The Girlfriends S5/E5: Don’t Mess With Texas

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with. He comes up with a plan. It's a Tuesday morning, a woman named Tracy has just started her work day. She's in the admissions office of a busy rehab facility on the outskirts of Dallas Fort Worth.

Who do we have coming in, who do we have discharging, is gearing up to be a busy day when her phone starts to ring. No caller ID, annoying.

My first thought was spam.

“Tracy picks up, a man introduced himself as Mike L. Care, Special Agents.”

I'm with NCIS and, you know, I need to talk to you and I'm just like, "Okay." Special Agents Mike is trying to reassure. It was just like, "Hey, you know, I need to speak with you. You're not in trouble." I'm like, "Yeah, no, I haven't done anything."

Tracy's not the kind of person who needs a lot of reassurance. Her mind is already wearing. She's pretty sure she knows exactly who this will be about. The guy she's been dating for the last two months. The closest thing I could come up with is, okay, NCIS is military.

He's supposedly military, a Navy pilot and college professor, Richie Taylor. God did it kill somebody. Special Agents Mike wants to meet in person ASAP, somewhere public, anywhere of Tracy's choosing. Okay, I'll meet you at Starbucks, because I'll see you at 10-30.

Later that morning, in a busy coffee shop in downtown Fort Worth, Special Agents Mike is seated at a table. Tracy walks in, heels and a short skirt. It wasn't hard to recognize him. For one, he didn't have any coffee.

For another classic establishment at HACOP, buzz cut. She sits down and I can tell that she is not happy. She almost looks like she wants to kill somebody. This is going to be interesting. He's got this portfolio, and he opens it up, and here's all these paperwork and stuff.

I had some pictures of Derek in uniform. courtesy of Dori, she'd snap to cheeky pick of him, sitting on her porch and his navy blues. Mike shows the picture to Tracy. It's not yet clear to Mike what Tracy knows about Derek or Dred.

But exactly she's so angry about, or who sides she might be on. He was saying, "Do you know this person?"

He goes, "Well, here's what his real name is."

Derek Aldrid.

“And there's a warrant out for his arrest over credit card fraud of a woman in the colony.”

That's less than an hour's drive from where Tracy and Mike are meeting that morning. And I'm just like, "This is it real. I can't make sense of it." And there's more. They said, "Listen, we think he's been involved in doing this type of activity across the

country. Once he realizes he's in trouble, he doesn't stick around. He usually takes off."

It doesn't take long for that new info to send Ken.

Mike Needon have worried about winning Tracy over. It just enraged her. You can't take advantage of people. You can't steal. I mean, how do you think you are?

“I think personally she just wanted to ring his neck out.”

And then Mike comes to the real reason. He's also Tracy to meet him in a coffee shop this morning. Mike Needon arrest Derek Aldrid, ASAP. Before he figures out he's being investigated. And for that he needs Tracy's help.

If Derek is in the dark about what Tracy knows, the maybe she can lure him into a trap. Let's get him off the street before he runs and then we can go from there. It would be the perfect plan, except for one slight complication. I just dumped him this morning.

Finally, a couple of hours earlier, as she's shoot him out of the passenger side door of her car.

Tracy made it abundantly clear to Richie Taylor that she wanted absolutely nothing more to do with him. I said, "Listen, I'm not telling you for real, I just need you to help. Just be as some a little bit." And he's just like, "Okay, can you get him back?" Because I can't.

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, I'm not telling you for real. Episode 5, Don't Mess With Texas. Tracy is a country girl through and through. She grew off in a small town in Texas.

“The only thing going down there was a little country store to gas pumps, the post office,”

and a little automotive garage. That was it. And what does the young girl do in the country when there's not much going on? Find stuff to shoot at. You get your gun, you get your dog, you get your horse, and you just ride.

And I was like me and Tracy had pretty similar childhoods. I certainly shot a few cans in my time, although I had a mini motorbike, not a horse. I was a tomboy, obviously. The joke here is that this is very much not obvious. Unlike me, Tracy didn't stick with her boyish roots.

