Once again, thank you so much for your reviews, here you go, chapter 4, writing chapter 5 now, but I'm kinda busy these days, so there might be a sliiight delay, sorry about that =S forgive me...
In that moment, Mac realized that it was still too early, and it could be a distraction to him in his other cases if kept thinking about Angell, so he decided to let it go. "Uuh, I just wanted to tell you take care on your way home"
Flack looked at him a bit surprised "Uh thanks Mac, you too" He turned, pressed the button, and went in the elevator.
Mac sighed and went to look for Stella, he wanted to make it up to her, she was just trying to help, and he needed a friend at the moment, he needed her. He saw her fixing some papers on her desk when he knocked on her door "Stella do you have a moment?"
Stella looked up surprised "Mac? Yeah sure"
"First of all I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have…"
"No it's my fault Mac, I'm the one who was minding your business" Stella said interrupting him.
Mac looked at her and smiled "You were just being a friend, there's nothing wrong in that" he said.
Stella smiled back and changed the subject "Sooo, you were saying?"
"Right, uuh, I talked to Mr. Angell today" Mac said and waited to see her reaction, and like what he had in his mind, she was surprised.
"Mr. Angell? Why?" Stella questioned him.
He took a deep breath before answering
After Mac explained the whole story, silence filled the room until Stella spoke up "What now? How do we find her?" She asked.
He looked at her and shook his head "I don't know Stella". His phone rang all of a sudden; he gave Stella an 'excuse me' look and answered his phone. "Taylor" he was quiet for a while then frustration began showing on Mac's faces "Damn it, alright Adam I got it" and hang up his phone. He looked up and saw Stella looking at him wanting to know what happened. "Luther Martin fled the country"
"Dammit"
"Adam just found a hit on his name; he managed to escape the country right after Trish's death" Mac explained.
"Coincidence?"
"I don't think so, but guessing won't do any good…we need to prove it"
_[ After a good night sleep ]_
"Mac" Adam called out "Our suspect might have a partner in his killing frenzy" Mac raised his eyebrows in surprise. Adam continued leading him back to the lab. "You see, during the struggle, our Vic managed to toss his phone under the books that fell which he didn't notice, I was able to access his phone records and found out that he's been receiving none stop calls from this one person, all on the same day Trish was murdered, before and after" he finished with a look of triumph on his face.
Mac thought for a while then headed towards the computer, he was checking something on the phone records "Adam look at this" he said pointing at one of the calls.
Adam took a look "Five forty…five minutes before he the plane took off"
Mac nodded, his eyes still glued to the screen, he pointed on another call "This call was made ten minutes before TOD" Mac said, he pointed to another call "Here, this call was made from our suspect himself, right after he was done with the Vic" Adam took out a small notepad and began writing the time lines on them "The plane left around 5:45, a call was made to him before that time"
"But Mac, if our Vic's TOD is around 5:30, and the plane left around 5:45, that's just a small time frame in between, no way can he clean himself up, go to the airport, give the tickets, etc. etc. etc., in only 15 minutes" Adam said confused.
"Like you said Adam, he might have a partner who's helping him out in this" Mac said reminding him of the first thing he said. Adam looked at him still confused. "I need you to get the airport's security camera footage"
Adam nodded at his order "What for boss?"
"I want to see who boarded that plane"
_[ Minutes Later ]_
Adam was looking at his screen concentrating at the video "Adam" Mac called, but no reply came from him "Adam!"
"Du-bu-uh-boss!" Adam stuttered in his words quickly and jumping up surprisingly to see Mac.
"The video" Mac said reminding him of why he was there.
"Yes, the video, uuumm, there's no 'Luther Martin' Mac" Adam notified.
Mac didn't look surprised; instead he had a smirk on his face. "Just what I thought … have Flack get a warrant to search passenger's information, and tell him to meet me at the airport" Mac said then left.
"Sir yes sir" Adam said as his saluted Mac military way.
