Chief Jung heard a knock on his door , " Enter ."
" Chief, you wanted to see me ? "
" Ah Voss , sit down , " he gestured.
Cassius entered and sat down.
" Voss , I heard about the new case, and to my knowledge it seems to be the same culprit."
Cassius nodded , " Yes Sir , based on Dr. Tolliver's preliminary analysis and my team's analysis , it is likely to be the same person. "
" Voss , this might not be his last victim," the Chief's voice was heavy.
Cassius nodded grimly , " Yes sir , unfortunately that is highly likely , but we will try our best to catch this perverted killer."
Chief Jung nodded , " With the appearance of this second body , the public is becoming aware of this matter , solve this before it gets out of hand. Now I won't hold you here anymore ."
Cassius nodded and left the Chief's office. When the door closed , Chief Jung let out a long sigh. The higher-ups were on his tail now , they had to solve this as soon as possible.
He closed his eyes, while softly massaging his forehead in a circular motion. The repetitive motion relieved his headache. He suddenly felt a vibration , opening his eyes he saw that Professor Ramsey was calling him.
Chief Jung straight up and quickly picked up the phone, " Good morning Professor Ramsey."
" Chief Jung , I have wonderful news. I have the perfect person for you."
" That's wonderful news Professor Ramsey ."
" She is my best student , and she is hailed as a genius in our circle. The past few years she was away to take care of some family business , but now that it's all sorted out , she wanted to resume her work."
"It'll be our honor to work with her, Professor Ramsey, but are you sure she wants to join us? This job comes with its fair share of danger," Chief Jung replied, disheartened. From what Professor Ramsey was saying, this new psychologist was someone overqualified for this job, so was she really willing to come work with them and risk her life?
A hearty laugh sounded out from the other end of the line , " Chief Jung , she herself requested to work here. She is also well trained in profiling and self defense ,she even won multiple awards for judo and Muay Thai , so please don't worry about her . I'll ask her to report to you at noon."
"Thank you again, Professor Ramsey," Chief Jung replied before hanging up. He was somewhat worried about the new psychologist but beggars can't be choosers, and right now they were worse than beggars; no one else was willing to come work for them after Dr. Limeal's accident. Even the last psychologist didn't last more than a month, so they weren't stupid to pass up on this chance.
Chief Jung sighed and called the reception , " The new psychologist will come at noon , when she arrives please direct her to my office."
" Yes Sir ."
After hanging up , Chief Jung resumed massaging his head. Well, at least they have a new psychologist now.
After meeting with the Chief ,Cassius headed over to his team's office. His team members were busy running around trying to get their tasks done.
Victor spotted Cassius so he rushed over , " Cap , Alex and Julien are back , they brought the owner and the CCTV ."
Cassius nodded , " Have Julien analyze the CCTV , Victor get Alex and come with me to interrogate the owner ."
Victor nodded , he turned around and sprinted of to ask Julien to start analyzing the CCTV only to find that he was already doing it, " Yeah yeah I'm on it , since I didn't have much to do , I already started the analysis on our way back, " Julien relied nonchalantly.
Victor nodded , " Where's Alex ? "
" He's over by the interrogation rooms."
Victor rushed back towards the interrogation room , he spotted Alex speaking with Cassius.
" Victor , come here, " Cassius waved him over.
" You two will conduct the interrogation this time , I'll be observing."
Alex and Victor nodded and they entered the interrogation room, Cassius moved to the adjacent room , typical to the standard police layout , the adjacent room and the integration room were separated by a one way glass wall. The integration room was well lit , and the owner of the small pharmacy was sitting on one side , Victor and Alex settled down opposite to him.
" Please state your name , age and occupation."
" My name is Gordon Stilton , I am 47 years old and I own and manage a small pharmacy on Lumi street, " the man inhaled deeply before answering.
" A month ago , namingly on the 17th of April , your store was broken into and a crate of Scopolamine vials were stolen , yet you did not file a police report."
" Aggh Officers , that medicine was banned a few years ago so I didn't dare file a report."
Alex slammed his hand down onto the table startling the owner.
" So you're well aware about the banning of that medicine , yet you dared to sell it ! "
" Officers , while it was banned , some people still sell it , I'm not the only one. Besides, it's only medicine for nausea," the owner protested.
