The next day …

Mark and Nick are in Brass' office getting an update on Terry Reeves and Bradley Gold.

Brass starts, "Still no update on Terry Reeves' whereabouts, however I did obtain a warrant to track his phone GPS … hopefully it's still on so we have an accurate location. Bradley Gold works for Big Vegas Construction and had scheduled time off. Talked to his roommate though and he hasn't seen him for 2 days. He says that certainly isn't unusual. He has shared property on Lake Mead and frequents it to go fishing."

Nick says, "Let's track Terry first and then we can check out Bradley's property later."

Mark nods and says, "Ok. Thanks Brass we'll keep you updated."

Mark and Nick walk out of Brass' office and into the AV lab where they find Archie.

Nick says, "Hey Arch. We have a phone GPS we needed tracked for a location can you help us out?"

Archie takes the information from Nick and says, "Sure give me a few minutes."

Mark says, "I'm still leaning towards Terry but the property at Lake Mead could be a good place to hide out."

Nick responds, "True. Say it is Bradley, that still doesn't explain why we can't find Terry though."

Archie interrupts, "Hey guys I've got something. Funny you were just talking about Lake Mead because that is where this signal is triangulating from. It doesn't appear to be moving."

Nick calls Brass, "Hey Brass do you happen to have an address for Bradley's shared property at Lake Mead?"

Brass replies, "Of course I do. Do we need a team out there?"

Nick responds, "Possibly. Archie has traced Terry's cell to a spot out by Lake Mead and it doesn't appear to be moving so we were wondering if it happened to be on or near the property."

Brass says, "It's 268 Lakeshore Rd, Boulder City. Looks like it's part of the Lake Mead RV Village. Really just a lot of campers stay there not really that isolated."

Nick tells Archie, "See if it's near 268 Lakeshore Rd, Boulder City."

Archie replies, "It's looks to be right on that area and it still hasn't moved."

Nick says to Brass, "Archie says it looks to be right on that area and it hasn't moved."

Brass says, "You and Mark come to my office and we'll go check it out. Could be nothing but I think it warrants a conversation at least as to why Terry's phone is at Bradley's Lake Mead property."

268 Lakeshore Rd, Boulder City …

Mark, Brass and Nick walk up to the small mobile home and knock on the door.

A scruffy man with a long beard and shaggy hair answers the door.

Brass asks, "Are you Bradley Gold?"

Bradley says, "Yes I am. Who are you?"

Brass flashes his badge and says, "I'm Captain Jim Brass with the LVPD. These are CSIs Nick Stokes and Mark Anderson we have a few questions about Shanda Reeves."

Bradley says, "Ok shoot."

Brass asks, "When was the last time you saw Shanda?"

Bradley answers, "Two days ago. It was right before Terry was coming back from a trip. We usually only see each when he's out of town on business."

Brass says, "We found Shanda brutally murdered in her home yesterday. Her face was beaten in pretty badly do you know anything about that?"

Bradley says, "Oh my God.", and starts to cry.

Brass turns to look at Mark and Nick then turns back to Bradley.

Brass asks, "Bradley I know this is hard to take in. However, we can't track down Terry. We did a trace on his cell phone and it showed he was here. Has Terry come to see you recently?"

Bradley wipes his face and shakes his head no.

Brass asks, "Any reason at all you can think his cell would be here?"

Bradley thinks and says, "Yes actually. A few weeks ago Shanda and I were here and she had picked up Terry's phone by mistake after he was already gone on a trip and left it here. Just a second I'll get it for you."

Bradley returns a few minutes later with the phone and Mark bags it as evidence.

Brass asks, "Terry didn't ask about his phone after he got back?

Bradley nods and says, "Yeah he did but Shanda convinced him he lost it somewhere. It was his personal phone. He's been using his business phone since."

Brass nods and says, "That makes sense why it didn't pop up as registered to him, it must be registered to the company. Well, Bradley thanks for answering our questions. Don't leave town though in case we have more questions."

Bradley nods and responds, "Captain Brass please find who did this to Shanda."

Brass nods and Bradley shuts the door. Brass, Mark and Nick walk back to his car.

Brass says once they are in the car, "That almost seemed too easy like the guy had an answer for everything. We'll keep an eye on him. You guys see what you can get off that phone."

Back at the Lab …

In the layout room Mark and Nick are working on what evidence they have collected so far. Mark has Terry's personal cell hooked up to a laptop and is looking through his texts and calls seeing if there seems to be any usual activity.

Mark says, "So far with what I'm seeing on this phone Bradley's story seems to be adding up."

Nick looks up from some reports and says, "Brass said he's trying to get a warrant to track Terry's business cell, hopefully that will lead somewhere."

