EPISODE IX:
ONLY MISS THE SUN WHEN IT STARTS TO SNOW
Mac was
standing in front of Angela struggling to identify fingerprints on documents
Stella
"How
is Adam?" Mac asked her
"He
asked about Stella and you all the time!" Angela replied bending over the computer
keyboard "Fortunately, the charred body was not Stella!" she took the
scarlet pimpernel next to the documents of Stella "Have you watched
carefully this pimpernel Mac?”
"I was
hoping you'd tell me something!" he replied noting Angela look carefully
at the flower
"This
primrose is made of cloth!" she told him handing it to him "We have
not even talked about the case to the press and we already have an
emulator!"
Mac watched
the primrose "I think here we have someone who wants to give us some clues!
Shall we start from the corpse!" he turned to the photos and examined all
the details "If we can get the identity of this person, we will have
information about Stella”
Adam sat in
his hospital bed looking out the window.
Mac walked
into the room and watched him sigh with an expression worried and anxious
"Hello Adam!"
"Mac!"
he exclaimed turning "Tell me you've got some good news!"
"No,
Adam! I have not managed to find Stella!" he said sitting beside him on a
chair
"What
happened to me?" Adam said with tears in his eyes "I remember that I
was in the room and then I woke up two blocks from the department!"
"Calm
down!" Mac smiled at him "We'll find out who made you shoved in a
freezer to attract Stella in a trap!"
Adam
scowled "I was the bait?!" he clenched his fists "I want him
dead! Find him before they will resign me from the hospital, Mac, or I could
not answer for my actions!"
"Adam,
I talked to the doctors. You will be resigned tomorrow!" Mac said to him "You
can lend us a hand with the case!" he said to him looking into his eyes "But
you must promise me that you will do exactly what I tell you to do, when I will
order it to you! Stella would not want you to do impulsive gestures!"
Adam nodded
"Okay, okay!" he sighed looking Mac "I have feelings of guilt! I
have brought her to risk her life!"
"Stella
is still alive, Adam. Whoever next will be taken, however, he will not be so
lucky!"
"The
next he takes, he dies?!" Adam shuddered "When he's going to kill
Stella?"
"From
what I know, when Horatio and I are gonna be both dead!" Mac said frowning
"It's a revenge that provides a sneaky role-playing and for the moment
we're still playing by the rules of the Pimpernel!"
Adam had an
idea "We will play with the -rules of Adam- as soon as I get out of here!”
Mac peered at him "Let's have a meeting as soon as I get out of here!"
Adam went on with a cynical smile "The Pimpernel will have big surprises
from us!”
In the
laboratory, Jo continued to receive suspicious emails who required to correct
promptly.
Hawkes came
in with the picture of the murder weapon "Here is our knife of ice!" he
looked at the screen and was dumbfounded by what he saw "I thought that
only computers in the lab and of the autopsy room were out to lunch!"
"What
the hell is going on?" Jo asked looking at the computer to not respond to
her commands.
Angela
entered worried “Someone clever has slipped in the network and I cannot block
him!" she snorted "You may know then, who watches over the boss's
wife?"
Jo stood up
and ran in the office of Mac "Oh no!" she exclaimed finding the
office desert "Do not use the internal lines and do not touch the
computer!"
Horatio
appeared with Christine from the stairs
"What's
wrong?" he asked in alarm
"Horatio!
Christine!" Jo called them reassuring herself a bit "I was beginning
to fear the worst!" she said hugging the wife of Mac "A hacker is
shorting out the entire computer and telephone network of the building!"
"Jo!
Come and see!" Sheldon yelled from down the hallway.
On each
monitor was appearing the same message written in white on a red background
scarlet:
-If you want any information about The Scarlet
Pimpernel or Stella Bonasera, bring me 1.000.000 $ in a bag where you found the
first dead! You’ve got two hours!-
"I'll
call Mac, he must know it!" Jo said taking the mobile phone
"What
I must know?" he said appearing behind them and seeing the monitor
"Our tipster is not a good Samaritan!" he mused staring at that –You’ve got two hours!- "How long does it take to put together that amount?"
Danny
rolled his eyes "Do you want to give in to blackmail?"
"He
has locked the entire system to us, I want to take him and to do that I want to
use this opportunity!" Mac exclaimed pointing at the screen "I will wring
out him with more confidence if he is here in the department!" he turned
to Jo "The meeting is postponed until tomorrow! Adam will give us a hand
with the case and I want him to be properly informed!" he took by the way
Jo and whispered her "I'm going effort to secure Christine!"
"How
long will it take you?" she asked
"No
more than two hours..." he said "Put the amount together, I warn
Flack because he and his men to be ready! I want the informant alive!"
