Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
18 Weeks
She serves Wallace a piece of German Chocolate Nut-gasm as stress relief.
Thumper and Juan give her puppy dog eyes until she brings them each a piece too.
"I'm going to d the right thing." Wallace says.
"We're here if you need us." she says pointing to the three of them.
Ernie Sayers, the reporter from the Chicago Statesman, arrives at the coffee shop to meet Wallace.
"Wish me luck." Wallace says as he gets up to talk to the repoter.
Keith appears at the front desk of the Sheriff department.
"I'm being audited. Could you get me copies of old expense and salary documents.' he asks Inga.
"It's going to take some time." Inga warns him.
"I'll be fine. I have a book and an iPod." he tells her.
Inga disappears to get the documents, leaving the front desk unmanned.
He starts up the iPod, but it is not music playing, it is the recording of his interview of Sacks during the investigation into the theft of the sex tapes.
He checks Inga's drawer for the current code and makes himself a card.
Upstairs at the door to the third-floor evidence room, he notes that the camera is not in use and shakes his head.
He enters the room and finds the box containing evidence on the bus crash. He purloins the interview tapes, hiding them in the hole he has cut into the pages of the book.
When Inga returns to the front desk with his papers, he is waiting innocently.
She meets up with Wallace, who confirms that there have been no reactions to his confession as yet.
Eli slides into a seat at Molly Fitzpatrick's table.
"What do you want?" Molly asks looking round.
"You are a piece of work you know that. After messing with Felix's head you decide to hook into Hector."
"I have no idea what you are talking about." she snarls grabbing her things.
He grabs her arm and forces her to sit back down.
"I know that you were dating Felix, you told V that you were when you listened to gossip to try to break us up. I know that at that time you were two-timing him with Hector."
"I love Felix. I never cheated on him. Hector is delusional if he thinks we were together."
"I don't buy it. I think that now that Felix has dumped your ass, you are messing with Hectors head, getting him to sell for your family."
"Prove it." she says with a smirk, yanking her arm away from him and walking off.
He glares after her.
He reaches into his pocket and tuns off the recorder that he had started the instant he sat down.
Wallace is laying in bed when his phone starts ringing.
It's his dad, Nathan.
"You should have kept quiet." Nathan tells him.
"Dad?"
"I am reading an article in the paper. Rashard and the other boys are saying that you were the driver."
He drops the phone in shock.
Wallace joins her in the library.
She has a copy of the Chicago Statesman open. The headline confirms that Wallace has been blamed.
She is beyond pissed.
Wallace tries to defends his friend, putting it down to his manager/uncle.
"No, the weasel is this Rashard. God, I just want him smashed."
"Hey! The paper's from the library. Last thing I need is the librarian turning on me too. Ah, Rashard's cool. It's not like he.."
"'Cool'? Um, are we thinking of the same word? Because I don't remember, say, Steve McQueen ever hitting a homeless man in his Hummer and framing someone else for it." she snarks.
"She's got a point, man." Thumper says joining them at the table.
"If I could just talk to Rashard alone. We were friends. I'm sure..." Wallace says.
"Yeah, he'd say, 'Excuse me. You're standing between me and my money.'"
"Man. Is there anybody you don't think is corrupt deep down?"
"Yes. You, Mac...that's about it."
"Hey.." Thumper starts.
"Thumper..." she says.
He pouts but nods his head.
"Like I said you and Mac. I don't want you suffering for it, because jail? Is no fun."
"What's no fun?" Jackie says sitting down next to Wallace.
"Um...jail?" she says.
"Oh, I thought you were talking about Mr. Wu's game-show quiz." Jackie says noticing the paper on the table, her eyes wide.
"No, I was talking about jail." she says unhappily.
Thumper throws his am over her shoulder and she leans into him, visible upset. Her hand comes up and she starts playing with her cross.
Wallace places his head in his hands, also upset.
Changing her mind about asking him out, Jackie tells them that she will talk to them later.
"I think I need a lawyer." Wallace says shorty after Jackie takes off.
