Danny was at the smart table discussing the case with Chin, when Chin received a call from Charlie. "Go ahead Charlie, what did you find? I'm here with Danny and your on the speakerphone."
Charlie said "I just got a case to case hit on the DNA for a murder case unsolved on Maui."
Chin and Danny shared a look before Chin said "You know what this means?"
Danny said "We've have to get our hands on that evidence, I'll go and make the call to MPD." as he was clapping his hands together.
Danny then makes his way over to bullpen where Steve is watching the news. Without looking up he tells Danny "Your evidence from Maui is on its way by helicopter as we speak."
Danny adds " Good this could be the break we been looking for. Oh and Smooth Dog, how in the hell did you do that before Charlie had even told us? "
Steve said "I hope you right, Danny, and I have my ways you know."
Just then Catherine Rollins, Steve's girl, walked in; she was very quiet as she stood next to Steve. She stood there with her arms crossed over her chest, her head angled to the right, much in the same fashion as Steve. Seeing them standing side by side Danny sometimes wonders if all Navy personal are cut the same.
Danny asked "Governor?"
Steve said "Between the Governor and the reporters I feel like there's a shark bite on my ** that won't go away." The look on his face was priceless; he just looked at Catherine to see her response to his comment.
Catherine said "What was that you said? Oh yeah when the heat is on, you wear more sun block."
Steve asked "I said that, when?"
Catherine smiled nodding her head. She winked at Steve to remind him that he said this when they were in bed together a few nights ago. Things were great for them these days. It was on e of those unusual times that they found themselves on the same base working a mission together. Catherine had always been his"unofficial" eyes and ears. But this time, she was ordered to work with Steve's SEAL team and they were glad, especially Steve, were happy about that. This was a high priority mission -a search and rescue for one of their own.
Steve stood there with this faraway look in his eyes before he told the team. "Today I received a call from the mother of the College student Kyle Chandler."
Danny asked "And, what….. Steve?"
Steve said "Kyle just got engaged to his high school girlfriend. He had only six more months to finish his studies then he got into the wrong cab. She couldn't have been nicer, not pressuring me for details, just wanted to tell me some info about Kyle she thought would help. She didn't cry at all, she kept it together and all she asked was to stop this killer from hurting someone else. All I could offer was that we are working on it 24/7 and how sorry we all are for her loss."
Steve's eyes looked like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and Catherine knew how much it hurts to talk to the family of a victim. She's been in his life long enough to see him through some really rough family notifications and it hurt her to see his pain.
Catherine put her hand over his arm and Steve said "We have to get this guy Danny; I can't receive anymore calls from broken hearted parents."
Danny adds "We will, Steve. You know we always solve these cases, we're too smart and criminals are too stupid. They always make mistakes and we are ready for that when they do."
Meanwhile Kono was looking at the videos of last night's game when she notices that the cheerleader called out different seat number then the one she had in her hand. This could mean that Akin Scott was really the intended victim and he was suppose to die and that it was all a set up, not a random accident. She called to get approval for a search warrant and goes to pick it up for Jessica's home and she called Chin to join her.
The evidence from Maui arrived and Danny is going over it with Charlie very carefully. They find that their victim was a 28 year old student who was studying real estate. There was one witness…. a male doctor coming out of bar when the cab pulled up to the curb and he watched her get into the cab. The Coast Guard found her body two days after she was murdered and reported missing by her parents. Her body was 30 miles out from the nearest land. COD was strangulation not CO poisoning however she did have the markings L2729 on the back of neck.
Charlie said "The blood you found had high levels of white cells; I'll run a toxic screen to see who was sick …the killer or the victim."
Catherine tells Steve "I received a call from Lynn Mea today, you remember her from the academy, right?"
Steve said "Yeah, she was your first roommate, right?"
Catherine said "She is working out of DC these days, doing special projects for the Pentagon. She told me she has this program that she can run any type of random search of any news topic. Anyway, she called me because she knows I have direct line to you. (Catherine just smiles at the grin Steve gives her.) She was running your case through her program and she came across something that you needed to know. It's this…..Mrs. Morris's last Post." she hands him a print out from her computer.
Meanwhile Chin and Kono go to see Jessica and use their warrant to search the place. When they arrive, they find the apartment empty and looks like someone left in a hurry. They go through the place only to find books on subjects far to advance for Jessica's major, and clothes that are four times the size of Jessica. They find diet pills, empty pill bottles, and the kitchen didn't have any food at all. Then to top it off there was photo of big girl pinned to the fridge. She could be Jessica's sister because they look so much alike.