Christine
and Mac got off the train that had brought them to Staten Island, she did not
speak and remained to observe the suspicious look of Mac on anyone who would
lay for too long time.
They walked
for a few blocks, until reaching the colonial house that they had purchased
"Soon
will come an escort too!" Mac said looking at the eyes of Christine a bit worried
"Mac!"
Christine whispered pointing to a letter hanging with a red velvet rope to the
handle of the door, he took it after he slipped latex gloves and began to read
by sharing information with his wife
-Welcome
home!
I
know everything about you! You can’t run away!
No
place will be safe! I will find you wherever you go!
The
Scarlet Pimpernel-
Mac
shivered "He is anticipating us!"
"What
do we do now?" Christine asked "Are we the next in his plan?"
There was a
gunshot. Mac protected Christine by forcing her with a maneuver in to crouch on
the ground.
Not hearing
other shots, Mac stood up and, while remaining in front of Christine, observed
the hole left by the bullet in the wall of the house. He looked around, but
everything was quiet. He took the pliers and pulled out the bullet from the
wall, it was of large caliber. He realized that could be opened and pulled out
a metal capsule inside which contained a message written on a slip of paper: "You'll find it out soon."
Mac became
pale and looked around for the exact point from which the Pimpernel was
watching them "Christine, stay close to me!" he said taking her hand
"Stay behind me and call Jo!" he said passing the phone.
After a
couple of rings she began to speak "Jo, we've just been shot!" she
whispered on the phone
"What!
How is Mac? Is he hurt? "Jo screamed terrified
"We're
fine! The problem is that the Pimpernel is here and is watching us!" she
said by noting Mac scrutinize every single colonial house within fifty yards
and the few skyscrapers "Surely others have heard the shot, but they are
all locked in the house!" Christine continued
"Flack
is already moving! He will be with you in thirty minutes in the meantime
continues to talk to me!" Jo told her to calm her
Mac
beckoned Christine to pass him the phone "Jo, what did you find
there?" he said after he brought the phone to his ear
"Here
at the park we found a dead body signed by Pimpernel! This is our blackmailer /
informant he's been dead for four hours!" Jo said "A hacker who, the Pimpernel
called -The imposter- in his message!" she told him regretfully "I
also have news on the body found last week : it is another victim of Pimpernel
which, however, had been reported missing last month and recently the parents
are disappeared!"
"So we're
back to the starting point!" he said keeping an eye on the roofs.
Police
sirens in the distance began to feel themselves "They've been quick!"
Christine said reassuring herself
"I
know the practice when some criminal sneaks into your home or finds the
address! Will you put the home for sale?" Jo asked Mac to the phone
"I
would say that yours is a useless question because you know the answer of
it!" he said noting police cars move in front of them "I'll call you
later!"
Flack got
out and pointed the gun to the rooftops around "From where did this
bastard shot?!"
"I
swear that I'll find it out!" Mac said putting his hand to the gun too
"Get in the car Christine, I got your back!"
Subsequent
surveys in the surrounding buildings revealed the presence of gunpowder on the
terrace of one of the skyscrapers and Mac was able to identify a potential
weapon and with the handheld occurred in the database
"Someone
stole an M40 to shoot!" he said to Horatio showing the search result
"He could have killed me with one shot!"
"He
didn’t do it because he wanted to scare you and send you a message!"
Horatio replied noting the gunshot residue "Nothing cartridge case?"
Mac shook
his head "He's really good to get rid of his tracks!"
"I
wanted to tell you that I have to return in Miami for a while!" Horatio
said with a sigh "My son is back in license and I wanted to spend time
with him since my hour seems close!” Mac was shaken from it "You're not
stupid! You understood everything!" Horatio retorted "Today's event
has made it clear enough that he wants to keep for last!"
"You
never told me of having a son!" Mac said standing up and taking off the
gloves
"There
are so many things we do not know about each other!" Horatio pointed out
"When
do you leave?"
"Tonight!
I will return to New York within a few days!" Horatio smiled walking
toward the stairs
"And
Calleigh? Doesn’t she come back with you?" Mac asked stopping the
colleague of Miami
"No,
she will be need more here!”
Mac nodded
"Be careful and don’t get yourself caught!"
"I'll
do my best!" he said leaving.
Adam made
his entrance in the building of the Crime Lab and went immediately to the
office of the Mac, he found him busy watching Christine sitting on the couch in
his office.
"Boss!"
Adam greeted him entering "Now there is me too!" Mac nodded and
Christine smiled to see Adam healed.
