Wrong Person

Police officers surrounded an apartment building in San Diego to catch their latest criminal. Amy Stanford, a former FBI agent, has been accused of murder. She had been the top suspect of the murder of Brian Woods simply because she was the only one there when he got killed. Amy and Brian dated for about a year and towards the end, he became aggressively possessive. On several

occasions he would accuse her of cheating when she’d come home late for work. Brian’s insecurities made him believe the other man was Amy’s partner, Sean Davis. The two worked closely a lot on several cases assigned to them by their boss, which made Brian act jealous.

Days before his murder, Brian constantly spied on Amy and Sean whenever they were hanging out. To anyone, they looked like a couple of work buddies but to Brian, he saw something more. Things got worse when Brian left a threatening note on Sean’s car. “STAY AWAY FROM AMY OR YOUR LIFE WILL END!” was what the note said. It was written in red permanent marker in a way that represented blood. Sean thought of the one person who would leave a note like this and thought of Brian. The first thing he did was warn Amy about her crazed boyfriend. He took a picture of the the note and texted it to her, to which Amy didn’t find surprising.

Brian had been doing his own versions of interrogations on Amy, yelling at her and calling her a liar everytime she told him nothing is going on. But the night of the note was when everything changed for her. As soon at she got the text, she confronted Brian who denied it at first. “You have been the only person to not like Sean and I working together, plus, you’ve been accusing me of cheating when I haven’t,” she said. “Because you’re a lying little bitch! Know what’s going on! I’ve seen it!” Brian screamed. After loud yelling and noises were heard by neighbours, a gunshot was the last noise that echoed through the building.

Police arrived to her place and found the Brian’s body, dead on the kitchen floor. Her side of the story was that he got so mad while they argued, he grabbed a kitchen cloth and began to choke her with it. Amy was able to grab hold of her gun and back him up against the wall hard for him to let loose. After she got out, Amy turned around and shot him. She told her boss, Ben Farrow who was there investigation, that she shot him out of defense but he had a feeling she was covering something up. He did a look through the scene and noticed the angle of the wound Brian had was off. Ben and Amy had an intense stare down to which Amy felt her boss didn’t believe her story which was mostly true, except for one part. Amy didn’t want that part to come out so she did something out of impulse. When most of the coroners and agents are busy investigating, none of them paid attention to Amy and and she used the opportunity to escape. She got up slowly and walked to the door and Ben saw her. “Hey!” he yelled and Amy ran, pushing past the workers.

Ben ordered several different police forces to capture her and even telling them how dangerous she might be. Amy ran up flights of stairs in the apartment building while two policemen chased her. She managed to make it up on to the roof and continue running until she reached the edge. Amy looked behind her saw the two policemen holding out their guns, “Don’t move or we’ll shoot!” they called to her demand. She then looked down from the back of the building and saw an open top part of a truck filled with foam cushion. With all the policemen surrounded behind her, she decided to jump. first, Amy put her hands up to show the police she ‘surrenders’ and took two steps back from the ledge. “Three, two, one,” she said to herself and took one step forward and jumped off the roof to land onto the cushioned-filled truck. The truck drove away before the police ran to the edge and found nothing. The chase was on.

Agent Sean Davis was called to the scene of the crime by Ben. He went over what had happened and told Sean to put his friendship aside. “She is your next assignment,” he began. “I want you to find her, arrest her and bring her back here.” Ben gave Sean the crime report to read over, “Okay, I’ll do it,” he agreed. Ben doesn’t know how close Sean and Amy are and how he is willing to help her escape. He left.

The truck stopped at a red light and Amy made a quick getaway, ran through a back alley over a fence, then onto a different road. Sean was driving in his car, looking at the report scattered on the passenger’s seat. He came to a stop at a red traffic light and Amy ran across the street. When the light turned green, Sean was about to drive off but hit the brakes really quick when he saw who he almost hit. Amy stood in front of his car as other vehicles behind his started honking. They both stared at each other for a moment and smiled before she ran off.

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Amy was able to relocate herself at a different apartment in a small neighborhood area in Nevada for the past two months. Within that time, she had to change her look, going from brunette to red and changing her identity. She went with the name Sandra Cohen to apply for the small one-bedroom apartment.

A knock was heard at her door, “Who is it?” she called out. “It’s Sean.” Amy got up to let him in. amy and Sean have been keeping in touch with each other since the escape. He gave his boss fake information to throw him off track, while Sean helped Amy the whole time. Ben was getting fed up with all the dead ends Sean kept providing him that he sent one of his best private investigators to have him followed. The PI secretly took pictures and video of Sean one day as he was heading up to Nevada to visit Amy. once the PI gathered all the information, he went back to Ben and showed him. A week later, Ben called for reinforcements to catch them. Sean became suspicious and and figured out what Ben was planning that he took out a small silver briefcase from his desk drawer and went on his way to see Amy.

Sean held up the small silver briefcase and walked in. “What’s that?” she asked. “Just something I think you’re going to need,” he responded while setting the case on the table. She opened it and inside was a silver pistol handgun, complete with bullets. “Why do I need this?” Amy asked as she took the gun, loaded it with the bullets, and kept it on her. “I’m being followed and we have to start moving now,” Sean informed Amy.

