A/N: Shout outs to my anonymous reviewer and Candi711! Thanks so much for your reviews. Candi, regarding Amanda's baby, I have something up my sleeve for that. ;)
Chapter 21
"Well so much for interrogating them. They all clammed up but not before asking for a lawyer," Dodds shook his head. He had just entered the Lieutenant's office where she, Captain Fusco, Captain Tucker, and Elliot were waiting.
"We knew they weren't stupid. Though I'm betting if we ask them who hired Tony Biagi, they'd be pointing fingers at one another," Tucker frowned.
"Oh you know it. How is forensics coming with that bloody knife?" Fusco wanted to know.
"Marty says that the preliminary exam points to it belonging to the set that was in Andrea Jacobs' apartment. He's questioning just how stupid Tony is though," Olivia said.
"Why?" Elliot gave her a look.
"Well he said that he's seen keep murder weapons before but never inside a plastic bag inside of a secret hidey hole. He's thinking that Tony got his hands on it from whomever actually killed Andrea Jacobs," she clarified.
"It would make great leverage," Tucker smirked.
"Also explains why Tony wasn't just shot in the head," Fusco said.
"So why wouldn't our killer have chucked the knife into the nearest dumpster after the murder? His clothes would have had to have a ton of blood on them he couldn't have gone around wearing them," Elliot wondered.
"Well we figured this guy was a professional. He knew better than to keep the items. Maybe his clothes ended up in a dumpster in Long Island and the baseball bat went into the ocean. We know where the flashlight and the knife ended up. Tony might have been the getaway driver," Olivia pointed out.
"How is Tony?" Tucker wanted to know.
"Still touch and go according to Fin. Our shooter did some damage but hopefully Tony will come out of it to explain the knife and the drive by," she told them.
"What about our shooter?" Fusco asked.
"A neighbor said he saw a man go over the back fence right before we got there. This same neighbor said he thought he heard gunshots and was about to call when we arrived," Olivia said.
"So SWAT couldn't track him down?" Tucker shook his head.
"He's in the wind but my guess is that with his bosses sitting down here at the precinct, things will be a little hairy for him. The FBI has the Sanitation Offices in lockdown and they're questioning everybody there regarding their bosses," Fusco smirked.
"The FBI?" Elliot gave him a look, confused as to why this couldn't remain an NYPD investigation. He looked at Dodds wondering if his father had had a hand in this.
"Had to call them in. They've been working to eliminate corruption inside governmental offices. They called us way back in the day and turned us onto Fratelli, Capucci, and Braiden. They were up-in-comers moving their way up the Mob food chain. We kept tabs on them and when your victim turned up and we finally had something actionable, I alerted them to the raid on the bosses. We get them and the FBI gets to weed out their connections outside of the City. Fratelli has a cousin out in LA who has been stirring up trouble for a long time with his cronies," Fusco explained.
"Well between the two agencies we should have this covered," Dodds said.
"As long as the Feds don't swoop in and take our prisoners," Tucker frowned.
"We had a deal but that doesn't mean our crooks won't try to get their case moved to Federal Court. They know that Camp Cupcake is much better than sitting in Attica," Fusco told them. Elliot's phone went off and he excused himself from the room. Olivia wondered who it could have been on the phone but she didn't press it in case it was Lucy with something about the kids. Having turned her head to follow his movements, she noticed a bunch of suits coming into the bullpen.
"Either their lawyers are here or the Feds went back on their words," Olivia said, causing the group to look out her office windows.
To Be Continued…