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Pictures Don't Lie
Mac walked into the morgue to find Sid waiting for him.
"C.O.D. is a single gunshot wound to chest. No surprise there." Sid removed the bullet and gave it to Mac. "Bullet hit his heart lungs. Died instantly. By the way, the officer's name is Steven Deschain. He was gathering information on the Tanglewood boys."
"Guess he got found out." Mac went to match the bullet to the gun they found at the scene. He was still worried about the witness, but the evidence was looking pretty good to put the Tanglewoods away for good. He shook his head and focused on he gun. The test fire round was a perfect match. Evidence is defiantly looking good. They had photos of the suspect with the gun in his hands.
Danny continued to work with the pictures they got from Jack. The camera the kid had may have been a little old, but the images they got were great. The resolution was surprisingly high, and the photographer had gotten pretty close for kid trying his best to hide from his subject. He enlarged the part of the photo that showed the gun. Danny got a good look and saw that it was the same type as the one Mac had found. If that's our murder weapon, this guy is going away for a long time. Danny grinned. It's nice when everything just makes sense.
"Why are you so happy?" demanded an irate-looking Lindsay Monroe. The case she was working with Hawkes and Stella had hit dead end after dead end. It was frustrating the hell out of her because they seemed so close to putting the guy behind bars.
"Our case has probably been solved within hours of the murder. A witness gave us pictures of the killer with the murder weapon in hand." He smiled at her. "Any jury can understand that and an eyewitness testimony no matter what the lawyer says."
"No fair. How do you found reliable witness in New York City that's actually willing to help you?"
"Simple. Find a ten-year-old insomniac happens to be wandering in Central Park and for some reason, isn't seen or hurt."
"It's still not fair."
"You'll get the guy eventually, Montana. There's no such thing as the perfect crime." Danny tried to make her feel better. He knew how frustrating it could be when you knew who didn't but didn't have the evidence to put them away. "You wanna grab some lunch later?"
She laughed. "Sure, as long as you're buying."
Danny was glad she seemed happier. "How about deep fried tarantulas while enjoying a very romantic view of this amazing city."
"Don't push your luck, cowboy."
Danny and Lindsay returned to work. Danny was amazed at how well the case was going. Suddenly, his pager went off. Damn. Thought it seemed too easy.
He hurried out to find Mac on the phone with Flack. Mac saw him and told Flack they'd be right over. He hung up the phone. Mac looked at Danny.
"We have another crime scene to process." Mac's voice was, as always, impossible to read.
Danny had sinking feeling the Tanglewood Boys had found their witness after all. "What happened?" Danny already knew what happened, but he didn't want to right.
"The boy and his mother were attacked in their apartment. His mother was killed. Jack was beat up pretty badly, but he'll live."
"We've got to get this asshole. I'll bet anything Joey Sassone had something to do with this." Danny was clearly pissed that Joey would hurt a kid just to stay out jail.
"All right. If he had something to do with this, we'll be able to prove it." Danny and Mac headed out to crime scene.
The small apartment was a mess. There was blood everywhere as well as broken glass and a few pieces of furniture had been overturned. It was clear someone had put up one hell of fight. There was also a bloody knife on the floor. A huge, furry white dog barked at them, trying to sound threatening.
Mac walked up to it, but the animal growled at him and backed away. He noticed the dog had blood on his muzzle. "He must have bitten the attacker. We're gonna have to process him somehow." The dog growled at Mac again, and then walked over to Danny for some reason. It sniffed him and whined at the CSI. Danny took advantage of this and looked at the dog's collar. "Beowulf." He shook his head. "Named for some mythological hero, huh? Sounds good, considering he probably saved Jack's life." Danny continued to read. 'If found return to James Messer'? That's weird. It gives this address and phone." Danny shrugged at Mac and absentmindly patted Wolfy.
"You have any relatives in Boston?" Mac was referring to the kid's baseball hat.
"No. I knew a girl there once, but that was a long time ago." Danny figured it was just a coincidence.
They were interrupted by Flack's sudden appearance. "Neighbor called 911. He heard them fighting the attacker. They were both taken to the hospital, but the mother died en route. Jack will probably be all right. He is still looking like our best witness at this point. EMS said his mother was stabbed, but the kid wasn't. They also mentioned a dog that didn't want to let them near Jack when they arrived."
"I seem to have found him. Wolfy here belongs to the kid. Seems to like me." Danny told him.
Flack reached for the dog. It growled and snapped at him.
"I got the same reaction. Wonder why it isn't trying to eat Danny. But I'll bet he's what stopped the attacker. Danny, you get to process Beowulf since you're the only one he hasn't tried the bite. Flack, check hospitals for someone with a dog bite." Wolfy seemed to be calming down and sniffed Flack nervously.
"He probably just scared." Danny had owned a dog when he was kid. He felt sorry for the frightened animal.
He and Mac processed the scene. They took blood samples from the wall. Mac also noticed a denim jacket that looked too small to fit Joey. It was soaked in blood. They went through the apartment, but didn't find anything else expect the knife Danny saw earlier.
Danny went to process the boy after he was finished with the dog. Meanwhile, Mac sent samples the DNA lab. He was going through the other evidence when he got a page saying they'd found a match for some of the blood they found. How is that possible when I didn't give them anything to compare it to? Mac was confused.
He met Jane in the DNA lab. "How did you match DNA with nothing to compare it to?"
"It wasn't exactly a match. Whoever's DNA that is a actually a close male relative to Danny Messer." Jane knew if Danny's family was involved Mac needed to know right away. "Does that make any sense? I thought the blood came from your victim."
"Actually, it does." Mac grabbed his phone and called Danny.
A/N: Yay. That was a long chapter. Sorry to leave you there, but I promise to update soon. Please, please review. It makes me happy and when I'm happy, I write more. I would like to know what you think. By the way, I know I borrowed a character name from The Dark Tower I-VII. I'm just not good at finding names :P Thanks.