Title: My Heart Will Go On
Author: moonshot
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Disclaimer: See chapter 1
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Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
Somewhere along the line, GRISSOM and CATHERINE have switched places. CATHERINE is now asleep on the couch with a fleece throw covering her. GRISSOM is sitting on the floor with his back leaning against the couch. His right arm is laying across Catherine's torso, and she is holding his hand firmly against herself with both of hers.
Suddenly, Catherine's cell phone begins to ring and vibrate violently against the coffee table. GRISSOM lunges at it with his left hand and proceeds to open it with slight difficulty, before lifting it to his ear.
GRISSOM (quietly): Grissom.
Smash to: CSI Break Room
WARRICK is sitting at the break room table, files spread out in front of him, phone up to one ear.
WARRICK (surprised): Grissom? Where's Cath?
Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
GRISSOM: She fell asleep. Talk to me.
Smash to: CSI Break Room
WARRICK (sighing): Mikey died from 2 GSWs to the torso. She also sustained some bruising and had several cracked C-rings in her neck. McDaniels gave me her current case file, Nicky is checking out her dorm, and Sara's talking to Robbins. (pause) Gris. is there anything. is there anything that you can tell me that would help us out?
Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
GRISSOM (thinking): Warrick. why don't you, Nick, and Sara stop by when you get a chance.
WARRICK (on the phone): Sure thing, boss. We'll be by at the end of shift.
GRISSOM: Thanks.
GRISSOM hangs up the phone, drops it on the coffee table and looks at Catherine's slumbering figure. He gently untangles his arm from her embrace and walks toward the kitchen, picking up the glass of water along the way. Upon reaching the kitchen, he pours the rest of the water down the sink. GRISSOM begins to open the refrigerator when he stops. Underneath a magnet at eye level, faded and yellowed from the years, is a drawing of a butterfly, done carefully in colorful crayon. GRISSOM's eyes begin to tear up. He reaches out a hand and traces over the lettering across the bottom of the drawing that say "To Uncle Gil Love Mikey" in block letters. CATHERINE pads up behind him quietly and wraps her arms around his waist, hugging his back to her. GRISSOM responds to this touch by hugging his arms to hers.
GRISSOM (whispering): I can't believe she's gone.
CATHERINE: I know, Gil. I know.
Smash to: Mikey's Dorm hallway
NICK, dressed in blue CSI coveralls and carrying his field kit, knocks on a dorm room door. O'RILEY and a RESIDENT ASSISTANT stand near by.
NICK (calling out): Las Vegas Crime Lab
There is no answer.
O'RILEY (to the Resident Assistant): Open it.
The RESIDENT ASSISTANT produces a key from her pocket and unlocks the door, swinging it inward. She steps aside as NICK and O'RILEY enter the room.
The room is the same dorm room from the first scene. The room is extremely symmetrical and neat. Beds line opposing walls and desks face one another. Each side of the room has a bookcase and nightstand.
NICK (over his shoulder as his eyes scan the room): Where's the roommate?
O'RILEY (pulling a notebook from his breast pocket and consulting it): Security desk says that she hasn't swiped her card in all day. She left the building at 8:57 yesterday morning, but hasn't been home since.
RESIDENT ASSISTANT (from the doorway): You're looking for Christy?
O'RILEY (turning around): Yeah. Do you know where she might be?
RESIDENT ASSISTANT: Sure. Christy plays for the UNLV women's basketball team. They played at Utah yesterday in a night game. The team generally sleeps on the bus and get back into town the next morning.
O'RILEY (consulting his watch): So she should be back anytime now?
RESIDENT ASSISTANT: Well, Christy usually goes straight to class then the gym, so I'm not sure when she's supposed to be home. I might have her cell number if you want to talk to her.
