The thrill he felt, the power, but this time not as much as the last he needed more he needed to do it again sooner, so far he'd been restrained spacing them out over states, but now he'd already picked the next. Yes this one would do he picked up her photo looking down at her blond blue eyed features and fantasized about what it would be like, to stab her like the others.

Grissom woke disorientated head pounding, where was he?, what was that dream about? he lifted his head up from the table that had been his pillow. He was in the computer room still, he must of blacked out, must have been because he hadn't slept he rationalized to himself, the last thing he could remember was looking at the screen and seeing the victims face on the missing persons database. He groaned as he shifted his head to look at his watch, damn it, it was half an hour before shift started well he'd have to use his back up clothes in his office. He looked back at the computer screen as he straightened himself out, the girl's name was Mary Stewart from Utah, by the looks of it she came to Vegas two weeks ago and was reported missing four days ago when she didn't turn up on the bus home. He pressed the print button as he got up out of the chair and retrieved the page on his way out the door in search for some clean clothes.

Catherine hurried down the hall way she was already late, Lindsey had been sick at school so had come home early, where upon she had to ring the babysitter to see if she could come in early until her sister was off work. Hopefully they were in the break room still going with the start of shift meeting. "Sorry I'm late" she apologized as she sat down at the table.

"As I was saying Grissom found out the name of our vic, Mary Stewart from Blaiseville, Utah came to Vegas two weeks ago for a holiday never went back home" Nick shuffled the missing persons file over the table to Catherine.

"Warrick finished his B&E last night so will be joining us on the case he's going to do some castings on the knife to see if he can identify the weapon, Cath I'd like you and Grissom to follow up on this missing person report see if you can find out about anybody she might of met with where she stayed et cetera, I'm going to follow the dress see if I can find the distributor, ok let me know if you guys get anything interesting" with that Nick left with Warrick in tow. Catherine looked over at Grissom , he hadn't said a word in that meeting although that was not ungrissom like but she was starting to wonder if Nick had a point, he did look pale she'd get to the bottom of it if there was in fact anything wrong but for now they had work to do.

Catherine pulled the Tahoe out into the traffic from the hotel carpark, "Well that was a complete waste of time, manager could barely remember his own name let alone who stayed there, I guess the next stop is the bus station see if anybody remembers her there" Catherine paused as she looked over at Grissom for any indication he was actually listening to what she had to say.

"Grissom are you actually listening or am I interrupting your genius thought processes" Catherine asked as she turned her eyes back to the road

" Sorry, I was thinking, what if this isn't the first victim, what if there are others in other states" Grissom pondered out loud

"Gil there is nothing to suggest that there have been any other victims or that there is any connection to any other cases, what's brought this on anyway, what do you know that I don't?" Catherine asked as she turned the Tahoe into a side street.

"Could you drop me off back at the lab, there's something I'd like to checkout" Grissom requested as he turned his head towards Catherine.

"Alright but you owe me I can't stand the bus station especially on my own" Catherine replied as she did a U-turn in the road to head back towards the lab.

Several things had been nagging Grissom since waking up in the computer room. The first was the fact that he had blacked out, at first he thought he'd just drifted off to sleep but it was more than that he couldn't remember closing his eyes or putting his head down on the table. Secondly the dream he had, was it really a dream? it felt more like he was seeing things through someone else's eyes if so who? Thirdly the dream or whatever it was suggested there had been other victims. He'd been racking his brain to see if he could remember any cases that seemed to have the same MO he had the sneaking suspicion that he had seen this one before. It seemed like a good idea when he had headed back to the lab to check through previous cases but now looking at the pile before him he wasn't quite sure.

Nick picked up his phone on the third ring "Stokes" he barked into the phone "Nick, it's Cath I've just dropped Grissom back at the lab, apparently he thinks there might be other cases linked to this one"

"What makes him think that?" replied nick as he watched the computer go through retail stores that sold silk dresses.

"I have no clue, he just sort of said it out of the blue didn't give me a reason he just wanted to go back to the lab, just thought I'd let you know as you might want to see if he's got anything, I got to go the bus station security guy has just come back with some video tape"

"Well ok Cath I'll see you when you get back here, thanks for the news" Nick pressed the off button on the phone and placed it on the table. Well now was a good a time as any to see Grissom he thought as he left the computer room.

