CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015): Season 9, Episode 6 - Say Uncle - full transcript
CSI needs the help of an 8-year-old, HIV-positive boy to figure out who shot and killed his uncle and his mother during a street party in Koreatown.
Did you see anything?
Okay, hold on. Hold on.
Look at me. Look at me.
Did you see this? Did you hear
anything? You just ran over there?
Did you see it?
Three holes in the male,
two holes in the female.
Five holes, one casing.
But with all this foot traffic,
the other shells could be anywhere.
There's no I.D. or
anything on the female.
But...
we do have a big bulge right here.
Got a license.
Vic's name is Sung Bang.
And apparently, his day started
a lot better than it ended.
Prison release forms.
Spent six months in
Jean for repeat DUIs.
Walked out today.
It's weird. The female vic doesn't
even have a lint in her pocket.
This guy, it's an I.D. orgasm.
Overload.
I meant I.D. overload.
Must have been at least a dozen
people within ten feet of the victims.
Yeah, well, I don't think we're
gonna learn much from this crowd.
Tells me we're probably
looking for a Korean.
If the killer had been
black, white or brown,
we'd already have height,
weight hair and tattoos.
Smells like a gang hit.
I found a pair of kid's sunglasses
with blood spatter all over them.
Prints and smudges.
He must have been standing right here.
Heould have seen everything.
If it was me, I would have run.
The killer could have taken him.
Either way, he's missing, and we have to find
this child before something happens to him.
*******
where partiers were celebrating
until the violence broke out.
Officers have been unable to
identify the female victim.
ThatS holding things up.
The investigators say they're
hampered by a language barrier,
and their job is also
complicated by the fact that
many of the partygoers distrust
or even fear the police.
I don't know, I don't know.
That is all I know.
All right, thanks. You're free to go.
Next.
How's it going?
I know you're tired. We
need to finish the interview.
Sir, how close were you
standing to the victims?
If you speak English, now
would be a good time to start.
If it's gonna get me out of here quicker,
I'll be William freakin' Shakespeare.
From what I understand, the Korean
culture's very big on respect.
Yeah.
So how about giving maximum
respect to the two people
who were murdered and
tell me what you saw?
You know, I like your style.
I give you all the forensics you want.
A Q-Tip in the mouth.
You can have my ass prints if you
want, but don't ask me what happened.
It's not my business, so I
shouldn't be flapping about it.
So, you think that's real,
too, letting murderers run free?
We know it's a gang thing.
You don't need me then, do you?
Male C. O. D. is exsanguinations
due to multiple GSWs.
Same with the female.
Exsanguinations due to multiple GSWs.
The bullets in the male were
cannelured. He was shot with a revolver.
Female was shot twice
with a semiautomatic.
Two guns, two killers?
Or one killer, two guns, gangsta style.
Well, his shots seem
fairly straight and level,
but it looks like the bullets entered
her at a much steeper trajectory.
Yeah, approximately 20
degrees up, front to back.
So what?
He gets gunned down, she's terrified, tries
to flee and then falls down as she's shot,
exaggerating the trajectory?
Could be a drug thing.
She's got the needle marks to prove it.
I sent blood and tissue samples to Tox.
This ian odd-looking scar...
on both eyelids.
Could be cosmetic surgery.
She's a little young for a
facelift, don't you think?
Attractive girl on drugs, on the
street with an ex-con and no I. D.
Sounds like a street hooker.
Yeah, but not someone who
pays for plastic surgery.
Well, maybe it's a business
investment courtesy of her pimp.
So he's unmarried with no children
and apart from the DUIs, clean record.
No known gang affiliation.
He was at Dempsey's Department Store
a half an hour before he was shot
and was released from
Jean an hour before that.
Jean is a 45-minute bus ride to Vegas.
So this guy gets out of jail and in
under the running time of The Godfather,
he's dead.
Well, a lot of people die
at the end of Godfather.
Riley ran all the bullets
and casings from the scene.
The gun is clean. Any
I. D. on the female?
No, but she had a blepharoplasty.
Asian eyelid procedure fairly common in
Korea and apparently catching on here, too.
Brass passed the vic's
photo around Makeover Town.
Makeover Town? L. A. ?
No, it's a block of plastic
surgeons in our Koreatown.
Our Koreatown is a block.
Maybe that's why he was
able to find a doctor.
I didn't know her name.
You put a woman under anesthesia, you
cut her open, and you don't know her name?
Sir, she was not an ordinary client.
So they forced you at gunpoint to perform
eye surgery on women in a procedure
that Westernizes their appearance,
resulting in an effect called "round eyes"?
Ever since Jackie Chan got his eyes
done, the surgery's been very popular.
And then they just left?
Yes, after they forced me to agree
to give them 15% of my profits.
I'm gonna need names, Doctor.
They didn't leave any business cards.
I think they belong to
a group called The KD.
The Kkangpae Dragons.
I never heard of.
And there isn't much of
Vegas I haven't heard of.
A new outfit.
They don't have any tattoos or
drive lowriders or spray graffiti.
They don't even sell drugs.
So what do they do, just force plastic
surgeons to operate on their prostitutes?
Extortion is their trade.
- They just take.
- Right.
And they take from their own
because they know their own.
They know that their
own won't turn them in.
Well, you're very courageous
to come in and report this.
Why won't others come forward?
You want a bunch of immigrants
to come to the police?
Why don't you protect them the way
you protect the tourists on the Strip
and the big shots in
Anthem and Seven Hills?
Save the stump speech for
when you run for mayor.
