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“Or what? You’ve already threatened me with everything you can think of, and I’ve had it with buying into your bullshit. This isn’t what FBI agents do. We don’t plant evidence.”
“Oh, you’re going to tell me what an FBI agent does now? That’s a new one.”
“Somebody needs to. You clearly have lost your way and forgotten what it means to carry the badge.”
Harris sneered at her. “Don’t you lecture me. I was pulling undercover ops while you were still crying in your diapers.”
“If this was how you handled those cases, you were no federal agent. You were just some asshole breaking the law while carrying a badge.”
Harris was shaking his head, looking like he was struggling for words. He kept looking past her shoulder, behind her, as ifexpecting someone to creep up on them in the dark. Perhaps his guilty conscience, Piper thought.
“You have no idea,” he said. “You silly, stupid little girl. I have spent all day trying to fix what you’ve ruined.”
“Don’t put this on me.”
“By pulling this… you have created a problem that could get the both of us…” Harris said, trailing off.
“What? The both of us what?”
“That could end the both of us.”
“Bullshit. This is your mess. You were wrong about the MC, through and through, and you’re trying to save your own ass and not look like an idiot to the Bureau.”
“You have no idea,” Harris said, shaking his head now as he looked down at the ground. “You have no idea.”
“You keep saying that, but you’re the one who’s blind. There has to be another way to get to Navarro. Quit being so obsessed with this MC and cut your losses. Move on to…”
“It has to be the MC!” Harris snapped at her. “It has to! There is no other way!”
“That makes no sense,” Piper said, throwing up her hands in her frustration.
“You don’t understand. You don’t understand what’s at stake, what’s in play here. You never did. This was such a mistake, bringing you into this.”
“You’re right about that,” Piper said, “if you thought I was just going to fall into line like a good little girl and do whatever dirty shit you told me to. I got into this to take down the kind of men that blow up schools and murder innocents. That’s the cartel, not the MC. “
“Forget the cartel. The MC is the entire goddamn point. It was the entire reason I brought you on.”
Piper paused. “What are you talking about?”
“I needed someone to take down the MC,” Harris said, his voice becoming more and more condescending as he spoke. “That’s why I recruited you. That’s the only reason you’re here at all.”
“You told me you needed a new undercover agent, to take on the cartel. You said you needed…”
“I needed you to think that. I needed someone to infiltrate this MC and you were perfect. Idealistic young agent, who liked to ride motorcycles and walk just a little on the wild side. So I put things in motion. I arranged to have to you sent to Mexico, to see close up what cartel violence looked like.”
“I was sent there by my division chief…”
“Your division chief owed me a favor. You’d been sitting in front of a desk up until then. I knew what a shock it would be for you to see all those bodies. An idealist like you? After that, you were all fired up to take on the cartel. So that’s what I told you to get you where I needed you to be, that the MC was in with them.”
“So it was all bullshit? All of it? All this talk about the MC being in with the cartel, involved with Navarro?”
“The MC needs to go down.”
“No, the cartel is the problem,” Piper said. “They’re the source of the drugs, the violence. The MC’s got nothing to do with them. I told you that, but you knew that already, didn’t you? They don’t do that kind of shit. That’s not the MC. That’s not Pony.”
“Pony,” Harris said, spitting the name out like a dirty word. “Oh, I knew it. I knew it. You did fall for him.”
“Don’t change the subject.”
