Judy entered the ZPD with the intention of asking Bogo to assign her to the night shift. She had gone through the discussion inside her head about a million times, she even kept on revising this while walking to work.

Arriving at the bullpen, however, made her forget everything. The usual chatter was nowhere to be heard, it was almost dead silent there. Every now and then a muttered conversation was heard but nothing more. It was a tense atmosphere and Judy had no idea why. When the sleep-deprived buffalo entered the room everyone just got more nervous. Something definitely happened in the past 2 days.

Bogo sighed and without further ado, he placed his glasses on and started handing out the assignments. Everyone left immediately as they got their case, almost like they were frightened that Bogo would suddenly snap on them, and bite their head off.

"Officer Hopps." He finally said, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes, seemingly gathering his thoughts. "I have a special assignment for you. It's not a greatful job, that one is obvious, but must be dealt with."

"Oh! Sir, I'd like you to…"

"It's an important matter. I suppose you'd like to be assigned to patrolling after 6 pm. Makes sense. Anything to help out your partner huh? I wanted to do that too until Wilde told me some rather… Interesting things."

"Is it about the police radio?" Judy guessed.

"Yes Hopps, it is about the police radio. Yesterday I requested a checkup on our equipment and my fears turned out to be true. One was missing from the backup radios. Someone has to dig into that because we can't have a traitor working against us. Not here. Not now."

"So I need to find the officer, who gave away one of our radios?"

"That's what I said. I know, it's not exactly a dream job but it has to be done. I hope you understand."

"Of course."

"Now…" He sighed and laid back in his chair "Look I trust you with this. To tell you the truth I was a bit hesitant to assign it to you, knowing the facts."

"The facts?" Judy blinked. "And those are...?"

"The species of our suspect. I can't be sure if you just gave a family member a favor."

Realizing what Bogo just said, Judy's eyes widened, "Sir I would never…" She started with a bit of panic but got silenced by Bogo's held up hooves

"I know. Just like I thought about everyone else here, but someone HAD to lend it to our guy, or something HAD to happen. However, as I said… I trust you with this. Report back to me as soon as you have any clue about the identity of… the suspected officer, even if I'm not on duty."

"Understood." Judy nodded

"Good. Dismissed." With that, he stood up and left. He seemingly had a long night behind himself and wanted to leave as soon as possible just to have some rest.

"Ooookay…" Judy muttered, sitting alone in the bullpen while thinking how to start with the investigation. "I need the list of the possible officers and find out the motive. That could help a lot…" She hopped off her chair and left the room, to catch a cheetah, who was most likely about to end his shift. After spotting Clawhauser, she fastened her steps. "Claw! Wait!"

"Hmm?" The tired receptionist looked at her.

"Can you do me a favor? I need the list of the officers who had access to the evidence room."

Giving a painful groan, he asked back "Can you wait for Bob? He'll be here in a few minutes."

"Noo. Bob always takes ages to give me what I need. Please? Just 5 minutes of your time. Pretty please?"

The cheetah blankly looked at Judy, and seemingly wanted to just say no and run to his bed to get ready for the next night's rush but the rabbit's googly eyes always worked. "Arh… fine. Come on, follow me."

"Yes! Thank you! You're the best! I owe you one. I'll wait with a cup of coffee and doughnuts when you come back!"

"Yeah yeah. Let's just get over it." He waved and sat behind his desk again. Making a few clicks he was already on the access history page of the evidence room. "What time?"

This question made Judy think a bit. She didn't know the exact time when the radio disappeared. "Hmm from 4 months ago until 1 week ago."

"Okay… do you want it printed, or sent to your ZPA?"

"If you send it, that's alright." She said. Printing was easy but a bit more time-consuming, and she didn't want to hold Clawhouser up more than necessary.

Clawhauser gave a few clicks, typed something, and finally nodded. "Aaand done! Hope you will get what you need." He stood up, and yawned "Anything else you want to be sent to your PA?"

"No, but…" the doe hesitated. There was one thing she wanted to ask, and there was no polite way to do it. "Look, I'm not accusing you of anything. But I have to ask, you gotta understand that…"

Clawhauser sighed, and tiredly rubbed his eyes "You'd like to know if I was the one doing a giveaway with the radio huh?"

"Oh, so you know about it."

"Everybody here does. The chief made sure of it. He was furious yesterday, and you know what happens when the chief rages."

"So that's why the atmosphere is so tense!"

"Yeah. So question about radio huh?"

"Well yeah… I-I mean if it WAS actually you, I understand it. I bet you had a good reason to do so, and I don't necessarily have to tell Bogo. I could…"

"There is no need to play the good cop-bad cop game here." The cheetah stopped Judy without any emotion. "You are never the best with the bad cop part, and Nick is too suspended to take over. Look, it wasn't me. If it WAS me I would feel horrible. I know it's hard to believe it just like that. But you know me. I would never do such a thing."

Judy nodded "Okay, okay. Sorry for bothering you."

He just waved and finally left the ZPD. Judy, wasting no time, sat next to her computer and booted it up.

"Okay… let's see what we've got here." She muttered and signed in to her ZPD Account. After that, she opened the file she received a few minutes ago. It had every detail she needed the exact times of someone signing in with their pass card, and the reasons.

It was a big file to dig through. At first, she strictly looked for NRS entries (No Reason Specified). Those were the most suspicious, but there were also only a few of them, so she had to look for other occasions too.

