Here… there are some transactions of dubious origin . The company drowning in red ink, but the administrator and the laboratory manager have received substantial sums ... "
In the pendrive there were other formulas and a couple of encrypted files. Higgins was starting the decryption when Rick and Sam arrived. They entered joking about who had been in the tube the longest. They have clarified and seemed at ease.
"Jules, Thomas you should have been with us ... we had a lot of fun ..." Seeing the looks Sam guessed they had to ask her something "What's going on?"
"Look, Sam I need a favor"
"Thomas, she hasn't even arrived on the island and you are already looking for favors ..."
"Rick, stop it, you know he would repay any favor, maybe not in money, which he hates, and don't deny it, but in any other way yes, you forgot maybe ... Tell me everything." Sam said
"We have a case about a theft of a cosmetic formula, but our clients not seems so honest … we would like to know if it's cosmetics or something else, "Higgins said, handing her the notebook they had found in the safety deposit box. Sam leafed through it then she said
"If these are formulas for cosmetics, I don't know how to defuse a bomb"
"What do you mean?"
"Based on what I understand, being new compounds, they are explosive compounds that are invisible to detection by both dogs and other means. I had heard of them in Iraq, but they were still being conceived... apparently they succeeded ...
"So the company that hired us is hiding a terrorist activity ... well ... we will have to warn Gordi"
"Gordi?" Sam asked
"He is a Honolulu police detective, with whom we often collaborate ... a friend of ours"
"I call him"
"Hi Gordi"
"Magnum ... What is it?"
"We discovered that the company that hired us produces invisible explosives instead of cosmetics"
"Do you have any concrete evidence? We will have to involve national security "
"A notebook and a pendrive with the company's illegal activities. Evidences, that an employee had stolen a couple of weeks ago, then he disappeared. We are still looking for him. "
"Come to the department with the evidence. Meanwhile, I warn the NSA "
Higgins had found something ... "the man was a volunteer at a homeless shelter ... he may have pretended to be one of them to hide"
"We have to check ..."
"But we told Gordon we were going to HPD"
"If we make a detour and take the witness with us too, he won't complain too much"
Sam said "Can I come too?"
"Are you asking me? I know you won't give up even if I leave you here on foot… "Magnum sighed
"Hey Rick, let's go .. it will be fun, like in the old days ..."
Rick sighed at Sam's desire for adventure
"I have the van of the La Mariana, I don't know if it is suitable ... the Porche is in the parking lot of the bar"
"Porche? All of you are obsessed with these damned sports cars ... "
Magnum laughed ... "In a chase they are ideal, even if I don't think we will need them"
"We follow you!" Rick finally said
They left the Nest and headed for the center, when they realized they were being followed ... Magnum and Higgins called Rick and Sam
And at the same time Magnum and Sam said: "I saw some goats! Be careful"
Higgins looked at Magnum… "We are followed. It was our way of communicating, if by chance we were intercepted and given the people we are dealing with, even Sam must have thought that it was not appropriate to be too explicit "
You could see that they were very close and once again she found herself envying with a certain sense of guilt that woman who after so many years was still able to be in tune with her partner ...
They had accelerated their pace trying to sow them but they had had to notice the arrival of reinforcements ...
"There is an oasis to rest?"
"Call TC for the party?"
" I call him" Rick said "I have the place. Follow me ..."
TC answered the call promptly ...
They reached a sheltered area away from the houses and got out ... shortly after, 2 cars arrived with armed men on board ...
Luckily Rick was traveling with his "friends" on board and lent one to Sam ... "Do you remember how to use it?"
"Funny", she said, arming her weapon
They were arranged in a semicircle ...
"Little Bird are you in position? Do you see any others approaching? "
"Right above you, White Knight. Negative"
"Ok. Ready? "
The men were armed, but not heavily, basically they did not expect to be faced with specialists, they probably had intercepted them while they were calling Gordi and the HPD and wanted documents
With a few well-aimed blows they had disarmed a part of it. Rick had their backs while the others fought ... Higgins and Magnum had found themselves shoulder to shoulder ... and he said to her "Haven't you knocked out him yet?" "Think of yours!" and at the same time they had knocked them out.
