Smoke Screen Page #12

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-Good luck, judge.

-Thank you.

1014

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This is it.

1015

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Miranda?

1016

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I knew you'd show up.

1017

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I'd go with the long ones.

1018

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My clerk let you in.

1019

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-Thank you for trusting me.

-I don't trust you.

1020

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I trust Raley, and he told me

you have a story to tell me.

1021

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I know who killed Jay Burgess...

1022

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...Pat Wickham Jr.

and Cleveland Jones.

1023

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Please.

1024

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Believe it or not

I'm actually kind of relieved.

1025

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You need to come clean, George.

1026

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Yeah, I guess so.

1027

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Five years ago Cleveland Jones

attacked Pat Jr. in Hampton Park.

1028

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Pat Sr. wanted justice but he didn't

want his son's sexual orientation out.

1029

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So he and Jay pick Cleveland up.

1030

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The three of you were gonna beat

him until he confessed.

1031

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But things didn't go according to plan,

did they, George?

1032

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One of you,

doesn't really matter which...

1033

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...bashed the kid's skull

until he was dead.

1034

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To cover their tracks,

the cops started a fire.

1035

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iBlaming Cleveland for it./i

1036

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Pretended to be victims themselves

and helped everyone get out.

1037

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-Became heroes.

-Yeah.

1038

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I guess everything

would've been fine if I just let it rest.

1039

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-But you couldn't, could you?

-No, I couldn't.

1040

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The cops knew the only way to avoid

being exposed was to shut Raley up.

1041

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One way or another.

1042

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The girl at the party.

1043

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And then you found Suzi Monroe and

you sent her to hit on me and drug me.

1044

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Done anything for a fix.

She'd hump the couch.

1045

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iAnd you made sure she OD'd./i

1046

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Yeah. We'd been around long enough.

We knew how it was done.

1047

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When Raley woke up,

they told him to keep quiet.

1048

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But Jay made sure

it became big news.

1049

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Jay and me.

1050

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My newscast distracted the public and

assured that Raley would lose his job.

1051

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Then Jay bribed the new

arson investigator to close the case.

1052

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-So if all this is true, who killed Jay?

-George did.

1053

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Pat Sr.'s death

really shook Jay up...

1054

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...so Jay called George

and said he wanted to come clean.

1055

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But George couldn't let that happen.

1056

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iSo he had Jay killed/i

iand framed me for the murder./i

1057

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You're right about everything,

except the last part.

1058

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I didn't kill Jay.

1059

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Actually, I thought that you had

murdered him and Pat Jr. for revenge.

1060

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And that you came here today

to kill me.

1061

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I'm a good judge, Britt.

Maybe even a great judge.

1062

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So believe me when I tell you...

1063

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...sometimes the end

really does justify the means.

1064

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No.

1065

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Oh, my God.

1066

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You were there, weren't you?

1067

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What's going on?

1068

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You hadn't just gotten to the station

when the fire happened.

1069

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You had been there for a while.

Watching the interrogation.

1070

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You were in the room when they killed

Cleveland Jones, weren't you?

1071

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Put the gun on the desk, face down

on the floor, now. Do it now!

1072

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-On the floor.

-You know every cop in the city.

1073

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Wait a minute.

1074

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But these guys, they're different.

1075

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iYou and these guys go way back./i

1076

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You grew up together. Right?

1077

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That's why you wanted to be there...

1078

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...when they interrogated the bastard

that hurt Pat's son.

1079

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Maybe you started

with good intentions.

1080

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Maybe you thought you'd just come

and prosecute him yourself.

1081

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But instead you stayed...

1082

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...and watched Jay, George and Pat

pummel him to death.

1083

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iYou knew that if Raley found out,/i

iyour career would be over./i

1084

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You couldn't let that happen.

1085

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So that's where the cover-up began.

1086

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iFirst it was Cleveland./i

1087

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iAnd then it was Suzi Monroe./i

1088

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iAnd then Jay./i

1089

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And now it's my turn, right?

1090

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Well, I'm impressed.

1091

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They say many

highly successful people...

1092

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...are actually

functioning lying psychopaths.

1093

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You are so very convincing.

1094

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She sold me, that's for sure.

1095

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-Britt, you okay?

-Yeah.

1096

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You have been looking out

for someone all these years.

1097

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But it wasn't me, was it?

1098

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Let's go, judge.

1099

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-This all your handiwork?

-Get moving.

1100

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Yeah, I learned a few things about

hand-to-hand combat.

1101

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Thank God you're okay.

1102

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-Hey, come on.

-Just a second.

1103

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