CSI: Crime Scene Investigation--'Weeping Willows'

CSI Files

Captain
Synopsis:

After a long day at work, Catherine Willows heads out to a local bar, the Highball, for a little relaxation. She meets a handsome stranger there and begins flirting with him. When she gets ready to leave, he writes his number on a matchbook for her and walks her out to her car. But when she resists going further than kissing, he gets angry with her and pushes her into her car door. She pushes him away and leaves, going home to sleep. Later she woken by a phone call from Grissom and leaves her daughter in the care of her mother.

When Catherine arrives at the scene, Grissom and Detective Vartann are standing over the body of Alice Granger, who is lying dead by her apartment building, her face covered by a coat, no purse or car in sight. David Phillips determines that she was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. Catherine is shocked when Alice's car is found at the Highball, the very bar Catherine left hours before. Catherine finds a .22 Beretta in the car before going into the bar with Vartann to ask the bartender about Alice. The bartender tells them that she called Alice a cab when she was too drunk to drive home, and much to Catherine's gratitude, makes no mention of seeing Catherine in the bar earlier. At the morgue, Dr. Robbins pulls the bullet from Alice's head wound and hands it to Grissom, who notes that it's from a .25 caliber gun, not a .22. Robbins also notes that Alice was hit at close range, and points out scrapes on her knees that indicate she was probably kneeling when she was shot.

Elsewhere in the lab, Catherine goes over Alice's clothes and finds some particulate on her jacket, which she sends to be analyzed. Sara finds a matchbook with a phone number on it, prompting Catherine to make an excuse to rush home to look for the matchbook the man in the bar gave her. While she's looking through her trash, her mother takes her to task for neglecting Lindsay. Catherine isn't able to find the matchbook. Back at the lab, Hodges has identified the substance on Alice's clothes as metals from automotive sheet metal. Alice did work at a car dealership. Greg identifies the murder weapon as a .25 Winchester, confirming that the gun in Alice's car is not the murder weapon. The gun in the car is registered to her brother Douglas, who tells the CSIs he gave his sister the gun after her ex-boyfriend, Jeff Simon, began stalking her.

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