Stay tuned for scenes from the next Moonlight.

Walking back Mick says with a grin, "Talbot's sister told me she got
the idea to hire a Private Investigator from him. He mentioned one
of his investigators was dating a "scary PI" who was eight different
kinds of weird."

"So what'd she do, when she figured out you were the "scary PI."
Beth tugged on Mick's arm.

"She ran screaming from the room."

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Zandra, can we sleep with Red tonight?" The pit-bull was snorting
and rolling a mattress laid out on the floor trying to dislodge the
butterfly barrettes clipped to her ears. "We made her a necklace
of clover but she shook it off." Brother and sister are laughing.

"Sure you can sleep with Red, but you've got to keep her quiet,
Mommy's going to have a visitor."

Red lifts her massive head—butterfly barrettes now attached to
her collar. She heaves herself up and off the mattress, head down,
nose to door growling at the same time quivering with fear.

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"Carl," Officer Novak says, "Glad you're here, Animal Control is
ready to leave. Do you want to talk to them before they go?"

"Do we have a dog attack, Novak?" Carl gets out his note pad.

"I don't think so Carl. There is lots of blood downstairs and the
two kids were upstairs. Less blood, but children are smaller.
The animal control guys say the dog, a pit bull is docile—they
had no problem removing her from the scene."

"The father came home after a trucking run up the coast,
he called 911. He said the girlfriend was supposed to be
watching the kids. She's missing."