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The killer was moving around the country. Malcolm Bright could see the pattern, but he wasn't working for the FBI these days and they weren't exactly taking his calls. Short sighted of them, but they did fire him on suspicion of being crazy. The NYPD's jurisdiction was New York. With the killer beyond its borders, they handed it upwards and left it at that.

Let it go, Bright, had been Gil's sage advice. You can't catch every killer in America single-handedly.

Challenge accepted, some part of him retorted, though he'd only nodded mutely and forced a smile. Gil knew he hadn't simply let it go, but he wasn't going to have him followed to stop him doing anything stupid, either. He didn't have the will or the resources to keep tabs on Malcolm Bright 24/7 and Malcolm Bright knew it.

His mother, on the other hand, had extensive resources, so he simply didn't tell her he was leaving town. He did arrange for Ainsley to feed his bird, so the truth would come out eventually, but he'd be several states away by then.

He rode the bus. There was something oddly comforting about the anonymity of being in a crowd of strangers who had no interest in him whatsoever. He stared out the window and watched the country go by. When he stepped off the Greyhound in Lexington, Kentucky, he walked to a nearby hotel and checked in, then headed straight to the US Marshals office. There was no point in trying to talk to the FBI. If he was going to stop a killer from killing again, he needed someone in law enforcement to listen to him. The pattern suggested the next murder would happen in one of the rural communities around Lexington and it would be precipitated by a young woman's disappearance. He needed law enforcement with local knowledge, specifically.

He wandered into the Marshals' offices in a tidy three piece suit, charcoal grey with a burgundy tie perfectly knotted at his collar. He got a few suspicious sidelong glances but nobody asked if they could help him. He cleared his throat.

"Um, hello? I'm wondering if there's anyone here I can talk to about murder." He held up his hands. "Stopping murder, specifically, not... like... smalltalk."

Date: 27 Dec 2019 18:05 (UTC)
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There was never any telling. Kids got spooked from a high breeze it seemed, sometime. Plus. Raylan wanted to ask him some questions. The kid was the only person who'd seen their perp so far - they needed a better description, anything that would help.

"With as many hollars and abandoned places? Hell, if he knows the area, he could ghost us. But what I take from you is that he's not - he's travelin', right?" Might narrow down the choices, or at least give Raylan a hint of someone he might talk to about newcomers showing their face.

"There's a lot of land between here and there. Maybe he left a map," he replied with a sardonic but positive kind of vibe as he pulls his gun out. No way were they walking up on a door without his weapon in his hand.
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As they came up to it, the door was technically already open, cracked and silent beyond. Raylan glanced at Malcolm with a surprised little shrug of his eyebrows before he was pressing against the door frame and using his boot to slowly push in the door. Just as slowly, he slid forward and peeked around the door.

It was clear. Oddly clear. The room had been half trashed - a struggle had happened. Malcolm would note the claw marks on the headboard of one of the two twin beds, both slept in. One foot in front of the other led Raylan in, muzzle swinging up to the ready as he checked the bathroom with the same skillful caution.

"Clear," he called, going far enough to check the single closet as well, just in case. "If they were here, they're gone now," he sighed, lowering his weapon.

Date: 3 Jan 2020 23:38 (UTC)
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"Which means you were right. He did want her to see. He made sure she saw." Raylan sucked his teeth, eyes brighter than they were before as he glanced around, face a little vicious with purpose as the proof settled things in his head.

"How long you think he'll take to find another look alike and set up a new twisted display room?"

Date: 5 Jan 2020 02:47 (UTC)
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"There's about a hundred of 'em in a 6 mile radius," he replied, sucking his teeth again in irritation. He needed to regroup. He needed more leads.

"Short answer, no." Without much explanation, Raylan holstered his gun and strode out of the room, making short work of the stairs to get back down to the front desk.

"What'd he look like," Raylan demanded as he brust back into the front office. "What do you remember about this guy," he asked, busy furious hands flipping open the login book open and turning it around, tapping on the page with an thinly veiled intensity.

The kid stammered and spilled what he could - a guy, mid 30's, white, New York type accent. Rough looking and a tattoo crawling up his neck.

