Ecklie dials the undersheriff and says, "Hey McKeen it's Ecklie how about we schedule lunch or something, it's been a while."

McKeen responds, "Sure. As long as it's not about your budget I'm there."

Ecklie chuckles and says, "I assure you it's nothing like that. When are you available?"

McKeen flips through his calendar and replies, "How about tomorrow?"

Ecklie says, "That's great. How about you meet me here, at the lab?"

McKeen replies, "Seen you then."

The Next Day …

As Mark and Sara pass by Ecklie's office, Ecklie pokes his head out of his door and says, "Anderson, Sidle in my office now!"

Mark and Sara stop, look at each other and turn around to enter Ecklie's office.

Ecklie motions for both of them to take a seat and starts, "The undersheriff should be here anytime. I've asked him to stop by for lunch. I'm hoping I can lure him into the interrogation room. Do you think you can prep the interrogation room in the next few minutes?"

Mark replies, "Of course."

Ecklie instructs, "Great. Get Brass and anyone else you want in on it. We're going to be lucky to get this one chance guys so we need to be on point."

Mark and Sara leave Ecklie's office and go set up the interrogation room. Sara called Brass who just joined them with Catherine following close behind. Brass decided that he and Sara should lead the interview and that Mark and Catherine should watch from the observation area.

A half an hour later Mark pops out of the observation room and almost runs into Ecklie.

Ecklie says, "We have a situation. Let's go back in and brief everyone."

Mark opens the door to the observation area of the interrogation room and joins Sara, Brass and Catherine.

Ecklie says, "We've got a potential situation. McKeen hasn't shown up and no one can get ahold of him. I don't know if somehow he figured out what we were up to and is on the run."

Brass asks, "Has a unit checked his house?"

Ecklie nods and replies, "Yes just did a drive by no one is there."

Just then Ecklie gets a page, after looking at his page he says, "This is a 911 to the ballistics lab. Everyone follow me and we'll see what's up."

When everyone arrives in the ballistics lab there is a very nervous Bobby pacing back and forth and Archie is working on one of the ballistic computers.

Ecklie asks, "What's up with the 911 page?"

Bobby replies, "Well I noticed the ballistics computer acting a little odd so I asked Archie to take a look."

Archie still working on the machine says, "There was a computer remoted in monitoring this machine in the background. I'm working on the trace now. The IP looks to be an LVPD issued computer."

Mark says, "Dammit I bet its McKeen! It's why he's not here this is how he knew we were onto him."

Ecklie responds, "Well the good thing is if he goes anywhere or tries to leave the state we have all of our patrols on the lookout for him."

Sara more than a little disturbed says, "So what? We just wait? While he's out there running free? I mean we have no idea what else he's involved in."

Ecklie responds, "Sidle I don't like it any more than you do. Right now I'm just hoping that McKeen is the only dirty one and he doesn't have anyone else in his pocket."

Catherine sighs and rubs her temples and states, "God I hadn't even thought of that possibility Conrad."

Ecklie sighs and says, "Yeah, if it is I don't even what to know what will happen to the department."

Archie speaks up, "Ok I cross listed the IP I traced against all of the IPs the department has registered and it is definitely coming from McKeen's laptop."

Mark walks over to Archie and asks, "Can you also use the information in the database to trace the GPS on McKeen's phone? Maybe we can find out where he's hiding."

Archie moves his fast fingers over the keyboard and replies, "I got a location. Looks like somewhere out near Blue Diamond."

Brass speaks up, "Ecklie remember that party McKeen had close to when he started? Wasn't it out near Blue Diamond? It was his father's place or something."

Ecklie nods and says, "Yeah I think you're right."

Brass says, "I remember it being rather secluded. Let's take a team out there and bring him in."

Ecklie shakes his head and responds, "I don't know Jim. This sounds dangerous."

Brass says, "What else are we going to do just let him go? We don't have a choice Ecklie!"

Ecklie holds up his hand in surrender and says, "Ok, ok, ok, I get the point Jim. Just be careful. McKeen has obviously been able to outsmart us and do things under our noses before."

Ecklie walks out of the lab and heads towards his office.

