"Zed?" Kay said as his old friend appeared in the communicator screen in his pyjamas. "We have a problem. Just got a call from Elle."
"What?" Zed has a very bad feeling about this. Even thought the marriage wasn't real, he didn't see why in the world Elle would be calling them from her honeymoon, not with the nice spa he had heard was at her hotel. "What happpened?"
"She said she killed X, begged me to come and help her." Kay reported as he pulled his suit on quickly while he talked. He really hadn't liked how hysterical Elle had sounded in that call.
"What? What did he do to...." Zed stopped to think for a moment. The consequences of this could be disasterous. When Lyndon and the Alien Rights Commission found out..... "Kay, I need you to get up there. You know the consequences that Elle could be facing for this."
"I'm already on my way," Kay said as he left his apartment and started for the LTD. "What do you want me to do about...."
"Don't arrest her, not yet but...." Zed frantically wracked his brain for something, anything he could do to fix this. Once Lyndon and the ARC found out, they would demand Elle be turned over to them for trial and with how happy Lyndon had seemed about the wedding that afternoon, Zed didn't think Elle would recieve any mercy, especially if.... "Talk to her. Find out why she did it, if X did anything that might have caused it. Maybe she was defending herself or something."
"And if she wasn't?" Kay asked as he got in the LTD and started it. At top speed and so late at night, he could be there in thirty minutes.
"Then you know what you have to do. Bring her in to face charges. Maybe she can make an insanity plea." Zed murmured as he cut off the transmission and sat down to wait for Kay to call again. This was going to be a long night.