"What do you mean, your father passed that over?" Sapphire asked, appalled
that such a detail had been passed over by Gil Grissom, who had always been
a perfectionist. "The HYPERCRITICAL Gil Grissom passed a detail over..."
"Sapph...it's not unheard of, you know?" Kendall asked, looking up from the folder on the table, and over the top of her glasses at Sapphire. "My dad may be a great CSI, but he's no Horatio Caine..." she said, referring to a Miami CSI that her father had worked with, whose work had wowed her deeply.
"So, now we know other state's CSI's names?" Christina asked, annoyed.
"Girls...do we want to solve Minkus' case or what?" Shawn asked, also getting annoyed, but not only by Kendall, by all of the girls together.
"So sorry, Mr. Impatient!" Kendall, Sapphire and Christina grumbled to Shawn in unison.
"So, what's this mondo detail that Mr. Scrupulous looked over?" Jack asked, peering over Christina's shoulder at the file.
Kendall shot Jack a glance that obviously meant 'don't talk about my father like that, damn you!' and then, showed him the file. "The body was found here, but their only suspect is Frankie Staccino...and he was at the poetry club meeting, remember, Sapph?"
"Oh yeah! He read this great piece he wrote...I was amazed!" Sapphire got off topic again.
"Sapphire, come on..." Kendall glared at her best friend.
"We need to clear Frankie's name, but do it inconspicuously..." Christina looked pensively at the clock.
"But what if his alibi doesn't clear? I mean, what if he wasn't there...we need SOMETHING to prove he didn't do it..." Kendall nodded, pushing her glasses back up to where they're supposed to be, and adjusting them so they'd stay. "Cause I KNOW he didn't..."
"I really feel like Shaggy right now, because I have no idea what any of you are talking about..." Eric nodded. "I know Frankie, and I know what happened, but I'm getting lost quickly..."
"Can you explain it to him, Sapph? You're the only one who can make things out into Eric terminology..." Kendall chuckled.
Sapphire nodded, and walked over to Eric, to describe the situation.
Kendall thought. "We actually need to do something...we can't just sit here and let them accuse Frankie! We know he didn't do it!" she looked at Shawn, hoping he'd agree with her.
Shawn had been waiting for action. He didn't want to just sit there and look at papers all day. "Definitely!"
"Here's my plan...Christina and Jack...you guys take this..." Kendall handed Jack her father's case file. "And go to your house...look it over, and call me ON MY CELL if you find any details. Don't call me here...cuz if my dad sees..."
"Ok, we get it..." Christina nodded.
"Eric and Sapphire...you guys go talk to Frankie...ok? Don't tell him anything about investigating, cuz he'll get freaked out..." Kendall directed.
"Got ya..." Sapphire grinned at Eric. "I'm really getting into this!"
"Me too!" Eric beamed.
"Shawn...you and I can go check the crime scene out after my dad gets home, ok?" Kendall told Shawn. "We'll just hang here until then..."
"Ok..." Shawn smiled. He wondered if he and Kendall would actually be doing this as a living someday. He pictured Kendall with a nametag reading 'Kendall Hunter' on it, and then shook hie head, and imagined 'Kendall Grissom. There we go...so much for Kendall's not being into the whole CSI scene.' He thought.
"Ok, call us if you find anything out..." Sapphire and Christina nodded.
"Will do!" Kendall smiled.
~~
A few minutes after everyone had scattered, Shawn and Kendall were joined by Sara Sidle and Catherine Willows, another one of the CSI's. "Hey, Kendall!" Sara smiled. "Hey Shawn!"
"Whoa..." Kendall looked at Shawn nervously. "Uh...hey Sara, Catherine..." Kendall nodded a hello to them both. "What are you doing here, anyway? Not to be rude...but..."
"Oh, it's ok..." Catherine nodded back. "Your dad told us to come pick up a few case files...the Minkus case, the..."
Sara stopped her. "Catherine! We're not supposed to tell them that!"
"This is Griss' daughter!" Catherine tilted her head. "It's not like she's the type to tell everyone..."
"I know, but you know that Griss would have your head for that..." Sara exclaimed.
"You would know all about what Griss would want, too, wouldn't you, the future Mr. Grissom..." Catherine then realized that his daughter was sitting right in the room.
"What?!" Kendall screeched.
"Oh, they're just...uh...involved..." Catherine nodded. "Nothing serious, really..."
"You guys, I'm not twelve...tell me the truth..." Kendall put her hands on her hips.
"Uh...it is serious..." Sara smirked. "I think...I'm love your father..."
