Trojan Horse

I sat in the fishbowl with Insurance Investigator Bonnie Shay and Detective Bobby Diamond...We were his guests as he interrogated Buffet Dave also known as Dave Quarles...an ex Army demolition expert and suspected bomber...

Something was different about Bonnie Shay this morning...I couldn't put my finger on it..She seemed to have a glow and a super satisfied look on her face...She seemed to be miles away from what was going on....

Detective Diamond looked at Dave Quarles and smiled...

"You've been a bad bad boy Davey boy." he said smiling...

"Have I?" asked Dave Quarles..

Detective Diamond poured the contents of his bag on the small table..

''And that's only some of the bomb making materials we found at your grandmothers house and with your fingerprints on them."he said.

He looked at Detective Diamond as though he was crazy and said

''So you found bomb making equipment? So what? You got nothin" he snarled.

I showed him a newly enlarged and formatted photo of him getting out of a car in front of Ralph Scallion's restaurant and walking away..courtesy of the FBI and it's Deputy SAC and my good friend..Sharon Hopkins..

"That's you ace...this photo is time stamped...taken from a street cam.....and that car is identified as a stolen car...And just three minutes after you safely walked four blocks and got into THIS car...yet another stolen car....my friends restaurant and the entire neighborhood went kaboom!!!"I said.

"I'm an insurance investigator...I specialize in arson and bombings...I know that the burns from the bomb that you detonated from your car match the burns from a bomb that was already in the establishment somewhere near the kitchen...The same type of bombs the police found in your house.."said Bonnie Shay..

''We got you cold for arson...You are looking at possibly twenty five years in prison  at least....If I slide this over to the Feds....maybe life...We got you..we got you cold and I hear the food in the joint aint nearly as good as Hilly's Buffet."said Detective Diamond.

Dave Quarles laughed...

"I'll take my chance in court..."he said.

"Why don't you make it easy on yourself..tell us who hired you...We know this wasn't you...Who hired you and who was your accomplice?" I said..

He looked at me and frowned...

"I know about you...You're a private investigator..always tries to be down with the guys on the street and hob knobs with the cops...You got your feet in two worlds Kev....You can only live in one...But from what I hear...you aint gonna be livin in either much longer."he said and laughed..

"You think I care about your boss, Joey Thompson??He's a punk and only nobody's like you are afraid of him...He's going nowhere and regardless of what happens to me or not..I can promise you this...His entire world is going to look a lot different soon...Don't get caught on a sinking ship...because right now you'll either die in prison or your diet will kill you...It's your choice Dave."I said.

"Right now...I'm gonna exercise my right to an attorney..I aint sayin nothin else."he said.

I smiled..

"Maybe I'll visit you in the joint...bring you a Pizza."I said.

"Hah, imagine that?"he said as he was cuffed and walked away...

 "He's our bomber...This case is closed."said Detective Diamond...

"He's one of your bombers..Somebody placed a bomb in there at least twenty four hours before all of this went down....There was a bomb already in place."I said..

"None of Joey Thompson's people could have gotten anywhere close to the kitchen."said Bonnie Shay...

"No they couldn't have....Unless they had a mole...Unless one of Ralph's employees was on Thompson's payroll...." I said.

II-

 Ralph Scallion gave Detective Diamond and I his entire list of employees....We cleared him and his daughter Raquel first...Then we interviewed twenty of twenty one employees...Which took most of the day ,first finding them and then questioning them....and verifying where they were....and when...

After we called it a day...I gathered my guys and went back to Morris Investigations headquarters ...

I brought plenty of Hoagies, Cheese steaks, Onion Rings, Sodas and beers....We watched Traffic cam ,street cam and Atm films for hours going back weeks and we caught something interesting...The 21st employee...The one we couldn't find...

Tyrone Jimmerson....a line cook....and the only employee with a record....He did 2 years for burglary... We saw him on  film footage taken not at Joey Thompson's restaurant but at the bakery in Little Norway just weeks before...

