Rating 65
The CSI team investigates a transgender woman found brutally stabbed and mutilated. This leads the team into the fringe world of sex changes and transgenders in order to catch a killer.
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Catherine: "Found a camcorder. No tape inside."
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Gil continues taking photos while Catherine looks around the area.
Catherine: "Not much traffic. Makes it a lot easier to run someone off the road ... and slash their throat."
Gil: "She was slashed south of the border, as well."
Catherine: "Women in convertibles are low-hanging fruit."
Gil: "And it was a top-down night."
Dr. Robbins: "Genital wounds were more profound than I expected."
Gil: "Profound how?"
Dr. Robbins: "Well, I was looking for ovaries and I found a prostate."
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Catherine: "'She' was a 'He'?"
Dr. Robbins: "'She' had genital reassignment surgery."
Catherine: "And what does that mean exactly?"
Dr. Robbins: "Exactly? Her testicles were removed and her penis was inverted, creating a vagina."
Gil: "And, evidently, the killer kept subtracting."
Catherine: "Subtracting what?"
Gil: "Well, they don't call it an Adam's apple for nothing. A man with issues might become upset if he found one on his woman. Cause?"
Dr. Robbins: "Severed carotid and jugular complex. Uh, incised wounds are almost surgical in nature. Used an extremely sharp weapon. Vicious attack. Probably from someone emotionally involved."
Gil: "Time?"
Dr. Robbins: "Best estimate, between 8:00 and midnight. I collected a standard SAE kit."
Catherine: "Good. Because top or bottom, this looks like a sexual assault that turned into a hate crime."
Stage Manager: "All right, this way."
Gil and Catherine follow him.
Gil: "Aborigines say they dance naked to make the gods happy."
Catherine: "The gods would be happy in Vegas."
Gil: "Did you ever see any transsexuals when you danced?"
Catherine: "Gil, only civilians confuse strippers and showgirls. You can't cheat the full monty."
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They step into the dressing room.
Stage Manager: "That's Wendy's station over there."
Catherine: "Thank you."
The Stage Manager leaves.
"Hello, ladies."
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Showgirl: "Hi, honey."
Catherine: "I'm Catherine Willows. This is Gil Grissom. We're with the crime lab. Do any of you know if Wendy Garner worked last night?"
Pink: "No, she had the day off. But she should be working tonight. And she is late. That's not like her."
Purple: "Why, did something happen to Wendy?"
Catherine: "Unfortunately, she was found dead last night."
Pink: "It was all those hormones she was taking, wasn't it?"
Purple: "Shut up. What do you know?"
Gil: "Do you know that Wendy was a, uh ... ?"
Purple: "Trannie? All the best showgirls are."
Pink: "Yeah, and it don't matter if they're packin' a lop job or a gaff."
Gil: "Okay, lop job I get. What's a gaff?"
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Mimosa: "It's like a jockstrap, only it hides what it's supposed to strap."
Purple: "We all get work done. Who cares if it's up north or down south? Pretty's pretty."
Catherine: "So do you know where she got her work done?"
Purple: "You want the best, you go to Dr. Mercer."
Catherine: "Jacqui got an AFIS hit off the bloody fingerprint from the toothpaste tube found in Vern's vagina."
Sara: "Wow."
Catherine: "Came back a Dr. Karl Benway, military service."
Warrick: "Well, we found out that this creepy looking thing is an abdominal retractor, used to keep the cavity open during surgery."
Sara: It's only sold in surgical supply stores. And other than hospitals, the only individual who's purchased one in the last year and a half in Las Vegas, Nevada, is Dr. Karl Benway."
Nick and Gil step into the room.
Nick: "We know the name of the butcher."
Catherine, Warrick, Sara: "Benway."
Gil: "Okay. What do you know about him, and do we have an address?"
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Sara: "Total dead end-- he's not registered with the AMA; he's not in the DMV database; he has no passport issued in the State of Nevada."
Catherine: "So we've got a non-doctor who served in the military who doesn't drive and never leaves the country."
Greg: "Sara, you asked for some ... research. Microfiche. Medical Journals. The stacks. There's not a lot on this guy, but this is what I've been able to find. Vietnam vet -- served as medic. Then it looks like he did a short stint with the sanctuary alliance in Ghana."
Catherine looks through the files then hands them to Gil."
Greg: "He goes from Ghana to Mexico, where he's arrested and deported for performing illegal abortions."
Sara: "Was his medical license revoked?"
Greg: "No. Benway never went to medical school. In 1983, he was arrested for protesting outside the Supreme Court. 1987, San Francisco Chronicle article. He was interviewed at an anti-nuke rally."
Gil: "-- and photographed. You know what? I believe Dr. Lavalle ... is Dr. Benway."
Impressions, Bits of Insight and the Pics that Don't Fit
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