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“I’m not going to lie,” he said, holding the file from the Vice detectives. “This file is pretty bare. For two Vice detectives working this, and the Commissioner all over this like white on rice, they don’t have a lot.”
“Yeah, I thought the same thing,” Gene admitted. “Then again, they were poking into a drug case the FBI was tryingto block. Who knows how many walls they put up and if they crossed into Corbin’s case?”
That was a good point.
Unfortunately for them, they were going to have to dig into it and find out.
“I just hope the CIA isn’t involved,” Greyson said.
Corbin glanced over.
“They can’t work on US soil.”
They all started laughing.
Why?
They knew better.
“Oh, you believing that is funny,” Greyson said. “And a little naïve, Baby Citizen,” he said, teasing him with a play on how they busted him about being a baby detective. “The government breaks the rules all of the time.”
Yeah, Corbin was realizing that he was a whole lot of naïve. If anything, he learned that the hard way.
“So what are you guys doing tonight?” Corbin asked, knowing they were heading out.
Gene put the rest of Ethan’s burger down and chewed before speaking.
“We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you,” he joked.
Corbin shrugged.
“I’m pretty hard to kill, apparently,” he admitted. “I’ll take my chances. You can trust me.”
Yeah, they could.
“My gut says Gabe wants the bikers who transported the drugs and mules. I know how he thinks, and he’ll try to get them,” Gene admitted.
Neither of the other two Feds said anything because they tended to agree.
“To interview?” Corbin asked.
They.
All.
Laughed.
Oh, someone was all kinds of funny tonight that he thought this would play out like that.
Corbin would take that as a no.
“Uh, if not to interview them, then what?” he asked. “What are they going to do?”
Greyson was in the military, so he shared.
“If the CIA gets wind of this from Gabe, which they likely have since this was supposed to be handled in Colombia, they’ll interrogate them at Guantanamo,” he admitted. “If they are responsible for drug smuggling or helping a smuggler, they’ll get it out of them. This is more a pickup mission,” he admitted.
If Gabe wanted him to play alibi for the men, what Ethan and Gene were going to do was going to be dirty.
