"Well I guess this means the secret lover theory is right?" Juliet gave Gus a puzzled look and he began to explain, while Shawn scoped out the room. "We think that whoever ki--" He paused for a second not exactly sure how he was supposed to put it.
"It's okay Gus. You think that the person who killed my brother was who?"
"Whomever Charlie was having an affair with."
"I don't understand."
While Gus continued to explain, Shawn noticed a few stuff. The victim had been killed the same way, wound to the chest of same size and shape. There was no sign of forced entry and since the office was on a second floor (and you couldn't exactly scale the walls of this building) the killer was someone Charlie knew and the door was locked after he let her in. He knew it was a she by the imprint the heel left on the carpet.
"I'm sensing," he put his hand to his temple, "she was here. The spirits are a little fuzzy on the details but she definitely was here."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"How is it that no one could've seen if anyone entered the office?" Karen asked to no one in particular as she got up from her pregnancy chair. Even though she was no longer pregnant it did help with her backaches so she decided to keep it.
Someone came in and broke the attention of the official and unofficial detectives in the room.
"What are you doing here?"
Elaine looked taken aback at Juliet's curt question, even though she knew very well that the Junior didn't trust her.
"Well Detective, my boyfriend is dead, don't you expect that I'd be here." She said it so acidly sweet that it was quite evident of the bad blood between the two.
"Miss Smith could you please wait outside until we're through." Karen said stopping things before it got ugly. They needed to get down to business.
So far what they knew was that the two men, Bill and Charlie were killed by the same person. Well it was really just speculation, but they had been murdered the same way and by the same weapon.
"Are you supposed to be looking at that." Lassiter asked pointedly.
Elaine jumped at the voice. She didn't think anyone would've seen her. "Oh I thought this was Bill's file." She paused for a moment, then added with a frown "I guess I was mistaken."
"You're not supposed to be even looking at his file."
Elaine flashed Juliet an annoyed look. "Well I'm sorry, I just don't like being in the dark about these things."
Juliet scoffed, but it was only half heard since Elaine had cut her off. "Oh my God!" she gasped. "He was killed the same way Bill was….is that common."
A light bulb went off in Shawn's head as he listened in but didn't say anything until he was sure.
"So do you guys think it's the same person who killed Charlie, might've killed-" Her voice broke. "Bill."
It passed by Karen's mind a couple of times why it was that Elaine was so curious, but she dismissed the thought. She'd been in the business long enough to know that some people were usually this inquisitive when it came to the death of a loved one.
"Yes we do." A short and simple answer should satisfy her.
"Why?" Or not.
The chief sighed, she could always dismiss her but people had a way of being so persistent that they'd get the information one way or another.
"The way in which they were killed were very similar, including the use of the murder weapon.;
"You mean the letter opener." She said as she clutched her bag.
"Yes. How did you know that." Lassiter asked as his eyes narrowed in on her.
"I saw it on the file. You know I think I should just leave, make you guys solve this case."
"Aaargh!!" Shaw flung himself at the door. "The spirits they're trying to tell me something."
"Spencer--" but Shawn had cut off whatever Lassie was going to say.
"aah." He said this time in a higher pitch, clutching his chest, staggering while making his over to Elaine. "The spirits they're trying to tell me something….It's very strong." He opened one eye and glimpsed the contens in her bag." The secret lover is…here."
All eyes turned on Elaine.
"You can't seriously believe this nut job."
"Well, Ms. Smith, this nut job has solved over 18 cases for the SPBPD."
"Why thank you chief…I think."
"This ridiculous. I'm out of here."
She got up to leave but Juliet held her back, "You're not going anywhere," and shoved her on the seat.
"Check the bag. The murder weapon is there."
"You can't do that! It's an invasion of privacy." However it was all said in vain as Juliet had already took the bag and found the letter opener. "I don't know how reached there." She said shaking her head furiously. "I must've been framed."
"Yeah we've being hearing a lot of that lately." The response had come from Lassiter this time.
"You don't understand." She said bursting into tears. This time, however, they were genuine. "I loved him. I killed Bill for him." Juliet resisted the urge to punch her and let her continue. "Yet he didn't care. He didn't appreciate me. I warned him of the consequences but he never took me seriously." Pain and anger were written all over her face. "I couldn't take it anymore. I really loved him. He just never took it seriously. He never loved me." She said the latter softly letting it sink in.