Elizabeth let him talk.
“Since Ethan thinks that this person has been prepping for this game for a while, Devon doesn’t fit. He can’t get the building taken care of, and we’ve heard he’s tried. Agents Bartlett and Price had that run-in with the head of city council and confirmed that Devon didn’t lie to us.”
That made Elizabeth curious.
“Refresh my memory as to what they found. It’s been a night,” she admitted.
He did by reading their reports that Corbin had filed a few hours ago.
“I put the head of the council on the list, not because he’s cockblocking Devon Slater, but because he was hyper fixated on talking to you. In Corbin’s report, he said the man desperately wanted your number to meet with you.”
Honestly, she wasn’t shocked. Just like the local law wanted to see her, she wouldn’t be shocked some overzealous city council member would too.
Callen spoke up.
“He’s on the list I’m running to see if he’s got any skeletons in his closet.”
She was good with that.
“You don’t have to give me anything on Jeffrey, unless it’s more about his family.”
Callen shook his head.
“Again, still not done, and I put him lower on the list because you told me he wasn’t likely the killer. Do you want me to reorganize that search?”
She shook her head.
Elizabeth’s gut was rarely wrong.
“No, keep your search the way it is. I don’t feel Jeffrey as the killer. I don’t know why, but I don’t.”
That worked for him.
Callen had hoped to be able to remove one name from the search, but he didn’t want to risk it. It appeared they were going to all be researching tonight.
LATE.
Gene continued.
“Larry Springer is on the list because of how worked up he was that Devon was speaking to us without him there. That worried me.”
Callen shared what he did know.
“He’s done. He’s got nothing bad in his past,” he admitted to his wife.
Gene confirmed.
“That matches up with what the two detectives worked on. They said he has no police arrests, or issues. He looks pretty clean.”
She glanced over at Callen.
“Dig deeper. Use MATE’S software. I want to go so deep, he feels violated across town. He didn’t sit well with me, and Ethan said this person is crazy smart. He’d be able to mask his intentions.”
He understood.
“I’ll start that as soon as we’re done,” he offered.
Gene continued.
