Next morning. Don and Jamie walk in the morgue, wearing white latex gloves. They walk toward autopsy table on which body is. Sid is standing near by, wearing white latex gloves, his lab coat and his eyeglasses.
"Oh", he says when he notices them, and walks towards the body. "So... She died less than half an hour before her body was found. She has ten deep stabbing wounds on the chest, mostly on middle of it. Only three stabbing wounds were fatal, however: two that went through the heart and one that went all thr way through her body. Shape of stabbing wounds perfectly matches to stabbing wounds found on her body. I would say that killer is most likely right handed. Toxicology tests only showed small amount of alcohol, nothing else."
"Any signs of sexual assault?", Jamie sala.
"Nothing that would point on rape, rape kit did recover semen", he says, tooks plastic evidence bag with rape kit from grey metal table near by, and handles it to Jamie, who takes it. "I also found skin and fibers under her fingernails-he says, tooks evidence bag with that other swab and handles it to Don, who tooks it."
#
Don is walking down the hallway. Jamie aproaches him.
"Hi, Don."
"Hi."
"Look, I did some research about John Gray's background, and I found out something very interesting."
"What?"
"He had criminal record. Nothing serious, only some petty stuff, but in 2010 he was arrested for stealing a laptop. He offered something in exchange for a deal."
"What?"
"He pointed out on information he stumbled upon while using a laptop. Based on those informations, owner of laptop, forty year old Cindy Miller, was convicted on five years in prison because of financial fraud. In exchange, Jon only received six months of probation. She was paroled after serving three years and was released month ago."
#
Don and Jamie are talking with Cindy, who is working as waitress in local cafe. She is Caucasian woman, about 5'4 tall, average weight, with long brown hair and brown eyes. She is wearing white shirt, black skirt and black shoes. She is standing behind the counter, alone, making coffee.
"I can't denie I don't feel sorry for him", Cindy says. "But I didn't kill him."
"Did you ever saw him after you got out?", Don asks.
"No."
"Do you have alibi for yesterday between 12 am and 1:30 pm?", Jamie asks.
"No, but I have a lawyer. We're done here", she says and walks away to serve the customers.
#
Adam is sitting at desk in his office, wearing white lab coat and white latex gloves. Broken GPS from Malcolm Lake's car is lyng on the table, conected with computer, and he is finishing last fixing works on it with screwdriver.
Mac walks towards him.
"Hi, Mac", Adam says, noticing him, and then continues working.
"Is that GPS stolen from Malcolm Lake's car?"
"Yes, it is. I'm just finishing with recovery of informations... and here it is."
They both look at the computer screen, and start reading informations.
"So...", Adam starts. "GPS memorizes last three thousand miles, but se will only concentrate on day of his murder. So... that day, first activity started at 6:30 am he headed from his home towards his workplace. He got there at 7 am. Then nothing till 3:10 pm when he started driving off his workplace, but he wasn't driving home. At 3:40 pm he stopped the car in Maple Street 5 and then... there was no activity till 4:10 pm when car headed from there to place where we recovered GPS. Then activity stops."
"What's on Maple Street 5?", Mac asks.
"Public children's playground", Adam reads from the screen.
#
Playground. Mac and Jo are standing at the side of a road near by, questioning people they found there-mostly young parents with their children. Playground isn't pretty big-few big sand boxes on the ground, several swings, some trees and bushes and some flowers. It is suronded with small blue metal fence. Danny, Lindsay and Sheldon are in the playground. They wear white latex gloves over hands and white plastic shoe covers over shoe bottoms. They also hold their forensic briefcases in their hands.
"So... his only offence was statutory rape?", Sheldon comments.
"What are you trying to say, Sheldon?", Lindsay asks, slightly irritated.
"Nothing, but, you know... registered sex offender possibly killed on playground for children..."
"We don't know anything yet", Danny reminds him. "We'll see. Mac and Jo are investigating parents and children. Most of them visit this playground regulary. They will take elimination samples from all of them.
They start examining the playground. Lindsay founds cigaret butt near front enterance. She puts her briefcase on the ground near by, opens it, lifts forensic tag from it, puts it on the ground near cigarette butt, photographs it, takes plastic evidence bag from her briefcase, picks up cigarette butt, puts it in it, seals it, and puts evidence bag back in her briefcase. Then she also takes ground sample, stores it in other evidence bag and puts it in her forensic briefcase too.
Sheldon applies some luminol over the sand and recovers traces of blood. He founds clean swab in forensic briefcase which is lying opened on the ground near by, swabs blood with it, and stores swab in plastic container also tooken from that briefcase. He also selects sand samples.
Danny is powdering front side of a fence and it's doors for fingerprints, using red fingerprint powder. He founds about thirty usable fingerprints and ten partial palm prints. He lifts them and stores them.
Sheldon is carefully walking over the sand, looking for shoe prints. He founds lots of them, but most of them are partial. Still, he marks, measures, and photographs all of them. He can't make impretions, since sand is soft. He also takes sand samples. When he begins to leave, he notices bloody thumbprint on the hedge near by. He marks it, photographs it, lifts it, stores it, swabs some blood left and stores the swab.
Danny is searching whole playground with metal detector. He founds few coins, ear ring and few Coca Cola cans, but no shell casing or gun. Still, he marks and photographs those things and stores them seperately as evidences.
