CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015): Season 9, Episode 13 - Deep Fried and Minty Fresh - full transcript
Real estate agent Scott Tucker is found drunk as a skunk at home, while his wife Melinda died, handcuffed to the bed, from ingested tooth paste. Their business and marriage were going down the drain. Chicken fast-food joint owner Robert 'Bob' Graham is found dead inside, asphyxiated in hot oil after a non-fatal blow on the head. Suspect fingerprints don't point to any employee, but things tie together after indications for a second murder, the corpse from which was removed in an oil drum, are followed to reveal several at first sight irrelevant plots.
The call did say 419
at Choozy's Chicken
Not him
Him
Oh, careful, guys It's
real slippery back here
Manager Bob Graham
Salt Lake City, Utah
Had a whopping $42 in his wallet
Make that $62
Who found him?
Well, a patrol car went by and saw
the broken window around 12:15 AM
Place closes at 11:00 PM
So a call went out
to the night manager, Kiwi Long
Floor's covered in oil
Probably from the fryer
It does look a bit low
And it's still on
Looks like somebody
interrupted closing time
I have a backpack here
Vic has multiple lacerations,
contusions and fractures
All confined to his face and skull
Razor's still wet
A little personal hygiene
at the dish sink? Yum
A pair of jeans
Men's
Too small to be the victim's
This stuff's got to be an employee's
Somebody's using this place as a motel
Maybe Big Bob caught them checking
in and things went very wrong
If Backpack Dude had a key, then why
use the mascot as a battering ram?
I'm Choozy Chicken
the chicken of choice
But you can just call me delicious
May be he can tell us
Registers are empty
Robbery?
Not sure
You know, back in high school, I
used to work at a fast food place
We would put the cash in a drop
safe and leave the registers open
To show that there
wasn't anything to steal
I'm gonna go check the manager's office
You find something, Ray?
Will you kill the overhead
fluorescents, please?
Yeah
Drag marks
Starting from the fryer
Leading to the back door,
diminishing as they go
Possible second victim?
Possibly
And the blood tell
you anything special?
Tails on the blood drops
establish directionality
But these tails indicate that the
blood is going into the kitchen
Drag marks lead outside
Oil out, blood in Good observation
Nick
Can't be full of oil
if it's full of body
Nothing
This drum doesn't belong
to Choozy's Chicken
It says, "Mr Hu's Mandarin Kitchen"
What, do you eat a lot
of Chinese or something?
I wrote a journal article
about dengue fever
Most of the research was in Mandarin
Oh, well, that's good Then, you and
Mr Hu will have a lot to discuss
My Mandarin's a
little a little rusty
Skid marks
Somebody was in a hurry
Scuff marks on the pole
I have something
Mirror
Looks like transfer
Looks like the killer and whoever he was
dragging made a not- so- clean getaway
I'm Kiwi Long, manager on call
Captain Jim Brass
Mister- Captain Brass, I don't
know why the alarm didn't go off
I was supposed to close last night
But I've been having some trouble
with my son's babysitter
Bob said that he was going to cover
for me, and he's a regional manager
So I figured the place
was in good hands
Oh, my God, that could
have been me last night
Who else, uh, closed up last night?
Elizabeth Martin
She's one of my best
employees- really responsible
I'm going to need to
get in touch with her
I already called her
It went to voicemail
Something must be wrong
She always takes my call
Okay, uh, who else has the
combination to the drop safe?
Only me and Bob
It's the day I got my promotion,
the day my son was born
And the day we got our cat
Zoey-Omega
So
23-31-12
Okay, I-I'm gonna need
all your surveillance
Oh, you have to call corporate
It goes straight to them
Some clips ended up on YouTube that
were, um, unflattering to the franchise
Not on my watch, but, um, ever since
All the surveillance cameras
are wired to a digital feed
In the manager's office
I'm gonna need contact information
for all your employees
Both former and current Okay?
Oh, are you going to be contacting
Bob's next of kin, or should I?
Because I don't know who they are
The husband's blood alcohol
level is through the roof
The wife's dead in the bedroom
Mailman tried to deliver
this when he found them
Notice of intent to foreclose
Nice house to lose
Mr Tucker's a mortgage broker
His wife's a real estate agent,
so they probably got first pick
There's no sign of forced
entry, but the place is a sty
Yeah, looks like he's
been living on the couch
Thready pulse BP's 90
over 60 He's wasted
- He's gonna need a stomach pump
- I'm good I'm good
Rigor's begun to set
And her liver temp is 93 degrees
Which means she's been dead
three to five hours
You want to bet that that's about
the time the husband started drinking?
Okay, I'm on my way to the
hospital to get his statement
I'll get back to you
Looks like some kind of a struggle
Yeah But it wasn't a fair fight
She was handcuffed
Which under the right
circumstances can be fun
You got a CODthere, Dave?
Undetermined
Catherine, I apologize
for the overshare
Thank you for the overshare
Whoa, you have your hands full
Uh, yeah Just put your
stuff down over there
Thanks I'm, uh, I'm still
trying to get organized
Trying to figure out when's
a good time to eat lunch
Lunch- which, I just
turned into a biohazard
Your vic had quite a night
Ante-mortem, fractured
cheek bones, broken nose
And I have some sort of
A... circular trauma to the cerebellum
I think he might have gotten whacked
in the head with a "wet floor" sign
No!
So much for safety in the workplace
This is your COD
High-speed impact to the base of the
skull, at the atlanto-occipital junction
Dislodged the C-1 vertebrae
severing the spinal cord
Hit, fall, kick Who knows?
But death swift and certain
Stokes Really
Thanks We'll pay him a visit
Mandy got a hit off of
the side-view mirror
He's a former Choozy's
Chicken employee
Who's already in the system
for assaulting dear old Bob here
Let's go check him out
- Okay
- Thanks, Doc
Uh, you can just leave it
Come back later for it
Thank you
Where were you last night, Max?
Here Studying
Can anyone confirm that?
