Author's Note: I want to thank everyone who gave reviews on the last couple of chapters. They were very rewarding and I'm going to keep writing. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to reply individually to everyone because I had to spend some time in my real life yesterday. But please keep R&R'ing.

DISCLAIMERS: I do not own any of these characters. They belong to Jerry Bruckheimer and the wonderful writers for CSI: NY. Any resemblance to scenes from the episodes is included for clarity and continuity and I do not claim any of those as my own work. However everything else is mine.

Mac

Four grueling hours later, the CSI SUV was loaded and the body was on its way to the morgue. Lindsay wanted nothing more than to go home, submerse herself in a hot tub full of bubbles, down a bottle of wine and top it off with a sleeping pill. Damn, she didn't have the sleeping pills any longer. What rotten timing.

"Danny, take the SUV back to the lab." Mac said to Danny. Then he looked at Lindsay, "I want you to ride with me." Danny gave Lindsay a quick glance. She saw the question in his eyes, Are you okay with this? She bit her lip and shrugged her shoulders at him. What could she do? Mac was her boss. When he said 'Let's Ride' you rode.

She was not looking forward to this at all. She would much rather ride back with Danny because she could always tell him she didn't want to talk. But with Mac she didn't have the option that is if she wanted keep her job.

Just dandy! She slid into the passenger seat and slammed the door shut. As Mac got in he stole a quick glance at her. She kept her eyes trained straight ahead. She was not volunteering anything. After a few moments of driving, he started the conversation.

"Lindsay, obviously you know something about this case. We're going to have to get the case files from your previous jurisdiction in Bozeman."

"I think that would be a wise idea," she said still not looking at him. Well if this is all he wanted she'd be okay. But no, not only was Mac thorough he also didn't miss a beat.

"That was quite a reaction you had to the crime scene today," she nodded in agreement with him but still kept her eyes trained straight ahead, which was fine for now as he was maneuvering through traffic and he didn't really notice she hadn't looked at him yet.

"With your familiarity with the case, I want you on it but I need to be sure that you can handle it… that it isn't personal," he queried.

For the first time since getting in the car, she looked at him. "Mac, I assure you, I can handle it and it isn't personal." She crossed her fingers in her lap as she said those last three words. In a sense it was true. She didn't know this latest victim and technically when Laurel had been found and it was revealed that she was her sister, Lindsay had been taken off the case. That had angered her to no end. It made her burn just thinking about it now. She had still followed the investigation as closely as she could but soon after Laurel's murder the murders had stopped and the leads had dried up. She swore then that someday she would get out of Bozeman, seek out the best CSI departments, learn all she could, then reopen the case and nail the son-of-a-bitch who took her sister's life.

"Okay," Mac replied evenly. "I'm going to let you and Danny run with this one. He'll be the lead because he has the experience and seniority but I'll keep very close tabs on it. That sound okay with you?"

She tried to keep from sounding too grateful and relieved. She was on the case! "Fine with me, Mac."

When they arrived back the lab, Mac called both Danny and Lindsay into his office. "Danny as I already told Lindsay on the drive over here, I am going to let you guys run with this one. I've already called the Bozeman CSI and they are expediting the case files from those murders to us. They should be here tomorrow morning. Meanwhile get on the evidence and see what we can find out. One of the first things I want is DNA from the suspect. I want to verify one way or the other if this is the same guy. Okay?"

They both nodded. "Alright get to work. I don't want to see this guy getting to anymore women."