Lindsay searches small eria behind the playground, covered with bushes and small trees, leading to the road. She notices shell casing on the ground, puts her brief case on the ground near by, opens it, takes forensic tag from it, puts it on the ground near shell casing, photographs it, lifts evidence bag from briefcase, puts shell casing in it, seals it, and puts it back in her brief case. She notices pool of dirty water in small hole in the ground near by, takes screwdriver from briefcase, dips it in pool of water and moves it around a little. Soonly, she founds something metal and tooks it out with help of screwdriver: it's .45 calibar gun. She also takes sample of water.
#
Sheldon walks into his office, wearing white lab coat and white latex gloves.
"Hi, Mac", Sheldon says. "I analyzed shoe prints found in playground. Most of them were in soft sand and partial, but I managed to pull some of them together and recover some usable shoe prints. Most of them were linked with elimination shoe prints tooken from parents and children who were visiting playground today, but I found two strained shoe print in the ground leading from front doors to sand box: one came from working shoe number twelve-the same type of shoes Malcolm Lake was wearing on day he was killed-and other is from tennis shoes size seven. It's incredible we managed to found them after two days, even if they weren't in the sand. They were probably some in sand, but they couldn't possibly survive after two days. Lindsay also linked sand from sand box with brown residue found in Malcolm Lake's nouse and hair."
"So, we know he was there two days ago."
"Yes, but no child was reported killed, raped or missing in that eria in last ten years. Melany Jenkins is missing, but there are no records she or her brother visited playground since they turned ten. Danny performed DNA analysis which confirms that blood in the sand and in bloody thumbprint is Malcolm's. There were also traces of gunshot residue inside the bloody fingerprint. Also, Lindays concluded that trace in Malcolm's blood is from very common type of bottlee water, and female DNA was recovered inside. I ran both thumbprint and DNA profile through police database... and I found the match."
#
Elaine Morgan is siting at table in interogarion room. She is wearing pink T-shirt, blue jeans and her brown working boots. Jo and Mac are also siting at that table, opposite to her. Photograph of bloody fingerprint is on the table in front of her.
"We found your thumbprint on hedge on place where Malcolm's murder happened", Mac informs her.
"You have my fingerprints? How?"
"Due to traffic offence you commited ten years ago", Jo explains. "And this is very least of your problems right now, because we found that thumbprint not only on crime scene, but also inside the victim's blood and with traces of gunshot residue on it. And We also had your DNA profile in our database, which matches to silavia found in water used to wash away traces of victim's blood."
Elaine takes a deep breath, that says:
"It's not how it seems."
"Then how is it?", Mac asks.
Elaine tooks another deep breath, then says:
"On my way home from work, I passed near playground and noticed the body. I pulled over and went to check out. That's how I left the bloody thumbprint."
Elaine runs to Malcolm's dead body, lyng on the backs, in sand box in playground. She knees next to him and puts hand on left side of his chest, checking his pulse. When she raises her arm, she notices blood on her fingertips. Shocked, she slowly stands up and moves few feet away. She touches the hedge behind her, leaving bloody thumbprint.
"Then what happened?", Jo asks.
"Look.. my children are playing there. I didn't want it to get bad publicity and ends up being shut down. I searched his pockets and found car key. I found black SUV parked near by and found out that keys match. I parked my car on desert parking lot near by, locked it, drag his body in trunk of his car, used bottled water I had in my car to wash away traces of blood, and drove away in his car, using his car key. I pulled out GPS so nobody could track a signal, and dumped it in that alley on my way to Central Park. I used my cellphone to call my husband. I told him that I will be late because I got stuck in traffic. I drove car to Central Park and dumped his body in ditch next to running path, close to location where I work this week. I undressed him to remove any possible evidence that could be linked to me or the playground. I dumped his shirt, pants, shoes, wallet and cellphone in trash can about half mile away and burned them with lighter I had in my pocket. I sat back in his car, drove it to Houston river fifteen miles away and let it crash in river. I left it turned on, with windows opened, tooked rock and dumped it through opened car window on gas pedal. I used a bus to come to location closest to the parking lot, walked to my car on foot, hoped in and drove back home."
Short silence.
"Will... will I go to jail?", Elaine asks.
"You moved the body and covered up evidences", Mac says. "That is a serious crime. And before investigation is over, you remain a murder suspect."
#
Mac is sitting at desk in his office, studyng Melany Jenkin's case file. On one of her photographs, taped during family party, he notices something on bracelet on her right wrist. He runs out his office.
#
Adam is sitting at desk in his office, working on his computer. Mac is standing near by. Zoomed image of Melany's right wrist is on computer screen.
"Yes, it seems original investigation overlooked this", Adam notices. "This is new type of bracelet, with GPS device in it, so it can be tracked down if it is stolen. And serial number is clearly visible. By serial number, we can get access to GPS records and track down... the bracelet."
#
Mac parks black SUV in corner of running path in Central Park and he, Jo and Adam run out of it, closing the doors behind. They run to the place where signal is detected: bushy field near the path. They all wear white latex gloves over hands and white plastic shoe covers over shoe bottoms.
"There is nobody here", Adam notices, looking around.-I don't see bracelet either.
Mac notices something on the ground.
"It seems like somebody was digging something here", he says, pointing with finger at that spot. "We need a shovel!"
Adam runs to SUV, takes shovel from the trunk, and runs back. Mac tooks shovel and starts digging. Soonly, he founds Melany's lifeless body.
A/N: Song which plays in background of a scene where team is searching the playground is "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse.