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"Hungry" Eugene reached out with his cuffed hands to pick up the candy bar "Right" He tore off the wrapper and cra his eyes as his cheeks bulged and he chewed

"If he chokes on that, you’re writing up the reports," Sam told Massey She waited for the suspect to s before she said, "Mr Gates, I can get you some real food, if you want"

"Real food" He nodded, and see down his face

He’s been starved Sa sympathy for the man "Before I order a meal for you, I’d like you to tell me about the last tiarden"

"Was this your garden?"

He shook his head "She arden as long as she could"

Sainary reasons to be found temporarily insane at trial, but Gates didn’t see some of the stuff in your saht wrist back and forth, jangling the cuffs and a bracelet around his wrist

Saed back the end of his jacket sleeve Gates wore a MedicAlert bracelet, and when she turned over the oval tag, she saw a list of serious allergies to substances that included opiates "Did anyone else give you drugs?"

"No" He stared down at his bracelet "Gold"

The bracelet was the classic MedicAlert red and silver on a silver chain, so he wasn’t talking about that "What’s gold, Eugene?"

His eyes ent sound, and when Saer beside his teree with him, but she had to press for details before they could write hiene, as the naarden?"

"Whore" He lunged across the table at her, trying desperately to claw at her with his hands

Sam stood and moved out of reach, and just as quickly as he had attacked, Gates subsided back in his chair "Why did you kill Noel Coburn, Eugene?"

His face reddened as his voice returned to the flat monotone "He owed me money and he wouldn’t pay So I killed hily "You whore"

"Hey," Massey said "Watch your ene?"

He stared at her, his expression confused "I tied the rope around his wrists, and held it whenwhen"

"When what?"

Gates bent over, his face darkening to purple as he tried to open his jacket

Sa" She loosened the knot in his tie and popped his collar "Now He’s having a heart attack"

Massey ran to the wall phone as Sam released Gates from his cuffs and lowered him to the floor He looked up at her, his eyes wide as he tried to speak, but nothing caan compressions, Sam kneas hopeless; she could sun to seep into his scent

Fifteenpara Gate’s draped corpse and wheeled him out of the room She followed them to the hall, where cops from other departments had come to stand in clusters of twos and threes to watch the body being removed

As Sam walked past them, she heard one of Dwyer’s old buddies htstick"

"What did you say?" Suddenly Massey was there, in the jackass’s face, and he looked ready to shove the old-tied at Massey’s ar cop "Noit stuck up your ass is working"

As the other cops snickered, Massey backed aith insulting slowness, and then walked with Sam to see the paramedics to the elevator

"I didn’t kno e it all the time," he said as soon as the doors closed "But you never report it Why?"

"Dave Kernan has already racked up two internal suspensions since January," she told hied to alienate or lose all the friends he had in the departhteen months away from retirement"

"Fuck his retirement," Massey said proes, an old crap Caddy that really needs a transarded hihtstick, he’s shoved it so far up his ass you can see the top of it when he yawns"

Massey grinned "Now I get you"