"Hey Archie." Sara said walking into the A/V lab.
"Sara."
"Security camera footage from the Belliago." Sara handed him the evidence. "And our victim." She handed him an information sheet with the data she written including his social security number from his ID.
"I'll see what I can find."
"Let me know if you find anything interesting." Sara told him.
"Before you go there is a rumour circulating."
"What rumour is that?" Sara inquired.
"A rumour that you were seen wearing an expensive engagement ring."
"For once the rumour mill is true." She showed him the ring which was on the chain around her neck. "Saving gloves."
"Rumour also has it that you haven't actually told anyone who you are engaged to."
"Which is also true." Sara said.
"Yesterday you came in here and told Nick if he was serious okay. When you left I asked if he'd asked you out on a date or something. Now you would have agreed to go out on a date with him if you were getting engaged to someone else. So it would have to be Nick."
"Very good deductive reasoning skills." Sara said. "Can you not say anything to anyone else we're trying to see how long it will take them to figure it out?"
"Sure. How long have you been together?"
"Six months." Sara replied.
"And he actually asked you out on a date?" Archie questioned.
"Technically we didn't realise we were dating for the first month."
"How do you not realise?" Archie wondered out loud.
"We spent a lot of time together. And even people who are trained to look for the minutest pieces of evidence can miss what's going on around them. No one here realised we were together."
"True."
"So can you keep it to yourself for a while?" Sara requested.
"It will be fun watching Greg tie himself in knots trying to figure it out."
"Thanks Archie."
"I'll let you know when I have something and congratulations."
"Thank you."
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"Greg." Sara said when she found him.
"I just dropped the samples we took off with Mia but she's backlogged so it could take a while." Greg replied.
"You couldn't persuade her to skip us up the queue?" Sara asked.
"I even offered my services but she said she'd conduct the tests in the order in which they came in and basically threw me out."
"Archie will get back to us about the security camera tapes."
"Catherine went to see Doc Robbins about a cause of death." Greg told her.
"David's preliminary cause of death was exsanguination."
"Being sliced down the middle including internal organs will do that to you especially when you loose the majority of your blood in a pool on a cream carpet."
"Since everything else is taken care of that leaves us with Trace." Sara said.
"You're really not going to tell me who you're marrying?" Greg asked.
"You asked your three questions and you'll figure it out."
"You mean before I get an invitation to the wedding?"
"Who said you were invited?" Sara asked.
"I'm not?" Greg sound hurt.
"Greg, we only got engaged yesterday and I'm sure you will be invited when we set a date. But right now we have a case to solve."
"You're not going to run of to a drive thru wedding are you?"
"No, but I did get offered a discount at the Intergalactic Chapel of Love, but that was before Nick and I had to arrest the Elvis minister, for killing the Alien minister and impersonating him." Sara recalled.
"You'd really get married by a guy impersonating Elvis or an alien?"
"No of course not."
"Good you had me scared for a moment."
"Greg, we have a dead man who would like us to figure who killed him. To do that we need to take a look at the evidence." Sara reminded him.
TBC