CSI Lab
"H, Cobry," Wolfe said as they came out of the interview room, "You should see this."
Outside, Natalia, Delko, and Calleigh waited. Calleigh said, "I identified the rounds that Pierce fired at the port as coming from a Special Forces Combat Assault Rifle, designated by the military as a Mark 17. I finished this days ago, but we made the connection just no,"
"What connection?" Cobry asked.
"Pierce made it from Córtez to the Port with maybe an hour warning," Delko said, "He arrived started the attack five minutes ahead of us, and it took us a half hour to get to the Port. Assuming he doesn't carry that sort of weapon on him at all times, we are looking for a location that is within an hour to an hour and a half of the Port," they arrived at his computer and pulled up a map. With the Port at the center, a red disk expanded outward.
"That's mostly high-income and low-population area when compared to the rest of Maimi," Horatio noted.
"Still a lot of ground to cover," Cobry said.
"Now is where it gets good," Wolfe said with a smile.
Natalia said, "He used bolt cutters in the fence to gain entry. It's about a half hour footwalk from his firing position to the point of entry, so that lowers out travel time to one hour,"
Delko pushed a key and the disk narrowed.
Calleigh said, "It didn't seem that he planned the attack much, so that means he would have gone straight from the container he stored Córtez in, to his safehouse, to the Port, which means that," he clicked again, and the disk became a collection of red dots, and the location of the Connex a blue dot. The farther from the blue dot, the closer to the Port. A little box in the corner of the screen read 521 Possible Location(s).
"We can't search 521 locations," Cobry said.
"Eric, eliminate all the locations in gated or upper middle class communities," Horatio said.
Wolfe typed in a couple of commands and many dots disappeared. The screen said 213 Possible Location(s).
"Still too much," Cobry said, "Eliminate residential locations altogether. Too many Nosy Nellies around."
Wolfe typed in the commands. 87 Possible Locations.
"Córtez was small-time, but was well known because he didn't take many risks," Cobry observed, "He lasted a long time because he kept to small business. Until recently Pierce did the same... can you pull up the tax records of all the businesses and people who own those locations?"
"It'll take me a while to get all of them," Wolfe said.
"Ya know what," Cobry said, "I'll call my team and have them do it. You guys go and get some sleep. You earned it."
"How long have we been on duty?" Wolfe said they made their way to the garage.
"49 hours," Natalia said, "I say we shoot Pierce for keeping us up this long."
"Horatio's a machine," Delko said, "He barely looks scruffled."
"Patriks seemed like the kind of guy who only needed an oil change every 3,000 miles," Calleigh said cracked her neck. They all had maybe six hours sleep from this whole mess. All of it grabbed while waiting for test results.
"Too bad that wasn't what got him," Delko said. He could still see Patriks heaving from the blood pooling in his lungs. He didn't seem hurt or in pain. More like surprised, and at the end peacefull. He even cracked a joke.
Always thought meh liver would do me in, he coughed. Autopsy revealed that his liver was healthy. Somehow, Delko thought he would be amused.
Calleigh, Eric, and Ryan left when the elevator reached the second level. Natalia, who had arrived late- was it really only two days ago?- had parked on the roof.
She yawned as the elevator doors opened. Her car was the last one in the lot. It was twilight outside. Almost night. She popped her neck. Her biggest worry was falling asleep at the wheel.
She never saw the figure that slammed her into her car.
Instantly, adrenilen kicked in. She swiped back with her elbow and prepared to scream. The figure ducked punched her in her throat. She fell back into her car and gagged. The figure's arm shot foreward and something stabbed her in the neck.
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