Lindsay was stood talking to Detective Gears when she noticed Danny loitering out of the corner of her eye.

"Will you excuse me for a minute?" She requested.

"Of course."

"Are you loitering for a reason?" Lindsay asked Danny.

"Am I interrupting?"

"Nothing major." Lindsay replied. "What's up?"

"I have to head out to Long Island and I'm probably going to be gone for the rest of the day so I wanted to see if you wanted to go and see a movie tonight."

"I'm not really in the mood for action films." Lindsay stated.

"We can go and see anything you want, even a chick flick."

"Will you buy me popcorn and Goobers?" Lindsay inquired.

"Anything you want." He assured her.

"Getting out of the house will be fun okay." She agreed.

"Good. I'll leave you with your friend." Danny said.

"You should come and meet him." Lindsay suggested. "Bryan." Lindsay called out. He walked over. "Danny this is Detective Bryan Gears, he's the new detective in Homicide. Bryan, Detective Danny Messer, Crime lab." Lindsay made introductions.

"Nice to meet you." Bryan shook Danny's hand.

"You too. I've got to go Flack's waiting for me. If you need anything call me or one of the guys or your priest friend or the counsellor."

"Don't worry I'm fine. I'll see you later."

"Okay." Danny kissed her forehead before he left.

"Did I miss something?" Bryan asked.

"You mean you didn't hear?" Lindsay asked.

"Hear what?" Bryan inquired.

"Gossip getting around Homicide is a little lax; I'll have to talk to Flack about that."

"What?"

"I got sent a bomb in the mail yesterday." Lindsay replied.

"A bomb?"

"The only reason it didn't go off in my face was because there was a loose wire." Lindsay explained. "So as I was telling you I'm just heading down to see Sid for the autopsy results."

"You just tell me you were almost blown up yesterday and you're switching back to the case?" He was confused.

"I can't do anything about it. Mac and Stella looked at all the evidence, the FBI are looking into since it came through the mail it's a federal case and if I think about it I can't do my job. I have enough people worrying about me, especially Danny so I would just rather focus on finding out what exactly happen to Maya and the fact that I didn't actually get police protection this time and I did when a serial killer doped me with Rohypnol and skipped town." She took a breath. "I'll let you know what Sid says."

CSI NY CSI NY

"Hey Sid, what do you have for me?"

"She was killed sometime around ten and midnight last night." He told her.

"Okay, anything else?"

"Cause of death was a broken neck."

"We already knew that."

"Come and take a look at the x-rays." He suggested.

"That's a broken neck." Lindsay studied the x-ray.

"But it's not consistent with a fall."

"What?" Lindsay looked at him.

"This is more consistent with her head being violently twisted to snap her neck."

"She was dead before she was thrown down the stairs?"

"Yes. She was also nine weeks pregnant."

"There were no signs of a boyfriend in her apartment." Lindsay said. "And her purse is missing."

"If you're going to rob someone you don't snap their neck." Sid stated.

"We're looking for someone who wants us to think that. Is there any other bruising?"

"Any bruising that occurred just before death or just after hasn't had chance to come out, come and see me in twenty-four hours? But she was murdered."

"Okay thanks Sid." Lindsay said.

"I heard what happened yesterday. Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine." Lindsay assured him. "We have a boyfriend to track down."

TBC