CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015): Season 10, Episode 11 - Sin City Blue - full transcript
After finding a new dead body, Langston and Brass uncover a connection to an unlicensed doctor who may be "Dr. Jekyll." Meanwhile, Willows discovers that two women found dead in a hotel were con women who preyed on an unsuspecting actuary.
Control, air 12.
I'm code four.
Another quiet night in the wilderness.
Nothing stirring but a pack of coyotes.
Control : Copy, air 12.
Whoa. Looks like they've got company.
Stand by, one.
I have a visual.
Bogey in a blue pickup.
Half mile west of quadrant six.
Copy, air 12.
I'll alert ground units.
Suspect vehicle westbound
on paiute logging road.
Suspect doubling back, doubling back.
Eastbound, paiute logging road.
Two ground units approaching.
Suspect turning southbound.
Suspect turning south.
Copy, air 12.
Subject heading westbound.
Subject heading westbound.
Park rangers have a visual.
They're in pursuit.
Suspect vehicle crashed.
He's on foot.
Control, situation is code four.
Park service notified us.
This is a federal wildlife refuge.
Nobody should be out here.
That's juan ramirez,
suspect, boulder city.
Buenas noches, juan.
What was he doing out here?
He was dumping trash, which is what
You guys are here for.
Surgical waste?!
And human organs.
Spleen,
Gallbladder
And a finger.
And these
cuts--
They're surgically precise.
Hey, guys, we need a tarp on
the ground over here, please.
Nick.
It's just a kid.
Betadine.
This boy was prepped for surgery.
What are the chances
there's another guy in vegas
Cutting out human organs on the dl?
No, this is dr. Jekyll's work.
I never would've expected
him to look like juan.
Nah.
That's not him.
Hey, dr. Frankenstein had igor.
Maybe dr. Jekyll has juan.
Room service found her
just after 4:00 a.M.
There's no cameras in the hallway,
And I'm waiting
On the elevator surveillance.
What about the stairs?
Well, hotel security tells me
That the door monitoring system
Hasn't been triggered
in the last 12 hours.
David.
What have you got?
White marks on the neck,
But they don't go all the way around,
And there's no indentations on the skin.
Means she probably wasn't strangled.
Possible asphyxiation. Possible.
We have no abrasions on her legs.
Nothing on her back.
She must have been dead when
the killer dragged her out here.
Which means she was probably killed
In a room on this floor.
Here's her purse.
Smooth skin.
Very little body hair.
Makes her a perfect
candidate for super glue.
Call robbins, have him turn
the thermostat down in autopsy.
And, david, get the body back stat.
Disturb her as little as possible.
I'll leave her clothes on.
Hey, don, it's greg.
Karen jones.
23 from phoenix.
Yeah, hi, this is captain
brass. I'm upstairs.
Do you have a karen jones
Registered as a hotel guest?
No, sir,we don't. Thank you.
She's not registered.
This might be.
I found some empty bottles of
prescription meds over here:
Fluoxetine, atorvastatin
calcium and prevalis.
And this shipping order
for herbs and vitamins
From a store called botanica ventura.
You want to bet that botanica
sells more than just herbs?
That's a good bet.
What about this blood?
It's human.
The fresh drops are still gummy.
Older ones are flaky.
Multiple events.
This wasn't igor's first trash run.
Excuse me.
Did either of you hear or
see anything last night?
Uh, just get a japanese
officer over here to f.I. Them.
Thank you. Arigato.
So you haven't slept last night?
I don't know... Where
did those come from?
I-I-I mean, I think I remember
some, like, stripper chicks,
Like, trying to grind
up on me, you know?
I don't know, dude.
I was so faded.
I think I'm still drunk.
All right, dude, well, we
need to get your statement,
But first, you need to brush your teeth.
Mr. Crowley, just calm down.
I'm going to miss my plane.
So you're not spending the weekend?
I'm an actuary.
It was our annual meeting.
Where were you last night?
A group of us went to dinner and a show.
I'm going to need their names.
Well, keep knocking on doors,
'cause we're all on this floor.
Thank you for your help.
Jim, I'm getting a lot of no answers.
So get a list of all the guests
on 19 including checkouts.
Yeah, I'm on it.
We've been showing karen jones'
picture around everywhere.
Somebody had to see her.
Listen, something may be breaking
now. I'll get back to you.
What do you got, joe?
Bartender recognized the photo.
She was here last two
nights with a girlfriend.
With a prostitute girlfriend?
Hard to tell, but they
had guys dripping off them
So if they were working
girls, they were off duty.
Can you describe the other woman?
Smoking body. Brunette.
I don't remember names. Sorry.
But I do remember that last
night, the girls got into it.
What do you mean?
Well, the blonde asked me
To quit serving the
brunette; got a little heated.
Have to say, the
girl-fight-- kind of hot.
Okay. All right, thanks, thanks.
We got no eyewitnesses on 19.
Found some white fibers in her nostril.
Hotel's bedding and
towels were all white.
Maybe the killer used what
was available to suffocate her.
68 on the extremities.
70 on the abs.
She's chill.
All right, that's our test print.
Let's go camping.
Cansado estoy de esto.
Cansado y sabes que estas mentiendo.
Estas mentiendo!
?que estaba haciendo
en la monta?a, pues?
?que estaba haciendo all??
?ah? Tenemos la basura!
Y para salir de aqui...
Hay que hablar!
Some guy paid me to
take the trash out there.
Which guy?
I don't know.
I-I was in the parking lot on
turkson... Looking for work.
Guy comes up, gives me $20
If I take the trash up in
the mountains and bury it.
Who killed that little boy?
Did you do it?
You like little boys, huh?
You know what happens to guys
like you in la prisi?n, hmm?