Sure 32 other frat brothers
We were all here Studying
This side-view mirror
is from your truck
We found it last night at the
Choozy's Chicken on Tropicana
Hey, maybe we should take all 32
brothers downtown, what do you think?
- Why not?
- Yeah?
Okay Okay
Look, um, the damage was an accident
It was supposed to be a
smooth operation You know?
Tie him up, throw him the
truck, bring him back here
But he fell, and he
was too heavy to lift
And I was working with a new crew
So, I guess I miscalculated
I talked to my dad, he said he'd pay
You can't buy your way out of this one
You've already assaulted him once
Were you trying to
finish what you started?
What the hell?
How does it feel to be
my chicken bitch?
- Oh, where you going?
- Come on, fatty!
You embarrassed me
Forgot friendliness
And service
That's why people choose Choozy's
No, no, I was there last night,
but I didn't run into Bob
I didn't see anybody
The place was closed
Come on, Max Your record kind
of speaks for itself here, man
Look, that guy was an asshat
That assault charge is bogus
Ask anybody who was there
The dude went berserk on
me- it was self-defense
Is that what got you fired?
Oh, no, I wasn't fired I just quit
I only took the job for recon
Recon?
Choozy's Chicken was the
only one I didn't have
Good-looking couple
You could blind yourself
on these incisors Ting!
Looks like we have a runner
Didn't know that wine had electrolytes
They say it's good for your heart
Yeah, a lot of good it did her
Now we know how they got
those whites so pearly
Home from a run
More than halfway through
an afternoon cocktail
They haven't been
getting along, he's drunk,
- and he won't take no for an answer
- No!
Romantic
I do like the extra money
working at Choozy's gives me,
but mainly, you got to keep
busy when you're my age
Sure Sure you do
Can I just get you to
keep your fingers straight?
Dude, I can't lose this job or
my dad's gonna take my car away
Well, if you didn't do anything wrong,
you don't have anything to worry about
Well, Jackson's always
doing something wrong
I can't believe this is all over Bob
Probably choked stuffing
Choozy's down his pie hole
Jabrone
You just didn't like him 'cause he would
not let you throw ice cubes in the fryer
It's the best thing about
the job, Marge
Okay, has anybody seen Elizabeth
Martin or Gary Comstock?
No, I haven't seen either of them
"Ooh, Gary Gary, could
you give me a ride home?"
Dude, shut up, okay?
He's just a nice guy
Yeah, for a homeless junkie
Look who's talking
You're, like, one spliff
away from rehab, moron
Thousands in the safe
A stack of loose cash,
and only $200 missing?
That's not much of a robbery
Well, it could be Elizabeth Martin
was closing up with Big Bob last night
I ran down her address from her license
I mean, it's Ann Elizabeth Martin
She's a Seven Hills desperate
housewife with 25 kids
and a Nordic silver SUV and a
recurring victim of identity theft
Little lie, big lie?
Could be an illegal
Someone with priors
Maybe Bob caught her with
her hand in the cookie jar
- Excuse me, Captain Brass
- Wendy
Um, we just finished getting
the fingerprints and DNA
From all the Choozy's Chicken
employees
But there were two no-shows
Elizabeth Martin and Gary Comstock
Now, I actually got a
CODIS hit from one of them
'Cause the epithelials from
the razor came back to Gary
In the system for felony drug charges?
Last-known address was a rehab center?
I called it, but they said they
hadn't seen him in six weeks
Yeah, that's because he's living
out of a backpack at Choozy's
Well, easy to do when you have a
friend with a key to the back door
So, Gary's on crack time
He comes back there to crash
Only Bob's still there, catches him
in the act, and all hell breaks loose
What are you doing here, Gary?
Well, where's Elizabeth?
Probably in an oil drum somewhere
No honor among thieves
Okay, but wouldn't a drug addict
grab up all the loose cash?
Anything come back on the SAE kit?
Negative
No sign of sexual activity,
forced or consensual
So he cuffed her to the bedpost in her
underwear, but they didn't have sex
Excuse me I just wanted to get my kit
How's business with Choozy's Chicken?
A little confusing
How's your case going?
A bit confusing
You, uh, want to stick around?
Yes, I would
What do we have, Doctor?
Did this woman have
a highly stressful job?
- Why?
- Gastric ulcer Pretty advanced
- Thanks
- Sure Here
Death by Smurf?
Have you ever seen
anything like this?
Nope
Minty
Fresh
Shouldn't that be in an evidence bag?
That's not the one from Choozy's
Chicken I took that out of our bathroom
But first I'm going to
give you the bad news
That bloody handprint on the
countertop that was all smudgy?
I got a useable index
fingerprint off of that,
but it's not a match to
anyone, including Gary
Measures about ten inches from the
tip of the middle finger to the wrist,
which is quite large for a
guy and it's huge for a woman
So we're looking for a guy
whodoesn'twork at Choozy's?
- Right
- Damn Okay
Then I got a lot of
incidental prints on the sign
All of which were
eliminated to the employees
However, there was a set of
prints that got my attention
Eight fingertips on one side of the
sign, two thumbprints on the other
- That is an attacking grip
- Right
And I found
a matching fingerprint for that
On Elizabeth Martin's register receipt
But I can't say for sure it's hers
So I need to see Elizabeth
Or, um, one of her fingers
You're sick, Mandy
So it says herethat blood drop that
I collected from the manager's office
- Is menstrual blood
- It's weird, right?
And weirder still
it's not even Kiwi's
According to this, it's not
any of the female employees
Well, I don't have an exemplar for
Elizabeth Martin
So we can't exclude her
Pants off in the manager's office
during that time of the month?
Assault?
No blood smears, no
semen, no torn clothing
It didn't look like a rape scene
- Maybe it was consensual
- With Bob?
