"Are you sure you can still handle the case, Lindsay."

"Yes, Mac. Speaking of the case we got a hit off the fingerprints. They belong to a Kyle Staton."

"Does he have a record?"

"No. He's a banker back in Texas."

"What's a banker from Texas doing all the way out here?"

"I don't know."

"What else do you have?"

"Nothing else but I was thinking that checking the bookstore that Veronica mentioned could rule her out as a suspect. I had Danny look up the address." At that moment Danny walks into the room.

"Got the address. Sorry to say it's near the crime scene."

"Lindsay, take Danny with you and check out the bookstore." They nod and leave the room.

The Knowledge Bookstore

"NYPD. We need to look around."

"What does this concern?" A clerk said to Lindsay and Danny as they walked up to the counter.

"Its concerning a murder that took place the other night." Lindsay states.

"You have a warrant or something?"

"We can get one if we need one but it could hurt your business if we have to show up again."

"Go right ahead." Danny and Lindsay begin to search the room.

"Do you have cameras in here?" Lindsay asks.

"Yeah two in the back and three in the front."

"Can we have access to the tapes?"

"You would need the manager's permission."

"Where is he?"

"He's not here, but I can try to reach him on he's cell phone." The clerk picks up the phone and starts dialing. He begins talk to the person on the other line. Lindsay and Danny busy themselves by casually glancing around the room.

"Veronica was in the back." Lindsay looks towards the back of the building.

"How do you know?"

"I know Veronica." Lindsay gives Danny a smile before walking back to the counter just as the clerk gets off the phone.

"You can go in now."

"Thank you." They head off in the direction of the security room.

Security Room (Hours later)

"I think my eyes are starting to fuse together." Lindsay says rubbing her eyes.

"Just a couple of tapes left to go, Montana." Danny puts in another tape.

"There. Rewind that. There she is in the back. Time of death was put around 11:45 p.m."

"The tape says she was there between 10:30 and 12:15 a.m. She sure does like to read don't she?"

"Yeah. When we were little she would spend hours at the library. She actually got locked in one once. She had to spend the night in the children's section."

"A regular bookworm ay."

"You could say that. Lets go take this to Mac and clear Veronica."

"After you, Montana."

"Hey we're back."

"What did you guys find?" Mac says putting the folder he has in his hands down on his desk.

"Tape proves Veronica was in the bookstore during the murder."

"That clears Veronica but leaves us without suspects."

"I can look deeper into the guy's history see if I can find anything that might tell us who would try to kill him."

"Ok but that tape still needs to be processed."

"I'll do that." Danny offers.

"Alright get back to me when you've finished."

Lindsay's Apartment (the next day)

"So you're leaving, V?" Lindsay gives V a hug

"I thought it was best that I leave. My brother called earlier saying it was okay to come home." V picks up her bags from the floor.

"Don't forget to call me when you get home. I don't want another eight years to pass before I hear from you again."

"Don't worry I'll call you." V waves as she exits out of the apartment.

Crime Lab

"How's it going with the suspect list?" Danny asks as Lindsay walks into the A/V room.

"No such luck coming up with suspects. He wasn't married. Didn't owe anyone. Didn't make anyone mad or anything. The guy had no enemies to speak of...what are you doing?"

"Checking the tape for any tampering. Its coming out clean though." Danny fast forwards through the tape.

"Wait. Stop. Go back." Lindsay says pointing to the screen.

"What?" Danny says looking at the screen trying to figure out what she was talking about.

"There. Play back a few minutes." Danny rewinds the tape and pushes play.

"I see it. What is that a tear?" Danny freezes the image and enlarges it.

"It's a spice in the tape. Someone cut the ribbon and then taped it back. I was aware that it could be done on movie film I just wasn't aware you could do it on VHS."

"Where did you learn that?"

"From Veronica she took a class in film making a long time ago..."

Flashback

"Hey V are you coming to eat?"

"Yeah in a minute I'm just finishing up something,"

"What are you doing?"

"Splicing the film."

"Splicing?"

"Yeah its when you cut the film a tape it together with special tape."

"Won't you see it when you look at the film."

"No. This is just the working tape. After this you copy it to another tape. Do you want to try, Linds, it'll only take a few minutes?"

"Sure."

End of Flashback

"Hey there, where'd you go?" Danny asks waving a hand in her face.

"I was just remembering something."

"And?"

"Veronica lied. We need to tell Mac about this now!" They rush over to Mac's office.

We are reaching the end of this particular story. As I promised the secret will come to light in the last chapter. There will be two more chapters to this story beside this one so keep on reading and don't forget to review. I like reading them. I'll update soon.