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"Ready to go?" Catherine asked, knocking Gil's hardhat.
He frowned slightly, readjusting his hat. "Let's go take a look."
The collapsed building stared back at them and they both made their way to the entrance where Jim Brass stood.
"I've talked to the architect and he says everything should be stable enough for you to go in." Brass frowned. "I'm still not sure I like this though."
Catherine peered into the dark depths of the building and shrugged. "Doesn't look any worse than the one I was in last time. Nothing happened there."
Gil turned on the flashlight. "Let's go."
Catherine followed Gil through the darkness, carefully avoiding stepping on anything or tripping.
"Here we go," Gil said, stopping. He focused the flashlight on a dent in the ground. "This was where the beam fell." He glanced at the beam a little further along. "Wonder how it got over there?"
Catherine knelt down with the camera. "Why would anyone want to come in and move such a heavy beam?"
"Unless something else hit the ground here," Gil said, peering around. "I'm just going to go past the beam, see if there's anything else that could have caused that dent."
"Want me to come with you?"
Gil arched an eyebrow. "I'm not afraid of the dark, Catherine."
She rolled her eyes at him. "I meant to help."
Gil shook his head. "Stay here and see if you can find anything else. I'll be back in a moment." He smiled slightly. "You're not afraid of the dark are you?"
She wrinkled her nose. "Only of the spiders that scuttle around in it."
Gil chuckled and headed further down the building, stepping over the beam and going into the dark.
Catherine heard a scuttling noise and frowned. "That's not funny, Gil." When he didn't reply, she shrugged and kept looking around the ground.
Jim Brass folded his arms and watched the building. Something didn't feel right about this whole situation. He heard another creak from the building and took a step back. Something really didn't feel right.
Catherine heard the creaking noise again and frowned. She would have really felt a lot better if Gil had returned from his little journey south of the beam, but she hadn't heard anything since the scuttle of what she hoped was a spider a few moments earlier. A loud creak sounded again and she stood up.
"Gil? Are you coming back anytime soon? If you've found any bugs down there, they're evidence!"
Silence greeted her. "Gil?"
She was about to go forward to find him when the creaking intensified, and her body was thrown backwards by debris as the floor collapsed in front of her.
Everyone outside unconsciously ran back as the back of the building gave way.
"We've got two CSI's in there!" Brass called. "Get them out!"