Back at the station Jane stopped by the coffee shop to grab a cup. Angela Rizzoli approached waving a flyer.
"Hi Janie. Have you seen this?" she thrust the flyer into her daughter's hands "It's a charity karaoke night sponsored by BPD and the Dirty Robber. Looks like fun, huh?"
Jane read the flyer. The charity event was inviting people to donate to have their friends sing karaoke. "Looks like a recipe for disaster if you ask me Ma," Jane replied giving the flyer back to her and grabbing a coffee.
"Oh but you had such a pretty voice in church choir" Angela continued, "I was just telling Maura that the other day."
Jane turned and stared at her mother. "No!" she said loudly and firmly, "No Ma, you and Maura are expressly forbidden from signing me up."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Angela replied as she walked away.
Jane flung her hand in the air in frustration. Her phone rang – it was Maura.
"Hey Maura what do you have for me?" she asked.
"I have some information on the trace found on the victim's fingers" she said "Can you come down to the morgue?" "On my way" Jane responded.
When Jane arrived Maura was scanning through something on her iPad and smiling to herself. She saw Jane and quickly closed the cover and placed it on her desk.
"I thought it was some kind of soil but our analysis confirms that it is cocaine" she informed the detective. "I've already passed the chemical composition to the narcotics team to see if they can match it to a known drug dealer. Our AFIS search turned up nothing so we are no further forward on identifying him"
"What about the guy who was suspected of using the computer to deal drugs?" Jane asked "The case file said he went missing before he could be brought in for questioning but Crowe assumed he skipped town."
"If you can find an item of his like a toothbrush or hairbrush I might be able to get some DNA to match." Maura said.
Jane returned to her desk ready to find the missing shipping office employee's address and update Frost and Korsak. Frost was returning to his desk at the same time, obviously bursting with news of his own. "I've just spent the last hour working with Caroline" he said excitedly, "We may have another lead on the missing data."
"Getting your geek on, Frost?" Jane asked, winking at him. Frost gave Jane a "girlfriend, what is wrong with your gaydar?" look and kept talking.
"Caroline thinks the backups might be stored on a cloud storage solution" he finished.
Jane and Korsak looked blankly at the other detective. "You can explain on the way to the car" Jane said "we need to visit Marty Smith's apartment – there's a good chance those severed fingers belong to him."
"He's the missing shipping office employee?" asked Korsak. "Yeah, and if we can find a toothbrush or hairbrush of his Maura can do a DNA analysis to confirm or deny that," she finished.
"We also have a BOLO for Jerry Phillips" Korsak added "The officer we sent out to his townhouse said no one was home."
As the detectives walked to the elevator, Frost gave an overview of a cloud storage solution. "Basically the data is stored somewhere on the internet. Even some well-known online retailers are offering it now. Since we didn't find any backup media at the shipping office, Caroline is taking the primary hard disk out of the server and will analyze the operating system for configuration information. She'll call me if anything turns up."
Jane looked impressed "I know who I'm going to call the next time my home computer acts up," she said. Frost pretended to look hurt. "Come on Frost, compared to Caroline you're geek-lite," she joked.
Marty Smith's apartment was very sparse. There was no evidence of foul play or any information that might indicate where he was. The detectives were able to bag and tag a toothbrush and hairbrush. "I hope Dr. Isles can get some DNA from one of these," Korsak said as they headed back to the station, "it sure would be nice to put a name to those fingers."
After they returned, Jane took the evidence down to Maura. "How quickly can you get this back?" she asked. "I'll put a rush on it," Maura replied "but it may still take a couple of days."
A colored piece of paper on Maura's desk caught Jane's eye. It was the charity karaoke night flyer. Jane picked it up "Maura," she said with a warning tone in her voice waving the flyer at her, "What are you up to?" Maura looked completely innocent. "Caroline left it there," she replied.
"I've already warned Ma," Jane continued, "I am not singing karaoke, OK?" Maura looked disappointed. "Angela said you had an exquisite voice when you sang in the choir," she said "and it is a charity event. I was trying to decide on the perfect song. Caroline gave me a soft copy of the catalogue," she gestured toward her iPad.
Jane sighed. "Maura the choir was a very, very long time ago. Just…please, promise me?" Reluctantly Maura agreed.
Jane's phone buzzed "Right. OK, that's great news Caroline, thanks." She hung up. "Caroline has discovered where the data was being stored 'in the cloud'," she told Maura, "She's working on getting a warrant to gain access now."