Entries tagged with the ten spot

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would you call old friends you never see/reminisce old memories

199. TEN people you'd never give up.

1. Alexx. She's been his "mom" ever since he started shadowing his best friend's uncle around the crime lab.

2. Eric. No one could ever fill the hole Lucas left in Speed's heart when he died, but his friendship with Eric has done a lot towards healing that wound.

3. Calleigh. He may have joked about Calleigh being "way too cheerful", but in all honesty he's come to admire that optimistic attitude of hers.

4. Ryan. Wolfe's come a long way since his days of being a rookie.

5. Valera. His favorite lab tech (although he'll deny it in public).

6. Joel Speed's discovered that having a younger brother isn't that bad after all.

7. Horatio. If it hadn't been for H, he'd be dead.

8. Megan. Not even if she's given up him and everyone else she used to work with.

9. Natalia. She's come a long way, too. She's part of their team.

10. Frank. Who else would put up with them for so long?

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look at this photograph/every time i do it makes me laugh

196. TEN things you could never part with.

1. His bike.

2. A picture of him, Lucas and two of their other friends taken during senior year, a few months before the disastrous ski trip.

3. His cellphone.

4. A copy of Megan's letter of recommendation for his internship with the Miami-Dade crime lab.

5. That damn tacky Hawaiian shirt Lucas gave him as a gag gift.

6. His father's secret recipe for peanut brittle, even if it is damn-near impossible to make in Florida. His dad would probably kill him if he gave it up.

7. The journal he kept during his stint in the hospital.

8. His diploma from Columbia.

9. His badge.

10. His job.

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you'll come back when they call you/no need to say good-bye

187. TEN things people wouldn't expect you to own.

1. A photocopy of an obituary for a maintenance worker at the Landmark Theater in Syracuse, NY.

2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes two-volume set by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

3. DVDs of the first four movies the Marx Brothers made, before Zeppo left the group.

4. A copy of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

5. A box of colored pencils, and a sketchpad.

6. A St. Michael's medal. Lucas' mom sent it to him after she heard that he had been shot in the line of duty.

7. A copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Tim claims that it belongs to his younger brother, and he forgot it the last time he came down to Miami for a visit.

8. At least a third of his music collection is comprised of Broadway soundtracks, including the albums for RENT, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat and Jekyll & Hyde.

9. There's a Hawaiian shirt hanging in the back of his closet that Lucas got him for his birthday as a gag gift during their junior year of high school. Even though the thing is tacky as all get-out, Speed can't bring himself to throw it out.

10. A Get Fuzzy daily desk calendar.

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We're done with politesse/It's time to be so brutally honest about

171. TEN different things you want to say to ten different people

1. To Wally Schmagin: I'm sorry. And I never meant what I said about CSI work being "just a paycheck".

2. To Megan: Do I mean that little to you now, that you couldn't even bother sending a card or something after I got shot?

3. To Eric: You'd better treat Calleigh right, or else I'm going to kick your ass.

4. To Calleigh: Don't be too hard on Eric. He means well.

5. To Ryan: You really are an asset to the lab and I'm glad to have the opportunity to work with you. Now, just remember to keep your head out of your ass.

6. To Alexx: I really miss seeing you around the lab. It's not the same place without you.

7. To Lucas: Miss you, man.

8. To Clavo Cruz: Roast in hell, you sonofabitch.

9. To anyone who has attempted/will attempt it: Don't f--k with our lab.

10. To H: I get it now.

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170. TEN things on your to-do list.

1. Pay bills.

2. Get trace results to H.

3. Go grocery shopping.

4. Call Alexx.

5. Finalize plans to go up and visit New York.

6. Go out with Wolfe to interview a suspect in the Schaeffler homicide.

7. Analyze trace from another homicide.

8. Eat lunch.

9. Purchase motor oil for his bike.

10. Clean his gun.

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At every occasion I'll be ready for the funeral

166. TEN ways you think you might die.

1. Getting shot because he'd neglected to clean his gun and it misfired ~~again~~.

2. Being trapped in a burning building.

3. Getting shot during a gang shootout.

4. Getting shot by a sniper.

5. Getting blown up by a bomb.

6. Getting shot by a suspect.

7. Getting stabbed.

8. Being eaten by a gator.

9. Getting shot by some girl's jealous boyfriend.

10. Wrecking his bike.

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they're singing deck the halls/but it's not like christmas at all

