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Jane sat eating a sandwich in her chair by Lassiter's desk. He had ordered lunch in since they were working hard on the case. Judge Harrison had signed the subpoena for Madison Roth's DNA and she was coming down to the station in the next half hour and Lassiter had sent McNab and a couple other rookies to comb Hudson's neighborhood for the fireplace poker. Juliet was at her own desk running information on the intern Cara Gillman like Shawn had suggested. Jane sat thinking and then got up and headed for O'Hara's desk.
"Juliet, did you check all of Ian Hudson's credit cards for those tickets?" Jane asked the junior detective. O'Hara looked up surprised to see Jane talking to her.
"Yeah, we checked all of his statements."
"Were there any recent charges for jewelry stores?" Jane asked.
"As a matter of fact yes, there was an $1800 charge from Simon's Jewelers." O'Hara said as she sorted through her files to find the credit card report. "Here it is, Ian Hudson made a purchase from them two days before he was killed." Jane still sat thinking.
"What'd you find on Gillman?" Lassiter asked coming back to his desk.
"We don't have a DNA sample on file for her." O'Hara said bringing Lassiter the file she did have on Cara. "She called in sick."
"She was probably sick because she murdered her boss." Lassiter remarked. He straightened his tie and made sure his gun was more threatening than usual. "O'Hara, I'll be questioning Ms. Roth in room A. Please make sure Jane is in the observation room. We'll need a psychic read on this according to the chief and Spencer isn't here."
"No need to fret Lassie I'm here." Shawn announced walking into the station. "We got held over at Shenanigans. Their blarney stone fajitas are on sale this month. What did you find out about Cara Gillman?"
"Not much other than the fact she is an intern with Mintark. She called in sick yesterday so we didn't get a DNA sample from her."
"McNab is supposed to pick her up after he swings by the Hudson scene again." Lassiter said. "Now Spencer, if you'd like you can observe my interrogation." Shawn turned to Gus.
"I don't know do we want to observe?" He asked his friend. Gus shrugged.
"Seems like they've got that part covered with Jane."
"That's true, but if we're all there it'll be a group project which are worth more points." Shawn pointed out.
"Oh just shut it and get down to the interrogation room." Lassiter snapped, shooing all of them down the stairs. Jane followed Shawn and Gus down to the observation room. Once they were in there she sat on one of the chairs to finish her sandwich. Shawn turned to her.
"Did you tell them?" He asked crossing his arms.
"Tell them what?" Jane asked knowing full well what Shawn was talking about.
"Did you tell Lassie and Jules that you're a time traveler from another reality?"
"I think the fact Lassiter didn't call the psych ward people says that I haven't told them yet." Jane said staring at the sandwich in her hands. "What did you find out at Hudson's house?" She changed the subject.
"How did you?" Gus started to ask.
"Please, you guys called in a tip about an intern. You must have found something at Hudson's house, a letter, monogrammed towel or possibly a picture hidden in his desk. Did you find jewelry? Juliet said Hudson bought some jewelry before he died." Shawn didn't have time to respond to that because Madison Roth came into the interrogation room on the other side of the one way mirror followed quickly by Lassiter. Shawn smirked when he saw Lassiter was in his bad cop mode. This was going to be a lot of fun.
Lassiter slowly sat down across from Madison Roth. He could tell the woman's calculated demeanor from earlier in the day was faltering by just being in the police station.
"Ms. Roth, just for the record. What did you say your relationship with the victim was?"
"Ian and I were friends and colleagues." Madison Roth said.
"So your relationship wasn't romantic?"
"Detective, we already discussed this at the office." The woman was beginning to get agitated.
"I know we did, I just want to put this all on record." Lassiter reminded her. He was keeping it cool.
"Ian and I were not involved in a relationship of the romantic nature." Madison's voice was clipped and it was almost as if she didn't want to admit what she was saying.
"Were you aware of his involvement with Cara Gillman an intern at Mintark?" Lassiter asked. He caught the glimpse of hate that flashed in Roth's eyes and he wasn't the only one, back in the observation room Shawn whispered to Jane.
"Checkmate, all we need now is the murder weapon." At that moment McNab walked through the interrogation room door. "Oh, Buzz had better have something good." Shawn said. "Lassie hates being interrupted during an interrogation." Jane nodded and watched as McNab murmured something in Lassiter's ear. Lassiter was sitting with his back to the mirror and Jane couldn't see his face, but she did see the detective's shoulders stiffen.
"I'll be back in just a minute," He said to Ms. Roth and then headed out the door with McNab. Moments later they both came into the observation room followed by O'Hara.
"What's up Lassie?" Shawn asked his eyebrows furrowing in thought.
"Officer Ryan pulled this out of the trash in Hudson's neighborhood." O'Hara said, showing the room a fireplace poker in a plastic evidence bag. "It tested positive for blood and CSU dusted for prints and they're running them in the lab right now." Jane could see blood matted at the pointy end of the poker.
"You found the entire set of fireplace tools right?" Shawn asked thinking about the square void on Hudson's hearth.
"Yeah, they did." O'Hara said sounding a little surprised that Shawn would know that.
"Lassie let me in there with you." Shawn told the head detective. "I know why she did it."
"Hang on a second Spencer, I didn't bring her down here because I think she did it. That's why I'm questioning the intern later." Lassiter objected.
"The intern is fine, she didn't kill Hudson. She just got freaked out because she doesn't want anyone to think she was sleeping with him for the wrong reasons. She really did love him." Shawn said waving off Lassiter's objections.
