POSSIBLE VICTIM

'Jesse St. James, NYPD, open up!'

Flack, Mac and Jo are at Jesse's house. They hear some mumbling and some noise, and after a few minutes a young man opens the door. He's wearing a sweatpants and a big shirt. He's looking like he came right out of bed.

'Did we wake you up?' Flack asks.

'Yeah, you did. What's this all about?'

'Well, time to wake up; you're arrested on suspicion of murder on Mary Billinger.' Mac says when he walks towards Jesse and putts handcuffs around his wrists.

'What? Who? I don't even know that girl! I didn't do anything. This is a mistake!'

'You know how much I've heard that? Mostly they were lying. Now come on, watch your head when you walk into the car.' Flack takes his hands and walks him to the car.

'Hey Mac.' Jo walks into Mac's office.

'Hey Jo, how are you?'

'I'm great, thanks, but can I interrogate Jesse St. James?'

'Yeah sure, but Flack is already busy with him. And why?'

'I found this video's on the internet. He's a pretty good singer, but a few weeks ago people started yelling at him, because they didn't like it. Maybe he was jealous of the others, because they had more success?'

'That's possible, but a bit strange. You can ask him. And now hurry, before Flack is already finished.' Jo nodded and smiled as she walked out of his office, on to the interrogation room.

'Hello Jesse, my name is det. Jo Danville. I want to ask you some questions. First of all, do you know this girl?' She shows him a picture of Mary Billinger.

'No, she doesn't look familiar.'

'But you know she looks a lot like your ex-girlfriend, Rachel, right?'

'I guess, what is the point of this?'

'Don't you think it is a bit strange, that a girl, that looks a lot like your ex-girlfriend, is murdered, and the same day you call your ex-girlfriend with the dead girl's phone?'

'I found that phone! It was just laying there, on the street, no girl, no body, just that phone. I swear!' 'But why did you just took that phone than? You could just ask people if they lost it, or bring it to the police station.'

'I know, but, I lost my job a few weeks ago, and I'm running out of money. So I thought, if I take this phone, I can save money for other things. But I haven't stolen it, or killed someone!'

'So why did you stopped calling a few times?'

'I'm looking for a new job, and every time someone called I hang up because it could be someone offering me a job. That's the truth, please, just believe me!'

'I can't believe you on your words, I'm a cop. But I'll wait what the evidence says.'

Jo stepped out of the room. Flack walked towards her.

'Do you believe him?'

'Actually, I do. He doesn't seem to be the person who would kill someone. And we don't even know why this girl is being murdered.'

'Maybe I can help.' Hawkes walked towards them with his I-pad in his hand.

'Look at this.'

'What am I looking at? Yes, I can see it's a note, but what is so special?' Flack asked.

'It isn't special, but it's got a name on it. It's from a club named "The Black Diamond", where people are performing every week. This one is from two nights ago, right before she was murdered. I found it in her clothes. Maybe someone there knows what happened to her.'

'Good job, Sheldon!' Jo says, as she smiled at him and friendly punches his shoulder.

'But I found more. The singer who sang that night, was a girl who was in the same school as our victim and Rachel Berry. In fact, she even graduated at the same time as miss Berry.'

'Who is she?' Flack asked.

'Her name is Santana Lopez, she sings every Friday evening in this club.'

'We'll be right on it.' Flack said as he walked away.

'You know, this case is getting stranger and stranger.' Jo says to Sheldon.

'I mean, they're all just singers, I never thought they kill.'

'Who says one of them did it. I thought you never saw someone guilty before the opposite was proved.'

'I know! This case is just… a bit weird.'

Hawkes laughed. Jo shook her head and walked away.