"I'm sorry you only got a few hours off." Mac apologised to Lindsay and Stella as she arrived at the scene.
"It's okay I left Danny with our mothers." Lindsay replied. "How's the officer who was injured?"
"His vest caught most of it, although he took one in the arm. He should be fine." Mac assured them. "Flack's gone to secure his vest and the bullets at the hospital, I'll take out. So you two have inside."
"Did you say mothers as in plural?" Stella asked as they walked inside careful not to step on the broken glass.
"Carrie called my apartment to remind Danny about his father's birthday party and to remember to invite me and my mother picked up the phone they started talking and spent the day together. I left Danny supervising them on a walk in Central Park."
"How did Danny take that?"
"A little surprised." Lindsay admitted. "Wow!" She saw the scene. "This is more than a little smash and grab job."
"You start on that side, I'll start on the other and we'll meet in the middle." Stella suggested.
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"How's it going Montana?" Danny asked from the doorway.
"Is it that time already?" Lindsay yawned. "Sorry."
"I'm early." Danny admitted. "I brought you coffee."
"How many?" Lindsay asked.
"How about a Carmel Macchiato with a triple shot of espresso?" Danny offered.
"My hero, I knew there was a reason I liked you. I just need a few minutes to put these away."
"So how much are those diamonds worth?" Danny inquired.
"They aren't diamonds." Lindsay replied.
"They're not?"
"No the fractal pattern of everyone I tested is wrong from diamonds." Lindsay replied.
"You think it's an insurance scam?"
"What?" Lindsay turned to look at him.
"Jewellers are insured pretty well if they have millions of dollars worth of stones, swap out all the real stones for fake ones, have someone steal them and claim it on the insurance, the insurance pays out and they still have the original stones. Kerching."
"So if you suddenly come into a lot of money I should be looking at insurance fraud?" Lindsay asked.
"No try the nearest state with lotto." Danny replied.
Lindsay finished repacking the evidence and stuck the red label over it and initialled it.
"Now where is that coffee?"
Danny handed her the cup as they walked.
"Any of that for me?" Stella appeared.
Danny handed her a cup.
"Thanks." Stella replied. "Did you find anything?"
"All those diamonds we found aren't diamonds and Danny has a theory."
Danny told Stella his theory as they ate the bagels he'd brought as well.
"Let's see where the evidence takes us." Stella suggested.
"Does it lead anywhere near a nap?" Lindsay inquired yawning.
"Why don't you go and take a nap for an hour or so?" Stella suggested. "Mac's couch should be free. He keeps a blanket and a pillow in a box in the corner."
"Sounds good." Lindsay agreed.
"A triple shot of espresso and you're to going to sleep, good luck." Danny teased.
"By the way did Mom get back to my place okay?" Lindsay inquired.
"I walked her to the door myself." Danny confirmed. "Then I took my mother home."
"Good. I'm going to sleep, so wake me up in an hour." Lindsay climbed off of her stool.
"She'll need lots of coffee when she wakes up; she's grumpy in the morning." Danny warned Stella.
"She'll be fine, when she wakes up I'll take a nap and by then it will be a reasonable enough hour to get Flack and go and find out why every item of jewellery we found had fake stones in it and why the surveillance cameras were turned off."
"So it is an inside job?" Danny asked.
"Or they just happened to switch it off. I'll have Flack check out their insurance policy."
"I guess I should get to work too." Danny stated. "Evidence does not process it's self."
"Technically that's not true sometimes it does." Stella replied. "Or there could beMac size elves who have gotten fed up with making shoes."
They both headed back to continue process the evidence on their respective cases.
TBC