Chapter 7
So that night we wired Morgan up and the client took the bait. She was dropped off on the corner that they had arranged and we had units set up to follow her when she was picked up. I was with Nick and Gregg in one of the cars.
A black SUV picked her up and we followed them to an apartment block. Julie, D.B and Conrad were back at the lab watching the recording. Julie radioed in to say that they had a name from the address, an Oliver Tate, he had no priors. She sent the file to Gregg's phone and we all took a look at the picture.
Brass called me to say that Ellie's Mom had called to say that she had received one of the rectangular objects in a bible with the circles all over it and that she was heading over to the lab with it as we spoke.
I was waiting for word from Conrad, we were in the Lobby waiting when he radioed in saying he wanted us up on the floor closer to Morgan as he didn't like what was going down in the apartment and he was on his way over. Just then Julie radioed and said that they had lost visual but she could still hear and he was sending her home with the driver as he wasn't in the mood. So we all rushed back out to the cars and waited for Morgan to leave. She got in the black SUV and drove off. Nick radioed saying the vehicle was on the move and that we were following. We lost the SUV for a few minutes but when we got it back in view again D.B radioed in telling us to stop it and pull it over.
"copy that" Nick said as I hit the light. It wouldn't pull over so I sped up and pulled in front of it. I saw the other units hit their lights and come speeding up behind us. I put the car in park and got out with my gun drawn.
"GET OUT OF THE CAR!" I shouted. The driver got out, "put your hands on the hood of the car" I shouted, I recognized the kids face I had seen him from the Ministry. Gregg called out to Nick, the car was empty Morgan was nowhere to be seen.
"WHERE IS SHE?" I asked the driver, holding my gun against the back of his head.
"where's who?" he asked.
"the girl you picked up" I said.
"I don't know what you're talking about" he said turning round getting in my face. I pushed him back hard against the car and pressed the gun on his brow.
"TRY IT GO ON YOU SON OF A BITCH AND I WILL SPLATTER YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER THIS CAR" I shouted.
Gregg radioed in to say that Morgan was gone an officer came and took the driver away from me before I killed him. "FUCK!" I shouted, Nick slammed his hand down on the bonnet of the car and I slammed the door shut. Julie radioed to all units requesting a 444 an officer needs assistance and that someone needed to inform Conrad.
D.B called me to tell me that there was a flash drive in the bible object and that he had Ellie too.
Conrad stormed the apartment but Oliver Tate was no where to be seen, D.B radioed in to say that there were two black SUV's and the other one was parked outside a storage unit. Nick, Gregg and I jumped in the car and headed over to the scene. When we arrived the window was smashed and there was quite a lot of blood, we all rushed over to the storage unit and searched the building with back up. We found a girl stabbed through the chest with a spear sat in a boat, she was wearing Morgans dress and her hair was the same but it wasn't Morgan.
I was so relieved that it wasn't her, but worried sick at the same time, Morgan and I had gotten close she was a really good friend to me and I couldn't believe that I had let this go a head.
Julie and Nick processed the crime scene whilst I went back over to P.D. At this point I had been awake for over 24 hours I was like a walking zombie.
Conrad told me to go home and get a few hours sleep as I was no good to them like this, but I refused so he made me have a lie down on the sofa in his office. I didn't know how long I had been asleep but I was awoken to my phone ringing. It was from Gregg, he was processing the new crime scene with Nick and he was calling me with an update. They had found more rectangular dowels, like the ones from the diary's but this time they had numbers on them in a sequence. After getting off the phone with Gregg I went into the break room and poured myself some coffee. D.B came storming in and told me that the driver worked for Larson and when they spoke to Larson he spread some bullshit out and said that Angela was once Tate's favorite forbidden fruit, so they had gone to pick Angela up and they wanted me and him to interview her. I went and washed my face applied some makeup, re did my hair and changed into black skinny jean's with boots, a burgundy tshirt and a leather jacket. I clipped my gun and my badge to my belt and walked out. I had been waiting to wear this outfit since I started, this was my ass whooping outfit and that is exactly what I was going to do. I walked over to the diner with D.B and got some take out food. Julie was processing the apartment and told us she had found a vile of something in the fire place the journalist had turned up at the apartment saying he had received a dowel with a flash drive telling him to come to the address. When Julie put the flash drive in it was a message from Morgan she was tied to a chair and said that only one of them could survive, her or Ellie and we had to choose. Julie headed over to the lab so D.B and I headed over there too. Henry had run some DNA but it was incomplete there was no sex gene, D.B got a little short with him and said it was impossible and to run it again before storming out. I looked at Henry and did a sympathetic smile. "it's not you he's upset because he allowed Morgan to do this" I said. Hodges put his head round the door, "she's a CSI what the hell was she doing undercover anyway" he said.
"I did tell them, but no one listens to me" I said walking out to find D.B talking to Sarah in the corridor she had found out that Angela was indeed arrested for soliciting and she was with Tate. Tate had lost his job because of it and was angry with the world, which gave him motive.
"we need to speak to Angela asap" I said.
"we can't she's disappeared" Sarah said.
"what do you mean disappeared?" I asked.
"we have an APB on her but can't find her anywhere" she said.
They ran tests on the vial that Julie had found, whilst we watched the video, it said we had 6 hours to make a decision or the decision would be made for us.
"she keeps looking up" I said,
"yeah and everytime there is a pitch in the audio she does it" D.B said.
"it's a message, we need to isolate that sound" I said.
"get this over to Archie asap" D.B said passing Julie the flash drive.
Nick was back from the crime scene and was with Archie looking at the audio, "it sounds a lot like airplanes landing and taking off" he said.
"so we're looking at somewhere near an airport" I said "Hodges mentioned something about finding rock salt trace in the crime scenes, so we need to find a metal deposit place near an airport or strip in Nevada" I said.
The vial was of synthetic DNA which was the same that Henry had run at the boat crime scene which is why he couldn't get any sex gene from it. Gregg worked out that Tate was storing something important on the DNA they just needed to find out the right inscription code. So Nick and Sarah got a warrant for the bio-metric scanners from Tate's work.
During this time David and Doc found another inscription on the body from the boat which said Barb Thee Thorns.
I had a phone call from dispatch saying D.B requested back up at the Ministry he was in pursuit of Oliver Tate. I headed over to the ministry when I arrived I couldn't believe my eyes. Oliver Tate's car had been blown up with him inside. Day shift Csi were there and so were Conrad and Brass.
"so Tate had a partner?" I asked.
"I'm not so sure" D.B said.
"what do you mean?" I asked.
"look at the scattered remains, it's just like the 7th circle of hell, I think Tate was the next victim"
"well wheres the 6th?" I asked.
"Angela, she's dead inside, strung up like Jesus on the cross, that's betrayal" he replied.
"what the fuck is going on?" I asked.
"that means there is only 2 circles left" Conrad said.
Julie came out from inside the Ministry "there was a sim card inside the dowel" she said, "with a message for you" she handed it to Brass.
"the killer wants me to make a call" he said
"get it set up to run a cell tower trace" I said
"already done" Julie said.
So Jim put the sim in a phone and called the only contact that was in the phone which was Solomon.
It was Ellie, she said It was time and Brass had to give them our choice, Ellie or Morgan.
Jim said he couldn't do that and then the phone went dead. The Trace didn't work as he wasn't on the phone long enough.