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Chapter 34When Mac and Stella entered the lab, the boss of the New Yorker dayshift had already calmed down a bit again. He knew that his temper sometimes was playing tricks on him, but this would not be the right time and the right place to judge over one of his team-members.
But Danny was able to read the anger on Mac’s forehead as if it was printed in neon-letters on it. So he tried to calm down his boss as soon as he entered the room.
“Mac, we’ve worked out a possibility to contact the
Jarheads without making too much noise.”
Mac had to force himself not to show his anger too directly.
“I guess you’re not the only one who has to explain something.” But before Danny was able to say anything further, Mac turned around and went to Calleigh.
The young blonde seemed to deal with some kind of jet-lag, because her face seemed to have lost a lot of its usual color since he had met her down in Miami for the last time.
“Hello Calleigh! Nice to meet you again.”
Calleigh smiled her 1,000-Watt-smile she was known for and some color reappeared on her cheeks.
“Hey Mac. It would be even nicer without such a serious background like this.”
“I simply needed somebody whom I could offer this very special trace,” Mac answered politely.
Still smiling, Calleigh arranged the binoculars for Mac and at the same time she explained the bullet-traces to the others by showing them the details on the screen.
“Those traces are quite typical for so-called take-down rifles. And the caliber is quite usual, too, besides that it’s also quite expensive, because of its special shape. The fragment you’ve found yesterday matches to the traces we’ve found in Miami.”
“That explains why it was easy for him to travel from Miami to New York without sticking out: he didn’t declare the take-down rifle, but put it into a solid suitcase,” Danny said.
“Calleigh, the reason, why I wanted you to come to New York is because of an old and cold case in our archive where we also have a take-down involved. We’ve got the fragments of a bullet, but not the rifle itself.” Mac realized how the smile vanished and the pale color dominated Calleigh’s face again.
“Sure. Just give me some time and the bino. I guess in the evening the results are all yours.” Calleigh said with a serious expression on her face.
Mac nodded to Lindsay to fetch the box out of the archive. Then he turned around to Horatio. If it was ever possible there was not much color left in the face of the lieutenant, too.
‘I always thought Horatio and Calleigh belong together. But now they both look like having had an exhausting discussion during the whole last night.’ But Mac kept his observations to himself.
Mac wanted to know more about the idea of visiting the
Jarheads.
“You should know better, that it’s not very useful to pay such a gang respectively a gang-member any kind of ‘
visit’.”
Horatio did not manage to look straight into Mac’s face and spoke more to the glass-wall at his right hand.
“I’ve got some info from a colleague down in Miami. He told me that one of our suspects in one of the first sniper-cases has left the city with the direction New York City only one day before.”
Mac straightened his back and forced himself to listen carefully. He said nothing.
So Horatio continued: “He’d also found out, that this man, Stewart O’Neill, will meet with some of his old gang-members. He is what you would call here a ‘
chief’.”
Mac thought this information over for a while, but was not very pleased with the answer. “Horatio… don’t get me wrong, but until now I’m still searching for this d**n missing-link between a sniper, three attacks in Miami and New York… and you.”
At once it got silent in lab, because Calleigh, Danny and Stella had realized the change in Mac’s voice. Danny and Stella were keen on knowing what would come next and Calleigh was afraid about the way of the talk between both men.
TBCWell, let's sum it up a bit...
#1 The sniper seems to have connections to a) Horatio, b) Miami, c) New York.
#2 The sniper seemed to be directly or indirectly involved in the murder of the
Jarhead's sub-chief while Horatio still was working in New York. That's what Mac wants Calleigh to prove by comparing the bullets from all those cases, including a cold case in NY.
#3 And then somebody phoned Horatio that a suspect from Miami traveled to New York. Remember, Stewart O'Neill was member of the gang and is brother of the first victim in Miami...
But before you go on with guessing, just one hint: don't let you get distracted by a name... It might help later on... ;D
Sorry for the little cliffhanger, but I'm sure it will be worth the wait... ;D