- So, what's the name of your partner in homicide.
At Jonathan Eames's question, Alex lowered her eyes, turning as white as a sheet.
Name of God...
She'd hoped her father wouldn't ask.
Well, that was lost.
In addition, how was she going to announce that the partner she'd been assigned was none other than Goren.
At this very moment, Eames wanted to crawl into a hole.
Well... well...
What a strange reaction from her daughter.
It was as if she was afraid of his reaction.
Why was she reacting like this, just to a simple question.
He hadn't asked her anything that would justify the answer making him angry.
Unless...
But no, that was impossible.
He couldn't come back into his daughter's life.
Not this rascal.
- His name is Goren... Mom's partner.
At his little girl's words, Jonathan Eames saw red.
Had he really heard the name Lucy had just said.
He must have imagined it.
But as his daughter lowered her face even more, she looked at her hands, which she clenched nervously, as if she'd wanted to make herself as small as a mouse.
Jonathan Eames realized that this was true.
And that this was what he'd heard.
Goren…
In addition, how did Lucy know Goren...
Don't tell me...
No, that girl couldn't have done it.
- Robert Goren you say Lucy...
At her father's flushed face, and at his daughter's nodding and smiling, happy to announce her partner's name to her grandfather, Eames felt panic sweep over her.
How was she going to get out of this now.
Eames glanced reproachfully at her daughter, not thanking her for her intervention.
Lucy really did have a habit of goofing off; in fact, she was the queen of goofballs.
But here, if she'd wanted to make a worse blunder, she couldn't have.
Eames therefore expected to receive her father's wrath at any moment.
Robert Goren...
Lucy had said Robert Goren, and confirmed it with a nod, and a smile to boot, while her daughter didn't dare look at him.
Then he'd come back.
That vile seducer.
Back, again and again in his daughter's life.
Why did he always find himself in his path, but above all, in his daughter's life.
If he'd known back then, he'd have had to carry out his threats, because he'd never have heard from Goren again.
Then again, he was sure fate would have found a way to get him in his daughter's way.
- Lucy leave us... I need to talk to your mother.
At her grandfather's unbending command, Lucy rose from her seat and headed for the door.
Good God...
What the hell was going on...
Why did her grandfather look so angry.
Had she said something wrong.
Lucy had just said the name of her mother's partner.
So there was no reason for her grandfather to be angry.
Unless Goren was the problem.
- Close the door behind you.
Lucy stepped out of the room, closed the door behind her, but didn't move aside, just stood at the foot of the door and put her ear to it, trying to find out why her grandfather was angry.
- You were going to tell me when Alexandra.
Eames felt like shouting, since she already knew her father's reaction.
But she didn't want to say anything, preferring to keep quiet.
And waited for her father's wrath to come out.
- I want you to ask for a change of partner.
I'm sorry.
Her father wanted her to ask for a change of partner...
All because the partner in question was none other than Goren.
He wasn't serious.
If she did that, she could be right back where she started, and she didn't want that.
She wasn't going to waste her years trying to find a place for herself, just because her father couldn't stand the idea of her being Goren's partner.
Did her father forget how hard it was for a woman to break into the force.
He couldn't ask her to do something like that.
- Did you hear me right, Alexandra. Her father raised his voice more and more, looking at her with an even redder face. Have you forgotten what he did to you in the past? Eames shook her head in denial, but said nothing. How can you accept him as your partner.
No, Eames had forgotten absolutely nothing of what had happened back then.
Besides, why was her father rubbing it in.
She was already so confused by being with Goren.
To the point where she didn't know how to manage her feelings or emotions.
She wanted Goren, but she hated him.
It was contradictory.
Jonathan Eames sensed that his daughter was hiding something from him.
And something he didn't think he was going to like.
- Don't tell me you've...
- No... Nothing happened between Bobby and me.
What do you mean Bobby...
Had he heard right.
His daughter didn't call Gorne by his name, to put a distance between them, but Bobby, like the time she'd fallen into his arms.
Could it be...
Seeing his daughter turn completely scarlet, at the insistent look he was giving her, he understood.
His daughter had...
Name of God.
Hold me back, or I'm going to shoot that vile seducer right between the eyes.
- Jonathan Eames screamed, his face red and disfigured by rage. After what he did to you.
Angered, Jonathan Eamess preferred to leave the room rather than make an inappropriate gesture towards his daughter.
He walked briskly to the door and opened it.
And what a surprise to discover his little girl with her ear to the door.
- And now... my little girl is playing spy. He glanced reproachfully at his granddaughter. You're your father's daughter... You respect nothing.
At his words, Lucy looked at her grandfather who was walking away, surprised by his vehemence.
You are your father's daughter...
You respect nothing.
What did her grandfather mean by that.
And what was this allusion to her father.
And why was he telling her that she was her father's daughter.
And that she didn't respect anything.
Just because she'd once wanted to eavesdrop didn't mean she didn't respect anything.
In addition, what could her father have done to make her grandfather hate him so much.
If Lucy had heard correctly...
Her grandfather seemed to hate Goren just as much as her father.
It was really bizarre.
Her grandfather would get angry, or carried away.
And especially not at his mother, nor at her.
So why such a reaction.
What could Goren have done to make her grandfather so angry with him.
Perhaps she should ask the principal directly.
Yes, that was the best solution, at least if Goren agreed to answer her questions.
That was less certain.