
“No,” I answered. “I got those dirty bikers that were trying to kill him, though. They’re cooling in a holding cell right now.”
“And you just let Jon go?” he growled some more. “Please tell me why. Please make it a good one because I haven’t read Ziggy yet today.”
“Well, I determined that he wasn’t actually doing anything wrong,” I shrugged. “I just finished all the paperwork, do you want to see it?”
“No, I do not want to see any paperwork.” He threw himself up out of his seat and gripped the table with his two hands like it was the only thing keeping him from strangling the life out of me. After a moment, he pulled a sheet out of a manila folder. “I want to see this guy.”

I looked at the sheet. “Is he a wanted man?”
“No, he must have gotten this taken at Six Flags or something,” LT replied with a growl. “He’s not wanted, he’s a presidential candidate.”
“Presidential candidate?” I asked. “No, he couldn’t be, he’s too much of an idiot.”
“I don’t care if he’s the biggest, dumbest thing to come down the pipe since…” chief threw his hands up trying to think. “Since, I don’t know. Word came all the way down from the top of the flagpole and we need to get him and keep him safe and sound and out of trouble. We can’t have a presidential candidate falling out of a building to his death can we? Wouldn’t look good.”
“Yeah, but he took off,” I said. “I don’t know where he went.”
“Lucky for you, we triangulated the signal coming from the Chester A. Arthur Memorial Clock with an E-3 Sentry and the Homeland Security Commsat.”
“Commsat,” I nodded with a chuckle. “Right.”
We both took a moment to laugh about the “communications satellite.”
“We also tracked an unidentified aircraft heading the same place,” chief added. “You’ll be lucky if that’s Jon in that aircraft.”
“Yeah, but what about the Sylar case?” I asked. “We still haven’t caught him yet.”
“Sylar case has gone cold. We haven’t heard a peep out of him in what, three months? You save this gladiator guy’s butt, then you can get back to work on the Sylar case.”
“You got it, chief,” I saluted and marched out the door.
“And don’t call me chief!” he yelled back.
The chief and I get along great. Most people might be intimidated by his blustering and howling, but he and I understand each other. I know he has to do that sometimes and he knows that I get the job done.
And I’ve got a new job to do now. North Dakota, here I come.