Kate and Alex arrived at the crime scene this time it was a White female aged about 30 with 4 shots to the body.
Lanie was at the scene. Alex spoke,
"Hey Lanie who would you like to play Lauren in the Movie?"
"Hmmm Hey Writer Boy, I have always like the idea of Hallie Berry!"
The boys all nodded in agreement. Lanie continued,
"The body has multiple contusions from someone who is left handed."
Kate thinking back William Carlson was left handed. Perhaps he has a thing for left handed henchmen?
"I will know more when I get her back to the lab."
"Oh CSU found the casings they spell out W-I-L-L"
"What it must be the same guy who killed Mrs. Carlson.!"
"Yeah, I think we established that when you got the first recording!"
Alex got a text. Heads up FBI enroute!
Alex looked up from his text and saw 2 black SUV pulling up to the crime scene.
Whooo Boy Alex thought what next. Kate looking at the approaching vehicles said,
"Great it looks like we are going to have company. FBI is going to claim jurisdiction on my case."
Not only FBI but Homeland Security and Interpol too thought Alex. Alex watched as a medium height woman got out of the vehicle and walked up to them.
"Special Agent Jordan Shaw."
She said raising her hand, Kate grasped it it was warm and soft.
"Detective Kate Beckett, What does the FBI want with this local shooting?"
"The gods in the marble halls has sent me to catch a killer, I will do it with or without your help."
The writer in Alex said,
"That is so going into the book would you start over again from Marble Halls?"
Agent Shaw looked at Alex and said,
"Oh, so you're the tag along writer? I read about you and your Muse in the latest article in Cosmo."
"Would you direct me to the body? I would like to see it."
"Sure Ryan take the special agent here to the body and make sure Lanie has not moved it until she gets there."
"OK Boss"
Esposito came up with a wallet with a uni had found in a dumpster.
"The victim's name was Michelle Lewis. She was a dog walker as profession."
Esposito walked off to continue to hunt for clues. Alex and Kate stood by talking.
"This killing makes no sense. This guy is a professional but why kill a dog walker?"
"I guess when you are a crazed serial killer and want to send a message any body will do?"
"Possibly, but there is something more personal going on I mean why beat up the body?"
"That indicate a personal connection which is an object of rage. This is not like his other murders this was personal."
"I thought contract killers did not do personal?"
"They don't!"
"Meanwhile, what about Mrs. Carlson and her Grand Nephew the Criminal Lord? We have to release the wills eventually. Maybe CSU has finally got the match for the partial?"
"Yeah, then we can bring in that Criminal Lord and ask him a few questions. "
"Not yet we need to bring in that professional who has started to make this a vendetta against me."
"Let's go back to the precinct."
Kate and Alex walked in and discovered a number of agents hauling equipment into a spare conference room. Kate walked up to her Captain.
"What is going on?"
"They are setting up what they say is a war room. You are to give the FBI your cooperation on this one. Kate this one is big!"
The captain walked away as the boys returning got out another white board and Kate started setting up another murderboard for the dog walker.
Alex attracted to the toys watched as the agents set up their war room.
Kate walked up beside him and said,
"Tell me everything you know about Jordan Shaw."
"She is like you. but a Federal you. She is good. Real good. She cracked the Hudson Valley Strangler case when she was 25."
"I thought they caught him by a speeding ticket?"
"Yeah, but she was the one to profile that the killer would be driving a Yugo."
"They found the girl tied up in the back."
"Jordan Shaw saved that girl's life. Can we go and see the war room now?"
Alex and Kate enter the war room Alex looks at all the cool toys and thinks this stuff is close to what Max plays with. They have some funding!
Jordan was busy telling her second in command Avery to correlate all the data collected at both crime scenes. Jordan noticing Alex and Kate stepped over and explained what was happening.
This matrix is designed to make connections which we would normally not find easily. It combs through all sort of data bases, to provide those connections.
Jordan unaware of Kate's other case was given what Kate knew of the contract killer.
Jordan saw the connection immediately. Jordan then ordered the inclusion of this other case.
A name came up Gabrial Mincht.. Contract Killer in Europe and America. Very smart never had a picture for him. He is responsible for over 100 known deaths in the past 10 years.
"So we have a name to our killer and you say he is out to ruin you because you ruined one of his jobs?"
