Later that same night at MINXES SPEAKEASY . . .

In the dimly-lit cabaret room, Special Agent Joanna is performing on stage with a piano. Playing piano is Joanna's talent and she's very good too.

Me and the Saunders Gang, and speakeasy goers, are sitting at our tables. Aiden looks at me and I look at him. I playfully pokes my tongue out at him, which makes him small smile and we avert our attention back at Joanna.

Joanna's piano performance finishes and we all applaud her.

Shortly after . . .

Everyone is partying. I'm sitting at the bar counter with my Ale, taking swigs of it. My phone buzzes on the bar counter. I pick up my phone and looks at it.

Sheriff Dave Williams

I answer my phone. "Sheriff Williams?"

"Hi, Angie. I have your old friend, Jared Wallace here at the Arrington General Hospital. He looks pretty bad." Sheriff Williams told me on the phone.

"I'm on my way." I said, and hangs up my phone.

I get up and walks away.

"Andy?" Aiden said.

I stopped walking and looks like him. "Hey, Aiden."

"Where are you off too? It's 9:30 pm." Aiden asked.

"Sheriff Williams called me. I have to go." I said.

"Okay, I love you." Aiden said.

"I love you too." I said to him and gently walks up the five steps and walks away. And Aiden rejoins the party.

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ARRINGTON GENERAL HOSPITAL

The next day, I'm with Sheriff Williams. He and I are with Jared Wallace, who's laying in a hospital bed with bruises on his face and both of his hands are bandaged with blood-stained.

"What happened to you, Jared?" I asked him.

"Like I would tell you, Agent Saunders." said an aggravated Jared.

I squeeze his left bruised hand and presses my thumb in his bruise, making him grunt and grimace.

"What the hell, Angie?" Jared said.

"You tell me right now who did this to you or Sheriff Williams will lock you up in the asylum with many crazy inmates. And you won't last for one minute there." I tell him.

"Alright, alright, it was an anonymous person's name Miss. Red." Jared told us.

I let go of his left hand and looks at him. "Who is Miss. Red?"

"How the hell should I know?" Jared asked with an bewildered expression on his face. "I was outside of the Vultures
dive bar and lounge clubhouse when my phone buzzed an unknown number. I thought it was a phone prank or something, but when I went outside, two older guys wearing red ski masks and jumpsuits bruised me up with brass knuckles and left. I went back inside and that's when Mavis checked on me."

"So, you're saying two guys dressed up in Velcro jumpsuits and ski masks came out of nowhere, attacked you with brass knuckles and just took off?" Sheriff Williams said.

"Yeah, that's why I'm saying and it's what I told you." Jared told us.

"I'll check out Jared's story." Sheriff Williams said.

"You think I'm lying? You think I would do this to myself?!" Jared exclaimed, frustrated.

"Calm down, Jarry." I said.

Sheriff Williams and I exchange looks at each other and we walks out of Jared's patient room and into the hallway.

"You go on ahead, I'll meet up with you, Piper and Joanna at JEN'S." Sheriff Williams said.

"Okay." I said and walks away.

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ROSEBUD -- AIDEN'S AND ANGIE'S APARTMENT

Later that day, I walk into the living room and gently closes the door behind me.

"Hey, Andy." Aiden greeted me from the kitchen.

"Hey." I greeted him back. "What are you doing in the kitchen?"

"Brownies." Aiden said. "You left early this morning."

"Yeah, do you remember Jared?" I said, sitting at the kitchen countertop.

"Yeah." Aiden replied.

"He was attacked last night by two ski masked people outside of the Vultures dive bar clubhouse." I tell him.

"How bad is he hurt?" Aiden said.

"His face is bruised up and both of his hands are bandaged." I tell him.

"Oh, it's definitely gonna be hurt for a while." Aiden said, bluntly.

I give him a look. "Aiden?"

"What? You don't feel sorry for Jared, given all the bullcrap he did." Aiden said.

"No, I don't." I said to him.

My phone buzzes on the kitchen countertop. I pick up my phone and looks at it.

Sheriff Williams

I answer my phone. "Hi, Sheriff Williams."

"Meet me at JEN'S with Piper and Joanna." Sheriff Williams said.

"Okay, I'm coming." I said, and hangs up my phone. "Aiden? Save me some brownies."

"I will." Aiden said.

Aiden and I shares a kiss and I walks away.

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JEN'S MALT 'LIT CHOCO DINER

That late afternoon, Me, Piper and Joanna sits in a booth table across from Sheriff Williams.

"Jared's story is true. I talked to his girlfriend, Mavis, and she told me what Jared told her." Sheriff Williams tells us.

"Did you trace the anonymous person's number?" I asked.

"I did. It came from Amy Tooney's phone." Sheriff Williams tells us.

Suddenly, I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind.

Angie (VO) Amy Tooney can't be. She's locked away at the Arrington Asylum.

"Amy Tooney is locked away at the Arrington Asylum." I said to him.

"I know, but somehow, she has connections outside." Sheriff Williams said.

"The two red ski masked people? They must be working with her." Piper guessed.

"Maybe so, but they're probably maniacs, just like Amy." Sheriff Williams said.

"Amy can do anything from her padded cell at the Arrington Asylum." Joanna said.

[Song: My Songs Know What you Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) ]

Suddenly, two red ski masked Velcro jumpsuits people walks into the diner with shotguns, shooting bullets everywhere just as Jen, Cassidy, Sheriff Williams, Myself, Piper and Joanna ducks down under the booth tables for cover.

The two ski masked Velcro jumpsuits people maniacally laughing, and then, stops.

"Come on, Roger, let's get out of here." Mickey, the first red ski masked Velcro jumpsuit, said to his partner.

"I'm right behind you, Mickey." Roger, the second red ski masked Velcro jumpsuit person, said.

Mickey and Roger both walks out of the diner, maniacally laughing and drives away in their pickup truck.

Everyone gets back up from underneath the booth tables.

"Is everyone okay?" Sheriff Williams asked.

"Yeah, we're fine." Cassidy said, she and her mother, Jen, slowly gets up from under the diner counter.

My phone buzzes in my pants pocket. I take my phone out and slowly to the middle of the aisle and looks at it.

Unknown number

I answer my phone. "Who is this?"

"Hello, Sweet Angie. You can already assume who this is by the accent." The familiar woman with a Scottish accent said on the phone.

"Amy. Amy Tooney." I said with a worried look on my face.

[Song ends]

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