I'll vote for you.
Are you still paying extortion?
No, not anymore.
Six months ago, I joined an HMO.
And they installed several
security cameras around my building.
The Dragons don't like to be seen.
They prefer to be invisible.
Excuse me, Captain. We
got a surveillance hit.
CSI said there were no surveillance
cameras at the crime scene.
Hit didn't come from CSI.
One of my video analysts caught
news of your double in Koreatown
and recognized the male vic while
scanning one of our video feeds.
from a unrelated
shoplifting investigation.
Video analyst?
Yeah, why? What do you call them?
Forensics Services.
Must have a hell of
a shoplifting problem.
We're in a high crime area, and this facility
represents a corporate mission to prevent theft,
fraud and personal injury in our stores.
You're not outsourcing
that to China, too, are you?
All right, Artie, bring it up.
You know, what's your solve rate
on property crime these days?
One in ten? One in 20?
Hey, you didn't tell me we
were going to have a quiz.
You know, we nail 93%.Nationwide,
Dempsey's Forensic Services has
put three fugitives behind bars.
We're going to be in 300
locations by next summer.
Hey, look, you know, if it, uh, if it's
legal and makes my job easier, I'm all for it.
There's our guy.
Sung Bang.
Archie... Artie...
could you enhance the image of the boy?
You've got some really great cameras.
Good as any on the Strip.
In fact, our crime lab is better
equipped than most in the country.
Now, that's a crime.
We're going to need that toy.
Mindy? The toy and the lift.
We didn't bother
running it through AFIS.
He's obviously under 14 years old,
so he wouldn't be in the database.
We licensed it from the Feds.
Loupe, please. Thank you.
This is the same boy.
Is that the vic's kid?
From everything we know,
Sung Bang had no children.
He sure looks like the happy dad to me.
This is the last footage of Sung Bang
leaving Dempsey's Department Store.
Who's the kid?
The boy's name is Park Bang.
Sung is his uncle.
You positive?
I've been Park's CPS
investigator for over two years.
I know what he looks like.
Okay. Who's this?
Here. Come over in the light.
Her name's Kora Sil. Park's mother.
Poor boy has lost everyone.
What about his father?
Dead.
He was supposedly some big
gangster here and in Korea.
The Kkangpae Dragons?
I don't know. I never actually met him.
He died of AIDS a few years ago.
That's when Sung took
over the father role.
In fact, it was Sung who
notified us about Kora's drug use.
He loved that boy.
You know, CSI did a
tox panel on the mother.
Came back positive for HIV.
What's the boy's status? Do you know?
He's also HIV positive.
Park's on a very strict drug regimen,
so we need to find him immediately.
Well, I mean, the drug regimen
may be the least of his problems.
I think the gang killed his uncle and his
mother, he saw it; he may already be dead.
Our girl has done time.
Three months for prostitution.
Three months? That's
pretty harsh for Vegas.
Prostitution with HIV.
That's like pointing a gun
and pulling the trigger.
Any last-knowns?
Over a dozen.
She's moved around a lot.
PD's running them down.
Kora Sil's Friend Agenda page. Single.
Born in Seoul. Likes rap music.
Doesn't drink or smoke.
But likes to shoot drugs
and turn tricks with HIV.
Well, it's always something, isn't it?
Let's check the IP address of
the last comment she posted.
Yeah.
Well, looks like she's using
this page to score drugs.
Welcome to the dark side
of social networking.
Okay. The IP address... is...
What a surprise. Koreatown.
Of course I know Kora.
But why do you ask?
We're looking for her son.
Why would Park be here?
We're going to take a look around.
That's a field I. D. We photograph
every person of interest in a case.
It's standard procedure.
I have no reason to lie to you.
I know Pk and Kora. They
come over to usey computer.
Mr. Pan, you don't strike me as the kind of guy
who would have nefarious individuals in your home.
Captain Brass, may we talk outside?
No.
I've known Park's
father his entire life.
We came over from Korea together,
but we went in different directions.
But I still treat his family as my own, and
if they want to use my computer, I let them.
There's nothing wrong with that.
No, I'll tell you what's wrong.
The young woman Kora is dead,
and her son Park is missing.
Now, this crime happened about
a block from where you live.
I can't believe you
haven't heard about this.
I had no idea. I was
in Phoenix on business.
Phoenix, huh?
- House is clear, sir.
- Thanks, Kwan.
Do you have any idea
where Park might be?
No. No. I don't know.
I... I'm truly sorry.
Okay, look. Here's my card.
Call me if you hear or see
anything that may be useful to me.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Park Bang left Dempsey's Department
Store at around 4:00 p. m.
with a shopping bag full of
stuff his uncle just bought him.
The shooting occurred here
about a half an hour later,
and that's only a couple blocks away;
the uncle doesn't have a car, so...
they probably walked,
using one of these routes.
What's on that receipt again?
T-shirt, novelty sunglasses, Crunchies,
Double Fudge, Fruit Funzies and Nutty Cups.
Nothing says I love you
like processed sugar.
The only thing we found at
the scene were the sunglasses.
Where's the rest of it?
Okay, we're digging through trash.
More specifically, anything
from Dempsey's Department Store.
Clothing tags, assorted
candy items. Okay?
Check the cans, the Dumpsters,
sewage drains, Port-a-Potties.
Okay, be thorough. Yeah, let's do it.
Remember to check along
the fences, under cars.
These are places where
evidence can hide.
Use your imagination.
I know this seems like a simple trash
hunt, but it could make or break the case.
