Adam stopped pacing and faced Mac, "I've decided to help Detectives Togo and Robinson with their case." He took a deep breath.

"How long have you thought about this?" Mac asked. Unbeknownst to Mac and Adam, there was a bit of a crowd forming near his office. Lindsay, Sheldon, and Danny were watching.

"Since last night."

"What made you decide to do it?" Mac was nervous about having Adam help them.

"Well, I spent the evening there and after I got out of the bathroom, she and her friend, Jennifer, started talking. She said she wanted me to get her the gun. She has been using me to get it and well...uh...thinks I'm an idiot. She uh...well..."

"Take a deep breath," Mac told him calmly.

Adam got up and paced again, "Well, you see..." He took another deep breath as he was very nervous.

The crowd that formed were amazed that Mac was so calm and wondered what the issue was.

"Adam, just take few deep breaths and sit down for a few minutes."

Adam sat down then began as he put his elbows on his knees, "She said she was going to come in two weeks with her friends who have machine guns and get it."

"Oh, she did?" Mac sat forward calmly.

"Yes, she did." Adam looked scared and didn't want anything to happen.

Mac got up, sat on the chair next to Adam and put his hand on his shoulder.

"Adam, give yourself until Thursday to make sure you want to do this, because you can't back out."

"Okay, I'll do that. I realize I can't back out but I don't-."

"I know it is scary. But I appreciate you talking to me about this."

"No problem, Boss." Adam felt better then they both got up and noticed the crowd that formed started to leave.

"I guess you have been very nervous the last few hours?" Mac smiled.

"Yeah, they think I did something to your truck." They both laughed.

September 2nd -

Adam had thought about what he wanted to do and about what Mac had told him. He still wanted to bring her to justice so he saw Mac in his office and walked in.

"Mac?"

"Yeah, Adam?"

"I have been thinking about it the last few days and I still want to do it. I have gone out with Shannon and she seems really insistent that I get her the gun. I told her that it would be a long time until her friend gets it back but I told her that if I decided to get it, I'd let her know. She seemed fine with that."

"Okay, I'll call the detectives and let them know." Mac sighed nervously.

"Thanks, Mac." Adam left to his computer.

After the meeting with the detectives, Adam went to see Shannon after work to talk to her. She had a male companion, Timothy Buck, with her, who was an undercover agent and had a wire on as well.

They sat down.

"How was your day?" she asked Adam.

"It was good. Just working on getting the bad guys."

"So have you decided if you would get the gun for my friend?" she asked.

"I've decided, I will be able to get the gun for you. It might take a day or two since I gotta make sure no one is suspicious, you know?"

"Yeah, that's great. My friend will really appreciate it."

"Well, I'm going to get going." Adam didn't show any emotion but was nervous inside.

"Wait, there is something else though."

"Oh?"

"We want to know what evidence was left and maybe you can bring us some reports on it." She handed him an envelope with a piece of paper inside. He looked at it.

"I don't have access to the reports, only the detectives do. I'm just a lab tech but I'll call you as soon as I am able to get these items. I can't promise you that I will have access to everything. I need maybe a week at least to get it done, I don't want anyone to get suspicious."

"Let me call him," she said, then left to call her friend. After she finished she came back and told Adam, "He said no more than a week."

"Okay."

Adam went to his car, taking the envelope with him. After a few blocks he put the envelope in a evidence bag to be processed.

In the lab-

Adam had called Mac to let him know about a note and envelope given to him that needed to be processed and he put it in the evidence room lock box. Mac made a box so Adam could put any evidence that he needed to give them. He went in the computer room to make copies of the photos he would give them after making changes, then storing them on a thumb drive. He yawned and stretched, then went to his desk to put away the drive, gather his things, and go home.

The next morning-

Mac processed the note for fingerprints and any kind of DNA then put it into evidence. Adam went in to work a bit early and started altering photographs before printing the photos and putting them in a file.

Meanwhile 8:30am-

Lindsay and Danny were in Mac's office talking about the Mistina Johnson case.

"Well, the boyfriends have alibis and we aren't anywhere on this case but there are some guys who didn't like her but one, who we still haven't been able to talk to, hates her, a lot," Lindsay said.

"Who is this guy?" Mac asked.

"Grant Cook. We just can't find him and he seems to have dropped off the face of this earth," Lindsay said.

"I bet Ronald Harrison wishes he didn't go after Adam," Danny said.

Jo walked into Mac's office with some files she gave Mac.

"Speaking of Harrison, have you guys seen Adam?" Lindsay asked.

"He is working on a different case and won't be helping us much for a while," Mac said. He had seen Adam in the photo lab an hour earlier.

Danny wondered what that case was about as he and Lindsay looked at each other, and Jo looked at him curiously.

Adam was in the conference room looking at the reports on the computer and making changes to them so Shannon and her crew wouldn't know that the police had. He deleted the names and statements of victims as well as witnesses; he didn't want them to know about a necklace that was found at the scene linking one of them to the crime either.

A while later, he put the evidence away and went to the cafeteria to eat while everyone worked.

His cellphone rang and he picked it up. "Ross. Hi, Shannon. Yeah, I'm working on it. You want it when? Okay. I'll see what I can do. Bye." He hung up the phone and muttered, "Damn it." He threw away his trash and went in the conference room to call Detective Togo. After a few minutes he hung up with her and the plans had been made. Adam made changes to reports over the weekend in the conference room then finally finished on Sunday night.

September 6th 6:30am at Webster Avenue apartment-

Don, Mac, Danny, and Lindsay went to a home to arrest a suspect in a hit and run.

"Ready?" Mac asked.

Don knocked, "NYPD, Roscoe Washington, open up!"

After a few moments they busted in, Roscoe gave up, and was arrested.

"Hey, I want to make a deal and a lawyer."

"Fine. What kind of deal?" Don asked.

"When I get a lawyer, man," Roscoe said as he slurred his speech a bit.

"Fine, then let's go," Don said as he and the officer took Roscoe to the precinct.

"We can tow the car that is on the street," Mac said.

"Looks like this guy has a drinking problem," Danny said. They saw the glass bottles on the table and in the trash.

"Yeah," Lindsay said.

"He should be glad he isn't facing a long time in jail since the victim recovered," Mac said.

East 53rd Street-

Adam went to a nearby street where police talked to him about what they wanted him to do then he went to the home of Mark Prescot with the box of evidence. He rang the doorbell.

Shannon answered. "Hi, Adam." She let him in.

"Hi." Adam smiled as he walked in and put the box on the table.

"Adam, where is my gun?" Mark asked annoyed as he looked through the box.