Once again, the team gathered in the break room.
Greg was sitting next to Sara, Ray opposite her and Nick was walking up and down the room again, making them all even more nervous than they already were.
"What's taking her so long?" Nick asked impatiently. They were waiting for Catherine to tell them some news on what's just happened.
"Nick, please, sit down," Sara asked politely.
Like always, Nick ignored it and kept walking up and down. Much to his fellow's annoyance.
"Nick, we're all anxious, but you're making it worse with walking up and down like that. Sit down!" Greg wasn't as polite as Sara, he was just annoyed. He almost yelled at Nick, much to his surprise.
"Alright..." The minute he wanted to sit down, Catherine walked in, causing him to keep standing up.
She entered the room with a very serious face. "It was the right decision to call us, Nick. Saliva on the envelope is from Dunbrook."
"Okay..." Nick sighed. "And what does the note say?"
"It's just a few pictures, but no note." Catherine took out copies of the pictures from a folder and put them on the table.
"That's pictures from every crime scene involving Dunbrook..." Sara said in disbelief.
"And that's my car..." Greg picked up the picture.
"And that would be us..." Catherine pulled one more picture out of the folder. It showed the whole team at a crime scene that didn't involve Dunbrook. At least they thought it didn't.
"But how? How did he take a picture like that and how did it end up in Nick's house?" Ray asked a question every one of them had on their minds.
"Whose finger print was that on the envelope?" Nick asked, looking at Catherine. When he found the envelope, a finger print was visible on it. Whoever put the envelope there dusted it for fingerprints, making this one visible to Nick.
"Not Dunbrook's. And we didn't get a hit in the database, either." Catherine sat down next to Ray.
"What does this all mean? He obviously wants to send a message, but what is it?" Sara was as confused as the rest of the team.
Catherine sighed. "I have no idea... But we have to find out before something happens again... We'll have to ask Dunbrook about it."
"But he didn't give you anything useful before, why should he now?" Ray asked.
"Maybe he just didn't want to talk to us." Brass entered the room, looking at Nick and Greg.
Catherine turned around to see him looking at the two. "No, Jim, we'll try again."
Nick noticed the looks they shared. "Catherine, if it helps the case, I'll go talk to him."
"I don't think that's a good idea, Nicky..."
"No, Catherine, we have to find out what he's up to. We both need to talk to him." Greg joined the conversation, causing everyone to look quite surprised at him. The last few weeks Greg wasn't like he used to be. He seemed to be quite intimidated by Dunbrook and his actions, and now he wanted to face him?
"Are you sure you want to do that, Greg?" Sara asked concerned. He didn't tell Nick, but he told her that hearing Dunbrook's voice again was quite scary. She figured talking to him would not be a good idea, then.
"I think I have to. Look at those pictures. He's threatening us. We don't know if he placed the envelope himself before he was arrested or if someone else did it for him, we can't take that risk."
"Greg's right. We have to find out what he's up to and if he only wants to talk to Nick and Greg, we'll have to do it," Brass said confident. He did care about Nick and Greg, but he also knew that they sometimes had to do things they don't like to do in order to catch a criminal.
Nick and Greg entered the interrogation room. They were accompanied by Brass. Dunbrook was already sitting there, waiting for them. Seeing him like that for the first time was a weird feeling. Nick was feeling excited, but also unease. They finally caught the guy, that's what he was excited about. But they also suspected him to have a plan he's able to realize from inside the prison.
Greg didn't share Nick's excitement. Sure, he was glad they finally had Dunbrook behind bars, but being face to face with him was just scary. He knew Dunbrook couldn't do anything to him in here, but it wasn't a good feeling seeing him that close.
When the three arrived, Dunbrook jumped off his seat with an excited grin on his face. "Finally!"
Greg winced when Dunbrook stood up, but tried to hide it. Dunbrook noticed, though, and smiled at him.
"Sit down!" Nick said demanding.
Dunbrook sat down again, as did the others.
Nick pulled out the pictures Catherine showed them in the break room and placed them on the desk. "What's this about?"
Dunbrook didn't keep his eyes off Nick and Greg. He didn't look at the pictures.
