"He killed only the man and his offspring," Adem looked up as he contemplated. "The wife and stepchild were allowed to live."

"He knew about the family," Grissom chimed in with disgust in his voice.

"We can theorize that he knew all of his victims. To what extent, I'm not sure. He obviously knew Cavalli's routine to pre-plan the attack using a third party." The alien stood stareing at the body of the man laying in his bed. "He knew which children were Will Chamberlain's biological offspring. He knew Emma Sigfried was going to be staying at a residence that isn't her primary home. And he knew Merlin enough to not only get on board the Space Station, but to get close enough to shoot him right in the head."

"What's the connection?" Graviton asked, trying to keep from looking into the bedroom.

"Little if any," Different answered. "Method of attack is only similar in two instances, but one was perpetrated by someone other than our mastermind. Alternate murder weapons, no link between victims, two females compared to four males. The only pattern is with the pieces of paper. The only clues except for the message in Berlin."

"Has that Scottish bloke finished playing with that blood sample?" Grissom asked. He tried his best to keep his mind off the scene in front of him.

"No. He's trying to determine whether there's enough of a sample to trace the effects the gene has on the body. If we know what our murder can do, maybe we can catch him."

Graviton stepped out of the room and into the hall. "Seems like all he wants to do is make fools of us. Probably laughing at us as we speak."

"More than likely," Adem agreed. A buzzing noise came from his arm.

{Have I got something for you.} Jym's face said with a smile.

"Show it to me," Different commanded.

{Say please.}

"No."

{Um... well, okay. I did those cross references you asked for on those symbols with the new parameters. Bang Bang and the first symbol brought up this:}



{A musician known as David Bowe performed under the character name of Ziggy Stardust in the 1970's. Get this. He was supposed to have been and alien or something. Silly humans. The song Bang Bang was not released until 1987, well after the persona was dropped.}

"So he is a music fan after all, eh?" Montag ran his thick fingers through his hair.

{I also found these entries with everything else you gave me.} A conical beam of light emitted from the screen and formed a rotating triangle of floating, holographic pictures.





"How did you get these?" Graviton moved closer to examine the images. "Some sort of top dollar government database?"

{Google.}

Phil ran up the stair and came to a halt at the bedroom door upons seeing the holgraphic projection. "Neat," he said to himself.

"Grissom," Adem said turning to the ex-theif and handing him a spatial transducer, "I need you to go to Isla de la Luna Roto."

Graviton turned to Phil, who had moved up next to the Strikeforcer. "Isla de la Luna Roto? What they hell is there?"

Smith rubbed his neck a little uneasily. "Mick."