CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
The body of a woman is found crucified in a church, strung up above the altar. Dr. Robbins determines she was killed between 2 and 4am, and that she suffered a blunt force trauma to the head but was still alive when she was strung up. She suffocated to death, able to breathe out but not in. The popular new priest, Father Frank Berlin, arrives and is shaken by the sight of the body but denies knowing the woman. Greg spots blood on his jacket, but Father Frank is reluctant to give up his clothes. The CSIs get to work--Sara gets scrapings from under the woman's nails, Catherine finds the keys to her car outside the church and recovers the vehicle parked close by, while Warrick and Nick find the tools being used to restore the church--a ladder, rope, a hammer and nails--that were used to make the crucifix. Grissom notices marks around the woman's neck resemble rosary beads. Since the blood on Frank's clothes didn't match the woman, his attention turns to the nuns. Bovine hair on the scaffold puzzles the CSIs.
The car keys lead the CSIs to a man named Hugo Bombay, who tells them he lent it to a friend of his named Charlotte Danville. The unfortunate Charlotte was a lounge singer at the Gorilla Room prior to her death, and patrons recall her fighting with a man named Cody White the night she died. Cody, a used car dealer, has Charlotte's own car at his lot, and Brass impounds it. In Charlotte's apartment, Catherine and Sofia discover the woman knew both Frank and Cody from all the way back to high school. Photographs and videos indicate the three were once an inseparable threesome--and that Charlotte dated Frank before he entered seminary, and that she went to the prom with Cody. Catherine finds semen on Charlotte's sheets, while Sofia discovers whisky bottles in Charlotte's trash and health food and vitamins in her cabinets, leading the women to wonder if Charlotte was pregnant. They also find a rosary in the apartment, which Sara takes to Grissom. It's a match for the one he collected from Father Frank. When the CSIs go to question Frank, they discover him in a scuffle with Cody. Both claim they were fighting over the church renovations, which Cody was financing.
Grissom asks Frank about the rosary found at Charlotte's, but Sister Bridget, a young, attractive nun bursts in with a hammer and claims she killed Charlotte, but Grissom tells her she simply wasn't physically capable of raising the crucifix up using the pulley. Father Frank is looking more and more guilty: his semen is found Charlotte's bed, and Cody, who paid for Charlotte's condo and car, tells the CSIs that she and Frank were more than friends. Frank confesses to killing Charlotte, but Grissom has his doubts. Further investigation reveals that Charlotte's blood is on Cody's boots. When Cody found out Charlotte had cheated on him with Frank and that the priest was planning to leave his position to be with Charlotte, he lost his temper and killed her, Sofia tells Cody that DNA revealed the child Charlotte was carrying was his. As Cody is lead away, Frank tells Grissom that his religion gives him no option but to forgive Cody.
Analysis:
If I'm not mistaken, the last time we saw Grissom in church was "Harvest". In that episode, the taciturn CSI was forced to arrest a dying boy in church; this time around, he has to pursue a priest who is hiding his link to the woman found crucified in his church. It's only natural that given the setting, the CSIs' own religious beliefs come to the surface.
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The body of a woman is found crucified in a church, strung up above the altar. Dr. Robbins determines she was killed between 2 and 4am, and that she suffered a blunt force trauma to the head but was still alive when she was strung up. She suffocated to death, able to breathe out but not in. The popular new priest, Father Frank Berlin, arrives and is shaken by the sight of the body but denies knowing the woman. Greg spots blood on his jacket, but Father Frank is reluctant to give up his clothes. The CSIs get to work--Sara gets scrapings from under the woman's nails, Catherine finds the keys to her car outside the church and recovers the vehicle parked close by, while Warrick and Nick find the tools being used to restore the church--a ladder, rope, a hammer and nails--that were used to make the crucifix. Grissom notices marks around the woman's neck resemble rosary beads. Since the blood on Frank's clothes didn't match the woman, his attention turns to the nuns. Bovine hair on the scaffold puzzles the CSIs.
The car keys lead the CSIs to a man named Hugo Bombay, who tells them he lent it to a friend of his named Charlotte Danville. The unfortunate Charlotte was a lounge singer at the Gorilla Room prior to her death, and patrons recall her fighting with a man named Cody White the night she died. Cody, a used car dealer, has Charlotte's own car at his lot, and Brass impounds it. In Charlotte's apartment, Catherine and Sofia discover the woman knew both Frank and Cody from all the way back to high school. Photographs and videos indicate the three were once an inseparable threesome--and that Charlotte dated Frank before he entered seminary, and that she went to the prom with Cody. Catherine finds semen on Charlotte's sheets, while Sofia discovers whisky bottles in Charlotte's trash and health food and vitamins in her cabinets, leading the women to wonder if Charlotte was pregnant. They also find a rosary in the apartment, which Sara takes to Grissom. It's a match for the one he collected from Father Frank. When the CSIs go to question Frank, they discover him in a scuffle with Cody. Both claim they were fighting over the church renovations, which Cody was financing.
Grissom asks Frank about the rosary found at Charlotte's, but Sister Bridget, a young, attractive nun bursts in with a hammer and claims she killed Charlotte, but Grissom tells her she simply wasn't physically capable of raising the crucifix up using the pulley. Father Frank is looking more and more guilty: his semen is found Charlotte's bed, and Cody, who paid for Charlotte's condo and car, tells the CSIs that she and Frank were more than friends. Frank confesses to killing Charlotte, but Grissom has his doubts. Further investigation reveals that Charlotte's blood is on Cody's boots. When Cody found out Charlotte had cheated on him with Frank and that the priest was planning to leave his position to be with Charlotte, he lost his temper and killed her, Sofia tells Cody that DNA revealed the child Charlotte was carrying was his. As Cody is lead away, Frank tells Grissom that his religion gives him no option but to forgive Cody.
Analysis:
If I'm not mistaken, the last time we saw Grissom in church was "Harvest". In that episode, the taciturn CSI was forced to arrest a dying boy in church; this time around, he has to pursue a priest who is hiding his link to the woman found crucified in his church. It's only natural that given the setting, the CSIs' own religious beliefs come to the surface.
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