He was drinking coffee and eating doughnuts and laughing and talking with Silent" Sam Hankins...a cold blooded killer and the recent buyer of a bakery and coffee shop in the Little Norway section..Joey Thompson's main man...

"That's the guy Kev...That's Thompson's Trojan Horse."said Sean Jackson as we watched the footage..

"There he is giving that kid an envelope loaded with money." said Owen Todd..

"Okay...switch to the footage we have of the day of the bombing...Hours before when they would have come on shift..." I said...

"Look Kev..He's gettin out of a car...driven by Silent Sam...and he's got a gym bag with him.."said
Clerow...

"Yeah, but that could be a change of clothes." said Sean Jackson...

"Yeah?, well look at the time over here..when they are leaving...He's got on the same clothes and no gym bag..." said Lockpick Johnson...

"Peeping Tom...can you mix all of these videos together?" I asked..

"Yeah..no problem.."he said.

"Mix em and copy em...and Clerow...Deliver this to Detective Bobby Diamond...Tell him it's from me."I said.

Clerow smiled..

"Come on Owen...We on it.."he laughed...

III-

Word on the street was that there was a contract out on me..After I had beat the snot out of Moon Doggie (He was in the hospital with broken fingers and a slight concussion) Joey Thompson had put a contract out on me...And the man who did most of his dirty work was "Silent" Sam Hankins..a killer whose remorseless stare was said to scare the piss out of half of the gangsters and players on the street...

I had only been in the man's company one time...I wasn't impressed...He was a small statured man, dressed nice...Wore a black fedora...and had a tooth pick in the side of his mouth...He was rumored to have killed at least 28 men in his day...

I still wasn't impressed....Still,I sent Sepia and the baby over to Robert Foxworth's house for a few days and I slept in the basement of my job....It was the safest place to be...

But I couldn't hide forever...I needed to be in on the action...So I rousted a few guys in the know and found out where Tyrone laid his head...

I called both Detective Diamond and Bonnie Shay and told them where to meet me..Again, Bonnie Shay didn't show...

When I got there Detective Diamond smiled..

"You called me on such short notice...I figured I'd invite some friends of yours" he said smiling..You know Duke and Rico." he said...

I smiled as Detectives Edwin "Duke" Baylor and Tyriq Pile got out of their cars..

''Whats up Kev?" said Duke.

"My man Kev." said Tyriq...

Detective James "Jimmy "Barlow got out of his car..

"What am I, chopped liver?" he said smiling..."What's up Kev?" he said as I smiled and shook their hands..

"This guy inside..is the second bomber...He worked for Ralph...but he was a mole for Silent Sam Hankins ,who is Joey Thompson's partner in the drug business.."I said.

''Wow Kev, you're making a big charge."said Duke..

"It's a charge I can back up...I just delivered some stuff to your boss lady...You guys are going to be taking some doors pretty soon."I said.

"Boss Lady said you make life easy for her...I've always found that to be true."said Tyriq..

Tyrone Jimmerson was walking down the street towards his building...

"Heads up guys...There's our mope."said Jimmy.

He saw me and two white guys and two other black guys in suits and he smelled cop...He turned to run and stared right into the sawed off shotgun of Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace....I didn't know she had come with them...

He tossed his hands up..Carlotta shook her head..

"You guys chit chatting like a bunch of women and your suspect almost got away."she laughed as Detectives Sirena Pile and Tony Hopkins  handcuffed him and read him his rights...

 "What's up Kev?...Nice way to end an otherwise quiet day."said Hop.

 "You know we all come as a package deal."said Sirena...

"I see."I said.

I smiled..

 "Angie and Boss Lady would have come....but they decided to let us have some fun on our own."laughed Carlotta.

"Gotta love her."I said..

Duke,Tyriq,Jimmy and Detective Diamond all busted out in laughter.

I laughed and hugged Carlotta...

"Just gettin a little practice in" she laughed.

