Speed and Eric Delko arrived on the scene. Eric had been on vacation too. "Sorry to pull you away from your vacation," Horatio said looking at his CSI's.
"It's all right. Duty calls," Eric said.
"H, I have to leave about a couple hours early tonight," Speed said squinting. The sun was in his eyes.
"Not a problem, Speed. New York?" Horatio asked.
Speed shifted his weight to his left leg; "Yeah… So, what the boat slams into the bridge, and now we have a crime scene?"
"Apparently, we have a witness who says she saw the boat aiming for the bridge," Horatio said putting his sunglasses on. Speed and Eric headed to the hummer get their kits.
"So Speed, you're going to New York tomorrow," Eric said grinning. He knew Speed had a girlfriend, and wondered if she would be going with him. The only thing Eric knew about her was that her name was Lauren and she was an interior designer; he wanted to know more.
"Yeah, my parents have been bugging me to come up," Speed said as he opened the trunk of the hummer. Speed wasn't ready to tell everyone about Lauren yet. Yes they knew her name but he wanted to wait till they told their families about the engagement. He would tell Horatio when he got back to the lab.
"Is Lauren going? I noticed you asked Horatio if you could have this week off."
Speed stopped what he was doing for a moment and looked at his friend. "What are you now, IAB?" Speed asked sarcastically.
"Hey man, I was just asking. I don't know much about this girlfriend of yours except her name, and what she does for a living." Eric and Speed looked at each other and laughed. They bickered like brothers.
Horatio, Yelina, and Calleigh were on the boat with Alexx. A dead body had been found. "Do we have an ID yet, Alexx?" Horatio asked taking of his sunglasses, and crouching down next the male victim.
"Reed Williams, age fifty-two. He's from Bal Harbor," Alexx said reading the man's drivers license.
"Horatio, I found a casing, looks like a twenty-two," Calleigh said standing next to the entrance of the yacht.
"All right ladies thank you. Now I'm going to check, and see what Mr. William's was into." Horatio left the boat with Yelina, leaving Alexx and Calleigh to do their work.
Calleigh reached in her kit for her crime light and her big orange goggles. Once she got situated she turned the on the device, but nothing happened. All it did was zap. "You know I may kill Speedle."
"Did he borrow your kit again?" Alexx said grinning as she continued to look over Mr. Williams.
"Well 'borrow' implies he had permission. I guess I will tape lift then." She reached into her kit and grabbed several lifters.
Back at the apartment, Lauren had just gotten off the phone with the pediatrician's office. "Molly, let's get up and get dressed I made a doctor's appointment for you," Lauren said waking her little sister up. She helped Molly find something comfy to wear then got dressed herself.
"You ready Moll?" Lauren asked exiting her bedroom.
"Yeah. Can I take this with me?" Molly asked holding up the hot washcloth in a bag.
"Sure. You need me to run it under some hot water again?" Molly nodded taking the washcloth out of the bag.
Taking the damp washcloth, Lauren quickly made her way to the kitchen sink. She glanced quickly to her left and noticed Speed's gun cleaning kit. "He must have left it out from a couple nights ago," Lauren said. "Here Molly, here's your hot washcloth. You got everything?" Molly nodded. "Okay, just let me put this one thing a way, then we can head out." Speed would always forget to put thing away after using them. She smiled to herself. It was the simple things he forgot, but cleaning his gun certainly wasn't one of them. "All right and we're off. Let's go get you all better." Lauren grabbed her keys, and the two sisters headed down to Lauren's silver Pontiac Grand Am GT.
On the way to her car, Lauren noticed the paper had come. She quickly grabbed it to read in the waiting room. "Lauren, can I lay down in the back seat?"
"Of course." Lauren opened the door to the backseat on the driver's side; she tossed the newly published newspaper in the front seat.
Moving out of the way she let Molly climb into the back seat. Lauren helped her get buckled up correctly before she got into the car herself. As she moved the paper to the passenger seat she noticed the heading, Shootout in Downtown Miami Killed One Officer. Lauren knew at anytime Speed could be that person. She just hoped that would never happen. Lauren started the car and headed to the doctor's office.
Speed and Eric were on the yacht collecting more evidence when Speed's cell phone rang. "Speedle."
"Speed, how's it coming?" Horatio asked.
"The Frogmen didn't find anyone, but I found some soil on the, uh, boat where the shooter could have jumped into the water. I don't know how informative it's going to be," Speed informed his boss.
"Okay, well I think we have a kidnapping situation, a six year old boy."
"How do you figure?" Speed asked a little confused.
"Yelina and I went to Mr. William's house, and his wife asked about their son. She wanted to know if we brought her son home."
"So the dead guy is her husband then?" Speed asked.
"And the boy's father. I believe the situation on the boat went downhill. The mud you found on the boat could be a connection to the suspect."
"All right, I'm on it," Speed said then hung up.
