"Is that the reporter next door you've been worried about?" Garfield commented, after closing the door behind Jane.  "She's attractive."<br/><br/>"Yes," Darius replied guardedly, waiting for the other shoe to drop.  He didn't have long, as Garfield spun around abruptly to look at him.<br/><br/>"What the HELL is going on down here on this end of town?  Didn't I already warn you about not turning into a vigilante?"<br/><br/>Rather than answering either question, Darius motioned to the easy chair and replied, "Why don't you sit down and we can talk about what's eating at you."  He was tempted to give the man a smirk, but decided that might send the wrong signal.<br/><br/>Garfield glared at him, but sat down.<br/><br/>"So.  What's the word on Selena?" There was a humorous irony in Darius asking the question of Garfield as if he didn't know anything and Garfield had the answers.  In reality, he knew more than the U.S. Marshal did.  But it was useful to find out what the police knew.<br/><br/>"She was kidnapped from right out in front of her mother's market, bound, gagged, and hooded and taken as far as the intersection of 23rd and Compton in a blue van.  At that point, someone killed her kidnappers, moved her body to another vehicle, went back to the market, and deposited her still-bound-and-hooded-body at the back door of the market.  Then disappeared, leaving her for her mother to find.  At least that is the story her and her mother are telling the police."<br/><br/>"What about the traffic cams at the intersection of 23rd and Compton?" Darius asked, knowing full well that all the traffic cameras in that area of town had been vandalized.<br/><br/>"Out of service.  But I have a feeling you know that."<br/><br/>Darius ignored that last comment and continued as if he, and not Garfield, was the one doing the interrogating.<br/><br/>"What about the kidnappers?  Do they have records?  Do they work for anyone?"<br/><br/>"Both of them have rap sheets a mile long.  And no, they're strictly free-lance, grabbing anyone they think they can sell on the human trafficking market."<br/><br/>"So whomever killed them has done everyone a favor."<br/><br/>Garfield gave Darius a sour look, as if unwilling to admit it, but nodded yes.<br/><br/>At this point, Garfield could have closed the case easily by demanding Darius's weapon.  A sniff would tell him that it had been fired recently.  And a test fire at the police station would verify that the bullets in the kidnappers' bodies came from his gun.  Garfield looked like a man torn between doing what was the law and what was right.  On the one hand, he could close a case involving two homicides on behalf of the police by have Darius arrested and sent to prison.  But as an ex-cop, Darius's life expectancy in prison could be measured in days.  And all for two scumbags that had deserved to die.  Or Garfield could look the other way and hope this was a one-time act on Darius's part.  Garfield chose the second option.<br/><br/>"You better not have left any evidence behind.  And if you haven't cleaned up behind yourself already, you better do so as soon as I leave.  And I don't want any repeats of what happened today!"<br/><br/>Darius could have argued his innocence, but that would have only prolonged the conversation.  So he said nothing as Agent Garfield got up and stalked out the door, looking like someone not too happy with his decision.<br/><br/>As soon as he closed the door behind him, Darius was stripping off his clothes and throwing them in the washing machine to wash away any gunshot residue that was clinging to them.  Then he jumped in the shower to clean any gunshot residue off his skin.  If Jane came over upon seeing Garfield/Duncan leave, that gave him an excuse not to answer the door.  And after the shower, he'd clean his Beretta to remove any gunshot residue from it as well.