Chapter 86
“Marcel,” Billycan called after him in the hallway, “have you seen Samuel and Talya?”
“I think they’re gone back to the ambassador’s house already, why?”
“Was Agent Gilford with them?”
“I’d say so. I saw him go down the stairs a few minutes ago.”
“Good. I’m a little worried about these two. Now that we’ve met the burden of proof by showing that Sadir and Lypsick conspired to kill no less than four people—those that we know of—Lypsick needs to get rid of the only two remaining witnesses—apart from Sadir or Prince Khalid. Did you talk to Simmons yet?”
“Yeah, in the hallway at lunch, he had just been talking to Sadir.”
“And…?”
“Well, Sadir wants to take the stand apparently, as soon as the defence opens, because he thinks that since Lypsick has been “flagged”—to repeat Simmons’s exact word—he won’t have to worry about his family being in danger anymore.”
“That would be one way of getting Sadir to confess,” Billycan blurted. “Do you think Simmons will let him do that?”
“I don’t know yet. I think he wants his client to plead to a lesser charge, have him allocute the details of his receiving orders and from whom, rather than wasting any more time on going over the same things again.”
The US Attorney nodded slowly. “Besides…, Sadir would get a much better deal by revealing the name of the one who gave him these orders now than when he’s on the stand, and we can’t do anything to protect him. Billycan pondered for a moment. “You think Sadir wants something else?”
“I don’t know, sir. When we had no confirmation of Lypsick’s involvement, Sadir wanted to stay in prison and didn’t want to talk. Now that we’ve demonstrated that Lypsick was the messenger, Sadir wants to tell the world about it.”
“Let’s offer him felony manslaughter or even reckless endangerment and see if he’d be ready to give us the ‘Puppeteer’ in exchange.” Marcel frowned. “Look, when he was in Vancouver with him, Lypsick kept asking him the name of the ‘Puppeteer’ and Sadir wouldn’t budge, or pretended he didn’t know anything about it.”
“Yes, that’s right.” Marcel thought about this for a minute. “Maybe Lypsick wanted to know if Sadir knew who it was and if Sadir had told him anything, he would have had his family eliminated as he promised he would all along.”
“You’ve got it. And now that we can’t find Lypsick, and he’s been ‘flagged’, Sadir’s only way out is to tell us who the Puppeteer is.” Billycan paused. “We’ve got to find Lypsick, and have a talk with Sadir, Marcel,” he said, rushing toward the courthouse’s doors. “…if Lypsick’s still alive...”
“What’s happening with the investigation of Van Dams’s assassination, do we know?”
Billycan shook his head. “You know the CIA; they’ll keep the whole thing under wraps. It’s the FBI that bothers me right now. Why would they want to pin a murder rap on Talya and why tailing her across the countryside? Those are questions we haven’t got an answer for.” Billycan looked out the car window. “Anyway, we might get lucky when we interview this Special Agent Fillmore guy. Is he still coming for the appointment, do you know?”
“As far as I know, he should be in your office already, yes.”
It was nearly 6:30 when Carl parked the car in the garage. “I may need you later, so why don’t you go and have some dinner and be back here by 7:30,” Billycan said to him when he stepped out of the vehicle.
“Very well, sir. I’ll be here.”
As Marcel and Billycan came out of the elevators, Darlene was expecting them. “Darlene? What are you doing here?” Billycan asked.
The attorney didn’t answer.
Seeing her face pale and her lips tremble, Marcel couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong, Ms Stovall?”
Billycan looked into her worried face. “Come to my office right now,” he ordered. Then to Marcel, “Put Fillmore in the conference room and make sure he’s out of earshot.”
“Okay...” Marcel marched away quickly in the direction of the anteroom where Fillmore was waiting for the US Attorney.
“Now, Darlene…, what’s going on?” Billycan asked again as they made their way to his office.
“Talya and Samuel have disappeared!”
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Table of contents
Table of contents
PART 1: Resentment
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
PART 2: Samuel
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
PART 3: The Trial
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
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