"So what do think Alexx?" Eric asked.
"Time of death is approximately 4 hours ago."
"Preliminary cause of death?" Speed asked.
"She's still very pink and this isn't sunburn is it sweetheart." Alexx said.
"Carbon Monoxide poisoning?"
"Looks like it, but I'll be able to tell you more once I've autopsied her. Does she have a name?"
"The car is registered to a Cara King." Eric replied.
"Well Cara let's go and find out what happened to you."
Speed's cell phone rang.
"Excuse me." He stepped away to answer it. "Speedle."
"Speed, its Horatio."
"H, how is Calleigh?"
"She still has a headache, but she's hungry. So I think she's doing better."
"That's good." Speed replied.
"How are things going there?"
"We've been over every piece of evidence from that house, the only prints we have are from the dead guy and his victim, he had to be working alone."
"Okay." Horatio conceded.
"The only call that is a woman slumped over her wheel at the beach."
"Alexx give you a preliminary cause of death yet?"
"Carbon Monoxide poisoning, she's as pink as a lobster. We're going to take the whole car back to the lab as soon as Alexx has taken the body."
"Any pipes into the car?"
"No. The man who found her said the engine wasn't running, he saw her slumped over the wheel, he tried banging on the window to get her attention, when he could he smashed the back passenger side window and let himself in, when he couldn't feel a pulse he call 911."
"Which would have let any carbon monoxide out anyway." Horatio added.
"Yes."
"Do you need me to comeā¦"
"H, Eric and I can handle it."
"Okay." Horatio conceded.
"By the way Yelina came in looking for you earlier."
"Did she say what she needed?" Horatio asked.
"No. But she wasn't happy when we told her that you'd taken the day off and refused to tell her where you were."
"I see thank you for letting me know."
"We told her we'd pass on the message."
"Check the woman's house, she could have got the carbon monoxide poisoning at home and driven to the beach for some fresh air, before she died."
"We'll check it out. Send Calleigh our love and I'll probably talk to you later."
"Take care." Horatio hung up.
"Horatio?" Eric asked when Speed returned when they were loading the body onto the gurney.
"Yes. Calleigh's doing better today." He replied.
"That's great news."
"I'm going to go back to the lab with the car." Speed said. "Why don't you grab a couple of uniforms and go over to her house. As Horatio pointed out she could have been poisoned at home and driven here, before passing out."
"I'm on it. See you back at the lab."
TBC
