As ego-unfriendly as it was, not being the smartest person in the room, and not having to live up to anything was relaxing. He was called in like the rest of them, because he was the best at what he did. And what he ended up doing, usually, was the last part of an investigation and, arguably, the most rewarding: Arresting the sonovabitch, or gunning him down as he resisted arrest. Mark was the muscle of the group. The big huge muscled arms and legs that had the beautiful minds of everyone else working behind him, telling him where to go, what to do. They were all in the genius ballpark, or so their resumes would have you believe. While Mark was something of a smart guy in his own right, with the finest PD shooting record in the country, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Phsychology, he was no rocket scientist. He wasn't anything like that guy, Ben Winston, who could probably hack into the Pentagon to order a sandwich. Or... Harley Quinn.
Good God.
He leaned back in his seat. He even had his own desk no,w even though asking for his own office might not have been appropriate. He knew police tactics like nobody alive too, he supposed, and he knew how to stop someone that knew police tactics, so stick to what you're good at, right? He wasn't a detective, he didn't have a mind for details and the will to beat the law system that seemed to be put in place to make sure that bad guys got away with doing bad things. He looked over the file that was passed to him, and he read it over. The women were all good looking, youngest being 21, oldest 30, so the perp wasn't selecting them over age, at least not in a way that they could define. Sure. Lets find a guy that's hunting down good-looking brunettes between twenty and thirty. Lets give stopping the drug trade a go while we're at it.
Same height, give or take, While they were all brunettes, their names gave little indication towards hispanic origins. Might be something there, Mark mused, putting it down in his notebook. The names seemed to indicate, if anything predominantly Catholic Irish backgrounds. Could indicate a hunting ground? They didn't work, live, or hang in the same areas. If this was a serial killer, he may have just picked the broadest hunting selection ever. Unless there was a serial killer out there hunting ants.
But he wasn't a detective. He would pass his ideas along to someone else and let them hash it out, while he helped in any way that he could. He avoided being crunched in a hug by Smiles-a-Lot and merely smiled at her in return.