"Yup." Thumper says once she has finally calmed down.
"V..you know a good lawyer?" he asks.
"I know...a lawyer." she says.
Cliff meets them at the office.
"Okay, I have arranged for Wallace to turn himself in to the sheriff's department in five days, where he will be transferred to Chicago."
"What if I'm not there?" Wallace asks.
"Then they'll issue a warrant, you'll be arrested, probably found guilty, and end up married to some enormous murderer named Tiny. My advice? Be punctual." Cliff snarks.
"That's if we can't prove you are innocent." she says.
"Or that. Suit yourself." Cliff says as he leaves.
"All right. So that's good." Wallace says.
"Good? What, in the same way that Rashard is 'cool'? Do you know what any words actually mean?" she asks.
"I mean, if I'm cleared in the next five days, I'm back on the team in time for the Pan High game."
"Pan High? How can you even think of the game right now?"
"Rival school, biggest game of the year? I can't help it. I'm male."
"Well, here's a message from the females: you're nuts."
She sits down at the computer and pulls up Rashard's UCLA schedule on her computer, having obtained it from a former Neptune High cheerleader, Tracy James, who is is now a cheerleader for UCLA.
Tracy has advised her that their best chance to get to Rashard is at the Booster dinner.
Their planning is interrupted by her dad shouting for her.
Wallace quietly reminds her that she has his future in his hands and leaves.
"Can you dig up the Murray file? I guess now we need to destroy it." her dad says coming out of his office/
"What? They reconciled? How?" she snarks.
"Mystery of love would be my guess."
"A million-dollar 'Sorry I banged the maid' ring would be mine." she mutters grabbing the file to begin shredding it.
She is shredding photographs when she spots something of interest. She shows her dad.
Behind the target, they can see Terrence Cook and Ms. Dumass, the journalism teacher killed in the bus crash.
"What was he like when you met him?" he asks her.
She shuffles uncomfortably, "He was fine but he has a gambling problem."
"And you know this how?"
"I might have bugged Lamb's office and overhead something." she mumbles.
He just looks at her, shakes his head and asks for the tape.
As Rashard and some girls flirt in the back, Felix sits in the front with the diver.
He gets out his phone and sends a text to Wallace and V to where they are going.
The limo's progress is halted by a truck.
A man opens the doors and pulls the girls out.
It's Rashard's uncle, Monte Rucker.
He is not happy with Rashard's behavior and tells him that the girls are leeches. He tells Rashard to mind him or he could blow the money that is coming his way.
Rashard is assured by his uncle that he can still go to the Alpha Rho Nu thing on Thursday but that he has to start thinking with his brains and not another part of his anatomy, which Monte grabs, much to Rashard's discomfort.
Having arrived in the underground garage, Felix directs the limo driver forward between two cars so that the limo passengers are trapped between them.
He gets out of the limo and races to one of the blocking cars.
It's Wallace's car, and he knocks on the window of the limo.
Monte opens the window.
He tells Wallace not to mess with his boy and issues various threats before he and Rashard are driven away.
Wallace asks Veronica if she has any other ideas. Since she was in the other car with Weevil.
"A cheeseburger before my shift at Java, would be nice." she replies placing her hand on her stomach.
"Wait a minute, we went to White Castle before the accident. The guy that took our order might be a witness. He saw Rashard driving and got his autograph." Wallace says excited.
"Surveillance tape." she mutters.
Wallace gabs his phone to call his dad.
"Hey, Ronnie can I talk to you?" Logan says coming up to her.
"What's up?" she says.
"Okay, Weevil is going to kill me but we need help."
"Spill." she says grabbing him and pulling him to an empty table to sit.
"We have been trying to figure out who has been selling for the Fitzpatricks. Found out that Molly has moved on form Felix."
"What do you mean?"
"Seems Molly was hooking up with Hector and has him thinking that she loves him enough to run away with him. Ronnie, he has been selling E to 09ers."
"That stupid.."
"I know. I'm about to ask you to do something that Weevil knows nothing about. I need you to plant a bug in the confessional at St. Mary's Church. Seems one of the Fitzpatricks is a priest there."