Wendy walks in.

Mark says, "If you're hand delivering results this must be serious."

Wendy chuckles and says, "No really I just needed to get up and walk around."

Nick asks, "What have you got?"

Wendy says, "Nothing out of the ordinary. All of the blood I processed from the walls, her and her clothes it's all hers no second contributors that I could find. The baseball bat and the trophy you found appear to be what was used to deliver the blows, I was able to recover hair and tissue samples that all point to Shanda. I sent both over to Mandy to see if she could recover any prints for you."

Mark asks, "What about the semen Doc found?"

Wendy replies, "Still running. I can tell you that it doesn't belong to Bradley Gold. He was in the system for his company. I don't have anything of the husbands to compare it to. If you could get me something of his I should be able to do a comparison."

Mark turns to Nick and asks, "Do you collect anything of the husbands while you were upstairs?"

Nick shakes his head and replies, "No at the time I didn't think it was relevant."

Mark says, "I guess I know we're going.", he turns back to Wendy and says, "Thanks for the update."

Wendy responds, "No problem. Good luck on finding something for comparison guys."

At Shanda's house …

Nick and Mark walk upstairs.

Mark asks, "You thinking bathroom?"

Nick replies, "Yeah toothbrush and hairbrush are probably our best bet."

Nick is in the bathroom bagging the toothbrush and there's a scream coming from outside. Mark immediately looks and at Nick and they both grab their guns and go downstairs. They don't see anything out the front so they go towards the back of the house. They set outside and see a woman yelling at a man and holding him at gunpoint.

Mark gets on his radio and calls for backup.

Nick walks slowly towards the woman and says, "Ma'am I'm CSI Nick Stokes. The police are on their way will you please put the gun down so we can discuss this in a calm manner."

The woman has tears in her eyes and is gripping the gun so tight that her fingers are white yells, "NO! He beat my sister to death! There is no way he is getting out of this alive!"

Nick tries again, "Ma'am please. You don't want to go to jail over your sister's death. Please let us deal with him. If he did it, we will find the evidence against him. Don't throw your life away your sister wouldn't want that."

At that Lacie lowers the gun and Nick takes it and says, "There we go nice and easy."

Just as Lacie lowers the gun the unidentified man takes off. Mark takes off after him.

Brass and several officers come around the back of the house weapons drawn.

Nick yells, "I have the gun secured but the guy took off and Mark went that way."

Brass and several officers run the direction Nick pointed.

Mark yells, "Hey buddy stop! We just want to talk to you!"

An officer catches up to Mark and asks, "What happened?"

A very out of breath Mark responds, "Lady was yelling and had him at gunpoint in the back yard and once we secured the gun he just took off."

Mark stops to catch his breath as the officer continues on. Several other officers run past Mark and Brass stops with Mark.

Brass says, "I know you didn't want to lose sight of the guy but you know we should be the one's running after suspects not you."

Mark breathing heavily responds, "I know but I figured you would be right behind me. This way we at least had a trail. I also figure the guy wasn't armed or we would have come out to see a duel not the sister holding this guy at gunpoint."

Brass chuckles and says, "You know you may want to hit the gym a bit."

Mark rolls his eyes and they start walking back to the house.

Nick sees Mark and Brass walking towards the house he looks to the officer next to him and asks, "Can you keep an eye on Lacie?"

The officer nods in response.

Nick asks Mark and Brass, "Did you find him?"

Mark replies, "No but the other officers are running down the trail."

Brass asks Nick, "What did you find out about Lacie?"

Nick says, "She's been tracking Terry, that's apparently who ran off. According to her he did this, found out about Shanda's affair with Bradley. He had been out in Primm, hiding out I assume. She somehow tracked him there and he started heading towards the house. I'm trying to figure out why the guy would be stupid enough to return to the house if he did it."

Mark responds, "Who knows this wouldn't be the first time someone returned to the scene. Since it is his house maybe he forgot something."

Brass looks at the officer watching over Lacie and says, "Chip, take her back to the station we're going to need to talk to her."

The officer nods at Brass and leads Lacie to his cruiser.

An hour later they still have not found Terry. There is an APB out for him and his vehicle, if he is still traveling in it.

In the interrogation room …

Brass, Mark and Nick are all in the interrogation room with Lacie Grand, Shanda Reeves' sister.

Brass starts, "Lacie how did you manage to track Terry down?"

Lacie takes a sip of coffee and replies, "Terry is from Primm, so I figured if he was hiding that is where he would be."

Brass asks, "When I interviewed you the first time why didn't you tell me this?"