She's got a gorgeous blonde blowout for one thing. But that scout-fetched tomboy independence is very much still there. In a typical man's world, you have to be strong because otherwise you're going to get run over. It's called survival.

Don't ever depend on anybody to do anything for you, depend on yourself. That's the woman that Richie Taylor, aka Derek, had found himself up against. But why are they already on such bad terms before Tracy had even stormed into Starbucks to learn the truth? Once a week earlier, Tracy and Richie had been gearing up for a very special weekend.

We're supposed to be going to pass some kingdom like that weekend. Possum kingdom like rugged cliffs, crystal clear waters of the Brasas River, just a few hours drive out of town. Tracy's even purchased a doggy life vest for her beloved pooch, a rescue boxer. She was pretty lazy.

I couldn't guarantee how well she would swim, still have the dog floaty.

a phone call from Richie.

“He was at one of the hospitals in the emergency room, because my chest is hurting really”

really bad. Tracy heads down to meet Richie at the hospital. They want to do a heart-cath the following morning. A heart-cath is where they stick a tube up a vein to evaluate your heart problems. With Richie, now safely and care, Tracy heads home for the evening.

I'm literally about to walk up the stairs of my apartment and he's calling. They've cut my pain meds in half, I'm in so much pain, I can't take it, come back and get me. And I'm like, I'm not going to come back and get you. Tracy thinks he'll be fine in hospital for one night, she'll go in the morning.

The sun hasn't even risen the next day, before Tracy's phone is ringing again. He calls me about 4, 4, 30 in the morning, strike one, as far as I'm concerned.

“He goes, "Where are you going to come up here in a civil of course?"”

Thursday morning dawns, a more reasonable hour this time. Just off to 6am, Tracy arrives at the hospital, and Richie is in pre-op for his procedure. She stays by his side until he's taken into surgery. But he was in there 15, 20 minutes, here comes the surgeon, and he's like, "I didn't find anything." I can't explain why he was having those kinds of pains, I didn't see a previous stint.

This strikes Tracy as odd. Richie had told her about a previous stint from an old war injury. He said he was in Afghanistan, he got in some shrapnel in his body, ended up having to have a stint put in his heart, blah blah blah, but the doctor seems to be saying he couldn't see it, so I'm just like, "Okay, that's weird."

But that, on Friday, Richie has discharged. That's supposed to be leaving for that big weekend that day. But now Richie needs rest. From the procedure that you did not need. Then asked about all of this, Derek said, "As far as my cardiac history goes, it is extensive.

I've had multiple surgeries. He doesn't address the war injury half of the allegation, though, beyond this broad denial." That aside, in this particular moment, Tracy is unimpressed and skeptical. And more concerned, with when they'll be setting off for possum kingdom lake, so we plan on that Saturday morning.

Saturday morning arrives, and Richie seems to be doing fine. The Tracy can't help but note that he doesn't seem to have organised a car for that weekend away yet. He goes, "Well, let's go get my car out of the shop." Richie claimed to have totaled his car a few weeks earlier, but it should be fixed by now.

Just a simple matter of picking it up from the auto repair shop in Dallas. So that Saturday, we leave, go to Dallas. Richie has Tracy driving all over the place, and like, "Why are you this at our time knowing where your car is?" He can't seem to direct them to the right shop for ages.

And then when he finally does, closed, he suggests they rent a car.

Have it delivered, so it'll be waiting for them at Tracy's when they get home. Richie gets it all sorted, while Tracy drives all the way back to hers. But, by the time they arrive, where's it at? No car. Richie makes a big fuss of yelling at a customer service rap from the rental car company.

But by 930 that night, then no closer to setting off, so now I'm really mad. My tongue can be very sharp, and I'm like, "No, I'm going to try to be a better person than that." Gracefully, and with great decorum, Tracy goes to bed.

“I left him in the living room, I'm thinking I'm a crappy person because you should be”

a little bit more patient. But inside, if she's honest with herself, she's had enough.

