All Dressed Up and No One to
Blame
by Godeerc VanDrey
Category: CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation
Genre: General
Rating: PG‑13
Language: English
Summery: Catherine, Grissom, and Nick investigate a dead
teenager in a car trunk. Warrick and
Sara look into a man whose neck is snapped without leaving fingerprints.
A/N: Okay, this is my first CSI fanfic. Now, I haven’t written it yet, but I think it
won’t be half bad. By
the way, the fic in no way is a romance between any of the characters. Yes, on FFN, a CSI fic
that is not about whichever (I’ve looked through summaries, I mean whichever) character falling in love
with whichever other character. Now, I’m
not saying that this is good as the show, but I put some effort into mimicking
it the best I could. I hope you like
it. By the way, this is in script format
that I use for my Friends fics, so it hasn’t been
customized to fit the feel of CSI yet.
(Scenes
of downtown
Scene
1: Suburbs of
(a
high school‑aged boy exits his house, carrying a loaded backpack and a
suitcase)
(he
takes out his car keys and unlocks the trunk)
(he
opens it and there’s a body of another boy)
Scene
2: The Same House
(now
a crime scene with police tape and “uniforms” walking around)
(Dec.
Brass with Grissom, Catherine, and Nick)
Brass:
Ryan Merriman, 16. Claims he opened his
trunk, and found the body.
Grissom:
Says he had nothing to do with it?
Brass:
You bet.
(the
team approaches Ryan)
Grissom:
Hi, Ryan. I’m Gil Grissom with the Las
Vegas Crime Lab. This is Catherine
Willows and Nick Stokes. Could you tell
me what happened?
Ryan:
I found him in my trunk this morning. I
had nothing to do with it.
Grissom:
That’s for me to figure out. Do you know
the victim?
Ryan:
Kenneth Davis. I go to school with him.
Catherine:
He in any of your classes?
Ryan:
No. I just see him walking around with
his girlfriend all the time.
Nick:
(smiles) That’s an interesting way of remembering him.
Ryan:
She’s one of my friends.
(Catherine
raises an eyebrow)
Grissom:
What’s the diagnosis on the vic?
Brass:
No blood. It was a clean murder. The body’s cold. Been out for over ten hours. Take him to Robbins.
(Grissom
nods)
Brass:
(to Ryan) We’re gonna have to take you to the station
to answer questions.
(Ryan
just nods)
Grissom:
Catherine, remember when we did the
Catherine:
The vic’s been dressed by someone else. He looks unnatural.
Grissom:
(to the paramedics) Take him to the lab! (to Catherine and Nick) All dressed up
and no where to go.
(OPENING
CREDITS)
(COMMERCIAL
BREAK)
Scene
3: A Small Hotel Room
(a
dead man laying on the ground with Nick and Sara investigating it)
Sara:
(examining the body) Bet ya I can tell the cause of
death.
(Warrick
just smiles)
Sara:
Broke his neck. See how the bone creates
a red bump?
(Demonstration:
vertebrae are forced out of place, bone breaks, and part of a bone presses
against the tissue)
Warrick:
(feels down the victim and stops mid‑back) And whoever did this didn’t stop there.
Sara:
(feels) This person’s back was broken in several places. His left cheek is also bruised and scratched.
(Warrick
walks toward a laptop on a desk) Chair knocked over. Toward the victim’s fall.
Sara:
He was grabbed while he was working, and someone pummeled him on the
ground. Broke his neck and his back.
(Demonstation: the man, sitting in the chair, is trusted
down by another)
Warrick:
Why both?
Sara:
Violence is a tricky subject.
Warrick:
Check for prints.
Sara:
(materials in her hand) Already ahead of you.
As usual.
Scene
4: Dr. Robbins’s Office
(with
the teenage victim, face down, talking to Grissom, Catherine, and Nick)
Dr.
Robbins: Well, it took me awhile, but I found the cause of death. Minor electrical burns on the L6 vertebra
(points near the bottom of the back), the T3 vertebra…
Catherine:
Right between the scapulae. (Dr. Robbins points on the spine between the
shoulder blades)
Dr.
Robbins: And between the occipital bone and the atlas. His brain stem was severed, as well as his
spinal cavity in two places.
Nick:
Had he been still alive, he couldn’t have fought back. His limps were disabled.
