| The Other Realm: Part 3 | ||||||
| Outside the Other Realm, Nick was busy searching around the perimeter. He walked over to the dumpster. Carefully looking in, he held his nose. The smell was enough to make you lose your lunch. A glimmer caught his attention. He bent down and picked up the object. It was a used syringe. He bagged it and decided to show his find to Sara. Inside Sara was kneeling down. She had a very lost look on her face. �Find anything?� Nick asked as he approached her. Sara got up and shook her no. Nick gave her a grin, �Well, I found this.� He held the bagged syringe up for her to see. Sara shook her head. �A needle, come on Nick. This is a club, I�m sure you will find a ton of those out there.� �Maybe, but this is the only one I found. Besides I have this feeling it might be connected to all of this.� �How do you know? Did you get some kind of sixth sense?� �I just do, in fact I willing to bet you dinner that this is connected.� �Wow, you must really be confident. Dinner huh.� �Yep, and I�m not talking cheap dinner either. A very classy dinner, so are you in?� �Okay, but we better decide now where we are going to eat. You know so neither one of us can back out.� Nick gave her his cutest grin. �Now Sara, why do you think I would back out on this? I�m going to win. You�re the one who might try to back out. Okay here�s the deal, if somehow I was wrong, I will take you to the Olive Garden. If I�m right, you�re taking me to the Outback. Deal?� Sara smiled back and took Nick�s hand and shook it. �Deal.� Nick let go of Sara�s hand. �You done here?� �Yeah. I guess we should go back and let Greg test that.� �Patience Sara. You�ll get to take me out soon.� Sara laughed at him and they headed out toward Nick�s car. �Dream on Nick.� Grissom was sitting in his office when his phone rang. He picked up the phone. Doc. Robbins was on the other end. �Hey Grissom, I have the cause of death for you.� Grissom told him he would be down in a minute. As he hung up the phone, Catherine and Warrick walked into his office. �Hey, did you two find out anything?� Grissom asked. Catherine explained everything to him. �I believe her story.� She said. �I�m fixing to go down to the morgue, the good doc has figured out the cause of death.� Grissom said. �What do you want us to do?� Warrick asked. �I really don�t know. Let me find out what the doc says. Maybe Nick and Sara will have something when they come in.� Grissom headed down to the morgue, leaving Catherine and Warrick standing there wondering where to go next. In the morgue, Robbins was just finishing his report when Grissom walked in. �What did you find?� �Well, I can tell you what killed him. The toxicology report came back positive. The guy died of an overdose.� �I guess that rules out murder.� �Not necessarily. When a person does drugs, he usually inhales the drug or uses needles.� Grissom shook his head. �I know all this, what are you getting at?� Robbins pointed to the body. �Look at the arm, do you see any needle marks?� Grissom took a closer look at the body. The arms looked clean. No sign of needle marks anywhere. The guy was clean. �Okay so he inhaled the drug.� �No, he didn�t. With cocaine users the nasal cavity becomes hollow. That�s not the case here either. I took a closer look and on his back I found a small injection mark.� �So our guy was murdered after all. Good job.� Robbins stopped Grissom before he could walk off. �I don�t think he was murdered inside the club.� �State your reason.� �Time. The drugs need time to get into the blood stream and shut down the body. There was no way this could be done in just thirty seconds.� Grissom nodded his head and thanked Robbins. He then headed back to the lab. He needed to get his team together. By the time he arrived back, his team was in the break room. Sara, Nick, and Warrick were sitting down drinking sodas. Catherine was on the phone checking on Lindsey. She told Lindsey good-bye when she saw Grissom�s look. �What did Robbins find out?� asked Catherine. �That our victim was murdered.� �How?� asked Warrick. �Drug overdose.� Nick gave Sara a triumphant smile. �I found a syringe outside the club. I sent it to Greg to have it tested.� Grissom smiled at him. �Good job Nick. I guess we will wait and see if Greg comes up with anything. In the meantime, I want to see if this guy Vincent had any enemies.� Grissom glanced over at Warrick. �Did anyone you talk know Vincent?� �If they did, they lied to me. Everyone told me they never seen him before.� �Yeah, that�s what I was told to. The only person who knew him was Rebecca. Catherine I want you and Warrick to go back and talk to her. Find out everything we need to know about Vincent. Nick, Sara, I want you two to help Greg. Once he finds out what was in that syringe, I want you two to find out where you can get it and who sells it.� Break time was officially over, they all threw away there drinks and headed out. |
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