"What is it?" Tony asked, straightforwardly, not wanting to dance around the subject, like Ryan always did.
"That was Division. They are sending someone over to see how were running, they want to shut us down."
"Hammond?" Michelle asked, joining the conversation as she entered the office, with a red ring binder under her arm.
"Yeah. But its come from someone above him."
"Great." Tony muttered.
"Yes I know, so before he comes over, we need to figure out this thing with Jack. If we don't even have a handle on that Hammond is going to kick off."
Michelle started. "Adam has compiled a lot of information on the situation between Jack and Daniel Bauer. He has found witness reports, police and hospital records on the incident that happened some time ago. He says he has also got case notes on the search for Daniel Bauer, and some newspaper articles on that and the death of their parents, Thomas and Mary Bauer."
Tony watched Michelle intently as she spoke.
"Right, me and Tony will look through this and come up with some possible hypothesis for what the situation is. I want you to get Scott onto the satellite feeds, try to get a place on Jack. Get Kim on cross references, and I want Adam onto the real threat. He is to run the new information we have on any databases we have, get him to cross reference everything too. Try get more personnel in, the inspectors said the building was safe, were just waiting on the construction of the stars, which should be up soon."
"Got it." She said as she left the office.
Once she had left the two men began leafing through the binder she left behind, containing the information on Jack. After a few minutes silent reading Tony spoke,
"This is a direct report on what happened, which means its more than likely the reason they separated, it may have something to do with today."
"What does it say?" Ryan asked, dropping the sheet he was reading to the floor.
"Okay... it appears that Daniel Bauer and a Craig Denver set up a drug deal, with some small time drug gang, called....." He paused as he tried to find the name in the leaflet, " oh, they haven't listed the name.." He said, surprised.
"Get on with it Tony." Chappelle instructed.
"Yeah, anyway, it went down at the Bauer residence, where only Jack and Daniel were listed as living. Well, the deal went down but the stuff they were selling was fake, so they broke out into a fight. Then the witness report here says..." He broke off again, skipping to the witness report he had read earlier, "Daniel and Craig were getting beat up pretty bad so Jack came downstairs, hearing the commotion, and joined in. Erm.... eventually someone pulled a gun and started shooting trying to split it up - but it didn't work, just alerted the police.... then somebody, here listed as Warren Dale, pulled out a knife and Jack was stabbed twice in the stomach. This obviously stopped the fight and the gang split, realising what they had done, and Daniel and Craig split too, leaving Jack....." He stopped, discarding the witness report and picking the police report back up.
"Police arrived on the scene too late, they had all fled.... Jack was taken into hospital immediately.... the police held a investigation, but nothing came of it, they never charged anyone involved, they didn't have enough evidence on those they managed to find."
"Okay, so what does this tell us?" Ryan said, processing the information through his mind. "We need to cross reference those names, and any others though our database, I know its a slow process and we've already got two agents on it, but we have to do it - it's protocol. I'll keep leafing through this stuff, you check those names for address' and see what you can find. If its possible, I want you to go visit some of these guys, if we can find them, this may be linked back somehow."
"I don't know Ryan, I mean, it's a bit of a stretch don't you think, and were not even sure that there is any connection. What if its all coincidence?" He asked.
"Just do it Tony." He snapped. "We need to exhaust every possible lead or we'll get nowhere and Hammond will close us down."
"Sure." Was all Tony said, not wanting any more anger directed at him from a man he despised. He left the room wondering why he was performing such a pointless task, he just hoped that somehow some sort of lead would come through.