Theresa had not had the time nor the inclination to revisit the area but would have to, and soon. They needed a plan to excavate their stuff. She wondered if any other crime lab in the country had ever had a similar situation. What did the New Orleans PD do after Katrina? She should make some phone calls … She’d spent all morning drafting a written plan of attack to excavate, move and store their stuff. Leo had requested the SOP and she had nearly finished expanding ‘dig the stuff out, pack it into boxes, truck them back here and put the boxes into the garage’ to three pages in true civil service tradition. Once she had completed it, Leo glanced over it, told her that the average fourth-grader could have produced a more comprehensive plan, demanded that she start over with a more clear focus on her professional responsibilities. So she changed five or six words and altered the font from Arial to Times New Roman. Leo grumbled while shuffling out of earshot, then went to the second floor and presented it to M.E.
