"Did you see that game last night?" asked Nick Stokes as soon as Warrick Brown entered the brake room.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah; man, that was brutal! he replied.
"Why's that?" Nick asked.
"Because my team lost to yours!" Warrick replied to Nick as he handed him a twenty dollars then took a seat between Sara Sidle and Greg Sanders.
"Ok everyone, assignments!" Gil Grissom said as he walked into the room."Nick, Warrick, a house in Henderson had a bomb go off. A small leg out who it belongs to and what happened. Catherine, Greg, B&E off thestrip. Sara, you get to do paper work. Sorry, its a slow night." Everyone got up, took their slip from Grissom and went their own way.
At Nick and Warricks crime scene, there was not a thing in the house. Thewalls, floor were black, smoke still in the air, and pieces of the bomb werelittered on the floor in the living room. Right there, sitting in the middleof theliving room was a small, clean leg.
"This is very strange." said Nick.
"Yeah, well, I think we have everything here. Lets head back to thelab and see what we've got.
Back at the morgue
"Well Doc, what have you got for us?" asked Warrick.
"Well, not much, I'm afraid" Doc replies. "It was a clean cut, and there area few bruises".
"Could the child that owns this leg still be alive? How long ago did this happen, and can you tell if it belongs to a girl or a boy?" asked Warrick.
"I cant tell you male or female. This leg has been frozen for about five years or so. You could try to see if any child came into Desert Palms in thelast five years or so. The child would be between the ages 3-4 at the leg was cut off when the child was still alive; you can see the blood in the bone area. I sent David up with DNA already. I wish I had more for you. Sorry."
"Thanks Doc!" they both replied as the left to make there way upstairs.
In Grissom's office, he was hard at work on the paperwork.
"Grissom, there's something you should see." Wendy said after she knocked on his door. Looking up, he sees a very worried Wendy as she moved from one foot to the other as she hugged a file to her chest.
"Whats up?" he replies pointing to the chair across from him, hoping to ease her fear.
"I ran the DNA from the leg on Nick and Warricks case three times, cause I thought I was making a mistake, but I'm not. I got a match." Wendy said,never once looking up at Grissom to make any eye contact.
"Well, why dont you page them about what you found?" Grissom said, looking at Wendy very confused.
"Here," She puts the folder on the desk. "look".
Grissom looks at the folder sitting on his desk and starts to feel the pit of his stomach sink. He picks up the folder and opens it slowly, and the color drains from his face as the information sinks in. "Oh my." he replies.
"What do you want me to do?" she asks, looking scared.
Grissom finally looks ups at Wendy. "Its ok. I'll call the boys in and give this to them, you can just go back to work.... and thanks, Wendy". Wendy gets up out of the chair and walks out the door fast back to work.
"Knock, Knock" Sara said as she entered Grissoms office. "I cant believe you stuck ME on paper work!" she said as she sat Grissom never looked up at her for after a few minutes, Sara started to worry. "Grissom?" she tried again. He looked at her then. Sara could see the painand hurt in his eyes. "Whats wrong? Are you ok?" She asked. He still never said anything to her,but passed her the folder he was staring at. After she read it, she understood hispain,"Oh, Gil!"
"I need to get out of here." was all he said. With that, he walked to the door and turned towards Sara. "You dont need to say no more hun, I'll get the gang and see you back home." Sara replies with a small smile.
"I love you, Sara, I hope you know that."
"I know, and I love you too."
With that Grissom walked out the door, and Sarapulled out her cell phone to call the gang......