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arrested for disorderly conduct in 1981,

some kind of anti-nuke bullshit.

She works for a publishing company.

She's been absent since Tarlow got iced.

- This is riveting.

- He'll get your attention.

I checked through our logs.

Two days after Tarlow died, we got a call.

Constance Billings said her friend

was missing.

We told her to file

a missing persons report.

She changed her mind,

said maybe her friend left for a while.

She never gave us the friend's full name,

just the first. Carol.

- Still with us so far?

- I'm holding my own.

I got Constance's address

and went to see her.

Early this morning.

Before they've had their coffee,

they rattle easier.

She didn't want to see me from nothing.

She said she didn't know anything.

She had total amnesia.

She was scared shitless.

I told her we'd protect her and her friend.

We couldn't protect her if she didn't.

She was as easy to crack as a raw egg.

Then she comes out with it.

The reason why

Hunnicut's fingerprints

were on the glass

is because she was there

when Tarlow got hit.

She saw it.

She was there.

It gets better.

It gets a lot better.

- You're kidding?

- Leo f***ing Watts.

In person.

In living colour.

The woman was in the other room.

She saw everything.

Everything.

- Nobody knew about her.

- Where is she?

She understandably freaked and took off.

She called her friend,

told her what happened,

and that she was still alive.

She's hiding out in a cabin in East Jesus.

- There is a God.

- Unbelievable.

I've chartered a plane.

It'll fly to a small strip.

A helicopter will fly us where she is.

I'll pick her up.

Come back the same way.

Nobody knows anything about her.

Leo's in for a nice surprise.

Meantime, get your warrant.

- What if she won't talk?

- She'll talk.

- You know this for a fact?

- I'll promise her protection.

I'll offer her relocation.

She has to talk.

Shouldn't you find out

if she'll cooperate?

There's no phone.

She might just take off.

- Where is this place?

- In Canada.

I can't authorize this

without checking with the director

of branch and area operations.

I have to follow procedure.

This is Leo Watts.

We've got him for Murder One.

You understand what that means?

I do. I still have to check.

- What's the matter with you?

- Nothing.

Why are you doing this again?

- Doing what?

- Last year we had him.

You put me in your bureaucratic blender,

- and we lost him.

- You had uncorroborated statements

from an informant doing hard time

who'd sell his own mother.

In fact, he did try that,

except his mother had been dead

for 10 years.

You want to make the announcement?

Television cameras are an aphrodisiac to you.

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