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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 8, 2007 17:05:24 GMT 1
"hi rhia," Lilly said. "this is milly, the little daughter of the clowns." she stepped closer to Rhia, so milly couldn't hear her. "she doesn't know yet her parents are dead. she thinks they're just sleeping. i couldn't bring myself to tell her yet." she stepped away from her again. "so, anything new on the case?"
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Post by mystic on Mar 8, 2007 19:54:14 GMT 1
"No wonder...she's only six! Okay, try if she remembers anything before we have to show her the truth...", Rhia whispered back to Lilly, while she observed the little girl looking around in the lab. She went over to her and smiled.
"Hi, Milly. I'm Rhia and I'm kinda the boss here. So maybe you could tell Lilly everything you remember from today? Because we gotta find those two men...", she started, when Milly stopped her.
"Ask auntie Val about them. She talked to them before circus started.", and she rolled her eyes. "Is it that machine?", she shouted then across the lab and looked at Sam. Rhia folded her arms across her chest. Now, that was news...
"Hey, Sam. I'm gonna talk to that Mrs. Tingle. See ya later...", with these words Rhia had once again left the lab.
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Post by scorpii on Mar 8, 2007 22:17:26 GMT 1
Sam nodded at Rhia and then smiled at Milly. "Very good, Milly! You wanna see what magic it can do?" She walked over to the machine. Milly was nodded. "Yes please!" she said.
The machine was the machine that could make almost every kind of ink visible using light in different wave lengths. Sam grabbed a piece of paper that seemed empty, but of which she knew it wasn't. This she put in the machine. "Look at the screen, Milly. What do you see?" "Green" Milly answered. "That's all" Sam changed the light. "What do you see now?" "Red!" Milly answered. "Red's my favorite color!" "Hey" Sam said. "As is mine. Okay, next color." "Oh you can really do magic!" Milly clapped her hands. Sam laughed. "Indeed, Milly, indeed. You're good as this, you know that? Now, do you understand it if I tell you that by using different colors, the machine shows you what is written on this paper?" Milly nodded. "Good. You're a smart girl. You said you saw how your mommy and your daddy were put asleep?" Milly nodded again. "But I haven't seen anything" Sam smiled again. "If you think hard, you maybe can do the same as the machine did." "But I'm not a machine!" Milly said, looking at Sam. "Sammie, I'm not a machine." "I know. But if you think very, very hard, like this-" Sam pretended to think very hard. "Then maybe you have seen a bit" Milly copied Sam's expression, looking like she was thinking indeed really hard. Then she looked at Sam. "I see two men now in my head." "Good! You're really smart, Milly. Now, if you tell Lilly what you see in your head, then she can catch the men who put your mommy and daddy asleep." Milly nodded and walked over to Lilly. But just when they walked out of the lab, Milly turned around and looked at Sam. "Sammie, you promised me a treat when I'd find the magic machine!" Sam nodded. "That's true. But, Milly - you already have the treat!" Sam walked over to Milly and pretended to grab a treat from her ear. "You see? You had it in your ear!" "Nooo" Milly smiled. "The magic machine did that!" "Okay. The magic machine did that."
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 9, 2007 6:36:26 GMT 1
Brian had his face buried in paperwork, walking through the hallways, when he bumped into Rhia.
"Whoops, I'm sorry! I... I'm a bit caught up with all these statements. You know, everyone was watching the circus, so I have very few details about the men. I don't know where they came from, why they did it and... why are you smiling? What do you know that I don't?"
Brian had been here long enough to recognize that look on Rhia's face. She had a clue.
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Post by scorpii on Mar 9, 2007 8:59:08 GMT 1
Jenny walked into the QD lab, looking for Sam. She smiled as she found her anxiously gazing at her computer screen. "Sam?" she asked.
Sam turned around, startled. "Oh, hey Jen. Are the databases done?" Jenny nodded. Sam got on her feet and made her way to the A/V lab. The first one was a disappointment; the face recognition database hadn't found any results. Newbies? The impression database, however, did find one thing; Pradas. In a circus? Rich people, newbies to crime? Weird. Sam printed out the results and also printed out the photo she had saved that showed the guns and took the three to Rhia's office, only to find both Rhia and Brian in the hall way. "Brian, good you're here. Do you recognize these guns?" she asked him, showing him the photo.
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Post by mystic on Mar 9, 2007 11:18:06 GMT 1
Rhia was lost in thoughts and didn't pay attention to the way her feet were leading, until she ran into someone.