Brass looks at Mark and Sara and says, "I want you two there. There are extra vests in my office go get them and meet me in my car in 15 so I can update the SWAT team."

Brass and Sara exit the lab leaving Mark and Catherine.

Catherine looks at Mark and says, "You better be careful."

Mark puts his finger under her chin and gives her a kiss and says, "I love you Catherine, see you soon."

As Mark goes to leave Catherine responds, "I love you too."

Mark, Sara, and Brass arrive just outside of the house where they think McKeen is hiding out with the rest of the SWAT team.

Brass addresses the group, "Ok guys we may only get on shot at this. Let's come up on the side through the tree cover and go into the house."

As they are coming up the tree line something catches Mark's eye and he points it out to Sara. There's a barn and it looked like someone had gone into it. Mark and Sara split off and go towards the barn.

Sara takes cover against the barn and peeks in the door. It appears to be clear so she heads in motioning for Mark to follow. As the make their way through the barn it appears to be empty. Mark walks into a room in the top of the barn and McKeen comes out of nowhere and hits Mark in the middle of the back with a piece of wood.

Sara hearing the struggle runs into the room and holds McKeen at gunpoint and spits, "Hold it right there you piece of shit!" Sara is gripping her gun so tight her hands were turning white.

McKeen starts gaining on Sara still holding the large piece of wood resembling part of a 2X4 that he struck Mark with and asks, "What are you going to do about it Sidle? Shoot me?"

Sara still pointing the gun at McKeen retaliates, "I just might McKeen. You've been up to some dirty tricks."

McKeen slows his advancing on Sara and chuckles and states, "Oh Sidle how could you be so naïve? You should know you still need me alive. All you have is my tampered gun tied to the crime scene. You don't actually have the gun in my hands. How do you know it wasn't stolen?"

Sara scoffs, "Oh yeah right because innocent men, especially undersheriffs, run from the police all the time when they have nothing to hide."

Mark rolls over and looks up from the floor to see the exchange between McKeen and Sara. He quietly finds another piece of wood nearby and slowly picks it up and hits McKeen in the leg. McKeen drops the piece of wood he's holding and falls to the ground. Sara leans over him still holding him at gunpoint while Mark handcuffs McKeen.

Once handcuffed Sara grabs her radio and calls Brass, "Brass we got McKeen in the barn south of the house."

Over the radio Brass says, "We're on our way."

Sara looks at Mark and asks, "Are you ok?"

Mark slowly stands and replies, "Maybe. I'm definitely going to feel this one for a while."

Sara says, "I think we should get you checked out."

Mark sighs and responds, "I'm sure I'll be fine."

Sara laughs and says, "You realize you no longer have a choice right? It's me or Catherine, trust me when I say you don't want to face the 'Wrath of Cath'. Although you know you really haven't seen it yet, maybe I should let you witness this so you know who the boss is."

As Mark rolls his eyes Brass walks in and says, "McKeen, it's great to see you. We are going to have a little chat down at the station."

Sara turns to leave and Mark follows but as he takes a step he gets pain in his back and places his hand on it.

They come out of the barn and follow Brass to regroup and Brass notices Mark is holding his back and asks, "Mark are you ok?"

Mark grimaces, "I'll be ok."

Brass asks, "What happened up there?"

Sara says, "We saw someone entering the barn as we were walking toward the house. Mark and I followed. We took cover outside the main barn doors and the bottom was clear so we worked our way to the top. At the top of the stairs Mark and I separated. I heard a struggle and followed where Mark was and found Mark on the ground with McKeen holding what looked like a piece of a 2X4 over him. McKeen gained on me as I held him at gunpoint. We had a brief exchange of words. Mark quietly found another piece of wood and hit McKeen in the leg to subdue him. Once McKeen went down I stood over top of him holding my gun on him as Mark handcuffed him and we radioed you."

Brass looks at Mark and asks with concern, "Where did he hit you? Should we get you checked out?"

Mark still holding his back replies, "He hit me in the back. I want to be there for the interrogation first and then if I'm still in pain I'll go get checked out."

Mark and Sara enter the locker room to put some things away before interrogating McKeen. Catherine walks in almost immediately. She scoots past Sara and looks at Mark and says, "Lift up your shirt."