We pan over O'Riley's shoulder to see NICK carefully looking through Mikey's things. He notices a picture frame on the nightstand and picks it up. It is the same picture of Grissom and Mikey that Grissom has on his desk. NICK turns the picture frame over and notices a post-it note stuck to the back. The note reads, "Mikey, Good luck. You'll do great. Love always, Uncle Gil". NICK sighs, puts the picture frame back on the nightstand, and continues looking around.
Smash to: Conference Room, CSI Lab
WARRICK is sitting hunched over a file. Spread out around him are several other files, and pictures. SARA sits across from him, doing the same. NICK enters, carrying a file.
WARRICK (looking up): What do you have?
NICK (sitting down): Nothing. I've got nothing. (consulting file) No one remembers seeing her, but O'Riley tracked her Student ID card around campus. Mikey swiped out of her dorm room at 7:27 am yesterday morning and swiped into the dorm cafeteria at 7:34 am. She entered the second floor computer lab in Stephens Hall at 11:04 am. According to the class schedule on her wall, she has class from 8 until 11. Mikey logged off her computer at 11:13 am and spent 75 cents on a Cherry Coke from the campus snack bar in King Hall at 11:22 am. The university has no record of her using her student ID since.
WARRICK (surprised): You got all that information off of a student ID card?
NICK: Yeah. Students are required to swipe their cards coming in and out of the dorms for security reasons. They also have meal plans on their ID cards, allowing tracking at both the dorm cafeterias and campus snack bars. And the computer labs are set up so the ID card can be used to unlock the doors. It's actually a pretty cool system.
SARA: Yeah. big brother is always watching. What did you get out of her dorm?
NICK: Her room is impeccably neat, not a shred of evidence to suggest a crime scene.
SARA (leaning back in her chair, cocking her head): Her room was neat? When's the last time you were in a neat dorm room?
NICK: Yeah, I thought about that, but she IS Grissom's goddaughter. They could share the neatness factor.
WARRICK (standing): Well, that's a good question to ask Grissom. We're supposed to be at his place soon.
SARA (following suit): I'll drive. (pauses) Do you know where he lives?
The team looks at each other with quizzical looks on their faces.
***
TBC
Author: moonshot
***
Disclaimer: See chapter 1
***
Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
Somewhere along the line, GRISSOM and CATHERINE have switched places. CATHERINE is now asleep on the couch with a fleece throw covering her. GRISSOM is sitting on the floor with his back leaning against the couch. His right arm is laying across Catherine's torso, and she is holding his hand firmly against herself with both of hers.
Suddenly, Catherine's cell phone begins to ring and vibrate violently against the coffee table. GRISSOM lunges at it with his left hand and proceeds to open it with slight difficulty, before lifting it to his ear.
GRISSOM (quietly): Grissom.
Smash to: CSI Break Room
WARRICK is sitting at the break room table, files spread out in front of him, phone up to one ear.
WARRICK (surprised): Grissom? Where's Cath?
Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
GRISSOM: She fell asleep. Talk to me.
Smash to: CSI Break Room
WARRICK (sighing): Mikey died from 2 GSWs to the torso. She also sustained some bruising and had several cracked C-rings in her neck. McDaniels gave me her current case file, Nicky is checking out her dorm, and Sara's talking to Robbins. (pause) Gris. is there anything. is there anything that you can tell me that would help us out?
Smash to: Grissom's Living Room
GRISSOM (thinking): Warrick. why don't you, Nick, and Sara stop by when you get a chance.
WARRICK (on the phone): Sure thing, boss. We'll be by at the end of shift.
GRISSOM: Thanks.
GRISSOM hangs up the phone, drops it on the coffee table and looks at Catherine's slumbering figure. He gently untangles his arm from her embrace and walks toward the kitchen, picking up the glass of water along the way. Upon reaching the kitchen, he pours the rest of the water down the sink. GRISSOM begins to open the refrigerator when he stops. Underneath a magnet at eye level, faded and yellowed from the years, is a drawing of a butterfly, done carefully in colorful crayon. GRISSOM's eyes begin to tear up. He reaches out a hand and traces over the lettering across the bottom of the drawing that say "To Uncle Gil Love Mikey" in block letters. CATHERINE pads up behind him quietly and wraps her arms around his waist, hugging his back to her. GRISSOM responds to this touch by hugging his arms to hers.