"I
would have sent someone to pick you up if you had communicated to me the time
of your resignation!" Mac said to him
"Yesterday
in the late Danny has passed, he told me that his shift began at 10:30 am and
so he passed and got me!" he became serious "How can I help you to
take that asshole?"
"Start
by finding the IP addresses of the of hacker yesterday! Angela will give you
all the instructions!" he said pointing to the colleague who fiddle around
the PC in the office contiguous.
"No
news about Stella?" he asked him in the doorway
Mac shook
his head sighing "What worries me now is Horatio!"
"Danny
told me that he returned to Miami! It's not safe for him! If the Pimpernel were
to take him..."
"If
the Pimpernel were to take him, he'll be the first to die!" Mac offered
him the scheme of Maxwell's "Little anticipation before the meeting at
15.00!"
Adam looked
at the pattern "If I think that I would have died if Stella not ... if she
didn’t..." he gritted his teeth in the throes of anger.
"You
can do something now Adam!" Mac said approaching him "You can go
there on that computer and obtain information!” Adam frowned and Mac continued
"Stella is waiting for us! She knows that we will come!"
Isabella
sighed closing the last cold storage with the last dead body "Sheldon!"
she called then with a folder in her hand "I know that you and Angela have
passed the exam to become Detective second level, congratulations!"
Sheldon
smiled "Thank you! I see here that you are trying to find out about our
hacker! By the way, have you heard about the toxicological?"
"No,
unfortunately! That madman makes first to strike again!" Isabella sighed
leaning against the wall "You and Jo? Up as you go? With all that is going
on you have little time for you!"
"I'm
making friends with Ellie! You seem to appreciate me!" Sheldon smiled "But
you? There is nobody?"
"At
the moment ... no!" she admitted sheepishly "Or career or private
life! I've already made my choice!"
Lindsay was
examining the clothes the hacker "This guy was in a cooler!" she
concluded watching Danny trying news on relatives of the boy charred "Did
you hear me?" she asked him
"Yes,
honey! Do you know where you should be now rather than to consider evidence?"
"Where
would I be?" she asked putting her hands on her hips
"At
home to rest!" he said to her protective
"My
father didn’t care about me and you do it?" Lindsay laughed
Danny
looked up from the file he was reading "He doesn’t care because he is not here, but in Montana and he doesn’t know what you're doing!"
Lindsay was
about to reply when she saw Reed walking strode from the office of the Mac to
the elevators "But what ...?"
Mac
appeared behind him and at that point Danny also began to pay attention to the
scene
"Reed!
Wait! Let me explain!" Mac cried
"You
lied to me! What else should I know? The truth is written in black and white on
that file that your dangerous serial killer gave me!" the young man
retorted loudly "My father is alive and is in jail because you put him
there!"
"I
know your father very well! Reynolds is a thief, a drug dealer and a criminal!”
Mac explain to him
"But
you didn’t tell me that! You could tell me that you found out he was my father!"
"I
thought it was the right thing to do!" Mac retorted
Reed bit
his lip and before he turned he said "You know what, Mac? Screw you!"
Lindsay
still did not believe what she had seen and heard.
As soon as Reed
went, Mac punched the wall leaving the sign and a trickle of blood came out of
the knuckles of his right hand.
"Damn!
Mac is really angry!" Lindsay commented
"I did
not know that he had kept his mouth shut with Reed on that story!" Danny said.
Jo had seen
the scene and went to Mac in the hallway "I understand your position Mac,
but don’t tell him nothing was stupid! Now the Pimpernel will use your reaction
as a weapon!"
Mac sighed
"Forgive my behavior, it is as if the whole world was falling apart on
me!"
Jo hugged
him "We're all here to help you and then you have Christine and your
son!"
Mac hugged
her "I don’t want to lose Reed!"
"I
understand! You'll see that he will switch it! He just needs to metabolize what
happened!" Jo smiled
"I
really hope you're right!" he commented and walked to the lab where Danny
and Lindsay were watching the scene.
Mac came in
taking off his jacket and put on his white lab coat "Any news?" he
asked as if nothing had happened dabbing the hand with a paper towel
"On
the charred victim's relatives, no!" Danny said showing him the files of
two very normal American citizens with a complete clean criminal record
"The
hackers, however, was in the same place of Adam! I found the same chemical
components on the clothes except the DNA of the victim! For what little remains
of the clothes..." Lindsay concluded showing him the remains of a red
jersey.
Mac sighed,
"Get ready to talk to the rest of the team and then go home and
rest!"
"Are
you starting too??" The woman snorted sarcastically "I'm taken with
the kids! I'm not suffering from a mysterious virus!"
Mac
half-smiled and shook his head.