As Nick walked through the door big Billy bass started his tune "I'd wish the battery's would run down in that thing" Nick muttered under his breath as he walked towards Grissoms desk

"Have you found anything" Nick inquired as he sat down in the seat opposite Grissom. Grissom held his hand up to silence Nick while he finished reading the particular file he had in his hand. As he looked up Nick could see how tired his supervisor looked in fact he wondered if he'd been there all day before shift started, actually now that he thought about it Grissom's SUV had been in the same spot as last night and had a nice layer of desert dust on it as if it hadn't been moved, his train of thought was interrupted as Grissom spoke up. "I think possibly these three cases are from the same guy, three stab wounds to the chest, all of the woman in the 30-35 age group, all washed then clothed"

"But then how did we not pick these up when we entered the police report into the data base" Nick interrupted

" Because this particular homicide was from Oregon twenty five years ago, this twenty years ago in California, this one ten years ago in Utah " Grissom recited off as he slapped each file down onto the desk.

"Well if there from different states how come we have them here at the lab?" Nick asked as he tried to process the fact that they may now be dealing with a serial killer.

"Because twenty years ago the California case was one of mine, in fact it worried me at the time that we never caught the killer and over the years he's committed now another 2 murders I originally followed the case looking every five years for maybe another killing, it's been a longtime since the last killing I thought possibly he may have stopped, it's one of the reasons it took me awhile to realize we might be dealing with the same guy, we have to catch him Nick this can't keep going on" Nick almost didn't catch the last part of Grissom's comment as it was almost a whisper.

"Well if he's only killing periodically then we may have lost our chance, he may have already left town, besides how can we be sure it's him?" Nick asked as he reached over for the files on Grissom's desk.

"The knife he uses is a special double blade with an insignia on the hilt, the infinity sign actually, I didn't look at the autopsy photos of our vic until just now but the stab wounds seem to be consistent with the previous cases we will know for certain when Warrick gets finished with the knife casts". Nick sighed as this case just got ten times more complicated

"Well if you didn't catch him twenty years ago how do we expect to catch him now?" he asked Grissom

"With the evidence Nicky, you're the primary on this you need to decide where to go from now I have complete" Grissom was caught mid sentence as Catherine walked through his door.

"I think we may have a suspect" she blurted out with the excitement of a child on Christmas morning

"Really" Nick replied in surprise

"I picked up that video tape from the bus station, there was a guy that seemed to spend a longtime sitting around for his bus like maybe 10 hours he left just after our victim, seems a bit suspicious to me" they could tell by the enthusiasim in her voice that Catherine wanted to show them.

"Ok lead the way" instructed Nick as he got up from his chair, just then Grissom's cell phone rang

"You go ahead, I'll be there in a minute" he motioned as he reached for the phone. Nick left traipsing after Catherine thinking about what it might be like to catch this killer after so long that was of course if Grissom was right.

"Grissom"

"Gris it's me, you busy?, oh that's a stupid question I'm sure you are seeing how it's' already half an hour after shifts ended and your still there, I miss you so much, oh look at me I'm babbling I should let you talk. " Sara's words echoed down the phone

"Oh Sara honey I miss you too" Grissom had to stop himself sighing at the end of that comment "Um, yeah I guess we're busy a 419 in the desert I let Nick be primary" replied as he ran a hand over his face.

"Gris you sound tired hope you're not working too hard I don't want you all exhausted when I get home tomorrow"

"Uh yeah what time am I supposed to pick you up again?"

" 6am" The conversation went on for a few more minutes chatting about Sara's holiday and how much they missed each other before Grissom signed off. He better go look at this video before Nick and Catherine dragged him into the AV room. As he went to stand suddenly the world went black.

"Must have been Sara on the phone, probably being all who loves who the most, give him a few minutes then we'll hijack the phone call and drag him to the AV room" Catherine joked as she placed the video in the recorder.

"See this man here look he has a base ball cap which unfortunately covers his face but see here" she motioned towards the door from the bus unloading area on the tape "our vic, watch as she crosses his path, see his interest, then bamn he's out the door a minute after her"

"Could just be a interested party she was a pretty gal I mean just because he followed her doesn't mean he's our killer Cath"

"Well maybe you're right but who honestly waits around a greyhound station for 10 hours then suddenly gets up when our victim walks past then follows her, I checked in the preceeding hours he just sits there reading a book doesn't even get up to go to the toilet"

"Well it's a good lead but how are we supposed to find him there must be thousands of people that look like that"

"That is why you're the primary on this case Nick you have to decide where to go from here, if you don't mind I got to go check on Lindsey she had a fever, I'll come in early before next shift"

"Yeah sure, I'm going to go share this information with Grissom maybe interrupt his love talk" Nick joked as he headed in the direction of Grissom's office.