"Shawn, why would Ms. Roth kill Hudson?" O'Hara asked. "The companies' merger was going smoothly. She wasn't in fear of losing her job."
"She wasn't afraid of losing her job." Jane cut in. She had figured out the case now that Shawn was walking the detective's through it step by step. "She was afraid of losing the one man she loved."
"Exactly," Shawn agreed with Jane. "Madison Roth found the notes from Cara Gillman in Hudson's desk and that sent her into a rage. She wasn't losing just a friend, but the one person she cared for just as much as herself." Lassiter glanced into the interrogation room where Madison Roth was sitting looking incredibly bored and playing with the bracelet on her wrist.
"We don't have any solid evidence until the results come back on the blood and prints." Lassiter pointed out. Shawn didn't listen, he rushed out the door and before Lassiter could get McNab to stop him, Shawn was in the interrogation room.
"Mr. Spencer?" Ms. Roth said sounding surprised to see him there. Lassiter and O'Hara came in the room, shutting the door behind them. Jane and Gus were watching from the other side of the mirror.
"How sure are you this is going to work?" Jane whispered to Gus.
"I don't know," Gus said shrugging. Jane sighed. It always worked on the show, but this time she had no idea.
"Mr. Spencer," Madison repeated when Shawn didn't answer her right away.
"Ms. Roth, or should I call you our murderer?" He accused her.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Madison Roth said her voice slightly rising in pitch. Shawn raised a hand to his temple.
"You had another evening with Ian all planned out. Opera last week and dinner this week. You were excited. Ian was after all a really good friend and getting to spend time with the man you were crushing on, harder then a pre-teen crushes on Justin Beiber, is always a fun time."
"I had feelings for Ian yes, but they weren't going anywhere." She objected. Shawn laughed.
"They weren't going anywhere because Ian Hudson had found a girl. Cara Gillman an intern at his work. They had been dating secretly for the past nine months and he was going to propose." Lassiter's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "When you went to Ian's apartment after dinner he showed you the ring. He knew you would have a good opinion on whether it was perfect or not. I'm sure you were shocked by his relationship. He probably showed you the love letters from Cara." Shawn paused to watch the reaction on Madison Roth's face.
"Gus, he's got it wrong." Jane whispered to Gus back on the other side of the mirror. She could feel the panic welling in her stomach.
"He got what wrong?" Gus whispered back.
"It's not a ring." Jane whispered. She bit her lip. "How pissed would Lassie be if I go in there right now?" Gus gave her a crazy look. "Oh forget it," Jane headed for the hall. McNab was standing outside.
"Wait, I don't think you can go-" McNab started to say, but Jane pushed past him. She went through the door to hear Shawn continuing to lay out Madison Roth's mistake.
"You were so enraged by his coming proposal that you-" Shawn paused as Jane burst through the door. Lassiter and O'Hara both looked over at her too. "Do you have something to add Miss Adams?" Shawn asked.
"It's not a ring." Jane blurted out.
"I'm pretty sure it's a ring." Shawn said. "People usually propose with rings.
"It's not a ring it's the bracelet on her wrist." Jane said pointing at the silver charm bracelet on Madison Roth's wrist. Lassiter jumped forward and grabbed Jane's arm. He pulled her over beside the wall.
"What are you doing?" He hissed in her ear.
"Psychically helping this case," Jane hissed back. Lassiter hesitated, but let go of her arm. "You found the bracelet Ian Hudson had bought for Cara." She continued her voice back to a normal level. "Rings are nice, but Cara could not risk wearing a flashy engagement ring to the office before her relationship was made public."
"This is ridiculous!" Madison Roth protested.
"Is it?" Shawn countered. He had messed up on the ring. He could see that now since Jane had pointed out the charm bracelet. "Or are you just saying words? You used the fireplace pokey thing and bashed Ian over the head. Maybe you confessed your feelings and he laughed them off." Shawn had brought Madison Roth to tears.
"I didn't mean too," She choked out. "We had a great time at dinner and we went back to his place to have some drinks. The timing just seemed so right, but when I told him he just laughed at me." The steely exterior that Madison Roth had held onto was gone. "I picked up the poker to make him pay attention, but he just kept laughing." She put her head in her hands.
"What did you do then?" Shawn probed, gently urging Madison to finish her admission.
"Then I just lost it. I bashed him over the head and I must have passed out or something. I woke up a couple hours later and saw Ian lying on the floor. I grabbed the fireplace tools and ran out the door. There was a trash can somewhere and I tossed them there. I must have forgotten to shut the front door. I didn't thinkā¦.." She hiccupped.
"You didn't think and you would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for us meddling psychics and our time traveling friend." Shawn added triumphantly.
"I think we've heard enough." Lassiter snapped pushing Spencer out of the way. "Book her O'Hara. You two with me," He motioned to Shawn and Jane. When they got to the hallway Gus was waiting for them. McNab headed in to help Juliet and Lassiter made sure no one was around.
"What's this about Lassie?" Shawn asked. "We solved the case."
"Shut it Spencer. I know you solved the case, but that was completely ridiculous in there." Lassiter snapped. Jane ducked her head as Lassiter continued. "You two were bouncing off the walls like kids on cappuccinos. Don't think the chief won't hear about this." With that threat he stalked off the start the paper work on Roth's arrest.
"Good call on the bracelet." Shawn told Jane as they walked up the stairs to the main part of the station.
"Thanks, I couldn't let you take all the credit." Jane said smiling.
"You know, when you get back to Indiana you should look at being a cop."
"I doubt they solve their cases like this." Jane half laughed.
