FAILED BLACKMAIL
(the plot bunny mated with the blot punny for this one.....!)
Durniak pushed the envelope across the table “They said to show you first; before it goes to his Captain.””
Lily Starsky opened it and she looked at the fax-grainy photograph. Two men, a motel room, one bed.
She raised an eyebrow.
He saw the echo of her son.
“I knew”.
‘You're not shocked?”
“Only that they were indiscreet enough to be caught”
“He's a professional; it was to be expected; his way of blackmailing them off the case”
“Yes but it didn't work, did it?”
She looked at it again; read the caption out loud and laughed.
“Hutch in son”