-Thank you for coming so quickly. - The girl on duty smiles. - Unfortunately, detective Ford is busy right now. Can you wait a minute? He will be free soon.-
-Of course. We can wait –
Jack's voice is calm but Juliet can feel his tension. Waiting means more delay, and Jack doesn't like being late, though he'd never acknowledge it. She takes his hand and leads him to some chairs by the wall.
Fifteen minutes pass and there is still no sign of detective Ford. Jack begins to nervously glance at the girl on duty.
-It's all right, don't worry. They know that we'll be late for work because of our visit to the LAPD.-
-Yes, of course. I just can't understand why they asked us to come as soon as possible and then force us to wait-
-Well you never know, maybe something just happened. They're not sitting idle.-
-Yes, yes, you are right. - He agrees, fidgeting in his chair and trying to get into a more comfortable position.
Five minutes later, a door opens and detective Ford comes out into the corridor, accompanied by a man and woman. Kate!
She's the one he was so busy with. She's there with him, while Juliet had to wait in the corridor. Juliet begins to get angry.
"How stupid!" she chides herself. It's his job and Kate is handcuffed, so it was unlikely that it was a pleasant conversation.
Juliet turns to Jack, trying to calm down, and sees how he tensed, his eyes on Kate.
Did he remember? She hopes for a second, but after he relinquishes eye-contact with Kate, Jack frowns, shakes his head and leans back in his chair. No attempt to follow Kate, no questions to Juliet. If he felt something, it seems he simply dismissed it from his memory.
-Sorry I kept you waiting.-James comes to them.- Federal agents don't like to wait at all- he adds peevishly.-Let's go.-
He leads them along the corridor and it's not the way she went last time. They are clearly going somewhere else, not to his office. Finally he stops in front of a metal door.
-This is our Property Room. Now I'll show you everything that we got from a criminal and you specify which of these things belong to you. Unfortunately you can't take them home now. Come in.- He opens the door to them.
There is a room with a large number of shelves, each packed with boxes.
-There are so many things here. I thought you'd return items to owners after the trials?-
-Unfortunately, sometimes there is no one to return them to- James answers seriously and Juliet stops. Because of her work she is more often faced with life rather than with death. So she absolutely forgot that everything was different for him, and he sees the world from the darkest side.
James pulls out several boxes, spreads their contents out on the table in the center of the room, and walks away so as not to bother Jack and Juliet. Jack begins to sort items, while Juliet just stands next to him.
This is the first time she saw the two of them together, in the same room. And it's so weird. On the Island they were bitter rivals, arguing with each other about almost everything. But now Jack is a doctor, James is a cop. And they don't even know they know each other.