"More like they are dying on their own, the two that died were quite up there in years," she replied.
Pollard glanced at the list.
"These two men are from The Ukraine," Pollard read.
"They helped develope the Tracers," Tran put in.
February 10th, 3119, 20:45pm, Unitis got a call on his Comlink, saying that a guard had been killed in E Block.
He told the caller that he was on his way and not to touch anything.
"Who was the guard that called in?", Pollard shot at Unitis.
"Gipson," Unitis breathed in return.
"Rookie I am guessing," Pollard shot back.
"Yeah," Unitis replied.
E Block was used as a Solitary Confinement Wing.
Prisoners were temporarily housed there, until they could be transported to a cell.
It was used to house the men that started fights and Riots.
Pollard and Unitis walked through the door of the wing.
Gipson and another guard met them at the door and walked them down to where the guard laid dead on the floor.
Unitis knealt beside the body and began scanning for Tod.
"What do we have?", Pollard asked glaring down at the battered, bloody body.
"Time of Death, was two hours ago, he's been badly beaten," Unitis answered.
"Beaten as maybe a fight?", Pollard asked.
"More of maybe a straight beating," Unitis answered.
Pollard started looking around the block.
Only one of the cells was open.
Pollard walked into the cell and looked down.
"We have another body!", he called out.
Unitis walked into the cell.
Pollard was checking the body.
"Do you have a Tod?", he asked.
"Looks like an hour ago," Pollard answered.
Unitis looked down at Pollard.
"Looks like he might have been poisoned, we won't know until MEC gets here," Pollard said.
Unitis nodded in reply.
Unitis walked over to the bunk, where a piece of paper laid next to it.
He picked it up and unfolded it, there was nothing but the symbol of Aces and 8's on it.
"What do you make of this?", Unitis asked hand the paper to Pollard.
"Aces and eights, The death hand," Pollard muttered.
"Very historic," Pollard continued.
Unitis looked at Pollard for a moment.
"What do you mean?", Unitis asked.
"That was the hand Wild Bill Hickock was holding when he was killed," Pollard told him.
"Why use this?", Unitis inserted.
"The killer knew that one of us would know the history behind it, enough to know what it meant," Pollard answered.
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