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“Just trying to get you pumped for the interview You knohat I’d like, Dallas, since you’re in the mood for exposure? A one-on-one, an in-depth intervieith the woe The life and loves of Eve Dallas, NYPSD The personal side of the public servant”

Eve couldn’t stop it She scowled “Don’t push your luck, Nadine”

“Pushing my luck’s what I do best” Nadine dropped down into a chair, shifted it “How’s the angle, Pete?”

The operator held his palm-sized remote up to his face “Yo”

“Pete’s a man of feords,” Nadine commented “Just how I like them Want to fix your hair?”

Eve caught herself before she tunneled her fingers through it She hated being on camera, hated it a lot “No”

“Suit yourself” Nadine took a s, patted so under her eyes, checked her teeth for lipstick s, crossed her legs sainst silk, and turned toward camera “Roll”

“Rolling”

Her face changed Eve found it interesting to watch The lossier, ht, slowed and deepened, de attention

“This is Nadine Furst, reporting direct from Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s office in the Homicide Division of Cop Central This exclusive interview centers on the violent and as yet unsolvedactor Yvonne Metcalf Lieutenant, are these murders linked?”

“The evidence indicates that probability We can confirm from the medical examiner’s report that both victims were killed by the same weapon, and by the same hand”

“There’s no doubt of that?”

“None Both woed blade, nine inches in length, tapered from point to hilt The point was honed to a V In both cases, the victims were frontally attacked with one swipe of the weapon across the throat frole”

Eve picked up a signature pen fro Nadine to jerk and blink when she slashed it a fraction of an inch from Nadine’s throat “Like that”

“I see”