Flack and
Jaime were out together that afternoon and they met Angela sat at the bar
sipping a cup of coffee impatiently
"Hey!
Should not you be in front of a computer in the lab?" Jaime asked
approaching with the companion
"Adam
replaces me with dignity! He has already found an IP address to communicate to
Mac!" she replied pushing away the empty cup
"Anyway,
what are you doing here?" Flack said sitting down at the table
"I
have a date!" she admitted "At this point, however, I believe that he
won’t come!"
"Who won’t
come?" Jaime asked sitting down on the other free chair
"Promise
me you'll keep this secret from Mac especially," she said, lowering his
voice
"Do
not tell me that you go out with Reed!" Flack mischievous smile, the girl
bit her lip
"No!
With the stepson of the Big Boss!" Jaime laughed
"Nice
friends! Thank you for giving joke! "Angela huffed crossing her arms and
turning her gaze to the road
"Come
on! Maybe he will come!" Flack said looking at the road "There he is!
Look at that!" he observed him cross the street "He doesn’t seem
quiet!" he concluded.
Angela
stood up and ran to him "Can you tell me where were you?!"
In response
he put his hand in a folder "That's where I was! To fight with Mac on the
fact that he had lied to me about my father!"
Angela flipped through the folder as she
headed for the table in the bar with Reed "That would be your
father?" she said pointing to the picture "Flack, you know nothing
about Reed's father?"
"We
put him in jail in March, Mac and I, because he shot a cop!" he said to
Angela "By mutual agreement we decided not to say anything to Reed!"
"Well,
I want to know him! Take me to him!"
Mac
listened patiently to Adam the meeting "I cannot do anything else and I'm
so sorry! Besides the IP address, which led to a dead end, there is no other!"
Isabella
stood up "Our hacker haven’t said
much about the identity of Pimpernel and I don’t even know exactly if he died
for bled or for hypothermia!" she looked at Mac with a sad face "I cannot
actually do more!”
"All
right, all right!" Mac sighed leaning on the chair "He will reappear,
we just have to wait for his move!"
"I
will warn Horatio of the fact that we haven’t discovered anything!"
Calleigh commented getting up
"I
think that both, you and Christine, require a rest!" Lindsay stepped in
while everybody was getting ready to go out "Do you come to us for a few
days?"
"We
will not be a trouble?"
"Mac!
These are not things to say!" Danny retorted offended
"All
right then! We will spend the night with you!" Mac said looking at the
phone “Horatio returns to New York tomorrow, there will be Eric Delko with him
to replace Calleigh!"
"Apart
from their trade on the job, they have nothing else to communicate inherent to
the case?" Jo asked thoughtfully
"Only
this!" Mac ruled placing the phone in the jacket
"I
will go to Angela to learn of the powerful virus that has infected the computer
thanks to the hacker dead!" Jo said going out for a secondary door
"We
are all under pressure! The Pimpernel is reappeared again?" Mac asked in
general
"No,
we are waiting for a message from him!" Danny said "With Horatio in
Miami I am more and more convinced that the next on the list is you!"
A bellman
knocked on the glass door carrying a long rectangular package and entered the
room "I have a delivery for Detective Mac Taylor!"
Mac was
impressed "It's me! Who is the sender?" he said noting that there was
no name on the card
"Detective,
I just do deliveries! I don’t know truly what to say!" the boy said sadly.
Mac stared
at the package on the table for a few seconds until he decided to open it,
discarding the paper and then opening the cardboard box "Oh my God!"
he said trembling "He also got Horatio!"
"What?"
Danny asked in surprise "What's in that package?" Mac handed the pack
to Danny and went out into the corridor.
Danny and
Lindsay pulled away the tissue paper that covered a plastic bag "Oh shit!"
Danny exclaimed
"Is
that really an arm?" Lindsay asked shivering.
Mac and
Christine stared at the empty office sat on the couch
"What
will happen now?"
"I do
not know Christine! Really! More I try to catch the Pimpernel and the more he
escapes me!" Mac said in a sad tone "I lost a colleague and friend
who could help me, and what is worse is that I have to tell it to Calleigh!"
Jo entered
without knocking "The arm doesn’t belong to Horatio, but the clock yes and
probably the messages that you have recived, they have not been shipped from
Horatio!"
Christine
shook "You mean he's still alive?"
"This
is not known" Jo explained "Look what there was under the plastic
wrap, Mac!"
"A scarlet
pimpernel!" Mac ascertained, he looked into the eyes of Christine and he
said turning "Jo, I need you to do me a favor with the FBI”
"What
shall I do?" she asked
"You
have to admit Christine in the witness protection program" he said
lowering his eyes "I don’t care how you do it, just do it! Before
tomorrow!"
