Chapter 5
"So I made a few posters. What's wrong with that? I saw this guy on the website and thought people should be warned. I was just trying to protect my children." Alexx stated, defensively.
Horatio rested his arms on the table and turned his head to stare at her quietly.
"Wait…Horatio?" She asked, a look of horror slowly spreading across her face. "Could I be charged criminally with this?"
Horatio stood up slowly. He looked at Alexx reassuringly.
"An aggressive attorney might move for a civil suit."
He left Alexx, determined to find the murderer and get his kind ME out of trouble.
Meanwhile, Calleigh, Ryan and Emily were on a computer, looking at known sex offenders in the area.
Emily was seated between the two, her feet propped up comfortably on the desk, eating some Edy's Dibs.
"Oh my God," Calleigh suddenly said, leaning forward. "There's one on my block?"
"You gonna move?" Emily joked, popping another Dib into her mouth.
"No, but I'll definitely keep my gun a little closer at night," Calleigh said.
Ryan sighed and crossed his arms. "I think Alexx went too far."
Calleigh looked at him with raised eyebrows. Emily threw another Dib in the air and caught it with her mouth.
"Ryan, she was protecting her children and alerting other parents to the fact that there was a known sex offender around the neighborhood. I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
"I still think she crossed a line," Ryan said.
"I would cross a line to protect my children," Calleigh replied.
Emily just rolled her eyes and popped another Dib. A tense silence enveloped the room.
"Why don't we just agree to disagree on this one?" Calleigh finally said with a smile.
"Fine," said Ryan.
All three of their pagers beeped. They left the room, and Emily reluctantly left her Dibs.
Later that day, Horatio sent Emily to the AV lab, to get results of the source on the porn on Philip Gordon's computer.
"So, Dan," Emily asked as she stood behind him. "How do we trace this?"
"Well I've already found out that is a pornado bomb." Danstarted.
"Wait..." Emily said, with a confused glance at Cooper. "Por-what-o!"
"Pornado." Dan said, with a grin. "It's like a porn virus in email. The more you try to stop it, the more it multiplies."
"Right..." Emily said, still looking slightly confused.
Dan shook his head and and continued with his explanation.
"Anyway,someone was trying to set this guy up. I can trace the internet source route to find out the original sender." Dan said.
He turned to the keyboard and began to type furiously. The computer beeped.
"Ned Ostroff." Emily read.
She walked out in the hall and found Horatio at the end of it speaking to Stetler.
"Horatio!" She yelled. He turned and smiled kindly, wordlessly dismissing Stetler, who still managed to look very angry.
"Yes?"
"The pornado on Gordon's computer was sent by a Ned Ostroff."
"Thank you. I'll go get him." He said patting Emily's shoulder.
Emily smiled and bounced off to the break room.
