Bad Lieutenants

 The next morning at an apartment complex in Midtown..

"I just want a restraining order against him...He comes to my job looking for me, demanding my co-workers tell him where I am...He comes to my apartment complex, he calls me 100 times a day, sends me unwanted flowers..He just won't take no for an answer...and won't leave me alone.. Last night..He stood outside my fiance's door while we were uh intimate and yelled WHORE to the top of his lungs."said  Dr. Marcia Templeton..

''We will certainly make sure this order goes through..Afterall, we owe you..You helped us identify our murder suspect.."said Sissy.

"You get him yet?" asked Marcy.

"No..not yet..We plan to grab him when he comes to work this afternoon..He's working the late shift today!  We've kept everything real quiet..We don't want to alert him that we are on to him."I said.

"I'll phone your restraining order in right now.."I said.

"Hey Siss, Keith, come down here..You gotta see this.," said Duke.

In the parking lot was the unmarked police car Lt. Tragg drove around in...

"This is his Glock..."said Jimmy..

"And his Badge and I.D." said Carlotta.

"And His Suit Jacket."said Tyriq.

"And his trousers ,with his money clip, credit cards and debit card intact..."said Hop..

"His shirt and tie..." said Sirena..

"And his shoes..These are expensive...Italian...I gotta hand it to Lt. Tragg, he knows how to dress, nothing here is cheap." said Angie,.

"You think maybe he met a girl here in the parking lot and went home with her?" asked Jimmy ,snickering..

''And took all his clothes off outside, left his car door unlocked and left his loaded glock on the ground?

Even HE is not that crazy! Come on Junior" said Duke..

"Siss, I gotta realll bad feeling right now!" I said.

"I know...I'm thinking the same thing."said Sissy.

"Oh My!" said Marcy...

Bobby Russell drove his police cruiser through the streets.. He was trying to decide what he was going to do with Lt. Tragg.  He knew now that he had to kill him...

Bobby Russell had no idea that at this very moment,  he was a wanted man.. He had no idea we had a clue..That he had left his DNA and fingerprints at several crime scenes and we had a match from three DNA databases..or that we traced a call made from him to ironically enough  a suspect in his shooting that we killed.. He had no idea..

Lt. Tragg was in the trunk...in his boxer shorts and undershirt and knee socks, blindfolded and hands tied with zip ties..semi conscious...

His mind traveled back to his time in the sack with Marcy...

Across town at Curley's Bar...

New Coroner and Forensic Investigator, Marcy Templeton was finishing her drink..

when another one was sent to her..

"Oh I didn't order another drink...This is my fifth..I was finished for the night." said Marcy..

"My friend at the other table ordered it." said Curley, the owner and a former Homicide Detective himself.

Lt. Tragg smiled and then came and sat with her..

Marcy looked him up and down..He wasn't bad to look at..He dressed impeccably, Expensive shoes, Expensive Tailored suits..His hands were freshly manicured and not a single strand of his hair was out of place.. She did wonder why he was so heavily made up..Like he was prepared for a press briefing at any moment..She found that funny...He wore a very nice cologne..She had smelled it earlier..

"Hello, let me formally introduce myself..I'm Lieutenant Arthur Tragg III..." he said, practically leering at her breasts..

Curley watched them over the next THREE TO FOUR HOURS, Drinking, laughing, talking...

"Artie usually goes for Blondes..Not Red Heads..Boyyy has she got a rack on her.." he laughed..

11:45 pm

They were leaving together...She had had ten drinks...She was very, very drunk...Artie's nose was red..

He looked at Curley with that pleased as punch look and winked..

Curley smiled..

"Well at least he didn't slapped tonight or have a drink poured on his head, he thought..

He drove her in her car to her stylish Center City Loft....

"Well Thank you Lieutenant for being such a gracious host tonight and for driving me home in my car...How do you expect to get home?" she asked.

"I can call for a Roller or an unmarked car to pick me up." he said..

He leaned in and kissed her....

"I uh wasn't planning on leaving anytime soon, Heh , heh, heh!" he laughed..

"My My Myyyyy..Aren't we forward!" she said..

They kissed again, a little longer this time.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu something tells me...you intend to spend the night.." she whispered and giggled..

She was both drunk and horny!

He lifted her dress and slipped her panties down...She unzippered his trousers and slipped his boxers down

"OHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYY LIEUTENANT!" she said..

"VA VA VA VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" he replyed loudly...

They fell into the wall, kissing passionately...

and before anyone knew it.. They were on top of the made up bed, making love passionately....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BYYYYYYYY DAMNNNNNN!" he moaned..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU LIEUTENANT, OUUUUUUUUUU" she moaned..

"GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ!" he squealed , near delirious as the bed began to squeak loudly and the headboard slammed up against the wall.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! WOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!" she moaned.

