Night Shift

Volume 1, Episode 7

Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999.  An unhappy Sgt. Agrippa files his report on the incidents at Angelina's unbirthday party.  Count Pietro Dakoulas is charged with disobeying an officer, resisting arrest, and manslaughter.  He insists that it was only self-defence and that the NeoPD are picking on him because he and Fisher had an altercation earlier in the evening.  He asks to speak privately to Officer Knight as soon as she arrives, and tries to convince her to have the charges dropped.  He also insists on having his sollicitor represent him.

Meanwhile, Angelina receives white lilies and red roses.  Both Philippe de Condé (vampire, esq.) and Anubis (Egyptian god of Death) try for a follow-up date with Officer Knight.  For his part, Officer Sparkypants finds that his G.I. Joe costume has been dry-cleaned and pressed, and his plastic boots polished while he slept.  He slept alone, right?  No, wait, there was this girl... no, it was more like two or three...  Blood Rose, a vampire, would-be science hero, and recently one of Angelina Knight's guests, drops off her resumé for an unenthusiastic Lt. Therius to peruse.  Therius also gives a call to Leandra at TransWorld station, and tries to convince her to take time off and remain away from the station for a while.

Skip comes in early for his shift and obtains a bodybag from Charon at the morgue, then heads over to lockup.  The sun is still up and Count Pietro is in torpor, so Skip garnishes the vampire with a toe tag and some flowers stolen from Angelina's desk, and manages to manoeuvre him into the bodybag.  When Count Pietro wakes up after sundown, he flies into a rage and redoubles his accusations of unfair treatment from NeoPD.  His sollicitor demands the surveillance camera tapes.  Skip talks Angelina into illegally retrieving the night shift tape, but forgets that his pratical joke began at the end of the day shift...

Lieutenant Therius feels very, very tired thanks to his stalwart troops.  While trying once more to keep Officer Sparkypants from being busted by IAD, he attempts to follow up on the Gromolko case and Die Eisen Adler.  Since, according to The Kelvinator, some of the members may be flyers, he sends Officers Knight and Sparkypants check out possible hideouts, including the old Power Towers.  Meanwhile, he heads for the old Nazi tunnels under NoHo, as expanded by Libra for her lair.

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