- Or Gary
- Or both
Love triangles can be deadly
Don't I know it
That was well said
The owner of the restaurant is upset
because his drums keep getting stolen,
and he's not getting his energy rebate
I didn't know restaurants
got rebates for recycling
That's why he has security cameras
pointing straight at his drums
Well, lucky for us, we
have Mr Hu's footage
Now, this is just after midnight, same
night your guy was killed at Choozy's
Sweet ride, huh?
Chevy Corvair
Take one, leave an empty
At least our barrel bandits recycle
Can you get a read of
the license plate?
Yeah
This is Timothy Rand's vehicle
You know, I missed
the whole hippie thing
I was too busy in Southeast Asia
keeping my head down and my feet dry
I'm surprised you didn't drop a
little acid or smoke a little T
Well, things did get a little wild
Namast?? I'm Silver
Police I'm Brass
And this is Ray Langston
from the Crime Lab
Is Timothy around?
Oh, yeah, he's in his
workshop Here, follow me
Can you feel that?
Feel what?
High ratio of positive to negative ions
Unfriendly air
But you can't let it bring you down
Scientifically proven
The Santa Anas, the Siroccos
You know what I'm talking about
Timothy Rand?
I know why you're here,
but this is not a crime, man
They put this valuable
resource out with the trash!
Some restaurants are, you know
pouring it down storm drains
Or dumping it in the desert
If one good thing could come out of all
those caged animals,
Hopped up on hormones, who are
then slaughtered and then frozen
Only to be deep fried and wind up
as plaque in our arteries, it is this
Biodiesel
It only cost me 200
bucks to convert my van!
You know what I'm saying?
One man can...
Make a difference!
Look, this planet is our mother
and we're all her children
That's right, baby
Where'd you get the
Choozy Chicken barrel?
The one on, uh, Tropicana
I always return them
I just haven't processed this one yet
Well, congratulations It's a boy
David, you have the touch of a surgeon
Thank you
Looks like there's a blood stain
on the boxers
I'm going to need to get those to DNA
Will do
Ante-mortem abrasions on
the second and third knuckle
Could be from busting up Bob's face
Extensive third degree burns here
I'm gonna need to, uh, take
a look inside his mouth
Go ahead
There are full thickness burns on
all exposed surfaces of his face
There's damage to the
nares and nasal mucosa
So his breathing was compromised
That's your COD
Asphyxia due to inhalation of hot oil
Prints just confirmed ID
It's Gary Comstock
Tox panel came back clean
So he wasn't using anymore
The man had a second chance at life
Till he was murdered
Nope Any news on blue goo?
The blue goo was toothpaste
Approximately 12 ounces worth
Equivalent to two full tubes
Yeah, we collected a couple of
empties in the trash at the house
I'll compare them
Is it possible to OD on toothpaste?
Definitely, if it's fluoride toothpaste
Each tube comes
with a warning-
"If swallowed, please contact the
Poison Control Center immediately "
Never had a cavity
No joke
How much fluoride would
it take kill a person?
Depends on the person
Uh, female victim, 110 pounds
With a pre-existing stomach ulcer
Which means it would get
into her system faster
The PTD-
"Probably Toxic Dose"-
is five milligrams per
kilogram of body weight
A regular tube of toothpaste-
you're talking 170 grams
25 percent of which is fluoride, so
170 times 25 is 425
She's 50 kilograms, Yeah So...
She would need 250
milligrams for it to be toxic
And if there's 425
milligrams in one tube
So one tube would do it
Assuming she absorbed it
all and didn't throw it up
Well, then, for sure, two
tubes would get the job done
She would experience what I like to
call a catastrophic symptom train
Wicked muscle spasms
would give way to
Decreased heart rate
Lowered blood pressure
Decreased respiration
and, eventually, death
Death by toothpaste
You know, I got something else
I found trace amounts
Of diphenhydramine
hydrochloride in her tox panel
Maybe she had allergies
Someone slipped it to her
I analyzed her wine
It was cheap California merlot
with an antihistamine mickey
Why?
Well, diphenhydramine hydrochloride
is both a soporific and an antiemetic
It makes you sleepy and
it keeps you from puking
Paramedics found this in your pocket
It's the key to the handcuffs
that we took off your wife
We checked your
Pay-Per-View selections
You've been watching a
lot of bondage porn lately
Strap Daddy Silk Cuffs OneandTwo
What happened to my wife?
Scott, there's not enough booze in
this town to make you forget murder
Fluoride poisoning?
Are you kidding me with this?
No See I'm thinking
you're a mortgage broker
Your business is in the crapper
The bank is trying to foreclose
on your house
And your wife had a very nice
insurance policy
Nice enough for you to
pay off all those debts
You see where I'm going, Scott?
Look, I'll admit things weren't that
great between Melinda and I Okay?
She blamed me for losing the
house and everything else
But those handcuffs
are from better times
We hadn't had sex in months
We, uh, checked your medical records
You have receding gums
So what? Who cares about my gums?
Well, you use a special,
high fluoride toothpaste
We found your prints all over these
Yeah Before Melinda became a real
estate agent, she was a dental hygienist
We had boxes of that stuff lying around
Free samples We both used it
Look, if I had tried to cram toothpaste
down Melinda's throat
She would have kicked me in the cubes
Hey, Ray
Did your "Barrel Boy" wear glasses?
Not according to his DMVrecord
But Big Bob did
Halt You can't bring food in here
Not my rules
I found this in the fryer oil
Along with two metal screws,
which was the giveaway
Cheap plastic frames and lenses
These don't look like French fries
That's because those are bits of Gary
And what were these?
Once upon a time, those were $180
How do we know that?
All right, what am I looking at here?
You are looking at a
plastic security strip
It's embedded in all USbank notes
Supposedly to prevent counterfeiting
Although I've heard that they
can be read by satellites,
so the "Man" knows how
much money's in your pocket
And we still can't find Bin Laden
Nine plastic strips
Nine
twenties- $180
Plus the 20 we found in
the dead manager's pocket
So all the missing money from
Choozy's Chicken is accounted for
Which means there was no robbery
We've got evidence that isn't
telling us the whole story
So let's walk through
this again Shall we?