IV-

Once more..Detective Diamond and I had a suspect in the famed "Fishbowl" the nickname the detectives gave their interrogation room..

Where Buffet Dave had been tough and hadn't admitted to anything...Tyrone Jimmerson was the exact opposite...

"Okay man..you got me...Look..Silent Sam paid me 25G's man...just to carry that gym bag into the kitchen and drop it...I didn't make no bomb...I swear..I was given a bag and told to drop it in the kitchen..That was it."he said.

"You didn't know there was a bomb in there?" I asked him...

"No man..Noooo."he said...He started crying..

"STOP THE LYING!" yelled Detective Bobby D.

"Alright...Yes...I knew..I knew....."he said..

"Now we want you talking about Joey Thompson." said Detective Diamond...

"Nah..I never seen him..Never talked to him..It was Silent Sam and Buffet Dave...They was the only ones...I swear.."he said.

Detective Diamond gave him some paper...

"Write it down...all of it.."he said.

"What-What-What happens to me?" he asked...

"I'll talk to ADA Wallace..maybe you won't get as much time as the others.."he said.

"Hey man...they'll kill me...Keep me away from them..."he pleaded...

''We'll put you in segregation.." he said.

"Alright..."he said crying and sniveling....

Detective Diamond looked at me..

"That's the best we are going to do...Sorry Kevin...Guys like this...they never give up the boss...This punk never saw Thompson...He dealt with his middle man...I'm going to put out a APB on Silent Sam...That's where this case ends...Thanks....Maybe the other stuff you got will throttle Joe Thompson...who knows?" he said.

I shook his hand....The mystery was solved...Silent Sam hired Buffet Dave to make the bombs....He then hired this punk kid to place one bomb inside the restaurant and Buffet Dave parked a stolen car outside the restaurant...both blew the entire block to smithereens...Neither of these guys was going to give up the man who made the dirt happen...Joey Thompson...but his world was going to come crumbling down sooner than he thought...

I wondered as I left Police Headquarters where Bonnie Shay was..

V-

Bonnie was back at Ralph Scallion's apartment...the two of them were making sweet love....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my godddddddddddddd Ralph...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, you are hittin my spots...YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" she screamed as they kissed passionately in the middle of the floor...

Ralph had picked her up and was thrusting inside of her like crazy...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...LAWD BONNIE...OUUUUUUUUUUU.." he screamed...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Ralph....yesssssssssssssss baby yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss.."she screamed as they crashed on to the bed..

"Oh my goddd Bonnie, this is soooo damn good...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."he screamed...

"Yess...Yessssssssssssssssssss...YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" she screamed....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Mister Scallion...oh my god..."she moaned...

The bed began to squeak something crazy and the headboard began to slam against the wall...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu lawd...ohhhhhhhh RALPH.You are just showing off...You just showing off...ohhhhhhhhhh" she wailed..

She moaned softly as the massive bed began to squeak and slam against the wall...
''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...""Ohhh baby, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph..."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... BONNIE...BONNNIE......ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"YES BABY YES...CALL MY NAME.....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."she moaned.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh  girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesusssssssssss you are a demon in the bedddddddddd...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."he cried ...out!!"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..

"RAlph..ouuuuuu..RALPHHHHH....OHHHHHHH. RALPH! Stop showing off in this bed"she wailed...

"KNOCK IT OFF!! I'M TRYIN TO SLEEP..." yelled his next door neighbor who banged on the wall!

Ralph and Bonnie ignored him...


"Ohhhh Bonnie, this is sooo damn goooood,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..I'm losin my minddddddddd!! "

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Ralph baby..I needed this soooooooooooooo mucccchhhhhh! St.PAUL,PETER,MARY, JOSEPH...JOHHNNNNNN..OHHHHHHHH" she moaned...

They made sweet yet intense love for the next five hours...with no sign of stopping...The bed squeaked something crazy....

The lights in the room below them were going on and off....The man in the room next to them was banging on the wall...

