Nikki was not about to let this wait for a meeting back in the bull pen. Momentum on this case was picking up, and even though she wasn’t sure where her new clues would lead, she was going to ride it, and hard. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was only a few blocks north of the Derek Snow crime scene, so Heat got on her cell phone and called Ochoa to tell him she’d meet him and Raley in the East Village in five minutes for a briefing. “You sound pumped. Did you get a confirm that Snow had the same killer as our gossip lady?” Ochoa asked.

She looked over at Rook, riding shotgun with her down Second Avenue and said, in her best infomercial announcer voice, “But wait, there’s more.”

The two detectives were out canvassing Derek Snow’s neighborhood when she reached Ochoa, so instead of going to his apartment, they made a plan to meet up at Mud Coffee just off Second. Traffic flow on East 9th was one way the wrong way for her, so Heat bypassed it, pulled into a loading zone on St. Mark’s Place, tossed her placard on the dash, and walked it. Rook was a marathon and 10- K runner, but he had to work to keep pace with Nikki.

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