CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
The episode opens not with the discovery of a body but with the murder itself. Karl Cooper goes to the seedy motel room of Clayton Nash and enters through the window. When Clayton awakes and discovers him there, he tries to tell Karl something, but Karl shoots him three times with a gun equipped with a silencer. Karl goes to his car and drives away, only to be struck by the car of a drunk young woman, Ally Sullivan. She is adamant about calling the police, even though he tries to talk her out of it. When he sees he's failed, he gets back out of his car. The CSI team is called to the site of the accident, where Ally is now lying dead by her car. They aren't yet sure it was foul play, but when Grissom notices paint on the front of her car indicating she caused the accident, he wonders what made the other driver leave. Meanwhile, Karl arrives at his home and crawls into bed with his wife.
While Ally's grieving father tells Brass about Ally's aspirations, Dr. Robbins discovers Ally's death was not an accident--someone broke her neck. The following morning, Karl's wife Janice asks about his wild night the evening before while he makes breakfast with his daughter Maddy. Brass questions Trent Hall, whose prints were found in the car. Trent has a rape conviction on his record and Brass wonders if he tried to assault Ally. He says Ally was just giving him a ride home--they weren't having sex, but they did text all the time. This knowledge makes Grissom turn to Ally's cell phone with the numbers 999-552 dialed on it--could Ally have been trying to text the killer's license plate as she died? It translates to YKA. Hodges is able to match the paint scrapings from Ally's car to a rusted out blue Ford. While the CSIs work, Karl meets his friend Joey at a casino bar and spots Ally's father on the news talking about her death. Karl's second victim is discovered when the manager of the hotel shows Sofia Clayton Nash's decomposing body. Catherine and Warrick arrive at the scene--body temperature and lividity indicate Nash has been dead for at least 20 hours. They find the Walter PPK that the killer abandoned and Warrick finds evidence that the man was in a twelve-step program. Meanwhile, Karl watches as Ally's father discovers the large sum of money he left in the man's mailbox--guilt money.
Back at the lab, Hodges identifies fibers pulled from Ally's necklace as lambskin and rabbit's fur. A torched, charred Ford is found near a junkyard and the CSIs are able to trace it to a used car dealer. Sara pays the sight-impaired owner a visit and get a blurry copy of the driver's license of the man who purchased the car only days earlier. Based on a scratch on the bullet, Catherine and Warrick determine that the killer used a silencer when he shot Nash. In his basement, Karl Googles information on Nash and learns his body has been discovered--and linked to Ally's murder. Archie cleans up the license picture of the killer and Brass takes it to a bus driver whose route takes her into the desert in the vicinity of the car lot. She recalls the man, whom she says walked out of the desert on foot. Sara, Nick and Greg head out to the bus stop and discover ATV tire tracks that end at the site of a bonfire of clothes. The CSIs pick through the charred remains, which include boots, socks and gloves. Hodges confirms that the gloves are made out of lambskin and a match for the fibers found in Ally's necklace. Grissom discovers a silencer among the charred remains of the killer's abandoned possessions.
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The episode opens not with the discovery of a body but with the murder itself. Karl Cooper goes to the seedy motel room of Clayton Nash and enters through the window. When Clayton awakes and discovers him there, he tries to tell Karl something, but Karl shoots him three times with a gun equipped with a silencer. Karl goes to his car and drives away, only to be struck by the car of a drunk young woman, Ally Sullivan. She is adamant about calling the police, even though he tries to talk her out of it. When he sees he's failed, he gets back out of his car. The CSI team is called to the site of the accident, where Ally is now lying dead by her car. They aren't yet sure it was foul play, but when Grissom notices paint on the front of her car indicating she caused the accident, he wonders what made the other driver leave. Meanwhile, Karl arrives at his home and crawls into bed with his wife.
While Ally's grieving father tells Brass about Ally's aspirations, Dr. Robbins discovers Ally's death was not an accident--someone broke her neck. The following morning, Karl's wife Janice asks about his wild night the evening before while he makes breakfast with his daughter Maddy. Brass questions Trent Hall, whose prints were found in the car. Trent has a rape conviction on his record and Brass wonders if he tried to assault Ally. He says Ally was just giving him a ride home--they weren't having sex, but they did text all the time. This knowledge makes Grissom turn to Ally's cell phone with the numbers 999-552 dialed on it--could Ally have been trying to text the killer's license plate as she died? It translates to YKA. Hodges is able to match the paint scrapings from Ally's car to a rusted out blue Ford. While the CSIs work, Karl meets his friend Joey at a casino bar and spots Ally's father on the news talking about her death. Karl's second victim is discovered when the manager of the hotel shows Sofia Clayton Nash's decomposing body. Catherine and Warrick arrive at the scene--body temperature and lividity indicate Nash has been dead for at least 20 hours. They find the Walter PPK that the killer abandoned and Warrick finds evidence that the man was in a twelve-step program. Meanwhile, Karl watches as Ally's father discovers the large sum of money he left in the man's mailbox--guilt money.
Back at the lab, Hodges identifies fibers pulled from Ally's necklace as lambskin and rabbit's fur. A torched, charred Ford is found near a junkyard and the CSIs are able to trace it to a used car dealer. Sara pays the sight-impaired owner a visit and get a blurry copy of the driver's license of the man who purchased the car only days earlier. Based on a scratch on the bullet, Catherine and Warrick determine that the killer used a silencer when he shot Nash. In his basement, Karl Googles information on Nash and learns his body has been discovered--and linked to Ally's murder. Archie cleans up the license picture of the killer and Brass takes it to a bus driver whose route takes her into the desert in the vicinity of the car lot. She recalls the man, whom she says walked out of the desert on foot. Sara, Nick and Greg head out to the bus stop and discover ATV tire tracks that end at the site of a bonfire of clothes. The CSIs pick through the charred remains, which include boots, socks and gloves. Hodges confirms that the gloves are made out of lambskin and a match for the fibers found in Ally's necklace. Grissom discovers a silencer among the charred remains of the killer's abandoned possessions.
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