Against his best intentions, once again Vince Korsak was sitting in his kitchen again, half drunk, wishing he was someone else. Wishing a lot of things really. Wishing that the situation with Hoyt had gone differently. Wishing that Cavanaugh didn't have this hair up his ass. Wishing that he could somehow diffuse the situation.
He hit play. The tape started off with the psychiatrist talking in a low, comforting voice.
So when you go to Dr. Isles' house, you sleep in her bed?
Not always. She has a guest room that I typically sleep in.
Typically?
Yeah. I guess a few nights we have fallen asleep in her room. Why?
Jane, these are just questions. I have to ask as many questions as I can to look at the situation from a lot of different angles. That's what I do. Don't take anything personal. But always tell me the truth. The truth will help me to understand what is going on around you as well as inside of you.
Ok.
When you sleep in her guest room, do you sleep alone? You said that she likes to cuddle with you when you get into bed. I am assuming that this is true when you sleep in the guest room?
Yeah, well at first she would ask me to sleep in her room, but the first time it was really late and she was asleep, so I had a few drinks then went to sleep in the guest room.
Why is that?
I didn't want to wake her up. It was almost five.
And when you went into the guest room?
She was sleeping. It made me sad.
Why?
I don't know….it just…she was waiting for me. Now I just sleep in her room. No matter how late it is.
Why? Has she asked you to?
No. But she hasn't complained either. After this thing with Hoyt, she has been more frightened. And I don't think I've ever seen her frightened. Not until that day he had the scalpel to my throat again. She's told me that she was certain that she was going to watch me die. And that there would have been nothing she could have done.
Now, last year, you were involved in a situation that warranted you to shoot yourself in order to kill the man who had you in his possession. Doctor Isles was there too, wasn't she?
Yeah. She was.
Was she frightened then?
Scared.
But not frightened?
I don't think so.
What made her frightened with Charles Hoyt?
She worked the cases too. She knew what he did to the couples. She knew what he was going to do, from beginning to end. How would you feel if you knew you were going to be raped, then your partner was going to be killed in front of you, then you would be raped again, then killed, then buried and raped again and again? I think you would be frightened too.
So you are saying that because she knew the end of the story, it made her more frightened than watching you shoot yourself in order to save your brother?
Yes.
Does she know what he did to you? The first time?
I told her the other night. I was so messed up and jumpy. I drank a lot, then went into her room and just sobbed. I think she already knew, because when I told her what he did to me, she cried too. It was like she knew and was just waiting for me to tell her.
Did that make you feel better?
Telling her? Yeah. I didn't want to tell her until he was dead. That way it could never happen again.
How are you starting to feel about this whole situation?
I think I can get over it. Those assholes I work with, the ones that still talk about me like I can't hear them, they can go fuck each other. But all the others that treat me as a cop, they are the ones that have my back. And I have theirs.
Do you think that you reacted to Hoyt when he threatened Doctor Isles?
Reacted? Like jumped the gun? No. I was justified in killing him.
What about when Bobby Marino took you hostage? Reports show he was going for Doctor Isles when you stepped in front of her and offered yourself instead.
She's not a cop. She has no hostage training. I do. She is a doctor. My brother needed a doctor. It was logical.
Then why did you shoot him the way that you did. You could have died. You almost died?
My brother had to get to the hospital. I was saving a cop's life. It's what we are trained to do.
Is that truly why?
Yes.
Then tell me what Marino whispered to you right before you shot yourself.
How did you…oh, whatever. You guys know everything. He said, "As soon as she opens that door, I'll put a bullet in her head. She won't even know it's coming."
And he was talking about?
Maura. She was coming through the front doors.
So you shot yourself to save her.
Yes.