May texted me where to go and I arrived half an hour later.
May, Forster and Berman were at the scene. A T.H.E.P.A. prison transport was damaged, and all the agents were killed, their bodies laid on the road.
I knelt down to inspect the bodies.
May: Got anything?
I looked at where the blood was coming from, I inspected the wounds to see what killed them.
Harlan: Not bullets. Blade. They were stabbed.
Forster and Berman walked over.
Forster: Harlan, where were you this morning before the bomb attack in HQ?
I got up and faced the three of them.
Harlan: I was at HQ, studying the files May gave me on Clair's parents.
Forster: Was there anyone with you?
May: He was alo-
Harlan: Yes. There was an agent, light blond hair. Newbie.
May: She isn't-
Harlan: I thought she was a newbie but she wasn't.
Director Berman: So I've heard. The newbie who let in two men to plant the bombs?
Harlan: Yes.
Director Berman: The newbie who used your identification to get it?
Harlan: What?
Forster: Harlan, what's your four digit identification code?
Harlan: 0925.
Forster: Show me your badge.
I reached for my badge but it wasn't there. I looked at them and Diretor Berman brought out my badge.
Harlan: How did you-
Director Berman: We found this on the dead man in the pool. CCTV log also showed that at the main entrance, your badge and four digit code was used to get in.
Harlan: No that's impossible I-
T.H.E.P.A. Agent: Director!
Berman turned and a female agent asked if he could speak to him in private. May turned to me.
May: What did you do?
I couldn't respond. I was in the dark, I didn't know what happened.
After a while, Berman came back.
Director Berman: May, cuff him.
Harlan: WAIT WHAT?
May looked at her father, confused.
May: WHAT?
Director Berman: DO IT May!
Director Berman handed May handcuffs, and May took it, but Director Berman didn't let go.
Director Berman: Weeks ago, how many bombs were delivered?
May: None, there was a-
Director Berman: HOW MANY?
May: The file said twenty-five but there was a delay.
Director Berman: There was? Then where are the twenty-five now?
May didn't know. She looked back at me, then at her father.
May: Father, I-
Director Berman punched May and she fell to the ground.
Harlan: SON OF A BITCH!
Forster: Harlan, stand down!
I didn't listen, I ran at him and tried to punch the Director, but he dodged it and punched me in the gut.
Director Berman: Cuff them together, Forster!
Forster slowly walked to Berman.
Director Berman: Stealing bombs, using them to destroy the server to sabotage my tenure as Director and blaming it on a random made-up girl!
May: Father, I swear-
Director Berman: OH STOP WITH THE BULLSHIT! You stole twenty-five bombs on the day it was sent to HQ and tried to cover it up. You told Harlan to stay so that he could let you in after he gave his ID and code to those men to let them in and set up the whole act.
Harlan: CHECK THE TAPE ASSHOLE AND-
Diretor Berman: I did, and guess what, THEY WERE DELETED! AFTER YOU BROKE INTO T.H.E.P.A. AND KILLED THE THUG WHO "BROKE IN" LAST NIGHT TO SHUT HIM UP!
May: What?
Director Berman: HQ just reported, someone killed your thug.
Forster pulled me and May up to face Director Berman.
Director Berman: Harlan Brandle, May Berman, you are both under arrest.