"Prepare to be amazed my friend." Patrick Jane leaned closer to Rigsby, excited to be able to show off his magician skills. Grace was perched on the edge of the desk, amused by the puzzled look on Rigsby's face. Cho was sitting at his desk reading a book, seemingly uninterested in the event taking place.
After five minutes of watching the trick being repeated over and over again for Rigsby's benefit, Grace grew bored, went to the break room in search of a snack, and returned with a ham sandwich. Jane got up and went to his couch, and Rigsby decided to play a game of solitaire on his computer. The team remained silent until their boss, Teresa Lisbon, emerged from her office.
"Gear up, we've got a case." She stated as she walked towards the elevator, team in toe.
"Cho, ID?" Lisbon asked as she walked into the small living room. The house was run down and in a bad part of town; the team didn't know why this involved them, but they were eager to take the case, considering there was nothing else to do in the office.
"Jake Walker, 34."
"Jake Walker? Hmm...." Patrick thought for a moment.
"What is it, Jane?" Lisbon asked. She had heard the name before, but couldn't remember where.
"Isn't he the guy that blackmailed a senator?" Jane recalled. Lisbon nodded her head.
"Yea. His girlfriend, Felicity Barnes, was sleeping with the senator, Walker decided to try and make some money from it. Turns out Walker was part of a huge heroin smuggling operation, so he stared dropping names, and in return the original charges were dropped." Rigsby chimed in with the information.
"This leaves us with a few suspects: the senator, the drug smugglers, and the girlfriend could have possibly done it too, considering she is nowhere to be found." Everybody finished up at the crime scene, before heading back to the CBI to start tracking down the girlfriend and the drug smugglers.
"Boss? I have info on the smugglers. Anybody that had motive to kill him was either in court or in prison. They had no way of getting word out to an outsider to do their dirty work either." Van Pelt said as she put the phone down. Any of their leads were coming up dead ends, and they still hadn't managed to find the girlfriend. Lisbon let out an involuntary groan.
"Oh come on, Lisbon, cheer up. We still have to find the girlfriend. Don't give up hope now." Jane smiled at her, and Lisbon just snarled back. She was about to make a witty remark, when her cell phone rang.
"Lisbon." She listened to the person on the other end for a few moments, before hanging up. "Jane, with me. Local cops think they have found Barnes." Lisbon and Jane rushed off to the elevator, leaving the team to investigate into the senator's affair.
When Jane and Lisbon arrived at another run down house, there was just one police officer there. "Got a call saying she was spotted entering the building, and I was told to call you guys."
"Thank you officer, we can take it from here." Lisbon said as she brushed past him and walked toward the house, Jane close behind her. Lisbon knocked on the door, but there was no answer. When they entered the house, there was nobody there. Lisbon searched the place, and stopped short when she came across the bedroom. Felicity Barnes was lying on the shabby bed unconscious, with a needle protruding from her left arm. On the floor crying was a baby girl, no older than ten months. Lisbon and Jane gasped at the sight.
"Hey there, princess. Shh there it's alright." Lisbon gently picked the baby up and rocked her slowly. She could tell that they baby was severely underweight, and needed medical attention immediately. Jane walked over to Felicity and felt for a pulse. He couldn't find one.
"She's dead Lisbon." He looked at the sight before him. Lisbon was successful in calming the baby, and now rocked the sleeping infant tenderly. The baby's right hand clutched at Lisbon's shirt as if it were a life line. He watched on for another moment, before remembering that now was not the time to admire how beautiful Lisbon looked holding on to a sleeping child.
"Alright. Call the paramedics, this baby needs help immediately. Oh, and call the team, they can come down and process the crime scene." Lisbon didn't take her eyes from the baby once as she said this.
"Medics and the team are on their way, Lisbon." Jane said, as he walked over to see the little girl in Lisbon's arms. They made sure the baby was alright until the medics arrived. The team all gasped a little when they heard that Felicity had been dead at least three days, so the baby had been crying for at least that long. Once they were done at the crime scene, Lisbon sent the rest of the team home, before heading off to the hospital to find anything out about the little girl she and Jane had found.