"What the hell!" Walter yelled as Natalia walked into the lab dressed in a one-piece bathing suit covered in wires and enough plastic explosives hooked to it to shoot them all to the moon. There was a clock strategically placed and the time was going down by the second.

"Where's Wolfe?" Walter yelled to anyone within earshot.

"Here! What's the..." Ryan said then stopped dead in his tracks as he saw his wife covered in boom material.

Ryan and Walter began to run to Natalia but she stuck out her hand and yelled. "No! Stay back!"

"But Natalia!" Ryan said as he stared at his wife.

"I mean it Ryan! Stay back. I have a bomb on and a timer stuck between my legs and he's watching."

Then Ryan's cell rang. He answered and the voice said, "She's right CSI husband. I am watching. All of you. Miami P. D. has crossed me for the last time. The way I see it, you all take something from me, I'm gonna take a piece from you! Starting with your lovely wife!" Then there was a click.

Horatio quickly walked through the lab's door and looked at Ryan as Ryan stared at him. He then looked at Natalia standing there all wrapped in wires and explosives and said, "What are we waiting for people! Time is ticking!"

"Mrs. Wolfe, stand still. We need to get this thing off of you."

"No Horatio! You can't. Remember, he's watching. See the camera?"

"I do," said Ryan. "It's right between her breasts!"

"Very good her dear CSI husband. Very good," everyone in the lab heard and saw as all the monitors came alive with a masked man now having took them over. "Lieutenant Caine, if you want your CSI to remain among the living, I suggest you do as I say."

"Mr. Masked Man, you contradict yourself. Didn't you tell my CSI, her husband, that since we took something from you, you were going to take something from us, starting with his wife?"

"Lieutenant, don't try me! Don't put words in my mouth! What do you think that timer is for, huh?"

"Put words in your mouth? You're doing a fine job at that yourself. Mrs. Wolfe, wouldn't you agree?"

Natalia shot Horatio a very odd look. He smiled slyly back at her. She caught his expression.

"I think that's a safe bet," Natalia said. "I bet he doesn't even remember making me put this on or placing the clock!"

"Like hell! Once I stabbed you with that needle, you were putty in my hands. You complied to my every word! The timer was the best part! Don't you like where I placed it her dear CSI husband?"

"Well that answers how I managed to get this damn thing on!"

"Aww, now that was something special. Watching you step into something I made. Such a beautiful sight! You should have seen it her CSI husband. It was quite special! And you have still not answered my question!"

Ryan shoved away from Horatio's side quickly and said as he looked straight between his wife's breasts at the camera between them, "Look you son of a bitch! I'm going to find you and when I do, I'm going to rip your heart out through your throat!"

"Oh CSI husband, I'm scared. I'll be shaking in my shoes when you do! My, look at the time!" The masked man in the monitors said and then all of the monitors went black.

Ryan turned and looked around and Natalia said, "Great Ryan. Now what are we supposed to do? You threatened the one person that put me in this thing and we can't even move. We can't even sneeze! We're now held captive in our own lab! And you have to say that!"

Ryan turned back around and looked at his wife and said, "Well, what else was I supposed to do, Natalia? He has you still and we are all his prisoners as well! And we only now have twenty three hours," Ryan said as he looked at the timer strategically placed upon his wife.

"Wolfe, dude, chill!" Walter said as he stepped over to him. "Natalia needs you now. Don't forget that. All of us actually."

"I've got to sit down," Natalia said. "This thing is heavy."

"No Natalia! Don't!" Ryan yelled.

"Dude, what did I just tell you?" Walter said looking at Ryan as he moved to get a chair to roll it to Natalia. "Ryan, man, really. Your wife walked in here with this on. I really don't think her sitting in this chair is gonna blow us all up!"

"Walter is right, Mr. Wolfe. Your wife needs to sit. Let's keep her as calm as possible." Horatio said then leaned into Walter and continued, "Come with me Walter. Mr. Wolfe, stay with your wife."

