Chapter 4: I'm not like you
"CODIS spit out a name"
Horatio looked at the report. "Enrico Carlos. What's his record?"
"Drug trafficking, assault… and now murder." Stella said. "Nice person. He's staying at the Clock Hotel"
"Mala Noche, no doubt. Where's Sam?"
"I left her in the break room…"
"So this Enrico Carlos killed both Samantha and Maria Fuentes in Miami…"
Both of the CSIs suddenly heard footsteps, running away, fast, echoing on the walls of the lab.
"Sam" Horatio said, before he darted away after her. Near the stairs, he caught up with her, grabbing her arm.
"Where are you going?" was the only thing he asked.
Sammie didn't respond to that question. "Were you going to tell me?"
"Tell you what?"
"Tell me you can arrest that guy."
Horatio looked at her. "I want you to be safe. I don't want you to go out and get revenge."
Sammie looked Horatio straight in the eyes. "I'm not like you."
Horatio let loose of her arm.
"You're doing nothing to get that guy!" she went on. "And when were you going to tell me he wanted to kill me?"
Silence.
Eventually -
"How did you find out?"
"I overheard you and detective Taylor." Sammie walked off the stairs. "I'll see you later" and then she was gone.
Horatio turned around to find Mac and Stella. In the corridor he bumped into a young woman whose name he remember as being 'Lindsay Monroe'.
"You're… lieutenant Horatio Caine, MDPD, aren't you?" she asked. Horatio looked at her.
"Miss Monroe, I am looking for detectives Taylor and Bonasera."
"Trace lab" she answered, and then she was gone.
"Mac, Stella - we immediately have to get to Enrico Carlos' hotelroom." he said to them. They both had a 'why'-look on their face but got on their feet.
"I think Sam's on her way to there" he explained.
"I'll warn PD" Stella answered.
"I'm coming with you" Mac said.
Her finger was all black from the phone book ink, but Sammie didn't care. All she cared about was finding the address of the Clock Hotel. It didn't take her long to find the right one - despite the huge number of hotels in New York, there was just one Clock Hotel. She made a taxi stop and got in.
"Clock Hotel." and she told the driver a street name.
"What is a girl like you going to do there?" the driver asked.
"Giving someone what I still owe him" she said.
