Chapter 150

Friday morning was more of the same. Patti spent time looking for manikins. I spent time making calls to the 911 center, the sheriffs department, the fire department and the state police. I wanted to get all of them at one meeting to make the request and lay out my plans. I was sure that I would need to get some kind of approval or permits from someone or all of them and some participation.

I had made no progress at all after a complete morning of trying. I did not even get any calls back from my messages. I had a quiet lunch with Jenny and Patti. Jenny was still working out of the C-town barracks until June, except when she was prosecuting cases in the State court at Annapolis.

Jason had recommended Jenny in to replace him on the Governor's Task Force. It was a political job and I doubted that she would even be considered for the position. Also, the states attorney wanted to keep her as a special prosecutor for the task force because she had the highest conviction rate in the department. He was making his feelings known far and wide within state circles.

We had five more seminars to do for this college season. Two next Thursday at Mississippi and two Friday morning in Alabama and another Friday evening in South Carolina would finish them out. The crew for this group was going to be Ching Lee as villain along with Lorrie, Vicky, Kate and myself. We were going to use the King Air. Both G5's were going to be busy shuttling vacationers back and forth to Naples.

Lorrie's office clerk was now handling the requests for next year's seminars. Many of the same colleges we had been to wanted a refresher course and instructions for the new students. The first three months were going to be extremely busy. Some weeks there were 10 seminars scheduled. Over the summer we were going to train and divide up into two groups. We were hoping to have all the colleges finished in three months or less, even if we had to do some on the weekends.

Jenny was prosecutor at several trials next week so that worked out well as a cover story. We would finish this month's insemination process on Sunday night.

The science professor was going to give me a 2 liter beaker of liquid nitrogen to bring the storage container back up to the full mark tonight. I had been keeping an eye on the marks. I had the container for almost five months and this was the first time that I needed to add anything to it. I was pleased that it was working out so well.

After lunch Patti and my luck both changed. Patti found out from an older store employee at the local Peebles that there might be some manikins of the type we wanted at the old Franklin Department store. The store was on the old Main Street. She had started working there as a teenager and stayed until it closed up. The build had been closed for 25 years since then. The owner had recently died and his family was going to clean out the store to sell it. She was a friend of the owner's son. She gave Patti the number to contact him.

Roseanne and Corry had visited my office to see if they and their boyfriends were invited back to tonight's orgy.

"Yes, 8 PM, but there will be some prep work if you want a film of what you will be doing," I said.

"Do you have a script of action planned or do you want to be directed and told what to do like professional actors following someone else's script?" I asked.

They were just about to answer when Patti announced that I had a call from the director of the 911 center. I excused myself from the discussion by saying, "I will see you at 8," as I answered the call.

I explained to Director John Breeze about the security conference portion of Advanced Education Association meeting. I filled him in on my plans. He invited me to the County Emergency Management meeting that was scheduled today at 2.

I collected my information and a county road map and hurried to get there in time to make my pitch and request for assistance.

I knew nearly everyone there from my dealing with them in the past. I again filled the group in on the conference particulars and what I wanted to do for shock and awe for the last day of the conference. The morning session I was doing a presentation of campus safety, student safety, and student surveillance versus privacy and security.

The college was then going to transport the group to the 4H Park and Recreation grounds for an Eastern Shore cookout experience. There was going to be pit beef, roast pig, steamed crab and fish, among other things. After the meal I was going slip away to take charge of the fake attack as its lead villain. Then the state police, the 911 center and the fire chief could break down the action to show how things get murky with live action and witnesses along with just how easy it would be to create fear within the communities.