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Tony spots Grissom looking over a casefile. Being nosy, he walks over to Grissom's booth and looks at the file. "You work for the government?"

"In a way. I am a forensic entomologist." Grissom glances up, keeping the file partially closed. "I don't believe we've met, mister...?"

~~The mun has already seen that episode. :D~~

"Almeida. Tony Almeida." He extends a hand.

"Gil Grissom," he says, cordially shaking his hand.

"So you're a forensic entomologist. For the police? What city?"

"I work with the Las Vegas Crime Lab as the night shift supervisor. And yourself, Mr. Almeida?"

"I worked for the Counterterrorist Unit in Los Angeles. Do you know Sara?"

"I have met some personnel from that organization," he says thoughtfully.

"And I do--she used to work for me."

"There's a lot of us around here. Who'd you meet?"

"I met a Dr. Driscoll, I believe was her name. We spoke briefly."

"Do you and Sara speak often?"

"Ms. Driscoll? She's not exactly a doctor. More like one of my old superiors who took over my position when I left CTU."

"As often as we can."

~~The mun forgot to put that in the memories section and could not remember.~~

"Pardon the error, it was some time ago and I'm not recalling much from the conversation itself," he says apologetically.

He nods. "I've been needing to speak to her, but she is proving difficult to find."

"She's usually in the bar early in the afternoon. If you want I can give her a message. As for Erin, she's really not that memorable. But then again most folks from Division aren't."

"I appreciate the offer, but I think this one conversation needs to be done in person." Grissom, wanting to initiate contact with a human being? Hell must be freezing over.

"Why did you stop working for your organization?"

"It's, ah, complicated. And not entirely my choice."

And thus we begin to recount the story of Teh Treason.

"Over a year ago my time we were tracking a virus that had been released in a hotel. The man who had released it, Stephen Saunders, was still at large and had already made several demands on the President, including the assasination of one of our own agents, Ryan Chappelle. The President only complied to his demands to prevent Saunders from releasing more of the virus in other cities.

"CTU managed to find Saunders' daughter after following a lead on a paper trail. We brought her back to CTU. Somehow, Saunders found out we had her and took some steps to get her back. Namely...kidnapping my wife, Michelle~~, who Grissom might remember as Chandra~~.

"Michelle had been investigating the outbreak in the hotel. She was immune to the virus and was on her way back to CTU when Saunders managed to kidnap her. I was director of CTU then, and he...he threatened to kill her if I didn't give him his daughter back. So I gave in. I helped him escape, I took his daughter out of CTU so I could get my wife...

"It ended well for CTU. A colleague of mine, Jack Bauer, took over the operation once he found out I had Saunders' daughter. But, ah...when it was over they arrested me for treason."

*phew*

Grissom nods thoughtfully throughout the narrative, withholding his thoughts until the end.

"You were put into a very difficult position, Mr. Almeida, and I cannot say I would not have done the same had it happened to me," he says finally.

He furrows his brow. "That's the odd thing. Nobody's really judged be negatively in the bar because of that. They all seem to be understanding. I never got that back at home."