Sapphire, Eric and Shawn anxiously awaited the word from Warrick, in the
rec room at the crime lab. Shawn was watching the news, and all of a
sudden, a news update came on.
"And, the Stuart Minkus murder case deepens, as Philadelphia CSI Gil Grissom's daughter, Kendall Grissom, gets kidnapped, possibly by the killer, more on this in a moment..." the news anchor stated.
"Thank you for the VERY late update, man..." Sapphire grumbled, flipping off the TV. "We already know Kendall's gone..."
Shawn sighed, and took another drink of his Pepsi. He turned from the TV, waiting for Warrick to re-enter the room with their answer. But, instead, Catherine joined them.
"Hey, you guys...you're missing two, aren't you?" Catherine asked.
"Three, actually..." Sapphire cleared her throat.
"Well, yeah, I wasn't exactly..." Catherine cleared her throat, too. "Sorry, guys..."
"It's ok, Catherine...we know that's not what you meant..." Eric nodded.
Shawn stared at the door. "Did you hear anything about us being able to help or not?" he asked, his eyes still fixated on the door.
Catherine shrugged. "Last I knew, Griss and Warrick were having it out in the hallway, and Eckley was twiddling his thumbs, in pure rapture..."
"Is he down your throats, because of us?" Sapphire asked.
"It's no big thing, he's been up our butts since the day we got moved to CSI three..." Catherine explained.
"Here comes Warrick!" Shawn sat up.
As soon as Warrick entered the room, the three troublemakers bombarded him with questions.
"So, Uncle Warrick...WHAT did he say?" Sapphire asked.
"Can we help?" Eric asked.
"Please say he said yes!" Shawn prayed.
"Here..." Warrick handed them temporary CSI ID's. "If we don't find this out in two weeks, you're off the team..."
"And, if we do find this out in two weeks, you're still off the team..." Grissom entered the room. "Don't hinder...or you're out of here...listen to everything the proprietor, a.k.a. me, says, or you're gone..."
Sapphire, Eric and Shawn immediately pinned on their ID's, and got into serious mode. "So, where do we begin, boss?" Sapphire asked.
"Sapphire...go with Catherine and Sara to talk to Topanga and Cory...they're in the interrogation room...Eric, go with Nick and Warrick to DNA. They'll help you out from there. Shawn and I are going back to the crime scene, so that he can point the things out to me that I missed..." Gil instructed everyone. "We'll meet back here to discuss what we found, later on tonight..."
Everyone scattered from the room, and all went to their designated areas.
~~
"Ok, so...when I interviewed them, I should have gotten straight to the point?" Sapphire asked Catherine, after she had told him that she and Eric confronted Cory and Topanga in a completely unorthodox way.
"No, not exactly..." Sara answered for Catherine. "You don't want to be too subtle, but you don't want to be too blatant, either..."
"What do you mean? That's kinda...hard, isn't it?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah, that's why it takes a lot of psych courses, and humanity courses in college to become a CSI...it's not all science..." Catherine explained. "Like, when you're dealing with someone insane..."
"Like Eric?" Sapphire asked, with a wink.
"Like Eric, yes..." Catherine laughed. "When you're dealing with someone like Eric..." she continued. "You have to be very careful..."
"I know...I'm taking a psych class right now..." Sapphire told them.
"To be a CSI?" Sara asked.
"Maybe..." Sapphire actually thought about it this time, instead of flat out saying no. She looked into the interrogation room, at Cory and Topanga. "Don't they usually interrogate people separately?" she asked.
"Yeah, but Cory and Topanga refused to be separated..." Sara shrugged. "Young love, I guess, and we just decided to go along with it."
'How can we be blaming Cory and Topanga?' Sapphire asked. 'Topanga wouldn't hurt anyone, and she's always said that Kendall is her best friend...she would never do that to her! And Cory? He's friends with Minkus...and Kendall! How can we be blaming them?' she swallowed her doubt, and went into the room after Sara and Catherine.
Topanga flashed Sapphire a look, as if to say 'how could you?' and nuzzled into Cory. She looked away from Sapphire in disgust, and straight to Catherine. "I didn't hurt anyone, I swear it...and why did that scary guy just walk away with a strand of my hair?"
Cory hugged Topanga. "Sh, don't worry..."
~~
Eric looked around. 'Good thing I'm not my normal self...' he thought, looking at all the beakers and syringes. 'Half of this would be on the floor...' he looked at Warrick and Nick. "So, what are we testing?"
