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| • No Humans Involved • |
Episode Number: 102#
Original Airdate: December 09, 2004
Written By: Judith McCreary
Directed By: Rob Bailey
Synopsis: "Tension rises as the CSI teams adjust to their new assignments while investigating two vastly different murders. Grissom and his team hunt for a killer after discovering the remains of a young boy starved to death and left in a plastic container. Meanwhile, Catherine assumes her new role as supervisor and quickly finds herself at odds with Warrick when he takes an overly aggressive approach in an investigation involving possible police brutality."
Guest Stars:
David Berman as David Phillips
Louise Lombard as Sophia Curtis
Aisha Tyler as Mia Dickerson
Wallace Langham as Hodges
Alex Carter as Detective Vartan
Carla Renata as Devine
Mo as Leo Plummer
Blake Hightower as Alley Kid #1
Logan Atkinson as Alley Kid #2
Walker Howard as Andre Chambers
Michael Bryan French as Prison Hospital Dr.
Antonio Leon as Samuel Mendez
Lobo Sebastian as Vincent Colby
Chris Villa as Miguel Garabei
Robert Mukes as Inmate
Darien Smalling as Devon
Russell Wong as Lt. Kim
Rusty Schwimmer as Lorna Tenney
Miguel Najera as Mr. Mendez
Mae Whitman as Glynnis Carson
Lily Knight as Delia Brooks
Alexis Cruz as PFC Benjamin Riley
Claude Shires as Strip Club Bouncer
Palmer Davis as Margaret Finn
Damani Roberts as Kevin
Dylan Bell as Raymond
Notes:
- "No Humans Involved" earned a Golden Reel nomination in the "Music for the Short Form" category.
- Originally titled "No Humans..."
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Grissom stands over the body of a 16-year-old African-American, Tyson Plummer, who has been shot to death. Sofia mentions that dealers like to use minors due to the lighter sentence they receive if caught. She finds eleven casings. There are four holes in the victim.
Greg sees kids down an alleyway, next to a dumpster, and approaches them. When he asks if he can talk to them, they bolt and, in the process, one of them knocks over a plastic bin. Greg looks inside the bin and sees the dead body of a small boy. He calls Grissom.
Leo Plummer, Tyson's older brother, tells Captain Brass that he will get revenge on whoever killed his brother. Leo stalks off as Grissom answers Greg's call about the child in the bin. As Grissom heads towards Greg, Andre Chambers runs up behind Leo and shoots him several times in the back. Pandemonium breaks out. Sofia takes off after the killer, followed by the police.
Greg is crouched next to the dumpster. Grissom tries to calm him. The single murder has suddenly become a triple.
David Phillips examines the little boy from the bin and notices that he's just coming out of rigor mortis and has been dead less than 24 hours. The boy's body is emaciated.
Andre Chambers shouts "Rodney King! Rodney King!" as he is escorted into the police car. Grissom asks Brass to collect the video cameras of all the looky-loos who have been watching the macabre scene.
When Grissom reprimands Sofia for running after the suspect, she retorts that she was chasing the evidence and presents the Sig Sauer that Andre dropped. She tells him that all they have to do is match the weapon to both victims and the case is closed.
Nick and Warrick walk down Central Holding's corridor, escorted by Detective Vartann, who tells the CSIs that suspects who were to be transferred to jail assaulted officers with feces when the cops went into the cell. A Samuel Mendez ended up with a cracked skull and is in critical condition. Potential excessive use of force by a cop.
Inside the holding cell, Nick sees a .22 caliber on the floor next to a pool of blood. There is excrement splattered all over the walls. The toilet overflowed and the prisoners used the crap as ammunition against the cops when they entered the cell to get the prisoners under control.
Nick stands in front of a long line of prisoners, towels around their waists, as they drop off their clothing and shoes. Each prisoner looks pretty beat up.
Vincent Mendoza, a tough prisoner with an attitude, tells Nick that the victim was killed by the cops. He was a "fish," a new criminal.
Andre Chambers, the shooter of Leo Plummer, tells Nick that the police gutted the "fish," before proclaiming "Rodney King!" again.
Catherine examines Samuel Mendez, who lies on a hospital bed, hooked up to a ventilator. Mendez's face bears the marks of shoe prints. Dr. Franks enters and tells her that he needs someone to sign a release to take him off the ventilator. Mendez is brain-dead from blunt force trauma to the frontal and sphenoid bones.
