bomb, they took it to forensics. Hopefully they could find something that could tie it to someone.
Francesca frowned. "Cara? Why are you asking me about her?" She now had a clear mask, so Sue could understand her.
"Because we think she might be involved." Jack said.
Francesca squinted in shock. "What?"
"She was your closest friend, competition, and she blamed you for her accident." Myles summarized.
She frowned at him. "Well, yes, but we got past that. She came to me, asking to be forgiven, and I did that."
"But was she really sorry for what she did, or was it all just a ploy to get near to you?" He countered.
"She is not capable in doing this. I've known her for over 40 years!"
But you haven't talked to her in over 25 of those years." Jack confirmed.
Francesca looked away, nodding. "Yeah." She replied quietly.
"Has she said or done something, anything, that made you suspicious of anything?" Sue asked.
Francesca shook her head, searching her brain with her eyes. "Nothing."
All the agents looked at each other. It seems they were in quite a predicament.
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Something's wrong." Carla said, disturbed as she and Bob sat on the couch.
"What's wrong?" Bob said, his eyes closed, trying to take a catnap.
"It's too quiet." She replied, restless.
"I thought you were happy Howie left."
"I was, I am, just with Sue's crew so quiet in the den, who aren't even here right now, and Howie not bustling around here, I got used to the noise." She replied.
"So you want me to go around the house, banging a spoon on a pan? Would that make you happy?"
She glared at him. He had one eye open to see her look, a grin on his face. "No, and you know it."
"So what do you want?" He asked.
"I don't know." She replied, still restless.
"How about we watch a movie?" Bob suggested.
"No. I have work to do." Carla replied, getting up to do something else.
Bob chuckled, shaking his head as he still sat on the couch with his eyes closed. "Thomas women." He muttered, then went back to his nap.
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"A little to the left." Sue said as she watched Jack straighten out the picture frame on the wall. They had decided to take their insomnia energy to good use, and to put up some of the things that they bought in their home while they waited.
Jack looked at her from under his arm, looking for approval.
Sue analyzed it. "Perfect." She said and signed.
He nodded, setting the frame in place. Sue walked to where the rest of the things they bought were. She picked up a particular statue and held it.
Jack walked around to her. "WRONG WHAT?"
She hesitated telling him, but decided to go ahead. "When I was in the coma last year, we had something just like this. I thought it was so pretty."
Jack nodded, understanding where the emotion was coming from. "That's why you just put it in the cart without saying a word.
She nodded. "Am I crazy for wanting a life that was in my imagination?"
He shook his head. "No, it's not. Especially since that dream is coming true." He replied, smiling.
Sue smiled as well. "I guess I just need some sleep."
"We all do!" Jack replied.
"How about we finish putting these things up? We can't sleep until we get some news." She suggested.
"Sounds good." He replied, nodding. "But first, where was this statue in your coma?"
"Right, here." She replied, placing it in its new home.
The couple stood in front of it, arm around the other, happy they could spend the time together.
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"Just got the forensics results in." Mya said, looking at her computer.
"And?" Bobby anticipatedly asked.
"And they found a fingerprint." She replied, reading.
"Great, let's go arrest Cara." He replied, getting up.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Mya said, continuing to read.
"Why? He asked, pausing in front of her desk.
"Because we're arresting someone else."
"Cara didn't do it?" Bobby asked, shocked. Mya shook her head.
"And who might we be arresting?" Myles asked, annoyed by Mya's games. She smiled widely through her mask in reply.
