INT. - 9TH PRECINCT BULLPEN - AFTERNOON

Gerri dropped the file on her desk, ignoring Mills and her partner as they hustled Gaylene Striker out of the bullpen and toward the elevator. They'd take her to booking where she'd get a chance to call her lawyer. Probably be out on the street again in a matter of an hour. That was, if Daryl Patterson's friends in the department didn't interfere. Gerri doubted he considered Gaylene much of a threat. But if he did step in, that would ...