Give me a name!
El doctor.
He's talking to you, isn't he?
Yes.
Sometimes I wish they
would tell me more.
Sometimes I wish they'd just shut up.
What are you hearing?
Well, the blood in his nostrils
And the petechial dots
on his skin tell me
That he was some kind of bleeder.
His hands are raw
From detergents or cleansers
Of some kind-- tells
me he worked hard.
And his teeth, see, they're
worn down by grinding.
Tells me he was probably
in constant pain,
But I don't think it was
a problem with the spleen.
You nailed it.
The splenectomy was a las
t-ditch effort to save his life.
The purpose of this surgery
Was to remove this.
Supersized cyst.
It was still in situ.
Which means the surgeon
was unable to remove it
Because he was a bleeder.
Histology showed
disseminated platelet-fibrin
And microvascular thrombi.
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura.
This boy's immune system was destroying
His blood platelets,
inhibiting clotting.
So the moment the incision was made,
The bleeding would have been
Unstoppable and the
surgeon probably panicked.
And because platelet
destruction occurs in the spleen,
The surgeon would have
hoped once it was removed,
New platelets would form
And his blood would
start clotting again.
Four months ago, our
dr. Jekyll made a bow tie
With joey bigelow's intestines.
A month ago, he implanted
a superfluous appendix
Into bernard higgins.
Cystectomy and splenectomy are...
Routine procedures.
If he did this, he's not
limiting himself to perversity.
He's operating both inside
and outside the norm.
A true jekyll and hyde.
I went through all the camera
footage from the casino bar.
Karen jones and her friend got there
Around 8:00 last night.
Well, now we know what she's wearing:
Sequined dress, silver stilettos.
What about all these guys?
Lots of approaches,
No landings.
The bartender was right.
There was an altercation
between the girls.
Nothing to write penthouse about.
Picked up karen at a casino atm camera
About an hour later.
She's working him.
He's not interested.
Probably didn't want to pay for it.
Can't blame a girl for trying, though.
He's obviously got cash.
Exit camera picked her up
Leaving the casino at 10:37 p.M. Solo.
What time did she come back?
Around 3:30 a.M.
Got her going up the elevator
At 3:33, in a hurry.
Got off on 19.
So her john had to be on that floor.
Probably checked out by now.
So what we need to do
Is find that girl in the blue dress.
Have brass show her picture around.
my body's done.
Smurf's up.
So what do we have on the pickup truck?
First priority is an
I. D. On the bleeder.
Now, he wasn't in codis,
but I did get a familial hit.
This is carlos gomez.
He's doing time for assault,
And he I.D.'d the victim's autopsy photo
As his son eduardo.
It turns out eduardo was working
as a night janitor at a motel
On bonanza and albert.
That's only a couple of blocks
From where joey bigelow was found.
Anything on the body
parts or blood evidence?
Well, the spleen was the victim's.
The gallbladder and
the fingers were from
Unrelated donors.
And as far as the
rest, I'm working on it.
What about the surgical evidence
we found in the trash bags?
The syringes all contained
2% lidocaine solution.
Local anesthetic for minor surgeries.
And analysis of the tubing confirmed
Intravenous diazepam--
a schedule iv
Controlled substance; probably used
To twilight patients.
All the empty bottles of pharmaceuticals
Were from mexico;
Prescription-only, here and there.
So maybe dr. Jekyll
has a mexico connection.
Yeah, it could be this
botanica ventura place.
What do we know about it?
It's a storefront leased
By a guy named jeffrey hughes.
Now there were good clean
Prints on those drug bottles,
I just can't confirm they're his.
No afis hits.
So we're gonna go check him
out. Warrant's on its way.
I want to be there.
You two stay here.
You two come with me.
?all??
?aqui, ah?
Jeffrey hughes?
Yes?
Yeah, we have a warrant
to search the premises.
So if everybody could please get up.
Afuera, por favor!
?que debo hacer, doctor?
Yo me encargo de esto.
El doctor.
I'm not a doctor. I'm an herbalist.
All we sell is herbs,
vitamins, supplements.
Does that include prescription drugs?
You've seen my customers.
Their ancestors were the maya.
The mayans believe that
wellness resides in a balance
Of body and spirit; man and god.
We're not here for a history lesson.
Man has always been imperfect.
I do what I can.
That warrant includes your prints.
I'd like to take those now.
Give me your hand, please.
Does "doing all that you can"
Include procedures or surgeries?
Like I said, I am not a doctor.
What's back there?
Just a storeroom.
Mr. Hughes, your prints were
found on crime scene evidence.
You're under arrest.
Come with me.
Escort this young
lady to a car, as well.
No table.
No surgical equipment lying around.
Suppose it would've been
easier if we'd walked in
And found a laparoscope. Hmm.
But dr. Jekyll or no, he
had to have some tools.
We'll get a warrant for his house.
Eduardo gomez lost a lot of blood.
If there was an operating table in here,
It would have been in
the middle of the room.
And he would have needed some light.
All right, that's bright
enough for surgery.
The boy's blood would've
dripped down here
Off the table.
Could've used bleach to clean it up.
Bleach only cleans the surface.
Unless you really saturate it,
It's not gonna get down to the grout.
Nick, the grout in these two areas is
Two different shades.
Yep, the tiles on this floor
have been regrouted, nick.
The difference is
subtle, but I can feel it.
Well, I can only think of one
reason you'd bleach and regrout.
We have blood.
If it belonged to eduardo gomez...
It means he died here.
Karen jones' bank account shows
That she paid for three
nights, using her debit card.
Anybody with her?
No. She checked in two nights ago.
She was alone. What do you got?
Room's all clear, captain.