"Look at the pictures," Nick said rather impatient.
"I'm sorry if I've been a little bit rough when we first met..." Dunbrook said to Greg, "But I hope my present made up for it. The one I sent to you and the one I sent to your mother..."
"Let's cut the crap, alright? If you're trying for insanity in the courtroom, this act won't get you there. You're not obsessed with these two, you're just a sicko who couldn't make it to the police academy and now has a grudge on cops." Brass was losing his temper with Dunbrook. He's shown himself to be aggressive and full of hatred, now he was trying to convince them he was just obsessed with Nick and Greg and did all of this to meet them, Brass thought.
"Look, you wanted to talk to us, you said so yourself. Now's your shot. You can either sit here and look at us or talk. If you don't talk, we'll leave and we won't come back." Nick was getting impatient.
"Alright..." Dunbrook cleared his throat. "I'll talk. What did you feel when you saw that envelope sitting on your kitchen counter?"
Nick rolled his eyes. "Is this all you have to say?"
"Answer the question, then I'll answer yours."
"Surprised, worried, I don't know. Your turn." Nick was really getting impatient, he would've left the room by now if he didn't think Dunbrook might have something useful to say.
Dunbrook grinned. "You're the science nerds, you should be able to find out yourselves, I thought. But since you can't, I'll help you..."
Nick and Greg looked at each other, hoping he'd tell them something good.
"Do you guys really think I'm stupid? Don't you think I was a little easy to catch in the end? You spent weeks not knowing who I was, and I make that big a mistake transporting two dead bodies? You're quite naïve, really..." He laughed devilish.
"Okay... So why did you let yourself get caught?" Greg asked, trying not to let the fear shine through his voice.
"Because..." Dunbrook leaned forward. "I wanted to meet you guys."
Without realizing it, Greg leaned back.
Nick didn't. He didn't feel intimidated by this guy. "How did you get access to our homes without any signs of a break-in?"
"Wow. You finally have me in custody and ask these boring questions? Come on, be a little more creative." Dunbrook laughed while leaning back again.
"Okay, then why don't you tell us what these pictures mean. Who placed them in my house and why?" Nick asked in an aggressive tone.
"Oh, they don't mean anything. Just that this isn't the end." Dunbrook grinned.
The team gathered in front the interrogation room. Sara, Greg and Langston were sitting on a bench and Nick and Catherine were standing in front of them.
"Archie said that the pictures were taken with a cell phone, he's trying to narrow it down to a few cell phone models, but he can't tell if he can find out which phone exactly it is," Catherine said while passing around enhanced copies of the pictures. "Other than that, I don't think there's anything to find out who took these pictures."
Ray put his glasses down to rub his eyes. "And the fingerprint?"
"It's all we got, but we don't have anyone to compare it to."
Nick sighed. "That's it? What are we supposed to do now? Waiting for his accomplices to make a move?"
"I don't like that as much as you do, Nicky, but at the moment there's nothing we can do. We can try talking to him again, but I doubt he'll say anything useful." Catherine was sick of this game of Dunbrook's as much as the rest of the group.
"Okay, let's just think this through. Who would be able to get that close to us working a crime scene without being suspicious?" Sara tried to keep their hopes up.
"Police officers, other CSIs, the coroners... Maybe crime scene clean up," Greg replied.
"Exactly. I don't think any civilian would come that close."
"What are you implying? That there's another dirty cop?" Nick asked curious.
"It makes sense, doesn't it? He's able to convince one cop to help him pursue his plans, why not another one?"
"The thought of it is just horrible, but I'm afraid you might be right..." Catherine stood up. "But all their finger prints are in the system, how does that fit in your theory?"
"This fingerprint could belong to anybody. Why did he dust it, anyway? He wants us to see it. We shouldn't waste any time thinking about that."
"Sara's right. He's playing with us. We should find out which officer could be involved," Greg said, looking around the group.
"Brass' not gonna like that. But let's find any links to Dunbrook, Pierce or Randall." Catherine turned around to walk away.
"Maybe we should start with Miller. Could be too convenient to be attacked at Dr. Pierce's murder scene, don't you think?"