"I
will!" she said going away
Mac looked
at Christine and saw her shudder and begin to cry "I want to stay with
you! Do not send me away!"
"Do
not cry! I want to protect you! You'll be fine with the baby! You will make it
even without me!"
"But
it's also your son! I do not want you ... we ... "she sobbed loudly and
Mac took her in his arms "Don’t leave me Mac! I don’t want it!"
"I
love you Christine!" Mac cried holding her "I wouldn’t it to end like
this! There is no other solution! I want your own good!"
Jo was
returning to the office with Hawkes and seeing the scene shook the hand of the Detective
at her side "He is saying goodbye to her! I still cannot believe that he
has made this decision!"
"He is
saying goodbye to his son too!" Sheldon reminded her "Some time ago,
he told me that he wished he could become a father! When he confessed to me and
Flack that he had feelings for Christine, I thought he would finally be happy
too!"
Jo watched
the Mac’s tears fall unrelenting and his inability to break away from Christine
and she said "We will pretend her death in a car accident tonight! I spoke
with the FBI and I have to say it to Mac!"
"Don’t
do it now! they are their last hours together! " Sheldon said looking at
Mac who was crying
"What's
going on here?" Calleigh asked, approaching "Why the newlyweds are in
crisis?"
"Why
Horatio was taken from primrose and because Mac has decided to protect his wife
taking her away from him, she will start again to live far from here!"
Calleigh
was surprised and shocked "How would be that Horatio was taken? He was in
Miami with the rest of the team and his son! "
"Mac
has received an arm with the watch Miami of Horatio and he is not found anywhere
since this morning and not even throughout Florida," explained Jo
"I'll
call Miami, to get more news," Calleigh said, heading for the stairs
running.
Jo came in
with Sheldon and Mac looked at her waiting for an explanation "Christine
will be brought to New Jersey and will assume another identity! They planned
everything and we will act tonight!" she turned to Christine "Your
parents won’t ask questions!" she looked both "This means that you
two won’t see you ever again! Mac Are you sure about what you do?"
"Yes,
I'm sure!" he said looking Christine
"I'm
not sure!" Christine objected "You cannot ask me to live with our son
away from you knowing you in danger!"
"I do
not want you to be in danger too, my love!" Mac explained "I'll
protect you at any cost!"
"We
are going to be at stake both, Mac!" Christine said sobbing "I want
to share every day of my life with you!"
"Even
I would do it!" Mac sighed
"Christine"
Jo interjected "It's the only way that you have as Mac to be sure that you
and your child are safe! When the Pimpernel will be brought to justice, perhaps,
you will come back together!"
Sheldon
walked over to Christine "All will be well! Mac will be fine and you too!"
"They
will pass below the entrance at eleven p.m. This midnight you'll be on a plane
to your new life!" Jo said.
Christine
sighed and nodded sadly, Mac took her hand "We will spend the time we have
left together!"
"We'll
leave you alone!" Sheldon smiled melancholy coming out with Jo.
Reed was
sitting with Angela on a bench in the park "I'm sorry for assaulting Mac!
Now I have to apologize to him too!"
"You
took time to understand that the Pimpernel wants to make him an easy prey!"
she objected "Not only you'll have to apologize with him, you’ll tell him that
you talked to your biological father and you will tell him the whole
story!"
"Right!
I am ready to assume the task of support him in this difficult time!" he
smiled looking at the skyscrapers" The sun is sinking! Have you seen which
wonderful show? Don’t you find it amazing!"
Angela
smiled "For once we agree!" she tapped the index on his shoulder
"Let's have dinner together?"
"Yes,
if you tell me if the Detectives Flack and Lovato know something about
us!"
"They
know! They promised to held the secret!"
"I
hope so! Mac has already sensed something but I won’t tell him the truth!"
Reed said standing up "I'm embarrassed!"
Angela
laughed and took his hand.
Mac looked
at the darkness peep from the windows of his office, clutching Christine and
looking into her eyes "Time to go!"
"Then
you should loosen the embrace!" she said caressing his shoulder
"I do
not want to! I know it was mine idea, but now..." he said holding her
doubly "I don’t want you to leave!"
"You're
a little inconsistent Mac!" she pointed out "Before you were so sure
of your plan!"
"I
know and you were the one who didn’t want to leave!"
"Mac!"
Lindsay said knocking on the door "Can I come in?"
"Come
in!" he said deep in thought "A pile of doubts are coming to me!"
"You
did the right thing!" Lindsay said "You cannot take the Pimpernel and
at the same time protect her and your son!"
