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alcohol in her system, causing a bad combination of side effects."
                  "So, I was right. She had to have been drugged in order for the killer to get the rope around her without a fuss."
                  Beauchenne rubbed the back of his neck. "Looks to be that way. My God, what I wouldn’t give for a vacation."
                  She looked at his tired face. "Are you ok?"
                  "I'm getting too old for this job. Too old to watch guys like Tomlin brown-nose their way to promotions and then do a terrible job once they get them."
                  "That means they need you more than ever, Frank. You can’t retire yet."
                  "Oh, you're calling the shots now?"
                  She flashed him a flirty smile. "Don’t act like you don’t love it."
                  He chuckled. "Well I don’t. Besides, and I say this with all the affection in my heart, you don’t know what it's like having to go to a civilian for help on a case."
                  "Gee, thanks."
                  "Stop that. You know what I mean. I shouldn’t have to go to you. I should be putting all my trust in Tomlin. But we all know what a mistake that would be."
                  "You think Chief Fraser will understand if you told him everything you just told me, disregarding the part about all the affection in your heart, of course."
                  "He might. He's got a low threshold for B.S. Anyway, I'm going to need you to check up on something. Tomlin's got his hooks in on this one and the Chief wants to see how he performs. So I've been told to back off a bit and let him work. But that doesn’t mean I can’t just happen to come across information when I'm on my own. You know, at random."
                  "I get it," Allie said. "What do you need from me?"
                  Beauchenne looked as though he was hesitating. "We need you to take a close look at your friend Tad."
                  Allie cocked her head to one side. "Ok."
                  "We need three things to establish suspicion: proximity, access to the weapon, and motive. We have two out of three. We know Tad's non-union."
                  "Wait. Non-union? What does that have to do with anything?"
                  "Some of the actors have been talking. Del hasn’t said anything to you?"
                  "About what?"
                  "I guess she hasn’t. There was talk about getting rid of the non-union employees of the theater. I don’t know what authorities are on their case, but apparently Sally Kane had her hand in it. Did you know she worked a day job in the county representative's office? She'd just recently drafted a memo regarding the theater hiring non-union members. Tad, as we found out, is non-union."
                  "He's the choreographer."
                  "Right, and he probably wouldn’t have been if Sally had gotten her way. You're forgetting what a big deal this is, Allie. The big Broadway producer was coming. This is the thing you see in movies where everyone in the small town has a chance to make it to Broadway. Once in a lifetime fairytale, you understand? You don’t think a dream like that put in jeopardy is enough for an artist to kill?"
                  Allie was speechless. She needed to gather her thoughts. "I can’t believe this," was all she could say.
                  "I know."
                  "No, I really can’t believe what I'm hearing."
                  "Allie—"
                  "You're telling me Tad is a murderer."
                  "Now hold on."
                  "Hold on? Tad's not a murderer. I can tell you that."
                  "He's left-handed."