CSI: Excolo Episode 3.04: Shot Through The Heart

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Previously on CSI: Excolo:

CONSTANTINE: You fuckin' cocktease!
He attacks GLASS, and is beaten unconscious by DORIAN. CUT TO: GLASS and DORIAN getting intimate, blood smeared between them. CUT TO AL and TEZ having phone sex. CUT TO: blurry photographs of TEZ and SAYID. CUT TO:
KATE: How did you get these?
SYL: Told ya. Onna Sayid's informants.

TWO WEEKS LATER:

We start with a black screen; Jon Bon Jovi's "Shot Through The Heart" is playing very loudly as the scene fades into a warehouse at night. As we pan down from the ceiling we can faintly hear beneath the music muffled cries of pain. After a little while they stop.

Oooh, you're a loaded gun -

We see a bloodied hand reach out and turn off a radio; the song stops abruptly.

That became a little... messier than I initially intended. I look down at Jin's body. It has been some time since I took care of work like this myself, and a long time since I did it in anything other than a clean and careful manner. I am afraid I let my feelings - run away with me.

After Hollow this morning passed me the information that a warrant is to be issued for Tez's arrest, I of course began to investigate on what grounds the murder charge was being brought. Photographic evidence. I knew who was in charge of looking after Tez that day.

It did not take very long for Jin to admit that he had intercepted a photographer that day in the park when Tez took care of Zuabi.

A photographer.

I am afraid that I lost track of things for a little while, there. And now Jin cannot identify the woman, which is unfortunate. I should have been more careful. If this were about anything else, I would be. But the blinding terror of anything happening to Tez makes me forget my caution, sometimes.

I wipe my hands on a cloth and think absently that Jeanie will be quite upset her cousin is dead. But I expect she will understand why it happened. She knows how little I can tolerate mistakes.

After the clean up team has arrived I go back to my apartment. I take delivery of a parcel, which is filled with false documentation. Jeanie has already had someone pack me one suitcase of clothes suitable for Mexico, because I asked her to do that this afternoon, and I go to the airport. I know she is angry that I am going, that it is violating my parole. But I will risk it, because I need to warn Tez. And I need to make arrangements to move him. Luckily for me, the process of extraditing suspects from Mexico to the United States is a slow one, particularly when one has Mexican citizenship. They are always concerned about their sovereignty, and so Tez's dual citizenship should slow matters down. Nonetheless, I do not want to take the risk. He needs to be moved. But this is not something that I should tell him on the phone. It needs to be face-to-face, and it needs to be now.

Using my new passport - Alexander Sherman, how original - I board the plane. Soon, love. It is only when I am on my seat in first class that I notice there is blood ground into the engraving on my wedding ring. But I do not clean it off. Tez may like to see it.

For the first time since this morning I smile.