"Come on, come on!" Joey yells at the TV as he tries to score a basket on his basketball game on the play station 3 against Kory in his living room, both of them sitting on his couch.
"You have yet to beat me at this game." Kory says smiling as she shoots a basket.
Joey just shakes his head and looks over at his daughter. "Cause I let you win."
"Do not!" Kory laughs.
"Oh yes, I do. Cuz your my daughter and I love ya." Joey laughs back as he concentrates on the game.
Kory just shakes her head and goes back to the game before turning to her father briefly. "Thanks for letting Tyler come to pizza with us tonight."
"You are welcome…but next time we go out he stays home. Cuz the kid had cheese hanging from his nose all night." Joey says shaking his head.
"He's a pig, I'll give you that." Kory laughs.
"Oh yeah, come on, come on." Joey says as he presses a button trying to block Kory's shot but failing. "Come on!"
"So….where's Rachel?" Kory asks.
"Rachel…how do you know about Rachel?" Joey asks surprised looking over at his daughter.
"Uncle Danny told me last week." Kory says.
"Uncle Danny has a big mouth." Joey says to his daughter.
Kory continues playing the game again. "He also told me that Jackie's back in town."
"I know." Joey says.
"You seen her yet?" Kory asks.
"No I have not." Joey answers quickly wanting to drop the conversation.
"So Rachel...you two together or what?" Kory asks.
Joey lets out a tiny laugh as he looks at her. "Okay you seriously just sounded like Jane just then."
"Dad." Kory says wanting to get back on topic.
"I'll tell you what….I'll tell you about my love life. If you tell me about any boys you may be interested in…and their better not be any." Joey says to Kory.
Kory's eyes immediately get huge when a flash of her after running background checks on the guys attending her school. "Let's just play."
"That's what I thought." Joey says getting back to the game before turning to face his daughter again. "What are your mothers doing tonight, any big plans?" Joey asks as he presses a few buttons on his controller shooting a basket missing it…again. "Son of a!"
"Who knows." Kory laughs as she presses a few buttons stealing the ball from her dad and shooting it into the net. "Oh yeah!"
"Did Korsak or Frost say anything about what we're walking in to?" Maura asks as he closes the door of the car.
Jane simply shakes her head as she closes the driver's seat door. "A Uni called, said that we better get here fast." Jane says as she and Maura walk towards the crime scene chaos at the house.
"That doesn't sound good." Maura says as she shows her work idea to the uni at the yellow tape.
"Yeah, and look around." Jane says as she shows a uni her badge and lifts the yellow tape for her and Maura to get under.
Maura looks at her wife and then around at the cops standing around all looking spooked and shaken to the core. "You're right…this must be a bad one."
Jane simply nods and walks into the house with Maura right behind her to see Frost leaning against the wall bowing his head trying to keep from throwing up.
"Hey Frost." Jane says walking over to him.
"Thank God you guys are here." Frost says looking up.
"You okay?" Jane asks concerned as she puts her hand on Frost's back.
Frost nods his head and lets out a breath as he rests his hands on his hips. "Yeah, I'm alright."
"Where's Korsak?" Jane asks.
"He's guarding the door to go down to the basement….didn't want anybody else to go down there till you two got here." Frost says.
"Well let's go." Jane says as the three walk through the hallway till they get to the basement door where Korsak is waiting for them. "Korsak." Jane greets.
"You two ready?" Korsak asks.
"Yeah." Jane nods her head.
"Forensics here yet?" Maura asks as she puts on her plastic gloves.
"Yeah they're over there. I want you two to see it before I let the wolves in." Korsak says.
"Okay, let's see." Jane says pointing to the door.
Korsak nods his head and opens up the door. Jane goes in first with the other three on her tail and slowly makes her way down the stair. But when she looks down at the ground she sees why everybody around them is spooked and white as ghosts. "Oh my-" Jane whispers her words getting caught in her throat.
Maura not being able to see the basement but not liking her wife's reaction walks past Korsak and Frost to get a better look and swallows a gasp that is begging to get out. She and Jane both look down at the ground covered in blood 3 feet tall with 6 heads peaking out of the blood.
"Oh my God, the smell!" Jane exclaims covering her nose.
"Yeah, it's all the blood." Frost says covering his own mouth in an attempt to not throw up.
"Are those heads cut off?" Jane asks covering her mouth with her hand.
"No." Maura whispers shaking her head trying to stay professional but ins some sort of shock. "They are vertically sticking out of the blood, more then likely their bodies are sitting on the ground."
"Okay." Jane says getting herself focused. "Let's get forensics in here to pump out all the blood, send it to the blood so we can examine the crime scene." Jane tells Frost before he walks off. "We also need to brush these stairs, the railing, and the walls for prints." she tells Korsak.
"On it." Korsak says as he walks away.
Jane then taking a deep breath turns to her wife who is acting very un-Maura like in a daze. "Maur…are you okay?" Jane asks.
Maura hearing her wife shakes out of her daze and nods her head. "I'm fine."
"How many quarts of blood is down there you think?" Jane asks.
"The human body on average contains 6 quarts of blood. So assuming this blood belongs to these 6 victims….36."
"There is way more than 36 quarts down there." Jane says shaking her head.