"Well, right now, we're waiting for results on the hair found at the scene...and after that, we're gonna test the fiber from the jacket...to see if it has any DNA on it..." Nick explained.
"Yo, Stokes...there's a problem..." Warrick directed Nick to check out what he was holding.
"What?" Nick directed for Eric to follow him.
"The hair that Brass pulled off Topanga doesn't match the hair at the scene...and obviously, just judging from looks, it's not the Cory's hair..." Warrick explained.
Nick looked confused. "But..." he thought for a second. "Man!"
"Every time we think we have a lead, what happens?" Warrick asked.
"It turns up nil..." Nick sat down. "Let's test the jacket fiber...Kendall told Gil that it was on sale at JCPenny...we'll have to check and see who bought a jacket like this..."
"Yeah, but you do realize how many people buy jackets like that, right?" Eric asked. "It's the in thing..."
"It's a start, though..." Warrick shrugged, typing in the brand name of the jacket, and the color. "And it's all we've got right now..."
"Yeah, that's true..." Eric sat down with Warrick and Nick next to the printer. "Shawn said that Kendall had almost picked up some DNA or something...before she got kidnapped..."
Warrick and Nick turned their attention to him. "Really?" Warrick asked.
"Yeah...Shawn said she was spraying luminol, and it turned all blue, and then she got pounced..." Eric explained.
"Maybe we should call Grissom and tell him..." Nick suggested.
"Nah, Shawn will..." Warrick shrugged. "He remembers stuff like that..."
"Ok..." Nick sat on the table, waiting for the results to come out of the printer.
~~
Grissom and Shawn had a completely silent ride to the crime scene. The first words spoken were by Shawn, and those were only to tell Grissom where Kendall was pounced. "Over there," Shawn pointed to a spot on the rug that had been flattened by a chair or something. "Right on the flat spot...that's where Kendall was attacked..."
"Thanks..." Grissom nodded.
"There is something I want to show you, though..." Shawn walked toward the closet.
"What?" Grissom followed Shawn, expecting something trivial. But when Shawn pulled the string, and the door opened to the 'secret laboratory,' his jaw dropped. "Ingenious..." Grissom whispered, talking about the trapdoor. "Here, Shawn...can you check for evidence around where Kendall got attacked?"
"Actually, you may need me when you get down there...there are computers with about four passwords, and I remember them all..." Shawn nodded.
"Ok..." Grissom disliked having his ideas questioned, but Shawn had a point. "We can check for DNA after..."
Shawn showed Grissom into the room with the computers and beakers. "That computer right there..." Shawn pointed.
"How could someone from Philadelphia afford so many computers and chemicals?" Grissom asked, sitting down at the computer.
'He's very take-charge...much be where Kendall gets it...' Shawn thought. "Password one is 'Topanga Star Lawrence...'"
"Mmmhmm?" Grissom typed the password in fast.
After going over all the passwords, Grissom's face changed. Reading Minkus' plan made Grissom shake his head. "Another corrupt kid, just because he was picked on a lot? When are people going to learn?"
Shawn was looking around at the beakers. "Hey, Detective Grissom...check this out..." he called Grissom.
"Call me Griss...or Grissom..." Grissom walked over to where Shawn was. "What is it?"
"It says...'for Cory' on it..." Shawn put on a pair of rubber gloves.
"Good thinking, put it into evidence..." Grissom nodded. He was now confident that he'd made the right decision letting Shawn come with them.
~~
Kendall awoke to a sharp pain in her head, and a masked figure hovering over her. She reached to rub her eyes, but her hands were chained to a wall. "What the...where am I?" she asked.
"In every nightmare you've ever had..." a raspy, harsh voice shouted at her. The figure was feminine. Whoever it was walked across the room, and sat on the floor. "Be afraid, Kendall...if you live through this, you'll be forever scarred!"
A ping-pong-ball-sized lump suddenly infringed upon Kendall's throat, but she swallowed it back down. She just leaned back, and started to get used to the surroundings, knowing she'd be there for awhile. "I'm not scared of you at all! My dad will find me...he's the best CSI on the east coast!"
"I KNOW who your father is..." the figure hissed. "And I am atrociously unthreatened; because like you said, he may be a good CSI, but he's no Horatio Caine!" she directly quoted Kendall.
"How did you...why are you...who are you?" Kendall asked.
"Now now, Kendall..." the figure stood up. "Don't get too demanding! Wouldn't want something bad to happen to you..." she hissed, shutting the door as she left.
Kendall used her shoulder to push her glasses back to their proper place, and leaned into the wall. "Please be working on it, daddy...please? And Shawn...please be helping him..." she prayed as she dozed off.
