Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek
Norfolk, VA
1130 EST

"Hey sleepy head."

Harm groggily returned to the living, and ran a hand through his hair. "Let's' go."

The two officers found the main building at the base and entered. Looking around quickly they found an Ensign walking hurriedly somewhere. "Excuse me."

Startled the young woman turned around quickly, noticing the rank on the two officers, she stood stiffly at attention.

"Relax, we would just like to know where Admiral Kline's office is located he is expecting us." Harm smiled as he remembered being that nervous when he had been a young officer.

Noticeably relaxing the Ensign gave them directions to the office, which was just around the corner. Harm and Mac smiled and thanked the woman then went to find Admiral Kline.

"Sir." The two officers stood at attention in front of the mahogany desk of Admiral Kline. The man looked to be in his late forties to early fifties.

"Have a seat. As I understand the two of you are the best pair of investigators at JAG. Hopefully you will be able to solve the problem that we have been having so that the men and woman on this base can sleep at night."

"Yes Sir." Mac stated.

"Good. Now here is the file. It contains pictures of all six of the victims, the crime scenes, and also a list of witnesses that I was able to pry from the police before they turned jurisdiction over to you."

"Thank you sir. This will help greatly in our investigation."

"Now I want you out that door and I want this killer found yesterday."

Both people stood and saluted then left.

Out in the hall Mac turned to Harm who held the manila envelope in his grasp. "Lets go look at the pictures, while we drive over to the temporary housing complex."

Harm nodded an agreement as he stepped into the passenger side of the car.

Temporary Housing Complex
Little Creek Base
1155 EST

Harm looked around the room. The small set of rooms that he and Mac would be sharing was modest, but comfortable. It was usually used for families of sailors, and marines that came to visit for a couple of days. There was one bedroom (but two beds), a bathroom, something that could barely pass as a kitchen (all it had was a 18'' cooler of the kind they put in hotels, and a sink) and a kind of family room with a couch a chair a low coffee table and a TV.

Harm and Mac settled side by side on the couch to look at the pictures. Setting the folder and its contents on the table they leaned over to closely examine the information at hand. There were three pictures on top of the pile. Each looked almost identical to each other. There were two victims in each picture, a man and a woman. The woman had a line across the throat drawn by a knife and the man in each had been carefully gutted and cleaned like a deer in the field. But the other thing that Mac noticed was, despite the obvious injury to both they were bruised and battered. She filed that information away for later use.

Together the two looked over the other information and pictures carefully, each trying desperately to keep from vomiting. They had seen some pretty bad things, but nothing this deliberate, this gruesome.

After looking over the pitifully short witness list Harm and Mac decided to go out to grab something to eat.

Macdonald's
Norfolk, VA
1245 EST

Harm and Mac stepped out of the car, Harm still complaining about the choice of restaurant.

"Get over it you big baby." Mac teased. "It will be good for you to get a little fat on your bones."

Harm smiled, the earlier weariness seeming to dissipate. "Hey it's not my fault that grease burgers are so disgusting, otherwise I would eat them all the time and weigh 400 pounds."

Shaking her head she entered the restaurant.

Just Outside the Macdonald's
1245 EST

He watched from his car parked not 20 feet from where the two officers were standing. As he watched them go in he thought how unfair it was. His partner was gone, so no one could have a partner.

Crime Scene of First Victims
Little Creek Base
1330 EST

The killer had struck on base. That said something either for his boldness or for his stupidity. The pair of officers had apparently been walking back to the women's barrack more than likely to drop off the woman and then have the man go to his own bunk, but they couldn't rule out a romantic involvement with any of the victims.

"Why don't we check with the friends of these people and find out what kind of relationship they had with each other." Harm stated.

"Sure. But we won't be able to find anyone until they all come in this evening. We'll have to wait a while."

"Hey, not a problem we can check out the list of suspects and get Bud to do checks on them."

"Good idea."

Temporary Housing Complex
Little Creek Base
1411 EST

"Hey Bud."

"Hello sir" The voice in the receiver replied.

"How are you holdin' down the fort?"

"Pretty well sir. I'm in court tomorrow on a drunk and disorderly, persecution."

"Go get 'em. Hey Bud, I have a favor to ask of you. Would you mind running a background check on the following people? Tim Hawkins…

"I think that I heard that name somewhere, the news maybe."

"Why would he be on the news?"

"I think that something happened to him or, I can't remember, but I'll try to find out for you."

"Good. Now the other two are. Alicia Milbourne, and Jon Hancock."

"Is that it sir?"

"For now Bud."

"I'll get right on it sir. How is the investigation coming sir?"

"We don't have much yet, but it's only the first day."

"Alright. Good-bye and good luck sir. And tell the Major I said hi."

"Will do Bud."

Hanging up the receiver. Harm turned towards his partner "Bud said hi."

Mac smiled at the thought of the young man. "Well, we have three choices. We can wait around until Bud calls back with the information which may take a while, we can sit around and wait for the people to get back to the cafeteria for chow time, or we can go back to the crime scene and check it out one more time. So what will it be?"

The fatigue and weariness that plagued her partner on the ride up passed over his face again. "Well the crime scene isn't going anywhere so lets just relax."

"Fine with me, but I think later I might look at the scene just so that I have a better idea of what we are looking for. Hey Harm, are you sure that you are alright, you look really tired, maybe you should go lie down."

"Yeah, I guess I will since I have some time to burn."