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Later in the evening, Danny watched Steve closely from his office. Slumped into his chair, Danny could see Steve was losing into his wild thought. Papers were spread all over his table. Danny could see the muscle twitching involuntarily at the corner of Steve's right eyes, his mouth formed into a rigid grimace. Once in a while he would lean forward, placing his hand on the table, drumming his fingers relentlessly.

Danny knew what was going on Steve's mind. Maybe it was time for a talk. He sighed before he dropped what he was doing and walked into Steve's office. "Hey, babe."

"Hey," Steve whispered, tried his best to smile but failed miserably.

"How did it go with the Governor?"

Steve took in a deep breath before he answered, "Well, so far we have four kidnappings with all four victims found dead two days later plus no promising leads," Steve held up a few magazines and newspaper for Danny to see, "plus media is terrorizing the public with a possible serial killer hunting for victims, so you do the math."

Danny slowly crossed his arms over his chest. "I can imagine. I know it is a stupid question, but how are you holding up?"

Steve huffed before he spoke. "I'm pissed off, Danny." He blurted out honestly, exposing what he was really feeling to Danny. "I mean the Governor, she is right from where she is, her peoples' life at stake with some lunatic randomly killing people, and I can't …I'm no where near to catch him so yeah, I'm pissed off."

Frankly, Danny was slightly surprised but thankful that Steve was openly acknowledging his feeling with him.

"Look, " Danny said as he sat on the chair opposite of Steve and leaned closer to his table, stealing a glance over the papers spread over his table. "Why don't we go through everything we have so far?"

"Again?" Steve asked.

"Yes, again," Danny looked determined. "We go through everything together, maybe we will come up with something."

Danny's determined face and willingness to go through the evidence again, shed some positive light on Steve. "Okay," He whispered as he leaned closer to the table. "Our first victim," Steve pulled a specific case file. "Todd Rockland, 39 from Los Angeles. His wife reported him missing when he did not return from his business trip here in Oahu. LAPD reached out to HPD, Duke and his men found out that Todd did attended his business conferences, checked out his resort, but he never made it to the airport."

Danny nodded as he listened.

"HPD found his body two days later, in a dumpster in an alley behind a grocery store, legs and hand were tied together with zip ties, body was wrapped in a white transparent plastic." Steve continued, "Autopsy findings revealed an incised wound at the left wrist. A spindle shaped incised wound of tendon deep was present horizontally over the anterior aspect of the left wrist. The margins were clean cut and infiltrated with blood. The skin, subcutaneous veins and fat, muscles, tendons, radial artery and median nerve were incised. According to Noelani, it should have taken almost 4–5 hours for death to follow due to hemorrhagic shock after cut wrist injury involving the radial artery. Noelani also said you don't necessarily need medical knowledge to make that kind of cut on the wrist. "

"Right," Danny nodded again before he continued where Steve had left. "Todd should have bled slowly to death somewhere else, because there was no sign of any blood at the dumpster. So, the dumpster was our secondary crime scene, what we are missing is the primary crime scene."

Steve stood up and walked over his table, closer to the soft board where he had pinned case information on. "It was just like any other case until we found our second victim, Roger Edward, 45, his body was left in the same way as Todd's but in a different alley. What was unique this time, or what made us to believe both the killings was committed by the same person is that the small note left inside Roger's mouth."

Danny stood up, walked over and stood beside Steve. "Right. That is what made us to tie these two killings together. A note written using Todd's blood with a paint brush in Roger's mouth." Danny pointed towards a piece of paper pinned on the soft board.

Sorry my first kill was so clumsy.

And

I can't be like you, telling a lie.

"Usually, serial killers have a habit of taking items from their victims which they can keep for years to come in order to remind them of their kills. But in our case, this lunatic is taking the victim's blood and using it to write a note for us." Danny cringed in disgust.

There few moments of silence before Steve spoke. "You know, at first I couldn't figure what the words meant," Steve shrugged slightly, "I can't be like you, I thought maybe he referring to us, you know the law enforcement people." Steve sighed deeply."But when the second note came with the third victim, that's where it all become personal."

Danny winced as he listened. Yes, that was the part he wasn't thrilled about either, to know a serial killer leaving a note written using the blood of the previous victim in the mouth of the latest victim, directing it specially to his partner. He rubbed his chin before he continued. "Third victim, Bill Stanley, 35. The note left in his mouth was written using Rogers' blood, which says,"

He is here to stay, McGarrett;

Maybe you can stop him but…

He is already preying for his next victim.

"Fourth victim, Martin Cooper, 42 found this morning and the note left in his mouth, like we predicted was written using Bill's blood. It says,"

He thought you were the very best,

And

McGarrett, he wonders what is taking you so long?

Steve massaged the back of his neck, frustrated, "What is you taking so long?" He reread the sentence out aloud. "What? To capture him? He is clearly taunting me. Why me in the first place?" Steve threw his hands in the air.

"If you have realized, your name was not there in the second note, but it only appeared in the third note." Danny shrugged. "Maybe he saw you in the news, get to know that you are leading the investigation."

"Five 0 Task Force together with HPD is handing the case is what I said in press conferences."

"But you were the one he saw. For him, you are the law enforcement and taunting you directly, maybe gives him a sense of power, control or perhaps a sense of thrill."

Steve chose silence, he was digesting Danny's words as his eyes went all over the soft board.

Danny continued when he didn't hear any reply. "Another thing about the note, all the sentences start with a 'he', there's no 'I', so either he referring to his partner, which is crazy because this would suggest that we have serial killers or he's referring to his own altered persona. However, we have nothing solid to make a conclusion on this." Danny raked his fingers through his hair before he continued. "Four killings, what do they have in common is that all four victims are male, early 30s to to late 40s, killed and their body dumped in the same way. Other than that, they have nothing in common, the first victim was from Los Angeles, visiting Hawaii, the other three were from different part of Hawaii. Lou and the others have been digging deeper into their lives, but so far, they have nothing in common, different race, different body structure, totally different lifestyle, there was no evidence of any four of them coming across each others."

Steve's eyes fell over the notes as Danny was talking. He read them again. "You're missing out something else that is now common between all the four killings."

Danny lifted an eyebrow as he turned to Steve. "What is that?"

"Me."

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