This is pretty just an information chapter. It gives a little bit more info on the serial killer at large. Sorry about the long non-updating period.

- Thumper

Chapter 9
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8:30 PM

"So what did we find out from Wilkenson?" Don pushed open the door and led his team into the war room. David and Colby had interviewed Gabriel Wilkenson that morning after picking the drug dealer up the night before. Don was eager to hear what he knew.

Colby, David, Liz, and Nikki came in behind him and pulled out chairs to sit down. Colby hopped onto a table. "Well, we found out that Wilkenson stutters uncontrollably when he's scared out of his wits," he informed the team. "What did we learn though? Absolutely nothing."

"Rolands stopped buying from Wilkenson when we almost caught him that one time, David took over, filling in the details. "He hasn't heard from him since."

Nikki shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe he's just lying to get off easier."

Colby gave a humorless laugh. "It's impossible for a human being to shake as more than he was. I don't think he was lying."

Don sighed and rubbed his forehead. He had hoped that Wilkenson would be their ticket to finding Rolands once and for all. Now they were back to square one. "Well at least we have one more creep off the streets." he concluded.

The team nodded grimly. It wasn't the creep they wanted though.

"So where does that leave us?" Nikki asked in a frustrated tone.

Don shook his head, halfway to defeat. "Larry and Amita re coming by. They should have something for us."

"Where's the third resident genius?" Liz wondered.

"He's at some lecture or conference, or something like that." Don waved a hand.

A couple of minutes later the door opened again and Larry and Amita came through brandishing a laptop. Greetings were exchanged and Amita hooked up the computer to the projector on the wall.

"Hey guys, what do you have?" Don asked them.

"Well, we looked over the data in the old files and we think we've found something," Larry said.

Amita turned on the computer and a map of Los Angeles was magnified on the screen. "We've put a few algorithms together and it came out with an area where Emily Harrison might be being held." she informed the agents. She pressed a button and the map zoomed into the neighborhood where the four girls had all been kidnapped from. "Brittany Taylor, Jenny McFowel, Stacy Morgan, and Emily Harrison were all abducted around the same place." Five dots appeared on the map, four of them showing the locations where the girls had lived.

"That place being Marshall Tanner Park," Larry filled in, pointing to the last red dot a little farther away from the rest.

"Yeah, that's where Rolands dumped all the bodies," Liz filled in. "He picked that park because it was where he went after his mother left. He felt safe there."

Larry nodded. "He only abducts and murders young blonde women because they remind him of his mother before she left him. Then he leaves them in a place he feels most at peace because he feels remorse for killing them."

"So given that information, Gabriel Wilkenson's post, and where Rolands was with Stacy Morgan, we can determine where he stayed in the same neighborhood, or somewhere around the same neighborhood." Amita informed them.

"The same neighborhood he grew up in," Larry added thoughtfully.

Colby grinned. "Megan's behavior analysis thing came into good use after all."

Amita smiled at the agent's comment and went back to the laptop. "But we already knew his history and reason. Now, we found a pattern in the abduction locations and have determined the general area of where Emily should be."

She drew a circle around an area on the map northwest of Marshall Tanner Park. The agents stared at the spot with a forlorn feeling rising deep in their guts.

"Ah, come on guys," Don sighed, looking at the circle. "That'll take days to cover. And we don't have days." Rolands had usually kept the girls for a week at tops before dumping them. He only kept Stacy around for four days.

Plus, Rolands skipped around a lot too. Like Amita said, he mostly kept within miles of his old neighborhood, but Rolands was known to go off the charts. In Brittany Taylor's case, he moved all the way across the city twice before returning to the park to dump her body. If he did something like that again they would have to start all over from the beginning, which would cost more time. And who knew how long Emily Harrison had?

Larry nodded. "We know. It's just that…" he trailed off.

"Charlie is usually better with patterns." Amita finished for the older professor.

"That is true," Larry agreed.

"Okay, so where has Charlie been?" Colby asked, totally oblivious.

Don fiddled with his watch. Larry brought his hands close to his face and looked pensive. Amita glanced at her hands. "He's been busy." She said simply.

David didn't let the three's reactions go unnoticed. "Am I missing something?" He wondered aloud.

Larry, Amita, and Don exchanged glances. "No," Don told him. "Charlie's just been under a lot of stress lately. That's all."

"I can't blame him there," Colby stated grimly.

"But we could really use his expertise right now." Larry confirmed what the whole room was thinking.

Don ran a hand through his hair as he though of what to do next. "Okay. David, why don't you and Liz drive through that area tonight and see if you can find something abnormal. Colby and Nikki, you guys can take another car and do the same. Maybe it'll go faster that way. We'll go from there once you get back."

The team nodded and began to get up to get on their job. "And be sneaky," Don added, "We don't want this guy to skip town again." Once everyone exited the war room, Don began to follow,. Deciding to study some to the old case files again, as if they might open up and give him the exact address where Rolands was hiding. He was almost out the door when his cell rang. He fished it out of his pocket and automatically answered, "Eppes."

Don listened to the man on the other end, someone he knew from LAPD, and his eyes widened. "Is he alright?" he asked him worriedly. "Okay, Thanks for calling me, Ryan. I appreciate it." he hung up, all of a sudden Parker Rolands and Emily Harrison forgotten.

He did go to his desk in the bullpen area, but it wasn't to sit down for the next for or five hours to go over files. He hovered briefly, searching for his keys which were hiding behind a stack of papers.

His head was still whirling, heart still thudding hard as Don walked quickly to the elevator and his car.

Just a quick question here, Does Rolands seem realistic or not? All of my bad guys end up sounding too evil and cartoon villianish. Seriously, it's like they should have a curly mustache and go "Mwahahahaha"...