7: 56 p.m
The phone on his desk rang so suddenly that everyone in the room jumped, Grissom turned and looked at the phone, Catherine stepped out of his office and poked her head into the lab next door
'If I knock on the door start tracing the call' she said, Archie nodded, she looked back into Grissoms office and nodded, he nodded back and picked up the phone.
'Grissom' he said into the receiver
'Hello good buddy' said the growling voice on the other line, Grissom nodded to Catherine who ran out and knocked on the door to Archie's lab, she gave him a thumbs up, they were tracing the call, now all he had to do was keep this maniac on the line for 60 seconds.
'Who is this?' Grissom asked hoping to prompt a name
'Take a guess' the man replied
'A psychotic killer and abductor' Grissom replied, there was a hollow laugh on the other line
'I suppose you could say that. Oh but don't worry, I think I'm done killing for a while now, I got what I wanted.'
'And what did you want' another hollow laugh
'A lovely young woman' he said
'What do you want?' Grissom repeated
'Like I said I've already got what I want, but I could sell her back for, oh say, fifty grand.'
'All right, who the hell are you!'
Yet another laugh 'you still haven't figured it out? I saw your look that night Grissom, but I honestly never thought you would actually clue in and get with her, well I guess you were just to slow.'
'What night?'
'That night at the asylum in the nurses booth!' growled the man. Grissoms heart turned to ice
'Adam'
'You got it, don't you just love what the cut to my throat did to my voice?' I like it, it sounds much better now, I know I know, I move fast, moved in with a woman desperate for a husband and had my time with her. It was a pity I had to kill her daughter; she was beautiful… looked a lot like Sara here. And it'll be a pity when I kill her.'
'Let me talk to her Adam' Grissom commanded
'And now why would I do a silly thing like that?'
'Because I need proof that she is still alive or you wont see a cent.'
'Okay' Adman said 'fair enough, you have thirty seconds.' There was a moment or two of silence when suddenly Sara's voice rang over the phone
'Grissom' she cried, she sounded so different, nothing like the stubborn woman he'd come to know.
'Sara' he said in a forced calm. At the sound of her name, everyone in the room seemed to lean forward.
'Listen' he said, he lowered his voice 'we're tracing the call, stay strong, we'll find you.' Sara took in a ragged breath
'Please hurry'
'We will, everything else is pushed aside, we're going to find you.'
'I trust you' she said
'You should' he said, he pushed a button and put her on speaker, everyone suddenly started talking all at once saying things like "don't worry, we'll find you" "your gonna be fine" Grissom made out a tight laugh on the other line…