The interrogation continued for a while without yielding much results. Cassius picked his phone up and sent a text to Victor.
Victor's phone pinged and he saw Cassius's text , he turned towards the glass and nodded before turning back to face the owner. " Do you keep records of your clients ? "
The owner nodded .
" Does that include buyers of Scopolamine ? "
The owner nodded again.
" Ask someone to bring the records over ," Cassius instructed the officer inside the adjacent room with him.
Victor and Alex wrapped up the interrogation for now and they exited the integration room. Cassius was waiting for them outside .
" Cap , looks like he isn't involved , and all his answers make sense."
Cassius nodded , " Let's go see how Julien is doing."
They went over to Julien who was immersed in analyzing the CCTV footage .
" Julien, how is it ? "
Julien turned to them , " Very fruitful actually. The camera didn't catch the culprit. I spotted something weird. Here ,see for yourself ," he replied pointing towards the screen , he then quickly rewinded a bit and played the footage again.
The footage was somewhat blurry, but they spotted a hooded figure wearing a black hoodie roaming around the area , the figure raised his head and looked around , once even looking dirty at the camera before moving away.
" What is he doing ? " Alex asked, confused.
" He's likely noting the location of the cameras down," Julien explained.
" How do you know that ? Alex asked, scratching his head.
" Idiot , watch this," Julien sighed while typing something into the computer , after a moment , a few circles appeared on the video , " These are the locations of all the camera's in that area , and calculating the direction of his gaze and based on his head movements , we can be sure he was looking at each and every camera. And that same afternoon , there was a black out shutting the camera's power supply , then when the lights came back , a few cameras were destroyed."
" Did we catch his face ? " Victor asked excitedly.
Julien shook his head , " Unfortunately we didn't , the resolution is low , and it seems like he was wearing a mask. But from this footage we might be able to determine the height and the weight of the person. I brought over footage from a few other cameras too , I'll check all of them and type up a report. "
Cassius patted Julien on the shoulder , " You do that , hand the report over when you're done."
Cassius then checked the time , it was almost noon .
As it hit noon , a sports car roared into the police station , everyone stopped and turned to see who it was . The car stopped and the door opened . A tall woman exited the car. She was wearing a navy skirt suit and blue pumps, the pencil skirt accentuated her curves well. A necklace with a large blue sapphire sat on her neck , a similar pair of earrings decorated her ears. Her curly hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail. She got out of the car and grabbed her purse and a file. She locked the car and placed the key inside her purse before strutting towards the reception.
Almost everyone turned to stare , in addition to her ethereal visuals and otherworldly proportions , the woman had a certain cold aura to her. It was hard for people to not look.
But the woman seemed used to such attention. She walked up to the reception ignoring everyone's gazes.
The officer working there lifted his head and he was startled to see her , he rubbed his eyes and looked again to make sure he was seeing right. Seeing the woman still standing there he blushed and stuttered , " How can I help you my lady ? "
" Oh , aren't you a gentleman? I have an appointment with Chief Jung today, " she replied in her soft yet firm voice ,smiling softly.
Seeing her eyes narrowing into a smile almost made him go weak in the knees. In order to hide his flusteredness , he nodded and quickly typed on his computer .
Unbeknownst to him , Lysandra was sneering at him in her mind.
" My Lady, there must be a mistake. The only person who has an appointment with Chief Jung today is the new psychologist for the Violent crimes unit."
Lysandra nodded , " Yes , that's me," she replied.
The officer's eyes almost popped out , this god-like human was the new psychologist ?!?
He quickly shook his head , and he nodded towards Lysandra. " My Lady , can I please see your id ? "
Lysandra nodded and pulled out both of her id's , one was her regular id and the other was her psychology id ( an id given to psychologists.)
The officer accepted the ids, his hands shaking , he read through the information. When he saw her name his eyes almost popped out again.
" Is anything wrong ? " Lysandra asked worried.
" Everything is fine, My Lady. Please wait here for a minute. I'll ask someone to escort you over to the Chief's office," he replied while handing the IDs back to Lysandra , who just nodded .
The officer excused himself and rushed over to find someone to escort Lysandra to the Chief's office. He soon came back with a female officer. The woman also froze when she saw Lysandra , ' She's the new psychologist ?! I thought she was a model or something," she whispered to the man.