"OHHHHHHH, OHHHHHHH.. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed..

"OUUUUUUUUU HOOOOOOO HOOOO HOOOOOOO, WOUUUUUU!!" she screamed

For the NEXT NINE TO TEN HOURS,  Lt Tragg and Dr. Marcy Templeton were in bed, making sweet love...

He wondered what went wrong...How this could have happened? Had he pushed her too hard? Had he come on too strong? Had he been a little too needy? Too clingy??

II-

In the trunk of the car..he used all of his strength and snapped the zip ties..He cut his wrists, but he was free..He took his blindfold off... He realized he was in the trunk of an old police cruiser..He remembered this particular police cruiser could be opened from the inside.. He waited until the car stopped at the red light and he flicked the trunk open just enough for him to slip out...

He hit the ground and ran for all he was worth....He ran as fast as he could, rounding corners and ducking down side streets, just in case Bobby realized he had escaped..

He realized where he was..South Philly.. Pink's Seafood Market.

Pink recognized him when he ran into his store..

"Lieutenant Tragg is that you?" he said in shock.

"Yes it's me, who were you expecting Frank Sinatra?" snarled Lt. Tragg.

"You aint dressed...You in yo draws."said Pink.

"I can see you were at the head of your class..Get me a phone." he snarled..

Pink couldn't help but snicker.

Sissy's phone rang..

"Hello? Oh Hi Pink?" said Sissy.

"Siss, you'll never believe this!" said Pink..

Sissy turned toward us..

"Apparently, our favorite Lieutenant managed to escape Bobby Russell.. He's at Pink's seafood market..

He wants us to pick him up..Uh he's not dressed and uh look ,for someone I've never dated and am not married to, I have no desire to see this man in his underwear again..Duke, you and Jimmy pick him up..

And James, watch your mouth.."said Sissy..

''Well at least he's alive." I said.

''He may never live this down." said Carlotta

"With all the other things he's done..It's no biggie." said Tyriq.

"Oh my god, he has the worst luck!" said Sirena.

"Don't he now?" said Hop.

''Even worse, You sent MY HUSBAND of all people to pick him up ?" laughed Angie.

Marcy cracked up laughing..

"I assure you , he's not laughing any harder than we are right now.." said Sissy.

Duke drove up to the front of Pink's Seafood Market..

"Thanks for the call Pink.." said Duke...

"Anytime...I always help Law Enforcement." said Pink sarcastically, laughing

"Alright, knock it off, knock it off." said a thoroughly embarrassed Lt. Tragg, who was wearing Boxers with Night Sticks and hand cuffs designs on them..

Jimmy laughed his head off..He didn't care about any repercussions..

"Thanks Duke.."said Lt. Tragg.

"Your clothes are in the trunk...We found your car." said Duke.

"You did?  It was Bobby Russell...I think he killed all of those people and was gonna kill me..He tased me and then bound and gagged me..and threw me in the trunk..."said Lt. Tragg.

"We know about Bobby...We knew all of the killings were connected from day one..and we knew the killer was somebody in our shop...We didn't know who and we didn't want to tip whoever off before we got evidence..We were waiting for DNA and fingerprint evidence.. We Hit VICAP, INTERPOL, The Military and Civil Service as well as a new DNA technique they were doing over at the M.E.'s office and an independent lab.. We got the hits back and they all pointed to Bobby, plus a phone call he made to the sniper we killed ,telling the sniper we were coming..We traced it back to him.. We've had a warrant for his arrest out for the past 24 hours...but he doesn't know it yet because he hasn't come to work." said Jimmy..being serious.

''When he finds out you've escaped...He'll figure out we are on to him and he'll lamb it..But we told the Feds and The Stateys to be on the look out for him." said Duke..

"Wow, yall did some good work...Damn good police work." said Lt. Tragg in a moment of rare praise.

III-

Naturally , we all had a good laugh at Lt. Tragg's recent predicament.. but at the same time...He was still one of us..and no one wanted to see him murdered..We were all relieved that he'd managed to escape. Even though we knew we'd regret it soon enough.

"Bobby should be here shortly.."I said.

"He can't ...He couldn't come here  and keep Lt. Tragg in that trunk all day..He'd have to kill him."said Sissy.

"You think he's discovered that he escaped yet?"asked Lt. Danny Ho, who was amused as anybody.

"You know..This should  be on Television..Only no one would believe it." laughed Sharon..

"When he discovers Lt. Tragg has escaped...He's going to go underground."said Carlotta.

"He'll know the Jig is up..

"Well at least we know he's our guy...we'll get him."said Sirena.

"Yeah, but how and when?" asked Hop.

"Here they come...I'm glad I got all my laughing out.."said Angie..

Lt. Tragg was fully dressed now and he addressed us..

