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"I have to tell them everything." Stella whispered to an unconscious Lindsay, squeezing her hand gently. "I'll be back soon." She whispered again before standing up and leaving the hospital room.
"The Doctor said that they're going to take her for a CT scan." Danny told her as she stood beside him.
"Yeah, Hawkes mentioned something like that." Stella replied hoarsely, gazing through the window into the hospital room.
"Come on." He told her, patting her on the shoulder gently. "I think Flack has found us some decent coffee." He said as he led her down the corridor.
Mac, Flack and Hawkes were all in the far corner of the family room, clutching cups of coffee and talking quietly.
"How is she?" They asked simultaneously as Danny and Stella entered.
"She's still unconscious." Stella told them, sitting down next to Mac.
"Is that bastard still here?" Danny asked Flack.
"No. Jason Barrow is on his way to the precinct as we speak." Flack told him.
"Jason Barrow?" Stella asked.
"You know him then?" Mac asked her.
"Yeah, I didn't recognise him; he's changed a lot in the last three years."
"Is he the person responsible for those three women's deaths in Chicago?" Hawkes asked.
"No. His father, Mike Barrow, was one of the suspects in the case. Jason was seventeen at the time and was on a school trip in Michigan at the time of the murders."
"Did his father go down for the murders?" Flack asked.
"No. No one did. Lindsay and I both went to Chicago to help Ashleigh with the case but it was never solved."
"So it's possible that Jason is a copy cat?" Danny asked.
"Yes."
"But why now? It's been three years." Danny asked no one in particular.
"Because Lindsay killed his father." Flack told them.
"What?" Everyone asked at once.
"Before they ended up in the water, Lindsay was apologising to Jason about his dad but he said it was too late and that it was her fault." Flack explained.
"Mike Barrow died about a month after me and Lindsay left Chicago. Cause of death was a heart attack; it had nothing to do with Lindsay."
"Ok, so what actually happened three years ago?" Mac asked.
"I was called out to an apartment building in Brooklyn. The body of a woman had been found dumped in the doorway; someone had obviously wanted it to be found. Anyway, I identified the vic as Sasha Miller, a waitress from Chicago and when I called Chicago PD they informed me that her blood had been found at a crime scene where they had found a woman's body six days earlier. They also said that another body had been found in a school yard in Bozeman, who they also believed was killed at the crime scene." Stella explained, not looking up from the floor.
"Ok, then what?"
"I processed the body and the scene but all I could find were forget-me-nots and a fibre which turned out to be from the clothes of Lisa Gerrard, the body found in Bozeman." Stella told them.
"I take it Lindsay and Ashleigh didn't get much from the other bodies?" Mac asked.
"No. He cleaned up well, didn't leave a trace of himself on the bodies or at the scene. Chicago CSI asked us to help with the investigation and Lindsay and I spent two weeks in Chicago but we got nowhere. We had five suspects; each of them lived within three blocks of each other."
"What was the name of the woman found in Chicago?" Flack asked as he scribbled in his notebook.
"Claire Alexander."
"Stella, before when Lindsay was being chased, this fell out of her pocket." Mac said handing her an envelope with the words 'Detective Bonasera' scrawled on the front. "Why didn't you tell us about this?"
Stella didn't say anything; she just stared at her feet.
"Stella?" Mac pushed.
"I found it outside my apartment, I wanted to tell Lindsay first and then… I don't know…" Stella mumbled, shrugging her shoulders.
"Ok, so why forget-me-nots?" Flack asked.
Again Stella shrugged her shoulders. "We don't know for sure. We all just figured that whoever the killer was, they didn't want to be forgotten."
"Wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense. Those women and the CSI in Chicago were tortured, raped and stabbed. You and Lindsay were gassed and drowned." Danny interrupted.
"Someone else could be involved." Hawkes suggested to the group. "Ashleigh was killed sometime yesterday; Jason would have had to be at the hotel gassing Lindsay and Stella at the same time." Hawkes explained.
"There are more than two people involved. The person from the hotel CCTV wasn't Jason Barrow." Mac informed them.
"So there are at least two more people, one who is definitely in New York, looking for some sort of revenge." Flack summed up. "I'll have some officers over here and I'll personally make sure Lindsay never leaves my sight." He continued before leaving the room.
Once he had left, Mac stood up.
"Stella, Hawkes, we're going back to the lab, we need to track these people down."
"But…" Stella protested.
"Stella, you know more about this case than anyone else. You're the key to finding them." Mac told her firmly.
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"Stella do you recognise this man?" Mac asked, showing her the CCTV image he had previously shown Lindsay.
"Yeah, he was one of the suspects in Chicago. I think his name was Matthew, I can't remember his last name." She told him, eyeing the image before turning to look out of the window.
"Matthew Finley." Hawkes read from the file he was reading. "He worked in the same office as Lisa Gerrard, the woman found in Bozeman."
"Stella can you think of who this third person could be?" Mac asked her.
"Stella?" Mac asked again when he didn't get a response.
"Stella?" He repeated, going over to the window.
"That's him Mac." She said pointing to a man out on the street. "That's the other person."