Shawn's eyes widened, and he looked at Kendall, wondering how she would take all this.
Kendall smiled. "Awesome!"
"Really?" Sara asked. "It's really ok with you?"
"Of course! I've been trying to get dad to date for a long time!" Kendall smiled.
"Off to get those cases!" Catherine walked toward the stairs. "Come on, Sara..."
Shawn and Kendall swapped tense glances. "Uh oh..." he whispered.
"I got the feeling we should have put it back..." Kendall hissed at herself.
Sara searched the files. "E. Miller, O. Milles...S. Milles...S. Minkus should be right here, cuz the next one is G. Molson..." she looked at Catherine.
Catherine looked over Sara's shoulder. "You're right, it should..."
"That's odd..." Sara looked up at Catherine. "It's not like Griss at all to lose something..."
"I know, that's what I was thinking...maybe he has it with him, and just forgot?" Catherine shrugged.
"That's not like him either..." Sara laughed.
"I know...I'm just trying to think of what could have happened to it..." Catherine asked herself.
~~
Shawn and Kendall wanted to look inconspicuous, so Kendall put a movie into the DVD player, sat down on the couch, and nuzzled into Shawn; while Shawn wrapped his arm around her.
Catherine and Sara came down the stairs, and looked at Shawn and Kendall. "Have you guys seen your father's Stuart Minkus case file?"
Kendall looked up, acting confused. "No..." she shook her head. "I didn't even know he kept case files...sorry."
Catherine shrugged. "It's ok...he probably has it and forgot..."
Sara rolled her eyes. "Probably wanted to talk to Nick and Warrick alone, so he sent us out..."
Kendall laughed. "Do you know when he's gonna be home, anyway?"
"Well, we'll be in the lab until about ten-thirty..." Catherine explained.
"Then he's taking me out to a late, late dinner..." Sara told her.
"So about eleven-forty-five?" Kendall asked.
"Yeah, probably..." Sara grinned. "I'll see you guys later..." she waved.
Catherine waved. "See you guys!"
"Bye!" both Kendall and Shawn waved back.
"Ok...it's seven thirty now...we need to go get some of my dad's investigation stuff, and go to the crime scene..." Kendall nodded.
"One problem..." Shawn tilted his head a little.
"What?" she asked.
"I have NO idea what any of this is..." Shawn shrugged.
"Huh-boy..." Kendall grabbed Shawn's hand and dragged him upstairs. "Ok...this..." she pulled out a spray bottle of clearish liquid. "Is luminol..." she explained. "It picks up traces of DNA, like blood or seminal fluid..."
Shawn wanted to laugh at the word seminal, but decided against it, because he wanted to look mature. "Ok..." he nodded. "What else..."
"You need these..." she held up a pair of rubber-gloves. "Whenever you enter a crime scene..."
"I know that, I do watch cop shows..." Shawn smiled.
"Ok...how about q-tips? Like, if we find any DNA on the walls or whatever..." Kendall explained. "We use the q-tips to collect it."
"Yeah...what are the tape strip things for?" Shawn asked.
"If we find anything on the floor...or the wall that could be incriminating..." she explained. "And these baggies are for anything that we can just pick up. We can put it in the bag."
Shawn smiled. "Ok, anything else I need to know?"
"I'll brief you as we go along...let's just hope that not too many people are there, so we can just sneak by..." Kendall explained. "I can use my temp CSI pass that my dad gave me when he took me to work with him...just tweak it a bit, and I'll just say that you're a friend, that forgot his pass..." she explained. "I'll be right back, I have to go get it."
"Ok..." Shawn had no idea what he was doing, but had to remain confident to impress Kendall.
Kendall ran up to her room, and picked up a clip-on pass that had her picture on it, and said 'Kendall Grissom' on it. She brought it to her father's computer, and carefully added the word 'Det.' before her name, and 'Philadelphia Crime Lab' below it in smaller print. She then ran downstairs, and held it up before Shawn. "Look authentic to you?" she asked.
"Definitely, Detective Grissom..." Shawn kidded.
She smiled, and signaled for him to follow her to her car. "Come on, Detective Hunter, we have some work to do..."
~~
"But Detective Grissom..." the police officer guarding the crime scene asked. "Isn't that very unorthodox apparel for investigating a crime scene?" he asked, referring to her knee-length skirt and midriff bearing shirt.
"Yes, but Officer McDaniel," she read his nametag. "I'm only...WE're only here to collect a quick bit of evidence..."
"Ok, go ahead in, Detectives Grissom and Hunter..." Officer McDaniel nodded.
