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Zane frowned He had no proble the overworked team a day or two off, but hoere they supposed to do any of the things Burns ordered if none of the team was around to observe? "We should have access to all the subsidiary caseopenly "I’d like to spend some time with the photos"
"I’ll have the he’d insulted the two older agents and hoping to make up for it
"Are any of the crime scenes still intact?" Ty asked
"Uh … I believe the most recent one is," Morrison answered uncertainly "May I ask why?"
"I’d like to visit it," Ty answered
"Me, too," Zane added He wondered if Serena Scott wouldthe site in person He’d have to ask her--unless Ty got it into his head to go right this ht made him realize that he really had no idea what Ty was trained to do or hoould behave on an actual case The other h that certainly didn’t expose his training Some research to learn a little ht not be a bad idea It was obvious from the fact that he had been stationed in the Gulf that he had been military of some sort, and when Zane pondered that it didn’t really co to request a file on Grady
"When would you like to go?" Morrison asked
"As soon as we’re done down here," Ty answered with a nod to the lab doors as they approached
"That may be a bit of a probleer slid his key card through the security slot
"Then fix the problened to the case haven’t returned our calls for two days They don’t know you’re here," Morrison told hi at the security desk
"Technically it’s still a joint case The site was left in NYPD
custody," Morrison answered with a grateful look at Zane as Ty sighed in exasperation "We’ll have to notify theet on it," Ty interrupted before stalking through the security door Henninger held open for him
"Go on," Zane said quietly "Let us knohen it’s set up"
Morrison fled, followed by his quieter partner, and Zane turned and followed Ty, wondering if this would be the pattern for the job: Hurricane Grady sweeps in, tosses everything askew, and sweeps right back out, leaving Zane to clean up the mess
He hadn’t worked his ass off the past two years to be a godda the lab, Ty sat amid a flurry of papers and untidy stacks of reports He leaned his elbows on the table, scowling heavily and staring at the shiny stainless-steel top
On the other side of the table, Zane was busily working on his charts
He just happened to glance up, the look on Ty’s face giving hi?"
Ty didn’t look up His eyes were slightly glazed and his brow furrowed "There’s no pattern," hethese cases are the little tokens the dude leaves with the bodies and the fact they all end up dead Other than that, there’s no common victim type, there’s no coes thelared at the files accusingly as if it was their fault
"Victim Number One; Kyle Walters," he recited suddenly "Wealthy Wall Street type, found in his bedroo froht, sound, s a coherent word Cause of death is ruled a uy was a victi the token froet their kicks fro their victims die or from the power to kill Why would he leave hiet their kicks just as ested quietly, not looking up fro notes fro pattern is the fact that the victi specifically based on so A majority of serial killers fixate on a particular style of victiay men, for instance"
"Yes, dear, I’m aware of that That’s my point We have a thirty-seven-year-old male stockbroker; overdosed with shitty-quality meth," Ty said as he closed his eyes and rested his head back against his chair He shook his head, reciting everything fro hooker found in nothing but a six hundred-count white sheet in the one and no apparent cause of death Then a doublewomen: Allison McFadden and Theresa Escobar Roommates, both suffocated, positioned in their beds as if they were sleeping The only notable thing about them is that their hair had been dyed postot the Bureau involved, Ryan and Russell Stevens Killed at the Tri-Statestates, shot dead Late fifties, an apparent double-suicide, if not for the token left by the killer"
He rolled his neck and shook his head, trying to uy was a brunet, the hooker was a bottle blonde but a natural brunette, the second and third were blonde and black-haired, then dyed the opposite, and the tere both redheads Both sexes, no coreen eyes, blue eyes … hell, he doesn’t even leave the same tokens! Fuck it!" he spat "All serials have patterns It’s got to be there,"
hea pattern can be a pattern" The patient distraction was clear in Zane’s voice