Sara and Greg stood in the morgue, waiting for Doctor Al. Robbins to finish stitching up their victim.

"T.O.D.?"

"Gun shot to the back of the head."

"Other than that, perfect health. Not on any medication. Judging by the alcohol in his stomach, I'd say he had 3 beers. No other alcohol." He said, handing them the tox report.

"Any signs of a struggle?"

"Burns on his hands. And it looks like somebody punched him in the nose. Not very hard though. It's not broken. I also found these yellow fibers on his trousers and on his nose. Wool."

Sara took the tube he was handing her and looked at the short yellow strings inside. Then the doctor answered their last question.

"T.O.D. is between 4:00 and 5:00."

"No way... Greg said, looking at his timeline again. That means..."


"I didn't kill anybody." the plumber insisisted.

"Maybe not, but you were in the house after he died."

"I didn't talk to him. I assumed he wasn't home."

"We also went throught the vic's bank statement, no mention of plumbing. There is also no sign that the pipes have been touched recently."

"I wore gloves. And I was gonna charge him later. I um... had to go. Early"

"Was it your prints on some shopping bags in the vic's home? Empty shopping bags."

"The guy looked at his lawyer for help, then said "I dropped my phone and I was looking in all the bags trying to find it. They were already empty. Can I go?"

"Sure. But we're gonna need to take your prints, so we can rule you out as a suspect. And don't leave town."

The guy shifted uneasily in his chair. He whispered something to his lawyer.

"Do you have a warrant for my clients prints?" he aksed.

"No, but we can get one. It would be much easier if you gave them up voluntarily. Refusing is going to look a bit suspicous, you must understand."

Greg marvelled at Sara's cool calm voice from through the window outside the interview room. One day, he vowed, he would interview suspects and do it just as well as she did. He watched the plumber clumsily put his hand on the paper, then move it over an inch, smudging the print. Sara had to start all over again and this time the guy didn't put his hand down firmly enough, so the print was too light. Sara seemed to be loosing her patience, but after a nudge from his lawyer, the plumber finally got it right. Sara also collected a DNA sample (after 3 failed attempts) from the plumber and then finally sent him on his way.

"Stay in town." Brass reminded him as he and his lawyer left the room.

Greg narrowed his eyes at the retreating figure. Something was definately not right about that guy. Greg had seen people mess with them before, one guy even going so far as to bite the cotton swab right out of Catherine's hand, but this guy was different. Something made Greg think that this guy wasn't playing with them, he just really didn't want to give them his prints and DNA. Greg ran back to the break room and got out his laptop. It was time to find out a little bit more about this plumber.


Greg was jolted back to reality by Nick's voice.

"Hey Greggo, slow night. Griss says I can work with you and Sara until he gets a new case for me. Watcha got?"

"Well..." Greg looked up from his notes. "My search on Tommy Barbers - the plumber - drew up a blank. There is no record of him ever being born! He has no family, has only lived in his apartment for 2 months, has no previous address and no criminal record."

Nick frowned. and Greg carried on.

"So...I called all the plumbing companies and none of them have any guy called Tommy Barbers - our plumber" he added. "Brian, Davids neighbour had been taking this photo with his family and caught the plumber going into the house in the background. That's how we knew the plumber was there in the first place. I got Archie to check it out in more detail and I got this guy walking into the house, with a tool kit. The photo was taken at 5:00, just like his story says. But... when we zoomed in closer..." Greg enlarged the picture "I realised his costume seemed a little familiar. My friend dressed up as a plumber for a fancy dress party last Halloween. Got his costume on e-bay. It's the exact same one."

Greg opened a new tab and pulled up e-bay. He showed Nick the picture PLUMBER COSTUME OVERALLS DRESS UP.

"So I called the owners and got the list of people who bought this costume." Tommy Barbers is of course, one of them. And he bought a whole lot of other things from them too. Fireman, carpenter, electritian, phone company, policeman, doctor, even a chimney cleaner outfit. And all these deliveries started the day he moved in to this apartment. No other deliveries to this or any adress before that. This guy is creeping me out."

He let Nick take in all the information. Handing Nick his notes, he watched as he read the bank statement, timeline and research Greg had done. Greg decided to order a pizza.

"Wanna pizza, man?" he asked Nick.

"Sure. You buying?"

"Why should I?"

"As I recall, you still owe me twenty buck for the last pizza you ordered."

Greg sighed and called the pizza company. He ordered a Hawaiin pizza for Sara too, feeling generous.

"Where is Sara anyway?" Nick asked.

"She has some sort of a hunch about the vics ex-girlfriend Bianca so she's doing more research, you know looking for any signs that they were in contact recently."

At that moment, Sara burst into the break room, grinning triumphantly and brandishing a sheet of paper.

"Look what I found" she teasesd "David's last will and testament"

"Most people tend to have them" Greg replied sarcstically "I gotta go the lobby and wait for my pizzas."

Sara walked alongside him, closely followed by Nick. She passed them both a copy of David's will. Greg stopped in shock. This was beyond odd.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

I David Moloney, leave my entire estate to Bianca Edmonds

she is to be my sole beneficiary when I die

signed,

DAVID MOLONEY

date modified = 7th of March, 2012

Reading the fine print at the bottem, he turned to Sara in confusion. Modified on the day he died? This guy is odd.

"Don't you get it Greg?" Sara asked him "His ex-wife shows up, manages to talk him into buying her sunglasses, a sweater, shoes, a watch, a massage and jacuzzi then changes his will to make sure everything else is left to her as well. She didn't realise how heaily in debt he was after her spree."

Greg shook his head. What Sara was saying made sense but it wasn't right. He had a feeling.

"Poor girl" Nick said "Now she has to pay off all his debt."

"She deserves it." Sara retorted. "Gold digger."

Greg saw the delivery man arriving and he happily left the conversation to pay for his pizzas. Sara and Nick continued to discuss Bianca as he carried the boxes into the break room. He didn't feel the urge to join in. The plumber was bad. He knew it. He just had to prove it. But first of all, he wanted his pizza.