"HEYYYYYYYYYYYY...QUIET THE NOISE...I'm tryin to sleep! Ohhh for the love of pete! I'm callin the damn cops...This don't make no sense.."came his neighbors voice.

''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...""Ohhh baby, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph..."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... BONNIE...good lord...BONNIE......ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh... This don't make no sense..."he moaned....

"Sock it to me Mr. Scallion yessssssssssssssssss!...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...YESSSSSS!"she moaned.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" he yelled and
came violently!!!He shook so hard, photos and pictures fell off the wall...

"CUT THAT RACKET OUT OVER THERE...I HAVE TO GO TO WORK TOMMOROW"yelled his neighbor.

 It wasn't long before Bonnie Shay came also ...in waves and held on to Ralph Scallion for life, Slapping him in the face ,because it felt so good...
 
 "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! weeeeeeeeeeeeeee"she yelled....coming violently and still shaking a little bit after they were finished...

"Oh my god Ralph...ohhh, that was amazing.."she said, sweat and tears rolling down her face..

"Yes...ouuuuu girl...you got my legs shaking....ohhhh."said a very satisfied Ralph Scallion...

"You said your girlfriend is visiting her folks in London..and she left you here alone??? Whoooo lawd, she's crazy..." said Bonnie Shay...


''Why Ms Shay...You've uh lost your proper command of the english language.."joked Ralph Scallion.


"I'm from West Philly...The Black Bottom.."she said.


"Really? Wow...I'm from the Hilltop...."he said. "Now about your black bottom.."he said and slapped her ample buttocks gingerly...


"Ouch Ralphie.."she said...


He rolled on top of her and kissed her passionately...


"I'm satisfied that you had nothing to do with your restaurant's bombing and arson...I am going to reccomend that the insurance company pay you in full as well as Ms. Sepia and Ms. Bonita.."she said..


"Ohhhhhh thank you.." he said..


She ran her hands along his penis..he was hard again and as erect as a board...She was amazed!!!


"Oh My goodness Mister Scallion....my word..."she said rubbing his penis gently and kissing him passionately...


Ralph smiled gingerly...

It wasn't long before they were slowly making sweet tender love again....

"Ohhhhh Ralph...I'm losing my mind..."she moaned..

"I am losing mine too.Ughhhhhhhhhhhh!" he moaned...

The bed began to squeak and the headboard softly began to bang against the wall.

"I'LL BE DAMNED...YOU TWO AREN'T THROUGH YET??? I'M TRYIN TO GET SOME SLEEP OVER HERE! I'm callin the cops....I've got to get some damn sleep..."yelled his neighbor who banged on the wall..

It was a waste of time...It would be another three hours before they would be totally finished and spent....and then they spent the next half hour laughing and holding each other until they both drifted off into a peaceful sleep.


VI-

I was lying on the couch in the basement man cave that was Morris Investigations...located in the sub-basement of the building that housed Morris Communications...The multi -media company that I ran...


I missed Sepia...I'd be seeing her soon I thought..


Silent Sam Hankins was arrested that afternoon and booked on Conspiracy of Arson charges..He refused to talk as expected and lawyered up...


Sometime around 11:30...I got a call on my cell phone...It was Detective Diamond..

"Kev..It's Detective Diamond.."he said..

"Heyyy..I didn't think I'd be hearing from you anytime soon."I said.

"I got bad news....Dave Quarles was found stabbed to death at county lockup...25 stab wounds...and that kid..Tyrone Jimmerson...was found hung in his cell in the city jail ,not too long ago...and with no witnesses against him...I'm gonna have to cut Silent Sam off by morning....I'm sorry man...We had a good run."he said.

"Damn...I'm sorry too.."I said..

"At least we know your friend didn't do this and he'll get his insurance money.."he said.

"Yeah...at least that.."I said.

I hung up...

I had already sent the results of my investigation of Joey Thompson's business dealings to Sissy..

His world was about to change drastically in the next 48 hours...He just didn't know it.


(CONCLUSION NEXT)