Catherine:
Assuming there was a fight. No
bruising. This guy was attacked with a
stun gun. (sighs) Get me a school profile of our suspect. Bad guy, I’m sure.
Scene
5: The Hotel Scene
(Sara
and Warrick looking appalled at the victim, holding her brush; David examining
the body)
Sara:
No fingerprints.
Warrick:
No partials, no DNA transfer. This guy
must have been cleaned. How long’s he been dead?
David:
Thermometer shows 93.5. About three
hours under climate‑controlled
conditions.
Warrick:
It’s five AM. What was he doing working?
Sara:
No rest for the prestigious.
Warrick:
(swipes the victim’s skin with a tool)
Sara:
What are you doing?
Warrick:
Checking his skin for residues. We can
send it to the lab and they’ll get stuff back to us. Clues.
Scene
6: Interview Room
(a
nervous Ryan is being interrogated by Brass, Grissom, and Catherine)
Brass:
Did you kill Kenneth Davis?
Ryan:
No.
Brass:
Then what was he doing in the trunk of your car?
Ryan:
I don’t know.
Brass:
He a bully? He ever beat you up?
Ryan:
No. He never really noticed me.
Brass:
You want him to notice you?
Ryan:
So I killed him? That doesn’t make any
sense. I didn’t really care if he
noticed me.
Grissom:
How do you know him?
Ryan:
He’s in Spanish Club with me. His girlfriend,
Elisa, is also one of my friends.
Catherine:
(smiles) She cute?
Ryan:
Um…
Catherine:
Well? Do you think she’s cute?
Ryan:
Well, yeah.
Catherine:
You like her? As more than a friend?
Ryan:
I had a crush on her about a year and a half ago. (quickly) I suppose it didn’t
completely go away, but it’s not like I would kill her boyfriend so I could
date her. It’s a little extreme, don’t
you think?
Catherine:
Maybe a little bit. (whispers to Grissom) It’s him.
Grissom:
(whispers back) I’m sorry. You see, when
people tell me which suspect is responsible for the crime, I only listen to my
friend, the evidence. I’m surprised
you’re jumping to conclusions.
Catherine:
What ever happened to following your instincts?
Grissom:
We both are. I just happen to be leading
the investigation.
(Nick
taps on the window with a file; Catherine exit to meet him)
Catherine:
So, Ryan, he’s a troublemaker?
Nick:
Au contraire. Straight‑A student. And that’s not just the easy classes. Not a single detention, tardy, or unexcused
absence on his record. Comments from
teachers show that’s he a model student.
He wins awards. Math club. Spanish club.
Computer club. 32 on his
ACT. 1460 on his SAT. Eagle Scout.
Should I go on?
Catherine:
No. So he doesn’t fit the
stereotype. Anything history of
violence?
Nick:
Actually, (Catherine perks up) he liked Power Rangers when he was seven.
(Catherine rolls her eyes)
Catherine:
He’s got a crush on the vic’s girlfriend.
Nick:
Motive.
Catherine:
We brought her in. We also sent the vic’s clothes to Greg.
He’s looking for Ryan’s DNA.
Nick:
You seem kinda into this case.
Catherine:
High school homocide.
Before long, we’ll need a division for it.
Nick:
Interested in heading it?
Catherine:
Maybe.
(COMMERICAL
BREAK)
Scene
7: Dr. Robbins’s Office
(examining
the hotel room victim; Sara and Warrick watch)
Dr.
Robbins: Well, you’re right. The three
topmost vertebrae are broken, cracked, or shattered. His T10 and T11 vertebrae are in similar
condition. Also, planar bruising of the
upper back, a shallow but extensive concussion at the occipital bone, and his
trachea is inflamed.
(Demonstration:
a windpipe swells and the passage is closed)
Warrick:
And that means?
Dr.
Robbins: Probably drugged. Inflammatory
substance caused his windpipe to swell, cut off his breathing.
Sara:
He fell out of his chair. Poisoned. What about his back?
Dr.
Robbins: (perplexed look) Well, it seems almost as if someone flung him over his
back and slapped him against the ground.
Maybe multiple times.
Warrick:
(gestures it) Wham, wham, wham. Man.
Sara:
So, fingerprints must be on his pant legs.