Chin asked "I wonder if she has a roommate?"
Kono said "I don't think so, didn't the super say that she was the only tenant?"
Office Lukela called out "I found the garden, Chin." Kono and Chin make their way to where Officer Lukela is and what they see tells them that they got their killer.
Kono said "Nightshade by chance?"
Lukela asked "What are these?"As he points to the one of a kind of plant.
Kono said "Looks like Calaber-beans. Wait a minute that is what she made antidote from."
They take the rolling-pin where Kono found treas of Calaber-beans from the kitchen along with the diet pills, and samples of both Calaber-beans and nightshade as evidence. The story of the killers plan is coming together. She must have ground the Calaber-beans to make the antidote. She made the poison and refilled her diet pills one with the antidote and other with the poison. She could have taken the antidote first then pop in the other pill. Then she called out our victim seat number and killed him with a kiss of death.
Chin said "Talk about a personal foul."
Lukela asked "Why"
Kono said "Maybe our mystery girl can answer that." as she takes the photo off the fridge.
Meanwhile Steve went to talk to Morris and told her to back off, warning her that if she continues to report misleading information she could lose her following. She tells him that she has this new informant that she is going to meet up with if Steve is not willing to cooperate.
Steve says, "Look lady anything you write that the killer uses in their next murder, I will hold you responsible as an accomplice and you will be looking at jail time. Just be sure you remember that." He gives her a dirty look and gets in the truck with Catherine and they drive away. After Steve's gone, she leaves to meet her contact.
Back in the crime lab Charlie tells Danny about the toxic they found Prolixin and Haldol which are usually used in psychotic patients for calming them down, but when used together it's only for those who are the most danger to themselves and others. There only three hospitals on Oahu that still prescribe them, but there was a fourth that closed down last year Mannix Insane Asylum.
Danny thanked him and went back to the office to find Duke and Steve. After he relayed this information that he received from Charlie, Officer Troy Lee said "Mannix Asylum debriefed HPD they had to let go of some of the patients when the place got closed down for over medicating. They sent the patients to other hospitals as out patients, but no one knows if they are being monitored still."
Danny said "I'll call the DA and see if I can get the files of these patients. With some help reading them, it should only take a few hours."
Kono got back to the HQ while Chin and Lukela ran the evidence over to the crime lab. Kono ran the photo through the facial recognition program and got a hit to their prime suspect. Kono had HPD pick up the cheerleader and bring her over to HQ where she and officer Lukela would interrogate Jessica. They found out that the victim had bullied Jessica two years prior about her size at a game where she was with her boyfriend. She was humiliated and not only did her boyfriend leave her because of it, but she was laughed at by all because the victim had started a chant (Eat a salad, eat a salad).
Lukela asked "So you got even by killing him?"
Jessica "I worked my A$$ off to lose the weight; I did whatever I had to. Starving myself, eating extracts, and running marathons. Then tryout after tryout until I finally made the team just so I could watch him eat his poison words in front of everyone."
Kono said "I hope it was worth it because you just kissed you life goodbye." Jessica just looked at Kono and her face showed no emotion, just a blank stare into the wall.
When Kono got back to HQ, she arrived just as four files of the patients from Mannix Asylum got there. The four Five-0 team members each took a file and it was Steve who got the lucky one.
He read out the keywords "Blood type -O, child abuse, knife scares, ritualistic patterns, maternal suicide, carbon-monoxide poisoning, no friends, religious fanatic ritualistic kills. This is our killer."
Danny said "Ok, Super Seal, what is this psychopath's name?"
Steve looks at the file and said "MPK Wales."
Chin ran the name and found a RMD photo and got the address. He and Kono took off to meet up with Steve and Danny. They all were surprised to find the place empty.
Kono said "Didn't look like anyone has been home for awhile, boss."
Danny said "It doesn't look like anyone lives in this house."
Steve said "Where in the hell is he? There has to be a clue in here somewhere. Get HPD over here to search it head to toe, Danny."
Chin said "I issued an ABP and a BOLO as well. We should be able to track down something through his medicine records. I'll get the word out to all the pharmacies on the islands."
Steve said "Good idea, Chin, thanks. Kono, have Duke get HPD to stake out the place see if he returns. I going put his name on no fly list too."
To be continued…..
