"I'm not surprised that you're so vain that you think this is about that."  It was a good comeback, but even he knew that wasn't true.  Marion wasn't shallow at all.  Unlike her female coworkers she didn't seem to have the same girly-girl obsession with makeup and wearing nice things in order to get promotions from their perverted captain.  Everyone seemed to respect her for it, to the point that she was treated like<em>one of the guys.</em>"I'm not going to rape you.  Blackmailing you for sex is the last thing I want to do.  This is about dignity and revenge, I've put up with enough from you.  I'm through tolerating you pulling that cop fraternity stuff on me."<br/><br/>Eric was a lab geek and he looked it, from his choice of dress to the thin-framed glasses that he wore, it was no surprise that the other cops treated him like<em>the other</em>.  It wasn't that he was outwardly nerdy -- that stereotypical role belonged to the station's asian blood-splatter analyst -- he just wasn't like them.  Where they preferred beer and pizza at the bar after a hard days work, Eric was the sort of man who enjoyed a thought-provoking film and Chinese.  It was the education gap.<br/><br/>"Do you want everyone to see this report and learn about the real reason why you're such a successful detective:  you're relentless and insane.  It has nothing to do with any finely tuned sleuthing skills that you pride yourself on having.  I've seen blind men who are bettering at spotting suspicion than you.  I don't think they'll be inviting you out for drinks after work they learn you're basically the sole reason Mary and Donald got 'trimmed' in last year's budget proposal -- much less anymore promotions.  You cost them their jobs all on their own.  Your waste footprint is four times larger than the average detective's, did you know that?"<br/><br/>"So, are you going to get on your knees, or can I click the send button?"