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"The guards said he didn’t have one," Savich said "Said he pulled out a sheaf of papers along with other stuff to go through security He didn’t have to do this, naturally, but it was one of his habits So he’s sitting here reading, relaxed, and then he hears so, and it pulls hi He looks up, maybe he calls out, then ets out of the chair to use the wall phone"

Savich picked it up "Since there was no warning, no fight, it was probably at that arrote around his neck"

Sherlock said, "And it was a otten the leverage to do the job Reet the shirt collar out of the way, and he had to be strong"

Savich said, "There were two cuts on the Justice’s neck, which ht but Califano’s shirt was in the way And so he loosened it, gave the Justice a chance to slip his fingers underneath it, and then he finished it off"

Sherlock said, "The pressure was so great, the wire so sharp, that it cut right through the bones of his fingers The killer leefully brutal"

Ben said, "Why do you say that?"

Sherlock shook her head "I don’t know, really, it just feels that way to me"

Ben said, "I wonder if Justice Califano kneho theto him before he choked him to death, or did he come up behind him and do the job without a word"

Sherlock said, her head cocked to one side, "I think this guy talked to Justice Califano, taunted him after he had that wire around his neck, after he was sure he had control We’ve got a good-sized ego here This is a guy who’s full of hiood-sized, fitout that guard, couard’s clothes, assu Since it was late at night, there was a good chance he could slip up to the third-floor library unnoticed, unless one of the other guards spoke directly to hiuys? There were far easier ways to do this if all he wanted was to kill Justice Califano Why would he choose to kill hi, ostensibly terrorist-proof, heavily guarded? Was hea point? Is he just crazy? Sherlock said the uy sounds like a professional, but he didn’t behave like one"

"If he is a professional," Sherlock said, "there e paycheck at the end of it"

Savich said quietly "And if he is a professional, he enjoys his work Could be the et back to Ben’s point Why take all those unnecessary risks to ot him," Savich said

Ben looked fro on Savich’s face "Maybe it was soe"

"Maybe," Savich said "But it could also have been souts to such an extent that he wanted not only to hurt him badly before he killed him, he also wanted to humiliate him, and maybe the Supreme Court itself, and that’s why he chose to do it here"

Sherlock lightly touched her fingers to the glossy library table, the rich wood glowing in the diht "I think the killer had to be a professional Otherwise, if it was someone who knew him, someone who hated hiotten him someplace private and killed him with as little risk as possible"

"So this was for enjoyets his jollies," Ben said "For Feds," he continued after aback and forth between the soardless of the risks he took?"

Sherlock nodded "We’ll check on the whereabouts of all the professional assassins with anything like this MO--using a garrote, liking big risks Think that ht track?"

"Yeah, I do," said Ben "No terrorists at all in this scenario then"