Bob was on the floor here
There were oil drag marks leading
from the kitchen to the Dumpster
And we now know that Gary was dragged
outside and put into an oil drum
There was also a blood trail
leading in from the Dumpster
As well as blood stains
on Gary's boxer shorts
Now, DNA confirms that both
samples were "Dead Bob's" blood
Bob bled on Gary dragging him out
And then bled on the ground
when he walked back in
But did Bob kill Gary?
Or was there another assailant?
All right I'll be Gary
You be Big Dead Bob
- Seriously
- Yeah
Seriously Okay
- We struggle
- We struggle
You shove my face in the oil
That could explain
how Bob's glasses ended up in the fryer
As well as the missing $200 that
could've slipped out of his shirt pocket
Let's do it again
Look at your left hand
You're using it as leverage
If Bob pushed Gary into the fryer, the
handprint we collected would be Bob's
But it's not
Well, the evidence can't be wrong
but we could be
What you doing?
I need to see for myself the
volume of 340 grams of toothpaste
You know, unencumbered by
a tube it is an awful lot
Join in I used to do this as a kid
Now we get paid for doing it
Even with an anti-emetic
How would you force this much
toothpaste down someone's throat?
Excuse me for interrupting
arts and crafts
Ah, it's an experiment
Well, maybe for you
The toothpaste that Mrs Tucker
ingested contained a bleaching agent
The tubes you collected didn't
There were two empty tubes of
toothpaste in their bedroom,
but it's not the
toothpaste that killed her
Arts and crafts are over
Gotta go back to the house
Their life in garbage
And no toothpaste
Nothing on the ground or in the planter
Shoe rubber
The gate was locked
Homeowner's about 80
Once I asked loudly enough, she gave us
permission to search without a warrant
Fluoride toothpaste with bleach
Hey, Mandy
Okay, you know what, no
more shotgun approach
You need to start
prioritizing your latents
No, no, I'm only interested
in one print, the handprint
O... kay, but I already put that
through the database
Well, we're having a little disparity
between context and the evidence
What are you asking me?
Is it possible the print got distorted?
Well, you can only distort prints
with pressure or body weight
Well, we do now think that the surface
print was left during a struggle,
and Bob Graham was a big boy, so can
you run that index finger for me again?
- Yeah, okay
- Thank you
It's a reversal
There must have been enough
pressure to invert the print
I'm sorry, I missed it Okay Right
Do you see how these appear to be
ridges, but there is no sweat glands?
Which is because those are furrows
It's a match I'm sorry
It's okay, you're human Stokes
Hey, Nicky, I got Elizabeth Martin
from her canceled payroll checks
The bank gave me her address
- So she's alive
- Oh, yeah
Did her record kick back any priors?
No record Immigration got wind of it
They scooped up her whole family
She's an illegal working
here on a fake ID
She's in Interrogation now I'll
let you know how it turns out
All right
Hello
I'm Detective Jim Brass
Las Vegas Police
Okay
Let's start with an easy question
What's your real name?
Rosa Gonzales
Okay, Rosa Gonzales
tell me what happened at
Choozy's Chicken the other night
I didn't mean to kill him
You wanted to see me?
Your drop bag was short
I checked it twice
You want me to call the police, huh?
I'm gonna have to do a strip search
He made me take off all my clothes
Did he assault you? Touch you?
He put his hands on me
No!
What the hell is this?
What are you doing here, Gary?
I'm not the issue here, Bob
Then what happened?
I got dressed I could
hear them fighting
I went out into the kitchen
Stop it!
Get out of here! What the
hell are you doing, Bob?
I ran
But I swear to the Virgin herself,
I was just trying to help Gary
Hitting him with the sign
isn't what killed him
So I can go home?
Miss Gonzales, you see the immigration
agent outside with your family
They tell me that you're
in this country illegally
I grew up here I work
I take care of my family
I believe you, I do,
but it's not my call
Well, we've exhausted every suspect,
and we still don't know who killed Bob
Well, at this point, it's
a locked room mystery
After all that we've been
through, how can you guys eat that?
Power of suggestion
And because I can't help
myself They're good
It's 'cause they put crack in the fries
What if the room is the suspect?
According to his insurance records
Bob had twenty-eighty vision
Without his glasses, he
was practically blind
Elizabeth gave him a pretty
good whack to the cerebellum
Which can affect equilibrium
Add those factors to a slippery floor
It's a case of blind justice
So when I'm filling out the paperwork
who do I list on the suspect line?
There is no suspect It was an accident
The DNA from inside the latex
gloves was You ready for this?
- Scott Tucker?
- Related by marriage
Melinda?
Wait a minute Wait a
minute It was suicide?
Yeah With a nice, big frame around it
Otherwise, why not just
pop the diphenhydramine?
Why spike the wine?
Well, maybe she was trying to frame
her husband for attempted murder,
hoping for a poisoning, not a death
Doubtful I mean, she was a hygienist
If that were the case, she
would've just stopped at one tube
Henry did say that there was about an
hour between ingestion and her death
Plenty of time to set up the husband
She goes outside, she
climbs the fence
she ditches the evidence
in the neighbor's trash, and then...
Cuffs herself to the bed
and then waits to dies?
What could you possibly have done
to make your wife hate you so much?
We used to be an amazing team actually
She'd find the client the house, I'd
get them financing Everyone was happy
But I always told her-
don't get too friendly;
These are clients, they're not friends
But she goes to all the parties
All the barbeques,
all the fund-raisers
So, when the NINJA loans flipped over,
and the banks kicked
them out of their homes
Because they couldn't afford
to make their payments
Well, they called us, screaming
like it was our fault,
And I blamed her
If she hadn't gotten all buddy-buddy
with them in the first place,
they never would have crossed that line
That's when the marriage went belly-up
We couldn't look each other
in the face after that
I thought she was weak
And she wanted me to feel bad
because I didn't feel worse
I never thought she'd
kill herself, though
Tried to kill me a couple of times
Couldn't sell the house,
couldn't afford to get a divorce
I can't believe that bitch set me up
Figured it's better than nothing
till they find you something
You could put a desk in there
It's perfect
I should check with Catherine first
I already did
- All right Thank you, Doctor
- You're welcome
I think I'll be right at home here
at Choozy's Chicken
Not him
Him
Oh, careful, guys It's
real slippery back here
Manager Bob Graham
Salt Lake City, Utah
Had a whopping $42 in his wallet
Make that $62
Who found him?