"Thank you, Officer...this is much appreciated..." Kendall smiled, and walked into the crime scene, signaling Shawn to follow.
"Sapph...it's not unheard of, you know?" Kendall asked, looking up from the folder on the table, and over the top of her glasses at Sapphire. "My dad may be a great CSI, but he's no Horatio Caine..." she said, referring to a Miami CSI that her father had worked with, whose work had wowed her deeply.
"So, now we know other state's CSI's names?" Christina asked, annoyed.
"Girls...do we want to solve Minkus' case or what?" Shawn asked, also getting annoyed, but not only by Kendall, by all of the girls together.
"So sorry, Mr. Impatient!" Kendall, Sapphire and Christina grumbled to Shawn in unison.
"So, what's this mondo detail that Mr. Scrupulous looked over?" Jack asked, peering over Christina's shoulder at the file.
Kendall shot Jack a glance that obviously meant 'don't talk about my father like that, damn you!' and then, showed him the file. "The body was found here, but their only suspect is Frankie Staccino...and he was at the poetry club meeting, remember, Sapph?"
"Oh yeah! He read this great piece he wrote...I was amazed!" Sapphire got off topic again.
"Sapphire, come on..." Kendall glared at her best friend.
"We need to clear Frankie's name, but do it inconspicuously..." Christina looked pensively at the clock.
"But what if his alibi doesn't clear? I mean, what if he wasn't there...we need SOMETHING to prove he didn't do it..." Kendall nodded, pushing her glasses back up to where they're supposed to be, and adjusting them so they'd stay. "Cause I KNOW he didn't..."
"I really feel like Shaggy right now, because I have no idea what any of you are talking about..." Eric nodded. "I know Frankie, and I know what happened, but I'm getting lost quickly..."
"Can you explain it to him, Sapph? You're the only one who can make things out into Eric terminology..." Kendall chuckled.
Sapphire nodded, and walked over to Eric, to describe the situation.
Kendall thought. "We actually need to do something...we can't just sit here and let them accuse Frankie! We know he didn't do it!" she looked at Shawn, hoping he'd agree with her.
Shawn had been waiting for action. He didn't want to just sit there and look at papers all day. "Definitely!"
"Here's my plan...Christina and Jack...you guys take this..." Kendall handed Jack her father's case file. "And go to your house...look it over, and call me ON MY CELL if you find any details. Don't call me here...cuz if my dad sees..."
"Ok, we get it..." Christina nodded.
"Eric and Sapphire...you guys go talk to Frankie...ok? Don't tell him anything about investigating, cuz he'll get freaked out..." Kendall directed.
"Got ya..." Sapphire grinned at Eric. "I'm really getting into this!"
"Me too!" Eric beamed.
"Shawn...you and I can go check the crime scene out after my dad gets home, ok?" Kendall told Shawn. "We'll just hang here until then..."
"Ok..." Shawn smiled. He wondered if he and Kendall would actually be doing this as a living someday. He pictured Kendall with a nametag reading 'Kendall Hunter' on it, and then shook hie head, and imagined 'Kendall Grissom. There we go...so much for Kendall's not being into the whole CSI scene.' He thought.
"Ok, call us if you find anything out..." Sapphire and Christina nodded.
"Will do!" Kendall smiled.
~~
A few minutes after everyone had scattered, Shawn and Kendall were joined by Sara Sidle and Catherine Willows, another one of the CSI's. "Hey, Kendall!" Sara smiled. "Hey Shawn!"
"Whoa..." Kendall looked at Shawn nervously. "Uh...hey Sara, Catherine..." Kendall nodded a hello to them both. "What are you doing here, anyway? Not to be rude...but..."
"Oh, it's ok..." Catherine nodded back. "Your dad told us to come pick up a few case files...the Minkus case, the..."
Sara stopped her. "Catherine! We're not supposed to tell them that!"
"This is Griss' daughter!" Catherine tilted her head. "It's not like she's the type to tell everyone..."
"I know, but you know that Griss would have your head for that..." Sara exclaimed.
"You would know all about what Griss would want, too, wouldn't you, the future Mr. Grissom..." Catherine then realized that his daughter was sitting right in the room.
"What?!" Kendall screeched.
"Oh, they're just...uh...involved..." Catherine nodded. "Nothing serious, really..."
"You guys, I'm not twelve...tell me the truth..." Kendall put her hands on her hips.
"Uh...it is serious..." Sara smirked. "I think...I'm love your father..."
Shawn's eyes widened, and he looked at Kendall, wondering how she would take all this.
Kendall smiled. "Awesome!"
