Smash cut to the lab
"Hey Sarah? You in here?" Nick called out as he came into the garage
"Down here!" came the reply and nick bent down to see Sarah lying under the car.
"What have you got?"
"Well there's some kind of dirt in the tiers. The way from the victim's place to the dumping scene is all concrete"
"So you're thinking our killer must have taken a de-tour?" nick completed the sentence for her and helped her back to her feet "nice thinking"
"Thanks. You got anything on the murder weapon?"
" 9 mm, one of the bullets was still in the victim, we find a murder weapon we can get a match" Nick replied. The two of them started walking together, headed to the main area "There's not much to go on in this case, makes me think this guy knows what he's doing"
"you got that feeling too?" Sarah asked him just as they walked in the kitchen where Grissom and Warrick were already sitting
"What feeling?" Grissom asked lifting his head from the file he was reading
"Like our guy here knows what he's doing. Maybe he's done it before" Nick replied as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"I'll make some calls see if I can find anything similar" Barss's voice came from the doorway "Mean while I got your first suspect. The girlfriend, she tried to skip town. Highway patrol picked her up and brought her back."
"Did she say anything?" Warrick asked, fully intrigued, but Brass simply shook his head.
"She's not talking at all, hasn't said a word since we picked her up"
"I bet I can tell you why she ran" Catherine's voice came from behind him and all eye turned to her as she walked into the room "I ran the prints we got off the picture and I ran her social security number from her file, Jessica Parker is a 55 year old woman living in Texas."
"She looks good for 55" Nick quipped and received a jab in the ribs from Sarah
"She isn't" Catherine continued "Her prints came back, her real name is Jessie Crawford."
"Shit! I knew she looked familiar" Brass exclaimed
"you want to tell us something Brass?" Grissom inquired
"don't tell me you don't remember!? 8 years ago, Senator James Crawford from Texas and his whole family were butchered in their house in the middle of the night, it was a huge case, mother, father two kids all killed with multiple gunshots and multiple stab wounds the killer was never found."
"Exactly" Catherine continued reading off the file in her hand "there was one survivor, 16 year old daughter, hid in the cupboard under the bathroom sink, stayed there for 14 hours until the police came, she was the oldest daughter, Jessica"
"No wonder she wasn't too keen on giving the police details, poor thing must have had enough of cops to last her a life time" Nick said quietly. Sarah looked at him sideways and couldn't help but smile just a little. Nick was a macho man down to the last fiber of his being, but every now and then cases would just get to him. It was at times like these that you saw that he was really just a big softy.
The room remained silent for a few more seconds while everyone tried to digest the new information, finally Grissom's voice came in quietly but decisively
"Brass, I need to talk to her. Warrick you come with me. Sarah I want you to keep running this case as if you've never heard what was just said here. We can't know for sure that these two cases have anything in common. Catherine I want you to find me anything that you can on the Crawford case"
"What about me?" Nick asked
"You" Grissom said as he got up and grabbed his jacket "I need you to find me someone who's been in Billy Meadows bedroom, recently!"
"Hey Sarah? You in here?" Nick called out as he came into the garage
"Down here!" came the reply and nick bent down to see Sarah lying under the car.
"What have you got?"
"Well there's some kind of dirt in the tiers. The way from the victim's place to the dumping scene is all concrete"
"So you're thinking our killer must have taken a de-tour?" nick completed the sentence for her and helped her back to her feet "nice thinking"
"Thanks. You got anything on the murder weapon?"
" 9 mm, one of the bullets was still in the victim, we find a murder weapon we can get a match" Nick replied. The two of them started walking together, headed to the main area "There's not much to go on in this case, makes me think this guy knows what he's doing"
"you got that feeling too?" Sarah asked him just as they walked in the kitchen where Grissom and Warrick were already sitting
"What feeling?" Grissom asked lifting his head from the file he was reading
"Like our guy here knows what he's doing. Maybe he's done it before" Nick replied as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"I'll make some calls see if I can find anything similar" Barss's voice came from the doorway "Mean while I got your first suspect. The girlfriend, she tried to skip town. Highway patrol picked her up and brought her back."
"Did she say anything?" Warrick asked, fully intrigued, but Brass simply shook his head.
"She's not talking at all, hasn't said a word since we picked her up"
"I bet I can tell you why she ran" Catherine's voice came from behind him and all eye turned to her as she walked into the room "I ran the prints we got off the picture and I ran her social security number from her file, Jessica Parker is a 55 year old woman living in Texas."
"She looks good for 55" Nick quipped and received a jab in the ribs from Sarah
"She isn't" Catherine continued "Her prints came back, her real name is Jessie Crawford."
"Shit! I knew she looked familiar" Brass exclaimed
"you want to tell us something Brass?" Grissom inquired
"don't tell me you don't remember!? 8 years ago, Senator James Crawford from Texas and his whole family were butchered in their house in the middle of the night, it was a huge case, mother, father two kids all killed with multiple gunshots and multiple stab wounds the killer was never found."
"Exactly" Catherine continued reading off the file in her hand "there was one survivor, 16 year old daughter, hid in the cupboard under the bathroom sink, stayed there for 14 hours until the police came, she was the oldest daughter, Jessica"
"No wonder she wasn't too keen on giving the police details, poor thing must have had enough of cops to last her a life time" Nick said quietly. Sarah looked at him sideways and couldn't help but smile just a little. Nick was a macho man down to the last fiber of his being, but every now and then cases would just get to him. It was at times like these that you saw that he was really just a big softy.
The room remained silent for a few more seconds while everyone tried to digest the new information, finally Grissom's voice came in quietly but decisively
"Brass, I need to talk to her. Warrick you come with me. Sarah I want you to keep running this case as if you've never heard what was just said here. We can't know for sure that these two cases have anything in common. Catherine I want you to find me anything that you can on the Crawford case"
"What about me?" Nick asked
"You" Grissom said as he got up and grabbed his jacket "I need you to find me someone who's been in Billy Meadows bedroom, recently!"