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| • Pirates of the Third Reich • |
Episode Number:132 #
Original Airdate: February 09, 2006
Written By: Jerry Stahl
Directed By: Richard Lewis
Synopsis: "When the body of a young woman is found half-buried in the desert outside of Vegas, Grissom teams up with Lady Heather (Clarke) to discover the cause of the victim's unusual death. The mystery deepens when the CSIs discover that the woman was participating in a clinical study where doctors performed experiments for sleep deprivation."
Guest Stars:
David Berman as David Phillips
Louise Lombard as Sophia Curtis
Wallace Langham as Hodges
Liz Vassey as Wendy Simms
Jim Cody Williams as Happy Jack
Michael Patrick McGill as Ruben Caster
Jeff Sugarman as Dr. Mulligan
Melinda Clarke as Lady Heather
Kevin Crowley as Jacob Wolfowitz
Kevin Crowley as Johann Sneller
Annie Burgstede as Zoe Kessler
Suzanne Reed as Receptionist
Joseph Patrick Kelly as Office Metcalf
Tony Amendola as Professor Rambar
Notes:
- The episode had a fairly rare warning graphic: "Due to Mature Theme, Viewer Discretion Is Advised."
- Now that CSI and The O.C. air at the same time, Melinda Clarke will be playing Lady Heather in this episode and Julie Cooper on FOX simultaneously.
| | • Review • |
The corpse of a young woman with a shaved head and an emaciated body is found off Highway 55 near the town of Sparks. She is branded with the number 19 and missing a hand, and when she is taken to the morgue, it's discovered that one of her eyes has been severed at the optic nerve. Wendy Simms in the DNA lab determines the severed eye did not belong to the dead young woman--the DNA of the eye is male. Dr. Robbins notes that the young woman had necrotizing faciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria, and puncture wounds on her body indicate it was injected directly into her blood stream. She also had a D&C, which could have been for anything from an abortion to polyps. The eyeball is traced to Jack Landers, a convicted sex offender who has been paroled. Jack is discovered disoriented and confused near a halfway house. The doctor who examines Jack thinks he's been lobotomized--in the 30s and 40s lobotomies were frequently done through eye sockets. The CSIs notice a brand on his arm, the number 18, indicating Jack was a victim of the same person who killed their Jane Doe. The young woman isn't a Jane Doe for long--her mother comes in to identify her after seeing her picture on the news. Her mother is none other than Lady Heather.
Brass tells Grissom that the victim's name is Zoe Kessler and also shares her mother's identity with him. Brass and Grissom take a look around Zoe's apartment and discover she went to a place called the Betz clinic and the clinic left several follow-up messages on her answering machine. Back at the morgue, Lady Heather IDs Zoe's body and asks Dr. Robbins if Zoe ever gave birth, but he tells her there's no way to tell for sure. Grissom offers Heather his condolences and tells her that back in November Zoe participated in a study at the Betz clinic. Catherine and Greg pay the clinic a visit and learn from Dr. Jacob Wolfowitz that Zoe was participating in a sleep study because she suffered from insomnia, but he tells them she left the study early. But Zoe's car was towed from the Betz clinic lot, so did she really leave on her own? When Wendy tells Nick that sinew found between Zoe's teeth was from her own hand, Nick and Warrick set off with a team of CSIs for the desert where Zoe was found to try to find her hand. They discover a pile of dirt in front of a barn that reeks of decomposition, and a variety of plants, including a corpse flower, in the barn. There's a package at the house next to the barn addressed to Jacob Wolfowitz, but when the CSIs knock on the door, it's Lady Heather who answers.
Lady Heather admits to Grissom that she broke into Wolfowitz's house in the hopes that he would press charges and give the CSIs the opportunity to get into his house, but Wolfowitz is refusing to press charges. Heather did take a rare etching of Romulus and Remus that she found in the house, noting that it's been torn from a book. Grissom calls in Professor Rambar to authenticate the page and the CSIs trace it to a rare book from the UNLV library. Catherine and Greg study the sleep trial tapes and witness both Zoe and Jack waking up in the middle of their sleep exams, seemingly in response to someone opening the door to their rooms. But the case takes a surprising turn when Wolfowitz is discovered dead in the Betz Clinic parking garage. The seat of the car is wet and there's no discernable cause of death. Rigor has set in, indicating he's been dead at least six hours. Dr. Robbins examines the body and determines that Wolfowitz has been frozen and thawed, indicating he died at least two days ago. There are bruises and puncture wounds on Wolfowitz's body and a number 1 branded into his arm. Catherine is puzzled by the autopsy results--how could Wolfowitz have been dead for two days when she saw him just yesterday. Lady Heather intercepts Grissom to give him a DNA sample she obtained from Wolfowitz--she slept with him. She and Zoe became estranged after she learned Zoe was pregnant by her married therapist and Heather had the man's license revoked. Heather is determined to bring Zoe's killer to justice but is shocked when Grissom tells her Wolfowitz is already dead.
Wendy informs the CSIs there's lots of human DNA in the dirt outside Wolfowitz's house and that the sperm from the condom Lady Heather brought Grissom matches the saliva used to tear out the page from the library book and Wolfowitz. But the fingerprints in the car are all a match to a Jacob Sneller, who turns out to be Wolfowitz's identical twin. A look at his record reveals he was in the army and stationed in Berlin up until a year and a half ago. Catherine posits that perhaps Sneller came back and experimented on his brother before killing him and assuming his identity at the clinic. Grissom and Catherine go to Wolfowitz's house and find a trap door in the floor leading to a secret underground lab. In the lab, Grissom discovers Sneller's experiment notes and the German words written at the gates of Auschwitz ("work will set you free") in a notebook, as well as a clock with no numbers on it. Another hidden door in the basement lab leads to a room where identical twins lie on the floor, sewn together at their backs. One is already dead, and the other soon follows, despite the fact that the CSIs have them rushed to the hospital. Grissom continues to search the lab and the holding cell. He sees handcuffs surrounding the wall and assumes Zoe chewed her hand off to free herself. When he notices the crucifix Lady Heather wears on the floor of the lab, he rushes back to his car to go look for her. He finds her off the highway where Zoe was found. She has Sneller tied to the front of his car and is whipping him. Grissom grabs her whip to stop her from finishing him off. He tells her to "stop" and pulls her towards him in a comforting embrace.
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