Life was full of choices. There were big choices, little choices, good choices, and bad choices. He'd seen people make some spectacularly bad choices. Every time he processes a crime scene he had to deal with people's bad choices. He had made some bad choices himself. He had chosen not to clean his gun for a few weeks and was almost killed because of it. Horatio had brought him a new gun cleaning kit after that incident. He had brought it right to this lab knowing that he had neglected his weapon. And now he had another choice to make.