UnNCIS: Chapter 2
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"So, the three of you put away the former captain of the homicide unit?"
Kate asked.
They were all standing around the desks in the middle of the room.
"Yep." Rizzoli answered.
"Well I don't quite understand why everyone is still so upset about it."
"Jim was a very kind gentleman. Good outgoing personality, at least on the outside it seemed that way. Everybody loved him." Brad explained. "But what they hate is when cops put away cops. Even if they're dirty. And the icing on the cake is..."
"The man had cancer." Tony finished. "When we discovered that he was the killer of his own wife and oldest daughter, the whole department tried to get us to plead involuntary manslaughter. They tried to say that he was under the influence of his 'cancer drugs'."
Jane hung her head. "But they didn't know how the man was when he got home at night. The man was a heavy drinker. He would go home drunk and beat his children. The youngest daughter spilled everything."
"Even when we told them this, they refused to believe." Brad explained.
"This happened over a year ago. I don't understand." Kate said puzzled.
"You'd be surprised at how long a cop could hold a grudge." Jane said.
"So, how did you convince the captain to let you renovate the storage room?" Kate asked.
"Well, Captain Hill reviewed all of the detective files so he could learn our strengths and weaknesses. So we played that to our advantage." Tony started.
"Oh please." Jane interrupted "Tony made up some sob story about how the 'work environment was toxic.' And asked if our team could move into the old storage room."
"It took some convincing by Tony's old partner but the captain eventually agreed." Brad said.
'I wonder why they never mention Jimmy Palmer by name.' Kate thought.
"And with the help of my adoptive mothers funding, we where able to redecorate." Maura finished.
Kate turned to face Maura. "So...how did you get all wrapped up in this?"
"Oh please no one could hate Maura." Tony said in disbelief.
"That is not true. I have my own share of haters." She used her fingers to emphasize 'haters.'
Kate turned to Tony and smiled which he returned. "Are the other cops jealous that you have better equipment?" She asked playfully.
"They may have mentioned something once or twice." He answered with fake modesty.
A quick alarm sounded and everyone turned toward the main monitor. A video of a bullet piercing their captains brain from outside the window was playing. The captain collapsed on the floor blood draining from his head.
"Oh no its Captain Hill." Brad said saddened.
Everyone rushed out the door and into the elevator.
"What was that video?" Kate asked confused.
"We have a monitor outside the window in the captains office. When it detects a object outside the window, it directs the camera feed from the one in his office to our monitor." Tony explained to his partner.
The elevator dinged. The five piled off and headed straight to the captains office, ignoring all the dirty and confused stares.
"What they have no respect for privacy now." Kate heard one of the cops say.
She turned around and glared at the men. "For your information, your captain was just killed by a sniper."
She walked into the office and straight toward the window. There was a bullet sized hole in the window. 'I was right sniper.' Then she walked to the body and bent down next to Maura. She stared into the green eyes on the man whom she just met an hour ago.
"Jane can you call the crime lab and tell them to bring up a team and a gurney?" Maura asked Jane.
"Sure thing." Jane answered as she took out her phone.
"I want to get started on this autopsy as soon as possible." Maura gently closed the eyes of her deceased captain.
One of the angry cops walked into the office. "What makes you think that you should get the lead on this case?! He's our captain too."
Brad addressed him calmly. "Because of what happened last time the captain was involved, Detective Russell."
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In the autopsy room, Maura completed the examination of the internal organs in the chest cavity and was closing up the Y incision. It was out of protocol, everyone knew what had really killed Captain Kenneth Hill. Next, Maura made an incision around the face and peeled back the skin and muscle.
"Whoa." Kate said as she walked into the autopsy room.
"Hello Kate, what brings you in here?" Maura asked sweetly.
"Its just...," She adverted her eyes from the table. "Its been awhile...since i've seen an autopsy." She gagged.
"Pretty boring in the storage room huh?"
"We have nothing, but a blurry photo of the sniper. That's it! No suspects, little evidence. We've been sorting through terrorist files for the last two hours." Kate vented.
"You hate being out of control." Maura observed.
"Back before the secret service, every case was like a puzzle. We had a few pieces, we connected them and put a killer behind bars. Now we only have two pieces and they both have straight edges. Almost impossible to connect."
'I wonder why she hasn't mentioned the Secret Service before.' Maura thought
"Don't give up yet. We still don't know the mystery imbedded in this brain." Maura reassured. She turned on her bone saw and began to cut the skull around the bullet hole.
"I guess I forgot how stressful the detective job is."
Maura turned off the saw and pulled the piece of skull away from the brain.
"Why didn't you mention that you were in the Secret Service?" Maura asked Kate.
"It's something I rather not talk about." Kate answered softly.
Maura picked up a pair of tweezers and pulled the bullet out from the wound.
"Well if you ever need to talk, you can always come to me. Or Jane. Or any one of us. You're part of this team now and we treat each other like family." Kate nodded.
As Maura examined the bullet she found some unusual markings. She took a picture with the camera and loaded it onto the computer monitor. After magnifying the picture she saw
'ברית טרור' carved into the bullet followed by a 'P' and 'H'.
Kate observed the picture. "It's hebrew." She told to Maura.
"Yes it is. And I believe it translates to...'Terror'..'.Alliance'."
"That can't be good. I'll go get the others."
Jane followed by Brad, Tony and Kate entered a few minutes later.
"Whatcha got Maura?" Jane asked.
"We found some strange markings on the bullet. There were two words written in Hebrew that translate to 'Terror Alliance' followed by the letters P and H." Maura explained.
"I don't like the sound of that." Brad said.
"You mean to tell me that two terrorists that have given the government hell in the past, teamed up?!" Jane exclaimed.
"I think this officially slides over to FBI jurisdiction."
"No. Our captain, our case." Jane was very territorial...and stubborn
"Jane the FBI needs to know. This is a potential threat to the nation." Tony tried to convince her.
"And if the terrorists are taking out people in positions of authority, the president could be in danger." Kate said.
Tony turned to his partner. "When did you come up with this theory?" He asked her.
"About an hour ago." She answered.
"Did you think to share it with anyone? Like your partner."
"Well I was going to tell it to the FBI, but thats apparently out of the question." Kate said in a accusatory tone.
They all looked at Jane.
"Fine! We'll call them...tomorrow. I want to get everything that I can out of this case before they take it." Jane gave in.
"No ones taking the case from us. They may be the big dogs, but we're the ticks. The ticks stay on the dogs." Brad said.
Everyone gave him a look of confusion mixed with amusement.
"Never mind that, we have P and H to look for." Tony said.
They all filed out of the Autopsy room, leaving Maura to finish her examination.
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A/N: Thanks for reading and Reviews are always welcome.