"So Doc?" Nick said when he and Warrick walked into autopsy.
"There are traces of ecstasy, barbiturates, amphetamines and the list goes on." Doc Robbins handed the report.
"That's one giant cocktail." Warrick stated.
"I check there body there no injection marks, or any other signs that he uses drugs of any kind." Robbins stated.
"You said there were no tablets either so this has to have been dissolved into a liquid form."
"It would have been a quick reaction, his temperature would have shot up, with the lights it wouldn't have taken long for him to die." Robbins stated.
Nick's pager went off.
"Hodges with his results. It's like buses with results today. You wait and you wait and then they all come at once."
"When was the last time you were on a bus?" Warrick asked.
"Well Catherine and I had a DB on a tour bus a few years ago, and that bus crash outside Barstow."
"I meant a bus without dead people."
"It would have been in Dallas, I took a couple of my nieces to the Aquarium, but that was about six years ago."
"On the bus?"
"They thought it was a big adventure, they would have only been five and seven at the time." Nick replied. "Thanks for the results Doc. I should get back to the lab."
"If you have any more questions I'll be here."
"So Doc…" Warrick said when Nick had gone. "Any thing on the girl from Lake Mead?"
"I taken fingerprints, a blood, and urine sample and carried out a visual inspection of the body. The petechial haemorrhaging suggests she was suffocated rather than drowned. Her clothes are over there. Still no ID."
"Thanks."
"If you want to take them with you I'll let you know when I have an official cause of death."
"Thanks Doc. Are you coming by later for…"
"I'll be there." Robbins confirmed.
"I'll talk to you later."
CSI CSI
"Hey Cath."
"Nick." Catherine said. "There was definitely something wrong with him when he came out on stage for the start of this number. He looked fine earlier."
"He died from his body temperature skyrocketing in a few minutes, from a cocktail of the worse drugs on the market which were dissolved in his water bottle. The concentrations in the water bottle are too high to be just backwash. Someone ground down the drugs and dissolved them in the water."
"Was it our vic or murder?"
"Doc Robbins found no indications that he took anything other than aspirin on a normal basis." Nick replied.
"So murder is back in play." Catherine replied.
"Looks that way. There was also a fingerprint on the water bottle that isn't our vics, no hits on any of the databases."
"It looks like we need to take the fingerprints of everyone who has access to the backstage areas of the theatre."
"Doc Robbins said it would have been quick so he would have had to drink it during the interval since this was the first number after it."
"Everyone was sent home, but Brass has names and addresses."
"Looks like it's time to wake a few people up." Nick said.
"Or we wait until tomorrow and hit the stage door before the performance and then track down everyone who wasn't there." Catherine suggested.
"Either way it's up to you." Nick stated. "But I need some coffee."
"Brass is looking into Justin's background a little more. Let's see who would have a motive to kill him and go from there." Catherine decided.
"Want to look at his apartment?" Nick suggested.
"As long as we're back here by the end of shift."
"What's happening at the end of shift?" Nick asked.
"Nothing to concern you right now." Catherine replied.
"Well I'll go and get us both some coffee and get an address from Brass."
TBC