The sooner we find the stuff, the
sooner we're going to find this kid,
so don't be afraid to
get your hands dirty.
Hodges. Come on, man.
I know you're not nuts about the field, but I didn't
bring you all the way out here to just stand around.
You know what I mean?
Can I see you for a second?
What?
You can work hard or you can work smart.
Can I go now?
LVPD! Open up!
Sorry to barge in on you, ma'am.
We're just looking for
a missing little boy.
Gun! She's got a gun!
Nick, she's got a gun.
What are you doing? Put that thing down.
Lady, put that gun down right now.
- Put the gun down or we'll shoot.
- No, we won't. Relax.
Ma'am, we're looking for a little
boy who's in really big trouble.
His name is Park Bang.
She doesn't understand. Where
the hell is the translator?
She understands just
fine. Don't you? Park Bang.
- We just want to help him.
- She doesn't understand.
Drop the gun! Nick!
Riley. What's the deal?
Kid's pretty weak.
I asked him if he remembered
anything about the shootings,
but he wouldn't even open his mouth.
Where is his CPS investigator?
En route.
You interviewed a minor
without an advocate present?
Not officially.
Those regulations are there to
protect the welfare of the child.
Don't ever do that again.
Look, I didn't do anything wrong.
I was just trying to help our case.
Maybe you should go back to the lab.
Happy to.
Okay,let's get that shirt off.
Sit up a little bit.
Good job.
Excuse me,Doctor.
I'm with the Las Vegas
Police Department.
Why does this boy have a gastric tube?
Might be an issue with feeding.
Trouble swallowing,that sort of thing.
We'll do a chest X-ray to be sure.
What about this skin condition?
Yeah,probably a side
effect of his HIV meds.
CPS sent his records over.
He's on a pretty severe regimen.
Why is there dried blood
around the feeding tube?
He could have caught it on
something-- tried to pull it out.
Hey,kiddo,I'm going to take
good care of you,don't worry.
She says that she was just watering her garden
when she heard gunshots and people started running.
She took the boy in and fed him
and let him play with some old toys.
And then the boy went to
sleep like little boys should.
She says she was just
trying to protect the boy.
Why'd you pull a gun on the police?
She says that where she comes from,people
would take care of their neighbors.
You should have turned
him over to us right away.
She asks why?
So you can cut another
hole in his stomach?
Okay,then,how about these guys?
Any of these guys look familiar,huh?
Come on,Park,you can talk to me.
These people are here to help you.
If you see one that hurt your mommy or
uncle,all you have to do is point,okay,pal?
Don't want to do it now?
Okay,I'll tell you
what,we'll do it another time.
Take care,buddy.
I'm going to put some
police officers at the door.
I don't think the KD will try
anything here,but you never know.
Are you finished?
I still got to collect biologicals.
I'll see you later.
He understands English,right?
Hi,Park.
My name is Gil.
I'm not a doctor,I'm not a policeman.
I'm kind of a...
What am I? I don't know.
I mostly do a lot of thinking.
But I do need to look
under your fingernails.
I'm not going to grab your hand.
I'll just wait here until you
want to give it to me,okay?
But I promise you it won't hurt.
Thank you.
Hello,Mrs. Chin.
I got here as fast as I could.
Dr. Eisling,this is Mr.
Grissom from the crime lab.
How do you do?
Hey,Park.
We're,uh...we're going to have
to give him his medication here.
He doesn't seem to want it.
Well,that's why we
gave him a gastric tube.
Okay,now come on...
Okay,come on...
Can you hold him,please?
I know,I know.
Okay,I know.
Come hold him.
Come hold him.
Just take his arm.
I know. I know.
Lay still,lay still.
All right.
So Park was wearing the white
T-shirt during the shooting.
He changed into the blue
one at the old woman's house.
Threw the white one away.
Makes sense.
It had his mother's and his
uncle's blood all over them.
Park Bang's tox report.
Most adult cancer patients don't
have this many drugs in their systems.
But an
eight-year-old...
I've never seen anything like it.
Most of the drugs on that list
are meant to stop cell development
and stop bone marrow from producing
blood,stop proteins from assembling.
If he continues on this
regimen,by the time he's 15,
he won't even have the physical
development of a ten-year-old.
Does he actually have AIDS?
No,not yet.
He's HIV-positive.
If you ask me,he's being
badly overmedicated.
Zendrek has an FDA black box label.
That's the strongest warning there is.
Life-threatening side affects
Some other drugs aren't even in the market,
they are only being used in clinical trials.
maybe he is in one.
How does a little kid with a junkie mother
and gangster father get on a clinical trial?
Well,so much for the
upstanding businessman.
This guy's real name is Jin Ming and his
mug shot was taken when he was 18 years old
when he was caught stealing
cars with a street racing gang.
Now he's 30 and he
hasn't been busted since.
And Park had this guy's
skin under his fingernails?
Yeah.
So they must been fighting?
Possibly.
The thing is,that skin that was under
Park's nails-- it was gluteus maximus.
It's very similar to the epidermal
tissue on the rest of the body,
but it's got far fewer hair follicles.
So,in addition to everything
else,this kid's been molested?
Well,maybe not.
Here.
Take a look at Jin's neck.
No tattoos.
He had a major makeover.
Yeah.
I went out a couple times with a casino
executive who had some really unusual scars.
And,long story short,he told me that he was
very embarrassed by some old tattoos that he had.
So he had them covered
with replicated skin.
From his butt?
I didn't ask.
But,you know,if you're a street racer,then it
might be kind of cool to flash a lot of ink.