In the Coroner's Office, Sara collects and bindles hairs clinging to the little boy's clothes. David Phillips removes the boy from the bin and lays him out.
Greg studies the inside of the bin and finds something in the corners. He places the particles in a specimen container.
Dr. Robbins examines an X-ray with Sara and tells her that the victim is about five years old, just starting to lose his baby teeth. There are metaphyseal fractures to the right humerus and acromion. The boy was snatched and shaken violently.
They notice that the boy also exhibits cachexia, the soft tissue is drawn around the skull, his ribs are showing, and his belly is swollen. He died of renal failure due to starvation. His body was breaking down, the muscle being processed for fuel.
Warrick and Vartann question Lt. Arthur Chan who tells them that they had to place 35 prisoners in a ten by eighteen-foot cell built for 25 people. That day the computer system went down and the plumbing backed up.
Warrick tells Chan that perhaps an overcrowded cell with bad plumbing may have caused the outbreak. Chan tells him that the prisoners didn't need a reason, they are "monkeys at the zoo." Vartann asks how the gun got through security and Chan replies that the arresting officer did a bad search. Warrick tells him that was sloppy police work and this sets off Chan, who tells him that he can't tell him what to do in his jail. Warrick asks for his shields, batons and boots.
Sofia informs Sara that she couldn't find anything on the child's DNA in the Missing Person's database. Sara is poring over stacks of case files. Sofia offers to help her, but Sara declines.
Warrick turns over the gun, face shields, vests and batons to Mia for DNA analysis. When Warrick doesn't answer his cell phone in front of her, she calls him a "player." He shows her the last call received: Greg Sanders. Warrick checked in on him to see how he was doing after the previous night's harrowing crime scene.
Mia tells Sofia that she found one hair from the bin and several synthetic ones: Potentially wig hair.
Dr. Robbins and Sara go through child x-rays of child abuse files and use the frontal sinus and ethmoid area of the skull for comparison analysis against their victim. They find a match: Devon Malton, age five, last known address is a foster home run by a Mrs. Lorna Tenney.
Lorna Tenney stands at the front door of her foster home as she is questioned by Brass and Sara. Lorna tells them that she was cleared of Devon's arm fracture by CPS.
Hodges tells Greg that he has results on the bin contents. He used GCMS and FTIR to find mineral oil, titanium dioxide, stearic acid, isopropyl palpitate. All this points to cheap makeup. Hodges also found lead based paint, last used in 1978, in Devon's intestinal tract.
At the hospital, Mr. Mendez tells a doctor that he cannot sign a release to donate Samuel Mendez's organs because it is not his son in that hospital bed. The doctor tells Catherine that either Mr. Mendez can't accept the truth or the County Police made a huge mistake.
A group of foster kids sit in the reception area. Sara engages 16-year-old Glynnis Carson, who only talks to her once trust is established when Sara lets on that she was in the foster system once herself. Glynnis tells Sara that Mrs. Lorna Tenney is one of the good foster parents. Glynnis learns that Devon is dead. Sara finds out that Devon has two older brothers: Kevin and Raymond. But where are they?
Catherine discovers that the Sam Mendez in the hospital bed is not the same Sam Mendez as is on the criminal file sheet. Catherine asks Mia what she found on the batons. Mia found DNA sources from everyone but the victim. This means that Sam was never hit with the baton, but had to be down when the cops entered the cell.
Lt. Chan intercepts Catherine in the CSI corridor and she tells him that the victim's prints don't match the Sam Mendez who is wanted for murder. Chan realizes that an innocent man died in his custody. An arrest warrant for murder was out and two men had the same name.
Chan tells Catherine that Warrick was disrespectful to him and that he is giving her the opportunity to adjust his attitude.
Greg Sanders tells Sofia he found a print on the bin, under the lip. Sofia enters the digital photos he took into the computer, reconstructing the image while Greg cuts out the area on the bin where the print is located. Greg is surprised at Sofia's helpfulness, especially since she was demoted to working under Grissom. Sofia can't find a hit in AFIS on the print, but when she widened the search, she found an enlisted man: Private First Class Philip Riley.
