<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://uncccareer.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/blog2.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FFBF00"><br/>Mary-Ann Richard</span></span></div><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"... I didn't wanted Lea to know because she hates it when I risk my good name and my future. She would have opposed it and well, she is not the most stable person right now. She didn't tell you Mary-Ann that I am back in her life since two days ago...Lea is far from being clean and close to a nerve-wreck. She doesn't need to know,"</span>Carlos replied seriously. Mary-Ann wasn't too surprised by that admission, as it was easy to look at Lea and see that she wasn't exactly stable.<span style="color: #FFBF00"> "Once the news reports come on, she's going to know what you did Mr. De---Carlos. She doesn't need to know isn't going to keep her from knowing--it just means we aren't going to be the ones to tell her directly. Mercy be unto you, sir, when she finds out..."</span>Mary-Ann said with a small smirk.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"...I need evidence that they placed something and it need it foolproof. That's where you come into play Mary-Ann. I want to lay a trap...and I am the carrot,"</span>Carlos said, looking to Alfonzo and Mary-Ann. Mary-Ann cocked a brow in question, folding her arms in front of her chest once more. She had a feeling she wasn't going to be too fond of whatever Carlos was about to say.<span style="font-style: italic"> "I thought about how they would manage to discredit me. Lea is easy, her backstory is already revealed they only have to place drugs. But what will they do with me? The fun is, if they would do a little digging they would find enough dirt on me, as I wasn't the most honest cop the past months after they passed me on promotion again. But neither the Chief nor the Commissioner are into finesse, they will make it plain and dirty. And what is more devastating for a cop's credibility than being corrupt?" </span>Mary-Ann couldn't help but give a rueful smile.<span style="color: #FFBF00">"Can't say I am surprised, Carlos. It makes the job a little more difficult, but not by much. The Chief and Commissioner aren't exactly saints and them planting evidence is going to make them look worse than a corrupt cop. I can't clear your name of what you did in the past, but their negligence in planting evidence might discredit their claims...but you probably already know that, huh?" <br/></span><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"...here is the plan. We let them have their triumph..."</span>at that, Mary-Ann cocked a finely shaped brow. She listened carefully, then repeated the plan back to Carlos to make sure she understood correctly,<span style="color: #FFBF00">"Alright...Okay, so we're planting these surveillance cameras before the cops get there to do their dirty deed. We're to film setting up these cameras and then we'll be filming on the outside too as they come in? Sounds solid to me, but I am having a hard time figuring out how we'll stop them from getting into Lea's apartment. I would suggest bugging her place too before they get there but we're going to have to work fast. The Chief and Commissioner won't be able to hand out orders for a few more hours, swarmed as they are with reporters and the rest of your department seems to be a bit worried in getting involved. Seems a lot of people have a lot of things to hide. It won't stop them, but it has slowed them down some. This is a pretty large thing to cover up, and the fact that there is a third person--Maria Alvarez, involved...well it's going to be harder for them to discredit a kidnapping and attempted murder once she can speak out..."</span>Mary-Ann trailed off, knowing she didn't have to say if Maria made it. The woman surely hoped she would survive, as Ms. Alvarez was going to be a key witness in a lot of all that went on. She just hoped that Maria didn't clam up once she came to, if she came to.