But if you're a Kkangpae Dragon...
It pays to be invisible.
I got left.
This basement's the only
room with anything in it.
The uni's were looking for
the kid first time through.
It's probably why they missed it.
This must be where Park
and him mother lived.
Why would this guy Jin kill
somebody he let live in his house?
He's in a gang.
She's a druggie.
The possibilities are endless.
James Klondike trial lawyer
Look at this.
Scumbag's in the picture with them.
Down!
Officer down!
Clear the house and call the paramedics!
Det. Cavaliere's going to be all right.
Minor injuries.
Bomb squad said the explosive
was a trip wire booby trap.
Yeah,if Jin and the K D.really
wanted to hurt somebody,
they would've sent a
more powerful message.
So,I found d an ambulance
chaser's card on Kora Sil's desk.
Just got off the phone with him.
He claims that Kora
was suing Park's doctor.
For what?
Money.
According to the lawyer,the doctor paid
Kora to put Park on the clinical trial.
She wanted more.
How much was she getting?
25 a week.
She wanted 50.
the immune system of hiv-positive children
and the use and effect of anti-hiv therapy
Hello,Doctor.
What are you doing here?
I'm here to give Park his medication.
Oh,yeah. He needs to get
it every day,doesn't he?
Yes.
Or else the data's useless.
I suppose so.
Then what good would it do to continue to
dose him after he went missing for two days?
These drugs are saving his life.
No,they're not.
I don't need to be a
medical doctor to see that.
No,what you're seeing are side effects.
And there are side
effects to every drug.
Look,this is a legitimate clinical trial,Mr.
Grissom,approved by a formal committee...
Consisting of doctors who are shareholders in
the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs.
Without these trials,these
kids get nothing.
And what do you get?
Kickbacks?
Your medical opinion is irrelevant.
What I'm doing is perfectly legal.
So,we're done here.
Excuse me.
You touch that kid,and I will charge
you with reckless endangerment.
Child Services will back him up on that.
So I think you're done here.
We'll see about that.
Park...
I need to ask you a few questions.
You don't have to answer
them,if you don't want to.
Okay?
Do you know this man?
That's Jin.
Did you and your mother
live at his house?
Is that where Uncle Sung found you?
Yeah.
Uncle Sung didn't like my tube.
He fought with Mama.
Then Jin came down.
Uncle Sung saved me.
What happened after that?
I'm not gonna let Jin
or Dr. Eisling hurt you.
But that's why I need
to know what happened.
Jin and Mama found us.
Why would he want to hurt your mother?
I guess he was just
sick of having us around.
finally got a statement from the kid.
He says that Jin shot both his mother
and his Uncle with two different guns.
Well,that's great.
Uh,that should be enough to
charge Jin when we find him.
I-I just got faxed Sun
Bang's prison record.
And there's something weird
on his personal release form.
Listen to this: the guy left
prison with a nine millimeter.
They let him out of jail with a gun?
Well,it's only a misdemeanor,you know.
It's like a hotel; you get
back what you checked in.
So you can go out and commit a felony.
Apparently.
Now,is there any chance
that Sung fired back?
No, we would have found extra bullets
or shells at the scene.
Well,maybe there's a
bullet lodged in Jin's body.
No sign of a third bleeder.
And if I understand the kid,Sung
never got a chance to shoot back.
Okay,thanks.
I'll work on this.
Yep. He carried his
gun in his waistband.
Still doesn't mean he used it.
And doesn't really change Park's story.
How do we know Kora wasn't packing?
The father of her son was a gangster.
She was living with a gangster.
I wouldn't put it past her.
Well,let's see.
Most women's clothes don't
have a place to hide a gun.
That's,uh...
That's what purses are for.
Maybe Kora didn't need
Jin to get her son back.
Maybe she took care of it herself.
You think they shot each other.
Why not?
There's motive,the evidence suggests it.
Where are their guns?
Dead man with a gun in the hood.
Gone in 60 seconds.
Jin skips town because this family
dispute uncovers his once invisible gang.
He leaves the booby trap
because he's angry about it.
It's possible.
It's also possible
that Jin shot both vics.
Which is what the kid said.
And he was the closest witness.
If your uncle and your mother shot each
other,you would probably blame the gangbanger,too.
Okay,pilgrim.
We'll settle this on the street.
If you need any water or
anything,you just let me know.
Okay.
Okay,Park,I know you already
told me what-what happened,
but now I need you to
show me what happened,okay?
Now,we're gonna pretend that this is your
mother,this is your uncle,and that's Jin.
Would you show me where your uncle
was standing when the shooting began?
Where was your mother standing
when the shooting began?
Would you show me
where Jin was standing?
And where were you standing?
Did your uncle have a gun?
Did your mother have a gun?
Did your mother fall
down before Jin shot her?
Did Jin fall down before
he shot your mother?
He's lying.
Well,the ferrotrace doesn't confirm that either
of them had guns at the time of the shooting.
But the trajectory.
Neither Kora nor Jin fell.
How do you explain
Kora's 20-degree entry?
Park,could you show me
how Jin shot your mother?
It was like this.
Bang,bang!
Park,would you do that again?
But this time,keep your arm out.
Bang,bang!
The kid shot his mother
for shooting his uncle.
So you think Jin had
nothing to do with it?
Not the shooting.
Well,it makes sense.
His uncle was trying to protect
him,and his mother was torturing him.
Park never controlled anything in
his life till he fired that gun.
An HIV-positive
eight-year-old.
No wonder no one wanted to talk.
