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"Let's talk about that," I said. "Why is this so important to her?" I sat down on one of the wooden chairs in front of my client's desk. Mary Pat took the cue and sat down beside me, then stared at the floor for a moment as she considered my question. "She doesn't like losing, that's for sure. She wants to prove these three murders were not a coincidence." "Two murders and one apparent suicide," I said. She forced a polite smile, but she was as certain as her boss that Underwood's death was related to the others. "Ive never seen her as mad as she was when those agents strolled in here and told her they were closing the case. She really read them the riot act." I pictured Jayne Smyers confronting Gumby and Pokey. She's an inch taller than Gombold and I sus- pected she'd had enough assertiveness training to hold her own with Polk. "How did they react to that?" I asked. "One guy took it in stride, but the other was a real jerk." "The big guy?" Her eyes widened. “You know him?" "Tve known Polk since law school. We were in the same class." "Talk about arrogance," she said, "I just wanted to smack him." "He has that effect on people." I'd wanted to smack him ever since law school, but the closest I'd come was a payback tackle in what was supposed to have been a flag football game. Scott McCutcheon called it the greatest flag football tackle he'd ever seen.