“Except it’s not my car.” Bette was quick to point out the weak link in their case. Well, that was too easy, Robinson had offered it to her himself. “Or my weapon.”

Robinson turned slightly pale.

Max Sweeney quickly checked the file. They had failed to find even a partial print on the car or the gun. The vehicle was registered under Tito Ruiz’s name, or one of his aliases.

Morris wanted to argue that they still could pin her down on the murder of Jodi Lerner and injuring Officer Tina Kennard, but Bette spoke again with confidence, “My print is not the only one on the other gun either. It belonged to Tito Ruiz.”

Nobody could even dispute about it. On the other side of the room, agent Williams took off her sunglasses in disappointment. She accusingly asked Kroll, “Haven’t you made any bit of progress since you submitted the previous files? I thought your evidence department was still involved.”

“Very much so,” Kroll wouldn’t let the feds look down on her work for sure, she challenged, “but you are the one that kept secret about this suspect since capture. We had no time to dig up something of value. Truthfully, this woman didn’t exist in any of our documents before you brought her here.”

Tasha screwed her brows. “Well then bringing her all the way here might be a complete waste of time.” She contemplated the situation as they all watched the interrogation unfold.

The interrogators changed their tactic again. A strange technique borrowed from the military called “pride and ego down”, known to attack one’s self worth. It was a psychological warfare, and when used extensively, it breaks people. Max of course was out of the context and unsuspicious when he presented Bette’s personal files to the agents. Morris took the lead since it was his specialty. Good cop became bad cop.

Under the seemingly friendly but extremely sly eyes, Morris questioned her loyalty to Jorge, whether it was worth it. “To what you owe your loyalty to him, though?” was his exact words.

“I don’t.” It was Bette’s only response. Then she kept silent as he stroke deeper at her relationship with Jorge Perez. She didn’t react when he spoke ill about him, nor did she bat an eye when he praised Jorge’s dignity.