Jack Carter was a patient man. He was a simple man and he liked his uniqueness in a town full of unique people but this afternoon's events had been too much.
He had been relaxing in his boat just letting the lakes waves' rock it gently. He had no great desire in mind that afternoon, maybe some fishing but not necessarily and it happened.
One of the scientists must have let their pet experiment loose because some tentacle thing had wrapped itself around his boat and dragged him and his boat underwater. He managed to swim to shore and drove directly to Global Dynamics to get answers from someone. He was going to get reimbursed for his boat being destroyed.
"Jack? What happened to you?" Jack stopped cold in his tracks, why of all the people to see him it had to be her, "I'm headed to Taggart's. Either one of his pets or someone's pet got loose and attacked me out on the lake. AND!! It ate my boat." Jack Carter turned on his heel and left Allison eating his dust as he stormed to the elevator and his Taggart's floor.
Allison at first had been shocked to see Carter drenched like a drowned rat and his pants practically ripped to shreds and his fisherman hat in shambles in his left hand but now that he wasn't in front of her she couldn't help but laugh.
She headed to her office and decided she would video conference Taggart from there; she didn't want to be to close to Carter today.
"Taggart." Jim turned to look at his monitor screen and noticed Allison staring back at him, "O Allison." Allison did not like the tone Taggart was using, innocent was not a Taggart attribute. "Where's Carter?" Taggart moved out of the way to show Allison a decontamination unit that was currently spraying Carter with foam. "Carter came across Bessie. She was on her morning swim when Carter came across her but I've wrangled her back in." Bessie was a ten-foot squid genetically engineered to eat any garbage that happened to be floating in Eureka Lake. "Taggart before Bessie goes on her next swim we need to ensure Eureka's residents, scientists and experiments are not in the area." Taggart nodded and was about to toddle off to give Carter privacy so he could change into a spare change of clothes, "Taggart I have an opening this afternoon at four I will be expecting you here with Bessie's progress and schedule." Allison closed the communication link and continued with her days duties.
Jim placed a towel on the handle of the contamination unit, "Jack I placed the towel on the door for you and the clothes are on the desk. I'm sorry about Bessie."
Carter felt refreshed. After receiving assurances from Jim that the encounter with Bessie would have no ill effects on him, Jack headed to the Human Resources office of Global Dynamics to fill out his reimbursement form for his boat.
"Hello Sheriff Carter." That voice was like nails on a chalkboard for Carter, "Stark." Jack walked around Nathan and continued his happy trip towards the HR office, "So what are your plans towards Allison?" Jack almost tripped when that sentence came out of Stark's mouth. He was just going to walk away and ignore the jab because Allison was with Stark. She had made that perfectly clear last year. Carter just shook his head and walked away from Stark, he wasn't going to let him ruin his mood.
Taggart exited Allison's office with a look of complete exhaustion. He now knew why he had kept Bessie's progress and her swims to quiet. He had a mound of paperwork waiting for him at his office thanks to the lovely Ms. Allison Blake. Forms authorizing the continuation of his experiment, Bessie's medication authorization forms, Bessie premises forms, Bessie's swim authorization forms, Bessie's retrieval team forms, forms forms forms and more forms. Taggart was going to scream if he had the energy. Tomorrow. All that paperwork could wait till tomorrow, right now he was going home.
Carter was waiting in the parking lot for Jim. Henry, Jim and Jack had agreed on a boys night of poker since Zoë was out of town and Joe had the night duty but one look at Taggart faded that thought, "Jim, what happed you look sick?" Taggart looked up and could have smacked himself, the poker night, "Jack I'm not going to go. Allison rammed enough forms up my well it's been a bad afternoon, want to meet tomorrow?" Carter nodded and waved Jim off as he headed to Henry's garage. Nothing said he couldn't still drink beer with his buddy.