Mark chuckles and says, "Gee dear don't you think we should at least wait until Sara is gone?"

Catherine demands, "No, I'm serious! Brass told me about your back."

Mark sighs and responds, "It's fine." But lifts his shirt up where a nice purple bruise has started to form.

Catherine says, "It looks pretty bad. You are definitely getting this checked out."

Sara shuts her locker door and turns around and responds, "I told him the exact same thing. I told him that you wouldn't be happy with him shrugging it off. He did say that if it was still bothering him he would get it checked out after the interrogation."

Catherine says, "Fine! But this is happening the second interrogation is done. Sara and I are both going with you."

Mark shakes his head and states, "I didn't realize I was dating both of you."

Sara chuckles and responds, "You wish big man! Although we are like besties, so technically our relationship is really special."

Mark rolls his eyes in response.

Brass and Sara walk into the interrogation room where McKeen is seated. Mark, Catherine and Grissom are watching from the observation room.

Brass says, "Undersheriff great to see you. You really should stop by more often and visit."

McKeen says, "Yeah you're right, but then I would have to see your ugly face."

Ecklie walks into the observation area and asks, "Have I missed anything?"

Grissom replies, "No they just got started."

Brass says, "Let's start off easy. Why did Eddie Willows come to you and why did you hire Sparky Miller to follow CSI Catherine Willows? Don't look so shocked McKeen, Sparky gave you up real fast. Although he probably didn't think anything of it, says he does a lot of work for you. Why would you hire Sparky when you have a whole police force at your disposal, unless you were doing something shady."

McKeen replies, "Eddie came to me when I was at the record company a few months back asked what I could do to dig up dirt on Catherine. He said it had something to do with getting custody on their child. I told him to pay so much a month and I would take care of it for him. I use Sparky for a lot of things, I like staying off the grid as much as I can."

Brass says, "I see the money suddenly stopped. Why was that? Eddie get what he need?"

McKeen spits, "Eddie was crazy! Guy was always yelling because Sparky wasn't pulling anything useful on his ex. I said you have to pay me more if you want charges made up. Eddie said he wasn't going to pay me anymore and that he paid me enough and I needed to find something."

Brass asks, "That didn't get your feathers ruffled?"

McKeen replies, "Brass he's a small fish in a big pond and I'm a whale, why would I even worry about him?"

Brass says, "Clearly he had something on you. I just find it interesting that you had this disagreement with Eddie Willows and then all of a sudden Eddie ends up murdered. Not only that but a case that you assumed would go unsolved because you pulled the plug on it."

Sara interjects, "And the gun used to murder Eddie Willows and Jade Withers is yours. We figured out that the gun was tampered with."

McKeen shakes his head and says, "Take this as a lesson, don't let other people cover your tracks do it yourself."

Brass inquires, "Oh so you're admitting to the murder of Eddie Willows and Jade Withers?"

McKeen spits, "Get real Jim you guys already got me. I was pissed because Eddie kept pushing and pushing. I would swear he was using but I know he was clean. However, I used Jade to lure him, she brought him to the house because she wanted to buy drugs. I told her I'd keep her good and drugged up if she'd get Eddie to the house. They showed up and I took care of the problem."

Brass asks, "Why kill Jade? Sounds like she was doing as you asked?"

McKeen replies, "She got greedy. Eddie threatened to expose a bunch of the shady work I do if I didn't dig something up on Catherine. He was getting more and more unstable so I decided to handle the problem. I shot Eddie first and Jade got all mouthy, said that she needed a better deal so I silenced her as well."

Sara says, "You're acting very nonchalant about all this."

McKeen responds, "Sweetheart, I'll have more power in jail. You guys have no idea how many people in this town and in this department are tied to me. I'm done talking."

Ecklie says, "I'm going to do all I can to see that he is isolated and has no visitors so he can't do any criminal activity. God only knows all that he's really done, and now he's not talking. This is just great. Good job though Mark."

Mark responds, "Thank Brass if it wasn't for him this thing would have stayed closed, he's the real hero here."

A/N: This was a mix of my take on Lady Heather's Box and For Warrick. I wanted to keep Warrick alive and decided this is how Eddie died instead.