"What?" Mac and Lindsay ask him.

"Someone smells bad! I uh... don't mean any uh... disrespect, Boss. Please, don't get near me, you too, Lindsay," he told them quietly while he held his nose.

Mac and Lindsay looked at each other then they both noticed the smell on each other.

"Uh oh, I guess we might need to take a shower," Lindsay said.

Mac sniffed himself, "I think you're right."

Adam had already gotten back to his workstation when Lindsay and Mac walked towards their respective showers.

Twenty minutes later-

"Adam," Jo said.

"Oh, when did you guys get back?"

"A few minutes ago."

"Did you get him?"

"No, fake address."

Adam sighed. "We'll get this guy."

"Where are Lindsay and Mac?"

"Uh, well... uh... I uh..." Adam noticed Mac walked past the elevator as Lindsay followed behind a few moments later. "There," Adam said pointing to them.

"Thanks," Jo said. She wondered why Adam was so nervous then walked up to Lindsay and Mac.

"Have Adam hermetically seal those clothes," Mac told Lindsay.

"Sure, Boss," Lindsay said while she walked over to Adam.

"I heard you had a crime scene near your apartment complex," Jo said.

"Yes, we just finished processing the vic's clothes and Lindsay and I are going to check missing persons which should have come up by now."

"The DD-5's for the Johnson case are on your desk," Jo said.

"Thanks."

Mac went to read the DD-5 in his office, while Adam was at the A/V lab checking the victim's phone contacts and printing out information about them. He found Lindsay and gave her the list so he could finish the sealing and then box up the evidence. An hour later, Lindsay and Mac arrived at the apartment belonging to the victim's friends, Josh and Joanie Beggars.

"Can we help you?" Josh asked.

"Yes. I'm Detective Taylor and this is Detective Messer, we were wondering if you can tell us who this is." Mac showed them the picture.

"That looks like Roland Gwynn. What happened to him?" Joanie asked shocked.

"It appears he was murdered. Do you know where he lives?"

"Yeah, let me get you his address," Joanie said then left.

"When was the last time you spoke to him?" Mac asked.

"Maybe a little more than a month ago or so," Josh said.

"Were you guys close friends?" Lindsay asked.

"Somewhat. I just figured he was very busy with work. I was the one who called him last time."

After Joanie gave them the address of where Roland lived, they left, meeting Don there.

"I think this home will no longer be for sale after what happened to him."

"Probably, but we need to find out who did this to him," Mac said as Don walked up to them.

"I talked to the real estate agent and he says the home went on the market a month ago but he talked to Roland five times in the last few months. The last time he talked to him was five weeks ago. He will go ahead and sell the home, probably to take care of anything in Roland's estate. Roland was going to buy another house a few miles form here," Don said.

"I want his bank records and financials subpoenaed and I wonder if anyone noticed he wasn't around since there was no missing persons report. Adam is on his way to help process the scene," Mac said.

"So this guy is an investment adviser for a firm and no one from work notices him missing? I think I will go talk to his co-workers after we are done here," Don said then continued, "I'm going to start with canvassing the neighbors."

"Wow, this is a big house," Lindsay said as she looked around and Mac looked in amazement.

"He must have had an inheritance, I mean this is way beyond his salary for this house."

"Maybe there is a reason he was selling it," Lindsay said.

Adam arrived and was shocked with how big the house was. "Wow."

"Adam, you take the kitchen while Lindsay and I do the living room."

"Got it, Boss."

An hour after they began, Mac had decided to have Sheldon, Danny, and Jo help with the processing since the the house was quite big. After a few hours, the team finished processing the house and took the evidence back to the lab.

February 17h 9:30am-

Jo and Danny arrived at a scene at a shopping center parking lot when Don walked up.

"Looks like the same guy because of the same M.O.," Don said annoyed.

"Wow, the vic was beaten pretty bad," Jo said.

"Car is here, too," Danny said.

"Belongs to the vic," Don said then continued, "She isn't married and has no kids. Sounds familiar..."

Jo, Danny, and Don felt angry they still hadn't been able to catch the serial carjacking murderer.

"We'll get him," Danny said tersely.

At Roland's workplace, 10:00am-

Mac and Don arrived at the workplace to talk to the employees who knew Roland.

"How can I help you?" the secretary asked.

"We would like to know if you can tell us the last time Roland Gwynn worked here?" Don asked as he and Mac flashed their badges.

"I just started working here last week so I don't know if I know him or not."

"You don't know him," Mac said.

"Looks like it's been about a little over a month since he was here," she told them as she looked on the computer.

"We'll look around," Don said.

"Okay," she said then the detectives walked to where the offices were and a man approached them.

"Are you gentlemen lost? You can't be here," the man said annoyed.

"No, we aren't lost. Who are you?" Mac asked as he and Don showed their badges.

"NYPD," Don said.

"I'm Travis Willows, I am one of the managers of this company. Now unless you have a warrant, you can't be here." He was perturbed.

"Normally people ask why we are here before they go off on a warrant. I guess no one told you that," Don said towards Travis then looked at Mac and continued in a mocking tone, "Mac, did you get that warrant I told you to get?"

Travis looked at them annoyed as Mac checked his pockets sarcastically.

"No, Don. I told you I tend to lose warrants. You have it."

"Now gentleman, I don't need this-," Travis started then was interrupted.

"Here is the warrant," Don said with the smile.

"I'd like to look at it," Travis said as he held out his hand.

"Not until you tell us where Roland Gwynn's office is," Mac said annoyed.

"His office is empty, we cleaned it out," Travis said emphatically.

"When was it cleaned out?" Don asked annoyed.

"Maybe a little more than a month ago. Can I see the warrant now?"

"Why was it cleaned out?" Mac asked a bit angry, his eyes narrowing.

"Because he's gone. Now can I look at that warrant?"

"Very interesting choice of words there," Mac said.

"What do you mean very interesting choice of words?" Travis asked.

Don took out the autopsy picture of Roland. "See there? He's dead."

"Dead? Wait, you don't think?"

"Well, you never did ask why we were here other than squawking about the warrant bit and you might need a lawyer now since you may have destroyed evidence," Don said.

"Destroyed evidence? Wait! We didn't throw anything out. We put it in storage since we couldn't reach him." Travis looked a little worried.

"Fact is, you, didn't even check on the guy. It makes me wonder if you knew he was dead. I mean, if I disappeared, I sure as hell hope my buddies or co-workers would check in on me," Mac said.

"I can show you the storage," Travis said.

"We'll follow you," Don said as he showed Travis the warrant.

After they got Roland's possessions back to the lab, Don went back to the precinct.

A few hours later at the precinct-

Don sat at his desk re-looking over the files of the Gwynn case when he got a call.

"Flack."

"Hello, Flack," a voice on the other end said.

"Who is this?" Flack sat up.