"Hey David, you have something for me?" Greg walked into the autopsy room, ready to pick up some fibers David found on Mrs. Brown.
"Yes, I collected these fibers off her skirt. Also I wanted to give you this." David handed over a bagged bloody knife.
"Is this the murder weapon?"
"No. She was stabbed with a larger knife. Let's just hope she fought back and this is the murderer's blood."
"Yeah I'm not sure we're that lucky but we ca..." looking at the body, Greg stopped.
David's eyes wandered from Greg to the body and back to Greg. "Is something wrong?"
"I know her... She works at the bank I go to..."
The anxious look on Greg's face was obvious to David. Not really sure what to say he finally came to a conclusion. "This might be your connection to him."
Without saying a word Greg turned around and left the autopsy room with the evidence David gave him. He was determined to find out who the suspect was and what he wanted from him.
"Hodges!" Greg stormed into the trace lab. "I need you to find out what this is right away!" without looking at Hodges, Greg dropped the trace evidence in front of him and made his way to the DNA lab.
"Julian, find out if the blood on the knife matches anyone involved with our crime scenes or if the donor is in CODIS or any other database!" making his way out the door, he was stopped by Julian.
"Excuse me, Sanders. I'm not a computer, I'm a human being. How about saying pretty please?"
Greg turned around to Julian and rolled his eyes. "Could you PLEASE just do your job without being a condescending jerk? Thank you!" he went out without awaiting a response from the lab tech.
"Catherine!" meeting her outside the DNA lab, Greg showed her pictures of Mrs. Brown. "I know this woman. I think she's the connection between me and the suspect!"
Catherine gave him a surprised look. "How do you know her?"
"She works at my bank. I've never seen her outside the bank or anything, but this can't be a coincidence, right?" Greg had a rather exciting look on his face. He was excited about getting one step closer to finding the suspect who was terrorizing the police.
Catherine took the picture in her hands and looked at it. "Maybe that's where he got your home address from. She died before the others did... Maybe he forced her into giving him your address."
Nick walked up to his two colleagues. "What's up with him?" Nick pointed to Greg's excited face.
"We think we found the connection between Greg and the suspect." Catherine handed Nick the picture.
"She works at your bank, right?" Nick asked, causing Catherine to give him a confused look.
"I was with him at the bank a few times in our lunch break."
"Alright... Nick, get Sara and talk to her employer. Maybe he can help us somehow." ready to make her way back to her office, Greg interrupted her.
"Wait, why Sara? Why can't I go?"
"Two reasons. I told you you're not supposed to get out in the field yet and you're too involved. You're lucky I didn't pull you off the case already. I'm still thinking about that."
"...Alright. I'll wait for the trace and DNA results then..." Greg said subdued.
"Hodges, are the results ready?" Greg walked into the trace lab with a smile on his face.
"Yes... And the fibers on your victim are the same as the fibers Nick pulled off the other victim's mouth..." looking into a microscope, he handed Greg the report.
"He takes a pillow from his first victim's home to kill his second victim with it?"
"Not very smart of him..." Hodges looked up from the microscope. "So listen, about our plans for the weekend... You probably don't feel like going out with everything that's happened, right?"
"Huh?" Greg looked up from the report. "No, sure, I'm fine. Count me in." looking back at the report, he walked out.
"Great..." Hodges smiled.
"I can't believe she got murdered... She was such a lovely person..." Mr. Doyle slowly sat down. Sara and Nick just broke the news to him that his employee, Mrs. Brown, was murdered.
"Mr. Doyle, we believe she gave away personal informations about one of your customers. Did she have access to these informations at her home?" Sara asked him.
"What?" he looked up to her. "No, no way. She can't log into the software from any other computer than her work computer. It's not online... She only had access in the bank. But she would never give any personal informations away!"
"We think she was forced to do so by her murderer. Is there any way for you to check if she looked into someone's files?"
"Yes. The software saves the access time of these informations. What's the name?" he was getting ready to type the name into the search mask.
"It's Greg Sanders." Nick said, not giving Sara a chance to say it herself, which caused her to give him a look.
"Okay... last access was two weeks ago." Mr. Doyle looked at the screen.
"Two weeks? Are you sure?"
"Yes. Take a look." turning the screen to Sara and Nick, they stared at the date in disbelieve.
The CSIs all met in the break room. Nick and Sara had been back for a while and walked in with a bag of evidence that had already been processed.
"We found something interesting..." Sara held a cotton swab in her hand. "Semen... At Mrs. Brown's workplace."
"Any hit in CODIS?" Catherine asked.
"No. But... The DNA is a match to the blood on the knife the swing shift found at her house." Sara smiled reassuring. "I got a theory. The suspect had an affair with Mrs. Brown, makes her give him Greg's address and after he got what he wanted he decides to kill her."
"Sounds good, but we have no evidence to back this theory up, do we?" Catherine looked at the reports. "For all we know this could be a third person she had sex with and the suspect killed him, too and dumped the body somewhere."
"Alright, what else do we got?" Nick grabbed the reports, trying to find anything that could help them crack the case.
"Well you know Julian. He's not done checking all the databases yet..." Sara said with a disappointed and slightly angry face.
"I'll have to talk to Ecklie about him, I think. We need the results as quick as possible and he's taking it slow..." Catherine was angry with Julian. Not only was he a lazy worker, he always gave everyone an attitude when they talked to him about it.
"Hey guys, I just got a hit in CODIS." Julian walked in, dropping the results on the table in front of Nick. "Looks like the mystery date of one of your victims served some time."
Nick gave him a rather disgusted look as he didn't find the joke funny. "Show some respect, man. Who is this guy?"
"His name's Jeffrey Penn." Julian rolled his eyes, noticing everyone of the CSIs giving him a look. "Served time for rape. Also, before that he used to be a cop." Julian left the room without saying anything else.
"An Ex-Cop with a grudge on the police? That would explain a lot..." Sara suggested.
Catherine gave Brass a call. "Brass, we need you to find a Jeffrey Penn. He used to be a cop before he was imprisoned for a rape charge. We have evidence pointing out he is the guy we're looking for. He might be injured so check the hospitals."
"I don't think that's necessary..." Brass said with a serious tone in his voice.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm with him right now. He's dead."