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Musical Mishap

Chapter 1

Grissom grimly put the phone down and rubbed his sore eyes. The room slowly came back into focus. He tiredly thought, "What next?" He'd just gotten word of another apparent homicide. This made it three cases in just less than a week. He and his crew were still swamped with the other two. Nonetheless, they would have to deal with this one and deal with it quickly.

Brass had just finished instructing him to work on this one personally as it was a high profile case. The deceased was a hot upcoming pop star who had just been announced as one of the three finalists on the hit TV show, Rock Stars. Rumors surrounding the murder were already creating quite a stir in the show's Internet chat room.

Grissom called for Nick, Catherine, Warrick and Sara to meet him in his office. When they had all assembled, he began. "There's been another murder. This one happened on the set of Rock Stars. Nick, I'll need you and Catherine to come with me. Brass has rated this one top priority. I want you to go over the crime scene and come up with all the evidence that you can possibly find. I'll be right along side you, doing the same. Why don't the two of you get everything that you need organized and I'll meet you outside in ten minutes."

Nick and Catherine nodded, got up and left the office. They were discussing who was going to check the different types of equipment and ensure that it was ready to go. Sara began to protest. Grissom held his hand up to silence her.

He looked over to Warrick and then back to Sara. "I need the two of you to continue to deal with the other two cases. Warrick, you have the Parquet case, and Sara, you've been working on the Marfield one, right?" Warrick and Sara nodded their heads. "Good. You can go. He added, "I'd best get going as well. Brass wants this one solved ASAP." Shaking his head, he added, "The network wants to continue with the show. They insist that 'the show must go on."

Grissom headed outside to where Nick and Catherine were already waiting for him. " All ready to go?" Seeing them both nod, he added, "Good. Let's get going. I'll give you the rest of details on the way over. Nick you drive." The three of them hopped into the SUV and headed over to the crime scene.

On the drive over to the studio, Grissom explained what he knew thus far about the case. "The show's main janitor stumbled upon the body of Dion Marxwall shortly after the taping of the show. He had just finished cleaning the set and was heading off stage when he noticed a bloodied hand sticking out from behind the backdrop, in amongst a bunch of wooden storage boxes. He immediately called 911 and contacted the show's head honchos. Brass told me that sources close to the show were reportedly talking about an altercation that had taken place between Marxwall and two other contestants, previous to the taping of the previous night's episode. There appears to have been some bad blood among these three contestants. At least six of the other contestants are being interviewed, as well as stagehands, other cleaning staff and the judges."

He paused for a moment and then continued. "The two contestants are Angel Canary and Brock Danson. The three of them were seen and heard allegedly arguing over Marxwall's song choice. Canary was heard yelling at Marxwall, accusing him of stealing the lyrics and music score to a song that she had planned to use in that night's episode. She complained that because of this, she had been forced to choose another song at the last minute, and did not perform to the best of her ability. She claimed this was why she didn't make the cut to the final three. Danson was backing her up and a fight ensued. Stagehands had to step in and break up the fight. Motive is definitely here, as Canary was eliminated from the show as of last night's episode, and Danson is in the final three. Oops, I guess final two, although it looks like Ms. Canary may get moved into the finals now that Marxwall is no longer able to sing."

Catherine looked ahead to where they were fast approaching the studio. "Yah, well I don't think that he'll be doing anything else either. Has Brass already interviewed the two of them?"

"As far as I know, replied Grissom, "he was going to do that immediately following his phone call to me. In fact, I see his car right over there. He may still be with them. All righty then, let's go find us a murderer."

The three of them got out of the SUV, grabbed their cases and headed up to the main doors of the studio.