Stage two: The venom
Catherine stood there for a moment, wondering what on earth had just happened.
Had Sara been flirting with her?
"Catherine?" She looked up to see a very scared looking Grissom.
"She's not here." She said before he could even ask. The grey haired man exhaled deeply and sank down on one of the seats.
"Thank god." He sighed.
"What's up?" Catherine was in no mood for one of his little chats right now.
"The bugs." He started looking nervously over his shoulder. "I identified them."
"Oh?" Looking up from her work, Catherine leaned her back against the table to look at him. "And?"
Grissom picked up a paper, obviously printed from the internet, and handed it to her. With a slight frown, she took the paper and glanced at it.
"Gil…" She looked up at him, the shock evident on her face.
"Yeah…" He sighed.
"But, I didn't think that was possible. I mean I've heard about it obviously, interrogation methods in military actions and such, but I never thought…" She looked down at the paper again, making sure she'd read it right. "Truth serum?"
"Not truth serum exactly." Grissom took the paper back, folded it neatly over and over again until it was so small he could have shoved it in his ear. Instead he carefully placed it in his inner pocket, making sure it wasn't visible. "It's a new form of thiopental sodium; it lowers your inhibitions drastically. We don't know much about this variant; it's only found in these specific insects. That's why I was so keen on finding them."
"And now Sara's injected with this serum?" She asked, wanting to get all the facts right.
"Yeah…"
"She shouldn't be here."
"No…"
"You're gonna tell her?"
"No."
"Fine." With a sigh, Catherine went in search of Sara Sidle, who could be anywhere dishing out too much honesty for her own good.
But Catherine had a plan. And she was to going to let this opportunity slide out of her hands.