This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened with Richie.

Here's another great series of unfortunate events. Fingently, none of them Richie's fault, I don't want that kind of hassle. The next day is Sunday, and Richie doesn't appear to be making any moves in the direction of Possum Kingdom Lake. Or any moves at all.

He's laying around all day long, all this time I'm getting more and more angry because my apartment was small, you have invaded my space, I cannot stay in needy while I'm

It's just, it's repulsive.

I don't want to deal with it.

“I'm not going to sit in the house all day long, so it's like, "Hey, do you want to go to”

Fred's and grab a burger?" We have lunch, we have a couple of drinks, get ready to go, get the bill, oh, he doesn't have his wallet. All right, I'm straight to, so pay for it, needless to say, the Possum Kingdom Lake weekend never happens.

By the time she's day morning rolls around, Tracy's expecting Richie to go to work. Tuesday morning, I'm like, "Thank God, I get up, I'm getting ready for work, it's about seven." He's just laying there and I'm just like, "Got class today?" And he's like, "Yeah, I don't have class till 9.30," and I said, "let's now 7.30, you better

get ready." I said, "If you're going to be having to get an Uber, you better get on it." This whole time he's texting on his phone, I'm like, "What the hell?" Richie looks up from his phone.

“He's like, "I really need to go get a checkup and I'm like, "Why?"”

And he goes, "Well, I don't want to say anything, but last night while you were sleeping, I had a coughing fit. I think I dislodge my plug." Tracy doesn't know what this means. Now, so just rub some dirt on it, it'll be fine.

Because I'm done. I mean, I'm so done at this point, it's like, "All I need to do is get him out of the house. And I'll talk to him again, get him in the car, get him out." And so, she breaks the news to Richie. "Okay, I'll drop you back off at the hospital or wherever you want to go.

But I need my life back, I need my schedule back." "That over, you gotta go." A couple of hours after ditching Richie, Tracy finds herself in a Fort Worth Starbucks. Processing the most validating piece of post-breakup info a girl could ever dream of. Richie Taylor, not just annoying, but an actual con man named Derek Audred.

After the first wave of outrage subsides, the decision is obvious. Of course, she'll help catch him.

The thing is, Tracy couldn't have made it more clear to the guy that she never wants to see

him again. So, I get him off on a start texting, right there in the coffee shop. "I'm so sorry about this morning, I was just hormone all." It won't be very long at all before her phone pings back a new message. "He's like, "Oh baby, it's okay."

"Works, like a charm." And then, as though he's orchestrating his own downfall, Derek tells Tracy, exactly where he'll be, two days later. The hospital, he's got to come back for a follow-up appointment. So, she offers to pick him up afterwards, and he goes, "Oh, thanks, babe."

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After hatching a plan with Mike, Tracy leaves Starbucks, walks to a car, gets in, and closes the door behind her.

“And I'd rather have to work and look at the hell just happen.”

Parts at work, Tracy calls her son. He's met Derek plenty of times over the last two months. He's only just learning the guy's real name now.

He gets on the computer, and he's finding all of the stuff with the real name, and

he's like, "Holy shit man, this guy's crazy." This is how Tracy gets hold of the phone number for Cindy, from San Francisco. Her son finds it online. He's kind of a little slew themself. Cindy is still the unofficial secretary of this ever-growing club of Derek Wardredz-Axis.

Sitting in the parking lot of her work. Tracy gives Cindy a cool. She's been tracking him for years, he keeps avoiding the police. Tracy is the newest recruit, but she's not the only one in Texas. There's also Dory, Cindy connected us.

It was very awkward. It was kind of like, "Oh, okay, you're seeing him too. She met him a day before I did." "Oh, all right, well, what do you know about him?" Tracy tells Dory that Derek sometimes turned off in a borrowed car for his dates with her,

while his was in the repair shop. License plate cover was pink. It turns out, Dory has a commarrow. The commarrow was black, but it had pink on the inside, pink emblem, the same car. I said, "How did he explain away that?

