Chapter 12: Anger, Smiles and a Safe

"What do you want to do with them?" Juliet asked as she looked back and forth between the two mirrors.

She and Detective Lassiter were standing in the viewing room between interview rooms three and four. Shawn in one and McNab in the other.

Neither man seemed to be too worried. McNab sat still, his eyes closed and hands, with fingers intertwined together, on the table before him.

Shawn on the other hand was … well, Shawn, never sitting still and fidgeting most of the time. He would stand up and walk around the table beating his chest for some reason. Then he'd stand in a corner, sit down for a few seconds then jump back up and returning to his seat. Then the moment they thought he had settled down, he would be back on his feet, looking straight into the mirror. It was like he could see them standing there, but it was the smile that had her worried the most. A smile saying you can't catch me.

"Let them sweat it for a bit," Lassiter answered. "I have a search warrant for McNab's place, Shawn's place, the Psych office, plus the apartment they meet at."

"What apartment?" Juliet frown at being left out of this information.

"I'll explain on the way. Come on," Lassiter replied as he headed out of the viewing room. "Oh, no ..."

Coming their way was Henry Spencer and he looked angry. Lassiter glanced over at Gus, who sheepishly looked away.

"Detective," Henry barked across the room. "What's this I hear. You've arrested Shawn. For what?"

"Thanks Guster," Lassiter growled.

"I thought Mr. Spencer should know what was happening," Gus squeaked out in his defence.

"Leave him alone, Gus was doing what he thought was right. Are you going to answer my question?" Henry inquired.

"Just a second, Mr. Spencer. We'll do the Psych office first. Meet me there and ..." Lassiter glanced at Gus again, "take him with you."

"Come on, Gus, since you're part owner of Psych, you need to be there anyway."

Gus didn't answer, but quickly followed Juliet and a few other officers out of the bullpen.

"Now Mr. Spencer, yes I have arrested Spencer, and McNab if you'd like to know, for the assassination of Chief Vick and the kidnapping of Iris."

"You're kidding right?" Henry huffed, but seeing Lassiter's eyes, Henry knew he wasn't. "How? Why?"

"Be honest with me. You saw the report. Could Spencer make that shot?"

"Are you trying to ..."

"Could he?" Lassiter interrupted.

"Yes," Henry breathed out. "But why would he?"

"We think Spencer and McNab are hired assassins. Have been for years. I need you to stand back and let me do my job. Please?" Henry nodded his agreement. "Thank you for being honest with me."

"You're welcome and thank you for being honest with me too, Detective."

Lassiter watched as Henry walked over to his desk and sat down. This was getting harder and harder to do and slowly but surely, the domino effect from this would be felt for years to come. Walking out, Lassiter headed off to meet up with Juliet.

Gus sat in the corner watching in horror as the Psych office was demolished. Every drawer, filing cabinet and potted plant was emptied out; and anything that wasn't tied down was tipped over. They even took their computers and game machines.

As Lassiter walked into the Psych office, Juliet looked up from the mess around her. "We haven't found anything. Taking the computers to see if there is anything on them, but … I'm not holding my breath."

"Don't worry about it. We still have their homes and their apartment to search."

"I hope you're going to treat the homes better then you did here," Gus mumbled,

Gus was disappointed with what was happening. He had always thought of the officers at the station as friends; family even, since a lot had seen him and Shawn grow up.

"Maybe," Lassiter replied. He was sure Guster wasn't part of this, but he couldn't dismiss that he could be either. "Let's go to ..."

"Detective ..."

"What have you found, Officer Mann?"

The officer stepped back to reveal what he had found.

"A safe?" Gus gasped as he stood up.

"I take it, you didn't you know about this?" Lassiter asked as he walked over.

"No1 No I didn't, but I do know about safes and this is an easy one to get into."

"Without the code?" Juliet inquired.

"Yeah," Gus replied flexing his fingers. If Shawn has been keeping things from him, he really wanted to know what was inside this hidden safe. "Do you want me to open it for you?"

"No!" Lassiter snapped. "Get it photographed and dusted, O'Hara. Then you can open it, Guster. As long as we can exclude you from ever having touched it."

"Thanks," Gus sighed in relief. Since he didn't know about it, his finger prints wouldn't be on the safe.

"When you're ready to open it, call me. I'm taking a few officers over to McNab's house."

"Good luck and remember, Francine is pregnant so don't stress her out too much."

"Right," Lassiter huffed as he walked out, followed by two officers.

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