Well, a patrol car went by and saw
the broken window around 12:15 AM
Place closes at 11:00 PM
So a call went out
to the night manager, Kiwi Long
Floor's covered in oil
Probably from the fryer
It does look a bit low
And it's still on
Looks like somebody
interrupted closing time
I have a backpack here
Vic has multiple lacerations,
contusions and fractures
All confined to his face and skull
Razor's still wet
A little personal hygiene
at the dish sink? Yum
A pair of jeans
Men's
Too small to be the victim's
This stuff's got to be an employee's
Somebody's using this place as a motel
Maybe Big Bob caught them checking
in and things went very wrong
If Backpack Dude had a key, then why
use the mascot as a battering ram?
I'm Choozy Chicken
the chicken of choice
But you can just call me delicious
May be he can tell us
Registers are empty
Robbery?
Not sure
You know, back in high school, I
used to work at a fast food place
We would put the cash in a drop
safe and leave the registers open
To show that there
wasn't anything to steal
I'm gonna go check the manager's office
You find something, Ray?
Will you kill the overhead
fluorescents, please?
Yeah
Drag marks
Starting from the fryer
Leading to the back door,
diminishing as they go
Possible second victim?
Possibly
And the blood tell
you anything special?
Tails on the blood drops
establish directionality
But these tails indicate that the
blood is going into the kitchen
Drag marks lead outside
Oil out, blood in Good observation
Nick
Can't be full of oil
if it's full of body
Nothing
This drum doesn't belong
to Choozy's Chicken
It says, "Mr Hu's Mandarin Kitchen"
What, do you eat a lot
of Chinese or something?
I wrote a journal article
about dengue fever
Most of the research was in Mandarin
Oh, well, that's good Then, you and
Mr Hu will have a lot to discuss
My Mandarin's a
little a little rusty
Skid marks
Somebody was in a hurry
Scuff marks on the pole
I have something
Mirror
Looks like transfer
Looks like the killer and whoever he was
dragging made a not- so- clean getaway
I'm Kiwi Long, manager on call
Captain Jim Brass
Mister- Captain Brass, I don't
know why the alarm didn't go off
I was supposed to close last night
But I've been having some trouble
with my son's babysitter
Bob said that he was going to cover
for me, and he's a regional manager
So I figured the place
was in good hands
Oh, my God, that could
have been me last night
Who else, uh, closed up last night?
Elizabeth Martin
She's one of my best
employees- really responsible
I'm going to need to
get in touch with her
I already called her
It went to voicemail
Something must be wrong
She always takes my call
Okay, uh, who else has the
combination to the drop safe?
Only me and Bob
It's the day I got my promotion,
the day my son was born
And the day we got our cat
Zoey-Omega
So
23-31-12
Okay, I-I'm gonna need
all your surveillance
Oh, you have to call corporate
It goes straight to them
Some clips ended up on YouTube that
were, um, unflattering to the franchise
Not on my watch, but, um, ever since
All the surveillance cameras
are wired to a digital feed
In the manager's office
I'm gonna need contact information
for all your employees
Both former and current Okay?
Oh, are you going to be contacting
Bob's next of kin, or should I?
Because I don't know who they are
The husband's blood alcohol
level is through the roof
The wife's dead in the bedroom
Mailman tried to deliver
this when he found them
Notice of intent to foreclose
Nice house to lose
Mr Tucker's a mortgage broker
His wife's a real estate agent,
so they probably got first pick
There's no sign of forced
entry, but the place is a sty
Yeah, looks like he's
been living on the couch
Thready pulse BP's 90
over 60 He's wasted
- He's gonna need a stomach pump
- I'm good I'm good
Rigor's begun to set
And her liver temp is 93 degrees
Which means she's been dead
three to five hours
You want to bet that that's about
the time the husband started drinking?
Okay, I'm on my way to the
hospital to get his statement
I'll get back to you
Looks like some kind of a struggle
Yeah But it wasn't a fair fight
She was handcuffed
Which under the right
circumstances can be fun
You got a CODthere, Dave?
Undetermined
Catherine, I apologize
for the overshare
Thank you for the overshare
Whoa, you have your hands full
Uh, yeah Just put your
stuff down over there
Thanks I'm, uh, I'm still
trying to get organized
Trying to figure out when's
a good time to eat lunch
Lunch- which, I just
turned into a biohazard
Your vic had quite a night
Ante-mortem, fractured
cheek bones, broken nose
And I have some sort of
A... circular trauma to the cerebellum
I think he might have gotten whacked
in the head with a "wet floor" sign
No!
So much for safety in the workplace
This is your COD
High-speed impact to the base of the
skull, at the atlanto-occipital junction
Dislodged the C-1 vertebrae
severing the spinal cord
Hit, fall, kick Who knows?
But death swift and certain
Stokes Really
Thanks We'll pay him a visit
Mandy got a hit off of
the side-view mirror
He's a former Choozy's
Chicken employee
Who's already in the system
for assaulting dear old Bob here
Let's go check him out
- Okay
- Thanks, Doc
Uh, you can just leave it
Come back later for it
Thank you
Where were you last night, Max?
Here Studying
Can anyone confirm that?
Sure 32 other frat brothers
We were all here Studying
This side-view mirror
is from your truck
We found it last night at the
Choozy's Chicken on Tropicana
Hey, maybe we should take all 32
brothers downtown, what do you think?
- Why not?
- Yeah?
Okay Okay
Look, um, the damage was an accident
It was supposed to be a
smooth operation You know?
