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Chapter 3: The Interrogation

They arrived at the crime scene soon after. For the rest of the journey they talked about a recent case in Limbo leaving the Gravedigger conversation behind them. As soon as they arrived at the abandoned parking lot, Hodgins went to collect particulates from the surrounding area. Brennan was leant over the body trying to find out the identity of the charred remains. Meanwhile, Booth had gone to talk to the person who found the body, Dr. Emmett Brown.
"On my way to the office, I sensed something was off. I decided to thoroughly investigate the area after all I was there in 1999 when Dorangel Vargas was arrested. I even heard his interviews on the television. Naturally I thought I could investigate myself. Besides which, I hardly thought I would unearth anything above the ordinary," declared Dr. Brown. Booth had been jotting it down in his little notepad, when he finished he glanced back at the estranged Doctor,
"What happened when you discovered the body?" Booth asked suspiciously just as Dr. Brown continued his rants of the events that had past,
"Well, once I deduced the course that had preceded this catastrophe, I decided to call in the experts for a second opinion. After all, I'm trained in the field of physics not biology. Although, I've had my fair share of research opportunities. I believe the poor fellow knew a plethora of information and hence forth his superiors had him eliminated thus abolishing any chances that his knowledge could escape him. Nemus of scientia est non ut of vita." Doc Brown finally concluded whilst a perplexed Booth stared back; he had never understood Latin.
"What?" asked Booth shooting him a befuddled glance. Brennan walked up beside them after overhearing their previous conversation.
"The tree of knowledge is not that of life." Brennan translated for Booth. "The body's a Caucasian male, forty to fifty years old, we'll have to determine height and weight later in the lab due to the fact in intensive heat conditions the bones shrink in the heat. Anyway, he has a previous injury to his ulna which needed a graft so we can probably identify him from medical records." Brennan rambled on whilst Booth listened in hope that this would be easy case. Dr. Brown, on the other hand, had his own theories of how the victim had injured his ulna and to Booth and Brennan's horror he began talking,
"There are numerous possibilities to how the cadaver injured his ulna. Firstly, the most prominent injury is a fracture which could suggest the man enjoyed vacations in Alaska and thus he slipped on the ice due to the weather conditions and caused the injury. Secondly the man could have had reattachment surgery. His forearm could have been detached from the ulna in a car crash. Thirdly, the man could have been in a car crash in which his arm was severed and a piece of bone could have got lost in the debris meaning a graft was necessary to fix his arm." Dr. Brown rambled in an unnecessary tangent.
"Johnson!" shouted Booth. A few moments later a middle aged man in a suit appeared next to them. "Could you escort Mr. Brown..."
"That's Dr. Brown, thank you very much! I am a physicist and a very good one at that, Chief Inventive Officer at my company; The Institute of Future Technology. If you knew the things I am capable of... " Emmett interrupted.
"...Dr Brown back to the Hoover building, please?"Booth followed a similar fashion and interrupted Emmett in an attempt to get him to stop talking. The agent directed Emmett to the FBI standard SUV just as Hodgins re-emerged,
"I've got all the particulates I need. I also found these." He said whilst holding two evidence bags. In the first bag was a plastic bottle and in the second was a wrecked memory stick. "A bottle and a memory stick, maybe it'll lead us to who's done it or why."
"Right, looks like we're all done here. You two can pack all your stuff away while I make arrangements for the body." Booth concluded to Brennan and Hodgins as the two began to collect their things together.

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They had been back at the lab for five hours. Hodgins had discovered that the liquid in the bottle had been used to burn the body. Now he was analysing the particulates that he had retrieved to attempt to uncover whether the body had been killed where Dr. Brown had come across it or if it had been moved there in some wily attempt to lead the investigators off the scent. He had given Angela the memory stick which had been found near the body so that she could use her expertise to get more information, hopefully from files on the memory stick.

