Catching Red John
Chapter 3
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Continuation of the story of Jane being close to catching Red John
After two hours of drinking and listening to horror stories of an employee's life at the Aegean. Patrick Jane decided to make his move now. Jane says "Should we go"? Brandi then tells him that she can sure use more of the poison but at her place they can have some more if he wants to come and visit with her there. Jane is very elated and responds "Sounds good to me" He has to be careful not to sound to enthused. He helps her with her mink coat and holds the door for her and then says "Maybe we should call a cab". Brandi tells him that she has her own car. Jane asks "Where are you parked"? Brandi tells him that she is parked in the back. They go to the back parking lot and she walks straight to a Mercedes. She pulls out her car keys and Jane says "Wait a minute; this can't be your car". Brandi insists that it is and that is when Jane asks if her boyfriend is this rich that he can buy her a car like this. Now Brandi lies and that it was a present from her father. Jane does not believe her off course. He knows who bought her the car as well as the coat. He now asks Brandi for the keys. Brandi tells Jane that she knows how to drive. Jane says "You have been drinking and I cannot let you drive since you not only can get a huge fine but if you have an accident, we can get hurt bad". Brandi then relents and tells Jane that she has to unlock the steering wheel lock while Jane waits. Then Jane takes the driver's seat while Brandi takes the passenger seat.
Brandi tells Jane where she lives which is in a very nice neighborhood and she owns her own wonderful condo. By the time they get to the 16th. Floor, they get off the elevator and go to her condo. Jane takes a look around the living room and sees how well off that Brandi is living and knows who provides all this for her. Brandi pours herself a drink and asks Jane what he wants. He tells her he will just have water and that she should cease her drinking. "What do you mean, the party is just about to start".
"We have to talk Brandi" says Jane. She then tells him that they have been doing that all evening. Jane says "Yes, but now it is my turn". Brandi gets a little reluctant about that since she is now tying one on. She goes ahead and pours herself some Martell and gets a bottle of water out of the refrigerator for Patrick Jane and then hands it to him. She then asks him if he want a glass for that. "No Brandi, I need you to please sit down so we can talk". She now rolls her eyes and takes her snifter of Martell and sits across from him on the luxury couches which Jane still cannot believe that Nick would buy all this for her. Jane is a little annoyed when he sees the drink in her hand but still manages a smile and asks her what she is drinking. Brandi rolls her eyes again and asks him why they have to go through all this again. Jane says "First off, you should know better than to mix your drinks and you have already had plenty to drink already" still smiling. He does not want her to pass out or make an excuse that she needs to go to sleep.
Then the phone rings and Brandi answers and says "No, I am not drunk but I had a couple of beers when I got home". "Off course I was home, where else would I be". Jane now hears Nick yelling at her from the earpiece and sits there very quietly. They argue for ten minutes until she hangs up on him. "Who was that"? Asks Jane. "Oh, just the creepo." replies Brandi. "Well, who is this creepo you were just arguing with"? Brandi who is now getting a little weary of Jane's nosiness rolls her eyes and says "Nobody" and "Not anyone worth talking about". "Well, you were on the phone with him for a good ten minutes so it had to be someone of some importance to you" says Jane after taking a sip of water from the bottle. Brandi is now getting annoyed with Jane and says while rolling her eyes "Look, it is no big deal, do you have to know everything"?
Jane is now regretting that he agreed to meet her at a bar. He now wishes it was another restaurant where they could have had coffee and then came here. He now sees that Brandi tends to get mean when she is drunk. He had noticed Brandi a few times at the restaurant and she waited on him and his colleagues when they ate there or had coffee there. He had been watching her when he found out that she was Nick's mistress. Jane had never thought it would turn out this way. He realized his mistake. Brandi was always upbeat and very pleasant but he never once thought she would change this much after a few drinks. He also never figured out that she had a drinking problem as well. 'Well' thought Jane to himself 'Sometimes I make mistakes too and I should have waited longer and watched her more at the restaurant'. He takes another sip of water while thinking.
Meantime, Brandi goes back in the kitchen to get some more Martell. Jane now gets up and follows her and takes the bottle from her and says while he is smiling very sweetly "You have had too much and now you should just relax and we will talk". Brandi now gets ticked off and says "You are not going to tell me what to do". "I do what I want, when I want and where I want". "I am an adult and you are not my father or older brother". "My own boyfriend never even talks to me like this". "Oh Yeah" says Jane "Then why were you arguing with him just now"? Brandi now grabs the bottle of Martell from Jane and pours it in her snifter and says "I never said it was my boyfriend".
Jane smiles and takes the snifter and pours the Martell in the sink. Brandi now screams at Jane after throwing the empty snifter on the floor. "You just wasted some good liquor and it is none of your business what I drink and how much I drink". Jane smiles while moving quickly away from all the broken glass while asking "Where is your broom"? "How the heck am I supposed to know that"? asks Brandi. "What do you mean by 'How the heck am I supposed to know that'"? "What do you think it means, it simply means I don't do the cleaning here". Jane asks while smiling "Are you now going to tell me your boyfriend comes and cleans this place, I mean it is very clean and you can eat off the floors". "No, I have maid service and you are so nosy". Says Brandi. "Interesting how much you waitresses get paid or this one of your boyfriend's expenses"? Asks Jane. "I am not answering any more of your dumb questions, you are too nosy to hang around with" says Brandi. "And I really don't even know you".
Jane opens the kitchen closet and gets a broom and dustpan out and tells Brandi to sit in the living room. Instead Brandi goes in her bedroom to change into her expensive nightwear and puts on an expensive gown. She takes off all her jewelry and removes her makeup and puts her hair down and she thinks to herself 'I will ask him to leave since he is getting on my nerves and I can have a few more Martells then and I can call Nick to straighten things out'.
Meantime, Jane is sweeping up the broken glass as well as the whole kitchen. He sweeps in nicely into the dustpan and throws it into the garbage which is located under the sink. He had no trouble finding it. He then finds the instant coffee and fixes himself a cup and had no trouble finding the cups. He is now a little hungry and checks the living room and sees that Brandi is not there. A little nervous that she turned in, he calls out to her and she answers saying "I will be right out. He then finds the bread and makes himself a tuna salad sandwich since he saw tuna salad in the refrigerator and sees a lot of wine bottles in there. He then takes his coffee and sandwich to the dinette and sits down and calls out to Brandi again. She responds the same way and says "I said I am coming".