Chapter 4.

Brass walked up the long drive of mansion no.11. Number 9 was empty and had no sign of activity. As he stepped up to the front door an elderly man came out the front door. "Hello, sir. My name's Detective Brass of the Las Vegas PD, i was hoping you could tell if you'd seen these two women around this area at all, they would have been driving a black Denali". Brass handed to man a picture of the Csi's, " yeah i did" said the elderly man. Pressing the man again, Brass questioned him, " Do you know which way they went?", the old man replied " Yeah i did". Rolling his eyes, Brass remained calm, " Ok well which way did they go?", the elderly man pointed up the mountain, " That way", Brass looked the man who was just looking back at him, " Ok well thankyou for your help sir", even millionaires are clueless at times he thought to himself. When Brass got to his car he called a back to the lab.

Nick took out his cellphone, " Brass" he said to the rest of the team, putting his phone on speaker. " I got a lead from the village idiot -i'll explain later, anyway he said he saw Catherine & Sara head up the mountain from his place, there's only three more houses on this side of the the mountain, 13, 15 and 17. I'm about to check out number 13". Nick was the first to speak, " Ok well so far we've come up with nothing, i'll check into the owners of those three houses, see if anything interesting comes up. Let us know the minute you find anything Jim". " Will do", with that Brass hung up and the team got to work on background checks of the owners of the remaining houses on Brass's side of Millionaires Mountain. Finally they had a direction to go in.

" I'm getting tired of playing games. How are we meant to get across there without getting stuck with something?" Catherine said, thinking out loud. " Well i been thinking about that, we're stood on a tile right", Catherine looked down at the floor and realised that they were both stood on individual tiles, " My guess is, that each one has a pressure pad, some are lethal, some aren't. So all we gotta do is choose the right ones or stay off the floor completely". Sara figured out. " I don't disagree with you Sara but how are we meant to know which one's are lethal?, there's hardly a cross and tick on each one to help us out." Catherine pointed out to Sara, " Well i know that but at least i'm thinking, i think our best chance is to stay off the floor, which means we gotta get from here to the centre kitchen area and from there to the door" Sara suggested. Catherine looked at Sara in disbelief, " I don't know about but i'm not Spiderman Sara, how do you suppose we get to the centre kitchen area, run and jump?!". Sara smiled and raised her eyebrows, " That's what i was kinda thinking, yeah. Run, jump and pray". Catherine didn't know what to say, did Sara really think that was going to work. " Ok, you first". Sara looked at Catherine, " Actually i thought maybe you like to go first". Catherine edged Sara forward, " Kiddo, prove yourself and get us outta this mess". Sara moved as far back as possible in the limited space then launched herslef up and forwards. She narrowly missed her target and landed on two tiles, but no flying knives. " I guess these two are good then", Sara said looking back at Catherine. " Aren't you glad", Catherine told Sara to sit on top of the kitchen area while she made the same jump onto the safe tiles.

Brass was on his way to house 13. Since the others had been a washout. As he neared number 13 he could see that the windows looked a metal colour, as he pulled up the drive he noticed the girls Denali and that metal was just what it was. " I guess i found the house", Brass dialled the lab, " I'm at number 13, they're here, or at least their car is. The windows are closed off with metal shutters from the inside, i'm not even gonna try the door just incase the place really is rigged to go bang". Grissom asked " Can you see Sara or Catherine?", Brass tried to get a look in, " Gil i can't see a thing, the whole place is shut off from the outside world".

Nick broke the silence from Brass's last comment " I'm sending Greg & Warrick over, me & Grissom will dig deeper into this guy's background. According to the housing records the owner is a Mr. Dean Marshall, ring any bells with you?". The line went silent for a moment, then Brass spoke up, " Yeah it does and if it's him, we're in some serious trouble or at least Catherine and Sara are".

"Ok so we're both off the floor, now we just got to get over the last half of the kitchen tiles, and why am i not convinced that the two tiles in front of the door aren't user friendly", Catherine said whilst trying to figure out what to do next. Sara was looking up at the ceiling, " Hey Catherine, the ceiling isn't plaster all over", Sara pointed to an air vent about two feet to the right of them. " What you think, fancy crawling through an air vent like they do in the movies?", Catherine laughed " Yippe Ki-ay! At this point i'm game for anything, pardon the pun".

Sara, whilst being held steady by Catherine leaned across to the air vent and managed to get it open. It was then she felt something give on her waist band, as she looked down she saw her cellphone fall from her waist towards the floor, Catherine tried to grab it but missed. The phine it a tile and a knife flew out the wall and straight at Sara. Sara was in no mans land, unable to go up the vent and unable to get back to the kitchen area, the knife hit Sara in her side as she went crashing to the floor. Knives, cleavers, forks fleww across the room.

Catherine grabbed Sara and dragged her to the doorway, unaware of what was hitting her, the pair tumbled through the door in a bloody heap-motionless.