Arriving down in the morgue, Rebecca smiled sadly at Sid. "Hey, Sid. Is Terrence done? Or we still waiting on results?" He chuckled as she walked in and she noted he wasn't even opened up yet. "Sorry. I'm just antsy after being away for so long."
"Everyone's excited that you're back. Honestly, the people that work with you in the lab are thrilled as are a lot of our Medical Examiners," he assured. She chuckled at that and then saw Anabelle Hicks's body and she smiled sadly. "That case can finally be closed."
"Once I go to talk to him. I have to put the final nail in his coffin," she responded and Sid looked at her. "Please don't give me that look. I have to finish the case. I was one of the main detectives on it, I did the undercover work, I should finish the job." Sid smiled at her and she shrugged. "What can I say? I feel responsible for making sure he knows he will face justice."
"Should you take Detective Flack, Danny or Mac along?" She shook her head at him and he looked at her. "We all heard about what he did to you. Not that we don't trust you but I think there are enough people that want to rip him a new one."
"I plan to. I will never forgive him for being the second one to do it," she answered before she replayed the sentence in her head. "Whoops," she responded realizing what she just exposed. Sid looked at her shocked and took his glasses off. "Sid please forget you heard that."
"I will not. Have you told anyone about your first time what happened?"
"Mhm. Case was dismissed though," she answered shrugging. He looked at her shocked and she chuckled. "Sid he was in a position of power over me. His word vs me? I think you can tell a winner from that," she responded and he winced. "Yeah. I never got justice for that case. But I will get justice for all Colic's other victims."
"For yourself this time as well. He got you too and the rape kit proves it," he assured. She nodded and then saw Hawkes and she gave him a knowing glance and he nodded knowing what she was basically saying. She didn't want anyone knowing about the first time and he was an accidental discovery.
"What are you doing down here Rebecca? Hadn't even paged you," he answered.
"Just thought I'd come down see Sid. Also check to see autopsy status but I was told we're not there yet. Not rushing it. Just let me know when it's done," she answered smiling at him. "I have trace to work on. Remember what I said about the shards."
"I'll bring them up. Also, we're all having dinner at your place Friday or what?" She chuckled at that and nodded before he smirked at her. "Just so then I can deal with the gossips of the building," he warned her and she nodded and as she left smirked.
"BYOC," she called out as a reminder.
"I didn't steal it," he called back teasingly. Sid chuckled at the two of them knowing exactly what the little argument was about. They all made fun of Hawkes and Rebecca for the fact that after they all had dinner at her place one night, the one mug she liked went missing.
"You still hold him to that don't you?" She nodded and he snickered before they saw Mac coming down. "So I have Anabelle Hicks and Tamara Tam ready for their funeral homes to pick up I just need your signature Mac," he informed the man. Mac nodded and grabbed the papers and signed off on them. "Now as Hawkes said. We'll page you when Terrence's body is ready to have the details divulged."
"I'm in trace," she assured. As she got upstairs again she leaned against the wall and called Flack. "Hey. Get me the papers to pull a prisoner out of his cell for questioning," she ordered and he made a sound of shock at how she was handling it. "I want to talk to Colic. I saw Mac's interview but he's hiding something. I'll get it out."
"I don't know Rebecca. I mean should you really be talking to this man? I know you're a great detective and interrogations go smoothly, but I don't want to watch you torture yourself. Maybe you should let Mac handle the final interview."
"No," she answered calmly. "I got it. I'll be there in half an hour," she answered. As she hung up and grabbed her coat she saw Adam walking towards her with Mac. "Hey guys. I'll be back in a bit. Wrapping up the final bit of the Colic case."
"Rebecca, I really don't think you should be the one doing the interview. The DA will use it against you," Mac warned looking at her seriously. "I don't want to lose this case after everything we've done. So I really think you should let me."
"I'm recording the interview. DA can't change a recording. I have my script which will literally go into a safe place in the evidence box so then nobody can say I changed the interview questions. Mac, I can do this. Just let me have the chance."
"Flack will be there?"
"I'll have him in the room with me," she promised and Mac sighed nodding knowing that Rebecca's tenacity would win out in the end. "Mac, I can handle this. You know that. I just have to keep my head on which I can do," she promised.
"Come straight back after the interview," he warned her and she nodded as she slipped down the elevator. Mac looked to Adam and chuckled at him. "If you really want to be with her, you have to be ready for that. Her stubborn levels are intense."
"So I see," he answered. Adam and Hawkes both caught Rebecca's eye but they both didn't realize that so they each were trying in their own ways, but Adam over the time the mission was happening grew even closer to another lab tech, Kendall.
Meanwhile as Rebecca arrived she grabbed the recording device from the back room and nodded at Flack as she signed the documents. "So what's with the recording device?"
"As I went undercover against this man, I don't want the DA to think that I was biased in my talk with him. I want all my words to be scripted and recorded," she promised. Flack smirked and high fived her as she walked over to the desk and handed over the papers. She knew it wouldn't be long before he was in a room.
"You really did think of everything for this case." She nodded and as the man was forced into an interrogation room she sighed and fixed her hair. "How long's it been since you did an interrogation like this? I haven't seen you in the final push for a while."
"Almost a year," she admitted as she grabbed her booklet of questions and then handed the recorder to Flack. "Do I have to say my name, your name and the time and who I'm interrogating?"
"Yes," Flack answered honestly. "Go completely textbook," he advised. She nodded and as they walked in, she set the recorder down and pulled out her booklet.
