At the lab-

After Adam looked over documents relating to the Gwynn case, he went to see Mac about the findings he made.

"Mac, Roland was buying a house but not just a house, a very special house."

Mac looked at him confused, "Okay."

"It's a computerized house that has everything a homeowner would want. A house that can clean itself, cook your food, and it would cut its own grass, too. It was built by Leslie Graves almost twenty years ago," Adam said with a smile.

"Are you able to get the drawings?" Mac asked.

"I have been able to get a subpoena for it. Leslie Graves died a few years ago and his widow lives in town."

"I wonder how our vic and the killer knew each other?" Mac asked.

"I got a hold of the real estate agent who has the home on the market but he said he would only talk face to face. Here is his number and turns out his real estate office was broken into almost a month ago and it seems that someone went through his files, but nothing taken," Adam said then continued, "So the fingerprints from the scene of the break-in are a match to the fingerprints from the Gwynn home but they don't match to Gwynn."

"So, the person who broke in is our killer. Any hits on CODIS?"

"No hits on CODIS."

"But why and maybe that's how he found out about the computerized home," Mac asked then said.

"I don't think Roland knew about the computerized house. I don't think the killer knew about the computerized house until after he broke in the real estate office. Perhaps he was trying to get an advantage to find out who wanted the house and maybe try to talk them out of it."

"What if the office was broken into, then Roland was nabbed, tortured for information or something, then killed?"

"Makes sense." Adam giggled excitedly.

"What?" Mac said as he looked at Adam.

"The idea of a computerized house just excites me, Boss. I guess I need to read up on it but the idea of it doing things for you."

"I don't know, Adam. Not sure I'd want to be using the bathroom when it suddenly malfunctions." Mac laughed.

"Uh... Well, I think it's cool, you, uh... did you really have to ruin that for me, Boss?"

Mac laughed as Lindsay walked in and Adam left.

"Just got back from talking to the real estate agent. Danny just went to help out Jo and Sheldon. Seems a few people withdrew their offer on the house and I got the list of names. Also, Roland got the tour of the home first and was told that the home was computerized then a day or two later the office was broken into."

"Interesting. So, Roland knew but whoever our killer is, broke in, and may have gotten the edge. Let's go."

At Brent Cross' apartment-

After they introduced themselves they were let in. They sat on the couches while Brent sat on the love seat.

"We understand you had some issues with buying that home," Mac said.

"Yeah. The guy who was buying it wanted it more and was way too aggressive," Brent said.

"Aggressive how?" Lindsay asked.

"He said the house is special and computerized," he said then continued, "Computerized? A home is a home."

"Was this the man?" Mac asked as he held up the picture of Roland.

"No," Brent replied.

"How about this man?" Mac showed him a different picture.

"Yeah."

"You didn't know the home was computerized?" Lindsay asked.

"No. I thought maybe the guy was some nutso," Brent said.

"So you withdrew the offer. Why?" Mac asked.

"I don't know if it had anything to do with the home or not, but...," he said then paused for a second before resuming, "My wife and I got attacked almost a month ago and the guy said something about the home we were buying. I thought that buyers were private information. Then two weeks later we checked out the house again and it was like it had a mind of its own."

"How do you mean?" Mac asked confused.

"The lights would change color or flicker. An electronic voice would state that we needed to get out or the home would self-destruct."

After talking to him for a few minutes, the detectives went back to the car then talked while Mac drove back to the lab.

"You know what I'm thinking?" Lindsay asked.

"I won't know unless you tell me." Mac smiled.

"Maybe the guy wanted the house first then broke in the real estate office and found out that the house was computerized then went after Gwynn because at the time he disappeared, he and the attacker are the only ones bidding for the home."

At the lab-

Once they had the e-mail that was sent from Roland to his friends, Greg and Carol Jensen, Adam looked up Jensen's background when Lindsay approached.

"Looks like the Jensens have Roland's laptop. They might not be willing to talk to us because they had been accused of stealing some money at a friend's house, police did investigate, but there was no evidence that someone actually did it. The Jensens got a lawyer because of it."

"Looks like we will have to call their lawyer. We will have to get a search warrant also, I'll go do that and let you know when we can go and get that laptop."

"Lindsay, I thought of something." Lindsay stopped and turned then Adam continued. "What if the killer saw the e-mail, he could be trying to get the laptop."

"I don't think they would give up the laptop to a guy claiming to be a friend, that doesn't make sense."

"I hope not." Lindsay left to call the lawyer then to get a warrant.

A few hours later at the Jensen home-

Lindsay and Adam went to the home where they were let in and their lawyer, Steven Dennis, was in the room. Lindsay and Adam sat on the chairs; Dennis sat on the couch next to Carol. Greg sat on the love seat.

"What did you need to talk to my clients about?" Steven asked.

"We want to know when the last time you have spoken to Roland Gwynn,"

"No comment," Carol said.

"Who is this Roland Gwynn?" Steven asked.

"He was a friend of your clients, who is dead," Lindsay said as she noticed the shocked look on their faces.

"Oh, I see. When you called, I suspected something was up but I didn't realize this had involved a death of a man," Steven said.

"Well, we don't like to give out too much information over the phone," Lindsay said. She continued, "We want to know when the last time you spoke to Roland Gwynn."

"No comment," Greg said.

"When we looked into Roland's computer, we retrieved an e-mail that stated you are in possession of his laptop," Lindsay started as she gave the lawyer the copy of the e-mail then continued, "We would like the laptop and we do have a search warrant for it," Lindsay said.

"I don't know anything about this laptop," Carol said as she was telling the truth.

"Where is the warrant?" Steven asked then Adam gave him the warrant.

"Well, I think it would be easier to tell me where it is, I would hate to mess up this nice house and leave it messy once I get the laptop," Adam said with a smile.

"You can't just go trashing our home!" Carol said.

"Well, this warrant is valid and he did send you this e-mail so you have to give up the laptop," Steven said.

"Well, if you don't tell us, he will search." Lindsay looked at them.

"It would be easier if you did tell them where it is, show them where it is, or get it for them," Steven told them.

Greg stayed quiet as Carol told them, again, she didn't know anything about the laptop but Adam got up and started searching.

In one of the rooms-

Adam and the techs had been searching the house when Adam finally came across it. He plugged in the laptop to the tech computer and made sure it was Roland's, which it was.

"Whoa." Adam was shocked at what he saw.