“COME ON, BERNIE, don't do this to me!”

Roberta was abject while she was pleading out — to Head Det. Palmer, in her glass-panelled office at the Police HQ in DC. There were several agents in their Kevlar jacket with imprinted FBI initials, conducting a briefing outside — with the e-SWAT force. They were about to leave soon to Mississippi for a ‘search and destroy’ mission...

“You are suspended, just go home, Rob!”

Bernie Palmer replied firmly but Roberta arrogantly made her point...

“Come on, if it was not for my investigation, you would not have known shit about that farmhouse. I got that info 3 days ago but none of you geniuses acted on it until now — everyone here was wasting time by over-analyzing some turd-brained CIA info all along — and then, you damn put a lid into my own investigation!” Roberta censured.

“Shut up you, crazy fuck, I don’t approve the way you do things around here and that is why I had to stop you from torturing your missus ( and yes ) Lilya Devon may have confessed lots of things to us — but we have to make sure if the info was valid before we put the manpower into it!”

This was a similar situation when Roberta approached Det. Palmer recently with her gut feeling theory that her abducted sister was held hostage at one of the lakes in California — Palmer then sanctioned an immediate ‘search and destroy’ mission — where the chopper teams went out and plastered many of abandoned abodes at the 337 lakes in the state in those two days — without any results of finding the OGA’s sleeper-cell lair...

But, the NSA commended the futile effort — as part of extra security and precaution, with the coming soon fundraiser in the State of California.

Roberta was now silenced and then apologizing to allay...

“Okay sorry Bern, let’s put all our women issues aside. Now that you know the leader of the Aryans is Roxy Gailman — and there is a possibility that she may be hiding my sister in that Mississippi farmhouse with those Preacher's AOG abductors — both of those terrorist groups are allies, right? Now please, Bernie, let me ride with the FBI when they raid that place — so that I can bring Laura back home to me.”

Bernie Palmer was really in a quagmire — being tied up with the sorting out of the terrorist’s database since the CIA negotiator Agent Tabitha Kinsley had been badly injured — with one of her arm blown off — at the recent attack at the US-Mexican border...

Bernie Palmer then figured...

‘Rob is a smart-cop — she will still be a valuable asset in the AOG-Aryan investigation — in the Southern state of Mississippi, whether or not she managed to find her sister.’

Palmer could now only assist Roberta as a friend, by giving in to this request...

“Okay, FBI Agent Carrefour is the superior in-commanding this op — and you will follow her everywhere, only under the capacity as an observer. You are still under suspension, Rob — and please remember that!

“You will not be allowed to possess any sort of firearm in this operation — and if any of the agents see you with a gun — they will shoot you first at sight, for interfering in their investigation.

“Is that clear, Rob?”

Roberta thanked her and left the office to join the FBI task force.