hostage.
Megan put her legal pad away and got up from the table, her expression pleasant enough.
Let's see what Karen has to say, all right? She'll be a witness for the state. There's also the guard, Julius Pupko, who was injured. I forgot about the Pup, Foley said. I thought 'the Jewel' would be a good name for him, but everybody liked Pup better.
Well, if you didn't hit him over the head then someone else did, Megan said. We'll do the escape-abduction hearing first, then appeal the bank robbery sentence. See if we can make a deal. Jerry knows I'd kill him if he retries the case.
Foley said, Why don't we do it first? Get the robbery appeal out of the way. Why don't you leave it to me? Megan said.
They met in the bare office once more before the escape hearing. The first thing Foley wanted to know, Did you see Karen?
We'll get to Karen, Megan said, wearing off-duty designer jeans today with a narrow navy blazer. I see the appellate court assigned an attorney Megan looking at her notes and he told you there were no issues in his judgment worthy of appeal?
I never saw him, Foley said. The guy turned me down with a half-page letter.
You keep drawing dump trucks, Megan said. This one is blind or didn't read the transcript, it would have hit him between the eyes. Don't worry about it. Right now I want you to describe the escape, how you got involved.
He told her the muck rats dug a tunnel that went from under the chapel out past the fence toward the parking lot. I happened to be in the chapel saying my rosary, meditating I believe on the Sorrowful Mysteries. You know there're also Joyful Mysteries you can meditate on.
Megan said, Yes ?
When the muck rats came in that's how I think of the guys that dug the tunnel. They came in the chapel, grabbed me and said I was going first. I get shot coming out, they have to decide if they want to try it.
Wasn't a guard there, Mr. Pupko?
That's right, he was looking out the window, watching 'em play football in the exercise yard. Sometimes a play ends, a guy doesn't get up from the pile. The muck rats sneaked up and clocked the Pup with a two-by-four, put him out.
They had it with them?
There was scrap lumber lying around. Some inmates were doing fix-up work in the chapel. Anyway, I made it through the tunnel and the five rats followed me out.
At that point, Megan said, couldn't you have put your hands in the air, indicate you want to surrender?
I was about to, Foley said, a Sorrowful Mystery look on his face. But I saw Karen. Her car's right there and she's getting something out of the trunk, a shotgun.
She sees what's going on.
By then the siren's going off.
Before you could give yourself up.
Yes, ma'am, exactly, Foley said, starting to fall in love with his lawyer. Before the hacks could blow us away I got Karen in the trunk.
Deputy Marshal Sisco.
That's right.
You threw her in the trunk.
I helped her get in. I remember saying something like, 'Miss, this is for your own good.'
She still has a shotgun?
She must've dropped it. But she had a Sig .38 on her.
Megan said, If the court believes you took Karen Sisco hostage, you're in here for the rest of your life. I asked Karen if she felt like a hostage. You know what she said?
He was afraid to ask.
Karen said, 'No, I was his zoo-zoo.'
My treat. Foley grinning now. She said that?
Not until you were in the trunk with her.
Yeah, I got in to keep from getting shot.
The car drives off But Karen won't say she was being abducted.
I never threatened her. She tell you she had the Sig Sauer?
She said she was waiting for a chance to use it.
Maybe at first, before we started talking.
You're both in the trunk, quite close together
In the dark. I must've smelled awful from the muck. We started talking about movies, ones like the fix we were in, and I mentioned Three Days of the Condor with Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford. He's hiding out in her apartment and he asks her if she'll do something for him. It's the morning
Megan put her legal pad away and got up from the table, her expression pleasant enough.
Let's see what Karen has to say, all right? She'll be a witness for the state. There's also the guard, Julius Pupko, who was injured. I forgot about the Pup, Foley said. I thought 'the Jewel' would be a good name for him, but everybody liked Pup better.
Well, if you didn't hit him over the head then someone else did, Megan said. We'll do the escape-abduction hearing first, then appeal the bank robbery sentence. See if we can make a deal. Jerry knows I'd kill him if he retries the case.
Foley said, Why don't we do it first? Get the robbery appeal out of the way. Why don't you leave it to me? Megan said.
They met in the bare office once more before the escape hearing. The first thing Foley wanted to know, Did you see Karen?
We'll get to Karen, Megan said, wearing off-duty designer jeans today with a narrow navy blazer. I see the appellate court assigned an attorney Megan looking at her notes and he told you there were no issues in his judgment worthy of appeal?
I never saw him, Foley said. The guy turned me down with a half-page letter.
You keep drawing dump trucks, Megan said. This one is blind or didn't read the transcript, it would have hit him between the eyes. Don't worry about it. Right now I want you to describe the escape, how you got involved.
He told her the muck rats dug a tunnel that went from under the chapel out past the fence toward the parking lot. I happened to be in the chapel saying my rosary, meditating I believe on the Sorrowful Mysteries. You know there're also Joyful Mysteries you can meditate on.
Megan said, Yes ?
When the muck rats came in that's how I think of the guys that dug the tunnel. They came in the chapel, grabbed me and said I was going first. I get shot coming out, they have to decide if they want to try it.
Wasn't a guard there, Mr. Pupko?
That's right, he was looking out the window, watching 'em play football in the exercise yard. Sometimes a play ends, a guy doesn't get up from the pile. The muck rats sneaked up and clocked the Pup with a two-by-four, put him out.
They had it with them?
There was scrap lumber lying around. Some inmates were doing fix-up work in the chapel. Anyway, I made it through the tunnel and the five rats followed me out.
At that point, Megan said, couldn't you have put your hands in the air, indicate you want to surrender?
I was about to, Foley said, a Sorrowful Mystery look on his face. But I saw Karen. Her car's right there and she's getting something out of the trunk, a shotgun.
She sees what's going on.
By then the siren's going off.
Before you could give yourself up.
Yes, ma'am, exactly, Foley said, starting to fall in love with his lawyer. Before the hacks could blow us away I got Karen in the trunk.
Deputy Marshal Sisco.
That's right.
You threw her in the trunk.
I helped her get in. I remember saying something like, 'Miss, this is for your own good.'
She still has a shotgun?
She must've dropped it. But she had a Sig .38 on her.
Megan said, If the court believes you took Karen Sisco hostage, you're in here for the rest of your life. I asked Karen if she felt like a hostage. You know what she said?
He was afraid to ask.
Karen said, 'No, I was his zoo-zoo.'
My treat. Foley grinning now. She said that?
Not until you were in the trunk with her.
Yeah, I got in to keep from getting shot.
The car drives off But Karen won't say she was being abducted.
I never threatened her. She tell you she had the Sig Sauer?
She said she was waiting for a chance to use it.
Maybe at first, before we started talking.
You're both in the trunk, quite close together
In the dark. I must've smelled awful from the muck. We started talking about movies, ones like the fix we were in, and I mentioned Three Days of the Condor with Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford. He's hiding out in her apartment and he asks her if she'll do something for him. It's the morning
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