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“I’m working with Mary Lancaster on a case. Captain Miller authorized it.”
“You’re not bullshitting me again,” she said defiantly.
“Actually, it’s the truth.”
“Right. Fool me once…”
“Agent Decker, do you want these in the small conference room?”
They looked over to see a young uniformed officer wheeling a hand truck down the hall on which were stacked four large storage boxes.
“Yeah, thanks. My partner’s in there now. I’m just on a coffee run.”
Brimmer watched incredulously as the man headed down the hall to the conference room.
“So youweren’tbullshitting me. Which case?”
“Meryl Hawkins.”
“Don’t remember it.”
“Way before your time.”
“Wait a minute. Wasn’t that the guy who was just murdered?”
“Yep.”
“But that’s a current case.”
“It is. The reason he was murdered probably goes back to four homicides that took place about thirteen years ago.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because I was one who investigated it.”
“Four homicides? Who was the killer?”
“Well, that’s the question, isn’t it?”
He walked on in search of coffee and found it in the break room. Instead of vending machines, however, they had a Keurig. Times did change, and incremental progress was made. Decker prepared two coffees and was about to head back when his attention was caught by something on the TV that was bolted to the wall of the break room.
It was a local station and the weather report was just now coming on. The forecast was for late afternoon storms.
As soon as Decker heard that, something clicked in his head.
Rain.