"You're right." Maura nods in agreement.
"Which means we've got some missing vics." Jane says as she looks at the blood. "What are the chances they're under all that blood?" Jane asks.
"That's a fair guess." Maura nods her head in agreement. "But we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves here…we need to go over the evidence, get the facts."
Jane lets out a small smile at the regular ME Isles coming out to play, and looks at Maura. "Now there's the wife I know and love."
Maura shakes her head slightly letting out a small smile as she looks back at the crime scene as the Forensics arrive in the basement. "I've never seen anything like this before."
"Me neither." Jane sighs as she closes her eyes for a second and turns her head from all the blood needing a break.
After an hour of pumping all of the blood out of the basement and packing it in coolers in cooling trucks and sending them to the lab, the Boston PD stars to evaluate the crime scene, trying to get an idea of what happened.
"6 victims." Jane says as she puts paper booties on over her shoes so she can step down at the crime scene. She looks around and sees what looks like 6 random victims. It looks like 3 college aged boys, two Caucasian and one Hispanic. 1 woman in her early sixties, her once white bath robe soaked red with blood. 1 teenaged girl about 18, African American. Then 1 man in his mid forties, Caucasian with a blood stained silver wedding band on his left hand. "Looks like at first glance we got 6 randoms. The CSI's clarified that there were about 60 quarts."
"Which means we got missing vics." Frost say putting on his own pair of booties.
Jane nods her head in agreement as she walks down the stairs and steps on the still red floor. "We got any prints yet?" she asks a CSI brushing a wall.
"Nothing yet." he says.
Maura then comes walking back down with her bag and stops on the stairs putting on her paper booties before walking down to the basement. "The blood is on the way to the lab."
Jane nods her head and starts to examine the bodies looking for a cause of death. "What do we got here…knife wound right."
"I'm not sure." Maura says kneeling by one of the white college aged boys looking him over looking for a wound. She lifts up his head and it moves straight back revealing a slit across the throat. "Jane."
Jane bends down and sees the throat. "Slit the throat." she says shaking her head.
Maura moves to another victim and sees the same wound on his neck. "Looks like they all have the same wound."
"How did the slit across the throat cause them to lose all the that blood?" Frost asks.
"These victims had their blood drained out. To lose that much blood that fast, they would have had to been strung up by their legs-" Maura starts.
"Strung up like animals, getting all the blood to drain out of the body." Jane says shaking her head.
"Looks like." Maura agrees as she notices a zip lock bag under the victim which looks like a letter inside. "Jane take a look at this."
Jane bends down and grabs the Ziploc bag. "This the only one?" she asks.
Maura and Frost look over at the other victims and notice that they all have the Ziploc bag places underneath their butts on the ground. "They all got them Jane."
"Let's send them to the lab right away…see if we can get some prints." Jane says.
"Shouldn't we open them up and read them." Frost says.
"No, let's examine them first…we don't know what we're dealing with." Korsak says.
Frost nods as they all hand the Ziploc bags to the CSI's who take them upstairs.
Jane lets out a breath as she looks around noticing that the 40 year old man's hand is pointing to the far wall. "He look like he's pointing?" Jane asks looking at the other victims noticing that it's just him.
"Yeah." Korsak agrees.
"You guys brush that wall for prints?" Jane asks the head CSI.
"Not yet, we'll do it now." he says as he moves over looking at the wall noticing a glistening substance on it. "Wait…"
"What?" Jane asks.
"There's some sort of chemical on the wall."
"What?" Jane asks confused.
Maura then walks over and takes a look immediately recognizing the smell of the chemical on the wall. "Sodium Sulfide Fluoresce."
"Come again." Jane says confused.
"Invisible ink." Maura informs giving the common term. "Can you please get an ultraviolet light."
"Yeah we've got a big one, it'll show the whole wall." the CSI with a thick Boston accent nods as he heads upstairs.
As her heads upstairs Lt. Cavanaugh makes his way down the stairs and his eyes land on the bodies on the floor. "Jesus."
"Shoulda been here earlier Lieu, it was a mess." Jane tells her boss.
"I was over in Lowell talking to a couple of detectives about a past case, what the hell happened."
"Well we don't have a weapon, we don't have any prints, we don't have any witnesses that we know of yet, we got nothing." Jane informs.
"Well, that's not true we got about 60 quarts of blood heading to the lab." Frost says.
"We also have what looks like some sort of message in sodium sulfide fluoresce." Maura tells Cavanaugh.
"What now?" he asks confused.
"Invisible ink." Jane groans as the CSI comes walking down holding the big light with a couple of other CSI's as the position it facing the wall. "Alright let's turn of the light take a look."
Frost nods his head and goes over and shuts the wall off. Immediately a message is shown on the wall surrounded by drawings of an unidentified symbol. "Welcome to opening night. I hope you've enjoyed the show, more to come." Jane reads.
Korsak reads the message and shakes his head confused. "Opening night."
"Yeah." Jane says nodding her head as she notices the same symbol on the wall scattered around the bodies on the floor. "Can you shine the light on the floor?"
The CSI nods his head and moves the light to show at dozens of the symbol drawn on the gournd.
"This wasn't murder." Jane says piecing the pieces together in her mind. "This was art."