Butterflied
Rating 80-90
Grissom can't help but examine his feelings for Sara when a dead woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to her is discovered as part of a double murder he's investigating. A second dismembered body is soon located in nearby trash cans. Making the case tough to crack is the fact that the killer took extraordinary measures to clean up after himself.
Gil: "Warrick, you got the car."
Warrick: "Which one?"
Gil: "Both."
Brass: "Uh, take the Honda. The VW belongs to the victim's friend, over there. She called it in."
Warrick: "Aw, that's too bad. This will be a day she'll never forget."
Gil: "Sara, you take the perimeter."
Sara: "What? You just did a one-hour walk-through. The perimeter cannot be a priority."
Gil: "I need you to work the outside. Catherine and I will be inside."
Catherine: "I'll go talk to the friend."
Gil: "Find out where she walked and what she might have touched in there."
Catherine: "One thing I can never get over with this job... anything can happen to anybody."
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Gil: "That's why were here."
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Catherine: "I bet this bathroom is the reason she bought this place."
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Gil: "What am I smelling?"
Catherine: "Cleanser. Bleach maybe. Arterial spray is neck high. Indicates she was standing when she was attacked And the highest gush of blood is the most volume."
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Gil: "Definite lack of lividity. She must of bled out."
Catherine: "The killer had to get something on him. Had to be a bloody mess, but there's no... footprints, no hand prints, no smears."
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Gil: "She looks like she was placed in this position."
Catherine: "What's the message"
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Catherine and Gil process the bathroom. Catherine is at the sink, while Gil is sitting in the tub. Both are swabbing the drains.
Gil: "Positive for both."
Catherine: "Same here. So there's blood in all four drains, followed by bleach."
Gil: "He kills Debbie in the shower. Then he washes up in both sinks and in the tub? Why?"
Catherine: "The answer is in the drains."
Gil is in the tub, this time spraying luminol. Catherine is doing the same on the tile floor.
Gil: "He cleaned everywhere but inside the shower."
Catherine: "We're never going to know where the blood ends and the bleach begins."
Gil: "Where's all this blood coming from?"
Catherine: "No cleansers. No rags, no sponges, no paper towels ..."
Warrick: "You'd think that she restocked when she went shopping."
Catherine: "Well, I'm thinking the killer used everything the victim had."
Gil open the trash can and finds it empty.
Gil: "And then disposed of it."
The three step out the back door and remove the covers from their shoes. They walk into the alley, which is lined with large trash bins. They start checking the bins.
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Catherine: "Nothing."
They keep checking different bins.
Warrick: "Nothing here."
Gil comes across a bin that has flies swarming around it. They all gather to see what's inside. Gil lifts the trash can and waves the flies away. Opening a trash bag he find bloody towels and bleach containers. Digging deeper he finds a plastic bag, filled with flesh. He starts searching the alley for more.
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The alley is filled with police personel. All searching through the trash bins lining the alley. Gil, Catherine and Warrick are each at different bins.
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Warrick: "I think I found the victim's internal organs."
Catherine holds up a bag, containing a hand.
Warrick: "This guy meant business."
Catherine picks up another bag, looking closely.
Catherine: "I think I can confirm the victim's male."
Gil: "It seems he vacuumed to remove any trace from the house."
Catherine: "City picks up the evidence and spreads it all over the dump."
Warrick: "We have the victim's clothes. Very neatly folded."
Warrick puts the clothes aside and picks up another bag.
Warrick: "Well, if this is our boyfriend, then ... Brass is looking for a ghost."
Catherine: "Two days ago, Debbie Marlin is off work. Sometime in the morning, she buys groceries."
Warrick: "It's from Pendale's, the closest store in West Charleston."
Sara: "Brass talks to the box boy, remembered her, saw her just before his lunch break at 11:15."
Catherine: "Pendale's is about 20 minutes from her house. Where's Nick?"
Sara: "American Academy of Forensics Science Convention."
Gil (on speaker phone): "Hey, guys, can we continue, please? She comes home from the grocery store. She parks in the driveway, and she begins to unload."
Warrick: "She takes out her perishables first. She has to go back for second shifts, so she probably leaves the front door open."
Sara: "Explains why there was no forced entry."
Catherine: "Getting ready for her date. Lighting candles. Multi-tasking."
Warrick: "She opens up a bottle of wine, two glasses."
Catherine: "Her girlfriend said that she was locking down for the afternoon with Michael Clark."
Sara: "Nosy neighbor puts the Mercedes in the driveway sometime around noon."
Greg walk in the room.
Greg: "Thought you guys would want to know. The hair Sara found is a match to the bags of human tissue. Prints confirm it. Per Jacqui, it's Michael Clark."
