Grissom sat at his desk surrounded by all his bugs. Brass knew something about Nick's kidnapping and Catherine "going" on a break. Grissom knew that Catherine and Nick where in love and she wouldn't fall off the face of the earth. Grissom's little world was stuttered when Conrad Ecklie walked and barked, "WHERE THE HELL IS NICK AND CATHERINE?"
Grissom looked up said calmly, "I was hoping you knew."
"Well I don't. Get the rest of your team looking for them NOW!" Ecklie barked this time and walked out of Gill's office in a huff. Greg jumped out of the way when he say Ecklie coming down the hallway faster then a football player trying to make a touchdown.
Greg ran into Hodges, Hodges said, "Watch it Sanders."
"Watch it…David," They both squinted their eyes at each other.
Sara walked by, "Play nice boys."
Grissom came out of his office looking around what was left of his team. He sighed. They are hunting down the 2 of the best CSIs in town and they have nothing. The elevator made its famous ding and the doors open, out walked Brass. He couldn't take it anymore. Brass was going to tell Ecklie what was going. But h stopped outside of his office. What if Ecklie is behind all of this. If I tell him he might kill Nick, Brass thought. The whole lab knew how much Nick and Conrad hated each other. Every time a big case would come around, Conrad tried doing something to get Nick in trouble. Brass walked up to Gill, "We have to talk. In your office." Grissom nodded and the 2 men walked into Grissom's office.
"What's the matter Jim?" Grissom asked sitting down.
"I know what's going on," Brass said.
"About what? What do you mean?"
"About Nick and Catherine. I think Ecklie is behind part of the Jecykl case. He has been acting very shady lately. He seems to be up to something." At that moment Archie burst through the door.
"I have something!" Archie said jogging back to his part of the lab. When Brass and Gil walked in, Sara, and Greg walked I'm, too, "Ok. So I was tracing numbers because I figured I might be able to find something. I also looked into their phone records. Nick got a text from a phone an hour before he disappeared. So I looked into what the text said," Archie said looking at the screen then back at the team," the text said, I am coming for you and your new family will be mine," Acrhie stopped and looked at the team again, "Anyway I traced the text and it came from the lab. I don't know who's hpoen it is but I am getting there. So I looked up Lindsey's phone because as you all know when she comes in she can't but her phone down. And I got something. I traced the texts that she was sending to a friend in Vegas, to Texas. And-" Archie was interrupted by Sara.
"Nick's whole family lives in Vegas. But who kidnapped him?" Sara asked.
"Well I looked at all the cameras in the area that Nick was in at the time of his kidnapping. And I got something. I did facial recognition and it wasn't anyone in the system. But it was from the lab," Archie said.
"Conrad Ecklie," Both Brass and Archie said at the same time.
"How did you know that?" Archie asked puzzled.
"Well Nick came in before. He took Lindsey and Catherine with him. He didn't saying where he was taking them but whatever it was I have never seen red-neck tough as nails Nick Stokes more scared in all my years of working with him," Brass said looking at the team, "I figured it was someone in the lab because he looked on edge when he came here. He looked very beat up and scared. I knew it wasn't Greg because Greg could never scare Nick that much," Brass said with a smirk and looked at Greg who was wearing a pout, "Sara and Grissom where with me when Nick went missing. Nick is not scared of Hodges at all. In fact I think Hodges is more scared of him," The team laughed.
"Good points, Jim," Gill said.
"But we have to find Nick without tipping Ecklie off about the whole thing," Archie said as Ecklie walked by.
"Tip me off about what?" Ecklie said walking to the team. Archie quickly hit some buttons that made everything on screen disappear, "What's going on?"
"Nothing Conrad," Gill said.
"I know it's something. Ill will be watching you," Ecklie said walking out of the door and into Ray. Ray looked at him in a funny way and walked in.
"What's up?" Ray asked.
"It's the case. We know what's going on," Greg said.
"It's Ecklie," Sara said, "Well the whole kidnapping Nick part. But we are not so sure about the murders."
"Well lets solve this case," Grissom said walking out of the room.