CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
The body of a woman in formal wear is found amid a dumping ground for dogs, her body riddled with dog bites. In the morgue, Catherine finds white trace on her feet and a needle mark on the back of her neck. Dr. Robbins is shocked when he sees the victim: he recognizes her as Elizabeth Rodriguez, a woman who was being honored for philanthropic work at a dinner his band played at. Dr. Robbins recalled Elizabeth's husband, Felix, left before she did, and the CSIs question him. He staunchly denies killing his wife. The white powder proves to be flea repellant, and there are no traces of it on Felix. Wendy Simms manages to get a DNA match in the canine CODIS database to a a dog named Hannibal, whose owner is Gino Aquino, a member of the D-Street Killers gang. Aquino tells the CSIs he never got his dog back from the Dos Santos Kennel after Hannibal was confiscated during a drug raid. When Catherine learns that Elizabeth had a drug in her system used to euthanize dogs, she and Nick pay a visit to the kennel. While there, they discover a pool of blood by a breeding restraint device as well as a hidden camera, and arrest the veterinary technician, Steve Card. A teen volunteer, Tommy Halpert, tells Nick that Hannibal was returned to Aquino.
Card tells the CSIs that Elizabeth was his business partner, and points to Aquino as a possible suspect in her murder, claiming Elizabeth cheated the D-Street Killers out of fifty grand. Elizabeth was the number one dog fighter in the state, and Card claims she cheated by using a rub to make the opponent dogs sick. Card gives the CSIs the location of a dog fight the D-Street Killers will be at and they raid it, only to have a shootout result. Aquino is arrested after being shot, but Aquino denies killing Elizabeth, pointing the finger back at Card, who he claims was the one cheating. Nick and Catherine aren't sure who to believe until they find a fingerprint on Elizabeth's key to the drug cabinet which matches Tommy Halpert. The DA tells Nick that Tommy was an informant for him; he was trying to bust the dog-fighting ring. Tommy, horrified by the animal abuse that went on in the dog fighting arena and outside of it, was disgusted when Elizabeth received a philanthropic award. He euthanized her and then threw her to the dogs--literally. Nick is even more disturbed when he learns Tommy called Elizabeth's husband Felix to warn him to stop his wife or he would--and Felix did nothing.
Warrick is cleared by IAB of any involvement in the death of Joanna Krimsky, the stripper he met at mobster Lou Gedda's strip club during a murder investigation in "Cockroaches", but he's unwilling to let the case go. Prints found in Warrick's car--where Joanna's body was discovered--lead Warrick and Grissom to Richard Dorsey, a homeless man who lurked around Gedda's establishment and they discover the man with a knife and a Blackberry with Joanna's picture on it. But when they arrest Dorsey, he refuses to admit he moved the body into Warrick's car for Gedda. Warrick rushes into the interrogation room, demanding Dorsey tell the truth, and Grissom puts Warrick on a two-week suspension. As Warrick storms out of the lab, an informant calls Gedda to let him know Warrick has been suspended.
Analysis:
There are few things more difficult to watch than cruelty towards animals, and "Lying Down with Dogs" is not for the faint-hearted or animal lovers. The dog fight depicted in the episode is so graphic that it's stomach-turning, and few things are more horrific than watching a brutalized animal die. I can't say that the episode was an easy one to watch, or that it's one that I'll be in a hurry to see again, but it was powerful and in places gut-wrenching, especially with the detailed descriptions of just how horribly dogs who are trained and used in dog fights are treated.
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The body of a woman in formal wear is found amid a dumping ground for dogs, her body riddled with dog bites. In the morgue, Catherine finds white trace on her feet and a needle mark on the back of her neck. Dr. Robbins is shocked when he sees the victim: he recognizes her as Elizabeth Rodriguez, a woman who was being honored for philanthropic work at a dinner his band played at. Dr. Robbins recalled Elizabeth's husband, Felix, left before she did, and the CSIs question him. He staunchly denies killing his wife. The white powder proves to be flea repellant, and there are no traces of it on Felix. Wendy Simms manages to get a DNA match in the canine CODIS database to a a dog named Hannibal, whose owner is Gino Aquino, a member of the D-Street Killers gang. Aquino tells the CSIs he never got his dog back from the Dos Santos Kennel after Hannibal was confiscated during a drug raid. When Catherine learns that Elizabeth had a drug in her system used to euthanize dogs, she and Nick pay a visit to the kennel. While there, they discover a pool of blood by a breeding restraint device as well as a hidden camera, and arrest the veterinary technician, Steve Card. A teen volunteer, Tommy Halpert, tells Nick that Hannibal was returned to Aquino.
Card tells the CSIs that Elizabeth was his business partner, and points to Aquino as a possible suspect in her murder, claiming Elizabeth cheated the D-Street Killers out of fifty grand. Elizabeth was the number one dog fighter in the state, and Card claims she cheated by using a rub to make the opponent dogs sick. Card gives the CSIs the location of a dog fight the D-Street Killers will be at and they raid it, only to have a shootout result. Aquino is arrested after being shot, but Aquino denies killing Elizabeth, pointing the finger back at Card, who he claims was the one cheating. Nick and Catherine aren't sure who to believe until they find a fingerprint on Elizabeth's key to the drug cabinet which matches Tommy Halpert. The DA tells Nick that Tommy was an informant for him; he was trying to bust the dog-fighting ring. Tommy, horrified by the animal abuse that went on in the dog fighting arena and outside of it, was disgusted when Elizabeth received a philanthropic award. He euthanized her and then threw her to the dogs--literally. Nick is even more disturbed when he learns Tommy called Elizabeth's husband Felix to warn him to stop his wife or he would--and Felix did nothing.
Warrick is cleared by IAB of any involvement in the death of Joanna Krimsky, the stripper he met at mobster Lou Gedda's strip club during a murder investigation in "Cockroaches", but he's unwilling to let the case go. Prints found in Warrick's car--where Joanna's body was discovered--lead Warrick and Grissom to Richard Dorsey, a homeless man who lurked around Gedda's establishment and they discover the man with a knife and a Blackberry with Joanna's picture on it. But when they arrest Dorsey, he refuses to admit he moved the body into Warrick's car for Gedda. Warrick rushes into the interrogation room, demanding Dorsey tell the truth, and Grissom puts Warrick on a two-week suspension. As Warrick storms out of the lab, an informant calls Gedda to let him know Warrick has been suspended.
Analysis:
There are few things more difficult to watch than cruelty towards animals, and "Lying Down with Dogs" is not for the faint-hearted or animal lovers. The dog fight depicted in the episode is so graphic that it's stomach-turning, and few things are more horrific than watching a brutalized animal die. I can't say that the episode was an easy one to watch, or that it's one that I'll be in a hurry to see again, but it was powerful and in places gut-wrenching, especially with the detailed descriptions of just how horribly dogs who are trained and used in dog fights are treated.
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