"Diamonds Aren't Always a Girl's Best Friend" is another CSI:NY/Flangell rewrite of a story originally titled "2 B Continued".
As a re-write, HF-0 style, that means it will feature our kick-ass Kono. And Super SEAL fans will be pleased that he will have a staring role as well.
My characters for this story will are:
The bad guys; Duffy, Davis, Bentley, and Pauley
Mr. Shore - he owns the jewelry store
Brandon Quill works at the jewelry store
Reporter Cindy Baker and her camera man Bob
Judge Rakers
My returning characters;
SWAT team leader Lieutenant Jose Diaz
Diaz's side-kick Bradley
hostage negotiator Agent Amber Layne
And now, chapter 1 of "Diamonds Aren't Always A Girl's Bet Friend"
AT FIVE-0 HQ...
Steve's rubbed his tired eyes as the sound of his ringing phone drew him
out of the sleepy daze he was currently in. "McGarrett." He answered,
trying not to sound grumpy, or half asleep. It was a Sunday morning after
all. An early Sunday morning, to be precise. And while it was nice to have
everything almost wrapped up from last nights under cover op, no one had
expected the op to drag into the early morning hours and the paperwork to
take twice as long as expected. Of course, it would have helped if he had
been able to dump his paperwork off onto Danny like he usually did. But
Danny was with Grace, so Steve was stuck with doing his own paperwork,
for once. Of course, if he was as efficient as Chin, he would have been
done an hour ago and been long gone, like Chin was.
"Wait up, Kono." Steve said as he exited his office less than a minutes
later.
"What's up, Boss?" Kono asked, her now empty coffee cup in hand as she
headed to the break room to put it away before leaving to get some much
needed sleep.
"Silent alarm at a jewelry store. HPD has checked it out, twice." He
informed her.
"Doesn't exactly sound like a job for Five-0." She commented.
"It does when they find a dead body in the alley behind the building." He
clarified.
"Silent alarm goes off, gets checked, but no robbery. Alarm goes off again,
gets checked again, still no robbery. And now a dead body?" She asks.
"That pretty much sums it up." He said, leading the way out.
"You drive. I'll call Chin and Danny." She said, following him out.
TWENTY MINUTES LATER...
Steve and Kono flashed their badges as they ducked under the yellow
crime scene tape. The officer waved them through and gestured to Chin,
who was standing near where Max and Charlie were examining the body.
"What've we got?" Steve asked Chin as he approached.
"Just got here myself." Chin began, as Steve and Kono crouched next to
the dead body. "But with two silent alarms here earlier, but no robbery, I'm
guessing that these scuff marks just outside the door were where a fight
took place."
"Which means, if they'd made any contact with the door during their fight, it
would have set off the alarm." Kono finished for him, and watched her
cousin nod in agreement.
"Well, this probably has nothing to do with the jewelry store then, but we're
gonna go check inside anyway. Maybe someone heard or saw something."
And with that Steve and Kono went around the building to the front door.
"Well, for someone who was in a fight, he has no apparent injuries." Max
said. "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Charlie asked, engrossed in his picture taking.
"Yeah, I did. It sounded like someone just locked this door." Chin said,
indicating the door to the back of the jewelry store that they and the dead
body were near.
Charlie stood, put on fresh gloves so he wouldn't transfer any trace
evidence, then reached for the nob. "It's locked."