TEXT: [EXT. LAS VEGAS (STOCK) - NIGHT] (Off Screen, a phone rings.) [EXT. LAS VEGAS (STOCK) - NIGHT] (Off Screen, the phone continues to ring.) [EXT. LAS VEGAS (STOCK) - NIGHT] Answering Machine: No one is available. Please leave a message. [CLOSED CAPTION READS: ANSWERING MACHINE: This is 469-5256. Please leave a message at the beep.] WHITE FLASH TO: [SCENE_BREAK] [INT JANE HALLOWAY'S RESIDENCE -- NIGHT] (The answering machine beeps.) (Camera close up of a telephone. There are 64 messages on the answering machine.) Man: (over phone) Jane, you there? Pick up. Okay... I'll call back later. (JANE GALLOWAY, a blond-haired woman, sits crouched and cowering on the floor against the hallway wall next to the answering machine table. She clutches a baseball bat tightly. The person on the answering machine hangs up. The phone begins ringing immediately. It rings once. The answering machine picks up.) Answering Machine: No one is available. Please leave a message. [CLOSED CAPTION: ANSWERING MACHINE: This is 469-5256. Please leave a message at the beep.] (The answering machine beeps.) Man: (over phone) Slut. You can't hide from me, bitch. Jane, you there? (JANE GALLOWAY is terrorized by the sudden change of message. She looks at her front door. The three locks on her door don't move. She clutches her baseball bat and nervously chews on her fingernails.) Man: (over phone) Now, didn't I tell you... not to bite your nails?! (JANE GALLOWAY freezes. She realizes that this person over the phone can see her. She gets up and rips the
SUMMARY:
Jane Galloway is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. She has completely shielded herself from the outside world, but that doesn't stop a stalker in her attic from killing her. When CSI arrives, they find her hair dyed and her face shoved in the toilet. This image has a heavy impact on Nick, and they soon realize that this stalker is well acquainted with Nick, which makes the CSI the next target.