Danny came
on the door "Mac, Flack called! There is a message of Pimpernel for you in
audio format, he has already examined it and it seems that Stella and Horatio
are both alive!" then he turned Christine "I have orders to take you
down when you're ready!"
"Soon
I’ll come!" Christine said running a hand through her hair and seeing
Danny leave. She turned to the Mac who looked at her "We have to say
goodbye!"
"I'm
not good at these things!" he took her hand and hugged her "This is
not a goodbye!"
"No!
It's a see you soon!" Christine smiled with tears in his eyes "I'm
ready!" she said turning to Lindsay
"Well!
I’ll accompany you to Danny!" she said going out followed by Christine
"Wait!"
Mac said taking her hand "When he is born, promise me that somehow you'll
do it know to me!"
"And
you have to take care of my parents and tell them that I love them!"
"Discover
you dead in a car crash will be a shock to them!" Mac told her "I'll
be close to your parents! I promise you that!" and he kissed her gently on
the lips "Now go!"
Christine
turned one last time just past the door, looking at her husband smiling at her.
Christine
was with Lindsay on the stairs
"Promise
me that you care Mac!" Christine said glimpsing the output of the palace
"I'll reappear only when the baby will be born! Mac made me promise
that!"
Lindsay
nodded "You'll use the famous code that he already uses with Reed I guess!"
"The
little that I have learned I hope will be enough for me!" she smiled.
Jo was
waiting next to the car, a black Volvo V40, alongside Danny "Are you
ready?"
"Yes!"
Danny
opened the door "Have a nice trip!"
"Come
on! Get on!" Jo invited her "We don’t have much time!"
Christine
turned toward the windows where Mac had the office, he was looking out at her
even though she could not see him. Christine sighed and got into the car.
Jo leaned
toward the window of the driver "You look like a clever agent! Try to
arrive on time at JFK! That flight was anticipated at a quarter to midnight and
won’t wait for long!"
The girl
driving nodded without saying anything and put the car in motion.
"See
you soon Christine!" Jo said to the woman sitting in the back seat
"You
and Lindsay have to take care of Mac! He will have a difficult period!"
she explained "You're a friend!" she said as the car started.
Flack and
Adam watched a video message "We have seen at least six times, Adam! What
do you hope to find? Rather, you focus on the address... what's his name?"
"IP!
I’ll find it lather!" he said stopping and rewinding the movie at the
beginning "Look at signboard at the beginning: -I wanna do bad things with
you!-" he said pausing "It's definitely the handwriting of a woman!"
"And
from what do you understand it?" Flack asked doubtfully
"It's
ornamental and tends to press on the cardboard: it means safety! She leaves no
margin to the left: she is tied to the past!" he said gesturing with his
pen in his hand "Look how the letters tend upwards, how they are angular!
It's another sign: she believes in what she does and she's selfish! It also has
a tilt reversed: it is a bad sign because it is a symptom of closing affective
and intellectual resistance against the other and the stimuli that surround her!”
"From
what little I understand, you're talking about a crazy complexed!" Flack
exclaimed "We will wait for Mac and that there of Miami! But the history
of writing you explain it by yourself!"
Adam started
again the video and stopped it on a frame when Stella was filmed as she tried
to open the chain with tears in her eyes, the image was filmed with infrared
and was poor quality, but Adam could not do without to stare at it "I'll
find you! Whatever it costs, I'll find you!"
Mac
suddenly appeared behind him "I promised you that we would find it and we
will do!" Adam gasped "Let me hear the audio recording,"
continued Mac
"Actually,
it's a video! Danny must have been confused!" Adam said "I’ll tell
you lather about the personality of our subject! We now know with certainty
that it is a woman!" he said bringing back the video to the beginning.
Mac looked
at the initial frame and then the recording of the infrared:
"Horatio?"
Mac's face
darkened and thoughtful to hear Stella's voice raspy and lower than normal
"Stella?! Thank goodness you're okay!"
Adam
gritted his teeth
"How do you feel? Are you hurt?"
Flack
stared at the screen with an angry look
"I'm fine! How long have you tied there?"
"From today! Before I was in a tight
closet! I had just to breathe the air! I cannot rid!"
"Don’t shake like that! For sure they will
find us! "
"It is best that you keep quiet about what
you have discovered Horatio!"
"He is enjoying the show!"
"How is Mac?"
Mac lifted
slightly from the chair where he was sitting
"In anxiety for his wife and on constant
alert for anything! But you do not know that Adam is working hard to look for
you!"
"Are you telling me that Adam is
alive?"
"Yes!"
