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I used to work for the F.B.I., in the Portland office. It was my childhood dream to be the one who gets the bad guy.
My fiftieth birthday was in just three months. I had a wife and three children, still do, and the same job I'd had since my graduation from Quantico.
We were living just outside Portland. My oldest son, John jr., was in his third year at Washington. The twins were high schoolseniors at this time and my
pride and joy, daddy's little girls. Carolyn and I had celebrated our twenty– fifth anniversary, that's the silver one I think, the previous Thursday night.
That warm July morning, I dressed for work as I had every other. Black socks and slacks, a pin striped white dress shirt, and a black...show more content...
At quarter till nine, I called a full meeting, all department heads. "We seem to have ourselves a little situation here. I know you are all familiar with that
case in the papers, the Dean Brown thing. This S.O.B. killed not only the Portland mayor, but two of his security, in case you are unfamiliar with all this.
He used to work for the mayor's office. The court sentenced him just two days ago, life without parole. I guess he didn't like the decision, because Mr.
Brown escaped last night in transfer to the Oregon State Penitentiary. His whereabouts are presently unknown and I have been instructed to find him. As of
now, the entire department will concentrate on this situation, all others suspended. This is the video, courtroom and escape." I shut off the lights and
pressed play.
A small thin man, caucasian and under 5'10'', entered the courtroom. He wore a wrinkled suit, dark blue with a white kerchief. His hair was slicked back,
still wet and he was unshaven. He wore no expression, as if he were dead.
The judge spoke slowly, pausing for breath as she read the sentence. After the announcement, the defendant simply rose and extended his hands so he
could be detained. Still the face of the small figure on the screen did not change. He was hand–cuffed and led away. The scene abruptly shifted to the
penitentiary grounds. A line of orange clad men, heads low, lurched forward into the
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The Search Essay

  • 1. The Search Essay The Search I used to work for the F.B.I., in the Portland office. It was my childhood dream to be the one who gets the bad guy. My fiftieth birthday was in just three months. I had a wife and three children, still do, and the same job I'd had since my graduation from Quantico. We were living just outside Portland. My oldest son, John jr., was in his third year at Washington. The twins were high schoolseniors at this time and my pride and joy, daddy's little girls. Carolyn and I had celebrated our twenty– fifth anniversary, that's the silver one I think, the previous Thursday night. That warm July morning, I dressed for work as I had every other. Black socks and slacks, a pin striped white dress shirt, and a black...show more content... At quarter till nine, I called a full meeting, all department heads. "We seem to have ourselves a little situation here. I know you are all familiar with that case in the papers, the Dean Brown thing. This S.O.B. killed not only the Portland mayor, but two of his security, in case you are unfamiliar with all this. He used to work for the mayor's office. The court sentenced him just two days ago, life without parole. I guess he didn't like the decision, because Mr. Brown escaped last night in transfer to the Oregon State Penitentiary. His whereabouts are presently unknown and I have been instructed to find him. As of now, the entire department will concentrate on this situation, all others suspended. This is the video, courtroom and escape." I shut off the lights and pressed play. A small thin man, caucasian and under 5'10'', entered the courtroom. He wore a wrinkled suit, dark blue with a white kerchief. His hair was slicked back, still wet and he was unshaven. He wore no expression, as if he were dead. The judge spoke slowly, pausing for breath as she read the sentence. After the announcement, the defendant simply rose and extended his hands so he could be detained. Still the face of the small figure on the screen did not change. He was hand–cuffed and led away. The scene abruptly shifted to the penitentiary grounds. A line of orange clad men, heads low, lurched forward into the Get more content on HelpWriting.net