"And, the Stuart Minkus murder case deepens, as Philadelphia CSI Gil Grissom's daughter, Kendall Grissom, gets kidnapped, possibly by the killer, more on this in a moment..." the news anchor stated.
"Thank you for the VERY late update, man..." Sapphire grumbled, flipping off the TV. "We already know Kendall's gone..."
Shawn sighed, and took another drink of his Pepsi. He turned from the TV, waiting for Warrick to re-enter the room with their answer. But, instead, Catherine joined them.
"Hey, you guys...you're missing two, aren't you?" Catherine asked.
"Three, actually..." Sapphire cleared her throat.
"Well, yeah, I wasn't exactly..." Catherine cleared her throat, too. "Sorry, guys..."
"It's ok, Catherine...we know that's not what you meant..." Eric nodded.
Shawn stared at the door. "Did you hear anything about us being able to help or not?" he asked, his eyes still fixated on the door.
Catherine shrugged. "Last I knew, Griss and Warrick were having it out in the hallway, and Eckley was twiddling his thumbs, in pure rapture..."
"Is he down your throats, because of us?" Sapphire asked.
"It's no big thing, he's been up our butts since the day we got moved to CSI three..." Catherine explained.
"Here comes Warrick!" Shawn sat up.
As soon as Warrick entered the room, the three troublemakers bombarded him with questions.
"So, Uncle Warrick...WHAT did he say?" Sapphire asked.
"Can we help?" Eric asked.
"Please say he said yes!" Shawn prayed.
"Here..." Warrick handed them temporary CSI ID's. "If we don't find this out in two weeks, you're off the team..."
"And, if we do find this out in two weeks, you're still off the team..." Grissom entered the room. "Don't hinder...or you're out of here...listen to everything the proprietor, a.k.a. me, says, or you're gone..."
Sapphire, Eric and Shawn immediately pinned on their ID's, and got into serious mode. "So, where do we begin, boss?" Sapphire asked.
"Sapphire...go with Catherine and Sara to talk to Topanga and Cory...they're in the interrogation room...Eric, go with Nick and Warrick to DNA. They'll help you out from there. Shawn and I are going back to the crime scene, so that he can point the things out to me that I missed..." Gil instructed everyone. "We'll meet back here to discuss what we found, later on tonight..."
Everyone scattered from the room, and all went to their designated areas.
~~
"Ok, so...when I interviewed them, I should have gotten straight to the point?" Sapphire asked Catherine, after she had told him that she and Eric confronted Cory and Topanga in a completely unorthodox way.
"No, not exactly..." Sara answered for Catherine. "You don't want to be too subtle, but you don't want to be too blatant, either..."
"What do you mean? That's kinda...hard, isn't it?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah, that's why it takes a lot of psych courses, and humanity courses in college to become a CSI...it's not all science..." Catherine explained. "Like, when you're dealing with someone insane..."
"Like Eric?" Sapphire asked, with a wink.
"Like Eric, yes..." Catherine laughed. "When you're dealing with someone like Eric..." she continued. "You have to be very careful..."
"I know...I'm taking a psych class right now..." Sapphire told them.
"To be a CSI?" Sara asked.
"Maybe..." Sapphire actually thought about it this time, instead of flat out saying no. She looked into the interrogation room, at Cory and Topanga. "Don't they usually interrogate people separately?" she asked.
"Yeah, but Cory and Topanga refused to be separated..." Sara shrugged. "Young love, I guess, and we just decided to go along with it."
'How can we be blaming Cory and Topanga?' Sapphire asked. 'Topanga wouldn't hurt anyone, and she's always said that Kendall is her best friend...she would never do that to her! And Cory? He's friends with Minkus...and Kendall! How can we be blaming them?' she swallowed her doubt, and went into the room after Sara and Catherine.
Topanga flashed Sapphire a look, as if to say 'how could you?' and nuzzled into Cory. She looked away from Sapphire in disgust, and straight to Catherine. "I didn't hurt anyone, I swear it...and why did that scary guy just walk away with a strand of my hair?"
Cory hugged Topanga. "Sh, don't worry..."
~~
Eric looked around. 'Good thing I'm not my normal self...' he thought, looking at all the beakers and syringes. 'Half of this would be on the floor...' he looked at Warrick and Nick. "So, what are we testing?"
"Well, right now, we're waiting for results on the hair found at the scene...and after that, we're gonna test the fiber from the jacket...to see if it has any DNA on it..." Nick explained.
