"Heyyy" A young father picked up his three-year-old son and spun him around "You're home early" His beautiful wife walked in holding an 11 month old on her hip "I wanted to surprise you" He smiled pecking her lips, a shrill cry came from a cot in the living room where the young family was "Hold Ethan I'll get Noah" The woman said handing 11 month old Ethan to his dad.
Suddenly a piercing scream came from the streets "What was that?!" the mother seemed scared "I'll check it out" The father said putting his son down and running into the street.
"Help!" A young woman screamed with a man on top of her
"Hey! Get off her!" the father ran over
The man got off her and ran towards the only person who came to her rescue. He beat him until blood was coming from his own knuckles.
"And there are its feet" Lindsay smiled showing Jac her first ultrasound picture
"I can't wait to see it" Jac smiled gleefully
"Stella told me what happened when I was gone I'm so sorry I wasn't there" Lindsay referenced Jac's sisters arrest
"It's fine"
"How is she?"
"The prosecutor is really good she's trying to get her on accessory after the fact but Jayley is in rehab so that's good but my entire family is against her considering Charlie Lucas got the gun because they were stealing from my mom so the entire thing is this giant mess" Jac teared up
Two rings went to Jac and Lindsay's phones a text from stella that told them both to head to an address for a case.
"Benjamin Brown, 24, father of 3, he lived right over there" Flack said pointing to a nearby building "He arrived home at 5:30 saw his family, heard Jennifer Ryan scream he ran outside to see an unknown offender attacking Jennifer he intervened and was killed"
"I'll search the scene" Lindsay said holding up her kit
"And I guess I'll talk to Jennifer" Jac said walking over to the crying girl
"Hi Jennifer, I'm detective Hayes" Jac said sitting next to Jennifer on the curb of a messy new yorken street
"I told the officer everything"
"I know but if's it's okay with you I would like to hear it myself"
"okay. I was walking home from work and this man came out of nowhere and pushed me to the ground and ripped my clothes and then the other guy came out and tried to help me" Jennifer couldn't finish because she was crying
"Hey it's okay" Jac hugged her
After Jennifer Calmed down Jac decided it would be good to ask more questions
"What did the man look like?"
"He had brown scruffy hair and a beard, he was white, he smelled bad" Jennifer started crying again
Jac suddenly had a thought maybe it was crazy but her gut was telling her that she was right. She thought that the killer might be Neil Weir, the man who raped and killed five women and even beat up Jacquelyn herself.
"Stell I think I know who did it"
"Who?"
"Neil Weir"
"Jac…."
"No, I know that it seems crazy but think about it, Jennifer has Dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and dark skin just like his second victim Angela Burke"
"And he also Killed in the early hours of a Thursday, it's 6 on a Wednesday"
"The description matches Weir's!"
"And it also matches a million other men!"
"Stell, please, just trust me on this one"
"No, I'm going to have you waste time on Weir when we have another killer out there"
Jac knew that the idea was crazy, there were quite a few differences but also a few similarities and her father always taught her to follow her gut so she went back to the lab and compared the blood from the current crime scene to the DNA at a past crime scene and got a match.
Jac went to find Stella who was processing the victim's clothes
"Stella, I know you told me not to follow up on Weir but I had this gut instinct an-"
"You did what? I told you to drop it"
"I know you did but I did it anyway and I'm sorry for that but we got a match"
"What?"
"The blood from this crime scene matched DNA from all other crime scenes and we know that Neil Weir did those crimes"
The entire team, Stella, Mac, Danny, Lindsay, Sheldon, Flack and Jac were in the conference room talking about the case
"But why did he switch his M.O?" Sheldon asked
"Maybe to throw us off?" Lindsay guessed
"But the M.O is completely different, he usually struck at 2-7 on a Thursday morning, he raped and then stabbed but this time it was 5:30 on a Wednesday and he beat Benjamin Brown to death" Mac stated.
"His violence is escalating" Stella stated the obvious
"Is it because we know his identity?" Danny wondered
"Either way he need to stop this guy" Mac ordered
Most people in the lab had left for the day, Mac grabbed his jacket and was on his way out when he spotted Jac still working.