Juvi may be the best thing for him.
He'll get the care he needs there.
Yeah.
I'm sorry we solved this.
I really am.
Okay, hold on. Hold on.
Look at me. Look at me.
Did you see this? Did you hear
anything? You just ran over there?
Did you see it?
Three holes in the male,
two holes in the female.
Five holes, one casing.
But with all this foot traffic,
the other shells could be anywhere.
There's no I.D. or
anything on the female.
But...
we do have a big bulge right here.
Got a license.
Vic's name is Sung Bang.
And apparently, his day started
a lot better than it ended.
Prison release forms.
Spent six months in
Jean for repeat DUIs.
Walked out today.
It's weird. The female vic doesn't
even have a lint in her pocket.
This guy, it's an I.D. orgasm.
Overload.
I meant I.D. overload.
Must have been at least a dozen
people within ten feet of the victims.
Yeah, well, I don't think we're
gonna learn much from this crowd.
Tells me we're probably
looking for a Korean.
If the killer had been
black, white or brown,
we'd already have height,
weight hair and tattoos.
Smells like a gang hit.
I found a pair of kid's sunglasses
with blood spatter all over them.
Prints and smudges.
He must have been standing right here.
Heould have seen everything.
If it was me, I would have run.
The killer could have taken him.
Either way, he's missing, and we have to find
this child before something happens to him.
*******
where partiers were celebrating
until the violence broke out.
Officers have been unable to
identify the female victim.
ThatS holding things up.
The investigators say they're
hampered by a language barrier,
and their job is also
complicated by the fact that
many of the partygoers distrust
or even fear the police.
I don't know, I don't know.
That is all I know.
All right, thanks. You're free to go.
Next.
How's it going?
I know you're tired. We
need to finish the interview.
Sir, how close were you
standing to the victims?
If you speak English, now
would be a good time to start.
If it's gonna get me out of here quicker,
I'll be William freakin' Shakespeare.
From what I understand, the Korean
culture's very big on respect.
Yeah.
So how about giving maximum
respect to the two people
who were murdered and
tell me what you saw?
You know, I like your style.
I give you all the forensics you want.
A Q-Tip in the mouth.
You can have my ass prints if you
want, but don't ask me what happened.
It's not my business, so I
shouldn't be flapping about it.
So, you think that's real,
too, letting murderers run free?
We know it's a gang thing.
You don't need me then, do you?
Male C. O. D. is exsanguinations
due to multiple GSWs.
Same with the female.
Exsanguinations due to multiple GSWs.
The bullets in the male were
cannelured. He was shot with a revolver.
Female was shot twice
with a semiautomatic.
Two guns, two killers?
Or one killer, two guns, gangsta style.
Well, his shots seem
fairly straight and level,
but it looks like the bullets entered
her at a much steeper trajectory.
Yeah, approximately 20
degrees up, front to back.
So what?
He gets gunned down, she's terrified, tries
to flee and then falls down as she's shot,
exaggerating the trajectory?
Could be a drug thing.
She's got the needle marks to prove it.
I sent blood and tissue samples to Tox.
This ian odd-looking scar...
on both eyelids.
Could be cosmetic surgery.
She's a little young for a
facelift, don't you think?
Attractive girl on drugs, on the
street with an ex-con and no I. D.
Sounds like a street hooker.
Yeah, but not someone who
pays for plastic surgery.
Well, maybe it's a business
investment courtesy of her pimp.
So he's unmarried with no children
and apart from the DUIs, clean record.
No known gang affiliation.
He was at Dempsey's Department Store
a half an hour before he was shot
and was released from
Jean an hour before that.
Jean is a 45-minute bus ride to Vegas.
So this guy gets out of jail and in
under the running time of The Godfather,
he's dead.
Well, a lot of people die
at the end of Godfather.
Riley ran all the bullets
and casings from the scene.
The gun is clean. Any
I. D. on the female?
No, but she had a blepharoplasty.
Asian eyelid procedure fairly common in
Korea and apparently catching on here, too.
Brass passed the vic's
photo around Makeover Town.
Makeover Town? L. A. ?
No, it's a block of plastic
surgeons in our Koreatown.
Our Koreatown is a block.
Maybe that's why he was
able to find a doctor.
I didn't know her name.
You put a woman under anesthesia, you
cut her open, and you don't know her name?
Sir, she was not an ordinary client.
So they forced you at gunpoint to perform
eye surgery on women in a procedure
that Westernizes their appearance,
resulting in an effect called "round eyes"?
Ever since Jackie Chan got his eyes
done, the surgery's been very popular.
And then they just left?
Yes, after they forced me to agree
to give them 15% of my profits.
I'm gonna need names, Doctor.
They didn't leave any business cards.
I think they belong to
a group called The KD.
The Kkangpae Dragons.
I never heard of.
And there isn't much of
Vegas I haven't heard of.
A new outfit.
They don't have any tattoos or
drive lowriders or spray graffiti.
They don't even sell drugs.
So what do they do, just force plastic
surgeons to operate on their prostitutes?
Extortion is their trade.
- They just take.
- Right.
And they take from their own
because they know their own.
They know that their
own won't turn them in.
Well, you're very courageous
to come in and report this.
Why won't others come forward?
You want a bunch of immigrants
to come to the police?
Why don't you protect them the way
you protect the tourists on the Strip
and the big shots in
Anthem and Seven Hills?
Save the stump speech for
when you run for mayor.
I'll vote for you.
Are you still paying extortion?
No, not anymore.
Six months ago, I joined an HMO.
