Pretty Girls

Claire sits in an interrogation room with Fred Nolan, but she is not eager to share information because she is still suspicious of him and his police cohorts. Fred can sense Claire’s panic, so he takes a friendly yet unctuous tone. Even though she is free to go, Claire knows she is in checkmate because outside the interrogation room is a parole officer who will charge her for having drugs in her system. She asks Fred if he knows about the government contracts worth billions given to Paul by Johnny Jackson. Fred is more curious about the $3 million embezzled from the architecture firm than he is about nepotism. Claire pieces together that Adam turned Paul in to the FBI for embezzling, and Paul was promptly arrested. Claire pretends to know far less than she does, and Fred tells her that Paul is still alive and that the FBI helped him fake his death because he promised to be an informant about a snuff ring. After the alley ruse, complete with undercover paramedics and fake medical reports, Paul fled without giving evidence to Fred, punching him in the eye before fleeing.