Not bad for fremont street.
Got some luggage.
Looks like she didn't check out.
Do you smell that?
Hasn't ripened into decomp yet.
The girl in the blue dress.
She's definitely not sleeping it off.
Hey, catherine.
I found two suitcases in
karen jones' motel room,
And one of them belongs to a...
Jillian rose from phoenix.
: Gotta be the girl in the blue dress.
Great. Have brass run her.
Meet jillian rose.
Oh. Ms. Rose has got
quite a few contusions.
Yeah. Defensive wounds.
Nasty lump on her forehead.
No internal hemorrhaging, not fatal but
Probably happened during the struggle.
What's c.O.D.?
Petechial hemorrhaging
In the eyes and lips...
White marks, but...
No indentations in the neck.
Just like her friend--
she was asphyxiated.
Uh, didn't find any trace
in her nose or esophagus.
She was suffocated before she
was put into that box spring.
Any indication what time she died?
Sometime between midnight
And 4:00 a.M.
Karen jones and jillian rose,
Friends from the same
town, sharing the same room,
Killed in a similar manner
around the same time.
But their bodies were found
in two different locations.
Are we looking for two killers?
My gut says that we're not.
Well, if just one guy did this,
She had to have been killed first.
So the blood in the truck
bed and the trash bags
Came from multiple donors,
both male and female.
Including eduardo gomez?
And you
were right--
That was his blood in the grout.
But I also found a second
contributor in the grout sample.
It was an unknown male.
They're probably my epithelials.
I had to palpate the grou t
- you can't do that with gloves on.
Well, in that case, I just
need a sample of your dna,
And I will exclude you.
My dna-- which would
go into a database.
Your fingerprints are already in afi s
- what's the difference?
There's a big difference.
You're gonna have to put in
your report that I said no.
Mrs. Hughes.
We have a warrant to
search the premises.
All right, mr. Hughes,
Eduardo gomez died in
your operating room.
I don't have an operating room.
But you knew him.
I knew his whole family.
His mother was a loyal customer.
Did you tell his mother
that you dumped him
With the rest of the trash
from your other surgeries?
I mean, it must have been a busy night.
You, um, removed a gallbladder;
You amputated a gangrenous finger;
You attempted to remove
eduardo's abdominal cyst.
So tell me, where did you train, doctor?
I graduated premed
At harvard,
And celebrated in cozumel,
Where I fell in love with a local girl.
So I, uh,
Went to medical school in guadalajara
And trained at a hospital in monterey.
And are you licensed
To practice in the United States?
You know the answer to that.
Yes, I do.
So you were smuggling drugs,
You were practicing without a
license in unsafe conditions,
All of which cost
eduardo gomez his life.
I was trying to save his life!
He is the sole support of his mother
And his newborn sister.
They're here without documentation.
No insurance.
He was in so much pain,
He couldn't travel
to mexico for surgery.
I couldn't turn him
away. Eduardo presented
With obvious signs of itp.
I misdiagnosed.
By the time I knew what was
going on, it was too late.
His mother was there.
She made the decision
to dispose of the body.
She doesn't blame me.
I delivered her baby!
Her perfectly healthy infant.
Eduardo was the first patient
ever to die in my care.
Well, what about joey bigelow
And bernard higgins?
Hmm?
What about them?
I don't know these men.
This isn't medicine.
Look, I don't run a
practice to get rich.
I... Help those the system ignores.
The nanny whose gallbladder is inflamed,
The gardener who risks his
life for a gangrenous finger.
There are clinics, social services
For that kind of thing. Reform
health care all you want.
My patients are always
gonna be left out.
Had the casino send over some
more surveillance footage,
This time tracking our
second victim, jillian rose.
Started with karen
and jillian at the bar,
And I noticed something.
A few minutes after
their little argument,
Karen and jillian went
on the hunt-- separately.
That's when I found this.
Oh, she landed the atm guy.
The one that karen couldn't.
They got off on 19.
Six minutes later, she's
texting, coming down.
That's not even enough
time for a quickie.
And why would
Two hookers go after the same john?
'cause maybe they aren't hookers.
And I don't think this is about sex.
Karen jones and jillian
rose were running a con.
One of them would steal
the guy's pin number,
The other would steal his credit card.
Who am I looking at? Their mark.
That's karen with him at the atm,
And an hour later,
jillian went up to his room
On the 19th floor.
We never talked to him,
So he's got to be one of the checkouts.
Let's go back to the mediterranean.
So, the room is registered
To donald fiore.
He works as an actuary;
he's here for the convention.
The maid I.D.'d him from a photo.
She said she saw nothing unusual
when she cleaned up, so...
We're only three doors down
From where we found karen jones' body.
When did fiore check
out? Well, he didn't.
He left his key in the room,
And the hotel automatically
checks him out at noon.
Right, so he could've checked
out anytime. Fiore lives
In salt lake cit y
- I spoke to the local cops.
they said they'd keep an eye on him,
But they weren't gonna arrest him
Until we provided them
with more evidence.
I gotta take this. Good luck.
Brass. Talk to me. okay. So...
The maid would have
vacuumed, emptied the trash,
Cleaned the bathroom,
Changed the towels...
And the sheets, too.
Hotel laundry will all be commingled.
And if he threw her clothes
in the trash, well...
That's like looking for a
needle inside a stack of needles,
So... What part of the room remains
From guest to guest?
Looks like somebody
messed with this vent.
Oh... Got a pair of shoes.
No dress, though.
Karen jones...
Had silver stilettos.
They're all wet.
I didn't see any
condensation in the vent.
Heels have been snapped off.
And the soles are... Are bent.
I mean... This didn't
happen during the struggle.
He was trying to get rid of these.
He flushed the dress,
But he couldn't get
the shoes to go down.
If the dress is still in this pipe,
Then the toilet would be backed up.
And you know what rolls downhill.
Okay. We're ready.
Greg, stop.
We've got something.
How may feet of cable do you have out?
Uh, about 20.
About ten feet per floor.
So, that's...
Two floors below.
1721.
I think that's enough
to compel a warrant.
I didn't realize I was set
up until I was in the shower.
Oh, god, your body is unbelievable!
And you'll get to taste all of it.
As soon as you shower.
I'll be right here,
Thinking about what
I'm going to do to you.
She stole my wallet.
I should have known.
She was...
Too beautiful to be a hooker.
I called my bank,
found out that they had
Used my credit card and pin,
Took a $2,000 cash advance.
That's a $50 bank charge,
accrues at 28% interest.
Why didn't you just report it?
Well, if I called the
cops and you found them,
Then there would be reports
Saying that I had brought
a girl back to my room,
And I couldn't take the
risk of my wife finding out.
She's an heiress.
Has all the money.
Simple cost-benefit analysis.
How does that analysis work?
Their lives for your wallet?
The solve rates
For murders, for
homicides in clark county?
62%.
My wife finds out that I'm philandering?
That's a 100% chance of divorce.
But since you didn't cheat,
You figured that she would be okay
With you murdering karen and jillian?
I never saw jillian again.
As far as her friend goes,
She came looking for me.
You want it back? It's gonna cost you.
Just-just give it to me, and
I'll forget the whole thing.
I don't think so.
I saw that the safety
was still on, so...
I took my chances.
Prostitutes are 60 to
100 times more likely
To be murdered than non-prostitutes.
So I flushed the dress, and I
pulled her out into the hallway.
I calculated the likelihood
That you would think
that she was a hooker
And wouldn't be a priority.
You calculated wrong.
Regardless, I acted in self-defense.
Yeah, right up until you suffocated her.
Well, acquittal rates
for sel f-defense claims
Are very high-- jurors
tend to judge the motives
Of a beautiful con
woman much more harshly
Than an overworked actuary.
Hodges.
Yeah?
I need you to tell me what this is.
Gray fibers.
Maybe a recycled synthetic.
Oh, yeah.
It's polyester polyfill fiber.
Commonly used in box spring padding.
Don't you have to do
an ftir to confirm that?
Just did one.
On your motel girl;
The one stuffed into the box spring.
Are you saying this fiber
is from the same box spring?
I'm just saying that it's
the same type of material.
Your two victims shared the room.
What are the chances that
it's not from that box spring?
Karen had to have come into
contact with the box spring
After it was cut open.
Which puts her in the room
after jillian was dead.
Or after karen killed her.
I'd hate to think
fiore's telling the truth.
Okay, so, there were no fibers
In jillian's nose or throat.
So karen had to have
used something non-textile
To asphyxiate her.
Shower curtain was intact.
Plastic laundry bags were
clean and folded in the closet.
Trash can liner.
There was nothing in it,
so I didn't collect it.
You had no reason to.
Looks like a lipstick smudge to me.
Who kisses a trash bag?
Maybe a girl fighting for her life.
Those are carpal prints.
No way those are karen's prints.
They're too big.
Karen didn't kill her.
She came back to the room
and found jillian dead.
Then karen hid jillian
inside the box spring
To buy herself some time.
She then...
Took the wallet over to the hotel room
And tried to extort money from fiore.
Live by the con, die by the con.
Mr. Fiore.
There's been a development.
We need your major case prints.
I already gave you my prints.
And I admitted to killing
karen jones in self-defense.
That was a standard ten-card.
Give me your right hand.
And if I refuse?
Then I'm going to get six
Of the biggest deputies you've ever seen
To come in here and assist you.
Jillian rose
Was suffocated with a trash
liner from her motel room,
And your prints are on it.
How did you find out
where she was staying?
I wanted my wallet back.
I went out looking for jillian,
And I saw her at the casino next door.
She jumped into a cab,
and I followed her.
Open up or I'll call the police.
Give me my wallet, you bitch!
I don't have it!
Give me my wallet! I swear!
I want my wallet!
It was a mathematical certainty
That a woman like that
would report the assault
Or she would blackmail me
for the rest of my life.
The only logical thing
to do was to kill her.
And you applied that same logic
When karen jones showed up at your door?
You know what that stupid girl did?
She-she pointed a gun at me,
And she demanded that I give her $50,000
For her friend's funeral.
Well, according to my math,
The $50,000 that you saved
Is going to cost you 20 years to life.
W-wait...
Look, I-I am a good man.
I work hard.
I love my wife.
I contribute to society.
I mean, these people,
You deal with them all
the time. And those girls?
They were just... They were
just worthless criminals.
No, they were human beings.
You're the worthless criminal.
Okay, I'll come by your place.
No, no, it's cool. I have tomorrow off.
Hey, nick?
I'll call you back.
Listen, I need to talk to you.
Uh, I had wendy run the markers
For race on the appendix
implanted in bernard higgins.
It was non-hispanic caucasian.
Now, all the body parts we
found in the truck were hispanic.
I don't think hughes is dr. Jekyll.
Regardless, w e-we got
him for drug trafficking.
We got him for practicing
without a license
And eduardo gomez's death.
Yeah. Yeah. He's not going anywhere.
Agreed.
I need a favor.
I think your spanish is
a little better than mine.
Would you take a look
at that for me, please?
"clinica gratis."
Okay. Free clinic.
"ped?atra, emergencias,
Medicina general."
I thought I was the only
one trying to save the world.
I don't approve of the
way hughes went about it,
But he had the right idea.
This clinic I volunteer at,
It's safe, it's free, it's legal.
I just want to spread the word.
What do you think? Claro?
S?, claro.
Thanks, nick.
De nada.
I'm code four.
Another quiet night in the wilderness.
Nothing stirring but a pack of coyotes.
Control : Copy, air 12.
Whoa. Looks like they've got company.
Stand by, one.
I have a visual.
Bogey in a blue pickup.
Half mile west of quadrant six.
Copy, air 12.
I'll alert ground units.
Suspect vehicle westbound
on paiute logging road.
Suspect doubling back, doubling back.
Eastbound, paiute logging road.
Two ground units approaching.
Suspect turning southbound.
Suspect turning south.
Copy, air 12.
Subject heading westbound.
Subject heading westbound.
Park rangers have a visual.
They're in pursuit.
Suspect vehicle crashed.
He's on foot.
Control, situation is code four.
Park service notified us.
This is a federal wildlife refuge.
Nobody should be out here.
That's juan ramirez,
suspect, boulder city.
Buenas noches, juan.
What was he doing out here?
He was dumping trash, which is what
You guys are here for.
Surgical waste?!
And human organs.
Spleen,
Gallbladder
And a finger.
And these
cuts--
They're surgically precise.
Hey, guys, we need a tarp on
the ground over here, please.
Nick.
It's just a kid.
Betadine.
This boy was prepped for surgery.
What are the chances
there's another guy in vegas
Cutting out human organs on the dl?
No, this is dr. Jekyll's work.
I never would've expected
him to look like juan.
Nah.
That's not him.
Hey, dr. Frankenstein had igor.
Maybe dr. Jekyll has juan.
Room service found her
just after 4:00 a.M.
There's no cameras in the hallway,
And I'm waiting
On the elevator surveillance.
What about the stairs?
Well, hotel security tells me
That the door monitoring system
Hasn't been triggered
in the last 12 hours.
David.
What have you got?
White marks on the neck,
But they don't go all the way around,
And there's no indentations on the skin.
Means she probably wasn't strangled.
Possible asphyxiation. Possible.
We have no abrasions on her legs.
Nothing on her back.
She must have been dead when
the killer dragged her out here.
Which means she was probably killed
In a room on this floor.
Here's her purse.
Smooth skin.
Very little body hair.
Makes her a perfect
candidate for super glue.
Call robbins, have him turn
the thermostat down in autopsy.
And, david, get the body back stat.
Disturb her as little as possible.
I'll leave her clothes on.
Hey, don, it's greg.
Karen jones.
23 from phoenix.
Yeah, hi, this is captain
brass. I'm upstairs.
Do you have a karen jones
Registered as a hotel guest?
No, sir,we don't. Thank you.
She's not registered.
This might be.
I found some empty bottles of
prescription meds over here:
Fluoxetine, atorvastatin
calcium and prevalis.
And this shipping order
for herbs and vitamins
From a store called botanica ventura.
You want to bet that botanica
sells more than just herbs?
That's a good bet.
What about this blood?
It's human.
The fresh drops are still gummy.
Older ones are flaky.
Multiple events.
This wasn't igor's first trash run.
Excuse me.
Did either of you hear or
see anything last night?
Uh, just get a japanese
officer over here to f.I. Them.
Thank you. Arigato.
So you haven't slept last night?
I don't know... Where
did those come from?
I-I-I mean, I think I remember
some, like, stripper chicks,
Like, trying to grind
up on me, you know?
I don't know, dude.
I was so faded.
I think I'm still drunk.
All right, dude, well, we
need to get your statement,
But first, you need to brush your teeth.
Mr. Crowley, just calm down.
I'm going to miss my plane.
So you're not spending the weekend?
I'm an actuary.
It was our annual meeting.
Where were you last night?
A group of us went to dinner and a show.
I'm going to need their names.
Well, keep knocking on doors,
'cause we're all on this floor.
Thank you for your help.
Jim, I'm getting a lot of no answers.
So get a list of all the guests
on 19 including checkouts.
Yeah, I'm on it.
We've been showing karen jones'
picture around everywhere.
Somebody had to see her.
Listen, something may be breaking
now. I'll get back to you.
What do you got, joe?
Bartender recognized the photo.
She was here last two
nights with a girlfriend.
With a prostitute girlfriend?
Hard to tell, but they
had guys dripping off them
So if they were working
girls, they were off duty.
Can you describe the other woman?
Smoking body. Brunette.
I don't remember names. Sorry.
But I do remember that last
night, the girls got into it.
What do you mean?
Well, the blonde asked me
To quit serving the
brunette; got a little heated.
Have to say, the
girl-fight-- kind of hot.
Okay. All right, thanks, thanks.
We got no eyewitnesses on 19.
Found some white fibers in her nostril.
Hotel's bedding and
towels were all white.
Maybe the killer used what
was available to suffocate her.
68 on the extremities.
70 on the abs.
She's chill.
All right, that's our test print.
Let's go camping.
Cansado estoy de esto.
Cansado y sabes que estas mentiendo.
Estas mentiendo!
?que estaba haciendo
en la monta?a, pues?
?que estaba haciendo all??
?ah? Tenemos la basura!
Y para salir de aqui...
Hay que hablar!
Some guy paid me to
take the trash out there.
Which guy?
I don't know.
I-I was in the parking lot on
turkson... Looking for work.
Guy comes up, gives me $20
If I take the trash up in
the mountains and bury it.
Who killed that little boy?
Did you do it?
You like little boys, huh?
You know what happens to guys
like you in la prisi?n, hmm?
Give me a name!
El doctor.
He's talking to you, isn't he?
Yes.
Sometimes I wish they
would tell me more.
Sometimes I wish they'd just shut up.
What are you hearing?
Well, the blood in his nostrils
And the petechial dots
on his skin tell me
That he was some kind of bleeder.
His hands are raw
From detergents or cleansers
Of some kind-- tells
me he worked hard.
And his teeth, see, they're
worn down by grinding.
Tells me he was probably
in constant pain,
But I don't think it was
a problem with the spleen.
You nailed it.
The splenectomy was a las
t-ditch effort to save his life.
The purpose of this surgery
Was to remove this.
Supersized cyst.
It was still in situ.
Which means the surgeon
was unable to remove it
Because he was a bleeder.
Histology showed
disseminated platelet-fibrin
And microvascular thrombi.
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura.
This boy's immune system was destroying
His blood platelets,
inhibiting clotting.
So the moment the incision was made,
The bleeding would have been
Unstoppable and the
surgeon probably panicked.
And because platelet
destruction occurs in the spleen,
The surgeon would have
hoped once it was removed,
New platelets would form
And his blood would
start clotting again.
Four months ago, our
dr. Jekyll made a bow tie
With joey bigelow's intestines.
A month ago, he implanted
a superfluous appendix
Into bernard higgins.
Cystectomy and splenectomy are...
Routine procedures.
If he did this, he's not
limiting himself to perversity.
He's operating both inside
and outside the norm.
A true jekyll and hyde.
I went through all the camera
footage from the casino bar.
Karen jones and her friend got there
Around 8:00 last night.
Well, now we know what she's wearing:
Sequined dress, silver stilettos.
What about all these guys?
Lots of approaches,
No landings.
The bartender was right.
There was an altercation
between the girls.
Nothing to write penthouse about.
Picked up karen at a casino atm camera
About an hour later.
She's working him.
He's not interested.
Probably didn't want to pay for it.
Can't blame a girl for trying, though.
He's obviously got cash.
Exit camera picked her up
Leaving the casino at 10:37 p.M. Solo.
What time did she come back?
Around 3:30 a.M.
Got her going up the elevator
At 3:33, in a hurry.
Got off on 19.
So her john had to be on that floor.
Probably checked out by now.
So what we need to do
Is find that girl in the blue dress.
Have brass show her picture around.
my body's done.
Smurf's up.
So what do we have on the pickup truck?
First priority is an
I. D. On the bleeder.
Now, he wasn't in codis,
but I did get a familial hit.
This is carlos gomez.
He's doing time for assault,
And he I.D.'d the victim's autopsy photo
As his son eduardo.
It turns out eduardo was working
as a night janitor at a motel
On bonanza and albert.
That's only a couple of blocks
From where joey bigelow was found.
Anything on the body
parts or blood evidence?
Well, the spleen was the victim's.
The gallbladder and
the fingers were from
Unrelated donors.
And as far as the
rest, I'm working on it.
What about the surgical evidence
we found in the trash bags?
The syringes all contained
2% lidocaine solution.
Local anesthetic for minor surgeries.
And analysis of the tubing confirmed
Intravenous diazepam--
a schedule iv
Controlled substance; probably used
To twilight patients.
All the empty bottles of pharmaceuticals
Were from mexico;
Prescription-only, here and there.
So maybe dr. Jekyll
has a mexico connection.
Yeah, it could be this
botanica ventura place.
What do we know about it?
It's a storefront leased
By a guy named jeffrey hughes.
Now there were good clean
Prints on those drug bottles,
I just can't confirm they're his.
No afis hits.
So we're gonna go check him
out. Warrant's on its way.
I want to be there.
You two stay here.
You two come with me.
?all??
?aqui, ah?
Jeffrey hughes?
Yes?
Yeah, we have a warrant
to search the premises.
So if everybody could please get up.
Afuera, por favor!
?que debo hacer, doctor?
Yo me encargo de esto.
El doctor.
I'm not a doctor. I'm an herbalist.
All we sell is herbs,
vitamins, supplements.
Does that include prescription drugs?
You've seen my customers.
Their ancestors were the maya.
The mayans believe that
wellness resides in a balance
Of body and spirit; man and god.
We're not here for a history lesson.
Man has always been imperfect.
I do what I can.
That warrant includes your prints.
I'd like to take those now.
Give me your hand, please.
Does "doing all that you can"
Include procedures or surgeries?
Like I said, I am not a doctor.
What's back there?
Just a storeroom.
Mr. Hughes, your prints were
found on crime scene evidence.
You're under arrest.
Come with me.
Escort this young
lady to a car, as well.
No table.
No surgical equipment lying around.
Suppose it would've been
easier if we'd walked in
And found a laparoscope. Hmm.
But dr. Jekyll or no, he
had to have some tools.
We'll get a warrant for his house.
Eduardo gomez lost a lot of blood.
If there was an operating table in here,
It would have been in
the middle of the room.
And he would have needed some light.
All right, that's bright
enough for surgery.
The boy's blood would've
dripped down here
Off the table.
Could've used bleach to clean it up.
Bleach only cleans the surface.
Unless you really saturate it,
It's not gonna get down to the grout.
Nick, the grout in these two areas is
Two different shades.
Yep, the tiles on this floor
have been regrouted, nick.
The difference is
subtle, but I can feel it.
Well, I can only think of one
reason you'd bleach and regrout.
We have blood.
If it belonged to eduardo gomez...
It means he died here.
Karen jones' bank account shows
That she paid for three
nights, using her debit card.
Anybody with her?
No. She checked in two nights ago.
She was alone. What do you got?
Room's all clear, captain.
Not bad for fremont street.
Got some luggage.
Looks like she didn't check out.
Do you smell that?
Hasn't ripened into decomp yet.
The girl in the blue dress.
She's definitely not sleeping it off.
Hey, catherine.
I found two suitcases in
karen jones' motel room,
And one of them belongs to a...
Jillian rose from phoenix.
: Gotta be the girl in the blue dress.
Great. Have brass run her.
Meet jillian rose.
Oh. Ms. Rose has got
quite a few contusions.
Yeah. Defensive wounds.
Nasty lump on her forehead.
No internal hemorrhaging, not fatal but
Probably happened during the struggle.
What's c.O.D.?
Petechial hemorrhaging
In the eyes and lips...
White marks, but...
No indentations in the neck.
Just like her friend--
she was asphyxiated.
Uh, didn't find any trace
in her nose or esophagus.
She was suffocated before she
was put into that box spring.
Any indication what time she died?
Sometime between midnight
And 4:00 a.M.
Karen jones and jillian rose,
Friends from the same
town, sharing the same room,
Killed in a similar manner
around the same time.
But their bodies were found
in two different locations.
Are we looking for two killers?
My gut says that we're not.
Well, if just one guy did this,
She had to have been killed first.
So the blood in the truck
bed and the trash bags
Came from multiple donors,
both male and female.
Including eduardo gomez?
And you
were right--
That was his blood in the grout.
But I also found a second
contributor in the grout sample.
It was an unknown male.
They're probably my epithelials.
I had to palpate the grou t
- you can't do that with gloves on.
Well, in that case, I just
need a sample of your dna,
And I will exclude you.
My dna-- which would
go into a database.
Your fingerprints are already in afi s
- what's the difference?
There's a big difference.
You're gonna have to put in
your report that I said no.
Mrs. Hughes.
We have a warrant to
search the premises.
All right, mr. Hughes,
Eduardo gomez died in
your operating room.
I don't have an operating room.
But you knew him.
I knew his whole family.
His mother was a loyal customer.
Did you tell his mother
that you dumped him
With the rest of the trash
from your other surgeries?
I mean, it must have been a busy night.
You, um, removed a gallbladder;
You amputated a gangrenous finger;
You attempted to remove
eduardo's abdominal cyst.
So tell me, where did you train, doctor?
I graduated premed
At harvard,
And celebrated in cozumel,
Where I fell in love with a local girl.
So I, uh,
Went to medical school in guadalajara
And trained at a hospital in monterey.
And are you licensed
To practice in the United States?
You know the answer to that.
Yes, I do.
So you were smuggling drugs,
You were practicing without a
license in unsafe conditions,
All of which cost
eduardo gomez his life.
I was trying to save his life!
He is the sole support of his mother
And his newborn sister.
They're here without documentation.
No insurance.
He was in so much pain,
He couldn't travel
to mexico for surgery.
I couldn't turn him
away. Eduardo presented
With obvious signs of itp.
I misdiagnosed.
By the time I knew what was
going on, it was too late.
His mother was there.
She made the decision
to dispose of the body.
She doesn't blame me.
I delivered her baby!
Her perfectly healthy infant.
Eduardo was the first patient
ever to die in my care.
Well, what about joey bigelow
And bernard higgins?
Hmm?
What about them?
I don't know these men.
This isn't medicine.
Look, I don't run a
practice to get rich.
I... Help those the system ignores.
The nanny whose gallbladder is inflamed,
The gardener who risks his
life for a gangrenous finger.
There are clinics, social services
For that kind of thing. Reform
health care all you want.
My patients are always
gonna be left out.
Had the casino send over some
more surveillance footage,
This time tracking our
second victim, jillian rose.
Started with karen
and jillian at the bar,
And I noticed something.
A few minutes after
their little argument,
Karen and jillian went
on the hunt-- separately.
That's when I found this.
Oh, she landed the atm guy.
The one that karen couldn't.
They got off on 19.
Six minutes later, she's
texting, coming down.
That's not even enough
time for a quickie.
And why would
Two hookers go after the same john?
'cause maybe they aren't hookers.
And I don't think this is about sex.
Karen jones and jillian
rose were running a con.
One of them would steal
the guy's pin number,
The other would steal his credit card.
Who am I looking at? Their mark.
That's karen with him at the atm,
And an hour later,
jillian went up to his room
On the 19th floor.
We never talked to him,
So he's got to be one of the checkouts.
Let's go back to the mediterranean.
So, the room is registered
To donald fiore.
He works as an actuary;
he's here for the convention.
The maid I.D.'d him from a photo.
She said she saw nothing unusual
when she cleaned up, so...
We're only three doors down
From where we found karen jones' body.
When did fiore check
out? Well, he didn't.
He left his key in the room,
And the hotel automatically
checks him out at noon.
Right, so he could've checked
out anytime. Fiore lives
In salt lake cit y
- I spoke to the local cops.
they said they'd keep an eye on him,
But they weren't gonna arrest him
Until we provided them
with more evidence.
I gotta take this. Good luck.
Brass. Talk to me. okay. So...
The maid would have
vacuumed, emptied the trash,
Cleaned the bathroom,
Changed the towels...
And the sheets, too.
Hotel laundry will all be commingled.
And if he threw her clothes
in the trash, well...
That's like looking for a
needle inside a stack of needles,
So... What part of the room remains
From guest to guest?
Looks like somebody
messed with this vent.
Oh... Got a pair of shoes.
No dress, though.
Karen jones...
Had silver stilettos.
They're all wet.
I didn't see any
condensation in the vent.
Heels have been snapped off.
And the soles are... Are bent.
I mean... This didn't
happen during the struggle.
He was trying to get rid of these.
He flushed the dress,
But he couldn't get
the shoes to go down.
If the dress is still in this pipe,
Then the toilet would be backed up.
And you know what rolls downhill.
Okay. We're ready.
Greg, stop.
We've got something.
How may feet of cable do you have out?
Uh, about 20.
About ten feet per floor.
So, that's...
Two floors below.
1721.
I think that's enough
to compel a warrant.
I didn't realize I was set
up until I was in the shower.
Oh, god, your body is unbelievable!
And you'll get to taste all of it.
As soon as you shower.
I'll be right here,
Thinking about what
I'm going to do to you.
She stole my wallet.
I should have known.
She was...
Too beautiful to be a hooker.
I called my bank,
found out that they had
Used my credit card and pin,
Took a $2,000 cash advance.
That's a $50 bank charge,
accrues at 28% interest.
Why didn't you just report it?
Well, if I called the
cops and you found them,
Then there would be reports
Saying that I had brought
a girl back to my room,
And I couldn't take the
risk of my wife finding out.
She's an heiress.
Has all the money.
Simple cost-benefit analysis.
How does that analysis work?
Their lives for your wallet?
The solve rates
For murders, for
homicides in clark county?
62%.
My wife finds out that I'm philandering?
That's a 100% chance of divorce.
But since you didn't cheat,
You figured that she would be okay
With you murdering karen and jillian?
I never saw jillian again.
As far as her friend goes,
She came looking for me.
You want it back? It's gonna cost you.
Just-just give it to me, and
I'll forget the whole thing.
I don't think so.
I saw that the safety
was still on, so...
I took my chances.
Prostitutes are 60 to
100 times more likely
To be murdered than non-prostitutes.
So I flushed the dress, and I
pulled her out into the hallway.
I calculated the likelihood
That you would think
that she was a hooker
And wouldn't be a priority.
You calculated wrong.
Regardless, I acted in self-defense.
Yeah, right up until you suffocated her.
Well, acquittal rates
for sel f-defense claims
Are very high-- jurors
tend to judge the motives
Of a beautiful con
woman much more harshly
Than an overworked actuary.
Hodges.
Yeah?
I need you to tell me what this is.
Gray fibers.
Maybe a recycled synthetic.
Oh, yeah.
It's polyester polyfill fiber.
Commonly used in box spring padding.
Don't you have to do
an ftir to confirm that?
Just did one.
On your motel girl;
The one stuffed into the box spring.
Are you saying this fiber
is from the same box spring?
I'm just saying that it's
the same type of material.
Your two victims shared the room.
What are the chances that
it's not from that box spring?
Karen had to have come into
contact with the box spring
After it was cut open.
Which puts her in the room
after jillian was dead.
Or after karen killed her.
I'd hate to think
fiore's telling the truth.
Okay, so, there were no fibers
In jillian's nose or throat.
So karen had to have
used something non-textile
To asphyxiate her.
Shower curtain was intact.
Plastic laundry bags were
clean and folded in the closet.
Trash can liner.
There was nothing in it,
so I didn't collect it.
You had no reason to.
Looks like a lipstick smudge to me.
Who kisses a trash bag?
Maybe a girl fighting for her life.
Those are carpal prints.
No way those are karen's prints.
They're too big.
Karen didn't kill her.
She came back to the room
and found jillian dead.
Then karen hid jillian
inside the box spring
To buy herself some time.
She then...
Took the wallet over to the hotel room
And tried to extort money from fiore.
Live by the con, die by the con.
Mr. Fiore.
There's been a development.
We need your major case prints.
I already gave you my prints.
And I admitted to killing
karen jones in self-defense.
That was a standard ten-card.
Give me your right hand.
And if I refuse?
Then I'm going to get six
Of the biggest deputies you've ever seen
To come in here and assist you.
Jillian rose
Was suffocated with a trash
liner from her motel room,
And your prints are on it.
How did you find out
where she was staying?
I wanted my wallet back.
I went out looking for jillian,
And I saw her at the casino next door.
She jumped into a cab,
and I followed her.
Open up or I'll call the police.
Give me my wallet, you bitch!
I don't have it!
Give me my wallet! I swear!
I want my wallet!
It was a mathematical certainty
That a woman like that
would report the assault
Or she would blackmail me
for the rest of my life.
The only logical thing
to do was to kill her.
And you applied that same logic
When karen jones showed up at your door?
You know what that stupid girl did?
She-she pointed a gun at me,
And she demanded that I give her $50,000
For her friend's funeral.
Well, according to my math,
The $50,000 that you saved
Is going to cost you 20 years to life.
W-wait...
Look, I-I am a good man.
I work hard.
I love my wife.
I contribute to society.
I mean, these people,
You deal with them all
the time. And those girls?
They were just... They were
just worthless criminals.
No, they were human beings.
You're the worthless criminal.
Okay, I'll come by your place.
No, no, it's cool. I have tomorrow off.
Hey, nick?
I'll call you back.
Listen, I need to talk to you.
Uh, I had wendy run the markers
For race on the appendix
implanted in bernard higgins.
It was non-hispanic caucasian.
Now, all the body parts we
found in the truck were hispanic.
I don't think hughes is dr. Jekyll.
Regardless, w e-we got
him for drug trafficking.
We got him for practicing
without a license
And eduardo gomez's death.
Yeah. Yeah. He's not going anywhere.
Agreed.
I need a favor.
I think your spanish is
a little better than mine.
Would you take a look
at that for me, please?
"clinica gratis."
Okay. Free clinic.
"ped?atra, emergencias,
Medicina general."
I thought I was the only
one trying to save the world.
I don't approve of the
way hughes went about it,
But he had the right idea.
This clinic I volunteer at,
It's safe, it's free, it's legal.
I just want to spread the word.
What do you think? Claro?
S?, claro.
Thanks, nick.
De nada.