The sounds of sirens filled the room as Sean and Amy packed all of their stuff in their backpacks. The police approached the apartment door and banged hard on it. “This is the police! Open up!” Sean and Amy grabbed their things and made their way out the window and down the fire escape. By the time they reached the bottom, the police had broken into the apartment and invaded every room. Sean and Amy were able to run pass the other policemen in front of the building and go straight to a white van. Ben was in a different vehicle that was parked in a corner and saw Sean and Amy running to the white van. “I’ve spotted them leaving in a white van with no license plate,” he radioed to the other policemen. He saw them drive off and had them followed.

After driving for hours, the two managed to dodge every car on the road and was way ahead of the police. Sean and Amy were getting close to reaching the border bridge to Canada and Sean receives a phone call on his cell phone. It’s Ben. Sean answered it, “I know you’ve been helping her escape,” Ben said. “The border is closed off and surrounded by police. I’ll see you both there,” he hung up.

When they got there, the border bridge was completely blocked by police. Sean stopped the van and both he and Amy came out with their hands above their heads. They walked to the side of the bridge as Ben came out of his car. He began to taunt them about how he won the battle and how naive they were to think they can get away with this. “Oh by the way, you’re both fired,” was the last thing he said to them.

Amy turned her head and looked down behind her watching the water streaming up, then looked up at the sky and saw a low-flying jet plane. She turned her head to Sean and quietly whispered to him, “Can you swim?” Sean whispered back to her with a quiet “yes.” The overbearing sound of the jet plane flew above them, distracted the police as they looked up. In a fast motion, Amy noticed and grabbed her handgun from behind her and shot Ben in the shoulder. She then used her arm to pushed Sean and herself back off of the bridge and they landed in the water. Ben ordered the police to shoot at them but when they looked down from the bridge while pointing their guns, they were already gone.

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After a month of hiding, Sean and Amy decided to turn themselves in but not before coming up with a plan. They had spend the whole strategizing what to say when Amy goes on trial while living in a hunting cabin in the woods. They’re final plan was to tell the truth but with a different ending and Sean had friends on the inside that he knows can sway the jury vote. He put the the plan into motion and once it was set, him and Amy went back to San Diego.

The look on Ben’s face was pure joy as Sean and Amy turned themselves in. He them arrested on the spot and taken to a holding cell without bail. There, they awaited trial for weeks.

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The trial began and Amy was on charged with first degree murder of Brian Woods and assault with a deadly weapon on Ben Farrow and Sean was also on trial for helping Amy. During the trial, Amy plead her case about the murder saying it was out of self defense and said Sean helped her because they’ve worked together for so long and he’s a good friend. Ben took the stand next and called out Amy saying she’s a liar and a cold-blooded murder. He never trusted her and Sean was her partner in crime. Sean then pleads his case and according to the judge, there is not enough evidence and it was strictly out of defense.

While the jury was discussing the verdict, Sean pulled Amy over. “You don’t have to lie for me if you don’t want to,” he said. “I don’t want you to go to prison,” she said. “I have to keep up with the plan.” The verdict was in and everyone was called back into the courtroom. One of the jurors stood up, “We’ve made a unanimous decision. We find that Sean Davis and Amy Stanford are not guilty.” their plan worked.

The judge dismissed the court and Sean and Amy walked out together. Ben couldn’t let this go. “Sean!” he called out to him in the hallway. He told Amy to wait for him and then walked to Ben. “Why would you defend someone that kills?” Ben started. Sean stepped close to Ben and quietly replied, “Because I killed Brian Woods, not Amy.” He turned around and walked away from Ben. A wide-eyed and shocked Ben called out to the judge and Sean took Amy by the arm. “What’s going on?” She asked him. “It’s time for us to leave the country,” he said and pulled out two tickets to Barcelona, Spain. Before leaving, Amy took out a cloth and pulled the fire alarm as part of their diversion. They blew past news reporters and hopped straight into to a black SUV they had on standby and drove off. It was too late for Ben to catch up with them.

. . . . .

The real story of what happened was never revealed. Only Ben knew who really killed Brian but had no proof to put Sean away. On the night of Brian’s murder, Sean became worried about Amy after texting the note. He went over to the apartment and while standing at the door, he heard arguing. After a few seconds the arguing stopped and choking was heard. Sean burst through the door and saw Amy being choked. Sean came from behind and pulled him off and Brian looked at him. “You son of a bitch!” Brian screamed as he pulled out a pocket knife, getting ready to stab Sean. “Brian! Don’t!” Amy pleaded. “Shut up!” He ran forward with the knife and Sean quickly pulled out his gun and shot him dead.

Sean dropped the gun “You need to go,” Amy said. “I’m not leaving you alone with this.” “I’ll be fine. I know what to do, just go.” Sean ran out of the apartment. Amy took the gun off from the floor and wiped it clean with the same cloth she was choked with and put her fingerprints on it. She then took the knife Brian had and hid in a crawl space inside a cabinet. She shift his body in a way where it looked like she did it and fixed the door that Sean busted through. Amy knew what was coming next as she heard sirens, footsteps and a knock on her door as she prepared to tell her story.