Horatio stepped outside the lab and Walter followed. Once in the hall, Walter said, "What's up H.?"

"Walter, when the masked man is back on the line, can we trace his IP address?"

"Maybe H., but it will take some time. I'll need a laptop since he has control of the computers obviously. And now we have less than twenty three hours. What if he doesn't come back online?"

"He will. And when he does, we will be ready."

"Horatio, let me call the bomb squad. I'm sure they can do something," Frank said as he looked through the glass at Natalia sitting there in the one-piece explosive suit.

"We can't Frank. The masked man has eyes on us. And ears in the room as well."

"But Look at her Horatio. She can't move. She's a ticking time bomb. Literally. Why Natalia? Why her?"

"Frank, if I knew that, Mrs. Wolfe would not be sitting there right now." Horatio said and saw Walter raise his hand from inside the lab. Horatio nodded in acknowledgement.

"Well Horatio, I'm gonna call them in anyway," Frank said and pulled out his cell.

"It won't hurt Horatio. You never know, there may be something they can see that we can't." Calleigh said as she walked up.

"We won't be able to let them in the lab though. He'll see them."

"Horatio, what if, since Natalia is sitting down, we bring them in while we wheel her around keeping a member of the bomb squad out of sight?"

"Yeah Horatio, and we can make sure that they do not say a word."

"There is a camera on her chest, remember? You two are grasping at straws," said Horatio.

"No, we just want to grasp at a bomb," Calleigh said with that southern smile she knew she could flash.

Horatio smiled that sly smile then walked back into the lab.

"Aww, lieutenant, you're back. I have to admit, I quite like it here. I think I'm gonna stay a while," the masked man said and smirked.

"You do just that. I'll stay a while myself,"Horatio said as he walked over to Natalia and grabbed the back of her chair.

Horatio wheeled her around until her back faced the door of the lab. He looked out through the glass and put his finger up to his lips. The bomb squad agent acknowledged with a nod and tried to exam what he could through the door.

Walter stood in front of the laptop quietly brought in inconspicuously typing on the keyboard trying to triangulate IP configurations.

Suddenly, Calleigh appeared on the outside of the clear glass wall in front of Walter. He looked up, startled to see her standing there. Calleigh smiled and mouthed to him, "Stay still," and aimed her iPhone off to the side of him. She was taking advantage of Walter's big frame.

The picture popped up on the bomb squad's agent's iPad and he clearly saw what Calleigh was sending him. Suddenly, the agent began to smirk and type on the iPad.

Calleigh smiled that smile she had when things went their way. Walter saw that smile and knew something was up. Then Horatio's phone vibrated.

He pulled it out and looked at the message then glanced at Calleigh who was still smiling. He turned back to Natalia, hiding his phone from view but so Natalia could read it.

Natalia looked up at him and Horatio slyly smirked.

Laughter wanted to burst through each of them, but they each held it inside.

"My brother would be so proud of me. If he could see what I did to CSI wife, he'd be patting me on the back. But can he? No. The good lieutenant saw to that."

"So it's your brother I put away."

"No, lieutenant, not put away. Killed!" The masked man yelled angrily through the speakers of the computers in the room. "I learned everything from him, and you took him away."

"Well Apparently Damien, you failed!"

The computer monitors all made a quick snapping sound and went black. Horatio had gotten to the masked man. Well, now Damien.

Horatio quickly exited the lab and held his phone to his ear. "Frank, Damien Linguez. Now!"

Walter came out after him. "H., I didn't get a triangulation."

"Don't need one. I know just where to find him!"

"I'm coming with you!" Ryan yelled.

"No, Mr. Wolfe. Stay here with your wife and get her out of that plaything."

"Plaything? A bomb? Really Horatio? Have you lost your mind?"

"Mr. Wolfe, it's not real! Come on Walter!"

Ryan looked around and settled his gaze on Calleigh. She smiled and laughed. "Come on CSI husband. I will explain."

