what’d you think he was going to do?’ ‘Well, I didn’t think, okay? I just reacted.’ ‘Jesus.’ ‘Hey, Officer,’ Hale said, ‘maybe you act a lot cooler under pressure than some of us. But we’re not used to getting shot at.’ ‘Then she should’ve stayed down. In the office. Where I told her to stay.’ There seemed to be a slight drawl in Percey’s voice when she continued. ‘I saw my aircraft endangered. I reacted. Maybe for you it’s like seeing your partner wounded.’ Hale said, ‘She just did what any pilot would’ve done.’ ‘Exactly,’ Rhyme announced. ‘That’s what I’m saying, Sachs. That’s the way the
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