"This is Detective Rebecca Manx and Detective Donald Flack Jr, interrogating Martin Colic who is going to be tried for first degree murder of two people, attempted murder of a Crime Scene Investigator, sexual assault of a Crime Scene Investigator. The time is 2:59 PM," she began bored.
"My girl seems so mature," he mused.
"Mr Colic, when you were asked about your patients why did you not come forth about the true nature of your clinic's practices for the patients and their families?" Flack was watching in shock at how she sounded completely unattached.
"Oh Claire," he began looking at her. "You can pretend you're not affected by what happened, but you know the truth," he began and Flack watched as Rebecca rolled her eyes at him.
"Please answer the question Mr Colic," Flack answered casually.
"I'm sure your father is not happy you're here," he added as an after thought and Flack saw Rebecca's eye twitch but she shrugged it off and stood up to stretch before walking back over to the table and sitting down casually. "No answer?"
"Please just answer the questions Mr Colic," she responded calmly. "Why did you fail to inform the NYPD of your different approach to psychiatric therapy? This may have seemed irrelevant to you, but it would have helped the investigation."
"Not like you actually care."
"I do actually. Besides the fact that I have your confession recorded? I want to understand the why. I love a good Modus Operandi. Now back to those questions."
"Power. For once I can decide what happens to a person. Telling their families to treat them that way, telling them different things," he continued and Flack gave Rebecca a pointed nod.
"Interview was concluded at 3:10 PM," she noted and stopped the recording before getting up. "I'll see you in court Mr Colic," she answered before walking out and making note on the script that he was uncooperative and only question 1 was able to be answered.
Walking out to the cruiser, Flack looked at Rebecca. "You did good in there. Now talk to me as a brother. What's going on inside the mind of Rebecca Manx?"
"I have a conflicted heart," she admitted and Flack snickered. "I'm serious Flack. I mean in regards to my actual love life. Like I have feelings for two people," she responded and Flack looked at her and she chuckled. "I have feelings for Adam but also Hawkes. Do you know the thoughts through my head with that?"
"Well it'll be a choice of your heart. I can't help in that sense. But is there one you're leaning more towards?"
"Adam. I mean we always were close," she responded and Flack nodded knowing that was the truth as whenever he was in the Lab she could be seen with Adam. As they returned to the lab, she was going to check on the electronic data for their new case and saw Adam and Kendall getting really close. She mentally ignored it though as when she walked in Kendall walked over and hugged her. "Hey Kendall. Do we have anything on that device that Terrence had?"
"His phone. Also still working on it. He really had it locked up so I'm out hacking it at the moment," Adam informed looking at her. "What about you? You vanished for a good hour," he continued and she nodded at that revealing a folder. "Terrence? Or Colic?"
"Colic. Thought I'd check-in before I take this to the boss. He'll have my head if I don't," she responded. Adam nodded and then chuckled as she almost walked into the door. "I meant to do that," she responded casually.
"Of course you did," Kendall chuckled as she walked away.
When she saw the office of Mac Taylor was empty sans him, she knocked and he nodded at her. "How'd the interview go?"
"Recorded and only got to question 1. The rest he wasn't answering. Kept calling me Claire," she responded calmly. "I didn't let him bother me. I had a job to do. Asked if you knew and were okay with me being down there. I didn't bite. He was looking for a reaction."
"Good. So onto your new case as you don't have to do anything until the trial for Colic," Mac responded and she nodded. She handed over the book and her notes from the interview as Flack had the recording handed in already since she paused and he didn't.
"Is the aut-," she began before her pager went off. "Speak of the morgue and they call. I'll be back in a bit."
"Your shift ends after the Morgue visit."
"I know," she answered casually as she looked at him. "I'll be heading home and having a drink. We all are having dinner this Friday apparently. Nobody warns me," she answered and Mac looked at her. "What? I'm allowed to have a single drink."
"Not why I'm looking at you. Remember? You need to stop by my office before you head out. We need to have a talk," he informed.
"No offence boss but my job isn't in jeopardy so I know it's not about that. So I don't see why it's mandatory."
"Because I want to talk to you as you're avoiding the topic that I want to talk about. It needs to be addressed and it's just going to be me and you. Stella isn't getting involved in it," he promised. She groaned and nodded walking away to the morgue.
"Hey, I got the page. What do we have?" Hawkes chuckled as she walked over in her scrubs and looked at the body.
"Hawkes told me about how he asked you to put theory to practice. You were correct. It was exsanguination via the right carotid artery. The defensive wounds occurred first naturally but look at how clean the cut on the neck is," he began.
"Looks like the vic was dead before. Which is why I thought that I might be wrong. But if you say it is, I don't see how."
"Drugs," Hawkes answered revealing needle marks. "These are fresh. So we speculated your attacker drugged him while attacking him which was weird in itself but we've seen worse. Anyways Time of Death was about 10 PM last night. We extracted the shards you asked us to watch out for and sent them to trace. But deal with them in the morning."
"I plan to. Mac wants to talk and I'm not looking forward to it," she admitted.
"Listen to what he has to say. He told me," Sid informed as she was leaving. "Trust me. Just hear what he has to say."
"Fine," she sighed as she left and then walked up to the main area of the lab and walked over to Mac's office and knocked. "Sid said to give you a chance. So what do we need to talk about?"
"Come in and close the door. This isn't something the entire lab needs to hear," Mac responded. As she walked in and closed the door before sitting in the chair he indicated for her to sit in he sat across from her. "I want to talk about what happened with Colic and how I want to move forwards from that."
"I've already moved on Mac."
"I mean in the sense that Stella and I were your undercover parents but I want to discuss you actually living with us living under our rules," he answered and Rebecca felt her mind go blank.