Where In The World Are The Killers?

Murder by Proxy

"Adalet, what a catastrophe! With Chief Ripley dead, what will we do?!" Ingrid cries as she paces her office, "I still can't fathom who'd want to kill her. She was such a strong, intelligent woman. The best the Bureau's ever seen. We're doomed!"

"Whoa! Calm down, Ingrid! Breathe..." Jack instructed, slowly entering the office.

Ingrid blushed with embarrassment, "Archer, I didn't hear you come in! I... was just having a chat with Adalet."

"I saw that. Figured Adalet could use some backup," he winks at his partner.

"Anyway," she says, taking a seat at her desk, "now that we're in Morocco, we don't have a second to waste! We must go after Ripley's killer!"

"We know the orange dye on the dart that killed the Chief comes from a poppy flower native to Morocco, meaning the killer is here or was here recently," Adalet summarised Lars's findings, "it's not much, but it's a start!"

"The US embassy's granted assistance for the investigation. Your contact is Adam Hassan, the military attaché to the ambassador," Ingrid informed them, handing Jack a picture of Adam, "Mr. Hassan is waiting for you on the docks. Agents, I'm counting on you to bring the Chief's killer to justice!"

"We won't let you down, Ingrid!" Adalet vowed.

Adalet and Jack headed down to the plane's garage to get one of their Jeeps. They rode out of the plane and followed the GPS to the docks Adam would be waiting for them at. They parked near the edge of the docks and got out to search the empty area for their contact. Jack went right while Adalet and Hunter went left.

Adalet and Hunter approached the docks for the smaller two-person boats and saw that one of them was occupied by a dead body. Upon closer inspection, Adalet recognized him to be Adam Hassan. His body was laid out across the boat stiff as a board with an orange dart sticking out of his neck.

Adalet yelled across the docks for Jack and watched as he began running back towards her. While she waited for him she looked around the dock for any clues. She noticed a cell phone lying in a pile of fishing nets and a round, gold pendant was dangling from the bow of the boat Adam was in.

Jack slowed to a stop by the body and stated at the body, "Adalet, the man in that fishing boat looks just like our contact. Please tell me he's sleeping... or drunk."

"If I did that, I'd be lying," Adalet quipped, picking up the cell phone.

"I can't believe it! Our contact's dead! Of all the rotten luck!" he complained, raking his fingers through his hair.

"Adam has a dart in his neck that looks exactly like the one that killed Ripley!" she points out, walking over to stand by the boat.

"Not only is our contact dead, but now we've got a double homicide on our hands! The question is, who'd want them both dead?" he wondered, "his cell phone you found is a good place to start. Can you unlock it, Adalet?"

"Shouldn't be too hard," she replies, bending down to grab the charm off the boat, "this charm has a message on it. I'll grab my dusting kit to take a closer look."

"Alright, Adalet, we've got TWO murders to solve! Let's do this for Ripley!"

Jack called Angela to come to collect the body while Adalet dusted the amulet. She brushed the bottom curve of the amulet and watched it cling to some engravings in the gold.

"Great work on that charm you found at the docks, Adalet!" Jack beamed as he hung up the phone, "now, if we could figure out what those symbols on the bottom mean..."

"Strange eyeball charms and bizarre writing are Dupont's specialties," Adalet says, dropping the pendant into her case, "let's get this to him!"

Adalet grabbed her tablet and connected the cell phone she'd found to it. She deciphered the missing sections of the passcode and selected the correct digits to unlock the phone.