�Sorry, I don�t give to charity drives and no I don�t want anything your selling.�
Grissom grinned at him. �You don�t even know what we�re selling. We might have just the thing you�re looking for.�
Damon laughed. �Yeah right. What are you doing here anyway?�
Grissom introduced them and told Damon that they needed to ask him some questions.
�What kind of questions?�
�We hear you and Vincent Newby didn�t get along very well.�
�That�s the biggest understatement of the year. I hated the guy.�
Catherine didn�t mean to really but she couldn�t resist. �Did you hate him enough to kill him?�
�Yeah, that freak made me mad sometimes that I really wanted to break his neck.�
Grissom took that in. �Did you happen to know that Vincent was in fact murdered?�
�No. You mean someone finally killed that freak. All I can say is that it�s about time.�
Warrick gave him a look. �Where were you at last night around 11:30 p.m.?
�At a party with some friends.�
Grissom watched Damon�s eyes. Grissom had once said that the eyes are the window to the soul. Maybe if he stared hard enough into them he could tell if Damon was lying or not. �Where was this party at?�
�At my friend Alice�s. Her parents are out of town for the weekend so she invited a bunch of us over.�
�I see. Did Wesley Clark happen to go to the party with you?�
�Yeah, he did. How do you know about Wesley?�
�Your names were mentioned by someone who said you both didn�t like Vincent.�
�That�s no secret there. Everyone knows that we didn�t like Vincent. Have you talked to Wesley?�
�No, but we have talked to your friend Eric.�
Damon gave Grissom a disgusted look. �Eric and I aren�t friends anymore.�
�Why is that?� Catherine asked.
�Cause friends are supposed to stick together and stand up for you, but Eric didn�t. He got scared and backed down. He was always a wimp.�
Warrick asked him if that had anything to do with the incident at the mall.
�Yeah, he just stood there while Wesley and I took the heat from Vincent. A true friend wouldn�t have let that happen.�
�Eric said that you threatened to kill Vincent. Is that true?�
�You bet it is. Look, I wish I could say that I murdered the guy. I don�t care if I would spend the rest of my life in prison. The fact is that I didn�t.�
Grissom wasn�t sure if Damon really didn�t kill Vincent. He could have done it and used this argument to try and cover it up. But Grissom really didn�t know. �Okay Damon, we are going to talk to Wesley and then maybe talk to Alice. Could you tell us where Alice lives?�
�Yeah sure, let me write down her address for you.� Damon wrote it down and handed it to Grissom. Grissom thanked him and he began to head back to the car. Before he got in Damon yelled to him. �When you find Vincent�s killer, could you bring him by here? I want to shake his hand.�
Grissom didn�t respond back. He got into the car with the others and drove off.
Wesley had the worst job in the world in his opinion. He was the trash guy for a company. The workers got on his nerves. They all thought they were so classy. �Yeah right� thought Wesley. One of these days he would be on the top and these losers would be looking up to him. He was taking the garbage out to the dumpster when two men and a woman walked up to him. �Great� he thought. �More high class snotty people.� The older guy was the one to speak first.
�Are you Wesley Clark?�
�You know my name. What�s yours?�
Grissom introduced himself. �We need to ask you some questions.�
�Okay, but whatever it is I didn�t do it.�
�Do you remember Vincent Newby?�
�How could I forget that freak? Did he bring you here? Look, I know we threatened to kill him, but come on that�s just the way I deal with stuff. I just talk big. I don�t actually kill people.�
�Really. That�s interesting because the reason why we�re here is because Vincent is dead.�
�NO WAY�
�Yes, he was murdered last night at a club.�
�That�s too bad.� Wesley began to snicker.
Grissom glared at him. �You find this amusing?�
�Well, yeah. I mean I can�t believe someone finally killed him off.�
Catherine shook her head in disgust. �You do realize you are talking about another human being don�t you?�
Wesley looked at her. �Look honey, I don�t think you realize that Vincent was a far cry from a human being. He wasn�t normal.�
�Define �normal��
�He wasn�t like anyone else. He was just too spacey. He would read those comics of his and he became all space cadet on people.�
�Does that give him a death sentence?�
�In my book yeah.�
Grissom decided that he�s had enough with young boys for one day. He felt like he was getting no where fast. He decided that he would let the others talk to Alice. He was beginning to get a headache. They told Wesley they would call him if they needed to ask him some more questions.
While they were walking back to the car, Warrick glared at Grissom. �Why are we leaving? Don�t you have more questions for him?�
�He will just answer them like Damon did. I�m thinking that either one of them killed him and are playing dumb, or they really didn�t kill him and we have an unknown murderer on our hands.�
�Are we going to question Alice?� Catherine asked.
�You and Warrick are. I�m going back and see if Nick and Sara have come up with anything. Just drop me off.�
�Okay.� They then headed back for the crime lab.