Chapter 2: Unsuspecting
It is late Friday night, sometime later, as Sam drives home from the pizza parlor.
That was fun! she thinks, as she turns onto the street the spies' villa is on. A Symposium on the Impact of Modern Art followed by pizza, with Alan, that dreamy boy in physics class!
As she turns into the driveway, she makes sure she parks on the right, behind Alex's car, which is parked in the garage. Alex is always the last of the girls to get up and leave for school or anywhere else for that matter, so this way she doesn't block Clover, who parks on the left, in the two car garage.
Sam makes sure the anti-theft device is armed, but she decides to leave the top down, on her green BMW convertible. After all, it's such a clear, beautiful night! Obviously Clover and Alex are already in bed, as all of the lights are out in the villa.
It takes Sam about 30 minutes to join them. She doesn't realize that the house has been under constant surveillance! The snoopers know that GLADIS monitors the INSIDE of the villa, but not the outside!
They wait another 30 minutes, and one of the snoopers dons a pair of x-ray contacts, eerily similar to those that WOOHP has, and looks thru their binoculars.
"Are they all asleep?"
"They sure are! Let's go!"
The snoopers quietly approach Sam's car, disable the alarm, steering wheel lock, and transmission lock, but they do not start the car. They push it out of the driveway and down one block from the villa. There they hot-wire the car, and one of them puts on a mask and wig, and then removes her white lab coat. The person is the spitting image of Sam in her green spy jumpsuit!
The imposter drives the car to a well-lit jewelry store, picks the lock to enter, and proceeds to steal some items in the display cases, smashing the cases with a heavy flashlight. But after only two minutes, she flees the scene, hops into Sam's car and stops one block from the villa. She carefully plants all of the stolen jewelry 90 percentunder the passenger seat. She takes off her disguise, and her cohorts push Sam's car back to the villa, rearming all locks and devices. They then steal away, empty handed.
At 5 AM Saturday morning, the villa front doorbell rings. Clover is the first up and barks into the speaker at the front door, "Go away, or I'll call the cops!"
She gets answered, "Missy, this IS the cops! Open the door, or we'll kick it in!"
By this time, Alex and Sam have joined Clover. They look at one another in bewilderment.
"Alright!" replies Alex, "I'm coming! I'll be down in a sec!"
Quickly the three go down to the front door. Sam peeps through a side window to ensure that it is, indeed, the police. What she sees startles her! There are at least 5 police cars outside and there are police all over their yard, around the house, and two at the front door.
Alex opens the door, with a quizzical look on her face. "Is there something wrong, officer?" she asks.
"Do you own this green BMW?" the officer asks.
Before she can answer, Sam steps out.
"No, I do! Why?"
The two officers look down at a piece of paper they are holding, which contain a photo. They look at one another, and nod.
"Alright, miss, you are under arrest!" and the officers signal to a policewoman to pat frisk Sam down and handcuff her.
As the policewoman searches Sam, she says, "You have the right to remain silent; the right to a lawyer. Anything you say can, and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, and to have that attorney present during questioning. Do you understand these rights?"
Sam answers with an almost inaudible, "Yes."
Clover is indignant. "What do you think you're doing? She hasn't done anything wrong!"
"Oh she hasn't, eh?" replies the first policeman gruffly, "Then perhaps YOU can explain this picture!" and he shows a startled Clover and Alex the picture he is holding of Sam stealing jewels from a nearby store. The time on the photo indicates 3:23 AM.
"And this!" adds the second policeman, as he takes them to Sam's car, and points to the jewelry mostly hidden under the passenger seat.
"We haven't finished processing the vehicle, but these sure look like the jewels stolen from Gary's Jewelers this morning! The license plate and car match those on the security camera outside the building."
"That should be enough evidence to convince any jury!" adds the first policeman.
Clover and Alex are shaken deeply. Sammie a thief? They can't believe it!
The policewoman has already taken Sam to a waiting police cruiser. As she is putting her in the back seat, Clover calls, "Don't worry, Sammie! We'll get help!"
Sam is overcome with emotion and merely nods her head in acknowledgement. The two remaining friends can see that her face is covered in tears as the police cruiser drives off, to book Sam for Grand Theft.
Quickly Clover and Alex re-enter the villa, and find police officers, armed with a search warrant, going through their villa!
"Can we at least get dressed in privacy?" asks Clover angrily.
The officer in charge of the search replies, "Certainly! But one of our policewomen will have to accompany you, to ensure that you do not remove anything that could be construed as evidence in this case!"
An embarrassed and angry Clover and Alex go to their rooms, show the policewomen what they will wear, and then have to change, with the policewomen in their respective bedrooms. They are then escorted out the front door.
They get into Clover's car, and after police approval, drive off to WOOHP. While enroute, Alex calls Jerry on her x-powder.
"Jerry!"
A rather tired voice answers, "What…. Yes, Alex! Do you know what time it is?" Jerry asks, rhetorically.
Alex looks at the dashboard clock, "It's 6:34AM, Jerry!"
Clover rolls her eyes and Jerry has a blank expression on his face, as Alex continues.
"Jerry! Sam has been arrested for Grand Theft!"
"WHAT?"
Clover then jumps in, "That's right, Jer! We're on our way to WOOHP right now! The police are crawling all over our villa, and especially Sam's car! We've got to help her!"
A now fully awake Jerry responds, "Quite right! I'll meet you there in half an hour!"