CSI:Miami Episode 6.05 Recap: “Deep Freeze”

Our episode starts off as a pain in the neck, sorry couldn’t resist. An ex-football player, Doug McClain, gets awoken from a nap by a mysterious sexy caller. As she’s talking to him the player starts to think she’s a reporter or something looking for a story. When she says “How do you want to be remembered” we hear a crash and he ends up having this steak knife driver into his neck. As we later find out from Alexx, the M.E., it was a perfect cut across the artery giving a nice spray across the plate glass windows with his last three heartbeats.

As the team investigates, the newly widowed wife won’t let them take the body because her and her husband made arrangements to have him cryogenically frozen upon his death so they can figure out a way to revive him and make him live longer. This upsets Alexx because she’s not allowed to do her autopsy so she intervenes, to which they were already prepared with an injunction.

Our detective, who’s having a thing with Calleigh, suggests that the motive could be for his sports memorabilia, some of which was stolen from the house. Calleigh grabs some old cleats to try and get prints off of, and they get some hits.

As they bring in the mysterious caller, we find out that she was a writer that was updating the victim’s obituary. She explains that this is a standard practice so that the papers are ready to print immediately if something should occur to a celebrity. They believe she may have coordinated with the killer by calling him and keeping him distracted.

Alexx starts to perform a “vir-topsy”, which I’m guessing is like a virtual autopsy, by running a series of MRI type scans and compiling a virtual model of his body. She’s doing this all in a sub-freezing room.

In the meantime Eric and Natalia do some research and find a website with the stolen items already listed on a website. Horatio and Det. Tripp investigate the seller, Theo Knight, who says he purchased the items willingly from Doug’s manager for a great price. Doug wasn’t too happy about it and punches his manager in the face and gives him a black eye.

Back in the lab we find out that the double-sided tape they found earlier with silk fibers on it also had epitheleals. It was wardrobe tape holding up the dress. The find the lady and she says she was invited over to Doug’s house for a little thing.

While Natalia is at the firing range again, and almost knocks her shoulder off trying to fire a shotgun. While she’s checking out and Ryan is giving her an ice-pack, on the TV is a news agency saying they had an exclusive sound bite of the phone call he was on when he was murdered. Horatio and a lab tech begin analyzing the audio and hear footsteps and phone call being made. The phone number being called was his wife’s. They’d been separated for a year.

She says that Martin Wilson, the manager, is the one that called her from the house. He wanted her to get there before the police so the facade of their marriage would continue to be held up to the public. He says he was there to collect items that he was also trying to keep from the public: whiskey bottles, diet pills, “little blue pills”. Calleigh asks for the items and in the box she also finds the picture of a little boy in a football uniform. The manager says he never got an answer about who the boy is in the photo.

No prints were available off of the photo, but they were able to track down a logo on the back of the helmet to a boys rec league. It turns out that boy had a rare kidney disease and died a couple of days ago. The mother is the suspect that said Doug had invited her to his house, that snuck in through the window, and left the double-sided tape.

She had gone to Doug to ask for help paying for the transplant for the boy. He didn’t agree to help, but said he’d call his attorney. She didn’t realize that he didn’t have any money to really help. She thought he was talking to another girlfriend when she heard him talking to the obit writer. She also said she left the knife in his neck.

Here’s a twist for you! The originally stabbing didn’t kill him. It paralyzed him while at the same time clogging the original wound of the artery. (Hard to believe given the initial conversation about the perfect cut and arterial spray) The idea is that someone came in later and removed the knife, opening up the wound, which them let him bleed out and die.

Jumping back to the lab. Rick Stetler sees Eric Delko and Natalia in the lab holding each other, which he thinks is something romantic. In actuality, he’s popping Natalia’s shoulder back into place, which didn’t sound very comfortable. Eric slips up when Stetler lets Eric know about the change in office policy regarding fraternization among coworkers. He says something about Calleigh and her relationship with the hot little detective. Needless to say, Calleigh’s not too happy with Eric.

The wife is the one who removed the knife. Horatio found the murder weapon in the cryogenic tank that Doug’s body is in. Preserved nicely with her fingerprint on it. She pulled out the knife because he was worth more to her dead than alive.

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