She stared at the board hoping that she found something that she missed. Unfortunately she acknowledged only the photos of a three faces under the word SUSPECTS. There were faces that she knew so well.
"Based on the autopsy report we know that Ian was murder from .38." She seemed that Ryan's words reverberated in the room. "The ballistics shows that the gun was used in bank robbery three weeks ago."
"Who have access?"
"Each person who works here has it. Since the robbery the weapon was in our archive. Four days ago it was given for request someone from our team."
"So now we have five suspects."
"Should I add our photos to the suspect's side?"
"Did you do it?"
"No, but two of them didn't do it and they are there."
"In the moment when the killer shot to Ian's chest you interrogated with me a suspect in our earlier case. This is why we don't add our photos on the board. Because we've got an alibi. In contrast to others."
Ryan quieted. It was clearly to see that he wanted to say something but he didn't know how to start.
"Do you really thing that someone of us did it?" He finally said it.
"I hope not. After things which happened today I think that someone did a lot to confuse us."
"So what we do now?" She heard hope In his voice.
"We need to see a body once again. Maybe Lanie can help us. And then we check alibis."
Kate stood up and taking the files came to the exit. Peter Keen, a young psychologist who was her shadow for almost a week, stopped her in the door. Smile appeared on his mysterious face. He ran his finger through his hair which felt on his forehead.
"Am I late for a deliberation?" He asked doing one step inside making that Kate had to step back. "Where are the others?"
The man looked around.
The three suspects were in arrest for two hours and everybody on the precinct were talking about it. There was no possibility that the psychologist didn't know about it. Especially when he was interested in everything what her team was doing. Beckett considered that as his trick. He wanted them to say out loud that they arrested their colleagues. Kate eyeballed him and left the room. Kevin did the same thing leaving Peter alone.
They came to the morgue full of hope. The loud voices of pathologists made that they lost it as quick as they got it.
"Hey Lanie" Kate greeted her friend. "Perlmutter" she said to other doctor.
The doctors looked at her. The way how they reacted was reminding scared children who just did something wrong. They freeze up looking at detectives and themselves.
"Something happened?" Beckett asked when no one answered her.
"Everything is alright" Lanie tried confirm her words by body language. "You came here for a reason?"
"We want to see a body once again." Ryan joined to the conversation.
"So stand in the line." Perlmutter grunted.
"Someone else want to do that?" Kate asked.
"Indeed, me. On request of Captain Gates" he emphasized last two words. "But doctor Parish don't want to show me the body."
"Sidney, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't do it because I can't do it?"
"But I explain you that I am here because Captain ordered me. Do you thing that I come here otherwise?"
"This body is gone. How many times do I tell you? It's gone!"
"Wait" Beckett stopped their dispute. "Why did Captain Gates want other pathology to examine a body?"
"I don't know. She said something that doctor Parish can cover the evidences up." The man seemed to be exasperated. "Can I do my job?"
"Give me a moment. Why Lanie could cover the evidences up?"
"Consider that Gates arrested Javi she could think that Lanie cover his ass." Ryan encapsulated.
"Good point. Lanie, tell me" this time she spoke to her friend. "What do you mean that the body is gone?"
"That it's gone. It disappeared. According to the documents it was given to the family. Probably it's now in the funeral service."
"You surrender the body?!" Kate and Kevin asked in the same time.
"When you don't close the investigation? Are you crazy?"
"So, who did it?"
Lanie shrugged her shoulders.
"It's a mystery." She added.