"Why the church?" she asks.
"I told you not to ask her about this." Eli says coming up behind her.
"Sorry, Paco but I don't want to end up sharing a cell with my father."
"Querida, I..."
"Why the church, mi amor?" she asks him.
"We think that it might be where whoever is selling is picking up his stash."
"Video, no sound." she tells them.
They agree.
Keith listens to the tapes he took from the sheriff's department.
The first is of Lamb's interview of Dick Casablancas. Dick tells Lamb about the smell that led to his decision to get the limo. He confirms he knew Curly Moran because he worked on Big Dick's Aston Martin.
In the next interview, Cassidy confirms Dick's account and that he had met Curly, even though Big Dick usually only took Dick with him when he went to the garage.
He stops the tapes when Eli walks through the door with a am full of food.
"She's right behind me. She is currently yelling at Hector over the phone, so it might take her a little while."
"Why is she yelling at Hector?" he asks getting off the couch to help Eli put away the food.
He can smell the tamales and knows that Letty has sent them food.
"His choice of girlfriend, Molly Fitzpatrick." Eli says.
He just whistles.
"Sorry about that." she says coming in. "That idiotic, ahh" she growls.
"Okay, I might have some good news. The rat might have been there just to cause a smell that would drive those that could afford it off the bus." he says.
"Que?" she says.
"You might not have been the only reason that the bus crashed." e tells her.
She and Eli cuddle in her bed.
He kisses her softly until something hits his stomach.
"What was that?" he asks causing her to laugh.
"That was your son or daughter saying hello." she says with a grin.
He moves down and places his head on her stomach.
"Te amo mi pequeña." he whispers placing a kiss on her stomach.
"Come up here." she says softly.
He moves up her body, running his hands up her side.
"I love you." he whispers against her mouth.
She smiles, "Te amo mi amor."
Raising her mouth to his, they soon lose themselves in each other.
At her locker, she wonders about what her dad said about her not being the only target.
Wallace joins her, and they walk down the hallway.
He reports that they have identified the White Castle employee but that both he and the surveillance video have disappeared.
She stands in the church, uncomfortable.
Father Patrick passes by her.
She lights a candle, apologizes to a statue of Mary, and goes into the confessional before confessions are due to start.
As she plants the camera, "I'm going to hell. It's that simple. I am going straight to hell."
She is startled when Father Patrick responds, having also entered the confessional early.
"Okay, umm, forgive me Father for I have sinned."
"It's alight most are nervous there first time."
She laughs slightly.
"Alright. For the past few years I have been doing things that are not on the up-and-up, God-wise that is. I done things that I know are wrong but still do them anyway. I am enjoying pre-material sex any chance I get."
"Multiple people or one person."
"Just one, he was my first. I love him. I would do anything for him, even may him if he asked." Wait, what!
"That is your answer there. As for the other things. I wasn't always on the up-and-up God-wise myself. But I worked at it. There's a passage, Romans 12:19. 'Vengeance is mine. I will repay, sayeth the Lord.'"
"I see now. I guess I should just probably be a better person. Thanks."
She quickly leaves but hides the storage pat of the camera in one of the pews.
Wallace waits for her outside the fraternity that Rashard is suppose to show up at.
"I don't think I am going to blend well here." she says looking at him.
"Yeah, wait in the car. Hopefully I won't be long." she agrees and walks to the car.
She waits until he goes inside before calling her secret weapon.
Wallace finds Rashard and tries to persuade him to do the right thing.
Rashard is not persuaded and tells Wallace to get out of his life.
A little later, a disappointed Wallace sees Jackie flirting with Rashard.
He tells her to stay away from Rashard.
Jackie refuses, pointedly remarking that he's the one who, by his lack of contact, made it not his business what she does.
Rashard steps in and asks Jackie if Wallace is bothering her.
She confirms that he is.
A couple of fraternity guys oblige Rashard by dragging Wallace into the closet.
Jackie pouts that she's not into this party anymore and suggests they go to a club she knows.