Brass interrogates Philip Riley who laughs when he's asked how his print ended up on a plastic bin container in an alley off "D" Street. Then Brass tells him that a child was found in the bin. Riley tells him that he decided to "party" with a prostitute, named Devine, and when he was leaving she asked him to carry the trash out.
Warrick enters Catherine's office and she informs him that Lt. Chan dropped by to complain about him. Warrick tells her it was no big deal but she says that as supervisor of the swing shift it is her responsibility to address it. She tells him that he owes Chan an apology and that from now on she is his first phone call at a crime scene.
Mia examines the .22 revolver and finds brown fecal matter and a pubic hair in the hammer.
Warrick lines up all the shoes from the lockdown on a table alongside an inkpad, roller, and paper. He rolls the sole of each shoe and presses into a sheet of paper. He overlays a transparency of the photocopied shoe impressions onto a photo of the victim's head.
Nick disassembles the .22 revolver and then fires the gun into a water tank. He studies the bullet's grooves and runs it through IBIS.
In the Layout Room, Warrick and Nick go through the case with Catherine. The cops are not responsible, so they have 34 suspects to choose from. Warrick tells them that he compared shoe impressions to the victim's wounds and found only one suspect--Vincent Mendoza, in for meth manufacturing.
Nick tells them that the gun was used in an execution-style murder of a meth dealer. Catherine realizes that the last thing that Vincent wanted was to get caught with a gun that had been used to kill someone. He picked a patsy, Samuel Mendez, to plant the gun on.
Vincent Mendoza sits to his attorney, Margaret Finn, as he's interrogated by Vartann and Warrick. Warrick spells it out: Vincent killed a man in Central Holding and then tried to frame the cops for it.
Mendoza was originally caught in a raid on a meth lab and didn't have time to ditch the gun, so he dropped it down his pants, planning to get rid of it before the cavity search in Central Holding. Vincent was about to ditch the gun in the over-flowing toilet when he caught Samuel Mendez looking at him. An enraged Vincent Mendoza grabs Samuel by his hair and slams his skull down on the bench. Then he follows up with foot stomps to his head. Mendoza sticks the gun under Samuel's body and then starts to throw fecal matter at the approaching cops.
Warrick tells them that Vincent's pubic hair was found on the gun, along with fecal matter. Margaret Finn asks for time. Warrick quips, "How's twenty-five to life sound?"
Brass and Sara enter the Seven Sins Strip Club and find Devine the prostitute talking up a potential client. Sara notices that she's wearing a wig that consistent with what they found and Brass takes a DNA swab from Devine's mouth.
Grissom enters Catherine's office with a fetal pig in a specimen jar. He gives it to her as an office-warming gift. Catherine wonders if Grissom is there to check up on her and he tells her she's already becoming paranoid. Grissom admits to being bad with office politics.
Brass sits with Devine in the Interrogation Room and Sara enters with a DNA profile. Devine's DNA matches one of the hairs left on the little boy, Devon Malton. Additionally, Devine's real last name is Malton.
Devine tells the CSIs that "Candy" left the kids with her and no money. How was she supposed to feed them? Sara points out that the plump Devine had no problem feeding herself.
Brass asks Devine where the other two brothers are now. Devine asks for her lawyer, but Brass tells her that if the boys die, he will make sure she gets the needle.
Brass and Sara search around Devine's house on "D" Street. They can't find the boys. Brass tells her that the boys' mother was sending money after all--he found a card mailed from Seattle that had three hundred dollars in it for the kids, but Devine used it to buy a new TV.
Greg notices hurricane doors leading to a basement. They pop open the doors and descend into the darkness. Sara's light catches flaking paint on the walls, lead-based paint chips. The smell is awful, like a toilet. They call out the boys' names, "Kevin, Raymond."
Sara finds a boy curled up on the concrete floor. He's alive. She calls for blankets and water. A small boy walks up to Sara from behind and puts his hand on her shoulder. He hugs her.
Devine is led away in shackles and Brass tells Sara that Candace Malton is flying in from Seattle. She's pretty upset. Sara retorts that she shouldn't have left her children with a prostitute cousin.
Sara sits at her computer and types in a Lexis/Nexis search: The People vs. Laura Sidle, W/2, Modesto, CA 1984. She is looking for a case file. Sara's last name is Sidle.
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