Tie him up, throw him the
truck, bring him back here
But he fell, and he
was too heavy to lift
And I was working with a new crew
So, I guess I miscalculated
I talked to my dad, he said he'd pay
You can't buy your way out of this one
You've already assaulted him once
Were you trying to
finish what you started?
What the hell?
How does it feel to be
my chicken bitch?
- Oh, where you going?
- Come on, fatty!
You embarrassed me
Forgot friendliness
And service
That's why people choose Choozy's
No, no, I was there last night,
but I didn't run into Bob
I didn't see anybody
The place was closed
Come on, Max Your record kind
of speaks for itself here, man
Look, that guy was an asshat
That assault charge is bogus
Ask anybody who was there
The dude went berserk on
me- it was self-defense
Is that what got you fired?
Oh, no, I wasn't fired I just quit
I only took the job for recon
Recon?
Choozy's Chicken was the
only one I didn't have
Good-looking couple
You could blind yourself
on these incisors Ting!
Looks like we have a runner
Didn't know that wine had electrolytes
They say it's good for your heart
Yeah, a lot of good it did her
Now we know how they got
those whites so pearly
Home from a run
More than halfway through
an afternoon cocktail
They haven't been
getting along, he's drunk,
- and he won't take no for an answer
- No!
Romantic
I do like the extra money
working at Choozy's gives me,
but mainly, you got to keep
busy when you're my age
Sure Sure you do
Can I just get you to
keep your fingers straight?
Dude, I can't lose this job or
my dad's gonna take my car away
Well, if you didn't do anything wrong,
you don't have anything to worry about
Well, Jackson's always
doing something wrong
I can't believe this is all over Bob
Probably choked stuffing
Choozy's down his pie hole
Jabrone
You just didn't like him 'cause he would
not let you throw ice cubes in the fryer
It's the best thing about
the job, Marge
Okay, has anybody seen Elizabeth
Martin or Gary Comstock?
No, I haven't seen either of them
"Ooh, Gary Gary, could
you give me a ride home?"
Dude, shut up, okay?
He's just a nice guy
Yeah, for a homeless junkie
Look who's talking
You're, like, one spliff
away from rehab, moron
Thousands in the safe
A stack of loose cash,
and only $200 missing?
That's not much of a robbery
Well, it could be Elizabeth Martin
was closing up with Big Bob last night
I ran down her address from her license
I mean, it's Ann Elizabeth Martin
She's a Seven Hills desperate
housewife with 25 kids
and a Nordic silver SUV and a
recurring victim of identity theft
Little lie, big lie?
Could be an illegal
Someone with priors
Maybe Bob caught her with
her hand in the cookie jar
- Excuse me, Captain Brass
- Wendy
Um, we just finished getting
the fingerprints and DNA
From all the Choozy's Chicken
employees
But there were two no-shows
Elizabeth Martin and Gary Comstock
Now, I actually got a
CODIS hit from one of them
'Cause the epithelials from
the razor came back to Gary
In the system for felony drug charges?
Last-known address was a rehab center?
I called it, but they said they
hadn't seen him in six weeks
Yeah, that's because he's living
out of a backpack at Choozy's
Well, easy to do when you have a
friend with a key to the back door
So, Gary's on crack time
He comes back there to crash
Only Bob's still there, catches him
in the act, and all hell breaks loose
What are you doing here, Gary?
Well, where's Elizabeth?
Probably in an oil drum somewhere
No honor among thieves
Okay, but wouldn't a drug addict
grab up all the loose cash?
Anything come back on the SAE kit?
Negative
No sign of sexual activity,
forced or consensual
So he cuffed her to the bedpost in her
underwear, but they didn't have sex
Excuse me I just wanted to get my kit
How's business with Choozy's Chicken?
A little confusing
How's your case going?
A bit confusing
You, uh, want to stick around?
Yes, I would
What do we have, Doctor?
Did this woman have
a highly stressful job?
- Why?
- Gastric ulcer Pretty advanced
- Thanks
- Sure Here
Death by Smurf?
Have you ever seen
anything like this?
Nope
Minty
Fresh
Shouldn't that be in an evidence bag?
That's not the one from Choozy's
Chicken I took that out of our bathroom
But first I'm going to
give you the bad news
That bloody handprint on the
countertop that was all smudgy?
I got a useable index
fingerprint off of that,
but it's not a match to
anyone, including Gary
Measures about ten inches from the
tip of the middle finger to the wrist,
which is quite large for a
guy and it's huge for a woman
So we're looking for a guy
whodoesn'twork at Choozy's?
- Right
- Damn Okay
Then I got a lot of
incidental prints on the sign
All of which were
eliminated to the employees
However, there was a set of
prints that got my attention
Eight fingertips on one side of the
sign, two thumbprints on the other
- That is an attacking grip
- Right
And I found
a matching fingerprint for that
On Elizabeth Martin's register receipt
But I can't say for sure it's hers
So I need to see Elizabeth
Or, um, one of her fingers
You're sick, Mandy
So it says herethat blood drop that
I collected from the manager's office
- Is menstrual blood
- It's weird, right?
And weirder still
it's not even Kiwi's
According to this, it's not
any of the female employees
Well, I don't have an exemplar for
Elizabeth Martin
So we can't exclude her
Pants off in the manager's office
during that time of the month?
Assault?
No blood smears, no
semen, no torn clothing
It didn't look like a rape scene
- Maybe it was consensual
- With Bob?
- Or Gary
- Or both
Love triangles can be deadly
Don't I know it
That was well said
The owner of the restaurant is upset
because his drums keep getting stolen,
and he's not getting his energy rebate
I didn't know restaurants
got rebates for recycling
That's why he has security cameras
pointing straight at his drums
Well, lucky for us, we
have Mr Hu's footage
Now, this is just after midnight, same
night your guy was killed at Choozy's
Sweet ride, huh?
Chevy Corvair
Take one, leave an empty
At least our barrel bandits recycle
Can you get a read of
the license plate?