"Oh sorry, Brian...", she apologised. When he talked to her, a smile spread on her face. "Yeah, I kinda got a clue. Little Milly observed her aunt Valery Tingle talking to the men - so I'm on my way to the circus. Can you spare some time or are you busy?", she flashed him another smile.
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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 9, 2007 16:23:19 GMT 1
Milly still had that expression of hard thinking on her face. Lilly sat next to her. "i see two men coming in the tent," Milly said. "i think they have toy guns in their hands. the ones you can win at the ball throw tent. they're aiming the toy guns at mommy and daddy. maybe the men want to spray my parents wet..." then realisation came on Milly's face. "those... those guns weren't toy guns, were they?" she asked. Lilly sighed. the little girl found out. "sorry honey," she said. Milly started to cry unstopable. her whole body was shaking. "they... they won't wake up anymore..." Milly managed to say. Lilly hugged her. "i'm so sorry honey," she said. "They won't wake up anymore. they're asleep for forever." Milly kept crying. "now my only family is aunty Valery!" "we'll figure something out, honey" Lilly said. "but first i need you to concentrate on those two men. what happened after that?" "there were people everywhere. i couldn't see my parents. i didn't know what was going on. then i saw the men disappearing behind the curtains." "what's behind the curtains?" Lilly asked. "there are the caravans of all the people from the fair." "Okay milly," Lilly said. "you did a great job. i'll be right back." she walked outside and searched rhia's cell phone number. she called rhia. "It's Lilly" she said in the phone. "there's a chance the killers live on the fair. they disappeared behind the curtains after the murder."
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 9, 2007 16:53:00 GMT 1
Since it was quiet in the hallway, Brian was able to hear Lilly on Rhia's phone. He thought for a moment.
"Rhia, wouldn't it make more sense for you to check for evidence back in the caravans and for me to go question Valery Tingle?" He flipped through his folder to look for the statement she gave to him back at the circus. Then he realized something.
"Rhia, Valery Tingle must have slipped out before I could interview her at the scene. I don't remember speaking to any family members, and I certainly don't have a statement. Plus, if she's the kid's only family, why didn't she claim Milly? I really need to talk to her now."
Brian made sure his badged was quite visible where he can clipped it to his belt, and stepped into the parking lot...
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Post by mystic on Mar 9, 2007 17:27:48 GMT 1
"Ok, so you go to talk to Ms Tingle and I have a look at those caravans.", Rhia repeated and nodded. Then she turned around to make the way to her bureau, when her cellphone went off.
"Yes, Lilly. What is it?", while she was answering it, she had got her jacket out of her office and was returning to Sam's, when she noticed Lilly on the phone. She hung up and went over to her. Grinning she said again: "So, what's up?" When she noticed Milly shaking with crying she could imagine, but nevertheless she wanted to hear it from Lilly.
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Post by scorpii on Mar 9, 2007 18:00:13 GMT 1
Sam just stood in the hall way, every body walking out, ignoring her with the stills from the cell phone video. "Okay. Your choice" she mumbled, walking back to QD, now ignoring Rhia in the hall way. Maybe she shouldn't do that, but Scorpios are simply people who pay back people on something immediately. From a distance, she could hear Milly cry and since Rhia was now talking to Lilly, Sam decided not to disturb all of them and got to the A/V lab.
There, she did what probably wasn't her task but she did anyway. She searched the website for the circus, to see what kind of shows they had and the people who worked for it.
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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 9, 2007 20:46:26 GMT 1
"she figured out her parents aren't waking up again," Lilly said. "she first thought the murderers were shooting with toy guns, you know the ones you can win with throwing balls at cans. then she realized they weren't toy guns. i just couldn't deny it. i couldn't lie to her." Lilly looked at Milly. "is there any news about the aunt? i think Milly would want some family around. and how much i would like spending time with her, i think a family member around her would be the best."
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 10, 2007 8:09:20 GMT 1
Brian parked his car at Ms. Tingle's house. He was soon backed by two police cars. He knocked on the door. Ms. Tingle answered, and looked shocked to see them. Brian flashed his badge. "New York Police Department. Ms. Tingle? I'm Detective Shefkowitz. Is anyone else home?"
She stared at him, concerned. "Is this about my sister and her husband? Don't you think I'm upset enough?"
"Actually, this is about you and two masked gunmen. And you really haven't been that helpful for someone who's so upset about the death of her sister and brother in-law."
Ms. Tingle went inside with the officers and sat down on the chair. "Are saying I had something to do with it? That's absurd, she's my sister!"
