She wasn’t sure.
“Like what?”
Pulling out his wallet, Gene took a hundred-dollar bill out and placed it on the table. It was a newer one, and they all checked it out.
Nothing on it seemed to tie to this case, or to Devon Slater. Could it be one of those clues that went nowhere?
“I am stumped,” she said. “I don’t know if he’s fucking with me, or if it’s tied to this. Could it tie to the first scene and the second scene? If I skip it, and it’s important, I’m screwed.”
No one wanted to miss anything, especially when it came to a case where their lives depended on it.
When she flipped it over, Ben was staring up at them.
That’s when it hit Gene. He believed he understood what it meant, and why it was in the Bible.
“Oh, shit,” he said, looking up.
They glanced over.
“It does mean something. He’s telling us a big piece of this, expecting us to miss it. We almost did,” he said.
Oh, while he’d been a Hunter, he had been an investigator before that, running cases, and this triggered something in his head.
Callen was to the point.
“We are missing it. What?”
Gene pulled up the first crime scene, and they all stared at it. For him, it was clear they didn’t see the correlation, but he did.
“Gene, I need more,” she said. “I’m tired.”
Well, he helped her out.
“Honey, what was the ME’s name for the city?” he asked, waiting for her to put two and two together.
She thought back.
“Doctor Franklin…”
The second she said his first name, Gene knew she got it. He’d thought the same thing.
“Ben Franklin is on the bill,” she said. “He’s telling me that’s not a coincidence. It’s slight, but he’d make sure it would be a small clue because it’s important. With him, the smallest clues are the ones I’m supposed to follow.”
Now, she was curious.
Flipping through the notes, she found the exact words that she thought would break this open.
“The surgeon-like precision on the appendixes and the removal of the nun’s uterus was the other clue.”
Ethan was staring at her.
“Something came to you.”
Yeah, it did.
That little clue that Gene had figured out had just opened a big, locked door.
Behind that door was one answer she desperately needed. She wasn’t behind Devon in the chase.
