Hawkes looked up as Flack, Lindsay, and Danny walked in the room. "Hey guys, how it go with Stan?" he asked, as he went back to the computer.
"Oh, it went fine," Lindsay muttered, as she went up and took up the hand. "Stan was such a gentleman." She then turned the hand over. "So does she have a name?"
"Yeah, I named it Alison," Hawkes replied, as he looked up.
"You actually named it," Flack said, as he looked over at the CSI. "Dude, that's just creepy." Lindsay moved over to Hawkes side and peered over his shoulder at the computer and smiled. "Who in their right mind names a hand?"
"One has to name the hand that goes along with the body," Hawkes said with a smirk, as he turned the screen to show the i.d. of Alison Marks to Danny and Flack. "Meet the rest of Miss Alison Marks."
"So you found her," Danny said, as he came up to look at the screen. "Mac's going to be happy."
"Happy about what?" Mac asked, as he came into the room.
"Hawkes named the hand," Flack joked, as they turned to face him.
"I'm sure he did," Mac said, as he came up to their sides. "So what did we learn about the boxes?"
"That you need to look in them first before sticking your hand in them," Danny said, as he sat down on a stool beside Hawkes. "We found, drugs, diamonds, other jewels ands weapons, none used in any kind of attack, or anything."
"Good, we also found a hand," Lindsay said, as she held it up to show it to Mac. He eyed it carefully. "But we also found her body to go along with it."
"Well that's better than nothing." Mac looked down at the screen and frowned. "Why did they cut off the hand of a dead woman and put it a box?"
"Don't know," Flack said, as he looked around. "Plus we didn't get all that much out of Stan. He got pretty upset when Danny and Lindsay went in. Seems he did mean to stab Lindsay. Seems she upset him."
"I tend to do that some times," Lindsay muttered, as she headed out the room.
"Danny, you and Lindsay go over the evidence some more than go talk to Stan again," Mac said, as he watched her walk away. "Stella and I are still working on the bank. It's still a scene and the bank people aren't all that happy with us."
"I bet they not," Danny said, as he got to his feet and headed out the door. "Linds, wait up." He caught up with her, just outside the lab. "You all right?"
"Yeah, it's just some things that Stan said," she said, as she looked up at him. "It's nothing. Come on, let's get back to work. As soon as we're done with the evidence, we can take another crack at Stan, and maybe this time, he will talk this time." She then headed for the lab.
"Maybe he will."
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Stella looked up when Mac came up to her side. "How are things going?" she asked him, as he shot her a smile.
"Okay, they found a hand," he replied, as he set down his case.
"A hand? A human hand? Wow that's different." She then slipped off her gloves and looked around. "I'm done processing. There's nothing more that can be down. Danny and Lindsay processed the Vault to their best ability and they did a great job and we did the outside of the bank. So what do we do now?"
"We take what we have here and put it towards what Danny and Lindsay gathered and see if it matches."
"Sounds like a good idea." She then looked around at the large stash of evidence that had been gathered. "Can we get some help to get this back to the lab?"
"Yeah, I'll see if I can round up some help." He then took off to do that, and Stella smiled.
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"Ah, these diamonds are fake," Lindsay said, as she tossed them up in the air.
"What?" Danny said, as he looked up at her. "What?"
"These diamonds are fake?" She tossed him a few and he caught them in his hand. "They don't feel right. They're too light."
"And you would know this how?" Amusement sparkled in his eyes, and she smiled when she realized that he was teasing her. "You are a diamond expert."
"No, they just feel different from the ones that were in the vault, that's all."
"Hmm, you're right about that." He came over to her side and set them down. "I don't think they're real either."
"Oh, that's good, so I'm not losing my mind."
"No, Montana you're not losing your mind."
"Hey guys," a voice called out, and they looked up to see a set of boxes heading towards them. Lindsay shot Danny a confused look. "Messer can get a hand here?"
"Stella?" Danny asked, as he moved over to take the boxes out of their fellow CSIs' arms. "Take it that you're done at the bank."
"Yeah, you and Lindsay did such a good job of the vault, we didn't have to do a thing to it," she replied, as she looked around. "So what we got here."
"Fake diamonds," Lindsay replied, as she looked up at Stella, and she tossed her one. "Or so I thought."
"These do feel light for diamonds," Stella pointed out, as she held it up to the light only to be blinded up, as it quickly filled the room by a bright light. Lindsay and Danny quickly put up their hands. "Whoa."
"Hey," Hawkes called out, as he came into the room and yanked the diamond from Stella's hand. "You never do that."
"It's a diamond, Hawkes," Danny said, as he shook out his head to clear his vision and looked over at him. "They're not supposed to do that."
"Diamonds aren't, but those aren't diamonds," Hawkes replied, as he picked them. "I'm taking that these are either hi tech laser prisms or something totally different. Any light on them, and they shine really bright."
"We noticed," Flack said, as he and Mac came into the room. "You guys all right?'
"We been better," Danny replied, as he rubbed his eyes and shot a glance over at Lindsay. "Well we might know why Stan and his friends wanted some of the boxes, they were after these things."
"Danny, I think it's time that you and Lindsay have another chat with Mr. Stan," Mac said, as he turned to look at the fake diamonds. "See if he wants to take some more."
"Yeah, and I'm sure I can get him to take now," Danny said, as he grabbed on of the fake diamonds as he followed Lindsay out of the lab. "This should be fun."
"Isn't it always," she responded, as they headed for the interogation room.
"Yeah, but this time, we have something on our side."
"What?" she asked, as she turned and looked up at him.
"This." He tossed her the fake diamond and she caught him. She shot him a glare as he opened the door for her. "Ladies first. We don't want to keep Stan waiting. That would be rude of us."
"And we wouldn't want to be rude."
"No we wouldn't."
TBC
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