SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 24 out, this is Chapter 25 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 25: I Like to Watch

"The victim came out of her apartment around 5:00 A.M." Archie stated. "So I've been working my way back from then." And rewound the video, the time clock now showing the 10:34 hour. "In the previous seven hours, 37 people came and went from the 11th floor, 21 of them male."

"So the assailant could be any one of them." Catherine mused, Archie nodding in agreement, "Assuming that our guy didn't take the stairs which, of course, aren't monitored."

"Okay, now, here," Archie froze the screen, showing a particular man stepping into the elevator. "This guy got off on the vic's floor at 10:32 P.M. There's no footage of him coming back down. And check this out."

"He brought flowers." Catherine remarked, seeing the flower bouquet Archie had enlarged on the screen. "How romantic."

"But I don't think this was a first date." Archie corrected, bringing up another camera view of the front doors; the time clock now reading 10:27 P.M. "Guy had his own key." He added, the video now showing the man entering the apartment.

"So he could've been with the victim the whole night." Catherine surmised. "Pull the best image of his face you can, and get a printout to Brass."

"I'm on it." Archie nodded.

"Ms. Willows, hold on a second." The TV producer stopped Catherine. "All you have is a guy's face. How do you figure out who he is?"

"Good question." Catherine admitted.

"According to surveillance, the victim came home at 6:19 P.M." Archie pulled out the footage from the video. "And the firemen were in her building at approximately 7:00. They took the stairs, so we don't have them on this camera. Now take a look at this." he paused the video at 6:36 P.M and a fireman was seen pounding on one of the doors.

"Well, he certainly looks the part." Catherine agreed.

"He touched the door with his bare hands." Archie pointed out. "Might get prints."

"The time code says 6:36 P.M." Catherine noted. "But the alarm went out at 6:58. That's 22 minutes later."

"What kind of fireman comes before the fire?" Archie wondered.

"Someone who knows it's coming." Grissom replied.

"Uh, Mr. Grissom, we may have missed that." The TV producer stated. "Could say it one more time for the camera?" to which, Grissom leveled a glare at the camera.

"So I guess this is a slow day at the morgue." The TV producer remarked, seeing Dr. Robbins exercising on a treadmill.

"You can't really predict this job." Dr. Robbins stated. "Today it's like this, tomorrow it's a bus accident. So I am here."

"Albert." Grissom entered the autopsy lab.

"Yeah?" Dr. Robbins looked up.

"Did you find the blood sample I called you about?" Grissom asked.

"Female arson fatality." Adeline reported, looking up from her clipboard. "COD: smoke inhalation. The partial tox I got from Henry came back carboxyhemoglobin and cyanide."

"I need a test for lorazepam." Grissom requested.

"I'm way ahead of you." Adeline assured. "I sent a second sample to Henry a while ago."

"You recall any other sexual assault victims that tested positive for lorazepam?" Grissom asked.

"Uh..." Dr. Robbins trailed, looking at his former student. "Nothing comes to mind, but I'll check my files, confer with Toxicology."

"Thanks." Grissom nodded and exited.

"Yeah." Dr. Robbins nodded. "A slow day is a good day." he looked at the camera.

"Women are four times more likely than men to be the victims of a sex-related murder." Dr. Robbins informed the camera. "And men are ten times more likely than women to be the murderer. It's just the way it is." He pushed the doors open and entered the autopsy lab where Adeline was already hovering over the young woman on the table.

Adeline then handed Dr. Robbins the scalpel and the older coroner started the Y-incision.

"I think I'm going to petition to Grissom that this is going to be the first and last time we get a TV crew in the lab." Adeline muttered.

"Come on, Sprite." Archie chided. "It isn't so bad."

"Easy for you to say." Adeline leveled a look at him. "The only reason the camera didn't go into the autopsy lab is because a full autopsy won't be PG-13."

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