Warrick:
Let’s go talk to Greg.
Scene
8: The Lab
(Greg
peering through the microscope with Grissom hovering around)
(Warrick
comes in)
Warrick:
Hey, Greg.
Greg:
Yo, Warrick, my man, dawg.
Warrick:
Don’t talk like that. I’m not that
black. And you are not at all. Period.
Greg:
Got it, Daddy‑o. Anyway, I’m glad you’re both here. Now, look at this. The tissues from both your tissue samples
showed nearly full saturation of water.
That means that both vics were put in water
around the time they were killed.
Grissom:
Our vic was redressed. Maybe they tried to wash off the evidence.
Greg:
Very likely. Warrick, did yours look
redressed?
Warrick:
Not really.
Greg:
Then that’s conclusive. After the body
dies, the tissue does soon after.
Grissom’s vic showed strangely low saline
composition and an unusually high fluoride composition, meaning the skin tissue
most likely dead when the victim was washed, so it washed out the saline, but absorbed the fluoride in the tap water. And Warrick, your victim showed perfectly
balanced sodium levels. He was killed after. Also, Ken’s skin showed several sodium
compounds and synthetic fatty acids. And
fragrant compounds.
Grissom:
Cheap deodorant soap. The high school
gym is near Ryan’s parking spot.
Greg:
Probably washed in the showers. What
about the DNA on Ken’s clothes?
Greg:
Well, I found a lot of Elisa’s DNA. Not
surprises because they’re dating. (Catherine walks in) I did find some of
Ryan’s DNA…
Catherine:
So, it’s him?
Greg:
I found his DNA, but trace amounts of it.
And it was near breaking up. That
barely dictates physical contact.
Catherine:
Could his clothes have been washed?
Grissom:
The body was washed.
Greg:
Negatory; there was significant amounts Elisa’s DNA
on him.
Catherine:
No proof yet. Anything else?
Greg:
Yeah, the body was washed, but the victim’s underwear had something
interesting.
(Nick
giggles in the background)
Greg:
Mildew.
Catherine:
Ew.
Greg:
Meaning whoever washed him washed him with his underwear on.
Grissom:
Meaning the suspect was probably a female.
Catherine:
…or a homophobe. And he was washed in
the high school gym. We’ll get more from Ryan.
Scene
9: Interrogation Room
(Catherine
and Brass talk with Ryan)
Brass:
We found some of your DNA on Kenneth’s shirt.
Can you explain that?
Ryan:
I don’t think I ever came in contact with him yesterday.
Catherine:
I have trouble believing that.
Ryan:
What kind of DNA? I mean, where from?
Catherine:
Skin cells.
Ryan:
I don’t know! Maybe I did, but I haven’t
a clue what happened.
Scene
10: The Crime Lab Lobby
(Ryan
walks out and spots a dark‑haired
girl)
Ryan:
Elisa.
Elisa:
Ryan, what’s going on?
Ryan:
They haven’t told you?
Elisa:
They told me someone was coming out to talk to me. Twenty‑five minutes ago.
Ryan, what’s going on?
Ryan:
Oh, gosh. I shouldn’t be the one to tell
you this, but… expect the worst.
Ready.
Elisa:
(frightened) Yeah…
Ryan:
Ken was… murdered.
Elisa:
(shocked and speechless) What?
Ryan:
They found him in my trunk this morning.
Elisa:
Who killed him?
Ryan:
They don’t know.
Elisa:
Who do they think did it?
Ryan:
So far, just me.
Elisa:
Did you?
Ryan:
No!
Elisa:
(crying) Why would someone kill Ken? He
never did anything!
Ryan:
They’re going to find out.
Elisa:
I hope so. (looks up, crying, then hugs Ryan firmly, who pauses and hugs back)
Scene
11: Interrogation Room
(Brass
and Grissom questioning Elisa, Catherine looking out the window)
Brass:
Elisa, do you know who killed Ken?
Elisa:
(unstable) No idea.
Brass:
And it wasn’t you, was it?
Elisa:
(fiercely) No!
Brass:
We don’t think so, but we have to ask.
Tell me, when’s the last time you talked to Ken?
Elisa:
Uh, yesterday, between sixth and seventh period, he asked me for the keys to my
car. He left his Spanish book in it.
Brass:
Did he give you them back?
