Cast:

Country-Human Name

North Italy- Feliciano Vargas (as Grace Van Pelt)

Germany-Ludwig Beilshmidt (as Wayne Rigsby)

Japan-Kiku Honda (as Kimball Cho)

America-Alfred F. Jones (as Patrick Jane)

England/Britain/UK-Arthur Kirkland (as Teresa Lisbon)

France-Francis Bonnefoy

Seychelles- Victoria de Quincy-Bonnefoy

Monaco- Edeline Bonnefoy

Hungary-Elizabeta Hedervary

Liechtenstein-Lili Zwingli

Poland-Feliks Lukasiewicz

Switzerland-Vash Zwingli

Estonia-Eduard von Bock

Latvia-Ravis Galante

Lithuania-Toris Laurinatis

Ukraine-Katyusha Braginskaya

Denmark-Mathias Kohler

Finland-Tino Vainamoinen

Austria-Roderich Eldenstein

Belgium-Bella

Chapter Two: Red Rose

Kirkland, Honda, and Beilshmidt were standing inside the morgue with the M.E., Bella, looking at a dead body.

Bella addressed the team, "We have Feliks Lukasiewicz, Caucasian, male, 43, single. We haven't opened him up yet, but burn marks…"

Jones entered and stood next to Kirkland and Alfred leaned closer to Arthur and whispered, "Sorry I went over your head. I'll redeem myself. I promise." Then showed his ID to Bella.

Kirkland glared, "If you want redemption, be silent."

"Okay. I can learn to do that."

Kirkland looked murderous, "Shh." He turned to Bella. "Sorry."

"…but burn marks here indicate that the victims was subdued with a stun gun, standard civilian model, by the look of it. Death appears to be causes by several blows to the back of the skull, consistent with a bloodied golf club found at the scene." Bella walked over to a different body, "The female is Lili Zwingli, 27, married, no children. They were found at her listed residence. T.O.D. looks to be early Saturday evening. On Lili we have the same stun gun marks, followed by binding with tight black plastic ligatures, frenzied cutting, and stabbing assault to the torso and subsequent abuse of the viscera."

"Textbook for the Russian." said Honda in his usual monotone.

Kirkland sighed, just what he needed, "Who found the bodies?"

"This one's husband, coming home from the airport Sunday morning with his cousin." Kiku said. "He's a pro golfer."

Beilshmidt looked interested, "Oh, yeah?"

Honda looked at him, "Vash Zwingli."

Beilshmidt shrugged.

"What's their connection," asked Arthur, "Do we know?"

Honda sighed, "He's on file as one of her physicians."

Kirkland looked confused, "Making a house call?"

Beilshimidt sighed,"Lovers?" he asked.

Alfred looked down at Feliks, "No. This one's gay."

"Dr. Vainamoinen might know what they relationship was." Bella said helpfully,

"He's here to make a formal ID."

"Okay." Kirkland sighed.

The agents approach Dr. Vainamoinen in the morgue's hallway.

"Dr. Tino Vainamoinen?" the man nodded. "Hello. I'm Agent Arthur Kirkland, California Bureau of Investigation. What's your connection to the victims?"

"Well, I work with Feliks - Dr. Lukasiewicz - and the Zwingli family are long-time clients of our practice."

"Are house calls normal at your practice?" Arthur asked.

"No. Feliks and Lili were close friends." Tino replied.

Ludwig asked, "Lovers?"

Tino ran a hand through his hair, "No, he was gay." Alfred looked smug, and Arthur resisted the urge to groan. "No, they were just friends. What in God's

name happened to them?"

Ludwig sighed, "Looks like the Russian."

"Who's the Russian?"

"We don't know who did this." Agent Kirkland said, giving Ludwig a pointed stare, "We'll be in touch, probably. Thank you."