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NOTE TO Guest: Thank you for liking my endings! I always feel that my beginnings and endings are not the best; my strong suit is in the middle, more near the end, at the climax, but maybe I'm being too critical of myself! Thank you again! It really put a wide smile on my face to hear that!
NOTE: The topic of this case is a real thing, I wasn't the one to invent it. I have now forgotten where I heard of it (I write down ideas sometimes months in advance before I even start thinking about writing them), so at least part of it is true, though I've highly embellished it to fit the story (I know absolutely nothing about the real version of this. I just remember reading it somewhere, and I knew I had to write a story about it!). Just thought I'd share that with you!
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"So how did you pull this off?" D asked as he, Jack and Sue sat at a table in the middle of the diner.
Jack shrugged, not taking his eyes off someone sitting in another booth. It turned out that they weren't who they were looking for. "Let's just say we didn't tell anyone, and invited you anyways."
D chuckled, knowing exactly what he meant.
"I don't see anyone matching the description. Are you sure he said he would be here at 1?" Sue asked, scanning the people that walked into the diner.
Jack nodded. "If he lied, we're in big trouble."
"Jack, I have a visual of Adam on the sidewalk just outside." Bobby said into his microphone. He was outside, across the street from the diner.
"Great. Hopefully he'll come in soon." Jack replied.
"I see him." Sue said, watching Adam walk across the diner to an empty booth and sat down.
"Anyone have visuals on anyone he might be meeting with?"
"No, well, maybe." Josh replied as he pretended to dump the bags of garbage into the garbage truck. "There's a limo that's coming up the back entrance." Josh watched as a man in all black and black sunglasses came out of the car. "He's coming inside" he whispered as the mystery man walked through the back doors.
"I have a visual." Jack said as he watched the man come from the back and to Adam.
"He said it's nice to see him again." Sue lipread. She could see Adam's half of the conversation, but not the mystery man's. "But that's not what we agreed upon."
"Looks like somethings not going well," D muttered to Jack. He nodded back.
Just then, both men quickly got up, both leaving their separate ways.
"Did you anything that we could use?" Jack asked Sue. She shook her head.
"Next time." D comforted, seeing how frustrated Jack was that they all wasted their time.
Sue curiously watched as a man that just came in the diner walk up to a poster that she saw another man hang up a few minutes prior while waiting for Adam. The man himself wasn't curious, but what he was doing was. He was writing down things in a notebook. She cocked her head and frowned as she looked. She didn't have a clear view of the image, but she knew that it was an image, with very little writing, unlike all the writing the man was writing down in the notebook.
Jack tapped the table, and Sue looked at him. "What are you doing?" he asked, seeing her looking at something intensely.
"See that man?" she nodded towards the man who was now closing his little notebook and putting it in his pocket.
Jack quickly turned and glanced at him. "The guy by the posters by the door, yeah."
"He was looking at that poster curiously, and writing things down in his notebook." She explained. She watched as he walked out the door.
Jack shrugged. "Maybe it's for a job application or an item he wants to purchase."
Sue shook her head. "No, it's a picture." She quickly got up and walked to the picture, scanning it. It was a photograph of a typical street, with some people and various items scattered around the scene. Jack and D followed her. She glanced behind her, seeing they were behind her, and she explained. "This picture was altered."
Jack walked to her side so she could see him. "How do you know?"
"See this?" she said, pointing to a dog on the street. She saw both of them nodding. "See how the light on the dog is coming from a different direction than the sun on say, the car that's driving past? The dog was added in."
"Hey, yeah." D said, coming closer and analyzing it. "The lighting is different on this older woman, too. She shouldn't have any light on her."
"The numbers '5862' are all over. That has to mean something."
"Look at this, a pile of phones in the middle of the street? That's highly unlikely to be in the original picture." D replied, examining it further.
Sue nodded. "Something suspicious is going on with this."
Jack nodded. "Yeah, but it's not a case. It's just a badly computerized picture."
"But why would someone write things down?" Sue asked. "This has to be something suspicious."
Jack didn't reply, but was thinking.
"Let's bring it to Tara and maybe she will be able to figure it out." Sue suggested.
Jack looked at Sue's pleading face. How could he say no? "Alright." He then proceeded to take it down off the poster board.
"Careful, if there's any fingerprints, we could see if we could figure out who it is." Sue said as she watched as Jack listed his hands to take it down.
"Good idea." He replied, putting on his gloves he had in his coat pocket.
Meanwhile, a man was watching them take the poster, and walk out of the diner with it. "Darn it, they took it. This place isn't safe anymore." He mumbled to himself.