2020.02.13 10:50 AM Benjamin Clawhauser

Case number 113GL04 (Status: Closed)

2020.02.13 11:34 AM Nicholas Piberius Wilde

Case number. 116GH06 (Status: Closed)

2020.02.14 12:02 PM Robert Ferdinand Rhinowitz

Case number 124GG00 (Status: Closed)

And such entries were seen. Somewhere the case status was still open at the more fresh cases, but other than that it was that boring. 5 pages of dates and case numbers. Sometimes Judy opened different entries to see a more detailed version of each case, and reasons, with the exact time spent in the room, but it didn't lead to anything. No suspiciously long stay-ins.

"One of these is not like the others…" Judy muttered, and looking at the clock she let out a small sigh. She already spent 2 hours staring at the entries, it was time to actually take action. As she had no idea how to start, she decided to go with the NRS-es. She had 3 candidates for those. If they can explain themselves, back to the drawing board.

Knowing that 2 of them were still inside the ZPD, she searched at the desks first, where a few officers were seen probably finishing reports, but the mammal she was looking for wasn't there, only his partner.

"Hey, Delgato! Do you know where Wolfard is? It's important." Judy hopped next to the lion, who was currently finishing one of the reports

Without looking up from his work, he answered. "Interrogation room 4. Currently listening through a senile old lady, who is 100% sure her neighbor is a street racer."

"You do know that she could sue you for calling her 'senile' right?"

The lion just shrugged. "I hope you won't tell on me then." He clicked enter, sending his report, and laid back while stretching his arms. "Why do you need Bigby?"

"Just an NRS at the evidence room's report, nothing serious. Judy told the half-truth. She deliberately left out the part where she accused Delgato's partner with backstabbing the whole police force.

"My god that idiot." He chuckled and shook his head with his arms crossed. "Always in a rush, and forgets to do the most basic tasks. If you need the case number I can help too. I know how big of pain on the tail it could be to search it back."

"So you think it was just an administration mistake?"

"What else could it be? 60% of the time I have to correct his entry. At the other 40%, I need to do it entirely. I told him a LOT of times to learn how to make the entry and it's important for administrative reasons yet he still forgets everything. Typical Wolfard. So when was this NRS?"

"3 months ago. 13th of March 8:04 PM"

"Mhmm, we had a murder case back then. I guess he was going in to see one of the pieces of evidence because 1 day later the suspect was already in custody. Erm… Yeah give me a minute, I'll check something." He typed something on his computer. After a few minutes, he nodded. "Yep, it must have been that. I remember him calling me after our shift has ended, telling me he figured out everything. I bet he left in a rush because he was too excited about putting the pieces together and left without anything. Here. The case number." Delgato turned the screen to Judy, which had every detail.

"Okay. Thanks." Judy politely smiled and scribbled down the numbers. She wanted to talk with Wolfard too, but she decided to do it after he recorded the lady's complaint. Judy still had no idea why that lady came in personally and didn't just make a 911 call, but as Delgato said, she might be senile, and just connected the news she heard on the TV with her neighbor returning late at night.

She didn't have to walk around for too long before spotting the second NRS owner too. The tigress was standing next to the coffee machine, waiting for her morning energy boost.

"Hey Fang, I just wanted to know..." But she couldn't finish as her colleague interrupted

"Searching for the missing radio, I've heard. Who did you have to convince to get this assignment? Bogo himself, I suppose." she said in a cold tone while staring at her coffee slowly pouring out of the machine. "Don't tell me I'm on your suspect list too, that would be the joke of the year."

The attitude of the tiger caught Judy off guard, she still continued "Look, I'm just trying to cross out names alright? You've had an NRS on March 29th. Can you tell me what that was?"

"Hmph of course. Because that radio can disappear only with NRS-es huh? Let me ask you something. Where is your partner right now? Going out a lot recently?"

Judy blinked in confusion "You are over defending yourself, and diverting the conversation. Do you know what that means in most cases?"

"Oh you, you ARE accusing me. That's good. Really good. Look, compared to ME you are still a rookie. 9 Years on the force and yesterday Bogo came to me making the same accusation as you do NOW. I never betrayed anyone, yet somehow he gave the case to YOU. Why? Isn't THAT interesting? You are covering your partner for some reason, and I'll figure out why!"

Crossing her arms Judy started to get a bit irritated. "Do you think I begged to get this case? It isn't a dream one, to be honest. I will be the most hated one because I will need to figure things out, and yeah occasionally I will accuse someone with 9 years behind their back because you don't know who it might be. So either TELL me what that NRS was I'll get you suspended for holding up the investigation!"

"Did you look at the entry 2 minutes later?" She sipped her coffee while keeping eye contact.

Judy looked at the pile of papers and did see something. The same name, now with details and a reference to a failed entry attempt. The answer was there all along.

"I literally just went back to get everything, and meanwhile my entry expired. Hope I helped in the investigation OFFICER!" She did a fake bow and already left, leaving the surprised rabbit behind. Fangmeyer normally was always smiling, joking around, so this interaction was really out of character from her, thus he got pushed to the top of Judy's suspect list.

Not only she got overprotective when the radio was mentioned, but her explanation seemed a bit off too. In normal cases that would already be suspicious. But of course, it's possible that the fact that she got accused by Bogo, already set her mood, and Judy appearing, investigating the case didn't help either. She looked at the papers and sighed.

"Everybody will hate me by the end of this day."