CSI: Excolo, Episode 3.05: One For The Good Guys

[kateohara.livejournal.com]

Previously on CSI: Excolo:
IN OAXACA:
TEZ: What the fuck're you doing here? What about your parole?
AL: I am going to leave everything in Excolo, azizam. I need this.I had blood on my hands earlier today - yesterday -
CUT TO A WAREHOUSE AT NIGHT; JIN'S BODY IS SLUMPED OVER, TIED TO A CHAIR. AL CONTINUES IN VOICEOVER:
For you. Someone put you in danger, and I will not let that happen.
FADE TO: A HOTEL ROOM IN ARKHAM. DORIAN SITS ON THE BED. SAPPHIRA ENTERS.
DORIAN: I need your help.
CUT TO: THE DIABOLIQUE. WANDA LOOKS SHOCKED.
PERCIVAL: Miss me?
CUT TO: PRECINCT EVIDENCE ROOM.
HERMIA: There's something going down tomorrow night. Something big...I'll see you tomorrow night. Take care.
JACK: You too.
JACK LEAVES; HERMIA TAKES OUT HER CELL. PAN IN TO SCREEN:
TEXT MESSAGE TO SYL: One down.

Rain is pattering against a window. The camera pans out to reveal it's the office of Kate O'Hara. She's reading a news site on her PC; the camera zooms in on the headline. TYCOON ARRESTED FOR BREAKING BAIL CONDITIONS. Underneath is a grainy photo of Al Shairan in handcuffs at the arrivals lounge of Excolo Airport.

I finish reading the article and then close the browser, shaking my head. I'd say this is one for the good guys - Al Shairan's behind bars - but I'm afraid this town has made me too cynical. Yes, he left the country when his bail conditions explicitly forbid him from leaving the country, and I've heard a rumour that he was travelling on a false passport... But the man has more money than Croesus and that money pays for very good lawyers. I should know; one of them keeps trying to recruit me. No, I'm sure he'll be out soon enough... unless we find something else to charge him with in the meantime. I think a lot of people are working very hard right now to do just that. I sip my coffee and go back to my paperwork, glancing up when thunder rolls hard nearby. It's pretty wet out there. Not that it matters; I don't have time to go out for lunch.