Chapter Four
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From "Living Doll"
Sara has been kidnapped; the team just found out who the mini killer was and are now discussing Natalie.
GRISSOM: For over a month. She's never been arrested, so there's nothing to
flag on a security check. She used Ernie Dell's address on her work form. She
has no home phone and no driver's license.
(The computer beeps.)
GREG: Okay, I got it.
(A screen appears on the monitor:
?282-040607 INCIDENT DATE
2007 RED MUSTANG ACCIDENT
CAR FLIPPED OVER
LOCATION: ALLEY BEHIND THE TRIP WIRE BAR
FRINE ST. & DORISA AVE.
FATALITY, DRIVER IDENTIFIED AS NOLAND
(The second screen reads:
CASE FILE NO. LVPD 070406-3022 ??
LEAD CSI: SARA SIDLE STATUS: CLOSED
VICTIM: WELLER, NOLAND DATE: 04-04-07 TIME: 05:19 AM
LOCATION: FRINE ST. & DORISA AVE.
ALLEY BEHIND THE TRIP WIRE BAR
CRIME SCENE DESCRIPTION:
RED MUSTANG 2007 TURNED OVER
DRIVER NOLAND WELLER EJECTED FROM DRIVER'S SEAT
VICTIM TOXICOLOGY FOUND ALCOHOL IN SYSTEM )
GREG: A 2007 red Mustang totaled outside The Trip Wire Bar six weeks ago.
Driver fatality. DWI. Car went to scrap. Lead CSI on the case -- Sara Sidle.
(Everyone is quiet as they absorb this information.)
GRISSOM: Pull up the case photos.
(Greg pulls up the photos. He clicks on the first one of SARA and GRISSOM at
the scene with some of the bystanders behind them. NATALIE is in the photo.)
(He compares the photo with the file photo.)
GRISSOM: Oh, my God. She was at the crime scene.
NICK: So, she salvages the car, and somehow gets it out to the desert, and then
grabs Sara, and puts her under it?
(Grissom rubs his mouth nervously as it all hits home with him.)
WARRICK: I don't get it. What does Sara have to do with bleach?
CATHERINE: I don't know. This just feels different.
GRISSOM: (dazed) It is different.
(Quick flash of: [CRIME SCENE] Natalie stands just behind SARA and GRISSOM
beyond the crime scene tape. Grissom takes the camera from Sara. He slowly
runs his hand down her bare arm.)
(Natalie sees the caress and sees SARA.)
(End of flashback.)
GRISSOM: This girl holds me responsible for the death of Ernie Dell. I took
away the only person she ever loved, so she's going to do the same thing to me.
The team looks stunned
The following day they find Sara, dehydrated and severely injured….
[INT. HELICOPTER (IN FLIGHT) – DAY]
(The medics continue to work on Sara. Grissom reaches over and holds Sara's
hand. He watches her.)
(Sara's eyes open a little.)
SARA'S POV
(Right in front of her she sees a black vest with white letters: GRISSOM.)
(She blinks.)
(Grissom watches her and smiles.)
(He squeezes her hand.)
(The medics continue to tend to Sara, putting a cooling pack on her head.)
(Grissom watches her, his eyes bright and wide. Sara is going to be just fine.)
They arrive at Desert Palm and Sara is whisked away to the OR. The rest of the team join Grissom in the waiting room.
Catherine sits beside him and places a hand on his knee. He looked at her.
"How long?"
"Sara and I have always been friends Catherine." Replied Grissom evasively.
"C'mon Gil, talk to me, tell me something I don't know!"
"This is not the time to discuss it." he told her.
"Grissom, she is going to be in surgery for a while, why not confide in me as a friend. You know you can tell me anything."
Gil Grissom broke down and the tears started to fall. "We've been together two years, ever since Nicky's kidnapping. " he said. Catherine handed him a tissue and he wiped his eyes.
"And the shower scene started it all."
Grissom's jaw dropped. "How?"
"I'm an investigator – I find these things out. Nice 'pecks' by the way." She said and looked at him and wiggled her eyebrows.
Greg walked up to them and handed each of them a cup of coffee. "How are you holding up Grissom?"
Grissom looked up at the young CSI with bleary – bloodshot eyes."I can't take much more of this. It is heart wrenching to see her suffering."
"She is going to be ok Grissom, don't you worry." Greg said and walked back to where Nick and Warrick were sitting.
"One of us will have to change shifts." He said. "Ecklie was not happy when he found out about us. He even knows about the shower escapade. He hasn't said anything about it, but he will."
Catherine nodded. "Gil, Sara is a fighter; she is going to be fine!"
He was about to reply when the doctor came out.
"Gil Grissom, you can go see her now." He said.
Catherine gave his hand a squeeze and he went in.
The sight of her with a bandaged arm and just laying there so helpless made his heart drop. He made what he had thought was an inaudible sound.
"Don't do that. I'm going to be fine." The voice from the bed told him.
Grissom rushed over to the bed and touched her hair. "Doctor says I can go home in a couple of days and return to work in a few weeks.
"Take as much time as you need Sara, you need to recuperate." He told her.
She smiled. "You can't keep a good CSI away from work for long."
He gave her a smile. "No but as your supervisor – you need bedrest.'
"You gonna take some time away from work to rest with me?" she said giving him the best come-on look she could given her situation.
"I think I can take a few weeks vacation." He told her.