And they installed several
security cameras around my building.
The Dragons don't like to be seen.
They prefer to be invisible.
Excuse me, Captain. We
got a surveillance hit.
CSI said there were no surveillance
cameras at the crime scene.
Hit didn't come from CSI.
One of my video analysts caught
news of your double in Koreatown
and recognized the male vic while
scanning one of our video feeds.
from a unrelated
shoplifting investigation.
Video analyst?
Yeah, why? What do you call them?
Forensics Services.
Must have a hell of
a shoplifting problem.
We're in a high crime area, and this facility
represents a corporate mission to prevent theft,
fraud and personal injury in our stores.
You're not outsourcing
that to China, too, are you?
All right, Artie, bring it up.
You know, what's your solve rate
on property crime these days?
One in ten? One in 20?
Hey, you didn't tell me we
were going to have a quiz.
You know, we nail 93%.Nationwide,
Dempsey's Forensic Services has
put three fugitives behind bars.
We're going to be in 300
locations by next summer.
Hey, look, you know, if it, uh, if it's
legal and makes my job easier, I'm all for it.
There's our guy.
Sung Bang.
Archie... Artie...
could you enhance the image of the boy?
You've got some really great cameras.
Good as any on the Strip.
In fact, our crime lab is better
equipped than most in the country.
Now, that's a crime.
We're going to need that toy.
Mindy? The toy and the lift.
We didn't bother
running it through AFIS.
He's obviously under 14 years old,
so he wouldn't be in the database.
We licensed it from the Feds.
Loupe, please. Thank you.
This is the same boy.
Is that the vic's kid?
From everything we know,
Sung Bang had no children.
He sure looks like the happy dad to me.
This is the last footage of Sung Bang
leaving Dempsey's Department Store.
Who's the kid?
The boy's name is Park Bang.
Sung is his uncle.
You positive?
I've been Park's CPS
investigator for over two years.
I know what he looks like.
Okay. Who's this?
Here. Come over in the light.
Her name's Kora Sil. Park's mother.
Poor boy has lost everyone.
What about his father?
Dead.
He was supposedly some big
gangster here and in Korea.
The Kkangpae Dragons?
I don't know. I never actually met him.
He died of AIDS a few years ago.
That's when Sung took
over the father role.
In fact, it was Sung who
notified us about Kora's drug use.
He loved that boy.
You know, CSI did a
tox panel on the mother.
Came back positive for HIV.
What's the boy's status? Do you know?
He's also HIV positive.
Park's on a very strict drug regimen,
so we need to find him immediately.
Well, I mean, the drug regimen
may be the least of his problems.
I think the gang killed his uncle and his
mother, he saw it; he may already be dead.
Our girl has done time.
Three months for prostitution.
Three months? That's
pretty harsh for Vegas.
Prostitution with HIV.
That's like pointing a gun
and pulling the trigger.
Any last-knowns?
Over a dozen.
She's moved around a lot.
PD's running them down.
Kora Sil's Friend Agenda page. Single.
Born in Seoul. Likes rap music.
Doesn't drink or smoke.
But likes to shoot drugs
and turn tricks with HIV.
Well, it's always something, isn't it?
Let's check the IP address of
the last comment she posted.
Yeah.
Well, looks like she's using
this page to score drugs.
Welcome to the dark side
of social networking.
Okay. The IP address... is...
What a surprise. Koreatown.
Of course I know Kora.
But why do you ask?
We're looking for her son.
Why would Park be here?
We're going to take a look around.
That's a field I. D. We photograph
every person of interest in a case.
It's standard procedure.
I have no reason to lie to you.
I know Pk and Kora. They
come over to usey computer.
Mr. Pan, you don't strike me as the kind of guy
who would have nefarious individuals in your home.
Captain Brass, may we talk outside?
No.
I've known Park's
father his entire life.
We came over from Korea together,
but we went in different directions.
But I still treat his family as my own, and
if they want to use my computer, I let them.
There's nothing wrong with that.
No, I'll tell you what's wrong.
The young woman Kora is dead,
and her son Park is missing.
Now, this crime happened about
a block from where you live.
I can't believe you
haven't heard about this.
I had no idea. I was
in Phoenix on business.
Phoenix, huh?
- House is clear, sir.
- Thanks, Kwan.
Do you have any idea
where Park might be?
No. No. I don't know.
I... I'm truly sorry.
Okay, look. Here's my card.
Call me if you hear or see
anything that may be useful to me.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Park Bang left Dempsey's Department
Store at around 4:00 p. m.
with a shopping bag full of
stuff his uncle just bought him.
The shooting occurred here
about a half an hour later,
and that's only a couple blocks away;
the uncle doesn't have a car, so...
they probably walked,
using one of these routes.
What's on that receipt again?
T-shirt, novelty sunglasses, Crunchies,
Double Fudge, Fruit Funzies and Nutty Cups.
Nothing says I love you
like processed sugar.
The only thing we found at
the scene were the sunglasses.
Where's the rest of it?
Okay, we're digging through trash.
More specifically, anything
from Dempsey's Department Store.
Clothing tags, assorted
candy items. Okay?
Check the cans, the Dumpsters,
sewage drains, Port-a-Potties.
Okay, be thorough. Yeah, let's do it.
Remember to check along
the fences, under cars.
These are places where
evidence can hide.
Use your imagination.
I know this seems like a simple trash
hunt, but it could make or break the case.
The sooner we find the stuff, the
sooner we're going to find this kid,
so don't be afraid to
get your hands dirty.
Hodges. Come on, man.
