Maura entered the bullpen and slowed her steps down as she recognized that Korsak watched every step she's made. She stopped at Jane's desk and frowned a little. " Jane? "
Jane sighed and was engrossed in her notices. " Yeah? "
Maura looked down and frowned more. " Uh ... why is Sergeant Korsak watching me? "
Now Jane looked up and glanced at her partner. " Don't even ask. I don't ask but I got pictures in my head ... uh ... No I can't even descipe them, I think about suicide or I wantblinding as punishment for things in the past I have done. Feel free to choose for me. Hey, we're married. Isn't that a great opportunity to punish me? "
Maura looked extremly confused and drew her eyebrows together. " I don't know what you're talking about. "
Jane sighed deeply and waved. " You know what? Never mind. Why are you here? Is it already lunch time? "
Maura put a stack of files on Jane's stack of files.
Jane frowned deeply and looked slowly up at her wife. " Thank you? Before you showed up I hadn't enough paper work to do. I love you too. "
Maura rolled her eyes and hit softly Jane's shoulder. " Well, that was my paper work I had to do for the day. "
Jane looked at her watch and was confused. " Are you going home? "
" No, ", Maura replied and smiled. " but now I have time to do all the funny stuff. Like two autopsies. "
Jane growled and wrinkled her nose. " Why is that funny? ... ", she pulled her eyebrows together. " And why in hell are you already done with your paper work? ", she asked in a way too high pitched voice.
Maura had to chuckle. " I am a very talented woman. "
Jane now had to stare at her wife and her mouth hung open. " I ... well ... you ... uh ... but ... "
Maura looked at her and waited with a amused smile and raised her eyebrows.
Jane cleared her voice and looked at the files. " Why do those files ... files lay on my desk? "
Maura laughed shortly and opened the file on top of the stack. " I found something very interesting. All those women were were tied up, tortured for hours, all were sexual assaulted and they were all strangled to death. "
Jane drew confused her eyebrows together. " Yeah, but that's not really new. "
Maura opened three case files from Jane's stack. " But look at that. All these women were students on colleges. "
Jane sat up straight and was focused. " You're right and mostly on private ones like Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, Bunker Hill Community College, Newbury College and BCU. ", she paused for a moment. " So ... if this is no coincidence. And I do not believe in coincidences. "
Maura sighed deeply. " That's not all. "
Now Jane was interested. " What else did you found? "
Maura pointed at her head and smiled.
Jane looked confused at her and then at Korsak. " They were all above average intelligence? "
Maura rolled her eyes. " No. "
" They all had green eyes. ", Korsak threw in.
Maura sighed and shook her head. "No wonder that I've never won a charade with the two of you. They had all the shades of blond. From ashy, nordic blond, light blond, straw blonde, white blonde, medium blonde, ... dark blonde, golden blonde and wheat blonde, ... flaxen blonde and auburn. "
Jane closed her eyes and raised her eyebrows as her headache started. " Thank you very much, Dr. Isles. Now ... did you missed any shade? "
Maura nodded in agreement. " I'm sure I did. "
Jane exhaled loudly but then her eyes shoot open. " Wait ... all the victims were students at colleges here in the area of Boston and they were blond. If our unknown hasn't chosen his victims randomly ... "
Maura looked at her wife questioningly. " You mean the perpetrator has spied on his victims? "
Jane nodded in agreement.
Korsakdrew his eyebrows together. " Maybe he was an employee of these colleges. "
" Possibaly. ", Jane said.
Maura shook her head. " He doesn't look like a professor or a PhD student."
Jane looked at her wife and pursed her lips. " Now we are a little derogatory, Dr. Isles. "
Maura opened her mouth and closed it again like a fish out of water. " I ... I mean ... um ... From experience I know that professors or PhD students ... um ... not sure how should I say ... um ... "
Jane raised her eyebrows and smiled broadly. " Relax. We know what you mean. Usually they're not tattooed until below the hairline. "
" Maybe a janitor. ", Korsak said.
Maura smiled in agreement and nodded.
"That's one approach.", Jane said and stood up. " Let's show the photo on the campuses around. Maybe someone recognize him. "
Maura hesitated for a moment. " Where is Ryan? "
Jane put on her jacket and frowned. " He ... fight against his own demnons of the past right now. "
Maura frowned in concern. " What did you said to him? "
Jane stopped dead in her track and raised her eyebrows. " Wha ... why would I have something wrong to him? "
Maura lowered her chin and glanzed at her wife wille Korsak chuckled.
Jane sighed and shrugged. " He showed up with files, I asked him what it was, he said files, I asked if they were important for our current case, he said no and that they were from his last case in Baltimore, I asked if her want to tell us about, he said no, I wanted to leave our case to the Cold Case Unit, he freaked out and disappeared. That's all. "
Korsak nodded agreein and looked at Maura. " It's true. No bad word was said. "
Jane raised her eyebrows. " I can be an ass but I am not always the bad guy ... no ... wait ... girl. Now, are you coming, Maura? "
" Where? ", Maura wanted to know.
Jane pointed to the door and frowned. " To the colleges. You surely have some funny connections. "
" I was at the BCU, Jane. "
" I meant with the students. "
Korsak laughed and Maura rolled her eyes.
