Horatio hurried into the security office. He didn't show it but inside he felt a churning inside his stomach. 'He looked around the room in hopes to see if he recognized anything. He walked deeper into the room slowly and forced his tired eyes to find a clue. His eyes flashed from here to there, when his eye caught it. He walked over and picked up Calleigh's gun, it was still warm and smoked a little from the chamber. "Calleigh was in trouble!" Alarms in his head went off in his head, as he was about to rush out of the room and call the team. He was walking toward the door when his foot something, he looked down to see Eric's badge. His mind reeled as he realized that two of his CSIs were missing. 'The ring.' He reached into the pocket and looked inside to see the inscription, 'To my Heart, Soul, Passion, and Never-Ending Love, C from E.' Horatio thought he was going to have a heart-attack. Eric bought Calleigh an engagement ring. There was blood all over the place and it was obvious someone got shot and that a fight ensued. He hoped Eric and Calleigh were okay.'
Horatio stood over both Cooper and Tyler who had immediately came in when they found out that both Calleigh and Eric were missing. They had been going through the security tapes when Alexx, Natalia, Ryan, and Yelina came through the door with worried expressions on their faces. Horatio only looked at them once to stop the questions he knew would begin. He looked back to computer screens once he was sure that they understood that silence was best for now. He and everyone else looked on silently. It felt like hours before Tyler and Cooper found the proper security tapes. They looked up to Horatio as they played the tapes. Cooper was the first to comment, "Wow, this doesn't look good. I can't however see the man's face. He has his back turned to the camera the whole time and there is no glass to show his reflection to us." Horatio gritted his teeth.
"Can you get any sound?"
This time it was Tyler who spoke. "Here let me." He started to type away, his fingers moving like a blur over the keyboard. "Let's hope it works." Everyone was silent as they listened to the audio sound of Calleigh screaming and the shot going off to Eric flying into the guy and knocking him to the guy coming back and taking both Eric and Calleigh as hostages. "I don't recognize the voice. He doesn't really say anything."
"Wait, wait, doesn't it look like he heads to the parking lot of the building. Maybe the camera's caught something outside."
Tyler and Cooper immediately typed away again. They found the footage outside and groaned as once again the man evaded the camera. They watched as he put Eric in the trunk and moved on to Calleigh. Once again the man had evaded his reflection in the windows of the camera. It was as if everything was working against the CSIs to see what happened to their colleagues. They watched as he put Calleigh in the back of the car. The man slightly tilted his head toward the camera when Horatio shouted, "Stop the tape!" Tyler brought up the half face on zoom and everyone leaned in to take a look. It was obvious from the looks that was shared that the man behind this was 'Federal Agent Peter Elliott!' Horatio felt the anger pulse through his body; obviously Agent Elliott did not understand that he messed with the wrong crime lab.
"Mr. Wolfe, you and Miss Boa Vista are to process the trace lab then process outside. Tyler, Cooper, I want you two to continue working on the tapes and see if you can figure out the route he went. I want videos from traffic lights, cameras, everything, I want to see it. Yelina, I need you to put out an APB on his car and get every available officer on this case immediately, I also want you to inform Frank about what happened. Alexx, I need you to come with me, we need to talk." Horatio nodded his head to the team as the headed off to do the tasks appointed to them. He then looked to Alexx and led her to his office. He held the door open for her and she murmured a quiet 'thank you.' They remained silent as they looked at each other from across the room when finally Horatio threw down what had weighing his hand down for the past couple of hours. The ring felt softly to the top of the desk and Alexx's eyes widened. She recognized it as the ring she helped Eric picked out for Calleigh. She remembered the fortune Eric spent as he bought the large diamond on the beautiful band. She reached out with shaking hands and picked up the ring and looked inside to see the beautiful inscription. She felt the tears sting her eyes when she looked up to see the expectant face of Lieutenant Horatio Caine.