I know you're not nuts about the field, but I didn't
bring you all the way out here to just stand around.
You know what I mean?
Can I see you for a second?
What?
You can work hard or you can work smart.
Can I go now?
LVPD! Open up!
Sorry to barge in on you, ma'am.
We're just looking for
a missing little boy.
Gun! She's got a gun!
Nick, she's got a gun.
What are you doing? Put that thing down.
Lady, put that gun down right now.
- Put the gun down or we'll shoot.
- No, we won't. Relax.
Ma'am, we're looking for a little
boy who's in really big trouble.
His name is Park Bang.
She doesn't understand. Where
the hell is the translator?
She understands just
fine. Don't you? Park Bang.
- We just want to help him.
- She doesn't understand.
Drop the gun! Nick!
Riley. What's the deal?
Kid's pretty weak.
I asked him if he remembered
anything about the shootings,
but he wouldn't even open his mouth.
Where is his CPS investigator?
En route.
You interviewed a minor
without an advocate present?
Not officially.
Those regulations are there to
protect the welfare of the child.
Don't ever do that again.
Look, I didn't do anything wrong.
I was just trying to help our case.
Maybe you should go back to the lab.
Happy to.
Okay,let's get that shirt off.
Sit up a little bit.
Good job.
Excuse me,Doctor.
I'm with the Las Vegas
Police Department.
Why does this boy have a gastric tube?
Might be an issue with feeding.
Trouble swallowing,that sort of thing.
We'll do a chest X-ray to be sure.
What about this skin condition?
Yeah,probably a side
effect of his HIV meds.
CPS sent his records over.
He's on a pretty severe regimen.
Why is there dried blood
around the feeding tube?
He could have caught it on
something-- tried to pull it out.
Hey,kiddo,I'm going to take
good care of you,don't worry.
She says that she was just watering her garden
when she heard gunshots and people started running.
She took the boy in and fed him
and let him play with some old toys.
And then the boy went to
sleep like little boys should.
She says she was just
trying to protect the boy.
Why'd you pull a gun on the police?
She says that where she comes from,people
would take care of their neighbors.
You should have turned
him over to us right away.
She asks why?
So you can cut another
hole in his stomach?
Okay,then,how about these guys?
Any of these guys look familiar,huh?
Come on,Park,you can talk to me.
These people are here to help you.
If you see one that hurt your mommy or
uncle,all you have to do is point,okay,pal?
Don't want to do it now?
Okay,I'll tell you
what,we'll do it another time.
Take care,buddy.
I'm going to put some
police officers at the door.
I don't think the KD will try
anything here,but you never know.
Are you finished?
I still got to collect biologicals.
I'll see you later.
He understands English,right?
Hi,Park.
My name is Gil.
I'm not a doctor,I'm not a policeman.
I'm kind of a...
What am I? I don't know.
I mostly do a lot of thinking.
But I do need to look
under your fingernails.
I'm not going to grab your hand.
I'll just wait here until you
want to give it to me,okay?
But I promise you it won't hurt.
Thank you.
Hello,Mrs. Chin.
I got here as fast as I could.
Dr. Eisling,this is Mr.
Grissom from the crime lab.
How do you do?
Hey,Park.
We're,uh...we're going to have
to give him his medication here.
He doesn't seem to want it.
Well,that's why we
gave him a gastric tube.
Okay,now come on...
Okay,come on...
Can you hold him,please?
I know,I know.
Okay,I know.
Come hold him.
Come hold him.
Just take his arm.
I know. I know.
Lay still,lay still.
All right.
So Park was wearing the white
T-shirt during the shooting.
He changed into the blue
one at the old woman's house.
Threw the white one away.
Makes sense.
It had his mother's and his
uncle's blood all over them.
Park Bang's tox report.
Most adult cancer patients don't
have this many drugs in their systems.
But an
eight-year-old...
I've never seen anything like it.
Most of the drugs on that list
are meant to stop cell development
and stop bone marrow from producing
blood,stop proteins from assembling.
If he continues on this
regimen,by the time he's 15,
he won't even have the physical
development of a ten-year-old.
Does he actually have AIDS?
No,not yet.
He's HIV-positive.
If you ask me,he's being
badly overmedicated.
Zendrek has an FDA black box label.
That's the strongest warning there is.
Life-threatening side affects
Some other drugs aren't even in the market,
they are only being used in clinical trials.
maybe he is in one.
How does a little kid with a junkie mother
and gangster father get on a clinical trial?
Well,so much for the
upstanding businessman.
This guy's real name is Jin Ming and his
mug shot was taken when he was 18 years old
when he was caught stealing
cars with a street racing gang.
Now he's 30 and he
hasn't been busted since.
And Park had this guy's
skin under his fingernails?
Yeah.
So they must been fighting?
Possibly.
The thing is,that skin that was under
Park's nails-- it was gluteus maximus.
It's very similar to the epidermal
tissue on the rest of the body,
but it's got far fewer hair follicles.
So,in addition to everything
else,this kid's been molested?
Well,maybe not.
Here.
Take a look at Jin's neck.
No tattoos.
He had a major makeover.
Yeah.
I went out a couple times with a casino
executive who had some really unusual scars.
And,long story short,he told me that he was
very embarrassed by some old tattoos that he had.
So he had them covered
with replicated skin.
From his butt?
I didn't ask.
But,you know,if you're a street racer,then it
might be kind of cool to flash a lot of ink.
But if you're a Kkangpae Dragon...
It pays to be invisible.
I got left.
This basement's the only
room with anything in it.
