Chapter 27

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At Van Aikens' Clinic

Jane: For one thing, you're more experienced.

Korsak: Dr.Raine Van Aiken. She doesn't look like a murderer.

Jane: I'm just saying, the promotion-

Korsak: It should have been mine, I know. Now will you stop dragging me and my ego into a situation that's really about you and a much more vital organ?

Jane: You better be talking about my heart.

Korsak: Her.

Dr. Van Aiken: The short version is, I'm glad Theresa Woo is dead.

Jane: Most people don't lead with cartwheels after a murder.

Dr.Van Aiken: Most murder victims aren't sleeping with my husband. I assume that's why you're here. You connected the affair dots and figured that the crazy, jealous wife offed the intrepid reporter mistress.

Jane: Your car was seen following Theresa, uh, more than once.

Dr.Van Aiken: My husband cheats regularly. I feel it's my prerogative to know with whom. I tell them to get lost, and most listen.

Jane: And if they don't, you what, toss them off a roof?

Dr. Van Aiken: Please. Miles is my third husband. I'm over the drama.

Jane: I'm surprised you're not over him.

Dr.Van Aiken: Miles has his flaws, but he makes me laugh, and he knows his way around the kitchen, and that's more than the first two.

Jane: If you knew our investigation would lead to you and your husband, why didn't you come forward?

Dr.Van Aiken: I work 80 hours a week running this free clinic, helping the homeless and other people who have no place else to go. Enmeshing myself in all of this just wasn't a priority.

Korsak: We're gonna need an alibi.
And, we'll to talk to your husband.

Dr. Van Aiken: Scare the hell out of him. He deserves it.

Outside

Jane: I'm gonna make a quick stop. Do you want to pick up the cheating husband?

Korsak: A pleasure.

At the Heralds Parking Lot

Jane: I don't talk to reporters.

Cindy: Yeah, I got that general idea.

Jane: But I need to know what was in Theresa's head, okay? Anything about her job, her personal life, and at theresa's apartment, - you think that you could read these.

Cindy: Probably.

Jane: How?

Cindy: Eidetic memory. It's just, I have one of those brains that has a hard time forgetting things, so if If I knew it, if I read about it, you know, even if I heard it once, chances are good it is still in there somewhere, Like, well, say code or obsolete shorthand.

Jane: You read about shorthand?

Cindy: I read about a lot of things.
Shorthand, baseball, keynesian economics, serial killers. I read all about the kiss me not killer case, and-And I was thinking, if you ever wanted to reopen the investigation, - I would love to assist-

Jane: Stop. Here's an F.Y.I. If you write a story containing any information from those notebooks, without my go-ahead, I'll arrest you.

Cindy: For what?

Jane: Breaking and entering - There's nothing - Obstruction, I'll come up with a list.

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