Brennan and Zach were inspecting the body to uncover more about the victim and exactly what lead to the horrible crime and also the identity of the sick murderer who would do such a thing. It was a lot easier with their new equipment. Brennan had been right; they had been able to identify the corpse by medical records and simply researching the names of people who have had a bone graft within the past five years. They had discovered that the man was Greg Nolan, a 43 year old man. He worked at the Institute of Future Technology at the Washington office as an Executive Inventive Officer where he worked since it was founded by Dr. Emmett Brown. They had also found out that the man had a family living in Tacoma. But the identity of the man was the easy part; figuring out who killed him and why was more challenging. They could drive out to Tacoma in the morning to question his wife to find out more about him and maybe why he was killed. Hopefully it would be a successful trip. Booth was stood off to the side of the platform; he didn't like the smell of a dead body. Angela walked up onto the platform holding a file of what she had found out so far,
"The memory stick was in pretty bad condition but I've managed to recover some of the data and files which were stored on it. There's part of an organiser with dates of 'meetings' of some kind, parts of reports from the meetings and a list of people I don't know who they are or what the list was for, most likely it links in with the club. Plus, your friend Dr. Emmett Brown's name is on there and also Greg Nolan. Maybe you can find out more from Dr. Brown when you go and talk to him." Angela concluded.
"Ok, good job, Angela. We'll go talk to him now," announced Booth dragging Brennan away from the body for an interrogation they weren't looking forward to. But someone had to do it and the sooner they had figured out this murder the better.

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Booth and Brennan had been interrogating Emmett for fifteen minutes. So far it had been a success as they had established that the doctor knew Greg Nolan from work. He had also told them that the last time he saw Greg was at the company disco the previous month. That's all he had said but they needed more.

"Dr. Brown as you know a memory stick was retrieved from the crime scene; we were able to recover some of the data on it. One of the documents we found consisted of a list of names; your name and Greg Nolan's name was on this list along with others who we've discovered also work at the Institute of Future Technology. What's the list for?" asked Booth who was sitting across from him in the small room. Brennan had left the room to answer a call from Zach.

"If you assume that I am going to enlighten you with the key principle regarding the list then you are sadly erroneous. I cannot inform you of such brilliance. I am under an oath of secrecy to protect the violation of the group; just like my fellow members."

Brennan walked back into the room putting her phone back into her pocket whilst Booth sat looking confused.

"Sorry, Zach wanted a second opinion on his doctorates, have you found anything?"

"Only that Dr. Brown here, speaks in Squint language."

"I simply informed your colleague that I would not reveal what the list meant. I have promised my other members and they would do the same if in this situation."

"Dr. Brown we have reason to believe that the list of names are members of a club. Currently we are unaware what the club is for or even the name of the club," said Brennan sitting down next to Booth at the table. "Could you confirm or deny this information?"

"I have explained to you before and I will tell you again; I cannot tell you about the list. I apologise."

"Dr. Brown, am I right to assume that you know about your criminal record?" asked Booth reaching over for one of the files which was on the table in front of him. "A disturbance in the car park of Lone Pine mall, associations with Libyan terrorists, need I go on? You also seemed to have disappeared for five years a few years back, care to explain?"

"That's all in the past now moreover those cases have been dealt with now."

"According to the files we still do not know where you were for those five years; we have no confirmation that you were anywhere in the USA. Where were you Dr. Brown?"

"I was on holiday with my family in Australia."

"For five years?" asked Brennan sceptically.

"It was more of a research trip for my work and I took the family because I thought it would be educational for my sons." Booth and Brennan looked at each other doubtfully.

"Okay then, that's all for today Dr. Brown. We may be in contact with you again to ask you some more questions so don't go leaving the country. Please wait here until someone comes to escort you out of the building," said Booth. He picked up the files and left the room behind Brennan.

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Later in Booths office Booth and Brennan were discussing the interrogation they had just had with Dr. Brown.

"I think the doc knows more than he's telling us," said Booth putting his feet up on the desk.

"You always say that every time we interrogate someone. What do we need to do know?"

"Well, we need to talk to Mrs Nolan so pack your bags Bones we're off to Tacoma."

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