Chapter Four

A Month Later Note: This Chapter is not based on any sides or spoilers for future episodes it is strictly out of my own head. As far as I know these scenes do not appear in these episodes. I have seen no spoilers or sides for episode 12.

INT: LINDSAY MONORE'S APARTMENT---NIGHT (Does not appear in episode)

CAMERA PANS DOWN THE HALL to a bedroom door. We push through the door. TO REVEAL a sleeping LINDSAY MOROE in the throws of a terrible nightmare. She is tossing and turning. Fighting the visions that flash through her mind.

FLASHBACK: BOZEMAN, MONTANA HOSPITAL ROOM- DAY

Lindsay is lying in bed. Her eyes are red rimmed from crying. She has an IV in her arm. The heart monitor above beats rhythmically in the background. An older couple LYDIA AND JACK MONROE Lindsay's parents sit in the corner across from their daughter's bed side.

A light knock on the door breaks the silence . A doctor enters a solemn look on his face. Lydia and Jack exchange looks. They know what's coming.

Doctor: I am sorry Miss Monroe they didn't make it.

Lindsay: (Screams) NO! NO! NO! (She is hysterical) (Does Not Appear In Episode)

The doctor and her parents rush to Lindsay side. But the young woman cannot be consoled. The Doctor screams to the nurse at the outside nurses station. The nurse comes rushing in trying to help the doctor calm a now very agitated Lindsay down.

Doctor: 10MG Temazepam STAT

The Nurse runs out of the room. Noding her understanding at the doctors instruction.

CUT TO: INT. LINDSAY MONROES APARTMENT – NIGHT PRESENT DAY (Does not appear in episode or spoilers or sides)

Lindsay is still tossing and turning violently in her bed. The all too vivid memories flooding her mind shake her awake. Lindsay is now bolt upright in bed. She is sweating and her hands are shaking. This night mare has clearly taken its toll. She is trying to calm herself but then her cell phone begins to ring. CAMERA PANS TO BED SIDE TABLE The number displayed on the caller ID flashes 555-0707 MAC this is the last thing Lindsay needs right now. She takes a shaky breath and snaps up the phone from the table.

Lindsay:(into phone) Monroe yeah, Mac I'll be right there. (Tosses the covers aside) Give me ten minutes. (closes phone shut)

Lindsay makes a mad dash to her bedroom closet. She stops. She has caught her reflection in the mirror above her dresser. Her face is puffy and raw from crying and her hair is rumbled from a fitful sleep. Turning away from her less than flattering image she slams open the closet door, Determined that her nightmare not haunt her any further tonight. She has work to do.

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING MANHATTAN, NY THE SULLIVAN RESIDENCE – EARLY MORNING

(Does not appear in episode or spoilers or sides)

Lindsay enters the scene. A children's bedroom She is spotted by DON FLACK who comes over to greet her. It is pretty gruesome CAMERA WIDENS TO REVEAL the bodies of three children two boys, one girl all dead in their beds. Victims of gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. One of the victims hands dangles over the side of the bed. COLD, LIFELESS. A detail which does not go unnoticed by Lindsay. There are multiple blood pools. the children's bed sheets are soaked through.

Lindsay's eyes survey the horror. She is remembering her own demons. Flack begins to brief her on the scene. DANNY MESSER is the foreground photographing the bodies. But casts a concerned eye on Lindsay.

Flack: Sorry to drag you out of bed Monroe.

Lindsay: its okay I wasn't sleeping anyway. So what have we got?

Lindsay puts her kit down inside the door. Trying to remain detached she listens as Flack briefs her. But there is clearly a tug of war of emotions raging inside her.

Flack: Eric, Mathew, and Claire Sullivan ages nine, seven, and four where put to bed around nine pm by the nanny (flips through notebook) Angela Metcalfe she tucked them in went back to her room. Watched a little TV and then returned around two am after being awaken by noises coming from the children's bedroom she gets up to check on them and finds this.