The video
abruptly interrupted and Mac saw a small white writing in the background “Back
slightly backward Adam!" the writing was another message:
“Twinkle,
twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?”
Adam had a
temper tantrum "If that bitch touches her, I swear that I break her
face!"
"You
wouldn’t be able!" Flack replied laughing "She has put you in a
freezer! You forgot it?"
Adam turned
with the chair to Flack who was standing leaning against the door "What I
wouldn’t be able to do?"
"Adam,
calm down!" Mac intimated
"Asshole
Detective first grade!" he growled through clenched teeth
"What!"
Flack replied "Now I'll fix you Ross!"
Adam rushed
like a fury to upon Flack, hitting him repeatedly with kicks and punches that
were not going to sign
"Stop
it now!" Mac ordered standing up and trying to get in the way "The
first of you who throws a punch to me is off the case!"
"I
know you won’t suspends neither of us because we serve to you, who do you think
you fooling, you fool?!" Flack yelled pulling a punch that Mac dodged and
ended straight on the nose of Adam
"You made
me really pissed off Flack!" Adam said trying to get to get your hands
around the neck of the Homicide Detective without regard of Mac who lay between
them.
Hawkes,
seeing the scene from outside, broke into the office and took Adam from behind,
allowing Mac to focus on stopping Flack
"Stop
it now!" Mac ordered imperative
"He
started it!" Adam thundered
"I
teased you! You're the one who insulted me!" Flack retorted
"Does
it seems the best way to fix things in your opinion?" Hawkes asked "You
look like two kids in kindergarten!"
"Think
yourself lucky I won’t write anything about what just happened and I cannot
remove you from the case!" Mac said letting go Flack "Now let's
work!"
Flack saw
the face of Mac getting serious and ask them "Have you noticed the quote
in the video?"
"I do,
Mac!" a familiar voice behind him said "-Saw-"
Mac turned
and smiled, "Reed!"
"I
wanted to apologize for how I treated you, but believe me I was really freaked
out!" he said looking into his eyes
"No, I
should tell you everything from the beginning!" Mac was interrupted by the
phone ringing and answered with the hands-free "Detective Taylor!"
"Detective
Bowen! I have to inform you of a fact about your wife took place less than half
an hour ago!" the man on the other end of the phone answered
"I'm
listening! What is it? "Mac asked
"A bad
car accident and I should ask you to identify the body!" the man said with
a tone of embarrassment “They will take her to the morgue soon!"
"All
right! I'll be there!" Mac answered with a trembling voice
"I'm
really sorry!" the detective said closing the communication.
Reed and
everyone looked at Mac tremble and lean against the desk.
Sheldon was
peering Jo intently watching the computer on the other side of the desk in the
office of her
"Yes!"
she exulted raising a fist upward with a smile
"What
happened?" Reed asked approaching
"Where
did you appear?" Sheldon asked
"Mac
dumped me here as soon as he went down to the morgue! What's going on?"
"A new
tool for the investigation comes!" Jo said hastily
"You
will take the Pimpernel now?" he asked
"We'll
see Reed!" Sheldon said looking at the screen and recognizing the coded
message from FBI. A satisfied smile escaped him reading the whole message.
Jaime came
to the three "So?"
"The
package arrived and it was just retired!" Jo said closing the screen
"Really?
Unfortunately Mac will have to wait to hear the good news! A certain Andrew
Davis has escaped from prison and left a message in the cell!"
"It
was not enough the Pimpernel! We also wanted the return of the stalker!" Sheldon
snorted "Have you tried contacting Mac?"
Jo had a
surprised look "Who is Andrew Davis?"
"I've
already done that! He's coming here!" Jaime said in response to Sheldon
"Now I also want to know who is Andrew Davis!"
"Since
you're the only one here to learn about the history, Sheldon, why don’t you
tell us?" Reed asked.
Mac had
come out immediately after identifying the body and had arrived at the bar a
ten minutes by car from the lab. He saw a man with a beard who was staring at
him and approached him "Andy?"
"We
meet again Mac!" the man smiled "My condolences for your wife! It
must be terrible to be left alone for a second time!"
"You
should be in jail!"
"Sorry
Mac! I will not come back to it!" he smiled malicious trying to adjust his
shirt
"What
are you hiding under the shirt?"
"Take
me to the crime lab or I won’t tell you anything about the Pimpernel!" he
replied
"First
tell me what you have under there!"
"A
bomb, the timer is activated as soon the one there dumped me out of the car.
The only way I can unlock it and save my ass is going to the 5885 Broadway!"
"Come
in the car! Let's see what we are left!" Mac said.