150. TEN Christmas traditions.

1. Going to the Christmas Eve church service with his folks as a kid.

2. Decorating the family Christmas tree.

3. Having a "day out" with his mom, going to lunch and then going Christmas shopping for Toys for Tots.

4. Taking the annual Speedle Family Christmas Photo for the Speedle Family Christmas Letter.

5. Opening one gift on Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas Day.

6. Christmas dinner at Alexx's house with her family.

7. Day shift's yearly Secret Santa exchange.

8. Getting and reading the annual Speedle Family Christmas Letter.

9. Using his day off to go shopping for Toys for Tots.

10. Helping Calleigh decorate her Christmas tree.

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you told me you were drowning but i would not lend a hand

127. TEN people you wouldn't save if they were drowning.

1. Clavo Cruz.

2. Monica West.

3. Danny Maxwell, the wannabe fireman who caused the Club Descent fire.

4. Rudy Koehler.

5. Melanie Hines.

6. Ramon Cruz

7. Dan Cooper

8. Rick Stetler

9. Carlos Alvarez

10. Jeffrey McKean, Las Vegas PD's ex-undersherriff. Warrick's death didn't affect just the Las Vegas team.

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this is where i went to school/most of the time had better things to do

TEN favorite ten courses/teachers/school related thing

1. Homecoming week - the one week out of the year that students could act a little nuttier than usual, dress weirder than usual and not only did no one mind it, but it was encouraged (to a point).

2. The library, specifically the sciences section. He's fairly sure he read every book in that section at least twice.

3. The school librarian, Mrs. Welch. The rules in the library always seemed to stretch a little with her as far as he was concerned. Speed thinks that maybe she was just glad that someone was actually using the library to read rather than to just horse around.

4. Science Team, and winning the State Championship four years in a row. Sometimes he wonders if they kept up the record after he graduated.

5. The senior trip, up until a certain point.

6. Mr. Dorsey, his chemistry teacher.

7. Monica Westerfield, his first and only high school girlfriend.

8. Pranking Jason Carter's locker during junior year. To Speed's knowledge he was never fingered as a suspect.

9. Working sets and props for the fall play during his senior year. He'd never set foot onstage, but working backstage and hanging out with the other stagehands was a blast.

10. Lucas.

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after all that we've been through, i will make it up to you

107. TEN things you feel guilty about.

1. Not cleaning his gun.

2. Getting wounded during the jewelry store shooting (because he hadn't cleaned his gun) and making everyone worry.

3. Hollis dying on Dispo Day. He doesn't care what Calleigh said; ambush from the left-hand side or not, he still should have been able to get a shot off or something.

4. Wally Schmagin's suicide. Maybe if he hadn't all but blown the kid off Wally'd still be alive.

5. Lucas' accident.

6. Eric getting shot in the head, and all the problems he's had since then.

7. Waiting until he almost died to get to know his younger brother better.

8. Dan Cooper. Mainly because he left his wallet where anyone and their uncle could take it, thus setting into motion the chain of events that got Calleigh kidnapped.

9. Megan leaving the lab.

10. Taking the last can of Coke from the break room fridge.

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and the feeling of the wind in your face can lift your heart

104. TEN lessons you learned from Disney Movies

1. From Aladdin: Be careful what you wish for, because sometimes there might be a catch that will bite you in the ass.

2. From Tarzan: Apparently it is possible to grow up in the jungle raised by gorillas and be completely devoid of facial or body hair as an adult without learning how to shave.

3. From Lion King: Incest is okay if you don't know that your girlfriend is your cousin/sister (seriously, there were only two full-grown males in that pride; who the hell was Nala's father?).

4. From The Emperor's New Groove: Not even mad scientists know why they have levers that control trapdoors to pits filled with hungry alligators.

5. From Bug's Life: When hiring heroes to fight the bullies that are bothering you, remember to check their credentials.

6. From Little Mermaid: Blowing up your daughter's treasures is going to make you look like the bad guy, not the humans.

7. From Mulan: When disguising yourself as a man to join the army, try not to get seriously wounded.

8. From Pinnochio: Never, ever piss off a whale.

9. From Jungle Book: Snakes are easily defeated by knocking them out of trees and making them eat rocks.

10. From Mary Poppins: Snapping your fingers makes rooms clean themselves instantaneously. I wish that worked on evidence...

