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"Why didn't you tell her?" Marg said to Sarafrom behind the steel bars.
"I couldn't, Marg."
"Sara, she wants to help."
"I don't need help." Sara looks away.
"You do too." Turns to face Margaret.
"I don't want to talk about this now. Lets just concentrate on getting you out of here."
"Don't worry about me Sara."
"You're the only family I have left, possibly the only family I ever had."
"You can't do this to yourself."
"I'm not doing anything."
"Sara, I know that tone in your voice,"Margaret continued,"I'm fine. They said I could leave as soon as they finish the paperwork."
"How?"
"Your co-worker, Catherine, cleared me."
"She did."
"Whatever you told her probably made the difference."
"I see." Just then Catherine comes in with some papers.
"Oh hey Sara." Sara just gives her a quick smile. "I got good and bad news."
Catherine pauses then continues, "Good news is that you're free to go."
"What's the bad news?" questioned Margaret.
"Bad news is that you're still the main suspect in the case until the evidence proves otherwise."
"That much I gathered from the officers." Margaret stated.
"Thank you Catherine."
"No problem, Sara."
Crime Lab
"Hey Griss, I just back from the station. Sara's aunt was released a few minutes ago. Anything new in the case?"
"Results on the DNA in the hair prove that there was some one else at the scene."
"Hair?"
"I had the car towed in while you were out and found a single strand of hair near the driver side door."
"How could we have missed that?"
"It happens, Catherine."
"Were you able to match it with anyone on the database?"
"Came back Todd Daggers, a known hit man, was convicted on assaulting a get this …a mime. His DNA was on file."
"Known hit man convicted on the assault of a mime? Guess the guy trapped in a box thing was too much for him."
"Yeah. We found the guy and Brass is bringing him in."
"My, weren't we the little busy beaver?" Catherine says as they head to the station.