Although Danny was shorter and thinner than Edward Bledel, his anger got the best of him and he was able to drag Bledel into the interrogation room and sit him down, almost painfully, a loud thud echoing in the room as the humongous Bledel slumps down the chair.
"What are you questioning me for, you got the scammer right outside!" Bledel shouted.
Danny wiped the sweat from his brow "I'm not too happy with you right now, Bledel, so you better shut up."
Bledel reaches for his pockets and shows him a small Ziploc bag filled with the circular paper, similar to what Danny recovered in Bledel's home. "It's these things that are causing it, these patches"
Danny gives him a suspicious look. "Where'd you get those?"
"From our bed" Edward answered "They fall off after a few hours. This is what that hack Manuel puts on Catherine's nape every time she attends those…. Healing masses."
"Healing masses?" Danny asked, as he sat across Bledel.
"Yeah, Manuel and his mother Ester hold them every Sunday around 6 at their apartment." Bledel said. "When Manuel and the patient pray, they kneel down in front of each other, and Manuel puts this patch on the patient's nape as they lock foreheads. It's supposed to cure them or something."
Danny looked at the Ziploc bag that Bledel handed him. "You're saying these…patches killed your girlfriend?"
"It made her crazy, made her see things and hear things" Bledel said. "A hallucinogen, you might call it. That's why she slashed her wrists"
"Mr. Bledel, that's another thing I'm still concerned with" Danny said "We haven't recovered the blade Catherine used to slash her wrists with. For all we know someone slashed her wrists for her"
"I didn't find a blade when I got there, just that boy" Bledel said, starting to cry "They're animals, you know. They took advantage of Catherine"
"And you didn't?" Danny said, his eyebrow raised.
"I loved Catherine" Bledel said "But she was sick, and she couldn't go to a hospital because the moment she signs any document, immigration is going to come down, pick her up, and ship her back to the Philippines. So she had to settle for these …. Mediums."
"Did you know that Catherine had chlamydia, Mr. Bledel?" Danny asked.
Bledel looked up, confused. "Chlamydia? No"
"Then I suggest you get yourself checked" Danny said. "You might have it too."
As Danny turns to leave, he remembers something and goes back to Bledel. "Can I see your hands please?"
Bledel shows him his hands. The fingers where big and fat and his palm was coarse and smooth.
And his fingernails appeared to have skin underneath them. Danny smiled.
"Sit tight, Mr. Bledel" Danny said as he opened the door "You just won a one-night stay in the slammer"