Yeah
This is Timothy Rand's vehicle
You know, I missed
the whole hippie thing
I was too busy in Southeast Asia
keeping my head down and my feet dry
I'm surprised you didn't drop a
little acid or smoke a little T
Well, things did get a little wild
Namast?? I'm Silver
Police I'm Brass
And this is Ray Langston
from the Crime Lab
Is Timothy around?
Oh, yeah, he's in his
workshop Here, follow me
Can you feel that?
Feel what?
High ratio of positive to negative ions
Unfriendly air
But you can't let it bring you down
Scientifically proven
The Santa Anas, the Siroccos
You know what I'm talking about
Timothy Rand?
I know why you're here,
but this is not a crime, man
They put this valuable
resource out with the trash!
Some restaurants are, you know
pouring it down storm drains
Or dumping it in the desert
If one good thing could come out of all
those caged animals,
Hopped up on hormones, who are
then slaughtered and then frozen
Only to be deep fried and wind up
as plaque in our arteries, it is this
Biodiesel
It only cost me 200
bucks to convert my van!
You know what I'm saying?
One man can...
Make a difference!
Look, this planet is our mother
and we're all her children
That's right, baby
Where'd you get the
Choozy Chicken barrel?
The one on, uh, Tropicana
I always return them
I just haven't processed this one yet
Well, congratulations It's a boy
David, you have the touch of a surgeon
Thank you
Looks like there's a blood stain
on the boxers
I'm going to need to get those to DNA
Will do
Ante-mortem abrasions on
the second and third knuckle
Could be from busting up Bob's face
Extensive third degree burns here
I'm gonna need to, uh, take
a look inside his mouth
Go ahead
There are full thickness burns on
all exposed surfaces of his face
There's damage to the
nares and nasal mucosa
So his breathing was compromised
That's your COD
Asphyxia due to inhalation of hot oil
Prints just confirmed ID
It's Gary Comstock
Tox panel came back clean
So he wasn't using anymore
The man had a second chance at life
Till he was murdered
Nope Any news on blue goo?
The blue goo was toothpaste
Approximately 12 ounces worth
Equivalent to two full tubes
Yeah, we collected a couple of
empties in the trash at the house
I'll compare them
Is it possible to OD on toothpaste?
Definitely, if it's fluoride toothpaste
Each tube comes
with a warning-
"If swallowed, please contact the
Poison Control Center immediately "
Never had a cavity
No joke
How much fluoride would
it take kill a person?
Depends on the person
Uh, female victim, 110 pounds
With a pre-existing stomach ulcer
Which means it would get
into her system faster
The PTD-
"Probably Toxic Dose"-
is five milligrams per
kilogram of body weight
A regular tube of toothpaste-
you're talking 170 grams
25 percent of which is fluoride, so
170 times 25 is 425
She's 50 kilograms, Yeah So...
She would need 250
milligrams for it to be toxic
And if there's 425
milligrams in one tube
So one tube would do it
Assuming she absorbed it
all and didn't throw it up
Well, then, for sure, two
tubes would get the job done
She would experience what I like to
call a catastrophic symptom train
Wicked muscle spasms
would give way to
Decreased heart rate
Lowered blood pressure
Decreased respiration
and, eventually, death
Death by toothpaste
You know, I got something else
I found trace amounts
Of diphenhydramine
hydrochloride in her tox panel
Maybe she had allergies
Someone slipped it to her
I analyzed her wine
It was cheap California merlot
with an antihistamine mickey
Why?
Well, diphenhydramine hydrochloride
is both a soporific and an antiemetic
It makes you sleepy and
it keeps you from puking
Paramedics found this in your pocket
It's the key to the handcuffs
that we took off your wife
We checked your
Pay-Per-View selections
You've been watching a
lot of bondage porn lately
Strap Daddy Silk Cuffs OneandTwo
What happened to my wife?
Scott, there's not enough booze in
this town to make you forget murder
Fluoride poisoning?
Are you kidding me with this?
No See I'm thinking
you're a mortgage broker
Your business is in the crapper
The bank is trying to foreclose
on your house
And your wife had a very nice
insurance policy
Nice enough for you to
pay off all those debts
You see where I'm going, Scott?
Look, I'll admit things weren't that
great between Melinda and I Okay?
She blamed me for losing the
house and everything else
But those handcuffs
are from better times
We hadn't had sex in months
We, uh, checked your medical records
You have receding gums
So what? Who cares about my gums?
Well, you use a special,
high fluoride toothpaste
We found your prints all over these
Yeah Before Melinda became a real
estate agent, she was a dental hygienist
We had boxes of that stuff lying around
Free samples We both used it
Look, if I had tried to cram toothpaste
down Melinda's throat
She would have kicked me in the cubes
Hey, Ray
Did your "Barrel Boy" wear glasses?
Not according to his DMVrecord
But Big Bob did
Halt You can't bring food in here
Not my rules
I found this in the fryer oil
Along with two metal screws,
which was the giveaway
Cheap plastic frames and lenses
These don't look like French fries
That's because those are bits of Gary
And what were these?
Once upon a time, those were $180
How do we know that?
All right, what am I looking at here?
You are looking at a
plastic security strip
It's embedded in all USbank notes
Supposedly to prevent counterfeiting
Although I've heard that they
can be read by satellites,
so the "Man" knows how
much money's in your pocket
And we still can't find Bin Laden
Nine plastic strips
Nine
twenties- $180
Plus the 20 we found in
the dead manager's pocket
So all the missing money from
Choozy's Chicken is accounted for
Which means there was no robbery
We've got evidence that isn't
telling us the whole story
So let's walk through
this again Shall we?
Bob was on the floor here
There were oil drag marks leading
from the kitchen to the Dumpster
And we now know that Gary was dragged
outside and put into an oil drum
There was also a blood trail
leading in from the Dumpster
As well as blood stains
on Gary's boxer shorts
Now, DNA confirms that both
samples were "Dead Bob's" blood
Bob bled on Gary dragging him out
And then bled on the ground
when he walked back in
But did Bob kill Gary?