"What are you still doing here?" Mac asked
"I'm just finishing off some work with some old cases"
"It looks like you're working on the Neil Weir case"
"I am, Neil weir killed five girls before"
"Jacquelyn, go home, get some rest"
"Haven't you ever had a case that hit you hard, that kept you awake for weeks? This case is my case. If I go home, it'll be all I can think about"
"Every cop has that case and trust me the best thing to do is go home and rest"
"Fine but I'll be the first one here tomorrow"
"I believe you will"
Jac's mind was finally off in a peaceful place when an annoying ringing sound woke her up, it took a while for her brain to process it, she saw her phone light up with Flacks name
"Hi" Jac groggily said
"Hey, we have another body"
Jac arrived holding a very large coffee but was shocked to see one of the most tragic victims she'd ever seen, a nine-month pregnant woman.
"Does the victim have any ID?" Jac asked kneeling next to the woman's brunette curly locks
"Yeah, Maria Torres, 21" Flack read from his notebook
"That's a little young for Weir" Jac knew it was him because the victim was exactly his type
"Man, mac wasn't kidding when he said Weir's violence was escalating" Sheldon spoke shaking his head
"Wait a moment, what's this?" Sheldon wondered noticing a piece of paper in the victim's mouth
"This is on you" Sheldon read from the paper
"Think he's talking about the NYPD?" Flack questioned
"Or me" Jac said looking at Maria's lifeless stomach
Jac and Stella tracked down Maria's address with whom she lived with her parents.
Stella rang the doorbell and lights turned on it was 2:30 am after all.
"May I help you?" A man asked with his wife standing behind, holding his arm
Stella flashed her badge "I'm detective Bonasera, this is detective Hayes, may we come in?"
"Are you from immigration?" The scared man asked
"No, we're from the crime lab" Jac confirmed
Jac and Stella took a seat on some chairs across from Mr and Mrs Torres
"We're so sorry but we found your daughter's body half an hour ago" Stella told them
"No that's impossible, she's asleep in her room right now" Mrs Torres cried running into her daughter's room she screamed as she saw her daughters empty bed.
"What about the baby?" Mrs Torres asked
"We're sorry but the baby didn't make it" Jac had to inform
"NO" The Torres' cried again
4 hours after the body was found
Flack went home to change out of the clothes he'd been wearing for days. His eyebrows frowned when he saw a yellow file at his apartment doorstep. He picked it up and it held pictures of Benjamin Brown and Maria Torres, the victims, and pictures of Jac and Flack together.
"Hey mac, it's don, I think I've got something"
The whole team stood around the light table and examined the pictures
"We always thought that Jennifer Ryan was the intended victim and Benjamin Brown was killed because we intervened but there's no pictures of Jennifer just Benjamin" Hawkes said
"That would explain the amount of rage towards Benjamin" Stella said
"How did they know each other?" Lindsay asked
"Danny bring up Neil and Benjamin's past like work or school" Mac instructed
"Neil and Benjamin both went to the same high school" Danny found out
"How didn't we know this before?" Jac was silent until then
"We were looking at Jennifer not Benjamin" Said Mac
"Why did he switch his M.O? He liked girls, he didn't like violence"
"He's on the run and he's clearly got a grudge, a lot of anger" said Mac
"Whatever it is his anger is escalating he used to strike once every 2 or 3 months now it's been once a day. We need to catch this guy" Stella said
Jac was walking past Mac's office she looked over at him and he saw her he gestured for her to come into his office
"I was looking at the photos and there's a few of you and Flack"
"we were at a scene, Mac" Jac said knowing what Mac was insinuating
"I know but Danny was there and so was I but yet all these photos are of Don"
"Just ask Mac"
"Is there something going on between you and Don"
"…..No"
"Are you sure? There's nothing I should know about?"
"yes I'm sure"
"okay, just be careful"
Jac and Flack went to Benjamin browns widows house to talk about Neil Weir
"Did you or your husband know this man?" Jac asked Handing the widow a photo of Neil Weir
"No I don't think so"
"We believe that the young woman wasn't the intended victim"
"So this man wanted to kill my husband? Why?"
"We're trying to figure that out but we know that Neil Weir went to high school with you and your husband"
"My husband was a jerk in high school, the stereotypical football captain, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben beat the crap out of this kid. But Ben was working towards redemption he was apologising to all the people he hurt" Mrs Brown pleaded her husband's reputation. "What am I going to tell my sons? I have three sons and I'm all alone and my second son's first birthday is next month and his dad's not going to be there" she cried
"Here's my card, please call me whenever you need help" Jac smiled
Then Flack and the eldest Brown boy, Liam, 3, walked in both with G.I. Joes and spider-man action figures in their hands
"Mommy, Donny's fun to play with can he stay?" The young boy asked
"Actually I have to go, sorry little guy" Flack ruffled the boy's hair
"Yeah, let's go Donny boy" Jac laughed
Jac and Lindsay were in the locker room back at the lab
"How was the doctor's appointment?" Jac asked
"It was great, the baby's doing great" Lindsay smiled looking down at her forming bump
"So Mac thinks that there's something between me and Flack"
"did you tell him about the date?"
