"You get anything?" asked Finn.
"She is fuzzy about the details. She was studying at the library, she left, was waiting for her father to pick her up. Someone came up behind her, then she blacked out. When she came to, she was in a locked storage room. She broke the window and managed to get out. She walked around till she passed out, then someone finally found her, "replied Madison.
"How did you make the connection to Winchester?" questioned Eames.
"The rape kit, two different types of condoms were used on each victim, but this time the condom broke, so we were able to get DNA, and Winchester was in the system." said Finn.
Madison was on the phone, when she hung up she said, "Cragen wants us back at the station ASAP."
When they arrived at the station, everyone looked at her with a saddened look on their face.
"Who died?" asked Madison.
Stabler got up and walked up to Madison, "Uh, Madison, Jack McCoy and Mike Cutter are in Cragen's Office- they need to speak to you."
"Guess someone did die." said Madison looking uneasy.
She walked into Cragen's office and closed the door.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Finn.
"Roger Mills is being released." replied Stabler.
"What the hell?!" said Finn. "How the hell did that happen?"
"His trial was up for appeal, and some idiot in the evidence room lost the evidence, so the judge dismissed his case." said Munch.
"How could they do that? He killed 4 women, and after what he did to Madison?" yelled Finn.
"I know your angry Madison," said the Captain.
"Angry doesn't even begin to describe what I am feeling." Madison yelled.
"I am so sorry, Detective, but we will get him." said McCoy.
"When is he being released?" questioned Madison, pacing, unable to sit still.
"Day after tomorrow." said Cutter.
"Take the rest of the day off." said Cragen.
"What good would that do?" she gave an uneasy laugh. "Five years, he gets off after five years."
"We will put a protection detail on you, Taylor." said Cragen.
Madison looked at Cragen. He hardly ever called her by her first name, unless he was really worried. She could see the concern in his face.
"No, I can take care of myself, but I will take you up on that day off."
She walked out the office and didn't make eye contact with anyone in the office. She grabbed her jacket to leave.
"Maddie?" Finn called out.
But she just kept walking.
Goren wrote down the name "Roger Mills" in his notebook, he had to find out what he did to Taylor Madison.
Cragen, McCoy, Cutter all walked out of the Captain's office.
"Way to go District Attorney!" says Finn.
"Calm down Finn." said the Captain.
"Calm down? They let a murderer get away and you know he is going to go after Madison the minute he gets out!" yelled Finn.
"He would be stupid to do that, Detective, and we will do everything we can to prevent that. We need everyone to just keep their heads and keep calm." said Cutter.
Bobby put his hand on Finn's shoulder.
"Come on, let's go for a walk." Bobby said.
Finn left with Bobby.
"You ok now? Want to talk about it?" said Bobby.
"Lawyers, they don't understand what it's like on the street; we work so hard to get these scumbags off the street. Then things get screwed up and bam they are back on the streets," said Finn.
"Finn, what happened to Taylor? Why is everyone so worried about her?" said Bobby.
"Man, I shouldn't tell you, she would kill me. It happened 5 years ago, but man it was horrible." said Finn.
"I can look it up in the records, or hear the truth from you. I have feelings for her, you never knew this, but she and I were in a relationship years ago. We kept it secret from everyone. It didn't work out, but I really never stopped caring for her, so please tell Me." pleaded Bobby.
"Ok, but you didn't hear it from me. Six years ago, we had a string of rapes and murders, with no leads, no evidence. The crime scene was spotless. We started suspecting maybe it was a cop or someone in the justice system. The first three, Madison reported to the crime scene, and then she got ill with the flu, real bad, so she had to take a week off. Well, we had 3 more victims, and when she didn't work the crime scene, the perp got angry. He started writing at the scene, "I will kill cops if Madison doesn't start working my crime scenes". The perp wanted Madison, in a bad way. He was doing these rape/murders to get her attention. He started writing her notes on how he wanted to make love to her, and how he chose these women because they looked like her, but when he made love to them, and realized they weren't her, he killed them. Still, even with the letters, we didn't have a clue. Madison was going crazy; she was getting flowers, these sick love letters and a dead victim every three days. Finally we got a break in the case. Someone found a roll of crime scene photos and all the pictures were of Madison. It was a CSU tech named Roger Mills. But we found out too late. Madison had gone back to a scene with Mills to go over some evidence he claimed he found, and he injected her with a knockout drug and took her. She was missing for three days. I won't tell you the things he did to her, and I couldn't watch her testimony. But from what he did to his other victims, it was horrible. She escaped on her own, she was found beaten, burn marks, and also, he had cut her. He would have killed her if she didn't get away. She has never talked about it with me and I never asked. If you want to read the transcripts and read what he did to her, go ahead. I, I don't want to know. But that animal should have gotten the death penalty." said Finn.
Bobby just looked into space, rubbed the back of his neck, and then buried his face in his hands. Why wasn't he there for her? If he hadn't broken things off with her, this would have never happened.
Finn went back to the precinct.
Bobby hailed a cab, he had to see her.
He knocked on her door. Maybe this was a mistake, what right did he have to intrude on her personal life after 10 yrs? The door opened.
"Hey, you need something?" asked Madison.
"Uh, I was just worried, you looked upset when you left the squad room." said Bobby nervously.
"Did Finn send you?" she asked.
"Uh, No." said Bobby. "Can I come in?"
She opened the door wider, so he could walk in. There was a man sitting on the sofa.
"Bobby Goren, this is Ben Adams. Ben Adams, this is Bobby Goren. Bobby is one of the detectives working on a case with us. We worked together a long time ago when I was in Narcotics. Ben is my boyfriend, he teaches at Hudson." said Madison.
Bobby was suddenly uncomfortable, why didn't Finn tell him Madison had a boyfriend?
Bobby extended his hand and shook hands with Ben Adams.
"Teacher at Hudson, what do you teach?" asked Goren.
"Chemistry." said Adams.
"Aw, explains the smell," said Goren.
"Have to excuse that." laughed Adams. "Teaching my students how to make sulfur dioxide."
"Dangerous stuff." said Goren.
"Not in controlled settings, but it's time for me to go. It will give you two time to catch up. Sweetheart, don't let Mills bother you, I can move in if you like, maybe make you feel safer?" he said and kissed her on the cheek.
"No, that's ok, I will be fine. I will see you later." She said then walked him to the door.
Bobby just rolled his eyes, like a Chemistry teacher could protect a police officer.
They kissed again. Bobby thought, "Ok, I am going to puke." Then Adams was gone.
She turned to Bobby, "So what did Finn tell you about Mills?"