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Rebecca went back to Homicide the next morning. She would have to get her SUV back from Vito sometime soon. That morning, she took a taxi to work.
She knew she wasn’t going to catch anybody by hiding in what was no more than an over-sized closet in Chinatown. She asked Sutter to join her as she went into Lt. Eastwood’s office. There, she told both men about the phony call that led her to Baker’s Beach two nights earlier.
“Once I got there, the man who called himself Officer Garcia was so strange, I knew it wasn’t a legitimate crime scene, and I left.” She didn’t want to tell them about the shoot-out with the stranger or how she got away from him. Such a tale would lead to more questions than she wanted to answer.
“I think the person who sent me on the wild goose chase has something
