Jack flipped open his cell and let an excited Zach shout at him for a few minutes before hanging up "Zach has got us some help, I think, I can't be sure because he was doing that thing where he squeals like a girl"
Angela giggled at the thought of Zach being that excited, Booth walked through the lab "How's Parker?"
Booth looked at them "On his way here it would seem. My babysitter has decided that she is road tripping with her boyfriend and can't possibly hold off going. My Mom is gonna bring him here and I've just spoken to the crèche who have no problems looking after him while we are here!"
Angela nodded "At least it's the first time since Parker came to live with you Booth"
"I promised Becky before she died I'd look after him and I just feel like… What did Zach say?" Jack had noticed that Booth had stopped mid conversation and had done the worst change of subject "Well, he said that he has got us the help we need and that they'd found the missing part of the investigation, something along those lines I only got bits of him squealing!"
Booth walked over to the photocopier and found a sheet from the Washington file in the machine "What has he done?"
Zach walked into the lab about 30 minutes later, traffic was terrible but nothing could take his grin away
"Zach what the hell are you doing sharing this case with anyone without telling me" Booth was furiously waving the sheet he had found in the photocopier
"Just hear me out Booth. Angela grab the pictures from the old case and Jack get the new pictures from Glenn Stevens, give me both folders Booth." Zach opened both folders and left them on the evidence collected pages "You see. The evidence lists are the key. In the Washington case we found the murder weapon along side the body, but in both the LA murders the weapon is nowhere in sight. Look at the body positions, all three are different, a killer likes to murder his victims in a certain way that's what makes his pattern unique. He likes to kill in the same way that's how we know whether we have a serial or not but they are different in both weapons and style. The only thing that remains from the Washington case is the barbed wire torture. Washington guy had his finger cut off too and there has been no other mutilation of any kind on our new cases."
Jack looked from picture to picture "So what you are saying is that we have 2 killers who like to torture their victims by tying them up with barbed wire and watching them struggle until they are within an inch of death, before strangling them?"
Booth stood looking over the table, picking up each picture and staring at it. Angela also walked along the table lifting the pictures up trying to process what Zach was actually saying. "That's not what Zach is getting at, if you're right Zach this case just got a lot harder. Do you know what you are saying?" Zach looked at him "I believe Zach is saying you have yourself a copycat Agent Booth."
Angela, Jack and Booth spun round to find Dr Temperance Brennan standing on the observation platform. If it hadn't been for her voice they would not have recognized her, her hair was shorter and had been layered into her face, she had lost weight not too much but it was noticeable with the clothes she was wearing and of course she had caught the Californian sun.
"But… How?" Angela looked like she was going to pass out, she had gone white, she looked at Zach for her answer "She said if I ever needed help that she would come help."
Angela and Booth had grabbed Zach and lead him into the office "So Dr. B, do you think someone should tell them the walls aren't sound proof?" Brennan chuckled "Maybe, but the way they are yelling at poor Zach I don't think they would hear!" Jack perched himself on the empty exam table behind Tempe "So how did he convince you to come help us?" Tempe turned to face him "He didn't, Russ did"
