Daniel (to Grissom): I didn't realize until... today... how lucky I am. I know pretty much... how and when I'm gonna die. Most people don't. It's what they're afraid of.
GrissomWas your sister afraid?
DDaniel
Never. I'm 11 years older than her, and she took care of me. She was my best friend, and I miss her. As much pain as...I caused her... and she wouldn't give up, and she...she wouldn't let me, either. That's why...during the last relapse, I made my parents swear that it was the very last time.
Grissom
But then your kidneys failed, and they broke their word, huh?
DDaniel
They told me they... swore not to fight the cancer, so this didn't count. I wasn't gonna lose this fight. I couldn't watch her suffer anymore.
Grissom
This wasn't a mercy killing, Daniel. This was an execution. Bone marrow, transfusions...that's her blood in your veins. It dripped out of your nose onto the blanket while you were killing her. If you cared so much for Alicia, why didn't you take your own life instead of hers?
DDaniel
Suicide isn't an option. It's an unforgivable sin in the eyes of God.
Grissom: But you believe that your god forgives murder? If that's your defense, it won't keep you out of jail.
Daniel (crying): But my death will. See, I've got about six more months. I'll be dead before there's even a trial. I-I do want to thank you, though.
Grissom
For what?
DDaniel
For speaking for Alicia. You're probably the first person in her life to think only of her. You know, you may not believe in God, sir, but you do his work.
Grissom
Did you injure yourself, Mrs. Perez? (Mrs. Perez looks down at a bloodstain on her shirt)
PMrs. Perez
Oh, a nosebleed.
Grissom
That's a lot of blood. I'm going to need to take your shirt.
Grissom
If you like, I can have someone follow you home so that you can change.
PMrs. Perez
You think we had something to do with it? Our daughter is missing. She's out there somewhere alone and scared. What are you doing about that?
Grissom
I'm just collecting evidence.
PMrs. Perez
Fine. Here! (she removes her shirt and throws it at Grissom) Take it! Go find her!
Grissom (to Doc Robbins): Alicia's cause of death?
Grissom
Time of death?
That's a little trickier. No solids in the stomach contents, just a milky liquid. Liver mortis was fixed and deep purple with a vitreous humor potassium level of 20 millimoles per liter with faint putrefaction. So, I'd say she's been dead about... 44 hours between midnight and 8:00 A.M., the day of her kidnapping.
Grissom
Which means April Perez was lying about the abduction.
Yep. Story's got more holes than her sister's bones.
Griss, this place is crawling with press. They want a statement.
Grissom
Not now.
Well, if you don't say anything, they're just going to fill in the blanks...
Grissom
Screw the press, 'cause for all I know, the dead body is an auto mechanic who just painted his house blue.
Grissom
I thought you'd want to know what happened to Wendy.
MMimosa
I appreciate your telling me. Killed by someone in our own community. As if we don't have enough enemies. Her parents never understood her, but still I think they should know. What do I say?
Grissom
Show them an oyster.
Grissom
There are two types of male oysters, and one of them can change genders at will. And before man crawled out of the muck, maybe he had the same option. Maybe originally we were supposed to be able to switch genders, and being born with just one sex... is a mutation.
MMimosa
(to Grissom) I'm glad you agreed to meet me, can I buy you a drink?
Grissom
Thanks, but I'm still on the clock.
MMimosa
But you still let me lure you away from the lab. Is that because I'm a beautiful woman? Well, I'm a beautiful woman now.
Grissom
Beauty's a societal construction.
MMimosa
So is gender, people find out you're empty half and they think you're psycho, Michael Caine with a bad wig and a pair of sunglasses stabbing Angie Dickinson and dressed to kill.
Taking your pet for a walk?
Grissom
I know how much you like my little fetal pig, so I'm giving him to you as an office-warming gift.
That is so thoughtful. Now tell me why you really stopped by. You checking up on me?
Grissom
No.
What've you heard? Who talked to you?
Grissom
See? You've only been on the job a week and you're already paranoid.
[laughs] When I was your right hand and your left, I always knew if it hit the fan, you'd be the one to get dirty.
Grissom
Hey, that's the job.
Yeah, that's the job. Did you ever play politics?
Grissom
I once ran for president of science club in junior high. Mary Hardy beat me out by one vote.
I'm going to guess that you didn't vote for yourself.
Grissom
I'm not any good at politics. It cost me, that's how I lost Nick and Warrick.
Grissom
Yeah, and at least I know that they're in good hands.
Grissom
Deerstalker cap, violin, Meerschaum pipe, even a Persian slipper with tobacco stuffed in the toe, I imagine. All in all, meticulous recreation of 221-B Baker Street: residence of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Also known as Dennis Kingsley, delivery guy. What do you think?
Grissom
Ask Greg. It's his case. It's his final proficiency test. Emphasis in the "final".
Okay, Dr. Watson, run it.
So, are you going to say, "the game's afoot"?
Grissom
I didn't know you were a Conan Doyle fan, Greg.
I'm not. I saw a Sherlock Homes movie once by mistake.
Grissom
Well just so you know, those movies never ended like this.
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