Marlene was talking, and she kept talking. Tess was getting tired just looking at her lips moving in a flurry and she closed her eyes, slipping lower down in the seat and crossing her legs on the dashboard. She let Marlene go off on a tangent figuring out for herself what she wanted to know. She cracked an eye open to see if Marlene had finished speaking. “Check the rest of the limbs, I only picked up one leg, and it was against the slice.”<br/><br/>She’d picked up enough of her words to know what she had wanted from Tess. She turned her gaze back to Marlene and folded her arms. “You’re the detective, I’m just here for the get-out-of-jail-free time. You figure it out.” Marlene said that she was good at it, and Tess wanted to see what she could really do.<br/><br/>Tess saw the red car zoom by, and saw Marlene react in fright. It was quite amusing to see the detective jump, and even though she couldn’t hear the sound, she imagined it was amusing. They should have kept going, but then she saw the lights turning on and knew that Marlene was planning to give chase. She would have told Marlene that they should have just radioed the normal patrols, but instead Marlene acted like a rookie, and Tess yawned as the car sped up. She’d been in a few car chases, and they’d lost their excitement.  She could see the psychopass rising, and wondered if the car would hit someone if they didn’t catch it.<br/><br/>Using the hovermode was frowned upon, and Tess had little doubt that Marlene would get an earful for using it in a petty car chase. She removed her feet from the dashboard and instead rolled a new cigarette as they weaved over buildings to catch the speeding car. She buffers were deployed as Tess finished rolling and she put the cigarette into her pocket, ready to take out as soon as she had a minute.  The buffers were clever, and Tess watched as the other car was forced to a stop. She sighed at Marlene’s sigh and considered waiting in the car, but instead she waited a few beats and followed Marlene out, hands in her pockets and not really caring about looking professional. Hunters weren’t meant to be involved in car chases, and she had no real desire to act like she wanted to be there.<br/><br/>She also heard nothing, which added to her hesitation. If it had been Jameson she would have heard his reactions, but for Marlene, she had to rely on her eyes alone, and her gun. The rain was heavy, and she could see lightning arcing across the sky, meaning that there had to be thunder too. It was enough to make anyone jumpy, and Tess wondered if Marlene would be able to pull the trigger. With the rating that was coming from the car, it would be a kill shot.<br/><br/>Marlene hadn’t been able to look at the corpse, so Tess wondered how she’d react when someone’s guts splattered across the road because she pulled a trigger. It would be interesting to see if the younger woman would snap.