"Calleigh, what do we have here?" Horatio asked as he arrived at the crime scene. It was located in a small, two room apartment. The victim was on the couch with their hands bound behind them and their feet chained together. There was blood everywhere and the apartment was trashed. "What I don't get a Hi or welcome back?" Calleigh teases. This was their first case with the team back to work since the incident a few months ago with one of the team from the lab was caught tampering with evidence and Wolfe the one framed for a murder that he didn't commit. Horatio was glad that IAB had finished up the investigation and had allowed the team to come back. They all had stayed in touch but it was welcoming to be able to do what they were good at. Horatio smile at her and chuckled. "Hello Calleigh and Welcome back." Calleigh nods her approval and then answers Horatio's earlier question. "Well the victim is female. Her hands are bound and there are chains around her feet." Horatio walks around the body looking at the hands and feet. "Do we have a cause of death?" he asked. The medical examiner replied "It appears to be blunt force trauma to the head." Eric is looking over the walls when he stops and kneels down to get a better look at something. Horatio notices and asks "Eric, what have you got?" "There is an odd blood spatter here on the wall. It does not appear to be consistent with the spatter from the victim." Eric replies. "Bag it. Calleigh lets make sure we tag every drop." Horatio tells them. "You got it H." Horatio put his sun glasses on and says "Let's get to work."
At the lab Wolfe is getting his messages from the clerk desk when a young red head walks in and starts looking around. She looks lost so Wolfe walks up to her and asks "Can I help you?" She smiles and says "Yes. I am looking for a Mr. Caine. Do you know where I can find him?" Wolfe replies "He is not here right now but can I give him a message for you?" The girl politely smiles and says "Um… yes could you give him my number and have him call me when he gets back? I have something to give him from a friend." She pulls out a small piece of paper and a pen which she uses to write down her number. The girl gives the paper to Wolfe. As the girl is walking away Wolfe calls out to her "What is your name?" She turns around and gives him a questioning look. Wolfe laughs and says "So I can tell him who he is calling" She smirks. "Are you sure it is not just you wanting to see how old I am so you can take me to dinner?" She replies. Wolfe's mouth hangs open and he stumbles to find the words to reply. The girl laughs and says "It's Emily. Please have Mr. Caine give me a call." Wolfe closes his mouth and nods. During this final exchange Natalia walked up and started to laugh when Emily leaves. "Geeze Wolfe, the first day back on the job and a girl has you speechless and I haven't seen many girls do that to you." Natalia teases Wolfe. "Yeah, laugh it up Nat but I was not speechless it just took me a little while to find the right words to combat what she said." Wolfe tells her. "I might believe that Wolfe, if there had been any words that actually did come out of your mouth." Natalia comments. "Fine. Yes Natalia, the girl caught me off guard." Natalia holds up her hands and laughs as she hands Wolfe a file. "What did she want anyway?" She asked. "Oh she wanted to talk to H" Wolfe replies and puts the piece of paper in his pocket on the inside of his suit. "Hmm… I wonder what for." She said curiously. "Don't know but I can see that you are here for something more that to just tease me so what do we have?" Wolfe asked. Natalia shrugged and started to explain the case to Wolfe. "So we have a 50 year old woman in a two room apartment with her head bashed in. There is one blood spatter that is not the victims. DNA results say that the blood is male but it's not on codis and I can't figure out how there is spatter got on the wall. There is only a few drops right there on the wall and nowhere else in the apartment." "Ok, I will go help Eric try and figure out how that got there and you can go see what the body has to say." Wolfe says as they both walking off in opposite directions.
Back at the crime scene, Calleigh is going over the scene when she notices that the second bedroom has some objects that don't appear to be items that a 50 year old would have. She takes pictures of everything in the whole apartment. Once she is done she starts to bag a few of the items that didn't seem to belong. Eric walks into the guest room where Calleigh is as she bags the last of the evidence. "What you got in here Cal?" Eric asked her as the sealed the bag. Calleigh finishes up and says "Well the other bed room is definitely the victims but this room appears to be for a younger person. Like a teenage girl." Eric looks around and goes "What makes you think that it is a teenage girl?" "The bra in the closet for one" she answers with a small smile as Eric slightly blushes.
"Alright. So we need to find out who was living here with the victim." Eric says. Calleigh nodded. "Eric if there was a teenager living here, where is she?" Eric shook his head. "I don't know Cal but I hope that she is not the one who did this." Calleigh still looks thoughtful as she gathers up her things. Just as they are heading out of the room Calleigh pauses and turns to Eric. "Eric… do you think that may be the blood on the wall was from a struggle and the girl drew blood from her attacker?" Eric shook his head. "Let's not jump to conclusions and see what the evidence tells us alright?" Calleigh nodded. Back at the lab, Horatio walks into the morgue and asks "Do we have a cause of death?" "Just as you thought, blunt force trauma to the skull. I found some particulates in the wounds and I sent them to trace." The examiner replied. "Ok what about an ID?" Horatio asked. I gave Natalia the victims prints and she is running them through codis". "Thank you". Horatio says as he walks out.