Elisa:
No. He had to leave right after—he has
last period off—so I told him to leave them in the car.
Brass:
Were they there?
Elisa:
On the passenger side floorboard, yeah. Where
he told me he’d leave them.
(Brass
looks to Grissom)
Grissom:
Let’s check both her and Ryan’s car.
Catherine?
Catherine:
(distracted, pulls away) What?
Grissom:
Take Nick and search both Mr. Merriman’s and Miss
Catherine:
Where you going?
Grissom:
Check with Greg. Meet you at the garage.
(an afterthought) Tell me, Elisa, do you and Taylor ever hug?
Elisa:
Course. All the time.
Grissom:
What about Ryan?
Elisa:
Not really. I’ve hugged him at church
retreats and at yearbook signings, but not a lot. Certainly not recently.
Grissom:
Yesterday?
Elisa:
No.
Grissom:
Any physical contact?
Elisa:
He helped me with my Spanish. I don’t
know if that’s a lot of physical contact.
Grissom:
(touches his chest) Do hold things to your chest, like your books?
Elisa:
Yeah, all the girls do.
Grissom:
Can I see your Spanish book?
Elisa:
It’s outside. In my backpack.
(COMMERCIAL
BREAK)
Scene
12: The Lab
(Greg
and Grissom talk)
Greg:
Well, I fingerprinted and DNA‑tested
all the stuff out of Ken’s pockets and everything in Elisa’s backpack. Ryan’s DNA was not present on any of Ken’s
things, but significant fingerprints on Elisa’s book.
Grissom:
Ryan helped Elisa with her homework.
(Demonstration:
A male’s hand leaves fingerprints and skins cell on a textbook as it is handed
to a female’s hand)
Grissom:
That almost proves Ryan didn’t do it. It
DNA was transferred via Elisa, it’s almost impossible for Ryan to get only
trace amounts without washing Ken’s clothes.
Greg:
Which he didn’t because it was swarming with Elisa’s DNA. On Ken’s things, only his and some of
Elisa’s, except for this (holds up a scrunchie) this
had none of Elisa’s DNA, but lots of
another unidentifiable female.
(Grissom
raises his eyebrows)
Scene
13: The Hotel Room
(Sara
dusts the keyboard)
Sara:
Fingerprints, but probably the victims. (raises them with a sticky sheet)
Warrick:
(beside her; wipes a reaction cloth) We’ll get this to the lab for chemical analysis.
(sprays phenolphalene) No blood.
Sara:
(pulls a file) Trenton Smith, 38, a traveling sales exec for Hormann, International.
His boss sent him to
Warrick:
But he got a free hotel out of it.
Sara:
(looking around; sarcastically) Lucky him.
Warrick:
Bed, desk, Cinemax, (Sara giggles) and Internet
connection. This is a traveling
businessman’s dream room.
Sara:
Or a nightmare.
Scene
14: Crime Lab Garage
(Nick
and Catherine investigating two cars: a red Contour and a white Honda)
Grissom:
(putting on latex gloves) What’s the story?
Catherine:
Well, besides the fact Ryan needs to wash his car, there was not any DNA in the
interior that belonged to Ken. There was
plently in the trunk, as well as on a headband. No match to Ryan, Ken, or Elisa
Grissom:
Greg found a head thingie… Elastic… (can’t find the word)
Nick
and Catherine: Scrunchie.
Grissom:
Doesn’t match Elisa.
Catherine:
We’ll send it in.
Grissom:
Anything else?
Nick:
Yeah, I found fabric tears on the passenger side of Elisa’s car.
Grissom:
Elisa said Ken left her keys on the floor of the passenger side.
(Demonstration:
Car keys fall and land on the floor of a car)
Grissom:
(epiphany) Nick, where were the tears?
Nick:
Come look. (he shows him the car seat) Right here, four and half inches below
the top of the headrest, one fifteen inches below the top of the backrest, and
on six inches from the cushion.
Grissom:
How tall are…
Nick:
Five‑ten. That’s the third time in about seven months.
(sits in the car)
Grissom:
How’d you know to…?
Nick:
We’ve been working together for two years, Grissom.
Grissom:
Tears are right here (touches the back of Nick’s head), here (touches the middle
of Nick’s back), and here (starts to point when Nick scoots forward).
