<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlos knew that Lea would be mightily pissed if she learned from his actions via the screen. She would call him everything her mind could come up with. And still he felt he was doing the right thing. The Chief and the Commissioner would play really dirty once they realised how bad their situation was and he needed as much as possible on his side. Facts, friends and the public opinion. With Maria out of duty right now, he had no real friends anymore at the Police. Maybe he would get some of them on his side, as he knew that he wasn't the only one there who wasn't happy with the situation. It weren't a lot of people who thought like him, but there were a few good cops there. And once this whole mess would be over there would be a total turn around of the force and it was more than likely that those good cops suddenly found themselves in positions they had never envisioned for themselves.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Mary-Ann, I know that Lea will make my life hell. But Lea has been too long out of the precinct to understand how worse it had become there. My only chance will be if I discredit them as much as I can. If the public is on my side and calls for changes there, it will force the politicians to do something. There are not more than a handful of really good and integer cops in the precinct, but if they get into charge due to my actions it will give me some true friends at the precinct for the future. For now I have to face the fall-out of it. I won't appear as the innocent angel, I have dirty spots on my white vest too. But it may go under in all the dirt that comes to the surface about the others."</span><br/><br/>Carlos gave a weak smile, when she said that the department would have problems to cover it up. Oh, they might believe right now that they would be able to cover it up somehow, but things would change dramatically once the DA got into business.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000"> "I know that they are believing that if they discredit me and Lea hard enough, we would be busy to try to save our reputation and might forget about our victim for a while. But in a few hours they will learn that they have underestimated me again, as they did all the time. Ralph had not clammed up when I forced him into talking and I felt a deep hatred for his father in him. If the DA is not completely dumb and we both know that he isn't, I deeply respect him by the way, he will find a way to open Ralph up. That guy is here in the hospital in surgery and if the DA is quick enough to get him in prison to keep him out of reach of the department, they will be in big, big trouble. And their diffamation campaign will blow up in their faces too. It will be fun for you to watch the reactions, but not so much fun for me..."</span> <br/><br/>Carlos wanted to say something more, but then Alfonzo added his two cents.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Ah, daz why u wan'em not in the home of ur lil lady? We bug'er place, but my boys will hang round er front door. Giv' one of'em a mic like a news guy and if they show up to plant dirt, he will fake an in'erview. Dat will chase 'em away."</span><br/><br/>Carlos nodded, as it was how he thought about it, still not as refined as Alfonzo had done it. That could really work out.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Yeah, I had something like that on my mind. The problem is, that I have to allow them to transmit their crap before you can show the truth, Mary-Ann. I have no problem to look bad in the public opinion for a while, but Lea is already a fragile wreck. If she has to face people getting into her face about what a bad junkie she is, it may tip her over again. I want her as far away as possible from that kind of trouble. Bugging her place is ok, as a back-up if our plan goes wrong, but if you can manage to keep the bad guys out of her room, Alfonzo, it would be best. But sorry, you folks are not looking like reporters at all."</span><br/><br/>Alfonzo gave a wide smile and then he chuckled and a clap landed on Carlos shoulder that made Carlos aware of how much power that guy had.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Not me an' my boys. But my cousin, u like 'im."</span></div>