The man nodded and moved closer to whisper , " Her name is Lysandra Valmont."
Hearing her name , the female officer's eyes almost popped out too , " VALMONT ?! " she whisper yelled back , eliciting a strange look from Lysandra.
The man nodded , you see there was a reason why they were acting this surprised. Valmont is technically one of the richest families in the city , they own most of the land in the city , and they are often dubbed as a pillar of their city's economy.
" Go on , take her to the Chief's office , " the officer whispered back, pinching the female officer who immediately came back to her senses. She quickly walked over and extended her hand to Lysandra, " Please allow me to escort you ."
Lysandra took her hand and shook it , " Then I thank you in advance . And I sure do hope I'm not disturbing you," she replied smiling.
" Not at all . Please ,this way ."
Lysandra followed the officer , she led her inside , when they passed by almost everyone turned to stare. Soon they arrived at a door .
" This is Chief Jung's office , I shall excuse myself."
" Thank you," Lysandra thanked her again.
The office excused herself , then she almost ran back. On her way back , she was surrounded by people who were curious about the person she just escorted.
" That's the Violent Crime Unit's new psychologist , and get this ,she's from the Valmont family."
Everyone exploded gossiping .
" No way !."
" THE Valmont family ? Why is she even working ? "
" Who knows , rich people are strange. If It was me, I'd just spend my whole life wasting my money."
Alex, who came down to get something to eat, heard snippets of this , curious he walked over to the gossiping people.
" Hey , whatcha guys talking about ? " he asked, squeezing in.
Everyone gave him a weird look , " We're talking about your new psychologist ."
" We got a new psychologist ? " Alex asked, scratching his head.
" You idiot , I just escorted her to the Chief's office , and listen you got a bigshot too , she's from the Valmont family."
Hearing this the cup of water in his rip almost slipped , " Are you sure ?! Tell me more ," he grabbed someone by the collar shaking him for more information.
Lysandra walked closer to the door and knocked.
" Come in."
She softly opened the door and closed it behind her back.
" I'm the new psychologist , " she said.
" Oh , welcom-" Chief Jung froze when she lifted his head.
There she was smiling down at him. Chief Jung felt a headache coming, " Lys , why the hell are you here ? " he asked, rubbing his temples.
" What do you mean , I'm the new psychologist, " she answered innocently.
" Stop playing Lys , go home," Chief Jung growled.
Lysnadra sighed and slid the file she was holding over to him , " I'm being serious. "
The file stopped right in front of Chief Jung. He felt a headache coming. " No , I'll ask Professor Ramsey for someone else , now go home."
" No , I won't. And I'm best candidate they have " Lysandra replied standing her ground.
" Listen Lys- " Chief Jung began but he was cut off by Lysandra.
" No you listen Lucas , I'm serious about this job. And I want to work here."
Chief Jung went silent for a while, " But Lys , you have to understand the risks."
" I understand the risks very well ," Lysandra replied.
Chief Jung nodded his head slowly , he really didn't want Lysandra to work here , but she is someone they needed. He sighed deeply , " Okay Lys , but you can't put yourself in danger okay," he finally relented .
Lys smiled at him brightly , and he was immediately transported to the time they first met, she was no longer that little girl. " Come Lys , I'll take you over myself," he said standing up.
Lysandra smiled sweetly and nodded , following closely behind.
On their way over to the unit , people stared at them , seeing this Chief Jung sighed , " Looks like you made a very dynamic entry Lys."
" Whatever do you mean Lucas, oh I should probably call you Chief Jung."
" Just call me Chief when we're with other people."
" Okay Chief."
They were just a few doors away from the unit when they saw a man running from the other end of the corridor, he tripped and rolled forward before standing up and running again , completely ignoring them. The man burst into the unit and yelled loud enough for everyone on the floor to hear.
" You won't believe what I just heard ! We got a new psychologist and she's apparently super hot and super rich ! "
Hearing this the Chief's face went through 30 shades of red , ranging from anger and enragement to embarrassment.
Lucas cleared his throat ," I apologise for their crude behaviour Lys , they're not like this usually," Lucas explained.
Lysandra was trying hard to hold her laughter in, so she just nodded.
Lucas was about to go in and give Alex a piece of his mind , but he was held back by Lys.
" Wait for a while longer Lucas , I want to see what else he has to say."