Chapter 30

Fin sent the cup down to CSU. Jamie and him were standing next to the coffee maker talking back and forth about the case. "It just doesn't make any sense. It's like this Lee guy was never even born. And what I don't get is that Nicole worked with him for almost two years." Jamie pointed out.

Fin sighed, "She worked with him that long, and never suspected a thing. Now even if he was undercover, there would be a record, just to cover the bastard's ass."

"Right, so what have we started to uncover here?" Jamie asked.

Elliot walked up with them. "What's going on? What have you uncovered?"

Jamie shook her head. "Don't worry about it Elliot."

"Well if your not working on the rape/homicide. Than what are you working on?" Elliot pushed again.

Fin looked at him. "She said don't worry about it."

Olivia walked up at that point. "Whoa, what's going on?"

"Nothing." Fin and Jamie said in unison.

Olivia shook her head. "If you don't mind me asking, what case are you guys on; since your not on the rape/homicide."

"One the Captain gave us before he left." Jamie covered.

"Which is?" Elliot asked.

Fin frowned. "A case."

Jamie's cell phone rang. "Yeah... Okay. Yeah, we'll be right down." She said and hung up. She looked at Fin, "CSU has something for us."

/Chung Chung/

Jamie and Fin walked up to Judy who was the main one they dealt with when it came to CSU. "What do you have for us Judy?" Jamie asked.

"I not only ran the fingerprints in AFIS; I ran the DNA I got from the cup in the database. Came up with two different names. AFIS gave me a Rob Theissen and the DNA gave me a Dez Taylor." Judy answered handing them the paper work.

Neither took the time to look at it. "What was this Rob Theissen aka Lee Neuman in the system for?"

"He was entered for money laundering, drug trafficking, and a whole mess of other things. And surprisingly enough he only got thirty days for it because of a good ass lawyer." Judy answered.

"Bullshit. What about this Dez Taylor?" Fin asked.

"Similar MO."

"What the hell? Two names, but the same MOs." Jamie commented. She looked at Judy. "Thanks."

/Chung Chung/

"That was Jamie. Things have taken a spin for the worst." Munch said walking into Nicole's hospital room.

Nicole sat up again with a little more ease. With the medication she was on the pain was down to a dull roar and the feeling was slowly coming back in her legs. She had now at this point full feeling from the waist up and minimal in her legs. "Okay, what do we have now?" Nicole asked.

Munch looked at her. "This Lee Neuman is in AFIS under a Rob Theissen, and is in the DNA data banks under a Dez Taylor."

"Two names? What are they in there for?" Cragen asked.

"Both are in the system for a whole rack of things which would give the goverment a run for its money."

"So what is it?" Nicole asked.

Munch looked down at his scratch pad. "Money laundering, gun running and smuggling, drug trafficking, and the list grows."

Nicole's mouth dropped open. "Holy shit. Just what was Lee really like."

"A mobster?" Munch asked.

/Chung Chung/

Munch and Cragen were able to convince the doctor to be able to take Nicole out for a few hours. However it was in a wheelchair. Cragen wanted to take a look at the warehouse where Nicole was shot. They entered the room where most of the action had happened. Nicole looked at Cragen and Munch. "I came in here looking for the rest of the men that were in the warehouse. I believe four of them came through those windows." She said pointing. "I was surprised when I was grabbed from behind. I went to fire at the three men that were coming at me but the rifle was empty."

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Munch asked.

"Yeah my luck. The next think I know, three of them dropped out of no where, with GSWs."

"Lee... or whatever he's calling himself now." Cragen commented.

She nodded. "At this point I have no idea who is holding me, when yet another asshole shows up behind Lee. Lee gets punched in the jaw and went down. The asshole pulls his gun as Lee is reaching for his rifle. Lee gets shot in the shoulder. This is where it gets weird. The same guy shoots the one holding me, and when he did the guy holding me brought me down with him. Since my leg by this time was killing me I couldn't move." She sighed. "The guy that shot my capter took off his ski mask and it turned out to be another Ranger named Kerry Boivin. But that is as far as I remember."

"That must of been when you got shot." Munch replied.

"It only leaves Lee and Kerry. I mean if Lee wanted to he could have." Nicole answered.