Or was there another assailant?
All right I'll be Gary
You be Big Dead Bob
- Seriously
- Yeah
Seriously Okay
- We struggle
- We struggle
You shove my face in the oil
That could explain
how Bob's glasses ended up in the fryer
As well as the missing $200 that
could've slipped out of his shirt pocket
Let's do it again
Look at your left hand
You're using it as leverage
If Bob pushed Gary into the fryer, the
handprint we collected would be Bob's
But it's not
Well, the evidence can't be wrong
but we could be
What you doing?
I need to see for myself the
volume of 340 grams of toothpaste
You know, unencumbered by
a tube it is an awful lot
Join in I used to do this as a kid
Now we get paid for doing it
Even with an anti-emetic
How would you force this much
toothpaste down someone's throat?
Excuse me for interrupting
arts and crafts
Ah, it's an experiment
Well, maybe for you
The toothpaste that Mrs Tucker
ingested contained a bleaching agent
The tubes you collected didn't
There were two empty tubes of
toothpaste in their bedroom,
but it's not the
toothpaste that killed her
Arts and crafts are over
Gotta go back to the house
Their life in garbage
And no toothpaste
Nothing on the ground or in the planter
Shoe rubber
The gate was locked
Homeowner's about 80
Once I asked loudly enough, she gave us
permission to search without a warrant
Fluoride toothpaste with bleach
Hey, Mandy
Okay, you know what, no
more shotgun approach
You need to start
prioritizing your latents
No, no, I'm only interested
in one print, the handprint
O... kay, but I already put that
through the database
Well, we're having a little disparity
between context and the evidence
What are you asking me?
Is it possible the print got distorted?
Well, you can only distort prints
with pressure or body weight
Well, we do now think that the surface
print was left during a struggle,
and Bob Graham was a big boy, so can
you run that index finger for me again?
- Yeah, okay
- Thank you
It's a reversal
There must have been enough
pressure to invert the print
I'm sorry, I missed it Okay Right
Do you see how these appear to be
ridges, but there is no sweat glands?
Which is because those are furrows
It's a match I'm sorry
It's okay, you're human Stokes
Hey, Nicky, I got Elizabeth Martin
from her canceled payroll checks
The bank gave me her address
- So she's alive
- Oh, yeah
Did her record kick back any priors?
No record Immigration got wind of it
They scooped up her whole family
She's an illegal working
here on a fake ID
She's in Interrogation now I'll
let you know how it turns out
All right
Hello
I'm Detective Jim Brass
Las Vegas Police
Okay
Let's start with an easy question
What's your real name?
Rosa Gonzales
Okay, Rosa Gonzales
tell me what happened at
Choozy's Chicken the other night
I didn't mean to kill him
You wanted to see me?
Your drop bag was short
I checked it twice
You want me to call the police, huh?
I'm gonna have to do a strip search
He made me take off all my clothes
Did he assault you? Touch you?
He put his hands on me
No!
What the hell is this?
What are you doing here, Gary?
I'm not the issue here, Bob
Then what happened?
I got dressed I could
hear them fighting
I went out into the kitchen
Stop it!
Get out of here! What the
hell are you doing, Bob?
I ran
But I swear to the Virgin herself,
I was just trying to help Gary
Hitting him with the sign
isn't what killed him
So I can go home?
Miss Gonzales, you see the immigration
agent outside with your family
They tell me that you're
in this country illegally
I grew up here I work
I take care of my family
I believe you, I do,
but it's not my call
Well, we've exhausted every suspect,
and we still don't know who killed Bob
Well, at this point, it's
a locked room mystery
After all that we've been
through, how can you guys eat that?
Power of suggestion
And because I can't help
myself They're good
It's 'cause they put crack in the fries
What if the room is the suspect?
According to his insurance records
Bob had twenty-eighty vision
Without his glasses, he
was practically blind
Elizabeth gave him a pretty
good whack to the cerebellum
Which can affect equilibrium
Add those factors to a slippery floor
It's a case of blind justice
So when I'm filling out the paperwork
who do I list on the suspect line?
There is no suspect It was an accident
The DNA from inside the latex
gloves was You ready for this?
- Scott Tucker?
- Related by marriage
Melinda?
Wait a minute Wait a
minute It was suicide?
Yeah With a nice, big frame around it
Otherwise, why not just
pop the diphenhydramine?
Why spike the wine?
Well, maybe she was trying to frame
her husband for attempted murder,
hoping for a poisoning, not a death
Doubtful I mean, she was a hygienist
If that were the case, she
would've just stopped at one tube
Henry did say that there was about an
hour between ingestion and her death
Plenty of time to set up the husband
She goes outside, she
climbs the fence
she ditches the evidence
in the neighbor's trash, and then...
Cuffs herself to the bed
and then waits to dies?
What could you possibly have done
to make your wife hate you so much?
We used to be an amazing team actually
She'd find the client the house, I'd
get them financing Everyone was happy
But I always told her-
don't get too friendly;
These are clients, they're not friends
But she goes to all the parties
All the barbeques,
all the fund-raisers
So, when the NINJA loans flipped over,
and the banks kicked
them out of their homes
Because they couldn't afford
to make their payments
Well, they called us, screaming
like it was our fault,
And I blamed her
If she hadn't gotten all buddy-buddy
with them in the first place,
they never would have crossed that line
That's when the marriage went belly-up
We couldn't look each other
in the face after that
I thought she was weak
And she wanted me to feel bad
because I didn't feel worse
I never thought she'd
kill herself, though
Tried to kill me a couple of times
Couldn't sell the house,
couldn't afford to get a divorce
I can't believe that bitch set me up
Figured it's better than nothing
till they find you something
You could put a desk in there
It's perfect
I should check with Catherine first
I already did
- All right Thank you, Doctor
- You're welcome
I think I'll be right at home here