Then, on a Tuesday night in October, a body was found in the desert — staged to look like a mob hit, but the details were wrong. The ligature marks, the angle of the gunshot, the placement of the shell casings. Sara recognized the signature immediately.
Sara found Hodges in a back room, duct-taped to a chair with a bomb strapped to his chest. She’d seen this before — the helplessness, the ticking clock. She didn’t freeze. She cut the red wire, then the blue. The timer stopped at 00:03. CSI Crime Scene Investigation Season 8-16 Compl...
The DA relented.
Elena Mace had broken in, intending to destroy the hard drive. But the team was waiting. Then, on a Tuesday night in October, a
Meanwhile, Nick Stokes had become the heart of the team. He’d been there longer than anyone except Catherine. He’d survived a buried-alive nightmare, a courtroom shooting, and the death of his best friend. When a case involving a missing child reminded him of his own childhood trauma, Nick broke down in the evidence locker — and Catherine found him there, holding a stuffed rabbit. Sara found Hodges in a back room, duct-taped
“This isn’t a copycat,” she said, looking up from the photos. “This is someone who studied our cases. Someone who knows exactly how we work.”
“For the evidence,” Rivera said.