I should've known you'd orchestrate something like this.
Detective Stella BonaseraIt's only temporary. Everybody giving up a week of paid vacation for Adam buys him a little time.
Department doesn't just transfer vacation days. How'd you do it?
Detective Stella Bonasera
I've a friend at the Union who has a friend in the City Council who has a friend who has a friend.
Well you're a good friend, Stella Bonasera. And don't you forget that. So what about Buenos Aires?
Detective Stella Bonasera
Would have been a good trip.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Hey.
Detective Stella Bonasera
What are you still doing here?
Oh, some friends of mine stood me up for pizza so just down on top of things, ya know.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Mind if I join you?
Detective Stella Bonasera
Okay, so what do we got? That doesn't look like work.
It really isn't. I was just curious. You know there are three Sheldon Hawkes in New York state and there are ten Danny Messers.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Ten?
Detective Stella Bonasera
Don't tell Danny that.
There's also another six Adam Rosses and there's eighteen in New York state. I was just sitting here wondering, you know, what do they look like or what kind of lives do they live, you know?
Detective Stella Bonasera
Alright, what about me?
Uh, Stella Bonasera. There's only one.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Trust me, that's enough. Let's try Sid. [Searches] It's a ninety-year-old woman.
[laughs] I think he was named after his mother.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Alright, Don Flack.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Oh, six.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Six.
I like that name. Don Flack. [Deep voice] Detective Don Flack.
Detective Stella Bonasera
[walking into his office] Mac, where the hell did you go last night? I called you repeatedly, looked all over the street. You just vanished.
I was with the FBI... They picked me up in a car and questioned me for over an hour about the Ann Steele case.
Detective Stella Bonasera
The fixer with the flash drive.
I was the last one who handled it. They accused me of stealing it.
Detective Stella Bonasera
What?
[catching her] Stella! Aren't you the uh... the official safety officer at the lab?
Detective Stella Bonasera
Yes, that is my proud unpaid position. Why?
Well I've got this umm... friend, she works upon a forensics lab in New Jersey, and... she's pregnant.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Oh, good for her.
Yeah, except she is nervous because you know all the chemicals and the processes that we do you know that could really harm the development of the baby, right?
Detective Stella Bonasera
That's true. But there is also so many different safety protocals in place. Goggles, face shields, fume hoods. I mean, not to meantion all the training and retraining we have to go through. I'm sure she'll be fine.
[nodding] Seem's like she's in a little over her head.
Detective Stella Bonasera
Well, she's is not alone, right? I mean, the baby has a father?
Yeah, yeah and he is great. It's just... you know I don't really know how ready he was for any of this so... well it's complicated.
Detective Stella Bonasera
And beautiful. Listen Lindsay, umm... I'm sure if your friends' coworkers are anything like yours, they'll understand the situation and work with her, even be happy for her. It's gonna be okay.
Detective Stella Bonasera
You are welcome. Hey, umm... tell your friend congratulations.
Stella
(about George Kolavos) The man is taunting me, Mac. He sent me a dead rat as a message. Put yourself in my shoes.
Try stepping into mine. I'm in charge of this lab, responsible for everyone and everything that happens here. I admire your passion Stella but what you did is reckless. And more importantly, it could compromise any future criminal prosecution.
Stella
What I'm doing is perfectly legal!
And contrary to the policies of this lab and this department!
Sheldon, you knew the samp didn't meet FBI protocol or this lab's standards. It could give you a false lead. We could end up bringing someone completely innocent. These results are circumstantial at best, and then you go and have Adam run the DNA anyway? I removed you from this case because you're personally connected to it. What were you thinking?
Mac, Colin Clark was in possession of a rape victim's necklace. His DNA on Eleanor's blouse proves he was near or on her body, he could be our killer and the rapist from eight years ago.
Stella
I realized that the evidence is circumstantial, but couldn't we still bring Colin in?
If we bring Colin in based on the results and don't have anything else to throw at him to get a confession, he could lawyer up, leave town.
So what do you want me to do? Just ignore the fact that Colin's sweat is on a murder victim's clothes?
The reason we follow FBI DNA protocol is to ensure an unquestionable conviction.
So we sit in here waiting for that perfect scientific connection, while Colin could be out there raping and killing another innocent victim. I don't know about you, Mac, but I can't live with that.
Stella
Mac...
Look, don't... try to defend him.
Stella
I'm not. Hawkes should have followed proper protocol, but he stepped over the line because somebody he loved got hurt by this guy.
Oh, come on, you know I know that.
Stella
I know. Just, just... I want you to hold on a second. You gotta realize that people can't just turn off their emotions when something horrible happens.
That's exactly why I pulled him off this case.
Stella
(about Carolyn) She is not telling the truth.
GWDetective Gillian Whitford
She should be. You know about an hour ago this place was probably filled with at least 30 young girls just like her from all over. Eastern Europe, Latin America. They took their big dreams and now they're living a very real nightmare: they're sex slaves. Being beaten, drugged... who knows what else.
Did you get a description of the bird?
Stella
[sarcastic] Yes Flack; It was black, had a beak, oh! And it flew with a limp.
[amused] I'm just trying to do my job.
Stella
I mean what are the odds. I was just standing there, and out of nowhere: ploc!
I am gonna get a cup of coffee. You want one?
Stella
No, Thank you [amused].
Stella
You know, I'm curious. What was going through your mind when that bomb went off?
Well, uh, you know how they say your entire life is supposed to flash before your eyes when you think you're gonna die?
Stella
Yeah, I'm familiar with that one. Yeah.
The only thing I could muster up is when Joey Allen beat me in the head during a dodge ball game in third grade.
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