Inspector Andy Trudeau was in a good mood as he headed to work the next day. He'd seen first hand what Prue's work was and it was a good job and not that different than his own. She'd explained some of her family's history, how her family had been fighting demons for generations, which reminded him that like himself, a lot of cops came from cop families. But the best part was that Prue had agreed to a date, they were trying again. He didn't think anything could puncture his good mood. He should have remembered Murphy found cops entertaining too.

"Inspector Morris?" Daryl looked up as he heard his name called and saw someone that, like Lohman, qualified as an annoyance.

"Rodriguez, what brings an IA rat to my desk today?"

"Questions about your partner." The Hispanic officer answered, ignoring the rat comment.

"If you want to talk to Inspector Trudeau, than talk to him yourself. I have nothing to say."

"Working with us is the easiest way of getting through an investigation, Inspector Morris."

"You don't do investigation, Rodriguez, you tear apart the lives and careers of good officers in the hope of finding a tiny speck of dirt you can turn into a mountain. I'm not going to help you destroy my partner."

"Up until recently he was on the fast track to Captain and now he seems have decided to specialize in the freaky deaky. Any idea why?"

"He isn't specializing in anything, he just works the cases we're assigned."

"And occasionally assigns himself to a case and quite a few cases you two have been assigned lately have gone unsolved."

"Rodriguez, if you knew anything about real police work, you'd know that no case is solved in an hour, like on tv. We have one of the highest solved and conviction rates in this precinct. I'd put our record up against anyone's. Now, if you're done trying to bad mouth my partner, I've got work to do."

"I think there's a string worth tugging here." Rodriguez told him. "And I'm going to keep tugging until I get what I want."

"Yeah, another good cop ruined. Get a life, Rodriguez and stop trying to ruin others."

With a final glare, Rodriguez turned away and left. Andy arrived not long after and took his seat, Daryl noticed his good mood immediately and asked about it.

"That matter that came up yesterday has been dealt with." Knowing Daryl would understand he was talking about the ghost. "Our new CI has an interesting history, I'll fill you in later and Prue and I are trying again."

"I hate to ruin your good mood, but I think I know where the missing files from yesterday went."

"Where?" Andy asked warily, there weren't a lot of people that had access to those files outside the cops themselves, just the Captain and -.

"IA, specifically Rodriguez. He tried to ask me some questions. Remember when Blakely commented that word was we'd caught some freaky cases? Apparently Rodriguez thinks that's reason enough to poke into our business. You assigning yourself occasionally, like with the kidnappings this past weekend, for instance, seems to be something he thinks is concerning."

"That led to finding the kidnapped boys. My report said a CI gave me some info. Lohman kinda did."

'Which translates as you kinda fudged your report. It's the kinda thing Rodriguez could use to nail you on. Heads up, he's coming back."

Andy glanced over and saw the IA Inspector coming through the door and leaned back in his chair and waited for him to come to him.

"Inspector Trudeau, I need to have a word with you." Rodriguez informed him.

"What about?" Andy asked, eyeing the IA rat with disdain. Not all IA Investigators were a menace, some genuinely just wanted to weed out bad cops. Rodriguez enjoyed tearing apart lives and careers, it was fun for him. Hence why no one had any respect for him.

"You checked out the knife found at a crime scene yesterday. Not one of your crime scenes, I might add, but definitely a freaky one. You mind explaining why?"

"My Captain could ask me that question." Andy answered. "You really don't have the grounds to, but I'll tell you anyway. I took it to a CI, to see if he had a clue what could have made the weird print on the knife. Unfortunately, he couldn't tell me anything pertinent about whatever made the print. But if he had been able to, it would have helped Blakely work the case."

"Who's the CI?"

"We're done, not even IA has the right to ask about CI's, unless you think an actual crime has been committed. If you think a crime has been committed, take my hardware, otherwise get out of my face."

Rodriguez glared at him. "I will find out what you're hiding, Trudeau. I've never failed."

"There's a first time for everything, Rodriguez, as the expression goes."

"I think you're covering for someone or something, Trudeau. I'm going to find out what it is. This isn't over."

"It is for now. I have real police work to do." Andy pulled a file towards himself and opened it, pointedly ignoring the IA Investigator glaring at him, before the cop abruptly turned on his heel and stomped out.

"He's going to be trouble." Daryl murmured.

"Too bad he's not a demon the girls or Xander could vanquish."

Too bad, indeed.