INT. - SILVER CITY CRIME LAB - AFTERNOON

CSI Catherine Chase sat back from the microscope she'd been hunched over for too long and rubbed her aching lower back. She'd volunteered for the night shift as well as the swing this morning, loving the thrill of a new case, the lure of evidence just dying for her to uncover its meaning.

Cat had already wrapped the Malcolm MacIntosh investigation, sending her findings off to the 9th Precinct in record time. The bullet came back ...