Cragen thought for a second. "I'm going to have Jamie and Fin look into this Kerry Boivin. While they're doing that I'm going have a short friendly talk with that Captain again."

"Have we got permisson to work Vice on this?" Munch asked.

"Casey is working on that now." Cragen answered.

/Chung Chung/

"Sure thing, Captain. Did Nicole spell out the name this time?" Jamie asked.

Cragen spelt out the name. "Now we have no chance of getting DNA or fingerprints from this guy. So check everywhere you can."

"Got it." Jamie said and hung up the phone. She turned to Fin. "We have yet another lovely guy to look up."

"Oh great. Who this time?" Fin asked since he was now reading the report on Rob Theissen.

"A Kerry Boivin. One who apparently works as a Ranger too." Jamie answered.

"Hopefully this one is not a ghost."

"I'm hoping too."

/Chung Chung/

Cragen walked into Spencer's office without even stopping at the front desk. "We seriously need to talk Captain." Cragen said as he sat down in the chair. Spencer was on the phone. He looked at Cragen and continued with the phone call. Cragen stood up from his chair and grabbed the phone and hung it up. "We need to talk Captain."

"We sure do. That was totally uncalled for. Now I want you out of my office and out of my city."

"What do you know about a Kerry Boivin?" Cragen asked.

"He is a damn good Ranger."

"Was or is?"

"Is. Now why are you focusing on my two best Rangers?"

"Two now?"

"Captain your out of line. Take your wimp detectives and get out."

"No Captain. We're not leaving till we figure out why your one Ranger is known under two different names, both with rap sheets. And we're looking in on the other."

/Chung Chung/

"How well did you know Kerry?" Munch asked Nicole as he helped her back on to the hospital bed.

Nicole looked at Munch. "Not that well, other than he was a total asshole. We crossed paths a few times and each time it was never pretty. I always suspected him of being dirty. And anytime I went to Spencer nothing was done of it."

"What about Spencer?"

"IAB was involved a few times. But nothing ever came of it." Nicole replied with a yawn.

Munch sighed. Just what were they uncovering? He looked at Nicole. "You should get some rest. Cragen and I will see what we can do."

She nodded. "Just be careful, John."

Munch smiled, "Always am." He said as he leaned in and gave Nicole a kiss on the lips. Once he pulled away he brushed some stray strands away from her face. "I love you."

Nicole pulled him in for another kiss. "I love you too."

/Chung Chung/

Cragen and Munch decided to get something to eat than each get a hotel room. While they were getting something to eat they decided to go over what they had. "Lee is known under two different names. Which means he had to get someone with power in the Rangers to get him there."

"Okay why target Nicole?" Cragen asked.

"That we don't know yet."

"Well it's obvious that he killed her family to bring her back."

"And burnt the place to a crisp to cover it up. With no record of the murder, no crime."

"Okay than, how come he never finished Nicole off?"

"Cause she's a tough woman."

Cragen nodded, as he finished his dinner. "Now we just need to figure out just what really is the driving force behind all this."

"If we can."

/Chung Chung/

Nicole was alseep in her room. The nurse had already hooked up the IV and made sure that everything was going good.

The door to Nicole's room slowly opened and a figure dressed in all black walked into her room. As he snuck up to her bed and looked at her than the IV. "This is a message that you should have gotten a long time ago. Now it's for you and your stupid ass unit." He said as he stuck some clear fluid into the IV.

/Chung Chung/

Jamie sighed. "Just why the hell is everyone we've had to look up been a ghost. I still haven't found this Kerry asshole." Jamie said as she rubbed her neck.

"Listen to this: A Rob Theissen from Chicago was put up for trial for murder in the first degree. He plead not guilty, and got off with thirty days in jail." Fin read out loud.

"How is he getting off with only so little time?" Jamie asked.

Fin shook his head. "I don't know. But something tells me that we have uncovered something a little big here."

/Chung Chung/

Munch and Cragen were just finishing up their coffee. Munch looked across the table at Cragen. "So, you've had no luck with Spencer?"

"None. He keeps telling me to get out of his city. Which is making me believe that he's somehow involved in all of this."

"Maybe he's the master mind behind this whole mess." Munch added.

"I'm starting to believe that. With what we've uncovered here in the last few hours, nothing would surprise me at this point."

