Chapter 59

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At the Scene-Bus Stop

Officer: Read my lips. Get your ass back in the seat and get this bus in service.

Driver: Nobody tells me when to drive.

Frankie: He's a transit cop. It's not even his crime scene. It's ours.

Korsak: I know him Artie McMurphy. He's always irritable. His wife ran off with her boyfriend years ago or maybe died, something like that.

Frankie: Something like that?

Korsak: Yeah, I think they had a kid.

Frankie: So you two were close.

Korsak: Must have been 10 years ago. No, had to be 20. I was still in the drug unit.

Frankie: Let me know if you need help finding your car. Oh. She looks like some big weird doll.

Maura: Dame de Voyage.

Korsak: Why are we speaking french?

Maura: Sex dolls originated in the 17th century. Randy sailors took them on lonely voyages. But this might be agalmatophilia.

Frankie: Anything ending in "philia" is not gonna be good.

Maura: A fetish involving the love between a man and a doll.

Korsak: A man, a doll, his love, and what? A 2x4? A hammer? Hockey stick?

Maura: Definitely a solid high-density object. In common parlance, something hard.

Frankie: That's a brilliant deduction.

Maura: Her wrists were bound to something. There was no cast-off or blood spatter. She wasn't killed here.

Korsak: Nice scrunchie.

Frankie: Yeah, her clothes are very early '90s, too.

Maura: More formal before sweeping changes to fashion made grunge chic.

Korsak: And you're telling me this because why? She was transported here from the '90s?

Maura: Uh, no, Detective smarty pants. Because her clothes are 20 years old, and they don't fit her.

Frost walks up.

Frost: Hey, sorry I'm late. Breakfast line was long. Got to help Janes mom set up that online ordering.

Maura: All right, as soon as you're done swallowing the Peter rabbit pancake, can you go through the suitcase, please?

Frost: This is too easy. It's all here driver's license, bus pass, cash, phone. Victoria Green. She's 25. She lived in Brighton. Okay. Not so easy. She password-protected her phone.

He then holds up a bloody shirt.

Korsak: Hmm, okay. So, she was probably killed wearing that. The killer redressed her in those clothes.

Frankie: And posed her on a bus bench.

Korsak: So we're not looking for just any old killer. We're looking for a freak with a doll fetish.

They pack up the scene and go back to BPD.

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