Night Shift

Volume 1, Episode 5

Friday, October 29, 1999.  The SOB team, armed with a warrant for the Kelvinator's arrest, put his various known hangouts under surveillance.  When Officer Knight and Sergeant Agrippa (who had been assigned as liaison for IAD) approached his appartment complex, they spotted the Big K's vehicle speeding away and started pursuit.  Sergeant Fisher and Officer Sparkypants were in a second squad car in South Green and headed to intercept, and Lieutenant Therius hoofed it from the station.

The Kelvinator's hot-rod headed for the skyway with Knight hot on his tail. Sgt. Agrippa's lack of familiarity with the territory (and his terror at Angelina Knight's driving style) caused a bit of confusion among the police forces.  Fortunately, the traffic was very light this late at night, but the Kelvinator's ruthless manoeuvres eventually caused a vacuum truck to crash through a gravity ring and plummet toward the ground far below.  Lt. Therius, just arriving on site, managed to use his powers to save the truck driver by teleporting him out, as the truck hit one of Neopolis's giant ventilator and septic waste was splashed over an entire block.

Sgt. Fisher managed to position his cruiser to create a road block, Officer Sparkypants damaged the Kelvinator's vehicle, and Officer Knight immediately cut the Kelvinator's retreat with her own patrol car.  All officers converged onto the suspect, and between Officer Knight and Lt. Therius's intimidation, the Kelvinator crumpled from mean machine to tin man.  The team took him back to the station and interrogated him.  He demanded that his lawyer be present, so Gerald Metavac rolled in at this late hour, complaining that Precinct Ten was in violation of ADA requirements.

After a little persuasion, the Kelvinator agreed to plea-bargain, and gave up the names of numerous small players in the Neopolis drug market. He explained that Stan Hausman had been protected despite his screw-ups while his grandfather Wilhelm ”Dr. Axis” Hausman lived, but after that had become increasingly inconvenient until the Fabulous Fivers and the League of Evil agreed on the need to take him out because of the bad example he made. Dr. Axis and Professor Gromolko's connection established, the Old Nazi angle started looking pretty likely. Dr. Axis had left a son, Roland, Stan's father, but he seemed to have stayed out of trouble.

After the bust and the interrogation, Lt. Therius was able to talk Captain Minerva into leaving Officer Sparkypants' fate to him, despite the fact that the crime lab had ruled the photo taken by the Kelvinator to be authentic.  Lt. Therius played up Sparkypants' role in the Kelvinator's arrest, and his team's chronic understaffing and underfunding.

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