need to call the FBI out here before. I'm former FBI. I work with a private consortium called the Millennium Group. The FBI subcontracts out to us on certain kinds of cases. - Mr Watts? - Thank you. They're not local. I know everybody in this county, dead or alive. Nobody's missing. I'd like to get these remains under cover. A tent'll be fine. Also we're gonna need power generators, phone lines. On its way. Special Agent Baldwin made the same request. Good. I'm glad to see you got your bases covered. - Barry Baldwin. - Peter Watts. We met at Quantico. I was involved in that investigation of the downed airliner. - What are you doing out here, Peter? - Sheer coincidence. A few of us were out here on something else and we got a call. Piece of luck. We found only two skulls but pieces of three scapulas were unearthed. Duplicate metacarpal fragments indicate there might be more. It's gonna be hard to make IDs with what we've got. A lot of pieces. The heavy equipment didn't help us. But then, I saw you do an amazing job ID'ing those crash victims with a whole lot less. It's notjust the teeth. The bones look stripped and clean. There are caustic burns from acid or a leaching agent. - Probably potassium hydroxide. - Yeah, that would be my guess. Maybe we should test the soil for potassium hydroxide. - It could lead us to more bodies. - Mm-hm. Excuse me. He's a good man. He used to be Frank Black's partner in the Millennium Group. Frank, thanks for rushing in here. You heard about this thing up in Maine? Look, Andy, you don't want me on that case, that's your call. I'm not complaining. What are you talking about? I figured four agents there is plenty. Peter Watts is up there representing the Millennium Group. Well, it's news to me, Frank, really. Anyway, you're still wrong. I want you on this case but working on a different angle. Down here. 15 years ago, a woman named Cynthia Paggett disappeared. I got this note describing her murder. Alleged murder. Precise location, what she was wearing, every last detail. But we could never find her body. In fact, we could never find any evidence of any crime. Everything in the note had come out in the newspaper, including the fact that I was investigating, so, yeah, I figured "crackpot, let it go". I got five more notes, that same year. Each one, like the first, just a name of someone who disappeared. Each of them, like the first... a matter of public record. Professional people. These are not your usual victims. I always felt we'd heard from the killer. There was zip evidence of any crime. Legwork went nowhere. Anyway, the notes stopped, everything went away, but... check the writing. The writing gets smaller with each correspondence. This arrived yesterday. Obsessive. He's a writer. That's what he does. There will be journals and diaries. The last two words, take a look. The same guy, 15 years later. He describes the burial site in a letter with the same postmark. - He's here. - Find him, Frank. Hollis. Baldwin says you found something. Another intact skeleton. It looks like a female but it's not gonna do us much good. The teeth have all been removed. I was hoping we might find a piece ofjewellery. We checked several soil samples. No traces of the leaching agents you were asking about. I don't think this is the original burial site. I think they were buried somewhere else, then moved here so they'd be under the freeway. They were only discovered by accident. A guy moving dirt that was set to be covered. If we follow where they haven't graded yet, we might find a burial ground, or even a murder site. - What? - I had the same thought. I couriered three pieces of skeleton to a lab before you all got here. Unfortunately, they found traces of a fungus that couldn't have survived in this climate. - What fungus? - Some variety of aspergillus that is unique to central Florida. So ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Схватка на английском - текст Золушка на английском - текст Новый мир на английском - текст Единственный сын на английском - текст Гиперболоид инженера Гарина на английском |