Lacie and then replies, "Because I wasn't certain, it was only a hunch. And … and I guess a part of me wanted to find him before you did." Lacie stops and looks at Nick, "I want to thank you Mr. Stokes for keeping me from doing something I would regret for the rest of my life. As much as I wanted to pull the trigger on that creep, you were right."

Brass asks, "Why didn't you confront him in Primm?"

Lacie responds, "Well once I tracked him down in Primm he was heading towards Vegas and I assumed back home. I figured confronting him in a more populated area was wise as I didn't know if he was armed as well. He stopped several blocks from the house and started walking. I got out with my gun secured in my holster and proceeded to follow him. He was about to open the back door when I screamed to get his attention. He held his hands up and told me to calm down. I just started yelling at him. Eventually he admitted to doing it and that's when Mr. Stokes and Mr. Anderson came out."

Brass says, "We're not going to press charges. Your weapon is legally registered and we verified that you hold a concealed carry permit. Under the circumstances what happened is understandable, I'm glad Nick was able to stop you. If you're going to play vigilante, consider joining the department so you have some back up at least."

Lacie smiles and says, "Thank you Captain Brass. Please get that bastard!"

Brass nods and says, "We'll do our best. You're free to go."

As Mark and Nick are leaving the interrogation room Mark says, "Let's go see if Mandy got anything off the baseball bat and the trophy that Wendy sent over."

Nick nods as they walk towards the print lab.

Mark says, "Hey Mandy do you have anything for us?"

Mandy replies, "I was able to lift prints off both the bat and the trophy but haven't gotten a hit in AFIS. Do you have prints for me to compare them to?"

Mark says, "Not yet. We're hoping to bring the husband in but he's not in the system."

Mandy nods and says, "Well, let me know when you get them. If I get a hit though I will let you know."

A few hours later …

Mark is sitting in his office filling out some reports and Catherine walks in and says, "Hey babe, are you ready to leave?"

Just as Mark is about to answer Catherine his cell rings and he answers, "Anderson."

The voice on the other end says, "Mark it's Brass. A patrol found Terry Reeves on I-15 heading South, I'm assuming back towards Primm. Anyway he should be here within the hour. Mind calling Nick and getting interrogation ready?"

Mark responds, "10-4 Brass. See you soon."

Catherine sighs and smiles then says, "I'm guessing you're not quite ready."

Mark gets up from his desk and replies, "Oh I'm ready but looks like our case isn't. They found the husband so we're setting up interrogation."

Catherine gives Mark a kiss and says, "Ok I'll see you at home."

Mark replies, "I can't wait.", and leaves his office and heads for Nick's.

Mark walks in Nick's office who looks to be putting on his jacket to leave. Mark says, "Hold up buddy. Brass just called they found Terry."

Nick sighs and responds, "Man, I'm starving!"

Mark says, "I think there are some left over sandwiches in the break room."

Nick takes off his jacket and says, "There better be I can't concentrate on an empty stomach!"

Mark and Nick walk into the breakroom and find sandwiches and eat quickly before heading to the interrogation room to meet Brass.

Terry is seated in the chair roughly by the officer and is facing Brass, Mark and Nick.

Brass starts, "Terry good to see you buddy, we've been looking for you."

Terry remains silent.

Brass says, "Oh don't worry I don't need you to say anything. CSIs Anderson and Stokes are going to take a DNA sample and your fingerprints and I will let those do the talking for you."

Mark takes a DNA swab and leaves saying, "I'll take this to Wendy."

Nick gets the fingerprints and says, "And I'll be going to Mandy."

In the DNA lab …

Mark comes in and says, "Wendy I have Terry Reeves DNA if you can compare it to the semen sample that would be great."

Wendy takes the swab and says, "You guys finally got him."

Mark responds, "Yes. Brass is keeping him company in interrogation as we speak."

Wendy says, "Well this shouldn't take me long since I have something to compare it to, give me just a few minutes."

Mark smiles and says, "Thanks take you time. Mind if I wait?"

Wendy pushes a stool towards Mark and he sits down.

In the print lab …

Nick walks into the print lab and says, "Mandy I need you to compare these prints to the prints you got off the bat and the trophy."

Mandy responds, "And you just expect me to drop everything for you right?"

Nick says, "Well, yeah the suspect is in interrogation right now so I was kind of hoping."

Mandy frowns and says, "There's only one way to move your stuff to the top."

Nick whines, "Oh come on! Please!"

Mandy teases, "Dude you know what I want."

Nick looks around and sings really low, "Oh Mandy …"

Mandy starts shaking her head and motions for Nick to be louder.