Catherine: "So, um, most of our efforts have been towards identifying another victim."
Gil: "Michael Clark. But can we place him dead at the house? Greg, what else can you tell us about that hair?"
Greg: "You mean hairs? There were two. Ancillary, maybe arm or leg hair."
Sara: "Found it in the tub drain."
Gil: "The avatar of choice ... for dismemberments."
Greg: "According to Jacqui, there were no prints found on the scalpel blades or handle, but the blood's a match to both victims."
Catherine: "So Michael Clark was dead in the tub. We just don't know how he got there."
Gil: "Well, I KM'd the carpet at the threshold of the bathroom. It's negative for blood."
Sara: "So all the violence took place in the bathroom, at least anything that had to do with blood."
Catherine: "The bathroom is big, but it's not big enough to kill two at the same time."
Gil: "She lights the candles in the shower. Her back is to the door. He grabs her from behind... and slits her throat. Then he positions her body ... so that her face is the first thing the boyfriend sees when he walks in."
Catherine: "So he takes seconds to kill Debbie. So why does he spend so much time cutting up Michael Clark?"
Gil: "Most likely because Michael Clark was the real focus of his rage."
Catherine walks into the hallway and sees Gil at the other end, on his hands and knees testing the carpet.
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Catherine: "Don't tell me you never went home."
Gil: "Okay. I just got started in here, I haven't even gotten to the other rooms yet."
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Catherine: "You know you loose your edge after 16 hours. You're into your third shift. I mean, I'm all for overtime but this is just plain greedy."
Gil: "My knees can't take this anymore."
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Catherine: "Have you eaten anything?"
Gil: "What did you bring?"
Catherine: "I'll see what's in the fridge."
Gil: "We have to replace that you know."
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Catherine: "Feel better?"
She walks from the doorway around the table and sits, sighing as she sits down.
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Catherine: "Well now that we fed you we should probably talk about a shower. I mean at your place. You need to go home."
Gil: "As soon as we find some evidence, I promise."
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Catherine: "With fresh eyes you wont miss it."
Gil: "Just talk it through with me, will ya? What do we know?"
Catherine: "All right. Bathroom is where things got started. Candles, oils...she's taken a shower... cleaned up oiled up sexed up."
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Gil: "Let's go back to the bedroom."
Gil: "Well nothing on this sheet."
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Catherine: "She changed her sheets for her date... I would."
Gil: "Hey Cath? Got silk?"
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Catherine: "Why yes I do."
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Catherine: "I don't mean to embarrass you but some guys need leverage?"
Gil: "They do?"
Catherine: "I'll dust for prints."
Gil's phone rings and he answers it.
Gil: "Grissom."
Warrick: "It's Warrick. I have something for you. I found a butterfly link with some white fibers on it."
Gil: "Butterfly? Where?"
Gil steps out of the bedroom, where Catherine is dusting the bed.
Warrick: "In the vacuum bag. You check all the rooms?"
Gil: "Let me look again and I'll call you back."
Warrick: "All right."
Gil hangs up and goes to a spare bedroom. He stops in the doorway and sees a butterfly collection on a shelving unit. Walking into the room, he goes to the shelves and looks at the collection. He opens a jewelry box and looks inside.
Catherine finishes lifting the print off the bed frame, then leaves to find Gil. She stands in the doorway to the room Gil is in.
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Catherine: "Hang one. Toe print."
She walks over to Gil.
Catherine: "I'll have Sara compare it against both victims."
Gil: "Good. Warrick found a butterfly charm in the vacuum bag. I think I just found a piece from the same chain in this box."
Catherine: "Butterfly, huh?"
Gil: "She had a collection."
Catherine: "Gifts from her ... gentlemen callers?"
Gil: "Maybe the killer was taking his gift back, as in leave no trace. Maybe he finally ran out of patience and got sloppy."
Gil looks down and notices a hair. He bends down to pick it up and Catherine kneels next to him.
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Gil: "And this is why I didn't leave."
Catherine: "Oh. The prodigal CSI returns. You get any sleep?"
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Gil: "Not yet."
Catherine: "So, uh, Brass had to let Dr. Tripton go. The old sex alibi. Too bad he didn't leave a toe print on a scalpel blade."
Gil: "You got a take on him?"
Catherine: "Balloon head, but credible ... like most adulterers."
Gil: "Is he going bald?"
Catherine: "Not really."
Gil: "Grey hair?"
Catherine: "No."
Gil: "Anything else?"
Catherine: "He's a lefty."
Impressions, Bits of Insight and the Pics that Don't Fit
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