Flack was standing, his back against his car watching Mac's car come closer to him. Flack headed towards the door as Mac did the same. "You got it?" Mac asked.
"If I didn't, would I be here with you right now?" Flack joked with a smirk on his face.
Flack showed his badge to one of the security guards and asked him where to find the airport manager. The guard gave him directions and both detectives headed there. Flack opened the door and stood there with Mac, watching the manager speak to his phone. The manager turned around and spotted them "I'm going to have to call you back" he said and closed his phone. "Gentlemen, can I help you in something?"
"I'm Detective Taylor, this is Detective Flack, we're from the New York Crime Lab"
The manager nodded in understanding and put out his hand "James Anderson" he said as both detectives took turns in shaking his hand. "How can I help you?"
"We need to search your passenger's information" Mac informed.
"May I ask why?"
"We believe one of your passengers is involved in a murder" Mac answered with a straight face.
Anderson looked at him in a questioning way "Murderer? I don't think so; we check criminal records before we approve of anyone leaving the country, and so far no criminal records"
Flack started to get really annoyed and began pacing around; he couldn't keep his cool down as Mac did.
"And what if there weren't any records?" Mac asked him.
"Then you might be something wrong in your investigation somehow" He replied.
"Mr. Anderson, I don't think you get this, a murder was committed yesterday" Flack said annoyed.
"I understand, I'm sorry, I just had a hectic day, I'm afraid those files are confidential, we can't just show it to anyone, even if they're…cops" The manager replied.
"Yeah, how about those who got warrants?" Flack said as he pulled out the warrant from his jacket.
"Whaaat uuuup" Adam said happily.
"What do ya got there buddy?" Danny asked as he passed by.
"Forgery" Adam said excitedly. "The passport and all the details on it are the exact details of Martin, but it's the picture which is different, and I ran it through facial recognition, but not luck"
"At least we know he's still in New York" Danny said with one arm across his chest and the other under his chin. "We're finally getting somewhere with this scumbag"
"Yeah, can you believe it, it's almost like he got sloppy after finding Angell's….." Adam kept quiet in shock after he realized what he just said.
"Angell? Finding Angell's what?" Danny asked seriously. Adam found himself speechless, what has he done? He told Mac he wouldn't tell anyone. "Adam, what's going on?"
"Huuh, uhhm" Adam swallowed "You thought I meant Jessica Angell? Hahaha nooo noo no that's not what I meant at all" Adam said with a slight high voice and a bit of a laugh.
"Adam!" Danny snapped quickly.
"Well I-uh" Adam began but was interrupted with a knock on the glass door.
"Guys, Mac's calling us" Lindsay notified.
Both men looked her way "Alright sweetheart we're comin" Danny replied to his wife. She smiled at him and continued walking. Danny focused his sight back to Adam with a glare.
Adam quickly looked back at Danny "What?"
"You're telling me what you know, aright, come on let's go" Danny said as he gave him a pat on his back.
Once everyone was gathered in the conference room, they all began to discuss the case and throw out what they knew; Mac looked at everyone as they sat "What do we know so far?" Mac asked so each would say what they knew.
"Well we know that Luther is still around, and that someone else took his place in the flight" Adam informed. He pulled up the picture of the fake passport on the screen. "I ran it through facial recognition, but no hits"
Hawkes was staring at the picture, and that's when his light bulb lit "Guys, I think I've seen him before" Hawkes explained as he stood up and took a closer look "Back when I was at the hospital, I operated on him"
"Hawkes, I want you to go down to the hospital and get his records" Mac ordered.
"Wait, you don't need to do that" Lindsay protested "I did some asking around and some folks from their neighborhood told me that Luther had a brother, Levi Martin, that's the face they showed me"
"So they both are in this crime together" Stella confirmed.
"I want everything you can find out about these two, their relationship with each other, with the Cardozas, everything" Mac ordered.
I admit this wasn't much of a fun chapter, but I promise I'll make it up to you, chapter 5 will be better =)
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