Chapter 3: Suspect Found

Ryan arrives back at the lab twenty minutes later. He runs into Horatio who begins to speak to him, "Is there anything that Stetler can use against you, using our visitors? What is your relationship with Special Agent Gibbs, Mr. Wolfe?" Horatio asked as he removes his signature sunglasses. "He's my uncle, but that's all I know. Besides we haven't seen each other for years," Ryan replied as he sighed and pinched his nose.

Ryan walks away only to run into a concerned Calliegh. "What was that all about? Are you alright?" She asks as she grabs his arm to prevent his escape. "Nothing is wrong. I'm fine, so what did you get on the victim's clothing?" Ryan says in haste before he begins to calm down. I'll have to talk to Alexx later, she thinks before responding. "We found fur on the shirt and we're running it through trace now," she responds with a slightly raised eyebrow. Oh shit, Ryan thinks slightly panicked, but kept his mask in place. "What database are you running it through?" Ryan asks as Calliegh gives him an incredulous look. "Why the animal database of course, silly," Calliegh answers with confusion latent in her southern twang. Phew, they won't suspect a thing, he thinks as he replies with an, 'of course.'

Ryan walks away on route to speak to his uncle about the DNA, while Calliegh heads to the morgue. When Calliegh arrives she walks over to Alexx to receive the report. "Can I talk to you alone?" Calliegh asks Alexx as she drags her to the doors of the morgue. "Ryan's hiding something, but I'm not sure what," Calliegh tells Alexx once outside the morgue. "My baby hides a lot of things, could you be more specific?" Alexx asks Calliegh as they walk over to a couple of chairs facing each other on the left wall. "I told Ryan that we're running fur that we found on the victims shirt and he asked which database I put it in," Calliegh stated as she looked over at Alexx's thoughtful look. "Sure you said fur and not hair?" She asks after a minute or so. "I'm sure," Calliegh replied with finality. "Well we're going to have to keep an eye on my baby," Alexx said as they split up, Alexx back to the morgue and Calliegh to find Ryan.

Gibbs enters the reception area followed by his three agents each carrying a box of evidence as he looks for Abby while Ryan walks up to him. "Are you looking for someone?" Ryan asks as he crosses his arms with a smug look on his face that says, 'I know something you don't.' "Ryan, where's Abby?" Gibbs asks with a stern look on his face as he crosses his arms as well. "How am I supposed to know?" Ryan asked as he shrugs with an innocent look on his features. "Why do you always ask questions to annoy each other?" Abby asks as she walks out of the DNA lab to speak to them. "You know Abby, you always seem to either ruin my fun or get me into trouble when you're around," Ryan said as he frowned.

Meanwhile across the hall a figure stood looking on in amusement as the scene plays out. When Ryan speaks to Abby the figure burst into silent laughter. Suddenly Calliegh walks up to the figure and asks, "Eric, have you seen Ryan?" Eric jumps, but quickly regains his composure, while he points to the group across the hall. "He's over there, but don't ask me what's going on, I'm as clueless as you," Eric said with slight annoyance. "Did I scare you Eric?" Calliegh asks with a smirk broadening on her features. Horatio walked up, scaring Eric, yet again and says loud enough for the group across the hall to hear, "Everyone to the conference room to regroup." Slowly everyone enters the room including Natalia who came out of the DNA lab. "We're going to split into groups, Eric and Agent Dinozzo in the layout room, Calliegh and Agent David in ballistics, Ms. Boa Vista and Agent Mcgee in DNA, Mr. Wolfe and Ms. Sciuto in trace, and Agent Gibbs and I in AV," Horatio said heading to AV leaving the others to head to their respective destinations.

Gibbs walked into the AV lab and handed the tapes to the tech saying, "Here you are Mister…" "Cooper, Dan Cooper," he said putting the tapes in the VCR. Gibbs turned to Horatio and asked him, "Lt. Caine why do you keep calling my nephew 'Mr. Wolfe'?" "Wolfe is your nephew?" Cooper asked in astonishment. "Yes, is that a problem?" Gibbs asks with a stern look. "No, now I know where he gets his anger from," Cooper said as he whispered the last point. "I do it out of respect," Horatio answered giving Cooper a pointed look. Gibbs nods as Cooper turns to the screen. "I got to the exact spot of the murder," Cooper said in the silence.

In the DNA lab Mcgee and Natalia got the report on the fur that Valera ran. "The fur that was at the scene was from a male black phase timber wolf," Valera said. "We should head to the layout room and look at the photos to figure out how big the wolf was," Mcgee told Natalia heading for the door. "Good idea," Natalia replied.

Meanwhile in the layout room Dinozzo laid out pictures while Delko began picking them up to look at. "Look at this there are paw prints on the side of the building," Eric tells Dinozzo as he looks at the photo. "I know I took the picture the paw prints were too big for an ordinary dog," Dinozzo replied as he finished laying out the photos. "So then what made these prints?" Eric asked as he set the photo down. "It could be a werewolf," Dinozzo said with a big grin as Eric started laughing at the absurdity. "That's the only thing that stands out. If only we had a witness," Eric stated as his laughter subsided. "Eric can we look at one of the pictures of the paw prints," Natalia asked entering the room with Mcgee in tow. "Sure. What did you find on the fur," Eric replied. "The fur belongs to a male black phase timber wolf," Mcgee injected handing the file to Dinozzo. "The paw's too big to be from a normal wolf. A normal wolf's paw is about three to four inches. This paw is simply too big," Tony, said frustrated that it doesn't make sense. "Lets talk to H about it," Eric said heading for the door. The others follow after him.

In ballistics Calliegh and Ziva confirmed that all three casings came from a nine millimeter gun. The gun however wasn't in the Miami database. They then expand the search to worldwide. The gun belonged to Corporal Michael P. Klinger. "We better give this information to Gibbs," Ziva said looking at the computer screen with the information. "I'll show you to the AV lab," Calliegh said as they left the lab.

Meanwhile at Trace, Ryan and Abby began working on the items in the alley. So far they found evidence of prints on a cloth. They turned out to be the prints of Corporal Klinger, whom was currently in the interrogation room.

TBC