The trio entered the office of the director of the Bunker Hill Community College.
Maura looked around and smiled. " Thank you that you take the time for us, Director Johnson. "
Jane rolled annoyed her eyes. " Yes, thank you that you are offering us your precious time so that you can help us in a current investigation. "
Since they had met the very young and attractive director of the college he had only eyes for Maura, even if she ignored all of his overtures. It still annoyed Jane.
He sat down behind his expensive oversized teak desk and linked his hands while he leand back in his braggart desk chair. " So ... how can I help? "
Jane swallowed hard and showed him the photo of John Doe. "
Do you know this man? "
" Well, ", Johnson said and raised an eyebrow. " I see and know a lot of people within a year. It's possible. Which subject he has occupied? "
Jane had to fight the urge to laugh and looked at her feets shortly. Really? she thought for herself. " We rather assume that he was employed by you. "
Johnson grunted and laughed arrogantly. " No. No, definitely not. Someone like him, I would never hire. "
Jane gritted her teeth. " You wouldn't hire him but would give him a college place? "
Johnson shrugged. " Company policy. We have to accept scholarships like everyone else our college as well. Time has changed. "
Jane clenched her left hand into a fist. " Yes, ", she said bitterly. " it's such a hard time for righteous people. "
Johnson looked at her long and smiled. " What college did you visit, Detective Rizzoli? "
" A good one. ", Jane replied with a smile. " It's called The College of Life. While you have you tipped a drink after another in your batty fraternity house, I have worked side jobstill my fingers had bled and I collected my life experience in the real world, with real work. That college I've visit. "
Maura pressed her lips together and exhaled loudly. She wasn't angry with Jane, she was annoyed by Johnson, with his arrogant and inflated ego.
Korsak wrote down his notes and smiled shyly.
Jane took a deep breath. " Is there someone with whom we can talk about their employees? "
Johnson nodded in agreement. " Dagmar Peters. "
" Where can we find her? "
" In the cafeteria. "
Jane rolled her eyes and started to walk. " Of course. We, the common herd. "
Maura followed her wife at the feet. " Jane? "
Jane sighed and shook head. " Maura, I'm sorry. I know I've been gone too far but this guy ... "
" Was an arrogant scumbag. ", Maura cut her off.
Jane's eyes went wide and she pulled her head back. " Maura! "
Maura smirked. " What? Are you the only one who is allowed to say something like that? "
" He was a potential suitor. "
" The only thing he has worshiped were my boobs, my M.D., my bank account and the name Isles. He doesn't have worshiped my person as how you do it. "
Jane drew dramatically her eyebrows together. " I ... Maura ... I swear to God ... Stop it or ... "
Maura smiled mysteriously. " Or what? "
Jane exhaled loudly and gritted her teeth.
Korsak cleared his throat. " I hope you guys know that I'm still here. "
Maura looked at him and blushed a little. " Of course we know that, Sergeant. "
Jane closed her eyes and cursed the day. " That'S all I needed. ", she mumbled and sighed.
Maura smiled and followed her wife in the cafeteria.
Jane stopped by a employee of the cafeteria and showed her badge. " Boston Police. WE like to talk to Dagmar Peters. "
The man pointed to a woman behind a counter.
Jane smiled at him and walked to that woman who was maybe at the end of fourty but looked like she already had seen to much in her life. " Dagmar Peters? "
The red-haired woman looked with her blue eyes at Jane. " Yes? "
Jane showed her the badge too. " Boston Police. "
Dagmar went as pale as death. " Police? What have Toby have done this time? God, this boy will kill me? "
Jane looked confused at her and then put an hand at the woman's arm to sooth her. " We're not here because Toby. ", she said with a hint of a smile and showed Dagmar the photo of John Doe. " We are here because of him. Do you know him? "
Dagmar looked long at the photo and he breath got caught. " My God, that is Fred Sinclair. What happened to him? "
" He killed himself. ", Jane said softly. " What do you know about him? "
Dagmar shook her head and sighed. " Not much. He just worked for an half year here. He was a very quite person, very withdrawn."
Jane nodded and looked at Korsak. " What he moody or even openly aggressive against other people? "
Dagmar shook her head and sighed. " No, he was always very kind. As I said, very quite. He once said to me that he had to move away very often. As I asked him why Fred said that some horrile things had happened in his life and that he wanted to forget them that's why he always was on the road. Why do you inverstigate in his suicide? What kind of Detectives are you? "
Jane realized that they had forgot to introduce themselves. " I'm sorry, we are the Detectives Rizzoli and Korsak, this is our collegue Dr. Isles. We're from homicide. "
" Homicide. ", Dagmar almost whispered. " What have he done? "
Korsak sighed. " We assume that he committed murders all across the United States... since fifteen years. "
Dagmar had to brace herself and Jane held her at the arm. " Murders. Are those the horrible things he mentioned? "
Maura nodded. " We must assume, unfortunately. "
Dagmar shook her head in disbelief. " He was such a nice man. "
Jane frowned and looked at her. " He never has harassed other women? "
" No. "
" Do you know his current adress? "
Dagmar nodded wth hollow eyes. " Yes. "
