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Roscoe drives. Reacher pockets his personal items. ROSCOE So I ran down surveillance video of you buying a ticket at a Tampa Greyhound Station 2 nights ago - no way you could’ve been in Margrave in time to kill anyone. She hands Reacher her cellphone. A SURVEILLANCE VIDEO is cued up. He plays it -- it’s Reacher buying a ticket in a Greyhound station (or getting on a bus - whatever works creatively and is production friendly). Reacher is impressed. REACHER
Common carriers are notoriously uncooperative. Nothing without a warrant - passenger privacy and all. Gotta think a small-town cop wouldn’t be given much mind. ROSCOE Said I was looking for a Greyhound employee suspected of usin’ their bus lines to transport OxyContin. If they didn’t cooperate I promised to pull a civil forfeiture on
everything with wheels ‘til the investigation was over. Got the video within the hour. The corner of Reacher’s mouth turns up a bit. He’s impressed. And quite intrigued by this smart, resourceful woman. REACHER
So you cleared me , but how does the guy who confessed walk out the door? ROSCOE Everyone knows Hubble’s lyin’, so we’re holdin’ off on charges, hopin’ a nervous guy like him’ll eventually do something dumb that leads us to the truth. Or maybe he just cracks and spills what really went down. REACHER Smart approach, Officer Roscoe. ROSCOE Actually, Roscoe’s my first name. REACHER Never met a woman named Roscoe.
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