Over at the end of the boat, Eric found something. It looked to be some kind of bag. "Hey Speed look at this. The ransom money could have fit in this." Eric opened the bag only to find a dead fish.
"It's a fish Delko," Speed said flatly.
"Yeah, well I think we may have a secondary crime scene right here. Where this fish came from could be the first."
"How do you figure?"
"Trust me. I'll explain when we get back to the lab… Oh and by the way you missed a spot over there," Eric said point to a spot of soil Speed had missed. Speed flashed an okay sign and went back to work photographing and collection evidence.
A couple hours later, Eric and Speed headed back to process the evidence collected. "All right, which one of you two stole my crime light?" Calleigh Duquesne asked walking into the layout room.
"Stole is… is a very negative word. I, uh, borrowed it and replaced it. I put it back," Speed said explaining himself.
"Well, it would have been nice if you charged it for me. I was at the crime scene and it flat lined. I had to tape lift."
"Sounds like she mad at you dude," Eric chimed in.
"Calleigh, I sincerely apologize."
"Apology accepted, now give me yours." Calleigh grinned at him waiting for Speed to say yes.
"Go ahead, it's in my kit."
"Thank you," Calleigh said heading out of the room.
"Let's just hope she doesn't need her sodium rhodizinate."
Eric shook his head while looking through a book of fish species. "Ah ha, look at this… Triploid Grass Carp, they use them to control water vegetation in the canals," Eric said.
"Well, we've got one here that's only eight inches long so I'm assuming he was just released." Speed stated.
"So now we narrow it down to the canals who have just had them dumped in the waters ways."
"Yeah, but there's like 600 square miles of water ways."
"The county needs a permit to dump the carp so we do a search and narrow it down by entering the fish's size."
The two CSIs walk over to the computer and do a search for carp permits in Miami. They get a hit on one.
"Looks like there's one on Canal 2239 on… Newberry Road between 103rd and Fountain," Speed said reading off the computer screen.
"I'll call H and let him know then I'll head over there," Eric said grabbing his phone out to call Horatio.
"Sounds good, I'll be in the break room if you need me. I need to make a phone call."
A sly grin crept across Eric's handsome face. "You going to go call Lauren?" he asked as Speed headed out. All Eric heard was the laugher of his friend as he walked down the hallway.
On his way to the break room, Speed past a patrol officer named, Ryan Wolfe. He was looking for Horatio. Speed had been seeing a lot of him around the lab lately. "Excuse me, CSI Speedle, is Lt. Horatio Caine around?" Ryan asked nervously.
"He's out on a case right now, Wolfe, but I'll let him know you want to see him," Speed said.
"Thank you, CSI Speedle. I appreciate it," Ryan said nervously.
"No problem, and you can call me, Speed. If you'll excuse me I have to make a phone call." Speed started to walk down the hall but stopped. "Oh, and Wolfe, no need to be nervous. Lt. Caine doesn't bite." Speed winked at Ryan before he turned around to head down the hall. He laughed to himself as he walked into the break room.
Over in downtown Miami, Lauren sat at her desk in her office. Molly was asleep on the small loveseat Lauren had in the front of her office. They had just gotten back from the doctor's, and it turned out Molly had a double ear infection and a bad head cold. She had seen the family of the officer who had been killed; the man on the front page of the paper.
Lauren was going through some old decorating magazines that she wanted to get rid of when her cell phone rang. The display said, 'Husband to-be'. Lauren laughed to herself thinking Molly must have changed Speed's contact info on her cell. "Hey love," Lauren answered
"Hi, how's your day going so far and how's Molly?" Speed asked looking in the mini fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
"It's all right. Not much action since I'm supposed to be on vacation, although I had one client come in and Molly is one sick little girl. She has a double ear infection, and a bad case of the cold.
"Is she doing any better now?" Speed asked. There was nothing good in the fridge, and there was nothing good in the vending machine. "Ugh, there is nothing to eat in this place." He could hear Lauren laugh on the other end of the phone.
"You want me to go pick you up something and bring it to the lab? Molly's asleep and I'm sure Jen and Mallory will look after her until I get back. I have to go pick up her medicine soon anyway. There's a Subway right by there, and I think a McDonalds and Burger King. Pick your poison."
"You're amazing you know that, babe."
"I know you don't have to tell me twice," Lauren giggled.
"Cute babe, real cute. I'll take Subway… the usual."
"All righty then! One foot long Philly Cheesesteak on Italian coming up with a mountain dew and a bag of chips."
"This maybe the reason why I'm marrying you," Speed said grinning from ear to ear.
"Very cute Speed-o. Hey tell Horatio and everyone else that they don't have to worry about lunch. I got you all covered," Lauren said getting up from her office chair. She began to search for her purse.
"Babe, you don't have to do that. You're too nice you know that. Delko is going to love you. Free food and you're hot. He won't know what to do." Speed laughed as he walked into the locker room.
"Well, he's just going to have to take it and deal with it. I'm very much taken," Lauren said smiling. The two talked for a moment longer then hung up.