CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
A police pursuit of a garbage truck ends in tragedy: a body falls from the truck and the driver, who flees on foot once the cars corner him, is struck and killed by another driver. Grissom is frustrated when Warrick shows up late at the scene and sends him to process the garbage truck. The body in the truck is identified as club owner Jason Crewes, whom Dr. Robbins determines was suffocated. The truck driver--and Crewes' presumed killer--was Brody Biggs, a former cop who worked as a freelance mechanic for the past twenty years. Catherine and Nick examine Crewes' house, and when Catherine finds a blue stain on the sheets of his bed, she posits he was murdered here. Grissom and Warrick discover that the garbage truck was an old one from the 80s; the line of trucks was bought by a mobster known as Anthony Pazzulo, who was killed in 1983. The CSIs are surprised to learn Pazzulo's wife at the time was none other than Jason Crewes' mother, Linda. Though she denied recognizing Brody Biggs when Brass first questioned her, when he asks her about the cop-turned-hitman again, Linda admits "BB" was an old friend of her husband's--but that she hasn't seen him since Anthony's death, when she and their son Jason entered the witness protection program and changed their names. When Brass asks her about the garbage trucks, she tells him she gave them to Lou Gedda, the owner of the strip club Pigalle Boulevard.
Warrick and Brass go to Pigalle and question Lou, who claims BB worked for him at his auto detail business. Lou tells them that Jason used to bring his clients to Pigalle, but that he hasn't seen him in a week. When Warrick asks him about the trash trucks, Gedda ends the interrogation, saying the club makes him all the profit he needs. Warrick tracks down an agent who patronized the Pigalle with Jason, and he tells Warrick that after he refused to pay his inflated bill, Lou had him beat up, brought to the back room, tied him to a barber chair and castrated. He also tells Warrick that when he told Jason about his treatment, Jason called Lou and told him he was done doing business with him. Greg analyzes a gun Brody abandoned before he was killed and connects it to an unsolved murder from 1993. Grissom concludes that Brody was definitely a hitman, and Warrick thinks Gedda hired him to kill Jason. Warrick goes to Gedda's auto detail lot and finds a compressor, but Gedda chases him off before he can thoroughly investigate.
Back at the lab, Warrick combs through pictures and case files of victims of Gedda's brutality who dropped charges against him. Nick catches Warrick popping pills and confronts him, angrily throwing out the bottle. Warrick sees strap-like bruises on some of the victims, backing up the agent's story about a barber chair and hopes it's enough for a warrant. When a judge and then the under-sheriff deny Warrick's petition for a warrant, Warrick angrily confronts the under-sheriff, prompting Grissom to send him home. Rather than going home, Warrick goes to the Pigalle and orders three bottles of champagne, intending to refuse to pay for them and see what happens. He orders a lap dance from "Candy," a pretty stripper who catches his eye. Grissom is upset when he finds Warrick drunk at the club and orders him to leave. Warrick intends to see his plan through--until the bill arrives with "on the house" written on it. Warrick gets in a cab and follows "Candy" to another bar. He learns her name is Joanna, and beds her in an alcohol-induced haze. When he awakens, she's gone, so he returns to the Pigalle to pick up his car, only to find a new crime scene there. Grissom refuses to let him cross the tape: Joanna's dead body has been found in Warrick's car.
Analysis:
Oh, Warrick, you stupid man! By now, don't you know better than to pop pills on the job, go get drunk at a strip club and sleep with one of the dancers? Especially after those three bottles of champagne were on the house and Grissom busted you for being in the club. Poor Warrick--the end of his marriage is obviously hitting him hard, but I don't think I've ever seen a CSI go this far down a bad path. Even Sara's arrest for DUI in "Bloodlines" and her meltdown in "Nesting Dolls" when she earned a reprimand from Ecklie and got sent home from work pale in comparison to the mess Warrick has gotten himself into.
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A police pursuit of a garbage truck ends in tragedy: a body falls from the truck and the driver, who flees on foot once the cars corner him, is struck and killed by another driver. Grissom is frustrated when Warrick shows up late at the scene and sends him to process the garbage truck. The body in the truck is identified as club owner Jason Crewes, whom Dr. Robbins determines was suffocated. The truck driver--and Crewes' presumed killer--was Brody Biggs, a former cop who worked as a freelance mechanic for the past twenty years. Catherine and Nick examine Crewes' house, and when Catherine finds a blue stain on the sheets of his bed, she posits he was murdered here. Grissom and Warrick discover that the garbage truck was an old one from the 80s; the line of trucks was bought by a mobster known as Anthony Pazzulo, who was killed in 1983. The CSIs are surprised to learn Pazzulo's wife at the time was none other than Jason Crewes' mother, Linda. Though she denied recognizing Brody Biggs when Brass first questioned her, when he asks her about the cop-turned-hitman again, Linda admits "BB" was an old friend of her husband's--but that she hasn't seen him since Anthony's death, when she and their son Jason entered the witness protection program and changed their names. When Brass asks her about the garbage trucks, she tells him she gave them to Lou Gedda, the owner of the strip club Pigalle Boulevard.
Warrick and Brass go to Pigalle and question Lou, who claims BB worked for him at his auto detail business. Lou tells them that Jason used to bring his clients to Pigalle, but that he hasn't seen him in a week. When Warrick asks him about the trash trucks, Gedda ends the interrogation, saying the club makes him all the profit he needs. Warrick tracks down an agent who patronized the Pigalle with Jason, and he tells Warrick that after he refused to pay his inflated bill, Lou had him beat up, brought to the back room, tied him to a barber chair and castrated. He also tells Warrick that when he told Jason about his treatment, Jason called Lou and told him he was done doing business with him. Greg analyzes a gun Brody abandoned before he was killed and connects it to an unsolved murder from 1993. Grissom concludes that Brody was definitely a hitman, and Warrick thinks Gedda hired him to kill Jason. Warrick goes to Gedda's auto detail lot and finds a compressor, but Gedda chases him off before he can thoroughly investigate.
Back at the lab, Warrick combs through pictures and case files of victims of Gedda's brutality who dropped charges against him. Nick catches Warrick popping pills and confronts him, angrily throwing out the bottle. Warrick sees strap-like bruises on some of the victims, backing up the agent's story about a barber chair and hopes it's enough for a warrant. When a judge and then the under-sheriff deny Warrick's petition for a warrant, Warrick angrily confronts the under-sheriff, prompting Grissom to send him home. Rather than going home, Warrick goes to the Pigalle and orders three bottles of champagne, intending to refuse to pay for them and see what happens. He orders a lap dance from "Candy," a pretty stripper who catches his eye. Grissom is upset when he finds Warrick drunk at the club and orders him to leave. Warrick intends to see his plan through--until the bill arrives with "on the house" written on it. Warrick gets in a cab and follows "Candy" to another bar. He learns her name is Joanna, and beds her in an alcohol-induced haze. When he awakens, she's gone, so he returns to the Pigalle to pick up his car, only to find a new crime scene there. Grissom refuses to let him cross the tape: Joanna's dead body has been found in Warrick's car.
Analysis:
Oh, Warrick, you stupid man! By now, don't you know better than to pop pills on the job, go get drunk at a strip club and sleep with one of the dancers? Especially after those three bottles of champagne were on the house and Grissom busted you for being in the club. Poor Warrick--the end of his marriage is obviously hitting him hard, but I don't think I've ever seen a CSI go this far down a bad path. Even Sara's arrest for DUI in "Bloodlines" and her meltdown in "Nesting Dolls" when she earned a reprimand from Ecklie and got sent home from work pale in comparison to the mess Warrick has gotten himself into.
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