"It wasn't a real date, but, no I didn't"
"How are you doing with the Weir thing?"
"Horrible. He followed us he went to Flacks apartment!" Jac raised her voice
Jac sighed "look I have to get out of here for a while"
"What do you mean?"
"I just need to leave" Jac stood up
"Where are you going"
"Don't worry I'll be back in a few hours" Jac said standing in the elevator
"Jac, I can't let you go"
"I'm sorry Linds" Jac said as the doors closed
Jac drove all the way to new jersey to a graveyard where her father was buried. She left her phone in her car and walked over to his headstone
"I'm sorry Daddy, I'm sorry for not keeping the family together, I'm sorry for…"
Jac continued talking to her father something she hadn't done in a really long, overdued time
"Detective Mac Taylor"
"Hi mac, it's Mary Hayes, I'm sorry to bother you but Jacquelyn isn't picking up her phone"
"I saw her leave a few hours ago, I don't think she's come back yet"
"Okay it's just I've received a weird file"
"Does it have pictures in it?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Mary, I'm on my way"
"Mac you didn't have to come all the way down here" Mary Greeted her old friend
"I'm sure it's nothing but I need to see the pictures"
"Oh it's something, there's graphic pictures of victims" Mary said handing Mac the folder which contained photos of dead Maria and Ben as well as pictures of Jacquelyn
"Mac, is my daughter ok?"
"I'll track her down"
Mac excused himself from Mary and called Jacquelyn but when she didn't answer he called Lindsay
"Lindsay, where's Jac?"
"She left"
"What do you mean she left"
"She said she needed to leave I tried to stop her but she still left"
"How long ago?"
"A few hours"
"I need you to trace her phone"
"Mac, are you sure we should be doing this?"
"Lindsay I think she's in trouble"
"Okay she's at a cemetery in Jersey"
Mac didn't even bother to thank her he hanged up the phone and headed to the cemetery he hadn't visited in over ten years.
Mac saw Jacquelyn sitting cross legged by her father's grave.
"Jacquelyn" mac said so she'd know that he was there
"I'm sorry I just had to leave" Jac wiped her eyes
"Your mom got a file similar to Don's"
"What!"
"She okay I've got jersey cops looking after her"
"I need to go see her"
"Let's go"
Jac arrived back in New York when the sun was closer to coming up then when it went down. She parked her car in the parking garage across from her apartment.
"Jacquelyn, I've been waiting" A voice from the darkness said creepily
"Neil?" Jacquelyn guessed
"You know me so well, Jacquelyn. I love that name, I could say it again and again, Jacquelyn, Jacquelyn, Jacquelyn" He whispered her name that brought shivers all over her body
"Why are you killing more?"
"For you"
"Why"
"So we can be closer"
"I don't want to be closer to you, Neil"
"Why not? We could be happy!"
"And killing people isn't the way to make me happy. Turn yourself in"
"Then we wouldn't be together"
"Yes we would and I would love you so much more if you brought happiness and peace to the families"
During the conversation Jac had reached into her pocket and dialled Flack. Sirens in the distance were louder than the rain that hit the roof
"You called the cops"
"I had to Neil"
"No you didn't"
"If you just turn yourself in"
"No. we can go together" Neil tried to plead
"No we have to stay"
Neil grabbed Jac's arm and tried to pull her with him
"Stop!" Jac screamed trying to get him off her
"I don't love you let me go!" Jac set herself free and as the cop cars came closer Neil ran as fast as he could.
"Jac!" Flack yelled jumping from his car and running over to her
"Are you ok?" He asked
"Yeah, he went that way" Jac pointed
Flack grabbed his gun and ran towards Neil along with other officers. Jac knew she should have gone after him but she psychically couldn't.
"He got away in a silver Nissan" Flack said walking over to Jac who was sitting in her car with her door opened
"I should have gone after him"
"You did what you could"
"yeah well it wasn't enough" Jac sighed
Mac walked over to Jac and Flack
"I saw your statement" mac said
"is something wrong?"
"No it's just Neil seemed to believe that you and him had something you've destroyed that dream now. He's going to be more violent. This is just the beginning"