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Episode Number: 113#
Original Airdate: April 28, 2005
Written By: Sarah Goldfinger & Uttam Narsu
Directed By: Richard J. Lewis
Synopsis: "When a brutal murder is committed at a state mental hospital, Grissom and Sara realize only a handful of residents and staff could be responsible for the killing. Meanwhile, Catherine and her team look into the death of young man whose body was found in a crop circle and shows no outward or inward signs of what killed him."
Guest Stars:
David Berman as David Phillips
Louise Lombard as Sofia Curtis
Wallace Langham as David Hodges
Archie Kao as Archie
Monique Edwards as Nannette Faber
Annie Corley as Nurse Joanne McKay
Harry Perry as Earl Simmonds
Christian Clemenson as Charles Pellew
Kristoffer Winters as Robbie Garson
Richard Wharton as Kenny Valdez
David Bowe as Phil Boyd
Jason Matthew Smith as Jake Wernerer
Chris Williams as Lt. Owens
Jon Huertas as Leon Rodriguez
Michael Reid Mackay as Ronald Salter
Zitto Kazann as Roman Wolenski
James Badge Dale as Adam Trent
Robin Weigert as Dr. Diane Dino
Greg Anthony as Kevin Stanland (stunt)
Roger Ranney as Morgan Wendel
Ken Garito as Tucker
Michael Holden as Tucker's Attorney
Allan Kolman as Glen Frydman
Notes:
- In this episode, we discover Sara's mother spent some time in an institution after murdering her father.
- Guest star Robin Weigert (Dr. Diane Dino) is probably best known for her role as Calamity Jane in the television series "Deadwood".
| | • Review • |
At the Desert State Psychiatric Hospital, Nurse Nanette Faber makes a shocking discovery: the body of Robbie Garson bloodied and battered on the floor of his room, while another inmate, Kenny Valdez sits by him covered in blood. Brass, Grissom and Sara are called to the ward, which houses patients who are criminally insane and sexually violent. They learn Kenny had been in isolation earlier in the evening. They learn Kenny suffers from Renfield's syndrome--he is excited by the sight of blood. Evidence shows Robbie was apparently violently attacked, there is no blood spatter on Kenny's clothes. The team meet with skepticism when they want to question the patients, eventually Grissom and Brass to go ahead while Sara examines Robbie's room.
Sara finds semen on Robbie's sheets and questions Dr. Dino about it. We learn that Robbie was chemically castrated and therefore couldn't have been his. The CSIs decide to swab all of the inmates and the workers as well. At the morgue, Dr. Robbins tells Grissom that Robbie died of asphyxiation, not the blunt force trauma, which occurred post mortem. Hodges analyzes some of the hair from the victim's body and tells Sara that some of the hair is bleached. His blood also contained one anti-psychotic and ibuprophen. Sara looks at Robbie's chart and notes that he was supposed to be receiving five anti-psychotics in total meaning he wasn't getting four of them. Brass notes the hospital had reported two deaths by restraint in the last three years and couldn't afford another. Video of Robbie in the restraints shows he was very agitated.
Sara’s investigation leads her to Leon, the pharmacist; she discovers has been stealing his patients' medicines and selling them. Greg finds saliva on Robbies pillow, as well slits on the side. He believes it's the murder weapon. Sara’s investigation leads her to Nurse Joanne McKay who tells her Robbie brought a photo to group, this is against the rules and got him sent to isolation. Grissom calls to tell Sara that the semen on the bed was from Adam Trent.
The CSIs go through Adam's rooms, examining his art work and uncovering some letters and a hairbrush hidden in a floor air vent.
We find out the letters are from Adam's mother. Adam was the victim of mother/son incest. After seeing that his mother's letters triggered episodes in Adam, Dr. Dino started sending the letters back to his mother. She's surprised to learn that Adam's semen was in Robbie's bed, given that Adam raped women, not men. When confronted, Adam claims he killed Robbie because Robbie was gay. He claims Robbie had sex with him, and that he killed the man by smashing his head into the floor.
The CSIs know the story doesn't hold water given that Robbie was strangled first. The CSIs find Adam's bloody clothes in the bathroom, but Sara also notices a lipstick stain on the crotch of Adam's pants. Sara goes into Nurse McKay's office looking for the woman and finds a picture of Adam. Grissom leaves to find someone who can open the locked drawers and Adam sneaks up behind Sara and asks her if she's a spiritual person. He begins to ramble, but when Sara tries to run, he grabs her and holds a sharpened ceramic shard to her neck.
When Grissom returns with the attendant, he sees Adam holding Sara through the office window, but the door has been shut and locked. While the attendant gets the key, Adam raves to Sara. He is distracted for a moment and Sara uses that second to break away, running from him just as the attendant opens the door. Adam cuts his own throat before the attendant reaches him. Afterwards, Grissom consoles Sara, who tells him that her mother was brought to a place like this after she killed Sara's father. Grissom offers to have Sara replaced on the case, but she declines. Nurse McKay is angry when she learns what happened, blaming Sara and Grissom for the incident. Sara suspects it was the nurse's lipstick on Adam's pants, and that she may have been having an affair with him.
Grissom talks to the hospital's art instructor who recalls that Nurse McKay angrily pulled Adam out of ceramics class. Using an acoustic recovery technology, Sophia Curtis places Adam's pot on a turntable in the CSI lab and uses a laser to pick up some sound that was recorded in the grooves. She hears "Robbie" and "that's my angel," which Grissom recalls Adam's mother using in her letters to Adam. Using the DNA from Adam's brush, the CSIs are able to identify Joanne McKay as Adam's mother. She got a job on the ward once Dr. Dino started sending her letters back. She was enraged to discover Adam was cheating on her with Robbie, so she tricked Robbie into bringing the picture to group and then had him sent to isolation when he insisted he was allowed to bring it. She smothered him after he went to sleep and had Adam cover it up. Nurse McKay counters that the CSIs can't prove any of it, but Brass reminds her that the incest can be proved, and that it's a class B felony, carrying a sentence of at least ten years. Grissom thinks she'll die without Adam, and Sara thinks that would be better for both of them.
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