Hana woke up to, "Hana and Dekkado sitting in a tree-" a loud bang of metal against metal and Power Joe saying, "Ow, come on Shadow Maru, I was just having a little fun."
Hana opened her eyes in time to see Power Joe rubbing his head before he sat down at his desk, "Maybe you need to find a better way to have fun then," Dekkado told him as he set Hana into her loft.
Power Joe looked like he was about to say something, but then quickly stopped himself. From the look on his face Hana assumed Dekkado had just explained why she had ended up sleeping there, over their com link.
"So do we have any new information about how the building blew up?" Hana asked.
"It's still being investigated, but from the looks of it, someone planted a car bomb in the underground parking lot." Shadow Maru told her.
"What about the second explosion?" Dekkado asked.
"It looks like it was hidden in a janitors closet, it could be that someone was targeting the whole building or the second bomb was set up to make us think that." Shadow Maru replied.
"To keep us from focusing too much on who the real target was." Hana said.
"Exactly." Shadow Maru replied.
"Can we find out who the car belonged to?" Dekkado asked.
"It might not be easy, who ever made the bomb went over board with it, which is why there was so much damage to the building and there's not much left to tell us which car the bomb was on. It looks like the bomb pretty much shredded five cars that were sitting close to each other and scattered them all over the place." Shadow Maru told them.
"What about security cameras?" Dekkado asked.
"There were some, but no one is sure if the video survived the blast or not." Shadow Maru replied.
"Alright, McCrane, you and the rest of the Build Team head back to the site and see if you can help speed things up with finding out if the security video survived. Shadow Maru and I will remain here and go over the rest of the people who were in the building and see if any of them have records that might suggest a motive for someone wanting them dead badly enough to do something like this." Dekkado said.
"What about me?" Hana asked.
"You are going to go get yourself some breakfast and then you can help with the background checks." Dekkado told her.
Several hours later the Build Team returned, "We found the security footage and license plate numbers for all five of the cars that were closest to the bomb." McCrane announced.
"Good work, let's get those plate numbers run and see who owned the cars." Dekkado said.
"There's nothing here, a couple speeding tickets and a DUI from ten years ago, nothing to indicate any of these people were into anything that would have someone trying to kill them." Hana said a while later.
"Hana and I will go talk to these people and see if they can tell why someone wanted them dead. The rest of you stay here and go over the security footage and see if you can find the person who placed the bomb." Dekkado said.
Several hours later Dekkado pulled into the hospital parking lot, "Well this is the last one, hopefully he can shed some light on this case." Hana said as she got out.
"Good luck." Dekkado said.
"Thanks." Hana said before heading into the hospital.
After finding out what room the man was in and that he was in good enough condition to talk to her, she headed to his room. When she got there a man was sitting outside of his door.
"Can I help you?" the man asked when she approached the room.
"I'm detective Ichimira, I'm investigating yesterdays bombing, I need to talk to Mr. Bennet." Hana replied showing him her badge.
"One moment please." the man said pulling out a cell phone and stepping into the room and shutting the door.
A moment later he came back out, "Alright, you're cleared to go in, Mr. Bennet said he'd talk to you." he told her.
Hana stepped into the room to find Mr. Bennet with full casts on his right arm and leg, "Peter Bennet?" Hana asked.
"Yes ma'am, what can I do to help you?" he asked.
"I'm detective Hana Ichimira, I'm here investigating the bombing yesterday. According to what we've found so far the first explosion was a car bomb that may have been placed on your car. Do you know of any reason someone might go to such extreme measures to kill you?" Hana asked.
"I know exactly why they came after me. About a week ago I was working late, I decided to go to the restaurant down the street to get some coffee, on the way back I heard fighting in an ally. There were five men, three of them were beating the shit out of the other two then the one man told the other two to finish the guys off and they shot the two guys. One of them went down and stayed down the other managed to get up and make a run for it, the guy giving the orders pulled out a gun and shot him right through the head. One of the thugs noticed me and I hightailed it back to the restaurant and called the police. The guys had been right near a light making it easy to identify them, turns out the one giving orders is believed to be the leader of a gang that's been causing a lot of trouble, stealing, drugs, running a protection racket and according rumors anyone who crosses him ends up dead. He maybe in jail, but apparently he managed to figure out who I am and sent some one after me so I wouldn't be able to testify at the trial next week." Mr. Bennet told her.
"You said he figured out who you are, you mean he never got a good look at you to be able to identify you and come after you?" Hana asked.
"There's no way he could have, it was dark where I was, there was no way they could have seen anything more than an outline. That's why I went back to work even though the police told me I should go into protective custody until the trial. I was sure there was no way he could find out who I was and if I stopped showing up to work he might somehow figure out it was me and go after my family. I never would have gone back to work if I thought there was any chance he could find out who I was. I never should have gone back to work and I never should have sent my assistant down to get my briefcase out of my car, I should have been the one to get it."
"No, if you had been killed a criminal could have gone free to kill again. Our big problem now is finding out how these people found out who you are. Who all knew about this?" Hana asked.
"Just the cops I talked to, they said we needed to make sure as few people knew about it as possible to keep me safe."
"Then there had to be a leak." Hana said.
"You mean one of the cops?" Mr. Bennet asked.
"It's the only way he could have found out who you are if he really never had a chance to identify you." Hana replied.
"So it could be any of the guys who are supposed to be protecting me? It could be the guy sitting outside my door or any of the other guys who are supposed to be protecting me and there's no way to know for sure?" he asked, an edge of panic becoming more apparent in his voice.
"Yes it could be anyone, but I think I know how to find out who it is and I'll stay here with you until we know you're safe." Hana assured him as she pulled out her phone and called Dekkado, "We have a situation here, Shadow Maru has a built in lie detector doesn't he?"
"Yes, why, what's going on?" Dekkado asked.
"I've got our target, he's a witness to a crime and it would seem one of the cops working on the case leaked some information that resulted in the bombing. I think the fastest way to find the leak would be to have Shadow Maru question everyone involved with the case and see if his lie detector can find them, plus I'd like him to question the guard before I leave Mr. Bennet alone." Hana explained.
After a brief pause Dekkado said, "Alright, Shadow Maru is on his way. Give me the case info and I'll contact the commissioner and have him round up everyone involved with it."
By that evening the leak had been found, arrested and had admitted to being paid a large sum of money for the information and Gun Max had been posted as a backup guard at the hospital, just in case there was any more trouble.
"Well sounds like you guys had a long day." Dumpson said as Dekkado, Shadow Maru and Hana walked into the office
"Yeah, I'm ready to go home and collapse at this point." Hana said, then asked, "Any news from you guys today?"
"Yep, it's even all good news." Dumpson replied, "We found the bomber in the security footage, identified him and arrested him. Shadow Maru will be questioning him in the morning, it usually doesn't take him very long to get people to tell him what he wants to know since they can't lie to him without him knowing. We also got word that Alexis and Sam's mother and boyfriend have been found and she's been told that the girls are being taken care of until a trail can be arranged, although from what the arresting officer said they were probably too high to remember it tomorrow. They found them in an apartment with three other people, all of them were so drugged up they were barely conscious and one of them had overdosed and was dead. I don't think there will be any problem with taking custody of the girls away from their mother."
"Good, at least that's one less thing for me to worry about. Now we just have to make sure they stay together after the trial." Hana said.
"We'll worry about that when the time comes, right now you've had a long day and need to get home and get some rest." Dekkado told Hana.
Hana looked like she was about to argue for a second until Drill Boy said, "Not to mention you need to tell Alexis you're alright, she called me three times today asking if you were alright."
"Okay, I'll go home." Hana relented.