The uni's were looking for
the kid first time through.
It's probably why they missed it.
This must be where Park
and him mother lived.
Why would this guy Jin kill
somebody he let live in his house?
He's in a gang.
She's a druggie.
The possibilities are endless.
James Klondike trial lawyer
Look at this.
Scumbag's in the picture with them.
Down!
Officer down!
Clear the house and call the paramedics!
Det. Cavaliere's going to be all right.
Minor injuries.
Bomb squad said the explosive
was a trip wire booby trap.
Yeah,if Jin and the K D.really
wanted to hurt somebody,
they would've sent a
more powerful message.
So,I found d an ambulance
chaser's card on Kora Sil's desk.
Just got off the phone with him.
He claims that Kora
was suing Park's doctor.
For what?
Money.
According to the lawyer,the doctor paid
Kora to put Park on the clinical trial.
She wanted more.
How much was she getting?
25 a week.
She wanted 50.
the immune system of hiv-positive children
and the use and effect of anti-hiv therapy
Hello,Doctor.
What are you doing here?
I'm here to give Park his medication.
Oh,yeah. He needs to get
it every day,doesn't he?
Yes.
Or else the data's useless.
I suppose so.
Then what good would it do to continue to
dose him after he went missing for two days?
These drugs are saving his life.
No,they're not.
I don't need to be a
medical doctor to see that.
No,what you're seeing are side effects.
And there are side
effects to every drug.
Look,this is a legitimate clinical trial,Mr.
Grissom,approved by a formal committee...
Consisting of doctors who are shareholders in
the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs.
Without these trials,these
kids get nothing.
And what do you get?
Kickbacks?
Your medical opinion is irrelevant.
What I'm doing is perfectly legal.
So,we're done here.
Excuse me.
You touch that kid,and I will charge
you with reckless endangerment.
Child Services will back him up on that.
So I think you're done here.
We'll see about that.
Park...
I need to ask you a few questions.
You don't have to answer
them,if you don't want to.
Okay?
Do you know this man?
That's Jin.
Did you and your mother
live at his house?
Is that where Uncle Sung found you?
Yeah.
Uncle Sung didn't like my tube.
He fought with Mama.
Then Jin came down.
Uncle Sung saved me.
What happened after that?
I'm not gonna let Jin
or Dr. Eisling hurt you.
But that's why I need
to know what happened.
Jin and Mama found us.
Why would he want to hurt your mother?
I guess he was just
sick of having us around.
finally got a statement from the kid.
He says that Jin shot both his mother
and his Uncle with two different guns.
Well,that's great.
Uh,that should be enough to
charge Jin when we find him.
I-I just got faxed Sun
Bang's prison record.
And there's something weird
on his personal release form.
Listen to this: the guy left
prison with a nine millimeter.
They let him out of jail with a gun?
Well,it's only a misdemeanor,you know.
It's like a hotel; you get
back what you checked in.
So you can go out and commit a felony.
Apparently.
Now,is there any chance
that Sung fired back?
No, we would have found extra bullets
or shells at the scene.
Well,maybe there's a
bullet lodged in Jin's body.
No sign of a third bleeder.
And if I understand the kid,Sung
never got a chance to shoot back.
Okay,thanks.
I'll work on this.
Yep. He carried his
gun in his waistband.
Still doesn't mean he used it.
And doesn't really change Park's story.
How do we know Kora wasn't packing?
The father of her son was a gangster.
She was living with a gangster.
I wouldn't put it past her.
Well,let's see.
Most women's clothes don't
have a place to hide a gun.
That's,uh...
That's what purses are for.
Maybe Kora didn't need
Jin to get her son back.
Maybe she took care of it herself.
You think they shot each other.
Why not?
There's motive,the evidence suggests it.
Where are their guns?
Dead man with a gun in the hood.
Gone in 60 seconds.
Jin skips town because this family
dispute uncovers his once invisible gang.
He leaves the booby trap
because he's angry about it.
It's possible.
It's also possible
that Jin shot both vics.
Which is what the kid said.
And he was the closest witness.
If your uncle and your mother shot each
other,you would probably blame the gangbanger,too.
Okay,pilgrim.
We'll settle this on the street.
If you need any water or
anything,you just let me know.
Okay.
Okay,Park,I know you already
told me what-what happened,
but now I need you to
show me what happened,okay?
Now,we're gonna pretend that this is your
mother,this is your uncle,and that's Jin.
Would you show me where your uncle
was standing when the shooting began?
Where was your mother standing
when the shooting began?
Would you show me
where Jin was standing?
And where were you standing?
Did your uncle have a gun?
Did your mother have a gun?
Did your mother fall
down before Jin shot her?
Did Jin fall down before
he shot your mother?
He's lying.
Well,the ferrotrace doesn't confirm that either
of them had guns at the time of the shooting.
But the trajectory.
Neither Kora nor Jin fell.
How do you explain
Kora's 20-degree entry?
Park,could you show me
how Jin shot your mother?
It was like this.
Bang,bang!
Park,would you do that again?
But this time,keep your arm out.
Bang,bang!
The kid shot his mother
for shooting his uncle.
So you think Jin had
nothing to do with it?
Not the shooting.
Well,it makes sense.
His uncle was trying to protect
him,and his mother was torturing him.
Park never controlled anything in
his life till he fired that gun.
An HIV-positive
eight-year-old.
No wonder no one wanted to talk.
Juvi may be the best thing for him.
He'll get the care he needs there.
Yeah.
I'm sorry we solved this.
I really am.