Nick:
The same places as the electrical burns with our vic.
Grissom:
Something was attached to this seat, which shocked him.
(Demonstration:
Ken sits back in the seat, and hit three metal knobs, and jerks forward, and
falls back limp)
Catherine:
What do you think happened? Someone
attached a battery to some metal things and it shocked Ken to death?
Grissom:
Maybe, but why in Elisa’s car? Ken has
his own.
Catherine:
Why didn’t we pull it in, too?
Grissom:
His car is in the shop. Couldn’t have
been involved.
Scene
15: Interrogation Room
(Grissom
with Elisa)
Grissom:
Elisa, who rides with you to school?
Elisa:
My brother Martin.
Grissom:
In the passenger seat?
Elisa:
‘Course.
Grissom:
Was anything ever attached to the passenger seat? Something metal?
Elisa:
No. I don’t think so.
Grissom:
There are fabric tears on the back of the seat.
In the same places as we found electrical burns on Ken.
Elisa:
How apparent are they? Because I just
got my car examined, and they said my seats were dirty, but not damaged.
Grissom:
To anyone who is looking. (pause) You said Ken had last period off?
Elisa:
Yes.
Grissom: What about Ryan?
Elisa:
I don’t know. I always see him waiting
around in the hall after school’s over, but I’m not sure.
Grissom:
(opens the door) Ryan, could you come in here?
Ryan:
(enters) Yes?
Grissom:
Do you have last period off?
Ryan:
Yeah. I took a semester course and it’s
over.
Grissom:
What do you do during that time?
Ryan:
I usually hang out in the library, do homework.
Grissom:
One moment. (exits)
(Ryan
and Elisa look at each other)
Scene
16: The Crime Lab Lobby
(Grissom
on the phone)
Grissom:
Yes,
Catherine:
Who was that?
Grissom:
The high school. Ryan checks out. He was in the library the whole time. Looks like our vic
was all dressed up with no one to blame.
(Catherine
sighs heavily)
(ENDING
CREDITS)
Scene
17: The Crime Lab
(Greg
looks at a computer readout page)
Sara:
So, Greg, what’s the news?
Greg:
Well, the bottle you brought me was sodium valprorate,
also known as Epilim, epilepsy medication.
Sara:
Epilepsy?
Warrick:
Yeah, our vic had a mild case of it. Medication practically eliminated the
seizures.
Greg:
I also found a few sugar pills.
Sara:
Placebos?
Warrick:
Placebos don’t do anything for genetic diseases.
Sara:
Lazy pharmacist, I suppose.
Grissom:
(passing through) What?
Sara:
Someone put sugar pills in our vic’s epilepsy
medicine.
Grissom:
Check the bottle.
Sara:
(pulls it from a plastic bag) Take one Epilim pill
and one sucrose tablet before each meal.
300 count Epilim pills and 300 count sucrose
tablets.
Greg:
Well, if they’re labeled, I don’t see many sugar tablets.
Warrick:
Let’s me guess what we have to do now.
Sara:
It involves 1‑2‑3?
Grissom:
Yep, just be glad he didn’t recently refill his prescription. Greg, look at this. (hands him the headband
and the scrunchie)
(time
lapse)
Greg:
DNA from different hosts. Fingerprints
do not match anything from the database.
Scene
18: An Examination Room
(Sara
and Warrick counting pills)
Sara:
Okay, be right back. I need a drink of
water. (she bumps the tables, mixing the tablets) Oops. I’ll be getting water.
(Warrick
sweeps them back into a pile)
Scene
19: An Auto Shop
(Grissom
enters, a man greets him)
Grissom:
Hi, I’m from the Las Vegas Crime Lab.
Does Elisa Aragon get her car tuned here?
Man:
Yeah. She came in a few days ago. Why?
Grissom:
Did you notice any tears in her passenger seat?
Man:
Uh, I don’t think so. Let me get her
record. Nope, I checked thoroughly,
seats in good condition.
Grissom:
Thank you. (sees a sign) You make keys here?
Man:
Side job. Big auto companies are gonna put me outta business
soon. Luckily I got my granddad’s
inheritance to fall back on.
A
Teenage Girl: Dad, could you help with my homework?
Man:
I suppose. Nice talking with you, Mr.
Grissom.