"Really?" Sara asked. "It's really ok with you?"
"Of course! I've been trying to get dad to date for a long time!" Kendall smiled.
"Off to get those cases!" Catherine walked toward the stairs. "Come on, Sara..."
Shawn and Kendall swapped tense glances. "Uh oh..." he whispered.
"I got the feeling we should have put it back..." Kendall hissed at herself.
Sara searched the files. "E. Miller, O. Milles...S. Milles...S. Minkus should be right here, cuz the next one is G. Molson..." she looked at Catherine.
Catherine looked over Sara's shoulder. "You're right, it should..."
"That's odd..." Sara looked up at Catherine. "It's not like Griss at all to lose something..."
"I know, that's what I was thinking...maybe he has it with him, and just forgot?" Catherine shrugged.
"That's not like him either..." Sara laughed.
"I know...I'm just trying to think of what could have happened to it..." Catherine asked herself.
~~
Shawn and Kendall wanted to look inconspicuous, so Kendall put a movie into the DVD player, sat down on the couch, and nuzzled into Shawn; while Shawn wrapped his arm around her.
Catherine and Sara came down the stairs, and looked at Shawn and Kendall. "Have you guys seen your father's Stuart Minkus case file?"
Kendall looked up, acting confused. "No..." she shook her head. "I didn't even know he kept case files...sorry."
Catherine shrugged. "It's ok...he probably has it and forgot..."
Sara rolled her eyes. "Probably wanted to talk to Nick and Warrick alone, so he sent us out..."
Kendall laughed. "Do you know when he's gonna be home, anyway?"
"Well, we'll be in the lab until about ten-thirty..." Catherine explained.
"Then he's taking me out to a late, late dinner..." Sara told her.
"So about eleven-forty-five?" Kendall asked.
"Yeah, probably..." Sara grinned. "I'll see you guys later..." she waved.
Catherine waved. "See you guys!"
"Bye!" both Kendall and Shawn waved back.
"Ok...it's seven thirty now...we need to go get some of my dad's investigation stuff, and go to the crime scene..." Kendall nodded.
"One problem..." Shawn tilted his head a little.
"What?" she asked.
"I have NO idea what any of this is..." Shawn shrugged.
"Huh-boy..." Kendall grabbed Shawn's hand and dragged him upstairs. "Ok...this..." she pulled out a spray bottle of clearish liquid. "Is luminol..." she explained. "It picks up traces of DNA, like blood or seminal fluid..."
Shawn wanted to laugh at the word seminal, but decided against it, because he wanted to look mature. "Ok..." he nodded. "What else..."
"You need these..." she held up a pair of rubber-gloves. "Whenever you enter a crime scene..."
"I know that, I do watch cop shows..." Shawn smiled.
"Ok...how about q-tips? Like, if we find any DNA on the walls or whatever..." Kendall explained. "We use the q-tips to collect it."
"Yeah...what are the tape strip things for?" Shawn asked.
"If we find anything on the floor...or the wall that could be incriminating..." she explained. "And these baggies are for anything that we can just pick up. We can put it in the bag."
Shawn smiled. "Ok, anything else I need to know?"
"I'll brief you as we go along...let's just hope that not too many people are there, so we can just sneak by..." Kendall explained. "I can use my temp CSI pass that my dad gave me when he took me to work with him...just tweak it a bit, and I'll just say that you're a friend, that forgot his pass..." she explained. "I'll be right back, I have to go get it."
"Ok..." Shawn had no idea what he was doing, but had to remain confident to impress Kendall.
Kendall ran up to her room, and picked up a clip-on pass that had her picture on it, and said 'Kendall Grissom' on it. She brought it to her father's computer, and carefully added the word 'Det.' before her name, and 'Philadelphia Crime Lab' below it in smaller print. She then ran downstairs, and held it up before Shawn. "Look authentic to you?" she asked.
"Definitely, Detective Grissom..." Shawn kidded.
She smiled, and signaled for him to follow her to her car. "Come on, Detective Hunter, we have some work to do..."
~~
"But Detective Grissom..." the police officer guarding the crime scene asked. "Isn't that very unorthodox apparel for investigating a crime scene?" he asked, referring to her knee-length skirt and midriff bearing shirt.
"Yes, but Officer McDaniel," she read his nametag. "I'm only...WE're only here to collect a quick bit of evidence..."
"Ok, go ahead in, Detectives Grissom and Hunter..." Officer McDaniel nodded.
"Thank you, Officer...this is much appreciated..." Kendall smiled, and walked into the crime scene, signaling Shawn to follow.