Out of Time Page #3

- Yes.

Buy that fishing boat you and Chae

have always talked about.

- No. l'm leaving tomorrow.

- What?

l'm leaving town tomorrow and...

l gotta get out of here. l need to get away

from Chris. l need some peace.

(buzzer)

- Chief Whitlock?

- Yeah. How can l help?

You just did, buddy.

- How you doing?

- Good.

- Take this. Meet me at my house.

- What is it?

- lt's a gift to you. Switzerland.

- Huh?

- lt's money.

- What money?

That drug money?

Matt, no, no.

- Oh, my God. What if they want it back?

- They can't.

The money has to stay with the arresting

department till the appeal is over.

- Money Scarcetti has, it can take years.

- But Tony...

They think l'm putting it in a safe-deposit

box. What time does Chris get home?

- 1 1 .30.

- OK.

Go to your house, pack a bag,

meet me at my house, 1 1 o'clock.

- OK.

- You OK?

Uh-huh.

See you later.

Ann?

- Oh, hi.

- What are you doing here?

Barbara. All pissed off about something.

Gotta wait her out.

Hey. Listen, listen.

- You see anybody come in here?

- No.

You sure? OK. Why don't you

head on over to the Scuttlebutt?

- They cut me off, thanks to you.

- Say Chief Whitlock says everything's OK.

- That's the first place she'd look!

- She won't look.

- She will! Can l get my cigs?

- l'll send 'em to you.

(phone rings)

(phone rings)

(dog barks)

(sirens)

(fire officer)

Outside now! Call an ambulance!

Lieutenant. Tell engine two to lay it out

and start attacking it from the back.

- Right.

- Go, go!

Pull it up! Get moving!

(dispatcher on radio) 1 9, 1 9. A 4 1 5.

That's about four miles outside town.

(fire officer) Got ya.

Mathias.

You all right?

l know it's hard to take.

l'll grab you a cup of coffee.

- (Matt) Was it an accident?

- l don't know. Maybe.

Thing about these propane tanks is they

just don't blow for no reason. You know?

Man, this place was an inferno.

Those poor folks didn't have a chance.

(distorted) All right, Chief?

Chief.

- What are you doing here?

- l'm in Homicide and there's two bodies.

- So, what happened?

- They think the propane tank blew.

- You know who they are?

- l think it's definitely ''were''?

- Right, Chae.

- Hey, Mathias, check it out.

Definitely arson.

(detective) No, sir, it's definitely arson.

Definitely.

The closer l stay to the scene, the better.

Oh, yeah. lt's possibly a double homicide,

so we're gonna have to take this over.

- Chief?

- Yeah?

Chief, listen. Judy Anderson's

mom is visiting from Orlando.

Last night, she saw somebody sneaking

around. l checked, l didn't see anything.

- We should tell Alex about it.

- l'll tell her. Get on back to the office.

They want me to run my investigation

out of your place for the next 24.

- l'm gonna need your help. Background.

- Be your tour guide?

- Pretty much. You cool with that?

- No problem.

- Are you sure?

- No problem at all.

Why don't we ride back and you fill me in?

My boys'll set up at your place.

- OK.

- Great.

Hey, Matt. l just wanted to say

l'm really sorry about the timing.

- What do you mean?

- With the papers and then this today.

- The divorce papers?

- l should've called you.

That would have been nice.

l know.

But it has been eight months.

Don't you think we need some closure?

l don't really want to talk about it.

Thanks for opening up.

Let's talk about the Harrisons, then. Either

of 'em screwing around on the side?

l don't know.

ls anybody happily married these days?

Right. Yeah. He was supposed

to get off at 1 1 .30.

Right. Mr Harrison.

So you don't know if Mr Harrison

even came to work? One second.

Did you know she worked

as a dental hygienist for a Dr Shider?

Really? No.

- l'm gonna pay him a visit. Wanna come?

- OK.

Um...

OK, thanks.

So, she quit yesterday?

Well, kind of.

Ann Merai had terminal cancer.

- Really?

- l think she was trying to keep it quiet.

Anything else you could tell us,

Dr Shider? Anything?

l think she was having an affair.

Did she actually tell you

she was having an affair?

We don't really talk a lot, mainly just

what's happening on our stories and stuff,

but l just got the feeling. You know?

Like, sometimes when she'd be on

the phone, she would talk real quiet.

Whisper?

Did you ever see him?

Or did she ever tell you who he was?

No, no. But he was classy.

About a week ago she got this real big

thing of flowers from Rosie's. Really nice.

l mean, it was beautiful.

Remember, Bruce?

l met her husband once and he doesn't

seem like the type of guy to send flowers.

Right.

Rosie? Hey. Yeah, Chief Whitlock. Listen.

l'm trying to find out if some flowers were

sent to an Ann Merai Harrison last week.

Sent to her office.

Yeah, Harrison. Yeah. Check and see

if one of your guys sent them.

Ah.

- Chris Harrison.

- Her husband.

OK. Thanks a lot, Rosie.

Yeah. No, that's all. OK. Thank you, Rosie.

(operator) lf you'd like to make a call...

You ready?

- l guess so.

- OK. All right. Thank you for your help.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Dr Shider, if you think of anything else,

here's my card. Thanks a lot.

Please don't do me like that.

You knew l wasn't finished.

l'm sorry.

Dr Shider gave me the name

of her doctor.

l want to find out more about her cancer.

- You can drop me off back at the station.

- You don't like being around me, do you?

No. lt seems like there isn't any reason for

both of us to waste time at the doctor's.

- What's so pressing?

- lt's not so pressing.

- l do have a job. l am Chief of Police.

- Yeah. Of a four-person department, Matt.

That's the problem between us. You think

your job is more important than my job.

Never said that.

l know you never say it directly,

but indirectly you say it.

That's why you wanted to go to Miami

so we'd be closer to your job.

You never said the commute

took too much time away from us?

- l didn't have a problem with that.

- So l'm hearing things now?

Whatever, whatever.

ls that why you're not coming with me?

ls that your date paging you?

lt's one of my four officers

just checked in. lt's a tracking device.

- And you can tell on that?

- That's what it tells me. GPS.

We're all tied in. The mayor's brother sells

'em, so we spend half the budget on 'em.

See, if we were moving, we'd see it track.

Sorry.

lt's OK. lf we were moving right now,

it'd show us tracking.

Great. Why don't we drive to the doctor's

office and l can see how it works?

- OK.

- OK.

l'm gonna go to the bathroom.

l'll meet you in there.

- Hi.

- Can l help you?

- Yeah, Dr Donovan's office.

- Her office is on the... third floor.

Thank you, Ramona.

- Ann Harrison didn't have cancer.

- Are you sure?

Not counting her time in Atlanta, she has

been my patient since junior high school.

lf she had cancer

l'm sure l would have known about it.

- l don't get it.

- Maybe she saw another doctor.

She was here for her yearly when she

first got back to town two months ago,

and she was healthy

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