(Grissom smiles and leaves)
Man:
Honey, where’s your headband? You love
that thing.
Girl:
Lost it at school.
Grissom:
I’m sorry to intrude, but are you missing a headband?
Girl:
Yeah.
Grissom:
Mind if I get a DNA sample?
Girl:
(eyes wide) How?
Grissom:
Skin sample. Put tape on your skin and pull
it off. Won’t hurt at all.
Girl:
(sighs) Sure.
Scene
20: The Examination Room
(Sara
and Warrick count)
Sara:
Shoot.
Warrick:
Lose count again?
Sara:
Yeah. (sweeps them over quickly and one jumps into her water)
(they
look at each other)
Sara:
One…?
Warrick:
(shakes his head; then starts to count again) No…
(Sara
giggles)
Scene
21: The Lab
(Greg
greets Grissom)
Greg:
By the way, found the scrunchie prints.
Grissom: How?
Greg:
Put them through the main
Grissom:
Huh. Here’s another DNA sample.
Greg:
From…?
Grissom:
The auto mechanic’s daughter. Missing
her headband.
Greg:
Okay.
(Sara
and Warrick enter)
Sara:
Okay, we’re done.
Greg:
You were in there for almost an hour.
Warrick:
Sara lost count four times.
Sara:
Anyway, there were 203 epilepsy pills and 71 sugar tablets. Not only is he behind on his medication, he’s
been taking mostly the sugar.
Greg:
Huh.
Sara:
Greg, if you want to communicate, you’re gonna have
to learn new words.
Greg:
I found something on the keyboard sheet.
Warrick:
What?
Greg:
Methamphetamines.
Sara:
What does that mean?
Greg:
Well, it means that our vic was taking potent amounts
of meth through his skin. It’s a very powerful stimulant.
(Demonstation: Finger type at a laptop keyboard where the
keys have a greasy substance on them, which transfers to his fingers. As they pause, the substance dries up)
Warrick:
If he was poisoned, why would he be given a stimulant?
Sara:
That’s assuming he was poisoned.
Warrick:
He was behind on his epilepsy medication.
Sara:
The meth could have put him into extreme spasms.
Greg:
Violent spells.
Sara:
He fell out of his chair, flopped around like a hyperactive fish, and snapped
his own neck and back in the process.
Warrick:
His body would have continued flopping for several seconds after his neck
snapped, which explains the lack of post‑traumatic swelling near the breaks.
Grissom:
Put it in your report.
Scene
22: An Examination Room
(Grissom,
Catherine, and Nick talk to Ryan and Elisa)
Grissom:
Do you know Dana Tyler?
Elisa:
Yeah. Her dad owns the auto shop I go
to. She and my brother are kind of
snippy with each other.
Catherine:
And that means?
Elisa:
They play practical jokes on each other.
My brother once messed with her bathing suit and it fell off when she
jumped in.
Nick:
We think she may have rigged your passenger seat to shock its inhabitant.
Elisa:
But Ken hardly ever rides with me. Only
my brother. You think she was out for
Martin? He never did anything that bad to her.
Catherine:
We’re gonna see.
Scene
23: An Interrogation Room
(Brass,
Grissom, and Catherine interrogate Dana)
Grissom:
We found your DNA on this headband.
Dana:
That’s ‘cause it’s mine.
Brass:
Wanna fill us in on how it got into Ryan’s trunk with
the dead body of Ken Davis?
Dana:
I…
Catherine:
Dana.
Dana:
I was getting back at Martin. At my last
piano recital, he got onto the catwalk and poured water on me.
Nick:
So, you did what?
Dana:
I hooked up an electrical current in Elisa’s passenger seat.
(Demonstation: Dana attaches metal pricks to the seat via
pin claws)
Dana:
I only meant to shock Martin. Make his
arms tingle for an hour or two. That’s
why I only attached it to a 9‑volt
battery. I thought it wouldn’t have
enough charge to really hurt him. I mean
what’s nine volts?
Grissom:
You’re confusing watts and volts. Watts
are a measure of the amount of energy per second. Volt is the measure of the potential, how
much energy is expected per charge. The
power wasn’t so great, but you hit key points.
(Demonstation: An electrical circuit with a light bulb to
demonstrate changing wattage and then a meter to show different voltage.)