Munch nodded. "Yeah, I know what you mean. But I'm gonna go back to the hospital and check on Nicole before I call it a night."

"Okay, I'll check in with Fin and Jamie and see what they have."

/Chung Chung/

The figure slipped out of the room as Nicole's heart monitor started to beep and she went into convulsions. Two nurses rushed down the hall with a crash cart and entered the room.

They ran to the bed and checked her IV. "Someone injected her IV with benzene." a nurse called out and removed the IV from Nicole's arm. "I need a new IV line and fluids to flush out her system."

The other nurse prepared another IV line and the injected it into Nicole's arm as Munch was walking into the room. "What happened?" he asked running over to the bed.

Nicole's convulsions had stopped and her heartbeat was returning to normal. "Someone injected her IV with benzene." the nurse explained.

"Benzene? How the hell did someone get in here in the first place?" Munch asked angrily.

"We don't know."

"Call security and have them search the building. Maybe the perpetrator is still here somewhere." Munch ordered.

/Chung Chung/

Cragen was sitting in his hotel room talking to both Fin and Jamie on the phone. "What have you found out so far?"

"There's nothing in the system on this Kerry guy at all." Jamie explained.

"Yeah and if John hadn't of found that cup we wouldn't even know anything about this Lee guy." Fin added.

"That doesn't surprise me." Cragen stated.

"We'll keep looking, Don." Jamie said.

Cragen sighed and looked at his watch. It said midnight. Which meant it was 2 AM in New York. "Thanks, but why don't you two call it a night and pick this up in the morning."

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Fin said.

"Okay, I'll contact you both in the morning."

"Right." Jamie stated. "Good night."

"Good night." Cragen repeated and hung up.

/Chung Chung/

Nicole had regained conciousness and was sitting up in bed. "I didn't even hear anyone enter the room."

Munch was sitting by the bed and he handed Nicole a glass of water. "That doesn't shock me. These guys are probably experts at sneaking in and out of places."

Nicole took a drink of her water and then looked at Munch. "John, do you think it was Lee that came into my room?"

"Could've been. Or it could've been Boivin or Spencer for all we know."

"Then again it could be someone we don't know about. I mean, we don't exactly know how many people are involved in this."

Munch looked at Nicole worried. "Thank God the nurses got to you in time and the benzene didn't have a chance to do any damage."

Nicole nodded. "Yeah. At least it didn't affect the baby."

Munch sighed. "I promise you, we're gonna get these guys. There not getting away with what they've done."

Nicole reached her hand out and Munch took it into his own. "I'm glad you're here with me John."

"There's no place I'd rather be then here with you." he said and smiled.

/Chung Chung/

By the time Fin and Jamie made it home, it was almost 3 AM. Fin unlocked the door and they entered the apartment. "This has been one hell of a long day." Jamie said and plopped down on the couch.

"Tell me about it. I've never dealt with this many people that didn't exist before." Fin replied sitting down next to her.

Jamie slid over and laid her head on Fin's shoulder. "What I want to know is why are they after Nicole?"

"Good question. Maybe tomorrow we'll get some answers." Fin said as a knock came on the door.

"Who the hell is that at this hour?" Jamie asked.

Fin stood up and removed his gun from his shoulder holster that he was still wearing. He walked over to the door and looked through the peephole. The only problem was that whoever was at the door was standing off to the side and Fin couldn't see them. "Who's there?" he asked.

"It's Elliot. Open up."

Fin opened the door and Elliot entered the apartment. When Jamie saw him she jumped up from the couch. "Elliot? What are you doing here?"

"I need to know what you two are working on?"

"We can't tell you." Fin replied. "Cragen asked us to keep it on the DL."

"Does this have to do with why Nicole went to Dallas?"

"Elliot, we can't tell you anything." Jamie stated.

"Look, I got this letter today in my mailbox. Whatever trouble Nic's in in Dallas has everything to do with where my daughter is. Now tell me what the hell you're working on!" Elliot yelled.

"Whoa, man, calm down. What happened to your kid?" Fin asked.

"All it said was that if I ever want to see Kathleen again I have to bring them Nicole. Now, please man, you've gotta help me."

Jamie looked at Elliot, took her cell phone out of her pocket and hit redial. After three rings the person picked up. "Don, it's Jamie. We have a big problem here."

TBC...