Tina: “excuse me, Helena, your mother is Peggy Peabody, right”

Helena: “yes…, the one and only…, why?”

Tina: “well…, perhaps you knew Antonia Aristizabal, we called her Toni”

Helena: “aunt Toni, of course, why you ask?”

Tina: (stuttering) “well, she…, she is my aunt…, I mean… my real aunt… by blood; she is… my mother’s sister”

Helena: (looking worried toward Bette and then to Tina) “hmm…, I know…”

Tina: (with a light of hope on her face) “you know…? Do you know about my sister…, Louise?”

Helena: (lowering her eyes and with a sad face) “yes…, she is very alike you”

In that moment Bette looked deeply in Helena’s eyes, a gaze that was almost a warning, Helena looked her back and immediately understood the message.

Tina: (almost begging) “do you know where she is?”

Helena: (with an elusive sight) “I haven’t seen her in four years; I think she left the country to do something…, I think…, to study something or to do some business”

Tina: (brokenhearted) “do you know if she is fine?”

Helena: “I heard mom and aunt talking some time ago, they said she is very well…, I’m sorry I couldn’t give you more details about her, but they are on the other side of the country from we are”

Tina: “it’s okay…, at least I know she is fine”

Tina was silent during the rest of the party, and when the new wed left, she and Bette also drove to Framingham, where they stayed the rest of the weekend together.

It was Sunday afternoon when Tina received a phone call from Maura telling her that four other victims have been reported in Hartford at the Connecticut border with Massachusetts, all of them homosexuals, one of them is already dead with similar characteristics than the ones in Boston; the police Department of Hartford want the Boston people to help them, specifically they ask for the police station under Jane’s command, the Bostonian lieutenant had a meeting at Hartford on Friday and Saturday where they all reached an agreement; Jane’s proposal is to form a consulting scientific team to help them with the investigation on the case of  the ‘injected shoulder’ starting on Monday; the team would be constituted by Maura and Tina from Genetics of Cambridge and as Hartford wants scientists from Connecticut and specifically they want people from Ecology and Evolution of New Haven, Jane suggested Bette and James, the proposal was warmly accepted because due to Bette’s fame of being the best there, she will be the cornerstone in this investigation according to with the mayor of Hartford; but Jane couldn’t localize Bette at the moment, so, Maura is asking if Tina knows Bette whereabouts, and Tina gave the phone to the brunette.