"Yo, Stokes...there's a problem..." Warrick directed Nick to check out what he was holding.
"What?" Nick directed for Eric to follow him.
"The hair that Brass pulled off Topanga doesn't match the hair at the scene...and obviously, just judging from looks, it's not the Cory's hair..." Warrick explained.
Nick looked confused. "But..." he thought for a second. "Man!"
"Every time we think we have a lead, what happens?" Warrick asked.
"It turns up nil..." Nick sat down. "Let's test the jacket fiber...Kendall told Gil that it was on sale at JCPenny...we'll have to check and see who bought a jacket like this..."
"Yeah, but you do realize how many people buy jackets like that, right?" Eric asked. "It's the in thing..."
"It's a start, though..." Warrick shrugged, typing in the brand name of the jacket, and the color. "And it's all we've got right now..."
"Yeah, that's true..." Eric sat down with Warrick and Nick next to the printer. "Shawn said that Kendall had almost picked up some DNA or something...before she got kidnapped..."
Warrick and Nick turned their attention to him. "Really?" Warrick asked.
"Yeah...Shawn said she was spraying luminol, and it turned all blue, and then she got pounced..." Eric explained.
"Maybe we should call Grissom and tell him..." Nick suggested.
"Nah, Shawn will..." Warrick shrugged. "He remembers stuff like that..."
"Ok..." Nick sat on the table, waiting for the results to come out of the printer.
~~
Grissom and Shawn had a completely silent ride to the crime scene. The first words spoken were by Shawn, and those were only to tell Grissom where Kendall was pounced. "Over there," Shawn pointed to a spot on the rug that had been flattened by a chair or something. "Right on the flat spot...that's where Kendall was attacked..."
"Thanks..." Grissom nodded.
"There is something I want to show you, though..." Shawn walked toward the closet.
"What?" Grissom followed Shawn, expecting something trivial. But when Shawn pulled the string, and the door opened to the 'secret laboratory,' his jaw dropped. "Ingenious..." Grissom whispered, talking about the trapdoor. "Here, Shawn...can you check for evidence around where Kendall got attacked?"
"Actually, you may need me when you get down there...there are computers with about four passwords, and I remember them all..." Shawn nodded.
"Ok..." Grissom disliked having his ideas questioned, but Shawn had a point. "We can check for DNA after..."
Shawn showed Grissom into the room with the computers and beakers. "That computer right there..." Shawn pointed.
"How could someone from Philadelphia afford so many computers and chemicals?" Grissom asked, sitting down at the computer.
'He's very take-charge...much be where Kendall gets it...' Shawn thought. "Password one is 'Topanga Star Lawrence...'"
"Mmmhmm?" Grissom typed the password in fast.
After going over all the passwords, Grissom's face changed. Reading Minkus' plan made Grissom shake his head. "Another corrupt kid, just because he was picked on a lot? When are people going to learn?"
Shawn was looking around at the beakers. "Hey, Detective Grissom...check this out..." he called Grissom.
"Call me Griss...or Grissom..." Grissom walked over to where Shawn was. "What is it?"
"It says...'for Cory' on it..." Shawn put on a pair of rubber gloves.
"Good thinking, put it into evidence..." Grissom nodded. He was now confident that he'd made the right decision letting Shawn come with them.
~~
Kendall awoke to a sharp pain in her head, and a masked figure hovering over her. She reached to rub her eyes, but her hands were chained to a wall. "What the...where am I?" she asked.
"In every nightmare you've ever had..." a raspy, harsh voice shouted at her. The figure was feminine. Whoever it was walked across the room, and sat on the floor. "Be afraid, Kendall...if you live through this, you'll be forever scarred!"
A ping-pong-ball-sized lump suddenly infringed upon Kendall's throat, but she swallowed it back down. She just leaned back, and started to get used to the surroundings, knowing she'd be there for awhile. "I'm not scared of you at all! My dad will find me...he's the best CSI on the east coast!"
"I KNOW who your father is..." the figure hissed. "And I am atrociously unthreatened; because like you said, he may be a good CSI, but he's no Horatio Caine!" she directly quoted Kendall.
"How did you...why are you...who are you?" Kendall asked.
"Now now, Kendall..." the figure stood up. "Don't get too demanding! Wouldn't want something bad to happen to you..." she hissed, shutting the door as she left.
Kendall used her shoulder to push her glasses back to their proper place, and leaned into the wall. "Please be working on it, daddy...please? And Shawn...please be helping him..." she prayed as she dozed off.