Chapter 10: Comparing Notes
Jake stood in the corner of the interrogation room, the blinds where drawn so no one can look into the room he listened as each CSI came in and set their findings on the table. He knew he should pay attention but his mind was on Calleigh, and what that mad man was doing to her. He shut his eyes tightly. It was his fought this had happened, he had told her not to bother waiting for him after her shift, maybe if hadn't she'd be okay.
"Jake," Horatio called over to the young detective.
He looked over at Horatio and made his way over to the table.
"I get a hit off our picture from the ATM camera, a former officer named Dusty Thompson, apparently he and Calleigh where partners until she witnessed him shooting an unarmed kid and then planting evidence on him. She testified against him, and he spent eight years in prison and was released two years ago. I've contacted his parole officer and he has no idea where Thompson is." Ryan stated.
"But we do, during the struggle with her assailant Calleigh made sure that she used his last name, which is Thompson. With the ATM camera, Dusty Thompson is in Miami and has Calleigh." Horatio added.
"The rag recovered from the crime scene has Calleigh' DNA on it. Also I found a small amount of DNA from our suspect," Natalia told her.
"Alright," Horatio replied.
"So let's find out where it came from," Horatio told them. "Ryan did you find out anymore on Dusty Thompson?"
"I did," he stopped and gave them a grim expression.
"What?" Eric asked.
"He was Calleigh's partner when she worked in New Orleans. He was her second partner, he use to work narcotics but got bumped down because of questionable ethics. Two months later they where on patrol when they got a call about a convenient store robbery, as they where responding to the call, they spotted the suspect. They pulled over and Dusty took off after the suspect, Calleigh was right behind because she was in the passenger side. As she caught up with him she witnessed him planting a gun on him after he shot him. He was eighteen.
"He planted a gun?" Horatio asked.
"Yeah, why?" Ryan asked then as the realization hit him. He ran out the door and down to where Calleigh was evaluating 'O Neil case.
Moments later he returned and dropped a file onto the table. "They're connected. A way to get her attention." He bitterly explained.
"Mind clueing the rest of us in?" Eric asked.
"Calleigh got a call early this morning a cop involved shooting. Patrolman Patrick 'O Neil. He was tortured and then executed. On the door in the victims' blood the words THE CODE was written." Ryan explained.
"It wasn't for the victim it was for Calleigh." Horatio added.