"Remember, the Russians may not like us interfering, so don't mind the cold shoulder." Jack said as they were nearing the end of their flight. "Yeah…" Emily said, "Russian attitude towards Americans-not the best."
Spencer said, "Well, it's no surprise. The generation gap in Russia is pretty wide. The older generation is probably still mad about the cold war. The younger generation knows about Americans only through television. We are usually associated with hamburgers, coke, etc." Kayla, the CSI added, "Not to mention, Hollywood usually portrays them as villains. With love from Russia, Bridge of spies, salt, anti- satellite strike in Gravity, all the movies on KGB, yadda yadda yadda." Emily shrugged. "Sounds like a vacation."
Nikolai Petrov, the liaison from the Russian police department was actually quite welcoming. He was driving one of the cars back to the police station, when he said, "I am afraid the others at the station will not be quite welcoming. They think that you all think that all of us work for the Bratva." Kayla smiled, not looking up from her laptop, "You don't?" Nikolai gave a smug grin. "No. I went to university in America. Not all of you are bad. It's just the movie directors who paint us as the mafia." Kayla chuckled. "So is that why you're the liaison? You're the only one who doesn't think of us as rich, narcissistic people?" Nikolai replied, "Maybe. But don't get me wrong. All of us are glad for the help. The media would do anything to put us in the wrong side. If the word was that an American was kidnapped in Russia and the Russian police didn't want the FBI coming in, field day."
"First thing we have to do," JJ said at the police station, "is to retrace Berns' steps. Why was he in Barcelona? Where did he go after that?" Everyone nodded in agreement. Jack said, " Clara and Kayla, I want you to examine previous case files to see if there has been anything like this before." Emily gave orders to Garcia, Monty, Morgan, and JJ, "I want you to see what happened after he boarded the Barcelona flight." Reid shook his head. "Hey, this is probably too late to ask this, but how do we know Berns is in Russia?" Mae said, "The bureau's analysts found that photo on a deep web website, which was Russian. When they tried to trace it, despite the proxies, what they did find out was that all the proxy servers were in Russia."
"Icky yucky mucky. Why did Berns go to Barcelona in the first place?" Garcia said as she typed something on her computer going through airline reservations. "Hey! Look. Berns boarded the flight to Barcelona, but on that day, no tickets were registered in his name. He's using aliases?" Monty said. "Well," JJ said through the speaker phone, "Look for passengers who hadn't booked a return ticket." "Uh-Huh, narrowed it down to 8 passengers." Morgan said, "Now who had booked their tickets together? Because we know that he had a ticket for his son too." "Got it!" Monty yelled. "Jasper and Jeff McBride." JJ said, "Any chance you've been multitasking?" Garcia grinned an evil grin. "Of course. They booked a ticket to Russia under the same name a few days after, but another person was added. Maggie Brett. Now I can tell with my superpowers that Maggie isn't an alias, but the name of Mark's ex-wife. She too, has Russian roots. Her grandfather was a soviet soldier back in WWII and among the confusion at the end of the war, came to New York and settled there." "I think we have a connection."Morgan said, stating the obvious.
"Hey! Look at this." Clara told Kayla and passed her a file. "Sasha Gregory. Was naturalized a year ago, she had come here because she wanted to stay close to her Russian roots. 2 months after her naturalization and living in , poof!" Kayla ran her hand through her bright blue hair and said, "So we have an immigrant hating kidnapper, maybe killer?"
"Looks like it" said Emily as she and Jack entered the station.
Kayla's face brightened, "The Immigrantovich kidnapper/killer."