CSI: Crime Scene Investigation--'Toe Tags'

CSI Files

Captain
Synopsis:

The body of Donna Bassett is wheeled to the morgue, where she joins five other bodies. She sits up next to Rebecca McGill, who confirms her suspicions: she's dead. Donna, a security officer, was found wrapped in a towel in an elevator at the Olympia, Sam Braun's hotel, an apparent drowning victim. Marks on her body suggested she fought for her life. Catherine finds her ID and learns that Donna, a former cop, was working security for a Hong Kong businessman named Robert Hsing, who was gambling the evening of her death. A bathtub full of water, filled with rose petals, in his suite, appears to be the scene of the crime. Hsing denies killing Donna, but does mention that he went back to his hotel room to change his underwear after a losing streak, hoping it would change his luck. On the surveillance cameras from the hotel, Catherine and Archie see a man dumping Donna's body, but only his arm is visible. She's able to put partial prints from the elevator together to match them to Hsing. A deeply superstitious man, Hsing discovered Donna in the bath when he came upstairs to change, and believing she'd adversely affected his luck, killed her.

The next body in the morgue is Rebecca McGill, who died while on a hike with her husband, Gavin. The former model plunged to her death from a cliff, but was it murder, suicide or simply an accident? Rebecca's husband Gavin, a nerdy type she met at an internet convention, claims he saw Rebecca jump. A broken index finger and a video on Rebecca's cell phone tell a different story: Gavin, tired of "paying for" having a hot wife, pushed Rebecca to her death.

Jack Day is the next victim in the morgue, but he's more concerned about his wife Carol and their baby daughter than worried about himself, and is relieved to discover they're not with him on the cold slabs. The death of Russell Caris, a man who ran his car into a police car, led the CSIs to Jack's body after a bloody knife turned up in Russell's car. Jack was found at a gas station, his devastated wife standing by with their baby. Russell stabbed Jack, a marine home from Iraq to see his baby daughter for the first time, but the CSIs can't figure out why, until they discover marijuana mixed with embalming fluid in Russell's system. High on the potent combo, Russell attacked Jack. His wife is crushed by the news that her husband died for no reason, but Jack himself is grateful that he got to hold his child.

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