In the Electric Mist Page #5

Yes, sir.

Right away.

Hey, Mama 'Ti,

Amber there?

No word from Amber?

No, man,

not a word.

Get back in there!

Dave,

what the f***'s going on?

Shooter fired at me twice.

I put eight rounds

in that Buick.

I think

he's still in there.

Looks like she took one

right in the face.

What you mean, "she"?

You just popped

Amber Martinez.

There's no f***ing gun.

There's no gun, man.

I got this throw-down.

Tell me to do it.

I opened up

on that Buick too soon.

You thought your life

was at rlsk, Lleutenant.

I hope you don't mind

my being here.

No.

You shouldn't have remorse.

A desire to live doesn't mean

you lack humanity.

Somebody's trying

to drive me crazy.

Can't believe what I see

or hear anymore.

They say I killed

an unarmed woman.

I think that would

probably bother me too.

I keep seeing that woman,

the back of her head,

her hair glued down

to the carpet with her own blood.

Think about

what you just said.

You're an intelligent man.

What does

your eye tell you?

I need help.

The wind's

out of the south.

There'll be thunder

by afternoon.

It'll sound

like Yankee cannon fire,

but it'll only be thunder.

General...

What time is it?

Why would Amber Martinez

be sitting in the passenger seat

of her own car?

What did

the homicide investigator

have to say last night?

He told me

I'm a hell of a shot.

Everybody thinks

I killed an unarmed woman.

There's not

any bullet holes anywhere.

There's no casings.

And there's no gun.

It was a setup, Dave.

What y'all doing out here?

Can't be messing around

a crime scene.

I'm really just

an observer here, Doobie.

Who's she?

Speclal Agent Gomez.

This is part

of an FBI investigation.

Do you have

a problem with that?

Why piss people off,

Robicheaux?

St. Martin Parish ain't going

to indict you over this,

but if I were you,

I wouldn't hang around here.

You might piss me off.

Well, from the size of the wound

and the impact of the round,

I'd say a .45 killed her.

Look at her head.

I only use hollow-point

ammunition, Sollie.

It ain't no hollow point

passed through this girl's head.

Her hair was stuck to the carpet,

the blood already dry.

Did she die in that car,

you want to ask me?

Her blood lividity tells me

that she was dead before

she ever got into that car.

If I can vacuum the Buick,

what are we looking for?

I saw muzzle flashes

coming out that Buick.

I didn't see no bullet holes

in that beer joint wall.

See what you

can find out.

What we waiting on here,

me to smoke this?

Allons.

Thank you, Henry.

Anybody else

got something to share?

My name's Dave.

I'm an alcoholic.

Want some cappuccino mix?

You cops like coffee, right,

or a stereo?

You know anybody been recruiting

girls out the parishes?

Try the bus depot,

for starters.

But who's going to recruit?

Ever since Katrina,

there's cash on the hoof

all over this town.

Maybe this guy does more

than just pimp.

Maybe he likes

to hurt these girls.

Been two of them

killed already,

maybe more.

Talking about somebody

that operates way down

at the bottom

of the food chain, Dave.

You think Baby Feets Balboni

might have something to do

with something like this?

You're using the names

of local personalities now.

It stays with me,

Jimmie.

You looking for a guy

who likes to kill hookers?

Don't sound

like Baby Feet.

His outfit's running girls,

all right, but...

they're not worth nothing to him

if they're dead.

Try the bus station.

Try Adonis Brown.

You, uh,

ladies seem lost.

You're not from around here,

are you?

You'll be able

to find some peace,

I promlse you.

Don't sweat it.

I want you to make a public

service announcement for me,

chere.

I know what it's like

to run away.

Praise Jesus.

There's a call

for Mr. Adonls Brown at

the publlc restroom pay phone.

There's a call

for Mr. Adonls Brown

at the

publlc restroom pay phone.

This is Adonis.

What's up?

Hello?

What you want?

Don't do that, man.

I ain't no threat to you.

Look, I ain't got a gun.

I ain't no trouble.

I want to know

the name of the guy

you've been delivering

all these girls to.

This one's occupied,

by the way.

Nobody. I ain't

bringing nobody to nobody.

You know the guy

I'm talking about.

Don't do this

to me, man.

Tell me his name.

This guy

likes to hurt people.

You tell me his name,

this'll all be over with.

There's a...

baid-headed,

squirrel-faced white guy.

He carries a gun too.

Nobody fucks with him.

Is that the guy

you're talking about?

You tell me.

He's got juice.

That's all I know.

I don't know

his f***ing name, man.

He connected?

With the cops

or the mob.

He's got to be

to stay in business.

That's all I know.

Why you doing this

to me, man?

God.

I sh*t my pants.

I can't

go back out there.

That's right, Adonis.

You ain't ever

gonna go back out there.

You're going

to treat that bus station

like it's downtown Baghdad.

Not a good place

for you to be.

Who the f*** are you, man?

You don't want to know

who I am.

What you want to do

is start acting right

and quit doing wrong.

I'll kill you, Adonis.

I'll blow

your Goddamn head off

if you don't find

an honest line of work.

You stay gone

most of the night.

You don't call.

I'm sorry.

I don't deserve to be afraid

you've been hurt.

No.

You don't.

But I'm not

going to nag you.

I really need your help, Dave.

I really need help.

Go ahead.

You go ahead

and drown yourself, man.

I don't care.

Dave,

I planned this all week.

The guy already charged me

for the boat, man

Elrod...

It's going

to rain like hell.

Now, why don't you wait until

after it quits raining,

and you can go fishing

for black bass and perch

and bream right out here

in the bayou.

When was the last time you

caught freshwater fish

after it rained?

Oh, hell,

suit yourself.

You want to leave

that beer cooler here with me?

It came with the boat,

dude.

Sure you don't

want to come?

Miss Drummond,

you need to get yourself

off of that boat right now.

Please,

it's Kelly.

Watch the bend

in the channel.

It's about

three miles south.

The water's been low

and gill nets

are on the left

floating on

Clorox bottles.

I got it.

Hello?

How far

down the bayou?

Well, that's that bend

Batist warned you about.

What you asking me, Elrod?

Can you come

give us a hand?

Yeah,

I'll come help you out.

But I am also going

to bill you for my time.

I got it.

How'd you hit

the gill net?

Dldn't you see

the bottles?

Oh, man...

I'm an idiot,

right?

You want me to get down

in the water?

Yeah.

Get down by the bow

and be ready to push

when I put the motors

in reverse.

Hey, are there

any alligators around here?

Oh, hell yeah.

They're not hungry, though.

All right.

Put on a life jacket, El.

Okay, honey.

I swam

the Trinity River once.

Watch out

for water moccasins.

What?

Don't worry about him.

That water's

not very deep.

I've got to give him

a life jacket.

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