Greg was stood talking to Archie about his music when Hodges entered followed by an unexplained sound of booing.
"Hey this isn't a comedy we don't need the sound effects," shouted Ecklie at a sound tech down the hallway.
"Do you hear that?" asked Hodges both Archie and Greg looked confused.
"No" they replied together
"Actually neither do I" said Hodges listening.
"What are you doing, I'm fairly certain the script didn't say you lost the plot" said Greg laughing at Hodges as he cupped his hand to his ear.
"No I think you've lost plot there's supposed to be ticking" said Hodges scowling.
"SOUND" shouted Ecklie from down the corridor and ticking filled the room.
"Yer where's it coming from?" asked Archie as Greg followed the sound to a table. Bending down and showing off the fact his playboy boxers could be seen sticking over his trousers.
"Oh my god" cried Greg enthusiastically " a storey line" he smiled getting up.
"What?" shouted Hodges?
"There's a huge bomb under there," said Greg excitedly waving his arms. "And I'm in here, that's a story line. Wait I'm not getting blown up again I'm I?" he said looking around nervously.
He flipped thought the script to find written in bold please remember to show more than a minutes emotion at been traumatised from the last explosion!
"Get on with it" cried Ecklie from down the corridor.
"Oh right" Greg sheepishly bent down under the table with one quick action he flipped the table so it's legs were sticking up in the air. Hodges found himself starring momentarily at Greg's surprisingly muscled chest, which he'd been eyeing for the past few minutes.
"We need to evacuate the lab," instructed Archie.
"No there's not enough time, we need to diffuse it" said Greg examining it.
"We'll aren't we Tom Cruise, I think that's Mission impossible" said Hodges the only person laughing at his joke.
"That was good," he complained leaning back against the table. Unfortunately he lent back and caught his arm on the hotplate, pulling it away quickly and connecting with the DNA sampler that Archie was fixing. Hodges arm connected with a free wire (still plugged in) and sent shocks through his body. Before shaking rather over acted and falling to the floor.
Both Greg and Archie looked at each other before grabbing a nearby script and flicking through
"Oh thank god for that we don't' have to do CRP, David will be here shortly" sighed Greg putting the script back down before David appeared smiling in the doorway.
David spent an extra long time putting his kit down before bending down and poking Hodges with a scalpel.
"Well he's not bleeding so I'd says he's almost certainly dead," said David.
"Come on stop adding your own lines, your thirty seconds are almost up and you haven't said COD"
"We'll COD appears to be a massive heart attack cased by a electric current. The current passed through his heart making it contract out of sequence like a wobbling jelly" he was interrupted as Ecklie appeared.
"Ok that's' the Doc's part out" he pulled David to his feet while Greg and Archie lifted Hodges body onto the handy gurney.
"NO PLEASE I CAN ACT, I CAN HAVE A STORY, I CAN DO BACKSTORY" cried David grabbing the gurney luckily this made it easier for Ecklie to drag both him and the body away.
"Greg the bomb" said Archie turning his attention back to the script that was writing itself as he stood there.
"Must be a rewrite," said Greg as large letters appeared on it.
GET ON WITH THE GOD DANM BOMB IF THIS WAS REAL TIME YOU'D ALL BE DEAD, THERE'S ONLY SO MANY TIMES WE CAN CUT BEFORE SOEMONE REALISES IT'S SAID ONE MINTUE FOR THE PAST FIVE
"I don't' think we should anger them, they may make us do decomp's for a week" said Greg going back to the bomb. Nervously he debated whether or not to touch it a sudden flash back to the last time the lab exploded nearly caused Archie to fall over. A quick close up to Greg face (making sure to show the fear in his lovely eyes) and everything was normal.
"Ok I think I can do it, it's just like wiring your house"
"Your good with electrics?" asked Archie as Greg pulled out some pliers.
"Well I fitted my lights with a dimmer switch"
"That's it a dimmer switch," shouted Archie waving his arms.
"Yes, well no I started by I got confused so I called Sara, wow does she look hot with a tool belt.
Suddenly the script caught fire.
"Um I think their angry" said Archie grabbing a fire extinguisher and putting it out.
"Ok" with that Greg pulled the orange wire and clock stopped with five seconds left.
"Wow nice work" smiled Archie patting Greg on the back.
"Thanks, now I've got to go to the break room to met Nick," he said taking the charred remains of the script with him.
"Yer I just saw Nick actually his in the hallway with Brass." Said Archie pointing to where they were crouched on the floor.
"Hey what's going on?" asked Greg approaching them "man those new writers are testy, get on with the story, stop going of plot and was it me or did Catherine keep walking back and forth behind the widow in that scene, did we run out of extra's again?"
"Oh no security were chasing her, she heard there was bomb plot that she hadn't caused, figured it didn't involve her so was planning on running in at the last minute and throwing herself on it" said Brass.
"We should have let her" added Nick looking up.
"What are you doing?" asked Greg crouching down and sadly putting his shirt back on as Nick had.
"It's my free gift," said Nick happily holding up a wind-up kangaroo 2from my happy meal" he added.
"It would have been better if you didn't start screaming at the order window and banging on the glass you freaked the assistant out" said Brass to which Nick just turned his head away.
"Look at I got" said Brass pulling his jacket open "it's a police badge" he said smiled as Nick just gave Greg a don't ask look.
"So your um supposed to have beer" said Greg .
"Oh yer but we can't go in there until everyone else gets there so were just hanging out, it tried to go in there a minute ago but all of a sudden flexi glass started falling from the ceiling" he said looking frightened.
"Writers?" asked Greg.
"Yep" replied Nick
"If we go in there now, then apparently people will wonder what we've been doing not drinking or sat there until everyone else turns up, if we go in together then it will look like all this happened at the same time" said Brass
"It's not," questioned Greg.
"Are you kidding imagine if Cath found out that she'd be running around like a headless chicken she can only be in one place at once" he laughed
"And where is she now"
"What happening now"? Asked Brass looking at the script. As big bold letters appeared
The C in CSI does not stand for Catherine! There will be no weird slow motion ending with her walking away (yes I've just watched bite me and did not get the ending why slow motion!)
MEANWHILE………. Catherine and Warrick were getting hot and cramped in a cupboard……….