"hey" Jamie greeted as she walked into the lab where Speed was working. She took a seat across the table from him and placed her chin on her palms

"Hey James" he mumbled, not lifting his eyes off his work. The nickname brought a smile to her lips. It was an old nickname that Horatio once gave her, a long time ago. She found it funny and heart warming that the team picked up on it so quickly - she realized it was a sign of the respect and admiration the had for him.

For a few moments a comfortable silence lay between them as she watched him work. There were about a dozen pairs of shoes in front of him, all taken from the Kramer residence. He was taking each shoe and cheking the soles for traces of blood or fibers before making a cast imprint of each sole and trying to mach it to the shoe print from the Kramer's backyard.

"Do you have any brother's or sisters?" Jamie finally broke the silence

"A brother. He's much younger than me though, we've never really been close. You?"

"A younger brother and an older sister." Jamie replied "My brother is ok I guess, he's in the university now. We talk, like, once a week."

"How about your sister?" Speed fed some data into the analyzer and came over to sit next to her as he waited for the results.

"I don't know. Kate and I..we never really got along. I guess it wasn't easy on her, you know? When I started bouncing classes. Here she is finally going to the university and her baby sister alreay a year ahead of her! She didn't like me that much, I guess"

"You shouldn't have to apologize for being smart"

"No, but I guess she thought she shouldn't have to apologize for being ordinary" Jamie shrugged and shook her head - as if trying to shake away the bad memories.

In a move that surprised them both he placed a hand on her shoulder "Sometimes I wish I could have been there when my brother was growing up. Maybe if I hadn't left home so early we would have been closer"

The confession surprised him. It wasn't usual for him to open up like this to people. Least of all someone he hardly knew. But the bigger surprise was that it felt right - for some reason he felt comfortable sharing it with Jamie, and when he glanced at her face he realized that she was comfortable hearing such a confession from him too.

*

CASE 2 - CSI Interrogation room

"Mr. Wilson, did you know Mr. And Mrs. Wilson from a cross the street?" Eric asked as he took a seat next to Calleigh in front of the very nervous man. Calleigh placed pictures of the old couple on the table in front of him.

"I saw them before, I think, but I never talked to them or anything"

"You never had any trouble with them?" Calleigh insisted

"No, I didn't even know them. I'm not here a lot, I have business out of town so I fly a lot. I'm hardly ever there"

"Where you there two days ago? At about 10 am?"

When the man hesitated in his response Calleigh decided to take a different approach. "Mr. Wilson, we know the bullet came from your apartment, there's a bullet graze in your window ledge that connects your apartment with the shooting. If you weren't there than someone was. Mr. Wilson, whoever that was he killed a nice old lady that was sitting in her kitchen drinking tea."

"My brother" The man's head slumped in defeat "He has a key of his own. Sometime when I'm out of town he stays there. I don't know if he was there two nights ago though"

"Does anyone else have a key?" Calleigh asked more gently

"No. Just him. Just my brother" the man's voice was barely above a whisper.

CASE 1 - CSI lab

"Hey H, I think we've got something here" Speed peaked his head out the door when he saw his boos walking in the hall past the lab.

"What did you find?"

"Well we didn't find a match for the shoe print we found net to the body." While speed spoke, Jamie pulled a few pictures and placed them on the board for display. "whoever wore those particular shoe got rid of it somehow. The problem we had was that the mother and daughter are the same shoe size so we couldn't go by the size either"

"So we have nothing on the shoe print?"

"Speed and I decided to go creative" Jamie said with a smile

"See we went back to the original shoe print and decided to check it again" Speed pointed to one of the pictures "See here where the shoe is worn off? On the inside of the sole?"

"Every person has a distinct walk, right?" Jamie jumped in "some of us walk on the balls of our feet, some of us put more pressure on the inside of our foot and so on"

"The way you walk shows in your shoes. Places where you apply more pressure on the shoe wear off more quickly. In this case whoever made that imprint puts more pressure on the inside of their feet, and according to he depth of the print the person is supposed to be light about 40 - 50 kilograms"

"So we checked the other shoes again, and there's distinct walking patterns - Mrs. Kramer walks in the balls of her feet - probably residue from years of walking in high hills. Dana on the other hand." Jamie pointed to a picture on the display and invited Horatio to take a closer look by himself.

"The soles of her shoes are completely worn out on the inside. It's a perfect match to the walking pattern we found next to the body." Speed finished the presentation triumphantly.

"Good work guys, really good" Horatio smiled.

A technician came into the room and handed Speed a sheet of paper to review.

"So it look like the sister really did it?" Jamie said quietly

"I wouldn't be so quick to decide that" Speed said, frustration evident in his voice "Some lab results came back. We found blood on Mr. Kramer's shoe. It matches Lori's."