CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
Catherine is dismayed when Jay Gregory Finch is found not guilty of murdering his mother, Addie, who was stabbed and then shot to death in the house where she lived with her son. Certain the finding is erroneous, Catherine goes back to the evidence and two samples of blood from related women found on the knife used to kill Addie Finch. Catherine looks into unsolved cases in the area around the time of Addie's murder; Jay Finch drove for five days before reporting his mother's murder and turning in the weapon he found, and Catherine believes he may have killed during that time. She finds a case in Larkston that could be a match: a mother and her daughter disappeared one night after eating ice cream at a local restaurant. With Nick in tow, Catherine heads to Larkston where she and Nick meet up with the local sheriff, Beth McGuire. Nick is able to recover a bullet from the picnic table they were eating at, but the bullet isn't a match to the one that killed Addie.
When Beth mentions another case--the murder of a mother and her grown daughter, Mary Acheson and Heather Curtis--Catherine's ears perk up, but Beth tells her that a handyman, Robert Guffey, confessed to the killing. The M.O. matches that of Addie Finch's murder: both women were stabbed then shot in the head. The CSIs take a trip to the house where the women were killed and learn that Heather's young son, Danny, was a witness: he was hidden in a cabinet under the kitchen sink when his mother and grandmother were killed. Heather's husband, Shawn, abandoned the house after the murders, so Catherine and Nick go over the house, discovering bullets outside beneath the rabbit hutch. They surmise that the killer realized there was a child in the house and thought he was hiding in the hutch.
Catherine visits Robert Guffey in jail, and he tells her he was bullied into confessing and that he recanted the next day, but that it was too late. He tells her his prints were in the house because he discovered the bodies and called for help, but left before the police arrives for fear of being implicated. Catherine gets Shawn Curtis' permission to talk to Danny, who tells Catherine what he remembers of that day--including that the killer took a cookie from cookie jar above where he was hiding. Catherine inspects the jar and finds a bloody print under the lid. A run through AFIS proves it's a match to Jay Finch. Catherine pieces it together--Jay, disoriented after a long drive, thought he had come across his house, but when Mary barred him entrance, he went beserk, killing Mary and Heather. Ready for his leave of absence, Grissom bids farewell to the team individually, and tells Sara he'll miss her, before heading off to Williams college to teach a month long entomology course.
Analysis:
It's sayonara, Gil Grissom, at least for four episodes. Much is made of Grissom's sabbatical by the team, and each member reacts differently to it. It's interesting to see how each character approaches Grissom about his leave of absence--there's a nervous energy at the lab that's understandable, given that the group is going to have to go a month without the man who has been their leader for years now.
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Catherine is dismayed when Jay Gregory Finch is found not guilty of murdering his mother, Addie, who was stabbed and then shot to death in the house where she lived with her son. Certain the finding is erroneous, Catherine goes back to the evidence and two samples of blood from related women found on the knife used to kill Addie Finch. Catherine looks into unsolved cases in the area around the time of Addie's murder; Jay Finch drove for five days before reporting his mother's murder and turning in the weapon he found, and Catherine believes he may have killed during that time. She finds a case in Larkston that could be a match: a mother and her daughter disappeared one night after eating ice cream at a local restaurant. With Nick in tow, Catherine heads to Larkston where she and Nick meet up with the local sheriff, Beth McGuire. Nick is able to recover a bullet from the picnic table they were eating at, but the bullet isn't a match to the one that killed Addie.
When Beth mentions another case--the murder of a mother and her grown daughter, Mary Acheson and Heather Curtis--Catherine's ears perk up, but Beth tells her that a handyman, Robert Guffey, confessed to the killing. The M.O. matches that of Addie Finch's murder: both women were stabbed then shot in the head. The CSIs take a trip to the house where the women were killed and learn that Heather's young son, Danny, was a witness: he was hidden in a cabinet under the kitchen sink when his mother and grandmother were killed. Heather's husband, Shawn, abandoned the house after the murders, so Catherine and Nick go over the house, discovering bullets outside beneath the rabbit hutch. They surmise that the killer realized there was a child in the house and thought he was hiding in the hutch.
Catherine visits Robert Guffey in jail, and he tells her he was bullied into confessing and that he recanted the next day, but that it was too late. He tells her his prints were in the house because he discovered the bodies and called for help, but left before the police arrives for fear of being implicated. Catherine gets Shawn Curtis' permission to talk to Danny, who tells Catherine what he remembers of that day--including that the killer took a cookie from cookie jar above where he was hiding. Catherine inspects the jar and finds a bloody print under the lid. A run through AFIS proves it's a match to Jay Finch. Catherine pieces it together--Jay, disoriented after a long drive, thought he had come across his house, but when Mary barred him entrance, he went beserk, killing Mary and Heather. Ready for his leave of absence, Grissom bids farewell to the team individually, and tells Sara he'll miss her, before heading off to Williams college to teach a month long entomology course.
Analysis:
It's sayonara, Gil Grissom, at least for four episodes. Much is made of Grissom's sabbatical by the team, and each member reacts differently to it. It's interesting to see how each character approaches Grissom about his leave of absence--there's a nervous energy at the lab that's understandable, given that the group is going to have to go a month without the man who has been their leader for years now.
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