She didn’t see any of the FBI agents, and she didn’t care. It didn’t matter now. Nothing did. She slid the newspaper from its clear plastic sleeve dotted with raindrops, and unfolded it, separating its soaked pinked edges. FEDERAL JUDGE WIELDS KNIFE, screamed the headline on the front page, and Cate read the story with dismay. It was all about last night, including eyewitness accounts of her running down Meadowbrook Drive, brandishing a knife “on the apparent belief that she was being stalked.” It made her sound ridiculous, but it was true, and at the bottom of the page was the related story: FEDERAL JUDGE STARS IN NEW SERIES: Fact or Fiction—You Be the Judge. Cate held her breath as the story reported that the offices of Attorneys@Law in Old City had confirmed that a new TV series titled Judges@Court was presently in production, starring an “empowered-type” female judge with a secret sex life. A representative of Attorneys@Law confirmed that the series would be “completely fictional,”
