CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 14.03 "Torch Song"
STORY LINE: When the smoke from a nightclub fire clears away and four dead bodies are revealed, the CSI team goes looking for an amateur arsonist...
Writer: Tom Mularz
Story By: Elizabeth Devine
CALEB
Intimidating, formidable and scary, a big guy who's in the cement business, with a vicious, thuglike streak to his personality that's as wide as he is, Caleb is a neo-Nazi who's quite fond of the all-Aryan band White Cross. Having picked a fight with Timo and strangled him to death while the music was raging, Caleb thinks that the subsequent club fire has annihilated all traces of his crime -- and he's determined to punish Jeremy severely for questioning him too closely.
STU
A jaded, burned out club owner with the weight of the world on his shoulders, the owner of the nightclub, he's been in the business for over 30 years, and he's dazed after seeing his business (and four human lives) go up in smoke. A man who no longer understands the new music that's played in his club, he has been doing it by rote for years, waiting for the next Fleetwood Mac tour. So stunned that the detectives initially take pity on him, he's revealed to have torched the place for the insurance, but had no intention of killing anyone.
JEREMY
A guy with a wiry, stray-dog vibe, Jeremy is a neo-Nazi who's quite fond of the all-Aryan band White Cross. Jeremy is hauled in for questioning after his red Pontiac is proven to have been parked outside the nightclub -- blocking a fire door exit. He insists that he loaned his car to a guy and had no involvement in the arson fire -- but four dead is a lot of dead, and he agrees to help them finger his "friend," Caleb. When Caleb gets suspicious, Jeremy gets a faceful of acid as a present for being a cooperative citizen.
APRIL
A stoic young woman, she works at her parents' mechanic shop, she's a prime suspect in the arson murders; her 17 year old brother was attacked and crippled for life after a White Cross concert, and she's advertised her cold bitterness about his suffering. Brought in for questioning after her garage is linked to a piece of evidence, April coolly explains herself and is allowed to leave.
NANCY
Sympathetic, heart wrenching, working class, the mother f one of the arson victims, she arrives at the nightclub at midnight to pick up her son, and is traumatized to find him burned to death and surrounded by forensic investigators.
TIMO
Timo is one of the victims found at the arson fire -- only he didn't burn or choke to death, he was strangled on his own neck-chain. Having attended a "hatenanny" given by a White Power rock group, he got into a fight with a brutal neo-Nazi and was throttled in a back room.
SWAT GUY
This authoritative SWAT guy orders Caleb down onto the floor.