GRISSOM (whispering): I can't believe she's gone.
CATHERINE: I know, Gil. I know.
Smash to: Mikey's Dorm hallway
NICK, dressed in blue CSI coveralls and carrying his field kit, knocks on a dorm room door. O'RILEY and a RESIDENT ASSISTANT stand near by.
NICK (calling out): Las Vegas Crime Lab
There is no answer.
O'RILEY (to the Resident Assistant): Open it.
The RESIDENT ASSISTANT produces a key from her pocket and unlocks the door, swinging it inward. She steps aside as NICK and O'RILEY enter the room.
The room is the same dorm room from the first scene. The room is extremely symmetrical and neat. Beds line opposing walls and desks face one another. Each side of the room has a bookcase and nightstand.
NICK (over his shoulder as his eyes scan the room): Where's the roommate?
O'RILEY (pulling a notebook from his breast pocket and consulting it): Security desk says that she hasn't swiped her card in all day. She left the building at 8:57 yesterday morning, but hasn't been home since.
RESIDENT ASSISTANT (from the doorway): You're looking for Christy?
O'RILEY (turning around): Yeah. Do you know where she might be?
RESIDENT ASSISTANT: Sure. Christy plays for the UNLV women's basketball team. They played at Utah yesterday in a night game. The team generally sleeps on the bus and get back into town the next morning.
O'RILEY (consulting his watch): So she should be back anytime now?
RESIDENT ASSISTANT: Well, Christy usually goes straight to class then the gym, so I'm not sure when she's supposed to be home. I might have her cell number if you want to talk to her.
We pan over O'Riley's shoulder to see NICK carefully looking through Mikey's things. He notices a picture frame on the nightstand and picks it up. It is the same picture of Grissom and Mikey that Grissom has on his desk. NICK turns the picture frame over and notices a post-it note stuck to the back. The note reads, "Mikey, Good luck. You'll do great. Love always, Uncle Gil". NICK sighs, puts the picture frame back on the nightstand, and continues looking around.
Smash to: Conference Room, CSI Lab
WARRICK is sitting hunched over a file. Spread out around him are several other files, and pictures. SARA sits across from him, doing the same. NICK enters, carrying a file.
WARRICK (looking up): What do you have?
NICK (sitting down): Nothing. I've got nothing. (consulting file) No one remembers seeing her, but O'Riley tracked her Student ID card around campus. Mikey swiped out of her dorm room at 7:27 am yesterday morning and swiped into the dorm cafeteria at 7:34 am. She entered the second floor computer lab in Stephens Hall at 11:04 am. According to the class schedule on her wall, she has class from 8 until 11. Mikey logged off her computer at 11:13 am and spent 75 cents on a Cherry Coke from the campus snack bar in King Hall at 11:22 am. The university has no record of her using her student ID since.
WARRICK (surprised): You got all that information off of a student ID card?
NICK: Yeah. Students are required to swipe their cards coming in and out of the dorms for security reasons. They also have meal plans on their ID cards, allowing tracking at both the dorm cafeterias and campus snack bars. And the computer labs are set up so the ID card can be used to unlock the doors. It's actually a pretty cool system.
SARA: Yeah. big brother is always watching. What did you get out of her dorm?
NICK: Her room is impeccably neat, not a shred of evidence to suggest a crime scene.
SARA (leaning back in her chair, cocking her head): Her room was neat? When's the last time you were in a neat dorm room?
NICK: Yeah, I thought about that, but she IS Grissom's goddaughter. They could share the neatness factor.
WARRICK (standing): Well, that's a good question to ask Grissom. We're supposed to be at his place soon.
SARA (following suit): I'll drive. (pauses) Do you know where he lives?
The team looks at each other with quizzical looks on their faces.
***
TBC
