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She hung up and dialed the telephone number of a contact she had at the nineteenth precinct on the Upper East Side

“Harvey? It’s Casey Woods I need your help” She gave hi that Madeline’s life was in danger, and that Patrick—as standing guard outside the ER—wasn’t answering his phone “Please send a couple of squad cars over to Manhattan Memorial and see what’s up We’re on our way, too Thanks”

She hung up and grabbed her purse

“We’ll get the car,” Ryan called over his shoulder as he and Claire raced downstairs to get their coats

Aidan rose and aze “If you need me, I’m here”

“We’re okay, but Marc ht need you I’ll keep in touch And, Aidan, thank you so ”

He shook her hand “I’ll hang out with Hero and wait to hear from you Good luck”

Casey nodded, and then dashed after her colleagues

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JANET SHIFTED IMPATIENTLY in her seat They’d traveled exactly one and a half miles in twenty minutes

“Get around this traffic,” she ordered

“How?” Madeline was trying to keep her hands steady and her focus on the road “If I drive on the sidewalk and run people down, that’s not going to get you what you want It’s going to get me arrested” She dashed away the tears on her cheeks quickly so Janet wouldn’t notice Madeline was desperately trying not to shoeakness in front of this woive her even more power

“You said you’d tell me what this is about,” she re that would et it?”

“I needed you dead if you kneas on that tape Clearly that was a waste of y I just should have kidnapped you and beaten the truth out of you We would have ended up here a lot sooner”

“Then why didn’t you?”