Yeah, definitely.
“It’s safe to say that he never used the heads of those women inCorpus Christieither. He literally had the ME bruise their throats and leave his DNA knowing I wouldn’t doubt it was him. What gave it away is the surgical precision. An ME has that precision. What he didn’t know was I’ve had recent cases like that, and it had given the killer away before. He only had access to my earlier cases, likely by his father buying them when he was alive.”
Ethan was grateful. His wife now had the advantage. He just wished she looked or sounded better. This was still weighing heavily on her, and he suspected that at some point, something had to give.
Callen shook his head.
“So, he’s been here the whole time, and he’s never left this area?” he asked.
She nodded.
“Yep. Since we began playing this game, he’s been here. That’s why we can’t track him. He’s not flying around. He’s using money instead. We assumed that since he was digging up bodies, he was going to kill for the enjoyment. The enjoyment is fucking with my head.”
Well, if that was the case, they knew what that meant, and it was terrifying.
“He’s been watching us,” Chris said. “He’s been all around us, taking it all in. He planted that information to get you shot in DC, so it would hit the news, so he would know what stage you are in the game.”
She nodded.
Definitely.
“Same with the crime scenes. The media was all over them, and that tells me they were alerted. How much do you want to bet that as the cops showed up, the media was notified? He drew the sheriff there with a note, and he knows me wellenough that I reached out to friends to help me find the church. He pointed me right at it.”
Yeah, he had.
She was curious.
“Dex, are there any phones or electronics there, or have they all been taken?”
He showed her a baggie.
“Quinn found it in the man’s coat, hanging by the door. An alarm was going off. Someone was reminding himself to take his meds.”
He wasn’t done.
“Also, in his office, there’s computer wires, but no actual computer. It’s gone.”
No.
Shock.
There.
The minister leaving his phone hidden in his pocket, and the person who killed him not having time to do a thorough search, might have just bought her a victory.
The universe seemed to be on her side with this one.
Now, she needed that phone.
“Get it to the FBI building. Get it to my team there. Johanna will know what to do because I have to hope the hacker that he’s hired to erase his trail to help him fuck with me won’t get to that phone before we do. Turn it off and transport.”
He smiled.
“My pleasure, Director.”
Elizabeth wasn’t done.
“And lock that place down. As far as he’s concerned, we don’t know about this yet. Leave it as is, and make sure it doesn’t get out. I need him to think I haven’t figured out that he’s bought help. That’s my only advantage right now.”
