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given your name as someone who might have some firsthand knowledge of what s
going on here. The ideological scene. People who might find blowing up three
sleeping people and almost killing two innocent children as well as virtually
imploding someone s vascular system an acceptable form of protest.
By over here, I assume you mean the peaceful, academic groves of
Berkeley, Lemouz said.
By over here, I meanwherever someone would want to do these awful things,
Mr. Lemouz.
Professor, he replied. The Lance Hart Professor of Romance Languages I
saw the glimmer of a smile as long as we re spouting credentials.
You said you didn t find these murders surprising.
Why should they be? Lemouz shrugged. Should the patient be surprised he is
ill when his body is covered in lesions? Our society is infected, Lieutenant,
and the very people who transmit the disease look around and go, Who, me?
Do you know, he said, raising his eyes, that the power-ful multinational
corporations now have an output larger than the GNP of ninety percent of the
countries around the globe? They have supplanted governments as the system of
social responsibility in our world.
Why is it, he laughed cynically, we are so quick to rail against the moral
outrage of apartheid when it threatens our racial sensibilities, but are so
asleep to recognize it when it is economic. It is because we do not see it
through the eyes of the subjugated. We see it through the culture of the
power-ful. The corporation. On TV.
Excuse me, I interrupted, but I m here about four gruesome murders. People
are dying.
Yes they are, Lieutenant. That s exactly my point.
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There was a part of me that would like to have grabbed Lemouz by the lapels
and shaken him. Instead, I pulled out the photo of the au pair on Wendy
Raymore s ID and a police artist s sketch of the woman videotaped walking into
the Clift Hotel with George Bengosian. Do you know either of these women,
Professor?
Lemouz almost started to laugh. Why would I want to help you? It s the state
who is the architect of this injustice, not these two women. Please tell me,
who has committed the larger injustice? The two women suspects he threw the
front page of theChronicle across the desk at me or these sparkling
examples of our system?
I was staring at photos of Lightower and Bengosian.
If these people are signaling the start of a war, Lemouz laughed, I say,
let it unfold. What is the new phrase, Lieu-tenant? He smiled. The one
Americans have embraced with all their moral imperative?Let s roll .
I picked up the pictures, closed my pad, and placed it back in my bag. I
stood up, feeling tired and soiled. I walked out on the Lance Hart Professor
of Romance Languages before I blew him up.
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I WAS STEAMING all the way back to the Hall thanks to Lemouz s sanctimonious
rantings, plus my frustration that we weren t getting anywhere on these
murders. I was still hot when I got to the office after six. I called Cindy
and made a date to meet at Susie s. Maybe we could getsomething accom-plished
over lobster quesadillas. I needed the girls on this.
As I hung up with Cindy, Warren Jacobi stepped into my office. Yank Sing,
he said.
Yank Sing?
It s a better bet than quesadillas. Dim sum. Women always open up with
Chinese. You should know that, LT. While you re there, they say the chicken in
salt and ginger caused the downfall of the Qin dynasty.
Where you been? He sat down. He had something for me. I knew that sly grin
of his.
Out wasting my time, in the People s Republic. You got something, other than
the restaurant review?
We got a hit on the Wendy Raymore APB, he said, grin-ning.
That got my juices flowing.
A Safeway across the bay called in. Night clerk thought he recognized the
face. There s a video on the way. He said she has red hair now and was wearing
sunglasses. But she took them off for a second to count the cash, and he
swears it s her.
Whereacross the bay, Warren?
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