Bobby came up with another plan, not heeding Officer Green's warnings. Jack agreed without thinking and Angel tried - but Sofi had different ideas, demanding that Angel stay put and have dinner with her.

Valerie stood in the hall watching the scene go down.

"Angel," Sofi said, her voice suddenly quieter. "You said this time was going to be different."

That tugged at Valerie's own heartstrings - experiencing her fair share of absent boyfriends.

"She's getting real comfortable here, huh?" Bobby said, still having some fight left in him. "What are you doing? I thought you was a macho man? A tough guy?"

Jack laughed.

"It's a real shame little Jacky's the only one down to ride," Bobby sighed. "Lets go Jacky!"

Valerie stopped Jack as he tried to make his way out the door.

"When will you be back, do you know?" She questioned, peering up at him.

He shrugged. "I don't know. Late, I guess."

Valerie nodded.

"Look, Jack, is there any point of me being here anymore?" She said, she had packed her bag up already. She had been planning on heading back to the apartment if he ended up going out for the third night in a row. "You're gone all the time. I feel like I'm loitering or something."

"Don't you start now, too."

Valerie frowned, she crossed her arms. "What?"

"I got things to do," he told her. "But I wouldn't have asked you here if I didn't want you to stay."

She let out a breath. "Okay."

"Say goodbye to your big sister, Jacky!" Bobby shouted from outside. "Lets go!"

Jack gave her a sympathetic look and followed Bobby.

"Take me with you." She hollered at him before he was out of earshot.

Jack glanced back at her then at Bobby who shook his head.

"Please," she pleaded with them. "I'm bored out of my mind here."

She saw Bobby give in, throwing her a nod.

Jack, however, didn't budge.

"Val, there's no point," he said. "You don't need to get messed up in this shit."

"Neither do you," she pointed out. "But you did."

Bobby smirked. "She's got a fair point, Jacky."

Valerie gave him a smug look. He narrowed his eyes her way.

"Get in the damn car."

Valerie wasn't sure exactly what they were doing but she was fairly sure they were breaking into someone's house.

Bobby told her to dig around for something that might give them clues to Evelyn's death. He let her know they were in the shooters apartment.

There wasn't much of anything in there. She trailed behind Jack as he tore through the guys belongings while Valerie held the flashlight. It was dim in the house; all the windows had been covered and they couldn't turn on the lights in fear they'd capture somebody's unwanted attention.

"You should've stayed out of all this."

"Yeah, well I didn't want to," Valerie shrugged. "You can't tell me what to do."

He grunted. "I can try."

"There's nothing here." He said.

Valerie pointed her flashlight at a silver camera. "The camera could have something on it."

"I doubt it. Probably just some personal photos and shit."

Valerie shook her head. "You said these guys were trailing your mom, right? Well tell me a better way to keep tabs on her life than to take pictures?"

"Alright, alright," Jack huffed, throwing the camera around his wrist. "I get it."

Bobby stepped into the room. "You guys find anything?"

Jack lifted his wrist. "A camera. You get anything?"

Bobby grinned. "A little something."

Bobby had found his own mini gun cartel. A little something, her ass.

Jack looked through the camera, which turned out to be filled with photos of Evelyn. She shot Jack a proud look; he turned away.

They flicked through the photos together. Valerie wasn't really paying attention. She was seeing how much of Jack's OJ she could drink without him taking notice. It was down to half a glass when he picked it up.

Bobby landed on a photo and Jack grabbed his hand and told him to stop on it.

"That's that lawyer guy," he told them. "He told us he only met her once. He lied."

That's all it took for them to decide to go show up at that laywers place. Valerie tried to reason with them not to do that - he was a lawyer - but they didn't listen to her the same way she didn't listen to them.

"Can I come again at least?" She pouted at Jack.

She almost saw him cave. "No, okay? You're not getting in trouble."

"You stay here with Sofi. Keep her company." Angel told her. But it sounded more like he was begging.

"Whatever you say, boss."

He slapped her on the back.

Sofi was a lot harder to keep company than she expected.

When the boys ripped out of the driveway, she grabbed her keys.

Valerie blocked the door. "Sofi, where the hell are you going?"

"To get a coffee," she said innocently. "Do you wanna come?"

Valerie was smart enough to know Sofi probably wasn't going to grab a coffee but she shrugged on her winter coat anyway and followed the visibly angry Latina out the door.

"You're crazy." Valerie groaned when Sofi pulled into some Upper Class driveway behind the car the boys had drove.

"He makes me crazy." Sofi said inferring to Angel.

Sofi got out of the car and slammed the door. She stuck her hand in through the open window and beeped the horn repeatedly.

"Robbers in the house!" She yelled loudly. "People, there's robbers in the house."

"What the fuck, Sofi? Shut up!"

She didn't shut up. She probably got louder.

Valerie climbed over her seat into the drivers side and struggled to push Sofi's hand off the wheel. Sofi was stronger than Valerie imagined she would be so she instead tried the next best thing.

Valerie flung open the door to the car with force and Sofi stumbled backwards into the snow bank.

Valerie stepped out of the car and hovered over Sofi. "I swear to god if Jack gets caught because of you just because you're pissed at Angel, I'll -"

"You'll what?" A smirking Jack asked her.

"I'll guess we'll never know now since you cut me off." She teased.

Angel bent down and propped Sofi upright again. But Valerie could tell he was trying his hardest not to flip out, his jaw was locked that tight.

"There's robbers in the -" Sofi tried to yell again but Angel clasped a hand over her mouth just as a fancy car pulled into the driveway.

If Valerie could take an educated guess, she would say it was that lawyer guy.

Bobby spotted him, too. He made his way over the car. The old man reeled down the window.

"What is going on here?"

Bobby yanked the man out of his car and flung him on to the cold snow.

"Thought you said you didn't know our mom?" Bobby gritted out. "Mind telling us why you were with her the night she died?"

The old man struggled to get words out but not before Bobby whipped his bare stomach. Valerie winced, shoving her face into Jack's sleeve so she didn't have to watch. She didn't like how defenseless the man seemed; it made it too difficult to watch.

Jack pulled her in closer by wrapping an arm around her shoulder. He softly rubbed up and down the spot his hand lay on her arm.

"Your mother and I were seeing each other socially," the old man stuttered out. "...I have some of her night things if you want them?"

Bobby helped the man off the ground and apologized for the misunderstanding. Valerie finally peeked out from Jack's shoulder. The old man was pretty gracious for someone who was just getting a beat down by Bobby Mercer.

"You're insane, you know that Bobby?" She told him. She hopped into the car with the boys instead of Sofi. Valerie was afraid Sofi wouldn't take Valerie shoving her into the snow very well. "You're crazy. That poor old man. Your mom told me she was seeing someone, she really liked that guy and you gave him a good smack."

"I didn't know!" He said defensively.

The reversed out of the lawyers driveway as if none of this had ever happened.

"You know Sofi told me we were going to get a coffee?" Valerie mumbled.

Jack laughed and Bobby joined in.

Jerry shook his head. "That girl is a piece of work."

Bobby eyed Valerie in the rearview mirror. "That was a nice move, though, Beaumont. Hitting her with the door."

Valerie scoffed. "Hardly my best moment."

Jack squeezed her hip. "It did the job, that's all that matters."