Don't mind this car, it's my daughter's." Another time, Richie invited Tracy around to a townhouse in the colony, hit cook them dinner, hit opened a bottle of wine, introduced her to the dogs. He told me it was his sisters. It was Dory's apartment with her dogs.

She was very upset about that, and rightly so. Dory, I'm sorry, I did not know. Then there was the memorial day weekend plans. He said he was taking me to the lake with an Airbnb, and Tracy goes, "No, that's where we're going.

“I really think that he was going to take my car and stuff and go with Tracy."”

It's no wonder Richie, or should I say, "Derek, hadn't booked a car for the possum kingdom like we canned." He must have been expecting access to Dory's commarrow, until she inconveniently discovered the truth. He was whining and dying, Tracy and my dime.

All those charges I saw for Airbnb's and concerts and flowers and gift cards, it was all for Tracy. I just felt so used. As for Tracy, she didn't feel used as much as she felt outraged. Derek hadn't stolen her credit cards yet.

He had Dory's credit card, I didn't know that of course, but he probably knew it was time to move on from that one to get another one to continue on. Derek Wardred had used the exact same alias and cover story for both Dory and Tracy, a college professor, a naval officer, catching lifts too and from the airport for his many trips to solve world crises in Washington.

I drop him off at the airport and hear 10 minutes later, Tracy said she comes in and picks him up. He tells her he's getting into town, tells me he's leaving in literally we were both passing

And with that, a situation so unbelievably brazen that you just have to laugh.

Dory and Tracy became fast friends. Dory had been through a lot.

“I was very hurt by it beat myself up really bad about it.”

But now she's got Tracy in her corner. She helped me through it a lot. Tracy just turned to humor and we just started laughing about all this stuff that he got away with that we allowed him to get away with. She is a bull in a chonish up.

She is a strong, funny, don't take anything from anybody, type of girl. Exactly. What Dory needed.

That's a real shit human being to do that to another person.

That made me angry because she did not deserve that. She's very loving. She was very trusting.

“She's a very good person and it does anger me that somebody had hurt her and made it”

where she feels less trusting of humanity. That sad because she is wonderful. It was her money that was taking me out. After meeting Dory, Tracy's got a new reason to hope Special Agent Mike's plan goes off without a hitch.

And it's just like I can't fix it.

But here's something to show that he's going to get here's hopefully.

By early afternoon on 1st of June 2017, Special Agent Mike and his team of undercover agents have the hospital in Fort Worth surrounded. It's raining. It's a big compound. It's really a big campus.

“There's a lot of people, there's a lot of cars, ambulances are coming in, people are”

being transported, people are parking. Even if Dory called Brett trust Tracy enough to show up today, there are ways this could all go pear shaped fast. He could have escaped anywhere, he could have hit anywhere, it's really hard to keep track of somebody so we really had to have every area covered, there's a lot of activity there.

Tracy's told Derek that once his procedure finishes, she'll pick him up at the valet area in front of the main hospital entrance. She wanted to take him into custody herself. But Mike has been clear, just keep the team updated, stay at work, leave this one to the professionals so we were getting updates every 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

A lot can happen in 48 hours. For one thing, the colony police department haven't quite got the memo about stealth. On their Facebook page, they've published a video, announcing for all to see that they're looking to arrest Derek Ordred. So Derek, Richard Rich, whatever name you want to be called by, give us a call, we'll keep

the light on for you. We have a nice jail for the rest of you out there. Special Agent Mike isn't happy, if Derek sees it, he might decide to flee, and his whole plan will be for nothing. A lot depends on Tracy and her believability and her push in Derek back into her arms.

On the afternoon of Derek's follow-up procedure, dotted around the hospital complex are agents from Special Agent Mike's team. At this point, everybody has a picture of him, we had some people on foot, we had some people in cars. The officers on foot are in plane clothes, trying to look like normal hospital visitors.

