CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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"Ghosts"
Chapter 1
(Early evening)
You see a hand knock on a second floor apartment door. After a few minutes, a man in his late 30s answers it. There is a shocked look on his face as he recognizes who is at his door. The only thing we see is the person raise their right arm while holding a small revolver.
TODD-Please, don't do this.
He turns to run when the unknown person fires two shots. The first one misses and embeds into the wall near the television stand. The second one finds it's way into his back. He falls forward to the floor.
(A little while later)
It is now after dark. A woman around 40 years old is in her kitchen standing at her kitchen island making a salad. She hears what sounds like someone is trying to get into the front door. She walks out of the kitchen and towards the front door. As she gets closer, the door opens. The woman puts up her left arm with her hand in the stop position. The screen goes black.
(Next evening)
Nick is walking down the hall in the lab towards the front door. D.B. is walking towards him from behind holding a file.
RUSSELL-Hey Nick.
Nick stops and turns around.
RUSSELL- I know you're getting ready to be off duty soon, but I need you and Morgan to check out this missing person case. You're all I have left.
I sent Sara and Greg to check out a DB.
NICK-What have you got.
Russell hands the file to Nick.
RUSSELL-39 year old female reported missing by her co-workers when she didn't show up for work today. They're afraid her abusive husband might have done
something to her. One of her friends went over to check on her and looked in the living room window. She said she saw blood.
NICK-We'll get right on it.
Russell hits Nick on the side of his shoulder.
RUSSELL-Thanks, Nick. I owe you one.
Russell starts to walk away. Nick yells to him.
NICK-Just remember that.
Meanwhile, Sara and Greg are collecting evidence from the scene of the murdered man. Sara is standing near the dead man's body and Greg is near the front door.
SARA-It looks like this guy was trying to run from whoever was at the door. Would explain why he was shot in the back.
GREG-All of the blood splatter would be near the body, but that doesn't explain this one directional blood drop here in the foyer.
Greg kneels down to photograph it.
SARA-Could be from the person who pulled the trigger.
You see a short video of a hand getting caught in the gun hammer as it's being fire. Then a blood drop falling to the floor. Greg then gets out his swab and takes a sample of the blood. He looks up and sees the victim's wallet on the foyer table. He puts the blood sample in his case, stands up and walks over to the table.
GREG-I found a wallet.
He opens the wallet and sees the victim's driver's license.
GREG-Victim's name is Brad Thomas, but it says his address is in Henderson.
SARA-Maybe we need to go to Henderson and see if anyone is home.
Just then they hear a woman outside the door yelling.
JEN-What's going on here? What are you doing in my apartment?
The young woman in now standing in the doorway and sees what happened.
JEN-Brad? Oh my God!
The deputy comes back and escorts Jen from the scene.
SARA-I think we need to have a talk with her.
GREG-I agree. I'll have Brass take her back to the lab.
(At the same time)
Nick and Morgan are walking up the sidewalk to the house belonging to the woman believed to be missing.
NICK-So Mrs. Davis's co workers reported her missing when she didn't come into work today. A few of them have tried numerous times to contact her
and received no answer.
MORGAN-Could be she's just home sick and turned off the phones.
NICK-Maybe, but Russell wants us to follow up on it. One of Mrs. Davis's co workers came over to check on her and said they saw blood through the living room
window.
Nick walks over to the living room window and is looking inside. He sees what looks to have been a struggle and blood on one of the walls.
MORGAN-Nick.
Nick looks over at Morgan and sees she is standing by the front door.
NICK-What is it?
MORGAN-I've got blood on the door handle.
Nick looks back into the window.
NICK-There's blood on one of the walls and signs of a struggle.
Morgan is collecting a sample of the blood from the door handle. The door is still open a crack. She pushes on the door and it opens. She walks inside and Nick follows her. They are looking around the living room. Morgan is taking pictures of the evidence. Nick walks over to the mantel and sees a photo.
NICK-This must be our missing person, Holly Davis.
He stares at the picture a minute. Morgan sees that he's preoccupied for a minute.
MORGAN-Nick, are you okay?
He doesn't hear her.
MORGAN-Nick?
Nick hears Morgan and looks at her.
NICK-Sorry, there's just something haunting about this photo. It's like I know her.
MORGAN-Well, finding her depends on how fast we can process this scene. There was definitely a struggle, but there's not a lot of blood on this wall. If I had to guess,
I would say she was being physically attacked.
NICK-Right, which means she could still be alive.
They go about collecting evidence and taking photos of the crime scene as the song "Saving Me" by Nickelback is playing. Nick is walking out to the back of their SUV where the portable lab is. He starts to process the blood evidence that he's collected. His phone rings and when he looks at the caller ID he sees that it is D.B so he answers it.
NICK-Hey, D.B, what's up?
D.B.-Just checking to see how you and Morgan are doing? Any clues on what happened to our school teacher?
NICK-Not yet. There's pictures of a woman inside but no identification. I'm running a blood sample now. It should be ready in a minute. Hopefully we get a hit.
Just then the machine beeps.
NICK-There it is now.
Nick looks at the screen, but doesn't say anything.
D.B.-Nick, what did it say?
Nick continues to just look at the screen and say nothing.
D.B.-Nick?
Just then, Morgan walks up from behind.
MORGAN-Nick, is everything okay?
He is forced back to the present.
NICK-Sorry, D.B. It's just the results shocked me a little.
D.B.-Why? What did they say?
NICK-The results said that the missing female is my sister.
MORGAN-What?
Morgan looks at the screen and it is blinking the message, "Female autosomal match to CSI Nick Stokes".