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The police had pawed through the cabinet, leaving streaks of their black fingerprinting dust and half of the files put back wrong.   It was easy to see the ones that had caught their attention.
                She pulled them out, leafing through them.   Most were the results from earlier attempts at the Espry serum.   Her computer binged, and she moved over to pull up the chair, taking the files with her.
                She was still locked out of the system, but earlier she had refrained from hacking in out of courtesy.   She definitely had no intention of doing the same this time.   Within minutes she was inside the system.   She wasn’t completely sure what she was looking for, so she uploaded her whole hard-drive to her email quickly.   She could look through it later.
                While everything was processing, she finished leafing through the papers.   There really was nothing special about them.   If only she knew what to look for, this would be a lot easier.
                She was about to put everything back when she saw a folder tucked in with everything else that was truly curious.   It wasn’t even about the Espry project.   It was about a different formula that her team had been working on, a medicine for schizophrenia that they had abandoned when it had been way too medically dangerous.   Yet someone had leafed through the entire thing.   She glanced through the folder, trying to figure out why someone would be interested in that, when her computer binged.
                She set the folder down and glanced back up at her computer.   Now that she had that to leaf through later, she needed to get into the system.   She could at least find the security footage from the night before to prove that it wasn’t her using the keycard to get in.   She was scrolling through the footage when she heard someone clear their throat behind her.
                She spun in her chair, grinning in case it was Valerie or one of her other co-workers.   To her utter dismay, it was Detective Snyder.   His arms were folded across his chest, and he actually seemed amused.
                “You know,” he said, “you’re really not helping your case here.”
                Sarah started to open her mouth, but she really had no idea what to say.   It occurred to her that it probably looked really bad that she had come in here.   She moved her purse across the desk nervously.   “This isn’t what it looks like.”
                “You know,” he said, moving into the room.   “You’re really not helping your case.”   Sarah spotted Mr. Grisham standing in the hallway, peering around the detective.   She groaned.   How had he found out that she was here.   Who had found out the police hadn’t cleared her?
                “I promise, I just came back for my things.” Sarah said, pulling her purse closer to her.   One of the folders was trapped beneath it and slid too.
                The detective raised one eyebrow, moving closer into the room.   He glanced at the computer, and the security footage spooling across it, his eyebrows raising.   “Is that so?   You contaminated a possible crime scene to get your bag.”
                Sarah swept up her purse, slipping the folder in between in and her body by accident.   She had no intention of drawing more attention to herself by putting it back on the table, so she shifted her arms to block it from view.   Then, she started to hurry past the detective and out into the hall.   “But, I’ve got it now, so there are no worries.   I’ll just be going.”
                Mr. Grisham blocked her way in the hall, his arms folded across his chest.   His grey hair was as impeccable as ever, but there was no trace of his usual smile this time.     “Ms. Gaul.”
                She halted, knowing that she probably looked