An Eye For Justice by Mark Young

Author:Mark Young [Young, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995567627
Publisher: Funky Ink Press
Published: 2018-12-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

O’Leary’s laptop. The words bounced around in Pascal’s head as she woke from a nap, her eyes snapping open and her head jerking up. She looked around; she was slumped over her computer keyboard, unaware where she was for a moment. Then her mind cleared and she clocked the familiar surroundings of the consular basement office.

O’Leary’s Laptop. Christoff had said there was nothing on it. But he had also said that there was some low level kiddie porn on there that he hadn’t really bothered to look at, because he didn’t think it was relevant. At the time Pascal had let it go as well, tacitly agreeing with Christoff’s analysis. The downloading of such material was often just a misdemeanor if prosecuted, and it happened all the time; guy takes his computer in for a fix and they notify law enforcement there’s some questionable stuff on there.

So they had simply ignored it. But now she wondered. Calver’s murder trial was turning into a slow motion car crash. Trying to discredit the CCTV footage had been a total wash-out, so they had to come at finding a hole in the prosecution case from a different angle, and once you broke it down there really was only one other logical way in: O’Leary. He had to be involved, and his meeting with Schmidt at the bar just about nailed that down. She guessed he also might be a weak link, a guy with a heavy coke habit.

Calver was going down the pan hard, in desperate straights, facing life in prison. So they had to find something right now. Any later and it would be too late. So maybe it was time to have another good look at the stuff on O’Leary’s computer. If it was capable of being used as leverage, she would use it. Then maybe they could apply some serious pressure on Mr. John O’Leary, pressure that maybe wasn’t exactly legal.

She picked up her phone and speed dialed Christoff. She needed to see what he had on the drive, and see if it was usable for what she had in mind.

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Later, back at the apartment, Pascal sat at the kitchen table with her laptop and a cup of fresh coffee. She’d had to wait for Christoff to come out of the court where he was babysitting Hannah, to take her call. Following his instructions she’d located the flash drive in his bedside table and plugged it in to her laptop. Now she had a file on her desk top titled, “O’Leary - Secret Imagers I”, which Christoff said contained the clips she needed to view. File II apparently contained the secretly filmed shots of hotel guests playing away, which she didn’t need to see, at least not yet.

It felt slightly odd to be in the apartment during the day when everyone was out, but that’s the way she wanted it, given the material she expected to be viewing in the next few minutes. She took a deep breath, double clicked on the file to open it, and then sat back on her stool to watch.

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