Nick starts again, "Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without taking but I sent you away …"

Mandy motions for him to stop as if she's a conductor.

Nick smiles as he finishes, "Oh Mandy."

Mandy says, "That'll do. Now hand me that ten card."

Nick hands over the ten card.

Mandy says, "Have a seat it will be a few moments."

In the DNA lab …

Wendy says, "Ok the prep work is done now for the finale."

Wendy drags the unknown semen sample into CODIS and the DNA swab she just prepped from Terry Reeves for comparison. Wendy clicks compare and the computer starts beeping and blinking and indicates a match has been found.

Wendy says, "Let me just get you the print out you need so have what you need to throw it in that's douche's face."

Mark laughs and takes the print out and says, "You are a gem! I could kiss you right now!"

Wendy blushes and responds, "Please don't. Not that I wouldn't enjoy it but I don't really want to face the 'Wrath of Cath'.", she says the last part doing air quotes with her hands.

Mark says, "Ok but I at least owe you a beer."

Wendy responds, "Actually you owe me two. You promised me one back when you first got here that I haven't cashed in on."

Mark says, "You got it!", as he walks out the door towards interrogation.

Mark walks back into interrogation and hands Brass the DNA print out.

Brass says, "Oh that's interesting the semen we found in your wife's vaginal canal is yours. Now normally that's not unusual but the fact that we found Rohypnol in her system indicates that it wasn't consensual … or she at least didn't know about it."

Terry just continues to look silently at Brass.

Brass stares at Terry for a few moments and eventually says, "That's fine continue to be silent. I told you the evidence will do all the talking for you and so far, it hasn't disappointed me."

In the print lab …

Mandy scans in the ten card and sets up AFIS for a comparison. She is running two comparisons at once. One for the bat and Terry's prints and the other the trophy and Terry's prints.

Nick looking over her shoulder says, "Two comparisons at once that's fancy."

Mandy says, "Well, yeah how do you think I get stuff done so fast."

Mandy turns around and gets her magnifier out so she can do a visual comparison while waiting on AFIS.

A few moments later Mandy says, "Visual comparison is a match but let's wait for the print out just to cover all of our bases. By the way I just want you to know I really enjoy your singing voice that's why I make you do it."

Nick just looks at Mandy and rolls his eyes.

Mandy says, "Fine keep rolling your eyes and see how much more I make you do it."

Just then AFIS starts beeping and blinking indicating a match. Mandy takes the print out and hands it to Nick.

Nick takes it as he walks out and says, "Thanks Mandy.", and he heads toward interrogation.

In the interrogation room …

Several minutes of awkward silence goes by until Nick finally comes in with the print outs and hands them to Brass.

Brass starts, "Terry I'm going to tell you what happened since you can't seem to tell me yourself. You found out Shanda had been shacking up with her old boyfriend Bradley Gold. You couldn't take it. So you give her the Rohypnol, I guess you figured one last time before you beat the shit out of her. I think she started to come out of it realizing what you've done and starts to argue with you. You having been a great baseball player in college … yeah don't you look so surprised that I know that fact Terry I do my job VERY well. Anyway you take the baseball bat beat her and then when that didn't suit you, you pick up the trophy and beat her some more. Or was it the trophy first?"

Brass pauses and Terry just continues his silence.

Brass continues, "Either way she wasn't hard to subdue as she wasn't fully out of the effects of the Rohypnol. You leave for Primm since you grew up there figuring it'd be a good place to hide out. Then what I don't understand is you come back to the scene of the crime. Lacie followed you which helped us in tracking you down. The DNA and prints we took from you earlier talked and told the story I just told you. That's premeditation … I don't think the judge will go easy on you."

Brass, Mark and Nick leave the interrogation room. Brass says, "Good job boys. I think I'm going home to enjoy some scotch and a cigar.", as he walks away leaving Mark and Nick.

Mark says, "On that note I'm leaving too."

Nick asks, "For scotch and cigars?"

Mark replies, "Why on earth would I waste my time on scotch in cigars when there's a beautiful woman waiting in my bed."

Nick laughs and says, "Good luck brother! See you tomorrow.

At Catherine and Mark's …

Mark crawls into bed and cuddles up next to Catherine and starts kissing her neck.

Catherine rolls over to face Mark and says, "Oh I guess someone closed their case."

Mark kisses Catherine and says, "That I did and I thought I would come home and get a reward."

Catherine pauses as if to think about it and responds, "I suppose I can do that for you."

Catherine rolls on top of Mark and they begin to make love.

A/N: The scene where Nick is singing Mandy is a reference to what happened in Happenstance.

Four chapters to go after this and we will wrap up at least this part of Mark's journey.