When Peggy was appointed she became one of the youngest U.S District Attorneys to ever take office and the first female one to do so in that district. It wasn’t an easy task but she had a spectacular reputation, even better than her mentor’s, the previous U.S. DA of that very same district.

Since law run through her veins, after all her mother was a DA and her father was a federal judge, Helena Peabody became a lawyer faster than you can say Justice Department. It was in her first year in Harvard that she met her two best friends, Tina Kennard and Alice Pieczeki. Both Tina and Alice were there also to become lawyers and the three amigos graduated first, second and third of their class.

Immediately after graduation Helena fled to New York to start working for her mother and invited her friends to pay her a visit, to come see with their eyes that everything they read in the newspapers was true. That her mother’s office was the most efficient and honest of the country and that there justice would be made.

Thinking about her early years working there Tina didn’t notice the steel and cold elevator stopping until it made its characteristic bell noise, indicating that the doors were about to be open. She lifted her gaze and all she saw were two lights on in the entire floor, of course her friends were gonna be there. They had been discussing all day which one of them should go upstairs to try and persuade Peggy out of that crazy idea of calling the damn FBI. Eventually Helena was voted out for obvious reasons and Alice… well Alice had too much of a temper sometimes, so she was voted out leaving all the responsibility of their closing arguments to Tina.

“It’s a no go guys… she wouldn’t hear about it” Tina said signaling with her thumb pointing to the floor what her words were already saying.

“Damn it… that woman is so stubborn sometimes!” Alice was the first one to voice their frustration. It wasn’t that they didn’t trust the FBI, after all it was a law enforcement department that also depends from the U.S. Department of Justice but they were very protective of this case. They didn’t comment it with anyone outside the small circle of people they fully trusted, and that was a really a tiny circle. Apart from them three and Peggy only about ten other people were helping them, some were lawyers and others were administrative staff but all in all a team of thirteen people were handling the biggest case that District had ever seen, with over fifteen directly implicated mafia members of two different families that run the area and over twenty other people that were related to them.