Date: 11 Jan 2020 21:32 (UTC)
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The kid shook his head. "Came in alone, paid in cash. We're kinda light on business this time of year," he explained nervously.

Raylan sucked his teeth again and nodded, lifting his finger towards the security room. "We're gonna have to take those tapes. That gonna be a problem?"

The kid shook his head and Raylan nodded at Malcolm. "I'll call the room in, you get the tape and we'll head over to Arlo's for the night, unless you feel like a 3 hour drive back, only to come back tomorrow."

He pulled out his phone and headed out the door to get Rachel and Tim on the line.

Date: 12 Jan 2020 01:22 (UTC)
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"Yeah," Raylan replied, confused once again by the oddities of the man he'd found himself saddled with. "That thing people do most of the time when the sun ain't up."

Sliding into the driver's seat of his car, he closed the door and adjusted his hat as Malcolm slid in next to him, sighing.

"Need some things," he echoed, though with his accent it came out a bit like 'thangs' as his hazel mixed eyes gauge Malcolm. "And it's things you absolutely can't do without for one night," he half questioned, half stated.

Date: 12 Jan 2020 01:28 (UTC)
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"No, but that's why God made Motels and government paid rooms," Raylan returned just as conversationally. "Lemme ask you this, what is it, exactly that you need? Harlan ain't good for much but we got.. most of what everyone else has got. You need a special neck pillow or something?"

Date: 12 Jan 2020 04:33 (UTC)
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"Medication." To rhythm with 'uh-huh' in its cadence. He wasn't gunna ask. "Nothing that the Marshall's service can do to..." He gestured uselessly over his steering wheel. "We got CVS's and shit."

He wasn't sure if he should ask what it was for. "You sure?"

Date: 12 Jan 2020 13:36 (UTC)
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"My daddy's house," he replied, turning over the engine so he could roll down the window. He wanted to wait to see Tim's SUV pull up before he pulled away. "I grew up here in Harlan. The Givens have been here for some 3 generations, least til I went down to Miami."

There was Tim. Raylan raised a hand and nodded before putting the car into reverse and getting them on the road again.

"Gives me a place to stay when I'm down here workin' on something. At least til I get it off the market. You ever sold a house before?"

Date: 12 Jan 2020 13:57 (UTC)
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"Damn." Clearly, he was hoping for some pointers.

Raylan kept his eyes on the road, face unchanging as he answered. "Yeah, in the grave plots out front. You'll see 'em - hellva lawn decoration. I think that's why the place won't sell. No one wants generational land with people already in its dirt."

But moving Arlo and his mother and Helen was.. well, unthinkable.
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"Three full and one waiting with my name on it.. Literally." Not exactly the friendliest reminder that life was short and he'd be in the ground sooner than he meant to be.

Raylan glanced over from his driving for a half second as he answered.

"Because it's personal. And I'm not using the land, or the house. Don't want it, never did. Once it sells and I get finished with some.. cases down here-" Namely Boyd Crowder- "I'm getting on with my life."

Raylan continued. "You got anything in New York besides your rented apartment?"

Date: 12 Jan 2020 15:53 (UTC)
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His jaw was telling, tensing subtly in all the right moments as Malcolm pieced him together. He'd told Malcolm about his shooting people, the idea that he'd been pushed out into a more tolerant or a more controlled situation, as Art mighta put it, wasn't a hard leap to get to.

If Raylan was stupider, it might have seemed like magic, but magic was one of those things Raylan didn't believe in either.

"Back to Miami. They got just as many fugitives there." And with less personal history.

They turned off the main road onto a smaller one with just enough dirt across and in it that one might thing it wasn't paved somewhere underneath all of that, and pulled up to an equally unimpressive house. It might have been impressive once but now..

"Ain't a soul around for a good half mile," Raylan sighed, not exactly with a thrilled tone. "Come on, I think there's still beer in the fridge."

He hauled himself out of the car, adjusting his hat as he stared for a second too long at the headstones that would greet them on the sidewalk before striding that way and nonchalantly past them.

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I think that's a great place to ftb

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