Mrs.DelkoWolfe
Lab Technician
Greetings again! I would like to put forward something about Natalia and Speedle.
Some seem to agree with me that Speedle's relationship with Natalia was not of a romantic/intimate type. For all intensive purposes it seems to be that Nat was one Speed's connections.
How did they meet? This is where the imagination can really run wild.
My 2 cents?
I'll put it this way. As far as we know Speedle knew Natalia before he knew Eric. We're not sure exactly when but I would venture a guess that Speedle met Natalia before or very near the time he became a CSI, perhaps when he was still a street/patrol cop. Eric and Horation may not have been in the picture yet. So, the question I would ask is the following: Could have Speedle met Natalia when Nick Townsend (a.k.a. Natalia'a now-dead ex-husband) was at the height of his abusing Nat?
This to me seems kind of logical. Could it be he was the officer who arrested Nick for when he broke her arm, or the investigator who was involved in the case that put Nick behind bars. Perhaps Speedle convinced Natalia to testify and get he help she needed to leave Nick. Thus, in apprectiation of Speed's help, Nat tells him what she does for a living. Voila!! Speed's connection with a DNA specialist from the FBI is then born!
Not only that but if Eric was to realize that Nat knew Speed, they would have something that Eva said was missing from the relationship. I'll put my thoughts about this on the EDEN thread.
I wish I had more info on timelines just to see if periods of time matched up.
There's a great deal of vagueness around when Nat left Nick, when Speed started with CSI, etc.....
I don't have a single lick of envidence about this! It's pure, unadulterated speculation on my part!! It's fun anyway though!
Reply away folks.
There's a big 'IF' that goes along with all this, & it has something to do with Rory. More in the spoiler reply.
ok, first off, there may be a chance that Rory Cochrane turned this down. The updated spoilers do not mention Speedle. There is also the chance that Natalia may not be in the flashbacks at all now either. Apparently there is a casting call for a female FBI/DNA expert who Horatio will have connections with who helps him with the '97 case. NOW, we never know, there's still a chance that Horatio meets Natalia in the past through this other woman, but as of right now that's uncertain.
IF this 'Speedle' thing goes through, then I honestly don't have a clue as to how/why they met. Nick would seem like a logical reason, but I always had the impression that her abuse started later in the marriage & that he went to jail (& the divorce) just a short time before Natalia arrived in S4 (she told Eric she hadn't been with anyone else since her divorce, so Im putting together that it hadn't been a huge amount of time since her divorce was final). Anything is possible though - tptb sure do like to rearrange timelines :shifty:
I suppose it's always possible that Nick hadn't become too terribly violent at the time she supposedly met Speed (IF Speed even shows in this epi), maybe it was just an arguement that lead to him getting more physical & she called the cops on him. Considering we don't know a whole lot about Nick & Natalia's marriage, when they got married, when they divorced, when & how long the abuse lasted - anything is possible. Though I will say that it all could just be our imaginations running wild, cause the previous spoilers sounded as if they just met through some work thing, but ...we never know. It'd be nice for them to take it into a new direction, but probably incredibly hard to do considering this man is no longer alive. I guess we'll just have to see if this Speedle thing pans out.
Hopefull the speed thing will pan out. 've always gotten the impression that Nat was divorced from Nick long before she came to the lab in S4, but then again you never know because she did seem so scared of Nick when he came back in S5 that the divorce could have still been fresh. Who knows with TPTB and their timelines.