Brian replied, "No, I'm telling you that you had something to do with it. But I'm going to give you one chance to tell me the truth: What EXACTLY were you doing talking to two masked men?"
She replied "They said they were part of the act. I wanted to know if they knew my sister. It was before the show and I was bored so I --"
Brian cut her off. "Ok, ok, enough. You blew your chance. Ms. Tingle, you're under arrest for suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Officers, if you'll please, I'd like to meet her again in a more... concrete environment." With that, the officers cuffed her, frisked her, put her in a car, and drove off towards the station. Brian grinned. He'd need a search warrant to do any heavy searching, but because it was legal to do a search incident to arrest, he could at least look at everything that wasn't locked or closed in the house.
And that's when he came across her checkbook, lying on a counter. Apparently, she withdrew $25,000 two days ago. Very suspicious. Had she hired hitmen? Brian concentrated on paperwork. He saw that beside her desk, there was a wastebin full of strips of paper.
He called Sam right away. "Sam? You any good at piecing together shredded documents? I believe we have a paper trail...."
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Post by scorpii on Mar 10, 2007 10:50:50 GMT 1
Sam picked up her phone. "Hey Brian! Oh yes, I love puzzles and paper tends to be my area of work... bring it on!" she smiled. "Oh, and Brian? I have a still of the video. I'll send it to your cell right away"
After this, Sam called Rhia. "Rhia? I know I'm probably interrupting you on something now, but I need you to know the results of the impressions from the circus plus the video. I think the killers may be new to crime and someone in that circus wore Prada. And by the way, I sent the hairs to DNA, who'll have sent them to Trace now, I guess"
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Post by mystic on Mar 10, 2007 14:28:57 GMT 1
Rhia's phone went off again. "Hi Sam...", she said and listened to everything she had to say. "Wow, great work!", she lauded her. "I'm on my way to the caravans, to where the two men have disappeared. I think Brian's a Ms. Tingle's... anyway, gotta go! I'll call you later, bye...", Rhia put her phone back into her pocket and rushed out of the office. Her car stood on the nearest parking lot of the building - one of the advantages at being supervisor, she thought grinning and got in.
At the circus she met with an officer, who had agreed to accompany her through the fields of caravans. Rhia started at the manege, and followed some footprints to the curtain which, once pulled apart, gave sight onto a large field full of caravans. She let out a sigh, but then she noticed some footprints, wide apart and blurred at the edges - as if someone had been running. She took some photos and made a plaster impression of it. The track was leading her through the earthy ground to the end of the field, where a fence marked its end. Afterwards a meadow followed where she couldn't find any footprints. She turned to follow the track back again, when she noticed at one place that one footimpression was strangely turned, as if...
"...he had thrown something away...", Rhia exclaimed and looked into the direction. There was a field of barley nearby. She placed Billy, the officer, next to the footprint looking into the right direction. Carefully she made her way into it, always keeping an eye on Billy. About five metres away she finally found a weapon. Quickly she put on another pair of gloves and dropped it into a bag.
On her way to the lab, she kept thinking why she had only found one weapon, but couldn't find an answer. She put on her hand-free kit and called Brian. "Looks like I've found the murder weapon in a field, but only one. Are you sure both of them had functional weapons and that both of them were firing?"
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 10, 2007 16:35:20 GMT 1
Brian had the phone cradled between his shoulder and his ear as he confiscated the wastebin and the shredder to bring back to Sam. "Uh, actually, no, I'm not sure. What weapon did you find? We were looking for AK-47's. They are assault rifles, with wooden stocks, handles, and heatshields. The magazine would be long and curved like a banana. Is that what you found?"
Brian's phone beeped as he received the picture message from Sam. He'd look at back in his office. He wouldn't be long now.
On his way out of the house, he grabbed a large family photo... it looked like your classic picnic reunion. He recognized the two clowns, Ms. Tingle, Milly, a bunch of other people and... two young men at the table. They seemed bored, and couldn't have been more than 20. Brian wondered if he was already looking at killers.
When he got back to the lab, he dropped off the wastebin and shredder at Sam's desk, put the family photo in the lab for facial comparison to the men in the video. For a second, he worried that the masks would make the comparison impossible, and then he realized something interesting. The men had masks on before the killing, but right before, they removed the masks. They wanted their victims to know who they were...
"...so this was personal..." Brian muttered, as he went back and hooked his phone up to his laptop and uploaded the image Sam sent him.
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