Second Chapter up. Enjoy!
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The rest of Colby's week was again a little quiet, but far more exciting than his first day. Well, unless you can count watching the world's cutest and most sexiest ass walking by almost every day, if not a few times in the same day, and also the head full of dark, perfect, curly hair, and did I mention the world's greatest ass as well? Colby thought, thinking again about Charlie, and how he could do nothing about asking him out.
You don't even know if he's even interested in guys Granger. You see the way the woman – Amita? – looks and follows him around. Give it up. They have, probably, already been on dates. Give. It. Up. But no matter how many times he tried, Colby couldn't get the image of Professor Charles Eppes (and his ass) out of his mind.
Well, his first week on the job was fun, then. Don was a hard boss, but fair at the same time, wanting everyone to do everything right, but doing themselves as well, giving us guidance, but letting us get there on our own. Megan was really good at reading and analysing people. Sometimes, with just one look, she could make a suspect spill everything, even did on one guy. That was amazing, and a little scary at the same time. David was definitely 'by the book' kind of guy, which was ok with Colby, but it did leave David with a slight 'either it's black or it's white' view of the world, which Colby knew it wasn't, especially after 6 years in the Army.
And no matter how hard Colby tried, he still believed that most people had some sense of honour within them, weather they were in the Army – or any of the Force – that most people would do what was right. Even though that thought really blew up in his face on the first, big, case he worked on with the team.
And then there was Charlie. Colby wasn't sure at first, and very sceptical, on how numbers could really help solve crime, but after 2 successful (if they also happened to be relatively minor and easy) cases, where Charlie's math seemed to get suspects, locations and information out of thin air, Colby very quickly became a big believer in Charlie's 'God of Math' and his ability to get almost everything. Unfortunately, he couldn't predict the lotto numbers. Shame.
Starting on the second week on the job, but thankfully almost finishing his report on it, was the latest case to come across their desks, the murder of a Judge's wife, Alison Trelane, and the husband is a Federal District Judge named Franklin Trelane, who has been working on the bench for 18 years and an additional 12 years before that as a Federal Prosecutor.
There was a lot of suspects, and Megan had, at the beginning, said she was going to do threat assessments on all of the suspects, like doing a behavioural analyses based on their documentation, court transcripts, death threats, pre-sentencing psych evals, or something along those lines, which was basically profiling.
Most people first looked at the current trial that was going on and looking at them as the first suspects. A Duc (Danny) Lu Phan, who happened to be facing the death penalty, and his gang, who was being run by a Raymond Hmong, his number-two man, then became our number 1 suspect, as by the sounds of it, he wanted to be the number-one guy. And, yeah, Colby kinda screwed up on this angle, while 'talking' to Raymond at his 'lair'.
And looking around that building with at least 15-20 gang members, we was a little worried, but he hoped David had his back, even if he didn't back him up on his play. And yeah, he and David didn't agree on some things that went down, and… what the hell was Wolf-Tickets again?
Although David did give him a good lesson though, "A badge isn't a magic wand." Ok so they technically didn't have a cause to arrest them, and yeah, backing them into a corner, of course they were going to fight. But come on, Raymond Hmong had motive to kill the Judge's wife and this giving Danny the death penalty, so he then became the number-one guy.
Ok maybe bitching to Don about what happened wasn't necessarily the greatest way to get around it, but he needed to say something. And no doubt David had bitched to Don about him to.
But he went back to looking at anything that could help them in the case, and low and behold, what does he find, but 5 calls to dispatch with the Judge's address for Domestic Disturbances where the LAPD responded, and even had to escort the Judge off the premises, twice. And for a little bit there, we believed that it could have been the Judge to have ordered the hit, but that soon became discredited and we went back to looking at others.
Then there was a threat made on the Judge's life, so what do we do, but raid the warehouse where the gang was based of course. Arresting all of the members and going through their stuff, and finding out that Raymond wasn't there. And when we were doing the raiding, Raymond was busy shooting at the Judge and at Danny, right outside the court room. And of course, Don got him. Only to later find out it wasn't the Judge he was after, but his 'boss' Danny. 'Self-defence' he had called it. What a load of bull.
And then Charlie came to the rescue by taking hundreds of files of suspects, and coming out with 2 suspects, an Orson Hardee and Lance Dolan. Hardee was a cop-killer, killing a Detective by the name of Josh Kalen back in 1994, and Dolan who was wanted on a bench warrant for assault, and was only made apparent because of a 'Crimestopper Tip'.
Well, Colby heard later that Charlie had asked Don "What if you had no motive, but had a partial Fingerprint?" and Don had replied "I'd follow the evidence." And Charlie, being Charlie, had replied by saying, "So, what's the difference between my math and a partial fingerprint?" as if it was the most obvious, and one of the silliest questions in the world.
Anyway, Colby and David then went to talk to the individual who gave Lance Dolan's name on the tip line, a Hector Machado, who they found in a diner, taking money from the table that a costumer had left as a tip. Of course they sat there talking for a while, saying how they know quite a bit about him, like how he was constantly getting thrown in jail and hearing things. He went on to say how he meet Dolan in a bar and got him drunk, (out of the goodness you his heart, not). Colby noticed that David was trying not to laugh at his joke.