Meanwhile Sam had two knocked out... a third was about to take her from behind when Rick hit him in the arm and Sam took him down.
The latter had Higgins in his sights when both Magnum and Sam jumped to take her out of line. A shot had hit ... Sam was injured ... Higgins jumped up, looked at her that she nodded ... with two ferocious blows she knocked him down and ran back to Sam ...
"How are you Sam? And you Magnum, are you okay? Rick?" They nodded " Higgy?""I'm ok. Sam?"
"It's just a scratch on arm ..." said Sam but Rick was already there to dab the wound ..
"You shouldn't have come ..."
"Are you joking? And would I have missed all the fun? "
They had immobilized the gang and called Gordon to warn him of developments.
Higgins said. "The hospital is close by. I'll take her ... You go and see if you find Jones, he'll be in danger too if they were intercepting us"
Magnum nodded and they parted ... even though Rick was reluctant ...
"Go, blockhead ... I'll be fine .." said Sam
Arriving at the shelter it did not take long to locate the man, who initially tried to escape only to be stopped.
Meanwhile,at the hospital a doctor was taking the bullet out of Sam ...
Ethan had arrived alarmed by the situation and found Higgins in the waiting room "Who was injured this time? Magnum? You should stop doing this job ... you are always in danger. I'm always afraid that something will happen to you."
"No, Magnum's friend , Sam. I get it, but it's my job Ethan and I love it. I accepted the risks of the trade when I became Magnum's partner. "
"But he doesn't do anything to protect you or his friends. I don't know what I would do if something happened to you"
"Thomas'd sacrifice himself to protect us. I can understand you, but you must understand that this is what I have chosen to do to help people. We'll talk later. It is not the right place. I'd check Sam. The doctor is coming, and so are the guys. "
Magnum, Rick, and TC had come running. Ethan had walked away and Magnum had noticed him ...
"Sam?"
"She is still with the surgeon, but it was a superficial wound"
"Luckily ..."
Then Magnum looked at Higgins and she said back "I'm fine" He squinted and she nodded that it wasn't important and he said back "Later"
"Do you know, yeah, that you are disturbing?" Rick said
At that moment the doctor arrived and said "Mrs. Cordera is fine, given her conditions ... she should have more regard for herself and her child"
They looked at each other amazed, then immediately Magnum said
"Can we see her?"
"Yes, but don't let she get tired"
They had entered, embraced her full of joy ...
"And you who were thinking of a relapse ...?"
She was crying with happiness and pain… "A child? A child of Sasha, I thought I had lost him forever, but a part of him will always be with me. "
"I'm sorry I put you in danger ..." Magnum said
"Are you joking? Today was great. I lacked the action, the catching of the bad guys. It will be hard to go back to teaching kids "
Higgins, came up: "Thanks for saving me Sam, but I wouldn't have forgiven myself if something happened to you"
"Friends protect each other, don't they?"
The HPD and Gordon had arrested the administrator and the lab manager and the case was passed to the NSA who had put Jones under protection.
After a few days Sam was discharged ... and they all went to pick her up at the hospital ...
"Thanks you"
"No, thank you and sorry for getting you in trouble"
"Yet?! You know that you made me want to open a detective agency ... "
"Don't you think it's a dangerous job moreover you are about to become a mother?" Higgins said, still thinking about the discussion with Ethan
"One has to do what he loves, if possible, life is so unpredictable, even with an ordinary job at the end of the day you could get involved in something bad. Each of us must be free to choose. " Sam said
She was brooding in the past few days and Magnum knew it must be the thing that was bothering her and she had to be about Ethan, since she hadn't called him for the past few days and their conversations had been short. He understood both Ethan and Higgins, in his opinion Sam was right.