As the clock struck midnight, the lights of the Strip didn't just flicker—they turned red. The ghost had left the door open.

"Case 366," he murmured, his voice a low gravel. "The 'Unavailable' victim."

Grissom looked back at the glass shard. It wasn't glass. It was a fragment of a high-capacity fiber optic cable. "The evidence doesn't lie, but it does speak in different languages. He wasn't telling us he was available. He was warning us that we were."

Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes were at the scene, processing a secondary site—a private jet hangar at McCarran. They found a second message, etched into the fuselage of a Gulfstream: ( Accessible to everything ).