Catherine:
Why did it shock Ken, but not Martin?
Dana:
I put in during lunch. I put a broken
circuit under the seat so that when someone sat down, the circuit would hook
and the shock would be induced.
Catherine:
How’d you get in?
Dana:
My dad’s absent‑minded. He always locks customer’s keys in the
trunk. I convinced him to make copies of
all his customers. I lock them in a
cabinet in case he needs them. He was
alcoholic in his younger days, so I didn’t want him to get drunk and steal a
car, then crash it. I took Elisa’s copy.
Catherine:
So, you protected you dad from the keys, but you didn’t protect yourself. And Ken got to the car first. What happened after he sat down?
Dana:
I don’t have a seventh class. I wanted
to watch and tease Martin afterwards.
When Ken went to get into the car, I couldn’t yell loud enough. I went over to apologize, but he was limp
when I found him.
(Ken
sits down as Dana runs over, but Ken jumps and falls limp)
Brass:
So, then what happened?
Dana:
I put on my gloves, and dragged him to the gym when no one was around.
Catherine:
You washed him. With his underwear on.
Dana:
I’m a practical joker, but I’m not a pervert.
(Dana
looks away as she washes the body of Ken in the showers at the gym)
Dana:
I heard the bell ring. I didn’t know
what to do with him. I knew Ryan was all
crazy about Elisa, so I checked his car.
He’d left it unlocked, so I opened the trunk and shoved him in the
trunk.
(Dana
opens the car door, pulls the trunk lever, and puts the body in the trunk. Her headband falls in after him.)
Grissom:
And you left us a souvenir. (holds up her headband)
Dana:
It was an accident. You can’t charge me
murder! You just can’t!
Brass:
Tell it to the judge.
(Dana
starts crying)
Catherine:
You may a lighter sentence: manslaughter, malicious actions, tampering of
evidence. If you want to call that a
light sentence.
(Brass
takes her away)
Catherine:
Poor girl.
Grissom:
Hey, we just find the evidence and the proof.
The only thing we can do now is testify.
And earlier, you were ready burn Ryan at the stake.
(they
exit)
(Ryan
and Elisa watch Dana walk off in handcuffs)
(Elisa
looks solemn as Dana passes, who sends her an apologetic look, which isn’t
accepted; she moans and leans on Ryan)
Catherine:
You are free to go.
Elisa:
Thanks. (starts to walk off)
Catherine:
Well, she’s open game now.
Ryan:
(laughs) Yeah, first thing I do after one of my friend’s boyfriend is killed is
hit on her. Us? Not now if ever.
Catherine:
I’m sorry about thinking it was you. I
admit I had bias.
Ryan:
Hey, I was a likely suspect. If the
person who reports the body weren’t a suspect, then every killer in the world
would report their own slayings. Plus, I
had motive.
Catherine:
I still wasn’t right.
Ryan:
(pause) Who was she?
Catherine:
Who was who?
Ryan:
The girl that stole your boyfriend in high school?
Catherine:
Mary Claire Leary. Ninth grade. Flirted her way between us.
Ryan:
Ken wasn’t a bad guy. In fact, he was
really a lot like me. I think that’s why
I continued liking Elisa. It could’ve
been me.
Catherine:
Guess you’re glad you weren’t him.
Ryan:
I guess I don’t even need to laugh at that.
(END)
A/N:
Okay? Personal critique? Not bad.
It didn’t move like I wanted it to.
It wasn’t… edge‑of‑your‑seat exciting. Better than run‑of‑the‑mill romance CSI fics? I think so,
but that’s my opinion. It’s a different
genre anyway.
In
the works:
CSI
Robbered: Will be a long and interesting one.
I hope. Summery: The team
investigates a the shooting of a police officer during a jewelry store
robbery. They solve it, but that’s only
the tip of the iceberg. By the way, for this story, I’m going to need the name
of the ballistics expert and the A/V analyst (the Asian‑American guy). I will try to look them up, but if you know
them, please tell me in a review.
Prankster:
May be renamed. The CSI’s
investigate crimes scenes, only to find something very odd and scarily personal
about the details surrounding them.
^_^
- ^^^^^^^^^ (zap) AHHHHHHHH. (clouds of smoke emitting
from his body) I’ll get Dana for that one.