He opened
the door of the black SUV and made up Andrew and lifted his sweater "Half
an hour! We must hurry!" and he sat to driving pressed the accelerator and
turned on the siren" You know that thing on your chest could blow up half
of the neighborhood?"
"She
told me to tell you that a certain Horatio is a dead man walking! That within a
month or so he will be definitely dead!"
Mac looked
at him with a cold stare through an intersection and nailed in front of the
palace of the Scientific and put his gun "Now the bomb is disabled, but,
if you want to be sure to survive, come down and enter inside with me! We need
to have a chat!"
Andrew
followed him inside the building "I well remember where is your office:
35th floor! Who would have thought that you would have gotten so high?"
"Stop
it!" Mac said through clenched teeth.
Flack began
to look the bomb on the chest of Andrew with interest "What are you going
to do Mac?"
"We
detect to Danny and Lindsay some fingerprint!"
"She
has used gloves! How do I have to say it?" Andrew huffed
"Dear
Andy, I'm sorry but now you have to let us do our job!" Flack smiled
"A
subtle and well-made bomb!" Mac commented
Danny
walked into the office "If I didn’t know that we are seeking a woman, I
would hypothesize it now!" he said pulling out a brush from the inside
pocket of his coat "Stand still!" he passed the brush over the entire
surface "No fingerprints and no residue!"
"What
did I tell you? Now please disarmed it at all!"
"Meanwhile,
tell us of your fantastic -farewell message- !" Flack said while Mac
approached to remove the detonator
"Read vertically!"
Andrew said looking at the face of Mac "The message is for you!"
"He
knew you'd failed!" Mac said when Flack showed him the letter on an A4
sheet as he continued to tinker with the bomb.
-See
you on the Statue of Liberty- was the message taken from the original text
-Stairs leading
to the exit? I've just used them to
leave ...
Everything I’m
telling you now, it will be used against me!
Everything I’m
doing is the result of revenge!
You know you'll
get from you, and I will conclude what I started!
Our last
meeting was before you throw me in here!
Until you're
dead I will not rest!
Our next
meeting you will die!
Now that you're
reading begins to shudder!
There was a
time in which you could save Will, but you didn’t done it!
Hey! you'd just
pull a trigger!
Even the
solitude has
abandoned you!
Time to go!
an ancient
tunnel will lead me in
town!
Use the mind,
it is not difficult!
Even though I
already know that I can complete my mission!
One thing to
remember is that: it is better I do not find you
first!
Let me tell you
goodbye!
In a city like
this, you must be on guard!
Be brave and
face me,
even we know
that you are a coward!
Remember that
night!
Tik tok! Time
up!
Youth stained
with sin adulthood still owns, Detective Mac!-
"You
really have not seen her in the face?" Mac asked
king_23 Nov 23 2013 on EFP
ReplyDeleteCiaoooo!! Another chapter really well written! Each week you can surprise me more and more! Poor Mac ... before they took him Stella, then Horatio, and now even his wife. Who knows what will go Mac and Christine, without being able to see each other! has a few chapters, I suspected that there was a certain chemistry between Angela and Reed! You managed to put me anxiety, and establish in me a lot of questions .... you are really good at it! The coded message written vertically in the letter was a great idea! But most of all I like the approach of the Pimpernel to the events and the plan that has already set up! Who knows what will happen in the next episode and if things will get bad for Mac! Waiting for the next chapter!
See you at the next time, King_23 :)
Darkyanna Nov 24 2013 on EFP
ReplyDeleteHere I am a little late to comment on this new masterpiece of suspense and pathos ... :) as always.
Unfortunately, I got lost in the estimate, my horrors, I am understanding the meaning of the crisis of the writer.
For a moment I have an idea and two lines after I no longer want to write, but just not the time for such nonsense.
Excellent work, see you at the next ... :) BYE
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Avah Oct 20 2014 on EFP
ReplyDeleteOh God, I'm still out of breath! This story gets more and more intricate and mysterious, but I like it a lot! *-*
I don't remember how many times I told you that, but I repeat it again: I love how you write. You always leave me out of breath and I don't even realize how much time passes while I'm reading by how I am enraptured by your words! You are really great! Not to mention the message with the initials that indicate the way to follow... I would not have been able to do any better (probably, I would not be able even to write a few lines that made sense). And the part where Mac receives the pack with the arm? Chilling and macabre at the right point! For a moment I seriously thought that it belonged to Horatio, but thank goodness you have disproved me immediately.
I was sad plenty for the departure of Christine, but Mac did the right thing: he cannot deal with either this crazy psychopath, either keeping his wife safe. I just hope she'll be back soon, because I am impatient to see Mac III :D