CRIMINAL INTENTIONS: Season One, Episode Six: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE by Cole McCade

Author:Cole McCade [McCade, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2018-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

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SEONG-JAE DID NOT LIKE FEELING at such loose ends.

He sat at Malcolm’s desk, looking restlessly at the screen of Malcolm’s computer—which was larger than Seong-Jae’s, the entire reason he had once again co-opted Malcolm’s desk, of course. Warren Sterling’s nonexistent record scrolled in front of him, but he did not truly see it; he had hardly noticed Sade leaning out of their den to quietly and mechanically inform him that they had sent over everything they had on Sterling, including records sent by the local Churchville department, but it would not be much use.

Warren Sterling did not have so much as an unpaid parking ticket over the course of fifty-two years.

He did, however, have two vehicles registered in his name—a 2017 Dodge Ram and a 1983 Subaru GL. If Seong-Jae and Malcolm could find probable cause to search the Subaru, they might have what they needed to apprehend Sterling and obtain a confession that would lead to Tisha Jones.

At the moment, though, he had nothing on his hands but time—and a completely irrational concern over the fact that his partner was out with Jonah Hawkins and Aliyah Jameson without him, discussing highly sensitive and dangerous information that could lead Malcolm into trouble without Seong-Jae there to protect him.

And if the meeting goes poorly? What would you do? Shoot another officer to protect Malcolm Khalaji?

He did not have an answer for that.

Nor did he think he wanted one.

He stared at the screen, biting at one knuckle and tapping his heel until his knee hit the underside of the desk in repetitive quiet thumps that were soothing in their own way, giving him an outlet for the restless energy in his body. This felt far too familiar and yet utterly alien, when there was no demon crawling under his skin and sinking its hungry teeth into him; just a sort of needling, impatient anxiety that counted every second until Malcolm walked back into the room with, hopefully, more information on Huang.

Even if that still would not make the hours tick by any faster until dark, their return to Churchville, and a stakeout that would, with luck, bring the search for Tisha Jones to an end.

He just hated waiting like this, when proper protocol and legal procedure might be leaving the girl to die.

Maybe they could go back to Churchville, take photos of the Subaru from a distance, then visit Trae Rogers and show him both the Subaru and the image of the man in the gray hoodie. Witness testimony that he recognized the vehicle might be enough to push through for a quick warrant. Just because Sterling’s build matched the hooded man did not give them enough probable cause, when the hooded man had done nothing illegal, and Sterling had been exercising his rights in his refusal to speak with them.

Seong-Jae was beginning to understand more and more why Malcolm frequently flouted the rules, when sometimes the rules made no room for human life.

At least, at this time of day, the homicide

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