Fun and Games: Episode Ratings: Dog Eat Dog

Dog Eat Dog Rating Grissom and his team must take their clues from what the man ate in order to identify his cause of death, which leads them into the world of competitive eating. Meanwhile, Nick and Sara investigate the suspicious death of a couple attacked and killed by their seemingly sweet dog.
Catherine: "This place used to make a hell of a meatloaf sandwich. You ever eat here?" Gil: "Not since the chef blew his brains all over the kitchen." David: "I eat here all the time. I like the chili." Gil: "T.O.D., David?" David: "Based on liver temp, he's been dead around two hours." Catherine: "Looks like he was knocked out and thrown out. And there's some metallic silver residue on his cheek." Gil: "What's this gunk in his hands?" David: "Mashed potatoes." Gil: "There were mashed potatoes in the dumpster." David: "No fingernails...on either hand." Catherine: "Maybe he was alive inside there. Digging to get out." Gil: "Or he had really bad table manners." Catherine: "There's some scarring on his (the vic's) wrist, but not on the other." David: "Look what I found in his pocket. (Reads from a flier:) 'Aunt Jackpot's Pretzels.'" Catherine: "Oh, now, they make a great pretzel." Gil: "Maybe that's why he's got that smile on his face." Catherine: "Oh, nice look. That'll guarantee you the chicks." Hodges: "Silver material on your vic's face was Graftobian theatrical makeup. Moonlight Silver is the color." (Catherine laughs.) "Okay, look, I can't stand the smell of hot dogs. They make me sick." Gil: "So, all of this stuff was in the vic's stomach?" Hodges: "Among other things. You know what the worst kind of burp is? Hot dog burp. You know, like your dad's just letting them loose, or maybe the ex-girlfriend." (Gil and Catherine look at each other.) "Well, as you can see, he wasn't much of a chewer, which was very lucky for us. Made it easier to identify the food. Cake, mac and cheese, pretzels, pasta, beef, shrimp, fish and, of course, hot dogs." Gil: "Food normally takes two to four hours to digest, which means he ate all of this..." Hodges: "In two to four hours before he died." Catherine: "How many hot dogs did he eat?" Hodges: "Approximately twenty." Catherine: "God, ugh! Do you think we might be able to ID the makers of the hot dog from the ingredients?" Hodges: "No. Believe it or not, most hot dog companies are very proprietary over their recipes." Catherine: "Well, how about through the griddle marks?" Hodges: "Oh, yeah, sure. I'll just run it through the Hot Dog Appliance database." Gil: "When was the last time you saw a branded logo on a hot dog?" Catherine: "Looks like those novelty chatter teeth. Weird." Hodges: "You think that's weird? Check this out. This was in his stomach, too." [CC reads: "Go ahead. Dig in."] (Gil pulls a wadded up piece of paper from the container.) Catherine: (reads) "Circus Town Buffet." Gil: (reads) "All-U-Can-Eat." Catherine: "I got an ID on Dumpster guy. Brass is tracking down a current address." Gil: "Prader-Willi." Catherine: "No, his name was Jerry Gable." Gil: "No, Prader-Willi Syndrome. A rare, genetic disorder that causes ceaseless, uncontrollable, excruciating hunger. It's as if your stomach was truly a bottomless pit." Catherine: "That could explain why after consuming 22 dogs, he wanted more. Could also explain why he was found in the dumpster. He followed the food." Gil: "Prader-Willi Syndrome is characterized by short stature, hypotonia, almond-shaped eyes, and obsessive fingernail biting." Catherine: "Well, that kind of fits the victim's description." Gil: "Sufferers are born with a flawed hypothalamus. A normal hypothalamus receives a signal from the stomach--'I'm full, stop eating.'" (Flashback to Jerry eating hot dogs.) "But with Prader-Willi Syndrome, the signal never reaches the brain." (Flashback to Jerry, who is still looking for food.) "They're always hungry." Catherine: "Like having a full tank of gas, and the gauge is stuck on empty." Gil: "Guys like Jerry are monitored their whole lives. Constant supervision 24 hours a day. Do you remember the scar tissue we found on his wrist? I think it's possible that our vic spent most of his life in restraints." Catherine: "So either he escaped, or someone set him free." Gil: "In which case, they'd be responsible for his death."
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