Lindsay: (Surveys the scene) and where are the parents? (Lindsay rubs her eyes)

Flack: It's just the mother (flips through notebook) Megan Sullivan. She out of town on a business where trying to reach her now.

Lindsay eyes fall again upon the young victims. She can feel her resolve weakening. She knows she shouldn't be here. She picks up her kit from where she left it. And walks out of the room.

Flack runs after her he calls Lindsay's name. But Lindsay doesn't hear him. She wants out of there NOW. Flack catches up to her by the front door.

Flack: (Grabs Lindsay's arm) Where are you going?

Lindsay: I can't stay here Flack. (She brushes his arm away)

Flack: Lindsay Danny needs help. He can't process this scene by himself. (Does not appear in episode or spoilers or sides)

Lindsay: (On way out) Call Stella or Hawkes or Mac for that matter I'm not working this case.

And she walks out of the apartment. Flack stands in the doorway shocked.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB MAC'S OFFICE--- DAY

A Light knock causes MAC TAYLOR to look up from his computer monitor. LINDSAY MONORE stands in the doorway. Mac waves her in.

Lindsay: You wanted to see me.

Mac: I heard you pulled yourself off the Sullivan case.

Lindsay: (ready to explain) I can't work the investigation Mac.

Mac: (Nods his understanding) I know, and I know why.

Lindsay is visibly shaken. She can't believe what Mac just said. Secrets do have a way of coming out. OFF THIS IMAGE Mac reaches into his pocket he pulls out a key. He opens the bottom draws to his desk he pulls out a FILE LABELED CASE NUMBER 999378548 MONROE, LINDSAY

Mac walks around to Lindsay. She sees what's in his hands. She can't wrap her head around it. Mac knew all along.

Lindsay: How did you get this?

Mac: When you transferred from Bozeman I requested your file. They made the mistake of also including your case file.

Lindsay: Then you know what happened. What he did to me.

Lindsay feels ashamed. Mac sees this reaches over. he gives her hand a reassuring squeeze.

(Does not appear in episode or spoilers or sides)

Mac: The one thing I realized after my wife died. Was that I couldn't allow myself to become so paralyzed in my anger and my grief that I stopped living you need to let yourself heal Lindsay until you do you will never move on not in your work (He casts in eye through the glass at Danny in the lab then back at Lindsay) not in your personal life. Not in anything.

He hands her the file. Walks back around to his desk.

Mac: He cares a great deal for you. Talk to him Lindsay he'll understand a lot more than you realize.

Lindsay doesn't have to ask who he is instead

Lindsay: Thanks Mac

She walks out of the office. She stops. She looks out through the glass into the lab at DANNY MESSER his head is hunched over a microscope. Lindsay looks down at the file in her hands then back at Danny. She turns and walks down the corridor. She knows it is past time they talked.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB DANNY MESSERS OFFICE --DAY

Lindsay stands in the open doorway. She is afraid but knows this needs to be done. She walks through the door and puts the file down on the desk. She grabs a notepad and pen and writes a quick note and leaves it beside the file. She walks out of the office she tentatively looks back it was done.

The rest is up to Danny.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB DANNY MESSERS OFFICE---DAY

Danny walks into his office. His shift over he goes to grab his keys from the desk. Spots the file folder. The name on it stops him cold. Danny sinks down into the chair behind the desk . His keys are forgotten. He opens the folder.

CAMERA WIDENS TO REVEAL: CRIME SCENE PHOTOS

Note: This Chapter is not based on any sides or spoilers for future episodes it is strictly out of my own head. As far as I know these scenes do not appear in this episode. If there is such scenes it is purely coincidental.

I'm sorry this is as far as I got before I had to stop. I hope you did enjoy what you've have read of this story so far. I hopefully will be able to continue with it at a later time. It is pretty much done all that was left was the conversation between DL.