"I owe you guys an apology...You guys were on to Bobby the whole time.. I didn't know..So uh look..I can help you catch him...If he's still riding around in that roller..It can be traced..They have a GPS tracker on them...Check dispatch and see which one he took last night and hone in on it..Your window of opportunity aint gonna stay open that long..You gotta move fast...."said Lt. Tragg..

He had a point.,

We immediately began tracing the movements of the police car.

''We got it...He's near Penns Landing.."said Sirena..

"He hasn't discovered he doesn't have a prisoner.."said Hop.

''What will we do?" asked Carlotta.

Sissy loaded and cocked her glock...She tossed Lt. Tragg his Glock...

"You ready to go?" she asked.

"I was born ready to go." said Lt. Tragg dramatically..

Danny grabbed his riot pump shotgun...

"Alright guys...Let's get it!" said Sissy...

Duke  cocked his .40 caliber pistol

and followed behind her...The rest of stood pat..

IV-

Amazingly, Bobby Russell had no idea that Lt. Tragg had escaped and had been gone for about an hour.

He drove near a deserted part of the pier..

If he was awake.. He'd tase him again and then shoot him  twice.. He had some cinder block and ropes. He'd weigh the body down and drop him in the river..There he'd stay..Never to be heard from again...He'd double back and get his clothes from that parking lot..

He went to open the trunk and found it was open...Nothing in it but the zip ties..

"WHATTTTTTTTTTTT? HE ESCAPED? HOW!?" he screamed to himself..

He couldn't have gone far...A man in his underwear would be seen , he reasoned..

He ran down the pier ,looking for Lt. Tragg, only to see two unmarked police cars..

speeding his way..They skidded to a stop..

Duke ,with a .40 caliber and Danny Ho with a riot Pump shotgun were headed his way..

"GIVE IT UP BOBBY, WE KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! GIVE IT UP!!" said Sissy..who leaped out of her car...Her Glock drawn.....

"THE JIG IS UP BOBBY..WE KNOW ABOUT THE DRUG DEALER, THE STICK UP KID, FOWLER AND SWEENEY...."said Lt. Tragg, glock loaded and fully dressed..

Bobby pulled out his glock! He smiled as they backed up...He figured it might come down to this..He was hoping it wouldn't...He was too old to spend the rest of his life in prison, waiting for a needle..

"I didn't kill much...with the exception of Sweeney...The rest, they were human excretement..I did the whole world a favor." he said and put his gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger...blowing the back of his head out and falling into the river...turning the water, crimson red...

"Oh My God!" said Sissy..who turned away!!!

Danny Ho and Duke held her in their arms..

Lt. Tragg just looked stunned...

"Geeeeeeeezzz!" was all he could say.

As the case began, so it ended..with a suspect being pulled out of the water, Veteren Officer, Bobby Russell, killer of four men...A suicide..

The body, with the head nearly blown off was briefly photographed..

"Okay guys..bag him and tag him and move him out." said Hazel, shaking her head as a crowd gathered.

"What a mess." said Marcy Templeton..

I stood with my wife, Carlotta, Rico ,Sirena, Hop and Sharon,Angie and Jimmy...

Danny Ho, Sissy and Duke stood off to the side..

As the body was put in a white body bag and wheeled away....

Lieutenant Tragg addressed the press..he was surprisingly contrite and complementary...

"These Guys, These Guys under the leadership of Lt. Sissy Van Buren and Lt. Danny Ho, they made the case, hard working Detectives, Carlotta Wallace, James Barlow, Tyriq and Sirena Pile, Tony Hopkins, Angela Belton-Barlow and Edwin "Duke " Baylor, with the help of our friends in the federal government and The brilliant staff of the Medical Examiners Office and Goggins DNA laboratories made the case against this guy..UNDER MY SUPERVISION....I uh just helped with the takedown...The City is once again safe.." he said.

For him that was as good as he could get..

EPILOUGE-

 As the crowd began to disperse, Lt. Tragg walked over to Marcy, smiling..He put his arm around her waist..

" Well baby, as you see..I uh helped take down a dangerous man today...I risked my life to make this city safe once again..Heh heh heh..All in All it's been a good day...You and I could make it a great day, you know what I'm saying? heh heh heh?" he laughed..

"It has been a good day for you hasn't it? You escaped death, you helped take down the "Schuylkill River Killer", isn't that what they are calling him? Wowww! I almost hate to give you this.."said Marcy..

It was a letter addressed to him on official stationary...

''What's this?  A RESTRAINING ORDER??? WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTT? YOU TOOK OUT A RESTRAINING ORDER?? ON ME?? I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!" he screamed.

''Ouuuuu, she must have served him with the restraining order."said Carlotta.

"Yeah....He didn't sound like he liked it too much." said Sissy...snickering!

FOR SLC