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wouldn’t I have just flown out last night, before anyone found out?”
                He sighed a little.   “Ms. Gaul, I agree that -”
                “And don’t call me Ms. Gaul!” Sarah practically shrieked.   She was so angry, if she wasn’t trying to hide the folder tucked against her body, she would try to strangle the handsome man.   “My mother is Ms. Gaul!   I am Sarah.   Just plain, normal Sarah.”
                The detective seemed to smile a little.   “I’m not going to call a -”
                He stopped when the elevator bell dinged and the doors opened.   For a moment Sarah hesitated, willing to wait to hear his response, but the guards from the other side of the room were heading over.   The detective looked at her, his eyes looking sad.
                “Good luck, Ms. Gaul,” he said.   “I promise, if you did this, I am going to catch you.   I always get the bad guy in the end.”
                Sarah scowled as the guards shuttled her toward the parking garage security check, and out into the darkness.   She’d show him.   If it took everything she had, she would make sure that he really did catch the bad guy.   The right bad guy.

                Sarah was already in her car before she dared to pull out the folder to see which one she’d gotten.   To her dismay, she realized that she had the mistake folder - the one about the schizophrenia meds.   Sighing, she dumped it back onto her passenger seat and leaned her head against her headrest.   Why couldn’t just one thing to go right?
                Scowling, she turned on her car and drove home.   After all, at least she had managed to get all the files transferred to her email, so that she could leaf through her desktop at home.   Maybe in there she could find something.   Right now she didn’t have any leads, and unless something changed, she really was going to wind up in jail.
                Once she got home, she poured herself a glass of wine and changed into her pajamas.   Feeling better, she sat down at her computer, ready to spend the whole night leafing through the files if she had to.   It was a little weird seeing the files at home.   It made her feel like she was at work.   She’d been staring and looking at these files every day for months.   It was hard to see what could possibly lead her to find the real criminal. After all, she couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to poison people. Especially not with a drug that might potentially lead to a cure for cancer.
                Sighing, she went to get the bottle of wine.   Sometimes when she’d been drinking a little she made progress on something she’d been working on.   It was worth a try anyway, right?
                She woke up to the sound of the phone ringing, and blearily stood.   She had fallen asleep at her desk, her computer still running.   It had long gone into sleep mode, but when she moved it woke, revealing a long file that had a long line of c’s running through the middle of it.
                Groaning, she got up to check the phone. It took her a few minutes to find the phone thrown across the table with all the other things she’d dug out of her bag.   When she found it, she saw that it was Angela.   She answered, in a rush.
                “Hey, Angie.   What’s up?”
                Angela seemed startled that Sarah had answered.   “Thank heavens!”   She said.   “I got a call this morning - did you go into work yesterday?”
                Sarah felt herself blushing, as her mind struggled to catch up with the day.   Her head was way too fuzzy to be working on complex issues like her future in the penitentiary.   “Um, yeah.”
                “What?   Why!   That’s the absolute worst thing you could do!”
                “I’m sorry,”