Nick walked into the break room 15 minutes later. Warrick was at the table with a cup of coffee and his nose in a case file.
"Hey man, thanks for getting ahold of Brass, he put out an APB for the car, no luck yet though."
"No problem, isn't that the victims daughter?" Warrick said pointing to Samantha, still on the couch.
"Yeah, when she saw her mother she fainted. Thats a career first for me."
"I've had it happen before." Warrick said looking back down at the file.
"Really?" Nick asked sitting down across from Warrick.
"Yeah, a couple years back, the mother and daughter were really close, but she wasn't out this long."
"Yeah its kinda weird, I mean she didn't hit her head or anything. I caught her before she could do that."
"Maybe she has fainting spells."
"Could be."
Greg came into the break room, "They found your DB's car. About 20 miles from the gas station where the body was. A high way partol officer saw it their thought maybe two newlyweds went for a hike. Didn't think anything else of it until he heard the APB report. There bringing it in."
"Thanks." Nick said getting up and looking at Samantha. Then Nick noticed her hand move. She must be waking up.
"Samantha?" Greg said just noticing the person lying on the couch. Greg walked over to her.
She opened her eyes and sat up. "Greg?"
"Yeah, hey. What are you doing here?" Greg said helping Samantha up off the couch.
"I can't rememb-" Samantha then saw Nick, "Oh, god." She put her hand over her mouth and ran to the bathroom connected to the break room.
"I'm gonna guess she just remembered." Warrick said getting up and leaving.
Nick chuckled and looked at Greg who had a questioning look on his face. "She's Kelly Goodman's daughter, when I was showing her the body, she fainted when she relized it was her mother."
Samantha came out of the bathroom looking very pale, but both Nick and Greg could tell she was embarrassed. "Sorry, just remembered where I was."
Nick, Greg and Samantha stood their for a second, not knowing what to say, when Greg said "The car should be coming in soon, I'll dust it for prints if you want?"
"Yeah thanks." Nick said finally glad someone broke the tension.
Greg walked over to Samantha and gave her a stick of gum. "Here,"
"Thanks," Samantha said smiling a little and unwrapping the piece, "might need it."
Greg left the room leaving just Samantha and Nick standing there. "Samantha, I know you've taken in a lot just now, but everything we talked about earlier, I can't use once we catch the guy that did this to your mother because I gave you false pretenses and if it is Andrew that did this we have no reason to suspect him if it wasn't for you and I wasn't exactly quote-on-quote on the job. So were going to need to go over everything we said at your house and on the way here. I'm so sorry for this."
"No its fine, its your job, I understand completely. Are we going to do it here?" Samantha said
"No, umm it would be in the interrogation room. Just because there has to be another witness there to verify that no laws were broken and-"
"If I do or don't object to a lawyer. I know. I understand." Samantha said finishing Nicks sentence.
Nick and Samantha walked to the interigation room where they met Brass.
"What are you doing?" Nick said to Brass in a low voice so Samantha couldn't here.
"I just found out some new information that makes Samantha a prime suspect."
"Okay fine but first things first, we have to repeat our conversation we had before we got here, then you can tell us what new information you've got."
"Fine." Brass said following Nick into the room.
What could Samantha have done? She wouldn't have killed her own mother. DAMN IT NICK, don't let your personal feelings get in the way of your case. You don't have all the facts yet. Nick thought to himself sitting down at the table across from Samantha. He looked at her and saw that she was taking her mothers death well. He hadn't seen her cry yet. Normally families of the victims would cry or show some emotion. Maybe she did do it? No, not her. How could she have facted the fainting? Or was she just acting that way? Nick knew he always let his emotions get in the way of work, but for some reason he felt that this was different somehow, it wasn't guilt he was feeling. He didn't know what it was.
