Thanks for all the reviews so far. Let's bring back Coates more and plunge her deep in the NCIS: New Orleans world.
The device Indentograph is fictional but is just a twist on the device used by Q in James Bond's "For your Eyes Only"
NCIS New Orleans HQ
1100 hours local
"Wow Whee," Investigative Computer Specialist Patton Plame said as the new girl and LaSalle walked away.
"Patton," Brody started.
"Patton," she repeated herself then shook his wheelchair.
"Oh, oh, sorry," he muttered then exclaimed, "Man, where did she get that beauty from?"
"Patton Plame!" Brody raised her voice. "Get your mind back to work!"
"Ok, ok," he held up his hands. "Let' see what we can get on this Bonfilio girl," he said typing furious on his tablet. "Ah!"
"Bonfillo, Pia, age 41, mother and father divorced and deceased," Brody read out loud. "Mother killed in a in a hit and run accident, father died a few years later. Never made it past eleventh grade, especially nearly burning down the science lab and swearing at teachers. Joined street gangs, and yes became leader of Los Angeles' Poachers.
" Wanted for lots of shoplifting, extortion, attempted kidnapping from West Coast to East Coast," Patton continued. "And yup, suspected murder of ex-boyfriend Vince Nolan. Says the case is under the DC Police, Detectives," Patton squinted, "Detective Danville Morris and Detective Myra Jimenez. Funny names."
"Hmmph, we have to contact them for the case file," Brody commented and mentally noted. "Anything else? Modus Operandi?"
"Says she's a master of disguise," Patton pointed at the last line. "Guess your cousin is right.
On the way to the Jefferson Parish Morgue and lab
Around the same time
"So you enjoying the life down here so far?" LaSalle asked the brunette next to him.
"It's pretty nice but I haven't been through all the famous parts," Coates replied.
"I can give you a tour of the city once this is over. Even show you some fantastic spots which you can't read about." Or rather just spend more time with you. You're damn pretty, LaSalle thought.
"Thanks, it depends if I can find a new hotel or guest house here."
"Brody certainly doesn't like you."
"Brod...Meredith and I have our differences. But she doesn't know, or care to know that I've changed a huge lot since my old days."
"Oh...here's the forensic lab," LaSalle said holding open the door for her.
"Sebastian? Sebastian?" LaSalle called out and suddenly the forensic scientist crawled out under the nearby bench.
"What of earth were you doing under there?"
"Connecting to the ground. My latest reading tells me the more I head closer the earth's core, the close I can be with the whole of nature."
"But there's tons of concrete and man made structures between you and the firt layer of earth."
"My lab's floor isn't that thick...well hello!" he spotted Coates. "Did you just spring up from those advertisements?"
"Excuse me?"
"Those adverts about trying to keep young. My girlfriend Melissa is trying to force me to buy her some of those products."
"Sebastian this is Jennifer Coates. She has key information with regards to the Wright case and we need you to start up the Identograph."
"Oh, hi, hi," Sebastian replied, still a little transfixed by Coates' beautiful. "Oh wow, is she your sister?" Sebastian exclaimed, looking at Pia's picture.
"My enemy." LaSalle and Coates explained the situation.
"Well, let's see what my baby can deliver," Sebastian said, downloading the soft copy of Pia's picture and adjusting a couple of settings. "What would you said she looked like when you met her?"
"Well, she never had such long hair at first...yeah that might be her," Coates nodded at a modified picture.
"Has she ever changed her hair colour?"
"Of course. She loves to dye her hair. Streaks or full colours of almost all shades. But she hates the colour black."
"I guess that gives us a huge range of options," Sebastian sai, typing away furiously and presently lots of pictures. "Ok, perhaps these few," Coates said point at those with purple, green, and maroon red.
"Weight and size?"
"That would be tough. She has always maintained almost the same size and figure to con people, especially guys."
"Ok we'll leave that, clothing?"
"Jeans and skirts, but she'll anything that she steals from stores."
"Hey, Sebastian!" LaSalle called out, pointing at the modified picture of Pia in a lingerie set.
"She did say anything that the girl steals," the lab geek protested. "Ok, still gives us quite a bit of pictures. Anything else? Body art?"
"Well," Coates closed her eyes to think. "There was a tattoo with a quite a bit of intricate designs on her back, on the right. The most distinctive part was a 'N' in the middle." Coates detailed as much as she could to Sebastian. "Then one, very briefly, when she wore a sleeveless shirt, I saw another tat with three small circles on her left upper arm. But the next day, it was gone so I assumed it was some temporary work."
"Or some make up was placed over it," Sebastian added.
NCIS New Orleans HQ
Approaching noon
"No, Detectives Morris and Jimenez and no longer with us," the young detective identified as Harrison answered from the video conference. "They were in fact thrown out of the department over this Dolan- Bonfillo case because they denied Petty Officer Coates then the right to an attorney."
"Hmmph. But what can you tell you tell us about the case?" Brody asked.
"It's actually still open. After the Detectives left, another pair, Matthias and Dennison worked on the case with the ATF. Dolan was suspected to be murdered by Bonafillo only after Petty Officer Coates DNA didn't match the knife that was used to kill Dolan."
"Wait, let's go back to the beginning why Coates suspected?"
"Let's see, ok it says here that Bonfiallo was staying over at Coates' residence in DC for a while. Apparently, they knew each other and she let her in on good faith. Bonafillao, according to Coates' testimony then, wasn't the person she was and stole Coates' Nay uniform and hairclip, framing her and thus making her the suspect in the first place. The rest of the notes says that Dolan was murdered in a bar in McGinty's Lounge, Anacostia area by a knife that matched Coates' cooking set, but again taken by Bonafillo."
"And afterwards?"
"The cased was followed up by the new detectives but somehow it was left open. Sorry Agent Brody, I guess that was a mix up we made."
"Well it might be a big mix up. We'll need a copy of the case files and everything related."
"We only have a hard copy, but you'll get the initial summaries via fax."
"Man, is that department living in the caveman days? That case was in 2004, surely they would have computers back then! You see why I whine about this?" Patton complained.
"You're lucky they have a fax machine," Brody said, hearing the churning of the NCIS machine. "Resident North of Union Station. Man how did Jennifer afford to live there?"
"Well, you can see here she wasn't the person paying rent. It was a then Commander Harmon Rabb."
Jefferson Parish Hospital
The same time
"I'm looking for the room for Wayne Wright, Dr. Loretta Wade is supposed to be...hey Loretta," Pride noted the Medical Examiner heading out of a side corridor.
"Dwayne, we've got really bad news. Wright just lost his heartbeat at five minutes ago."
"Great, now the case is attempted murder."
To Be Continued.