When Calleigh and Ryan walked back to the lab, Natalia was standing naked in the middle of it. Calleigh put her hand to her mouth in surprise. Ryan just stared at first and then turned to Calleigh and said, "You reckon she already knew it was fake?"

Calleigh snickered and said, "Thanks to Horatio."

"Will you two stop staring and go get my lab coat!" Natalia yelled out through the door she had cracked.

"Here Ryan, use mine" Calleigh said as she took hers off and handed it to him.

Ryan ran to the door and held it out. Natalia grabbed it and slung it on as she said, "Don't get any ideas," and walked past him to her own lab. She knew she was safe there. Ryan followed her.

"How'd Horatio tell you?"

"If you had not been so enamored in wanting to pull the masked man's heart out of his throat, you would have seen Horatio show me his phone."

"Oh, and I was supposed to know from that?"

"Ryan, did you even see me almost laugh?"

Ryan did not say a word. He just stood there. Then he walked to his wife and took her in his arms. Immediately, Natalia began to cry.

Walter approached the front door from the side with his gun drawn. Frank stood on the opposite side doing the same.

"I'm going around back," Horatio said and slunk around the house with his glock drawn.

Then the gunshot rang out and a bullet pierced the front door. Frank kicked in the door and Walter yelled, "Back door Frank!"

Horatio was there when it open. His glock pointed, Horatio said, "Times up, Damien."

Damien dropped his gun and Frank was right there to slap the cuffs on him. "Horatio is right. Times up. Now you can watch it tick away behind bars. Come on!" Frank yanked Damien up and headed back through the house to his car.

Damien yelled, "I could have had you lieutenant! I could have had CSI wife! Oh wait a minute, I still do!"

"You're one sick bastard, you know that. You have a dirty mind."

"No detective, just an explosive one."

"Ha, that's funny, coming from a felon that couldn't make a bomb go boom."

Damien smiled as Frank placed him in the backseat of the squad car. That's when the explosion went off in the distance.

Horatio, Walter, and Frank all looked at each other when Horatio's phone rang. He answered simply saying, "On my way Calleigh."

"I thought Horatio said that thing was fake!" Natalia yelled as she picked the pieces of glass from her hair.

"It was supposed to be." Calleigh said as she stood up from taking cover on the floor.

"Calleigh, it wasn't the suit CSI Wolfe was wearing. I swear that was fake. This was something else," said the bomb squad agent, who confirmed through his iPad the bomb suit Natalia had been wearing was fake.

"How can you be sure?"

"Because Calleigh, the directional impact of the explosion came from the lab across. Not the one CSI Wolfe was inside."

Calleigh looked that way and saw for herself the bomb squad agent was right.

Natalia came over after picking through her hair and looked also then said, "Wait a minute. Where's Ryan? He wasn't with me. Where is my husband? Ryan! "

She began to run to the blast scene but Calleigh grabbed her arm and said, "Natalia, no! You can't go over there."

"Let me go Calleigh! Now!" Natalia yelled and broke free. She was a blur as she disappeared into the rubble.

Horatio, Walter, and Frank appeared next to Calleigh. "Calleigh where's..."

"In there Horatio." Calleigh announced with a point of her finger.

Horatio looked into the direction of the lab's explosion and saw Natalia stoop and immediately started pumping her arms up and down. Horatio went running. Walter and Frank was behind him.

"Come on Ryan. Breathe! Somebody, get me a damn medic over here!" Natalia yelled.

A medic arrived, but Natalia did not want to stop. "Mrs. Wolfe, step aside and let him work." Horatio said as he pulled her away.

Walter and Frank watched nervously as the medic and his partner put Ryan on the stretcher. They were bagging him as they rushed by with him. Horatio joined them and watched as his CSI was loaded into the ambulance. When Natalia was shut in behind her husband, Frank turned to Horatio. "Well, that little laughing masked zoro does know how to make something go boom."

Horatio started to walk away then paused. "But today... Frank... He left his mark on the wrong lab."