The detective was walking out in the slightly chilly morning in November from the parking lot to the front doors of the NYPD building. It was 4 in the morning and he was exhausted. He had just received a call about 30 minutes ago calling in a double homicide which later turned into a triple homicide. He hated hearing about homicides but he realized that that if he didn't, he wouldn't have a job. But he still hated it…..especially when someone was crazy enough to kill this early in the morning! He walked into his office and saw the folder on his desk. He didn't think that he would be the one on this case. But it looks like he will be. He sighs as he settles into his chair and opens to see some gruesome pictures. The first sets are a man and his brother, brutally beaten and then shot after being robbed. The next was almost the same; the only difference was that it was a woman and her 15 year old son. Last, was the most recent, the Johnston family. Same way of death but the 23 year old daughter, Dawn, made it to the hospital, only to die during surgery. They had a dangerous serial on their hands and it was their duty to put him or them away for good. He walked to the break room and poured himself some coffee and then met his second in command, Jo Danville, in the hallway. The short dark haired, spunky woman was as energetic as always and Mac couldn't help but wonder what was being put into her coffee….he needed whatever it was too. Together they walked back to his office and talked about the case. They had deduced that each homicide was done the same way: beaten into submission, robbed of all their money, and then shot in the chest. It didn't matter whether they were man or woman, or adult or child. This was pure evil. After all the team arrived, they set right to work. Sheldon and Adam searched through the databases for matches for the strange substance they found on the mother of the young boy, while Danny and Lindsay went to ballistics to determine the caliber of the bullets pulled out of each of the victims. Mac and Jo were doing their own research with the markings found with the bruises on each of the victims. Each one was beaten so much that it was hard to tell what was normal and what was not. They also looked up each of their names to see if there was any importance to their names. When they didn't find any, they went through other ways of finding out who they were. They found out that the first man murdered had a history stealing cars when he was a teen. But they didn't think that had anything to do with these cases and just made note of it.
Finally, they decided to take a break after working for 4 hours straight trying to find some answers. They all went out and ate at a deli not very far away from the lab. Mac was more exhausted than he was hungry so he just ordered something simple while the other order something like 2 special burger with medium fries and all of them ordered a water or coffee. They all noticed Mac was tired so they just gave small chit chat about things like Danny and Lindsay's daughter, Lucy. Mac face lit up when hearing about his Goddaughter. He loved Lucy so much. He never had any kids with his first wife, Claire, because she was taken away from him so early in life. He missed Claire a lot and even though he had moved on, he will always love her and always remember the great memories they shared together.
"Mac?" He hadn't realized that Jo had been talking to him because he was thinking so deeply.
"I'm sorry. What is it?"
"We were talking about this Friday heading to the game and just hanging out afterwards. Do you want to join us too?"
"Yeah, yeah. What time?"
"5 sound good to y'all?"
Everyone answered 'yes' in unison. After everyone finished eating, they headed back to the lab. They started with their search again. Adam was getting frustrated and Sheldon could understand because they determined that the strange substance was a mixture of two different things. They figured that it had to be some sort of poisonous flower but it was so rare that they didn't have it in the databases. Finally they gave up and went and found Mac. They told him of their predicament and so he followed them and looked at it through the microscope. Adam was the shy lab tech Mac had grown proud of. Adam was always nervous around the people higher up than him, especially Mac. Mac thought it was because of the fact he was the boss. After even him having trouble figuring out what it was, they searched through the special website they had that could identify unknown substances. They finally located the poisonous flower type; wolf's bane. They couldn't figure out why the flower was mixed in with this other substance that at that moment they just named the gooey, yellowish, greenish gunk. Thinking of the word gooey made Mac think of his previous partner and very close friend, Stella Bonesera. He really missed her after she left to go become the boss of the New Orleans Crime Lab. He pulled out of his thoughts when his phone beeped, showing that he had a message from Danny.
Mac walked to where Danny and Lindsey were looking at something one the computer screen. They bullets came from a .50 Desert Eagle. It was a very dangerous gun and could definitely pack a heavy punch upon making impact. They also found some sort of marking on each of the bullets. It looks slightly like a K but it was degraded so they would have to do some more work on them. Mac went back to his office and sat there for a little while and relaxed. He knew this was going to be a long case with no sleep. He would need to go home for a little while to pick up some clothes to bring to the lab. Just then Jo came in and said that she hadn't found anything so far in the databases with the symbols. He got even more frustrated. He stood up and said he was gonna go by his apartment to pick up some clothes and then he was gonna come back in around an hour and a half. He got into his black Chevy Avalanche and headed home. He saw many people looking around nervously because the news that there was a serial in the city had spread. He hoped they could catch this guy or guys before he hit again.