After expressing a little reluctance because his uncle told him to stay there, he agrees.
With a grin, she watches as they leave and follows.
She sends Wallace a quick text so that he doesn't worry.
Wallace, out of the closet, wanders around the party somewhat disgruntled until spotted by Monte.
Monte warns Wallace again not to approach Rashard and to keep his mouth shut.
He then demands to know where Rashard has gone.
Wallace says this might be fun and that he knows where Jackie likes to go.
The new Deputy is in charge of the metal detector.
Monte is required to put his metal objects, including his phone, in a small tray as he goes through.
Deputy Bouncer swaps the phone with another before returning Monte's things.
Monte disappears into the club.
The deputy hands over the cell to her, inviting her to stay.
She rubs her stomach and with a grin the Deputy tells her to get out of here with a smile.
She goes back to the church and collects the tape.
She goes to the suite and with Logan and Eli watch the tape.
They see Liam go into the confessional, but none of them can see how the drugs are being distributed.
It takes them a while but they figure it out.
Liam leaves a hymnal in the confessional.
It hurts her and Eli to see Hector take it.
"He lied right to my face." Eli says getting off the couch.
She sits there in tears.
Logan rubs her back as Eli paces in front of them.
"Now what?" Logan asks.
Neither of them can give him an answer.
At school the next day she presents Wallace with Monte's phone,"Now we can send all the number to your dad. One of them has to be the witness."
Wallace high-fives her as Jackie approaches,"Can I get some?" Jackie asks nervously.
After a moment's hesitation, she does, and they all smile.
"You were good. Rashad never had a chance." Wallace tells her.
Whatever Jackie was about to say was cut off when Jane comes over to Wallace and confirms their date.
She looks at Jackie, with sympathy in her eyes. "I didn't know. I'm sorry." she mouths."
Jackie just shakes her head and walks off, but not before she saw her eyes fill with tears.
Thumper and Felix stand behind him as he faces Hector in his backyard.
"What's up?" Hector asks looking at the three of them.
"You're selling for the Fitzpatricks." Thumper snarls.
"Weevil, I told you man..."
"Don't bother lying, we have proof." Felix snarls.
"It's not just me, alright. Bootsy is selling with me. It's good money man. Molly says..."
"Oh speaking of Molly, something you should hear." Eli says pulling out his recorder and presses play.
"What do you want?"
"You are a piece of work you know that. After messing with Felix's head you decide to hook into Hector."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I know that you were dating Felix, you told V that you were when you listened to gossip to try to break us up. I know that at that time you were two-timing him with Hector."
"I love Felix. I never cheated on him. Hector is delusional if he thinks we were together."
"I don't buy it. I think that now that Felix has dumped your ass, you are messing with Hectors head, getting him to sell for your family."
"Prove it."
"I..." Hector says sitting down.
"Why man?" he asks.
"I thought she loved me. Told me she was different than the rest of her family and I bought it, hook, line, and sinker. Oh fuck." Hector exclaims reaching into his pocket and gabbing his phone.
Hector gives him, his cell phone. He has video of Weevil "nearly" kicking in the head of one Curly Moran.
"Molly has a copy of that." Hector tells him.
"Fuck." they all say watching as the video plays.
The hallway is full of basketball players and students heading for the pep rally.
She meets up with Wallace just as a phone stats ringing.
It's Monte.
"Oh, hi Monte. No I have no idea how I got you phone. Yeah..I'm sorry to hear about you legal problems." he grins at her. "Well that's what can happen when you open your mouth." he hangs up.
"Good job." she says with a smirk.
Keith is listening to the tapes with the TV on in the background.
He has Lamb's interview of Gia Goodman. She knew Curly as the only mechanic who could fix her Fiat. She confirms that there was a bad smell on the bus, but it wasn't why she didn't get back dad told her not to.
She and Eli walk though the door.
"Hey, no TV if you are not watching." she jokes waving her finger at her dad.
She starts to tell them about the basketball game when they catch the news report.
Lamb has pulled Terrence Cook in for questioning about the bus crash.