"Damn it! This guy is giving me such a headache!" Lin was swamped at the office because of last night's report of yet another attack by the mysterious lightningbender.

This time he assaulted an earthbender and took a pouch of gold from the victim's pocket. The man was now recovering at the hospital. This is what confused Lin and the rest of the police department. The suspect's lightning although hit the victim directly did not kill the target. It merely incapacitates them.

For the past week, so far, there have been four cases related to this lightning bender. All cases had the same scene. The door busted open, one or two victims incapacitated, and a pouch of gold stolen. Little evidence helped in identifying the perp, no fingerprints, footprints, and all lightningbenders brought in did not fit the description given.

The suspect is said to be at the most 5'6, has jet black hair, and dark brown eyes. Lin grunts in exhaustion as she skims through the reports for the nth time.

Her old age now looking more evident than ever with her eyebags seemingly twice the size they normally are.

She and the department as a whole had been facing major backlash because of this and even the president was on their case labeling the whole department as incompetent, not being able to catch one criminal. The problem was the victims were random, they can't send out a bait because it's unlikely the criminal would pick that one house over thousands more. Her detectives weren't very helpful either, they had given up hope as soon as they saw minimal evidence in each of the 4 cases labeling it "impossible". She was all alone at her office at 12am, still racking her brain hoping the criminal would just turn himself in.

"How do I catch this fuc..." She was cut off by her phone ringing.

Her eyes shifted to the ringing phone with almost light-like speed and picked it up with a sense of anxious jitter.

"Hello? Lin?"

It was Tenzin. She was hoping that that was a tip or something and not her old friend.

"What do you want?" She said disappointingly.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to come by to dinner sometime. I know you've been awfully stressed lately and Korra suggested I invite you to dinner tomorrow."

"I would love to, but I'm swamped right now. The president expects us to solve this." She says in frustration, exasperatedly throwing the piece of paper containing their 'evidence' on the table.

"If you want, we can help you."

"It's hard Tenzin, this case is... IMPOSSIBLE!" She screamed as she slammed her fist on the table.

"It's fine, Lin. We will help you."

Lin thought about it for a moment. She had in fact been cooped up in her office all day trying to figure out how, who did this. Extra help wouldn't hurt.

"Fine. I'll come by." She states stiffly.

"Great! I'll see you soon Lin"

She hangs up on him before her eyes shifting back to the papers on her desk.

I should take all of these. She looked at the scattered files on her desk with disgust before packing them into her suitcase.