Chapter 5: Back in the bullpen
After completely blowing me off, she left for the ladies room leaving me completely stupefied for a few moments with a bottle of water in my hand.
"Now that's a chick with a huge chip on her shoulder." Tony whistled lightly, just increasing my anger.
"Did you see that? What an unpleasant woman!"
Ziva smiled at me, aware of how disturbed I was at that woman's attitude.
"Unfortunately your boy scout manners don't work on everyone, McGee."
"Now let's go back to the case before Gibbs come back blowing up at us for not finding anything of value." Tony said standing up and going to the plasma.
"Have we figured out who the missing kid is?"
"Jessica Stern, age seven. She was playing at the little league's and she was supposed to be picked up by her godfather, none other than..." Tony clicked something and the picture of the dead lieutenant appeared, "Tristan Carpenter, her father's best friend."
"That's why he was so sloppy," Laura said, coming out of nowhere and standing behind me and Tony, making me jump as her voice sounded so close to me. She looked at me with serious eyes while I adjusted my professional mask and then turned to plasma. "The lieutenant approaches the kids, his goddaughter sees him and keeps playing. Meanwhile, he is attacked by the unsub and dragged to a place considered ideal for the killing to happen."
"But the game comes to an end, the little girl comes looking for her godfather and finds the killer instead." I mused out loud, receiving a nod from Laura.
"He couldn't take any chance of the girl screaming or revealing his activities. So he grabs her and silences her, finishes the kill and takes her with him."
"Why didn't he kill her?" Ziva asked.
"He's a need driven offender with a very specific victimology. A little girl doesn't fit into it but he couldn't afford to let her expose him so soon after the kill."