Then Hector went on to say that Dolan had said 'no arrests was going to be made on the Judge's wife's murder as long as he got some money and got out of town.'
After talking to Hector, Colby then went down to LAPD's Warrant Squad and found out that Dolan had a girlfriend, a Stacy Manning, a small time criminal herself to.
And then Charlie, Oh God, he still has a cute ass and a very cute smile, went on to talk about Pi.
Charlie had this look on his face, a look that is just frustration when you know something, but it's very difficult to explain how you know it and how to explain it, so Charlie did.
"Sometimes math finds something that we can't explain. It's – it's Pi."
"Pi?" Colby asked, like he couldn't quite see how Pi – or know which pie he was talking about for a second – would help them on this, and also a little bewildered.
"The ratio of circumference of the diameter of a circle." Charlie went on to explain.
"I know what Pi is." And Colby did know about this Pi, but obviously not as much as Charlie was going to explain to them.
"Ok, but did you know that if you randomly drop needles onto a sheet of lined paper, the probability that a needle will cross a line relates directly to Pi? It's called Buffon's Needle. And Pi appears in quantum mechanics, relativity theory and number theory. But do you know why Pi would show up in all these seemingly unrelated places?" Charlie asked.
"Actually, I don't have a clue." Megan replied.
"Neither do I. No one does yet. But although we can't fully explain Pi, it keeps working, keeps turning up." Charlie concluded, raising both of his hands to point at the whiteboard we was standing at.
"So you're saying that Pi is like something that connects Dolan to Trelane, but we just can't figure it out, yet?" Don asked, just to make sure. And Colby had to agree, that did kinda make sense. Kinda. Something that connected them, but we just couldn't see it yet. Ok, so all we need to do is find the connection. Easy.
And then David showed up, with a file in his hand. "Lance Dolan's bench warrant. Guess who he's wanted for stabbing last year." He then passed the file over to Don. Colby looked over the desk-wall-spacer-thing to read over Don's shoulder. And who do they see, but none other than Hector Machado.
"Well, that could explain why Hector's so willing to snitch on Dolan." Colby said, a little obviously but it still needed to be said.
"Or set him up." Was Megan's final conclusion on that matter, with what looked like a little smile on her face.
Don then stood up from his chair, walked over to Charlie's whiteboard, went to the empty space, stuck Hector's face on the board, and wrote the universal math sign for Pi next to his face. "Pi." Colby gave a slight smile and laugh at that.
And then we had Hector brought into an interrogation room and made him aware that we knew about the stabbing, and found out why he now readily wanted to snitch on him, and not the previous year. Apparently it's all to do with money. Well, aren't most things these days?
And of course we had to get Hector to work with us to get Dolan out of hiding by calling Dolan's girlfriend. And Colby couldn't help but role his eyes at Hector's wording in the tech room while on the phone to Dolan's girlfriend. Well, it did the trick, it led us straight to Dolan. And the gun he used to kill Alison Trelane.
And of course it lead us to knowing that it was a hit on Alison Trelane, and Dolan thinking it was a guy who wanted his wife dead. That it was a $5000 before and $5000 after the hit. How wrong was he on that account. Well, at least he gave us another reason to bring back Hector on something we didn't know.
Bringing Hector back to Interrogation, Colby using the 'Selling Wolf-Tickets' line from David, and seeing him smirk a little out of the corner of his eye, finding out that he set up the introduction between Alison and Josh Kalen.
Wait, isn't that the Cop that got killed by our other suspect, Hardee? Yep, it was. And it turns out, that it was Josh Kalen's wife that had put out the hit on Alison, so that 'he would know what it's like to lose someone', and to 'think twice about the next killer he goes easy on'.
Colby shook his head and finished his report. After a few days, they had finally found justice for Alison Trelane's murderer and hopefully, give Judge Franklin a little bit of comfort, even though Colby knew it wouldn't be much.
Finishing his report, Colby sat it down on Don's desk and went back to his desk to get everything ready to go home. He then made his way to the break room for a quick cup of coffee. He looked up and happened to see Charlie and an elderly gentleman walk towards Don's desk, as Don is getting ready to leave as well. He could possibly be their father. I mean, Charlie has his nose, and Don has his height and some facial features.
Then a pretty looking woman came up and stopped in front of the 3 men, and as she walked away, all 3 men seemed to avert their eyes further down south, even their father. And so did Charlie. Well, that answers that question of your Granger. He's in to women, not guys.
Colby let out a slightly disappointed sight and looked down at his half full cup of coffee, deciding against drinking it, threw the drink down the sink and the cup into the trash. As he walked back out into the bullpen, Charlie happened to turn back and looked at him, blushed, and quickly averted his eyes.
Ok that's not helping me at all. Colby just shook his head, collected his jacket from his desk, and went out to his car, and drove home.
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