"Yes and we need him to pin his boss in that murder too."
"Ok, so now how to catch him. These last two murders were personal to him but in what way?"
Avery came in and said,
"We got a hit a Donald Salt has a record, lets go get him."
Alex , Kate and Jordan left to go pick up Donald Salt. In the car Alex piped up,
"So a pinkie finger on both locations I do not buy it. It may be a clue though."
Jordan slowly spoke,
"This guy is smart and capable. He figures you are too since you messed up one of his jobs."
The car pulled up to his address and the wait for his return began.
"I hope Donald Salt would appear soon."
Alex being bored started examining the equipment.
Jordan started the conversation,
"What is he doing?"
Kate looked at Alex and commented,
"He likes to touch things. He does that when he is bored."
Alex talking to himself said,
"Night vision goggles. I think I have the newer model though. You know, maybe in my third book Nikki Heat will cross swords with a good-looking, yet coldhearted FBI profiler. Call it 'Federal Heat'."
Alex looks at the FBI agent and said,
"Or maybe not."
"So how long have you been sleeping together?"
Kate stammered out,
"We are not sleeping together... He just observes me."
Jordan chuckled then stated,
"I have seen how he observes you."
Alex interrupts,
"This is the most sexless relationship I have ever had. Unless you count my second marriage!"
Jordan continues,
"I have been profiling for a very long time I am rarely wrong."
"Well this time you are wrong!"
"Why do you keep him around?"
"He has been surprisingly helpful."
"Is that so?"
Alex now picks up the taser and activates it.
Both Jordan and Kate command,
"Put that down!"
Agent Shaw pointed at Alex.
"Ok the team is here you stay in the car."
Jordan and Kate left to apprehend Donald Salt.
Alex rolls down the window and see the suspect fleeing the FBI. Alex steps out of the car and shoots the taser at the fleeing Donald Salt.
"Ohhhh" says Salt as he faceplants into the street.
"See I am helpful!"
Alex smirked at the Jordan, Jordan commented,
"So I will buy you an Ice cream later."
Kate looks at Donald Salt and called out
"Agent Shaw we have a problem. He is missing his pinkie finger."
Donald Salt coming around asks,
"Which one of you is Nikki Heat?"
Kate groaned at being always called the name of a fictional character.
Kate loaded Donald Salt into the SUV and put him in the back next to Alex.
Donald Salt did not look good and he passed out enroute to the precinct.
Getting to the precinct Kate asked Lanie to examine him.
Lanie crawled into the SUV then reported,
"This guy needs some food and some water but other than that he is healthy."
Alex crawled out of the SUV and walked over the Remy's to get him a hamburger and strawberry shake.
Returning he handed then over to the suspect in the interrogation room.
The suspect now awake eagerly bit into the burger and gulped down the shake now sated the questioning began.
"Ok Now that your immediate needs are fulfilled. What can you tell us about your missing finger?"
"I sold it."
"Why did you sell it?"
"I saw an ad on the internet that described me to a T. He came to this bar and paid me 5,000 for it. That is more than a kidney."
"Is that so? What else did he want you to do?"
Salt continued,
"He wanted me to have a violent felony conviction and to be recently paroled. And you also had to be willing to suffer through the indignity of a false arrest. He told me detective Nikki Heat would be coming for me… and it might get physical. He didn't mention anything about Captain America with the taser gun."
"What else did he do?"
"He bandaged my finger. He said you would notice that."
"Did you get a good look at him?"
"No, he was wearing oversized sunglasses, a hat and a scarf. He had a weird muffled voice too."
Kate looked at the bandage and started to remove it.
"There are numbers in here."
Kate had Lanie come up and rebandage the injured site.
After Lanie said his health was ok, Kate release Donald Salt.
Kate walked into the war room where Alex was looking at the numbers.
A flash of inspiration was evident on his face.
"I know what these numbers mean! These are location in my book Heat Wave. It give the page number, Paragraph and the number of words into the paragraph. It is a cipher."
So pulling a copy of his book so that it did not give it away that he had all ready deciphered the message in his head. Alex laboriously looked up each clue. Eventually he wrote down the message.
"I will kill someone else before midnight tonight unless you stop me."
"Midnight. That's eight hours away. He's putting us on the clock. He's daring us to stop him."