Rizzles Story

Chapter 42

Later

Agent Ash: You are gonna tell me about sarah rice.

Jane: Um, waitress. Grew up in marin county. Strangled in 2003. She was 26.

Agent Ash: You sound like you're reading from a phone book.

Jane: You want an interprive dance? The kiss me not killer laid her to rest In a bed of lilacs. They were still fresh when we found her. A handful of people Were questioned and dismissed.

Agent Ash: So you were involved with your lieutenant, huh?

Jane: That was low, going over my head like that.

Agent Ash: Well, I did give you a week to come around.

Jane: Melissa Pacquin-- Student from pacific heights. Our medical examiner, Maura Isles, Estimated it took her 2 days to die. She was 23 years old. There were no lilacs, But he left an old key in her hand And a dead mouse at her feet.
When we saw her lips, we knew it was the same guy. That's when we dubbed him "the kiss me not killer."

Agent Ash: You gave him the nickname?

Jane: Claire did. It was late- None of us had slept for days.

Agent Ash: You almost sound nostalgic.

Jane: Well, back then I still thought we were gonna catch the bastard.

Agent Ash: Keep going.

Jane: Elaine Lewis. Killed october 12, 2007. Cashier. She disappeared from silver springs, nevada, Two weeks before we discovered her body. Kiss me not eviscerated her, slit her wrists and then left her in a copper bathtub.

Agent Ash: She broke the pattern.
The others were from the bay area.

Jane: Which you already knew. You already know everything in these files. So why are we doing this?

Agent Ash: What I have access to are the words you put down on paper. What I need is access to what you were thinking when you wrote them down.

Jane: I was thinking it sucks that sarah's father isn't going to be able to walk her down the aisle. I was thinking there's no mortician on the planet that could make melissa's 48 stab wounds go away so she could have a decent funeral. I was thinking Elaine was probably alive long enough to watch him pull out her insides. Nobody cared about access to my thinking when the FBI yanked this case from BPD!

Agent Ash: So you're pouting?

Jane: I don't like you.

Agent Ash: I'm not very impressed with you either.

She walks out of the room.

Korsak: So what's up? I go to get a cup of coffee. Next thing I know, I got captain america riding shotgun.

Jane: It's just routine FBI bull about the kiss me not killer. It's nothing.

In the Morgue

Jill: I just heard through the uni grapevine that Jane is behind closed doors with some FBI guy.

Korsak: Routine follow-Up to the kiss me not investigation.

They just sit around and talk for a while. Then, Jill goes back upstairs.

In the Bullpen

Jill: Uh, these, uh, routine questions The FBI is asking Jane, Just, uh, how routine are they?

Tom: Wait a minute. She didn't tell you either. The kiss me not killer contacted the FBI. He threatened Jane.

Jill: How long ago?

Tom: Over a week.

With Jane and Agent Ash

Ash: Why do you think he's after you?

Jane: I don't think he's after me.

Ash: I don't believe you.

Jane: I don't care.

(Knock on door)

Jane: For the love of god, come in.

Korsak: Hi. Heard you were in here. Come with me.

He takes her to the break room.

Korsak: I took a peek at the, uh, love note the FBI received. It's a great picture.

Jane: Korsak--

Korsak: You didn't tell me. Did you tell anyone? Did you tell claire, jill, your reporter friend?

Jane: He's a coward. He would never go toe-to-toe with me.

Korsak: Oh. So, uh, you think you're safe Because of that gun on your hip, Or that extra one you got strapped To that skinny little calf. Oh, yeah, I know you're packin'. This psychopath has murdered three women that we know of. And he doesn't just do it in one. Oh, no. He uses all manner of torture.

Jane: I'm trained. I can handle him.

Korsak: He could shoot you with a sniper rifle from across the street. He could put a bomb on your car! He could get into your apartment and slit martha's and your family's throat and get to you before you even got a hand on one of your precious guns! You want to work yourself into the ground? Fine.
You want to sit home every weekend? Fine. I might think it's sad and stupid, But that's your business! But this-This is my business. And not just because I love you. I could be in that car he bombs. I could be standing next to you on that street.

Jane: (Whispers) I'm sorry. (Sniffles) Korsak, I'm-I'm--

Korsak: I don't know what you think this is-But it's not partners. Because partners are in this together. And you? Baby, you just made sure you in this all by yourself.