Hendricks said nothing. Jesse turned and left.
45
Suit brought a box of donuts and three coffees with him into the squad room. He put the box in the middle of the conference table and gave a cup each to Molly Crane and Jesse.
“I miss anything?” Suit said.
“I was outlining my theory of the crime,” Jesse said.
“Which is?” Suit said.
“That we’re not solving it,” Molly said.
Suit nodded.
“Cox is on the front desk,” Suit said. “He wanted to know how come he didn’t get donuts. I told him because he hadn’t made detective yet.”
H I G H P R O F I L E
“Good, Suit,” Molly said. “Promote unit cohesion.”
Jesse took the plastic cover off his coffee and tossed it onto the conference table. He stood beside the green chalkboard where he had written a list of names in yellow chalk.
“I talked to the divorce lawyer,” Jesse said. “Esther Bergman. She affirms that Weeks wanted a divorce. That he was prepared to make a generous settlement on Lorrie, but that he didn’t want alimony and he would, of course, change his will.”
“Any of this happen?” Molly said.
“No, the lawyer was in process.”
“Lorrie Weeks know?” Suit said.
“The lawyer said she did.”
“Funny no one mentioned this,” Suit said.
“Good old Stephanie,” Jesse said.
“What else did you find out this trip?” Suit said.
“Lorrie was having sex with Hendricks,” Jesse said, “the faithful researcher.”
“How’d you find that out?” Suit said.
“Good old Stephanie,” Molly said. “Jesse employed the three-martini-lunch interrogation.”
“Often effective,” Jesse said.
“Unless the interrogator joins in,” Molly said.
“Stephanie allowed me to know as well that she was occasionally intimate with Walton, and currently with Tom Nolan.”
“Busy group down there in New York,” Molly said.
“Lot of people been not telling us a lot of stuff,” Suit said.
“Like Lutz didn’t mention that he had busted Weeks in Baltimore County.”
