Hear Me

Fisk

Clara heads to the coroners officer. The medical examiner, Doctor France, called to inform her the autopsy was complete if she wanted to hear about the examination. With a flash of her badge, she's in the room with the medical examiner. Ben's body was on the table, the white sheet covering everything except for his head and feet.

"Did you figure out what killed him?" She asks.

He nods, "just as I suspected at the scene. It was myocardial infarction. Heart attack." 

Clara frowns and looks at the body. She sees obvious bruising around his neck, "what about the bruising?" She points it out.

He sighs, "Mr. Urich was taking anticoagulant medication and had a stent put in, causing post-stent bruising." 

She narrows her eyes, "there are clear fingermarks." 

Doctor France gives her nothing short of a death glare and then looks at them closer, "I guess you're right about that. He might have been grasping at his neck during it?" 

Clara sighs, "he was murdered. Someone strangled him. Someone with large fingerprints." The doctor was obviously trying to cover for someone.

He doesn't say anything but nods, turns around, and marks something on the paper, "I'll have the results in a few hours." 

"Can you put a rush on it for me?"

He looks at her, completely annoyed, "I'm declaring it a homicide." Checkmate.

She nods, "thanks. Send me that report as soon as you're done!" Clara practically runs out of the coroners office and to the FBI headquarters. With the FBI taking over Fisk's investigation, she needs to get this to them right away. 

She approaches the front desk, "I'm looking for Agent Poindexter?" Clara shows the woman her badge.

"He's on the sixth floor," the woman nods.

"Thanks," she smiles and heads towards the elevator. Clara was not excited to talk to him but he was in charge of the investigation. The sixth floor was chaos. There were agents everywhere, running around. She asked around and was eventually led to Poindexter. 

"Detective Marinetta? What are you doing here?" 

She holds out her files to him, "I believe Ben Urich was murdered by Fisk." 

"The reporter who died of a suspected heart attack?"

Clara nods, "I believe the ME is going to declare it a homicide on the autopsy report. He was strangled." 

"Without the autopsy report, there isn't much to go on," he sighs.

She frowns, "he had finger marks around his neck and he was looking into Fisk. I'm giving you this because you're the lead of the investigation and because  quite frankly, I'm tired of investigating the deaths of my friends."

"You knew him?" Poindexter flips through the file.

"Yeah, he was a great reporter and a good friend to someone I know."