We just had people walking around, nothing that would spook him or tip him off, really in back if they've seen him, we don't know what he's wearing but we know what he looks like. This is the hospital where Derek's heart cath took place, it should be any moment. You're just kind of waiting to hear from her. They haven't heard anything in a while, and time is ticking closer, nobody has spotted him

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“done because that's what would make sense.”

So they had that hospital surrounded. She was this thing at work when the call from Derek came in. He's like, "Baby, I'm not at that hospital, I'm at the doctor's office at the other hospital." I said, "Oh, okay, don't worry, I said I'll be there and just a little bit, I just got

finished up touring a family's little, take me a little bit." He's like, "No, hurry, you know, I'll go and get dressed and I'll just wait for you." As soon as she hung up, she called my comedially. He's been on high alert, waiting for her updates, outside the hospital. When he hears the news about a sudden change of location, oh, this guy is screwing around,

this guy knows. Tracy has tried her best to buy them a little time. But right now, Mike and his team are all at the wrong location. The new location is just across the street at neighboring hospital. He goes, "Give me a few minutes, I said, "Okay."

So at that point, everybody's scrambling. We had some people ready out on foot, they were able to get their quicker. But Mike is in a car. You're trying to circle around red lights and stop signs and cars and elderly people walking and trying not to hit me.

He's like, "Come on, hurry up." And Mike outlined the plan to Tracy. He made it crystal clear that she should stay put. We got it, like, don't interfere. She didn't listen.

In the admissions office at her work, Tracy is on her feet, phone in hand. And I said, "Well, I got a girl." If Derek Ordred is really about to be led away in handcuffs, Tracy wants a front row seat. And she knows a few other women who want to see it too. I said, "I got to take pictures."

After pulling up at the hospital across the street, a special agent Mike and some of his team entered the building. "We walked into the waiting area who was sitting there by himself. All I said was Derek." And he said, "Yes."

And I said, "Cool, stand up, you're under arrest. Most people go, "What's this about? What are you doing? Do." And he was just calm as a cucumber.

He was like, "Okay. I'm stood up and didn't fight, didn't ask questions, almost like he didn't care."

By the time they were coming downstairs out the building, I had just pulled up.

“As Derek is led out, an agent on either side of him, Tracy has pulled into the hospital”

and abandoned a car in a no-palking zone. Put it in part. Put on my hazards. Hop out. I've got my cell phone.

I've got the camera ready. And I can see him being brought out with these two officers in handcuffs. I pointed out her and I'm like, "Get back in your car." And I'm like, "Don't care. I'm getting pictures."

When I tell you to stay in the car, I really need you to kind of like stay in the car. And so I start running. I'm just like, "Oh my God, please." The other officer held me back going, "No, you know, don't jeopardize this case."

“And it's just like, "Well, I'm not going to jeopardize it.”

I just want to take some pictures to show everybody." Between her and Derek is a van. Behind the van is a pickup that's part because that's where he's going into. I start inching my way down the side of the van. And that's when she gets into view.

And I'm staring at him. He's got his head down and then he turned around and he's about to get in the pickup and he looks at me and I look at him. Tracy hadn't planned to interfere. She really did just want to take some pictures.

But in that moment, she realizes she has something to say to this man.

I've never thought of the country girl.

She just had to get it out of her system. I've got my mom's mouth. It just flew out. But she would have never said that word, though, dropping the F bomb. She would have slapped me in the mouthhead.

She heard me say that. He just hung his head and got in. And I'm just like, "Well, shit." Now what? Dory is on her couch holding onto her phone for dear life.

“When it finally lights up, I'll never forget getting those pictures.”

It was just like, winning the lottery. Thanks to Tracy, the news spreads like wildfire. Lisa, our hockey-loving mum from Minnesota, sees Tracy's pictures rolling too. I was just like, girl, if I could hug you right now, I would. That sucker was arrested.

Also watching the pictures roll in is a woman in California. That was sensational for me. You got caught. She's been waiting not years, but decades for answers. This person has been deceiving people since he was a young man and it needs to stop.

Now, Derrick Ordred is finally in custody.

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