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take my hand love, i'm taking you home

071: Ten Things in Tim Speedle's Bedroom

1. His gun cleaning kit. And it's not stuffed in the back of his closet either, but out there for ~~his friends~~ anyone to see that it's getting used.

2. Pictures. Of his folks, of his brother Joel, of Lucas, of Megan and of the rest of dayshift.

3. Biking magazines.

4. His iPod.

5. A diecast scale model of a Ducati Desmonde, in yellow naturally. Delko got it for him while he was still on medical leave to help combat the boredom. (the thing was a bitch to put together one-handed)

6. A couple library books.

7. Typical "bedroom" furniture; bed, nightstand, dresser, etc.

8. A landline phone (portable).

9. Dirty laundry.

10. His "wake-up call" box. It sits under his bed, and contains newspaper clippings about the jewelry store shooting and cards from his friends from his stay in the hospital. He calls it his "wake-up call" box because he realized that he didn't want to end up like Lucas.

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if I just lay here, would you lie with me

044. Ten people Tim Speedle would like to smack upside the head

1. Raymond Caine, Sr. Granted, a smack upside the head is the least of what the elder Caine deserves for putting his family through what he did.

2. Jim Markham. AKA the dipshit that took Calleigh's place in the ballistics lab after Hagen's suicide. Tim is still puzzled by how someone with Markham's attitude and sloppiness managed to obtain a position as a lab tech.

3. Peter Elliot. Yes, in the end Peter did do the right thing and helped them nail Monica West for trying to impugne the lab's reputation. But he still deserves it for helping the bitch in the first place.

4. Glenn Monroe. Because stealing from the dead is a stupid thing to do, especially in Alexx's morgue.

5. Dan Cooper.

6. Kenwall Dusquene. As much as he respects "Duke" as a lawyer, he hates him for hurting Calleigh with his drinking.

7. Ryan. At least he had the good sense to realize what an ass he was making of himself and that he'd given up a good thing by leaving the lab before it was too late.

8. Every criminal that's sat in their interrogation rooms. Because it's dumb to flat-out lie to a detective when the evidence against you is sitting right there on the table.

9. Eric. There's lots of reasons, really, but you don't really need one to give your best friend a good slap from time to time.

10. Himself. For the not-cleaning-his-gun-thing.

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the ten spot

when you lose something you cannot replace

014: Ten of Tim Speedle's worst failures

1. The death of his best friend, Lucas Fielding. Even though he had still been in school, Speed still held himself responsible for not finding a "cure" for his friend's paralysis.

2. Clavo Cruz. True, they did finally nab the guy a year later on a different charge. But it still pisses Speed off that they couldn't bring Cruz to justice for Tess Kimball's murder. If they had been able to do that in the first place, then maybe Eric wouldn't have gotten shot in the head.

3. Wally Shmagin. Horatio and Alexx and Calleigh have told him frequently that the criminalist-wannabe's suicide wasn't his fault, that Wally had suffered from depression and had attempted to take his life once before. But Speed knows that if he hadn't blown Wally off the previous night, hadn't told the young man that being a CSI was "just a paycheck", then maybe Wally wouldn't have taken that axe to his own head.

4. Club Descent. When Dispo Day and the jewelry store aren't invading his nightmares, the club fire is. He's still haunted by the faces and screams of the people he couldn't help get out.

5. Jenny Kincaid. It still burns him a little that he had to be the investigator on the case where a dead girl's body was stolen. The fact that Delko gets to share the blame makes it a little better, though.

6. Hollis. Despite the fact that the convoy was ambushed, that Hollis was shot from the left-hand side while Speedle was on his right, that Hollis was probably dead before they even hit the ground, Tim still can't shake the feeling that there was something he could have done.

7. Dispo Day in-general. Hollis' death, his own gun misfiring because it wasn't clean...probably the only good decision Speed made that day was putting on his Kevlar vest.

8. Sara Piper. He was still restricted to working in the lab when she stopped by, looking for his help in recovering the missing sex tape. Even though Horatio eventually solved the case, Speed still wishes there were more he could have done for Sara.

9. September 20, 2004. That whole day was f--ked up.

10. Not maintaining his gun properly. If he had done that from the start, then incidents like Dispo Day and the jewelry store would never have happened. And he wouldn't have to worry about having his every move watched by people like Stetler.