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As Maura and Jane walked into the bullpen, Jane could feel the shift in the atmosphere. Maura reached out and placed her hand on Jane's arm.

"I'm going to head down and start on the autopsy. If you need anything, you know where to find me. Otherwise, I'll call when I find something useful." Jane watched Maura leave and then turned back to Frost and Korsak.

"We got any leads yet?"

"No, not yet," Korsak replied, "we got a name though. Jenny Wallesh. Looks like she was a clerk at that secondhand bookstore near where she was found. My guess is she was walking home after work. She lived nearby." As Korsak finished filling in Jane on what little they did know, Frost piped up, "I'm running through her cell phone records right now. There's nothing out of the ordinary though. It looks like the last phone call was made to her parents yesterday." Jane sighed, this wasn't much to go on, but she supposed it was a start.
"Alright," she said, "Frost, you and I will head to the bookstore and see if we can find anything out there. Korsak, you and Frankie can handle the parents?" Korsak nodded as Jane fastened her badge and gun into their places on herself and she and Frost headed out.

Jane and Frost pulled up to the bookstore several minutes later. It was a quaint little place, and Jane could tell that the rustic appearance was part of the place's charm. She hoped that at a small shop like this, the other employees would be cooperative and helpful. Frost walked into the store first, with Jane just behind him. They could see a middle aged woman at a shelf that was against one of the walls inside. She had several books in her hands and the two detectives guessed she must be an employee since she seemed to be re-shelving the books.

"Excuse me, ma'am," Frost started, so as to not startle the woman too much. "I'm Detective Frost and this is Detective Rizzoli. We're with Boston PD, Homicide. Do you have a few minutes? We'd like to ask you some questions." The woman looked confused, but nodded.
"Sure," she responded, "there's a table back here where we can sit. Please, call me Melissa. May I ask what this is about?" Jane started speaking as they all headed the short distance to the table and sat down, "It's about one of your employees, Jenny Wallesh. I'm sorry to say it, but her body was found this morning, and her death is now under investigation. She was working here last night, is that correct?"

"Oh how horrible!" Melissa whispered, her eyes starting to shine as tears welled up behind her eyes. "She was such a lovely young woman. She'd been working for me since she started college and she liked it here so much she continued even after she had graduated a few years ago. Yes, she was working last night as she did every Tuesday evening. Her apartment isn't far from here, so she would walk as long as the weather was nice enough."

"Can you tell me what Jenny was wearing yesterday when you saw her? Did everything seem normal about her?"

"Yes," Melissa began, "everything seemed fine. Jenny came in around three in the afternoon like usual, and I believe she was wearing a blue sundress with a denim jean jacket if I remember correctly." Jane and Frost both exchanged looks at the last comment. When they had found the body, she was wearing black dress pants and a light blue shirt with a black blazer over it.

"Are you sure that's what she was wearing?" Frost asked.

"Yes, I remember it clearly now," she stated, "Jenny mentioned she had just gotten the outfit that weekend. She seemed excited that the weather was nice enough to wear it." Jane watched as Frost jotted down the clothing discrepancy on his notepad and then placed it back into his pocket. "Thank you for your time, Melissa," Frost said as he reached across the table to shake her hand. "Let us know if you think of anything else you think might be useful to us," and with that, Frost handed her one of his business cards and the two detectives left the store.

Melissa was as cooperative as Jane had hoped she would be. It seemed though, that their chat hadn't revealed much, if any, new information. Jane waited patiently in the car as Frost searched though the police databases as he ran checks on the other employees. They decided they might as well do it now while they were out and about in case anything came back with a red flag. However, nothing of interest showed up. Frost looked over at his partner and shook his head, "Nope, nothing on the other coworkers." Jane sighed and looked around outside the car. This neighborhood seemed quiet and peaceful, a bit unusual for a murder. The houses and apartments around were not unlike hers, and she couldn't imagine anything like this happening where she lived. The buzzing of her phone in her pocket pulled her out of her train of thought. Maybe it was Maura calling with something useful. Jane hoped that's what it was. Nope, it was Korsak.

"Jane, I need you and Frost meet us down at docks."
"Sure, what's up?"

"There's another body. Similar to the one found this morning."

"Alright, we're on our way." Jane hung up the phone and turned to Frost. "They found another body down at the docks. Same MO as this morning's body." Frost nodded and started driving towards the docks. Jane's mind was racing, but the only coherent thought should could catch out of it all was, "Damn."

Maura left the office and headed down to the morgue. As strange as her morning with Jane had been, and even though she didn't want to leave Jane's side, she knew that this autopsy was critical for the case. Still, on her way downstairs she couldn't shake the feeling that something about Jane's actions this morning had been noticeably different than most others. At first, Maura just chalked it up to the case, but then she realized it had started before they had even arrived at the body. Maybe it had been the nightmare. That seemed like the most logical reason for Jane's behavior, so Maura decided to leave it at that (for now) as she entered the morgue. She slipped on her lab coat, carefully pulled on a pair of fresh gloves, and took up her scalpel. This was her element. She may not always understand living people and their crazy emotions the best, but she could certainly provide a voice to those who had already passed on to whatever afterlife in which they believed. As she made the Y incision, her emotional mind switched off and she was in full medical mode.

Awhile later, Maura had finished her autopsy and was waiting for the results from the tox-screen. She could now confirm what Korsak had speculated earlier, that the cut on the victim's neck had not been the cause of death. In fact, Maura had not been able to find a physical cause of death, which had led to the need to check for toxins. She suspected they would find something deadly, because she had found a near invisible prick in the woman's arm, as if she had been injected with something. She had also found a liquid substance on the woman's lips, which she had found rather odd. Just then, Susie returned with the test results.

"Dr. Isles," she started, "you're going to want to see this." Maura's brow furrowed as she took the results from Susie and looked over them. Her eyes scanned the page while her brain worked to make sense of the findings. She could understand the chloroform that had been detected; it would have been used to render the victim unconscious and helpless.

"You're right," Maura said to Susie, "this is quite odd and interesting at the same time. It's most unusual really." The victim had been injected with poison, but not just any poison. It had been a relatively large dosage of venom from a copperhead snake. Maura knew the copperhead was one of the only two venomous snakes in the Boston area, and that even seeing such a snake was very rare. She wasn't sure how the killer had managed to get their hands on this venom, but she thought it should help narrow down some possibilities. "I need to let Jane know what I've found. I hope this can help this case enough to give them some direction," Maura thought. Just then, Frankie came into the room with a worried look on his face. "Frankie, what is it?" she asked.

"They found another body, Maura; we gotta go meet Jane and Frost at the scene." Maura grabbed her Medical Examiner's bag and followed Frankie quickly out the door.