Ace Of Hearts Page #4

- What do you mean?

- It says... Right here.

"Officer Daniel Harding made

an unauthorized inspection of S.O.I. '...

"Scene Of Incident."

"He unofficially presented Dr. Burgess

with a 24-inch length of barbed wire...

"attached to a fence post he speculated

could have been used by Mr. Torko...

to produce his serious

dog bite wounds."

You think Ace is innocent too, right?

- Can I help you prove it? Please.

- Honey.

Maybe there's no evidence on the barbed wire,

but he must have made some mistake.

I mean, you always say that every bad guy

makes at least one mistake...

and it's up to the cops

to figure out what it is.

Hey, you wanna help me?

Honestly?

You'll let me get back

to work here, honey. Okay?

I have a ton of stuff to go through,

and I really need to concentrate.

Well, you're looking for a link, right?

You need to link him

to a crime scene or something.

- I don't know, but...

- Yeah, honey, I do, but here's the thing.

I can't concentrate

with you here. Okay?

I need to do my work.

It's my homework.

And you do your homework.

Okay? Thank you.

I appreciate what you're doing.

- (music)[Background: Loud Heavy Metal]

- [Acetylene Torch Sparking]

[Man]

(music)I am nobody, I am no one (music)

(music)I am nobody

I am no one (music)

[Chattering]

Oh, thank you very much.

[Chattering Continues]

[Woman]

...so much.

[Chattering Continues]

[Man]

I'll take five.

- [Growling]

- [Woman] Hey.!

- Stop him.! He took the cash box.!

- [Man] Hey, wait.!

[Barking]

- [Chattering]

- [Woman] The children.

[Woman Reporter]

I understand you arrived, Deputy...

and found the thief being detained

by our mystery dog.

[Deputy]

Yes, ma'am, that's essentially correct.

We arrived on the scene to find

the perpetrator facedown on the ground...

with his forearm

held in the dog's mouth.

And you recovered the cash box?

Well, no, I didn't see any cash.

Really? Do you mind if we check

your pockets, Deputy? [Laughs]

- [Doorbell Chimes]

- [Deputy] We found the cash. We found the cash.

And so one church's cash box

has been safely recovered today.

- The bake sale a complete success...

- [Mom] I'll get it.

All thanks to this mysterious

stray dog's natural crime-fighting abilities.

Dad! Mom! Come here!

- Dan, are you there?

- What, honey? What's the matter?

I just saw Ace on TV... in Wenatchee.

- He went to a church bake sale.

- Ace went to a church bake sale?

Not went went. I mean he caught

somebody trying to steal a cash box...

at this church bake sale thing.

[Dan] Church thing? Honey,

you're not making any sense.

- I just saw him. He's alive.

I would know him anywhere.

- That's not possible.

Dad, if anyone could pull off

an escape from that K-9 clinic, it's Ace.

- You know it's true.

- That's nonsense. Okay?

Why can't you just trust me for once?

[Mom]

Honey.

Julia.

It's not possible. Okay?

I'm sorry, honey.

You got that?

You smell that? Huh?

Okay, perrito.

Good police work.

Let's see if you can

track down my boss.

Okay?

- Hey, Louise, check this out.

- Okay.

Este perro es increible.

That's it, boy.

Pick up the scent.

He's onto something already.

What do you got, boy?

Where you goin'? What is it?

Muy bien. Muy bien. Muy bien.

[Spanish]

Now watch this.

He's a smart animal.

[Spanish]

This is real police work here.

We should all

be taking notes from this.

He's a very special animal.

I believe in you, man. You can do it.

- Look at you.

- See this? I believe in him.

He's gonna change things

around here.

This is the start of a new era. Okay.

- What the...

- Sorry, boss. It was the doggy.

- He smelled something suspicious.

- Whose...

- Good boy.

- Where... Get him out of here!

Bad boy. Okay, let's go.

Move on.

There's nothing to see here.

- You okay with everything?

You need a hand with anything?

- No!

[Julia]

It's called alum...

but I found that it's actually this chemical

called potassium aluminum triphosphate.

- Aluminum "try whose fate"?

- Triphosphate.

You should see the stuff

it's actually used for.

It's used to make dyes stick to cloth.

They use it in water filters for ponds.

It's even used in those

white styptic pencil things...

dads use to stop the bleeding

when they cut themselves shaving.

You're sounding like

the world's expert on alum.

My dad says cops never know

which tiny detail...

could be the big thing

they're looking for to crack a case.

- Hey, you know the Goliath robberies?

- Yeah.

They think the guy's Torko,

but they can't prove it yet.

- Yeah?

- And my dad...

He thinks Ace was framed.

So do I.

- Framed?

- By Torko... to keep from going to jail.

- [Footsteps]

- L-I gotta go.

[Gasps]

Hmm.

- [Man] Who'd you say this was?

- Me? Oh...

[Clears Throat]

Um, I'm Captain Joe Porter's executive assistant.

I'm just calling to confirm that you

completed the euthanasia procedure...

as required on one of our K-9s...

a dog named Ace.

Got a case I.D. Number?

[Julia]

Yeah. Yeah, I remember that one.

So then it was taken care of?

Oh, he went real easy like,

if that's of any comfort to you, ma'am.

Thank you. Yes, it is.

I assume you do send

the complete set of remains...

because according to the state code...

We send every flake and crumb.

"Abso-posi-lutely."

It didn't get mixed up

with any other ashes, I hope.

Oh, heaven forfend, no.

That's why the furnace

is vacuum-emptied after every procedure.

Is there a problem?

With the remains, I mean.

Do you have a reason

to think there might be?

I run me a pretty tight ship here.

Sure there wasn't

a dog overboard recently?

[Julia]

Ow.!

Remind me not to let you

teach me how to drive.

You mind telling me

what you're doin' here?

Dad, I can help you.

I discovered something in the ashes.

- The ashes?

- Something that proves Ace might be alive.

- Julia...

- First I found a teeny tiny tooth in the ashes...

that couldn't have come from a dog

bigger than a beagle, for sure not from Ace.

- Then you know how his weight

is always exactly the same?

- Yeah.

Well, I did a simple dry weight/wet weight

conversion on his so-called ashes...

and it turns out it didn't

at all jibe with his 122 pounds.

But then the head guy

at the police dog clinic...

- said that he definitely sent

every last bit of Ace's ashes.

- Wait a minute.

You spoke to the clinic in Spokane?

Yeah. A-And then I checked

the state civil code on the Web.

And sure enough, the law is that they

absolutely have to send all of the ashes to you.

All of which makes me wonder...

whose ashes are in this container.

What? We did dry weight/wet weight

conversions three chapters ago.

[Chuckles]

You are a very smart, very precious young lady.

You know that?

- Yes. Which is why...

- Which is why you are gonna...

- stay in this car until I get back.

- But I'm...

- What about the ashes?

- Honey, good work.

Very good police work,

but it's not proof.

That-That guy up in Spokane...

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