"Good day Commander Dais. We had not been expecting you. Seems as if you
have left your obnoxious friend Commander Garibaldi. Good decision if I do
say so myself." Rivik said in greeting.
Dais nodded in greeting to the two of them as Rivik spoke.
Allso looked a bit peaked. As if he was worried about the entire
situation.. courier of a severed hand, pressure from Starfleet, pressure
from his own government.....
Dais caught a glimpse of Joe entering quietly. Not trying to sneak in, just
trying not to be subtle about it. The Trill was not sure that it was the
greatest of ideas, but he was pleased to have Joe closer if he needed me.
"Well, Mr. Rivik, I thought that I could talk to Mr. Allso without some of
the tenseness we felt earlier. We all just want to get this resolved as
quickly as possible. Perhaps a smaller group of people being involved in
the discussion will help."
"You are quite right. Shall we go intothe conference room...?" Rivik
offered.
"Well, I would like to thank both of you for taking some time to talk with
me, but I am not sure that it will be necessary to keep you from your work,
Mr. Rivik. I was thinking I could treat Mr. Allso to some lunch while we
talked."
Rivik obviously did not want to allow that.
"It is not a bother at all. We do want to cooperate with our Starfleet
collegues." Rivik answered.
"Mr. Rivik, I appreciate your offer to join us, but I am sure that you have
a very busy schedule maintaining the Embassey. Since it is not really
necessary for you to answer any of our questions, it take a lot of my mind
if I didn't feel that I had to rush in order to allow you to get back to
your very important duties. I would appreciate your cooperation in allowing
us to work at a pace best for the investigation. We would not want to miss
anything by rushing."
'This is taking too much time...' Joe thought to himself. He decided to walk
over and help spring the courier and the XO from the talons of Rivik.
"Good afternoon gents. I am sorry to disturb your conversation, but I do
come with something of a pressing nature." Joe said apologetically.
'Great, what the hell is he doing here...' Rivik thought to himself.
Suspecting a set up of some kind...
"Perhaps we should go into the conference room and discuss it." Rivik
answered.
"Actually that will not be necessary. Mr. Allso, if you will come with me
please we can take care of this matter quite quickly." Joe said.
"He is not going anywhere. He is a diplomatic courier and not subject to
your jurisdictional whims. Commander Garibaldi you should remember your place
in a Bajoran Embassy." Rivik said rather crossly to Joe. He then turned to
Dais, "You too Commander. You should keep Garibaldi on a leash. A tight one.
This meeting is over..." Rivik obivously trying to cut the scene before it
got any more public.
"Afriad not, Mr. Rivik." Joe said handing over the PADD to the diplomat.
"I have a warrent to take Mr. Allso into custody for charges of conspiracy to
commit murder, assult, and possession of contraband. As you will be happy to
read that your government has ceeded jurisdiction to Starfleet on this matter
and given us permission to take Mr. Allso into custody. " Joe let that sink
in for a moment. Then added to make the scene more embarassing...
"You, sir should remember that you are a member of the Federation, and
subject to it's laws just as much as anyone is. Perhaps you should not be so
concerned about your diplomatic privledge and concern yourself about the
charges being filed..." Joe continued the bad cop role so Dais could play
good cop....
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