Night Shift

Volume 2, Episode 8

Tuesday, November 16th, 1999.  When they return to the station, Captain Traynor congratulates the S.O.B. team on a collar that makes the precinct look good right under I.A.D.'s scrutiny.  The perps' lawyers (Metavac, Goebbels, Fischman and Pedersen, of course) arrive before the courtesy call has even been allowed.  Sgt. Fischer delays them while Det. Johnny Mortis hurries to interrogate Baron von Struk.  He learns that the Brain Beast and his cronies are members of Die Eisen Adler who were there to recover some of Professor Gromolko's inventions and resources, which they say was material belonging to all of them which he had been hoarding.  Von Struk is clearly looking for some of Gromolko's super-serum as well. 

Wednesday, November 17th, 1999.  Just at the end of their shift, the S.O.B. team has to make an appearance for the media following the high-profile arrest.  Then about an hour before they are due to get back on duty that evening, the team gets called regarding a bar fight in which Johnny Mortis' still-missing body seems to have participated.  The team goes to check the call; the incident happened the night before and was at first cursorily investigated by uniformed officers.  But the bartender who reported it then saw Johnny Mortis on the news and recognized his face; he called the police again and Janus called Lt. Therius.  The bar is The Red Lantern in NoHo, a nudie bar; the staff describe Mortis' possessed body as having drunk all night with a bunch of low-life types, then started a fight and half-demolished the place.  Based on the description of the ruffians who were accompanying him, Sgt. Fischer suggests that they sound like some of the types he saw when he accompanied Mortis to see the street fights organized by Archie Nemesis.

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