Horatio walks into the lab as Natalia is running the prints. He walks into the room just as the computer gets a match. "Do we have an ID?" he asks. "Um yes. The victim's name is Maria Song." Natalia response as she turns the computer's monitor around so Horatio can see the results. As he reads through the info he says "She was printed so she could adopt. Can you get me the adoptment agencies info so we can she who she adopted?" Natalia searches the data base and finds the info that they were looking for. "Angles of Florida". She replied. "Well let's go see who Ms. Song was adopting." Horatio says. As they are leaving, Eric walks around the corner. "Hey H, Calleigh believes that the victim had a kid." "Yes and I am on the way to the agency she was finger printed at." Horatio replies "Well I was just running this down to Nat so she could run the DNA from some hair we got from the spare room." Eric says as he holds up an evidence folder. "Calleigh asked me to help her go through everything she got from the crime scene." Eric tells Horatio. "I will take Ryan with me. Get that to Natalia and go ahead and help Calleigh." Horatio says as he walks away.
Horatio was in the driver seat and Wolfe in the passenger as they were on their way to the adopting agency. "Horatio." Wolfe asks. "Yes Mr. Wolfe" "There was a girl at the station today looking for you and she gave me her number to give you. She asked that I give it to you and have you call her." Wolfe says as he hands Horatio the paper with the girls number. "She said her name was Emily and that was all she gave me." Wolfe explains as Horatio glances at the paper now in his hand. They arrive at their destination and Horatio puts the phone number into his suit pocket. "Thank you Mr. Wolfe." Horatio was now curious as to who was looking for him and why, when they pulled up to their destination. Wolfe looks at the building and says "Shall we go in?" Horatio puts on his sun glasses and as he does he says "We shall". A secretary greets them and asks them to wait a bit for the boss to finish up with his meeting before they talk to him. As they are waiting, they look around. Most of all the employees are on the phone or talking to clients. A man walks up to them and says "Can I help you officers?"
Wolfe turns around and Horatio says "I believe you can. Are you in charge of this adoption facility?" "Yes" the man says. "My name is George Hall" the man says as he shakes hands with both Horatio and Wolfe. "We are investigating the murder of Maria Song." Wolfe tells Mr. Hall. "What?" Mr. Hall says in disbelief. "We noticed that she was trying to adopt someone from your place and we were wondering if you could give us the name of the child she was looking at." Horatio asks. "Um yes I will have Suzie bring up her file." Mr. Hall tells them as he points to a lady to his right. Mr. Hall is called over from another employee and gives his apologies and walks over to help that employee while Suzie pulls up Ms. Song's file. "Ok it says here that she filed for adoption papers last year and adopted a girl." The lady says and shows the monitor to Horatio and Wolfe. Wolfe gets this startled look and leans forward like he is getting a better look at the photo of the girl. "H, that is the girl from this morning. The one that was looking for you." The picture showed a young girl with dark red hair and deep brown eyes. She looked slightly familiar to Horatio but he put that feeling aside as he pulls out the paper with the phone number on it and says "Let's give her a call."
It opens back up to Horatio, Wolfe, and Calleigh are gathered around in the front area of the lab as Horatio calls Emily. The phone rings four times before someone answers it. A girl's shaky voice says "Hello?" "Hello this is Lieutenant Horatio Caine and I was just told that you were looking for me this morning." "Y...ye…yes I was." The girl says. There was a thumping sound in the background and the girl whimpers. Horatio calmly asked "Miss are you alright?" there is a long pause and they heard the girl yelp and a man's voice takes her place. "Lieutenant Caine is it? Well I have a little present for you and if you want it before I open it I would suggest that you take a long look at the people around you." This man's voice teases just before he hangs up the phone. Horatio gets a panicked look on his face. "What is it?" Calleigh asks. I believe the girl has been kidnapped." "What?!" Eric exclaims. Horatio rushes his phone over to their technology expert and tells him "Bring up the last call on my phone. I want you to trace it and replay the conversation." "We can do that?" Wolfe asks. "As long as we were in the 20 feet of this room." The tech replies. He brought up the call and played it so the others could hear while the computer searches for the location of the phone.
