A/N : After a highly successful weekend which saw my boys win 4-1 away from home and top the league(!) I returned a very happy woman indeed and heres the next chapter for you all, its a bit of a short one but really crucial, the chapter after this one should hopefully be up very shortly and its a biggie in terms of turning points in the story...

Greg felt for sure he had drifted in and out of consciousness since he spoke to Nick. Paul had left him chained up in the darkness for what felt like hours; Greg's hands were beginning to ache tirelessly from being suspended above him. He was handcuffed so tightly he was beginning to lose the circulation of blood to his wrists. He was sitting uncomfortably on the hard stone floor, his legs outstretched in front of him, he was still shirtless and sweating profusely, and Paul had injected him again with a dose of whatever drug or virus he was pumping into his body. Greg had to breathe slowly because the pain in his chest hurt so much, he tried to recall all the happy moments in his life to keep his mind off his impending fate. He had fought him once and lost and was gradually growing weaker and weaker, he found himself looking forward to his death if only to take away the pain, he wished Paul would just kill him and be done with it, anything was preferable to this torture. He had lost all hope; his friends were not coming to save him.

Back at the lab, Grissom and the team were working tirelessly, desperately to find anything that would give them a clue to where Greg could possibly be. They had worked throughout the night with little success and it was starting to show. Sara was pale and withdrawn as she sat in the break room, cradling a cup of coffee, Nick was next to her lost in thought. Just yesterday they had all sat here laughing and joking, now there was an empty void where Greg and his Blue Hawaiian should have been sat. Nick never realised how much Greg really meant to him until he was gone. Gone was the kooky spiky hair, gone was the cheeky grin and smiling warm eyes and gone was the big heart and sweet sensitive nature that made Greg Sanders the truly special man that he was. Nick crushed his plastic coffee cup in frustration and hurled it across the room, just missing a shocked Catherine as she entered the room.

"Archie's got something on the security video" She announced the optimism in her voice plain for all to hear. Sara snapped to attention and quickly followed Nick and Catherine. Warrick and Grissom were already huddled round the monitor as the three CSI's entered.

Archie was glued to the screen intently. "All footage of what happened inside the building has been cut to bits" He explained "but I did get some footage of the car park, it seems our perp must have forgot about, look here"

The CSI's crammed round the monitor to see the footage. "This shows the footage of what happened between 11 and 1.30am. This is 12.58am"

They watched intently as the sullen dark car park suddenly sprang to life. The fire door on the left of the screen burst open and two shadowy figures emerged. Grissom leaned in closer, urging Archie to zoom in on the figures, he dutifully did it was clear it was Paul and Greg. Paul had a stranglehold grip on him as he dragged Greg. Even with the grainy images, the terror on Greg's face was frighteningly easy for them all to see. Warrick cursed in disgust and they all winced as Greg was so roughly shoved into the back of the car and then drove away at high speed.

"Did we get the licence plate?" Nick asked hopefully

Archie rewound the footage and then froze it and zoomed in on the car as it prepared to speed away. "Got it" He declared.

"Archie did you say that the footage goes back as far as 11pm?" Grissom asked

"Sure" he replied

"Do it" They watched as Archie found the car park footage for 11pm. The car that Paul used was still there it was there from 11pm to 1am.

At first Catherine didn't get the significance and then she realised, she ran back to get the post mortem results, realising what Grissom was getting at.

"Post mortem says they died between 11.30 and 12am" She confirmed. "It's possible he used another car but then no other left and returned during that time, he couldn't possibly get back in time so that means…"

"He didn't kill the couple" Grissom completed her sentence as they all came to the same shocking conclusion. "He's got an accomplice"