"H do you recognize that voice?" Wolfe asked. "No I don't Wolfe but we need to find out who it is and fast. Do we have a location yet?" "Sorry but the phone call was not on long enough for the signal to be traced back. It is like he allowed the call just so you could know he was out there but not long enough for you to find him before he wants." The tech replied. "I will go back over the files on the mom and see if we find any clues as to who it might be." Calleigh says as she walks quickly out of the room. I am going to go help her." Wolfe says and fallows Calleigh out. Horatio walks out and goes to see if Eric and Natalia had found anything in the evidence. "Have anything?" He asks. "Well we can tell you that Ms. Song was a very clean person and that she was indeed living with another person by the food that was found there." Eric says. "Also I found some particulates that I am running through the mass spec." Natalia tells Horatio. "Do we have anything on who the murder is or if the girl was taken from there?" Horatio asked. Natalia shook her head no. "H, she was in here when you guys were at the crime scene. She must have been taken after she left the building. "Eric we need to find where they grabbed the girl so let's start in the parking lot and see if she drove." "Ok H." Eric and Horatio leave for the parking garage leaving Natalia to finish up in the lab.
In the parking lot they find a thunder bird that hasn't moved for a few hours and is in the visitor section. As soon as they get there, they both can see that this was where the girl was taken. There were scuff marks everywhere and some blood on the car door. Horatio notices something under the car and found a rag. He slips some gloves on and carefully picks it up and gives it a small whiff. Chloroform. "Eric this is where they grabbed her. Do you see anything on the other side?" Eric shook his head. "No H, it looks normal over here but on your side it looks like she put up a fight." Horatio nodded in agreement. They begin to process the scene and a smile slowly grows on Eric's face. The more evidence he found the more he could see that the girl fought and may have even made her attacker bleed. Horatio had Frank there in no time and had the area secured as he and Eric took the blood that was on the car to Natalia. They watched her run it and waited for codis to find a match. The computer beeped and they all came to attention. "There is no match in codis but the sample from the car matches the sample that you guys found on the wall. "So the same man who murdered Mrs. Song also kidnapped Emily. We need to find this girl before he does something drastic." Horatio said with conviction. In another lab room Ryan and Calleigh are going back over the files when Calleigh notices a phone call that occurred a few hours before the murder took place to the home of the victim. "Hey Ryan, can you run this number for me?" she asks. "Ya sure. Do you think that it was the suspect making sure that the victim was home?" Ryan asks as he searches for the owner of the phone. "May be. I just want to be sure before I make any assumptions." "Well the number belongs to a pay phone next to an abandoned storage facility." Ryan says. "Hey want to come with me to check it out?" Calleigh asks. "Ya just let me grab my kit."
Calleigh and Ryan arrived at the abandoned storage facility a half hour latter. The building's perimeter is surrounded by an old chain link fence that in some places has holes in it. "This looks like a good place to hide out." Ryan said as they walked through one of the bigger holes in the fence. The side door was busted in. "Hey Ryan, this door has been broken. You want to photo that and see if there are any prints while I see if there is anything inside?" Calleigh asked when they reached it. "Sure." He replies as he pulls out his camera and begins to take pictures as Calleigh continues on to see if there is anything on the inside. As Ryan is finishing up with the door Calleigh hollers "Hey Ryan, you need to come see this." "Just a second." Ryan hollers back. He finishes up and walks into the room where Calleigh is. The room has a small table with food rappers and soda cans left on it and a worn out couch just a little ways from it. There is also a sleeping bag on the other side of the room. "It looks like someone was living here." Ryan said as he looked around. They both begin to photo the whole room. Ryan finds a few rappers that could have prints so he bags them. As he does Calleigh notices that there is another door. She opens it and walks down the hallway and notices that there is an absence of dust. The cleared hallway ends a few feet next to another room. She tries to open this door but it is locked.
She tugs on it a few times before she sets down her kit and pulls out her lock pick tools. She finally gets the door open. The room is almost completely dark except for the light that is coming in from the door that Calleigh just opened. She turns on her flashlight and looks around when she hears something. She stops and listens. It sounds like someone whimpering. She fallows the sound to the back of the room behind a big stack of boxes. There she sees a young girl tied up with her hands tied behind her and duck tape across her mouth. Calleigh yells "Ryan you need to get in here right now!" Calleigh rushes over to the girl and takes off the tape. It is the same girl that they had been looking for. Once the tape was off the girl says "He is still here." Calleigh holds the girls head in her hands as she says "What do you mean he is still here? They guy that kidnapped you?" The girl nods her head yes. The girl's eyes widened and she says "Behind you!" and as Calleigh turns around she is grabbed from behind. The guy puts a cloth over Calleigh's mouth and in a few moments Calleigh stops struggling. The culprit lays Calleigh down on the floor and taps the girls mouth back shut and manages to hide behind the door as Ryan rushes in to see what was going on. He sees the girl tied up and then notices Calleigh on the floor. He rushes to her and says "Calleigh!" He kneels down and is struck from behind. He is knocked out instantly. The man searches both Calleigh and Ryan for their phones. When he finds them he tosses the phones into the corner of the room. The guy smiles at the girl and laughs. He pulls out her phone and finds the last number it called. He dials it up and waits as the call goes to voice mail. The man laughs and leaves Horatio a voice mail. He grins evilly and turns the girl's phone back off. This was going to be so much fun.
