CSI Vegas Recap: Episode 8.15 - The Theory of Everything
Episode 8.15 - The Theory of Everything
Air Date: May 1, 2008
This episode was good CSI fair, with some interesting twists, stupid suspects, and some classic smart talk –both kinds. Grissom and the team investigate a case involving a deer that has been shot with an crossbolt, potentially liquored up, and dressed up for dancing on the town.
Brass: Okay, so you got a DUI, resisting arrest, several new and unique wildlife violations. You’re in a truckload of trouble, Kyle.
Kyle: I… I… I found her like that.
Brass: In a cocktail dress?
Kyle: [laughs] I didn’t put no dress on her. I was taking her to the vet.
Brass: Sure it wasn’t a nightclub?
After Brass and Stokes question Kyle about the deer, and give him a breathalizer test, Kyle bolts out the door and down the corridor. After an officer had already sprayed Kyle –to no avail- with pepper spray, Brass, Stokes, and an officer come out of an elevator. Brass gives the order to “light him up”, and the officer shoots Kyle with his Taser. The charge, though, ignites the suspect, enveloping him in flames, and killing him.
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Grissom and Sanders are documenting the scene. Sanders considers the possibility that the grain alcohol that Kyle had drunk had ignited from the charge. Grissom, though, indicates that he’d been in the PD for several hours, so the alcohol would have evaporated.
The IA investigator questions Brass about his order to “light him up”.
Brass: “Poor choice of words.” [Yes, very unfortunate.]
Dr. Robbins and another medical examiner check out Kyle, sharing aloud on the potential irony, and karma, of Kyle’s lying there next to his victim, the deer.
Stokes checks out the Taser video, and runs diagnostics to confirm that the Taser is working normally. Grissom tests the Taser against some human ballistic gel dummies. Neither the control dummy, the one soaked in alcohol, nor the one soaked in alcohol and pepper spray ignited. Grissom is perplexed. Grissom remarks that Kyle had just gotten divorced.
He then asks if there are any night vision goggles, lights, etc. No. He thinks Kyle shot the deer during the day, then committed any other acts later that night.
They decide to investigate Evelyn, the woman who shows up nightly wrapped in foil –her deflector suit- complaining of harrassment by aliens. She encountered Kyle just before the Taser incident.
Stokes arrives on a scene to find police looking over Evelyn’s body, wrapped in the usual foil, face down on the pavement. A truck driver, returning to the yard at the end of his shift, had struck and killed her. Evelyn has a cracked butane lighter on her, and $200 dollars. She also has green blood coming from her wounds.
At a rail yard not far from where Evelyn was found, they’ve found a blunt force trauma victim –Connor- also bleeding green blood. He also was wearing three pairs of sunglasses and earplugs. Grissom tells David that that’s how you make it dark and quiet to sleep on the streets. Sanders finds the apparent weapon, a pipe.
Tests prove that the green blood is caused by high levels of sulfur. Kyle’s parents file suit against the department, and the team watches a internet video, apparently shot by an ambulance chaser seen in the PD surveillance video. His phonecam video shows that the pepper spray can was yellow, not the red issued by the department. The yellow cans contain isobutane, unlike the water-based spray in the red cans.
When testing for sulfur compounds in the green blood, the team discovers overdose levels of migraine medication, “thiocyte”. [Obviously, they mean “thiocyanate”. Obviously…Sheesh. :)] Grissom connects the migraine issue with sensitivities that would warrant Connor’s sunglasses and earplugs. They decide that Evelyn may have had the $200 to buy the drug, and that the dealer may have killed Connor.
Meanwhile, Willows and Brown investigate a case of an elderly couple who died in their sleep, in each other’s arms, at the same time. No green blood, no sign of apparent suicide, or trauma. They both wore still-functioning pacemakers. Their back yard has a cat grave, a lot of holes, several dead ground squirrels, and a “painless” pest control device.
The next door neighbor welds art, by day. She doesn’t know much about the dead couple. Both Mr. and Mrs. Martin’s pacemaker memories indicate rises in heartrate, around eight hours before their deaths, then returned to normal. Mr. Martin’s stomach contained wine and pasta, apparently ingested about four hours earlier. The team find a fingerprint match on the pipe that killed Connor. The fingerprint bleonged to a man named David Bohr.
They find David Bohr at his house. He’s freaking out, and bleeding green blood. He says that Connor said he couldn’t pay yet, then attacked Bohr with the pipe. He got the pipe away, and struck Connor with it.
Light from the window seems to spike Bohr’s freak out episode. He totally loses it, and green blood comes out more vigorously from his eyes. Bohr’s autopsy finds green heart, green (sea foam) brain. The brain also has a tumor pressing against his amygdala. This would cause migraines, as well as paranoia. As it grew, it caused the cerebral hemorrhage that the team witnessed at Bohr’s home. Sanders remarks that he was “self-medicating for the wrong condition.”
Catherine and Brown test the pest device found in the Martins’ yard. It doesn’t emit any radiation that would have disrupted the pacemakers. Neither did the toxicology screen indicate any lethal medications. Willows remarks that natural causes are just too coincidental, but, perhaps whatever killed the cat, and the ground squirrels, killed the Martins.
Grissom autopsies the rodents. Hodges comes in and recites a 1996 interview where one “Gil Grissom” revealed that he performed necropsies on dead animals as a boy. Grissom asks Hodges to stop stalking him. (LOL!)
Hodges smells “bitter almonds” in a squirrel’s stomach –cyanide crystals.
Hodges: Yeah. Anytime you need a sniffer to detect it, my nose has the cyanide gene.
Grissom: What gene turns your nose brown?
Willow didn’t see white crystals in the Martins’ stomachs, though. Grissom wonders if they somehow ingested it in a different manner. Henry’s extended toxicology panel indicates lethal levels of cyanide, available from –duh-duh-dunnnnh- jewerly makers.
Brown talks to the Martins’ neighbor. She’s upset, because she just found out that her ex is dead, shot by a police officer… with a stun gun! [Hello, Kyle. Coincidences abound, tonight!] She admits that she poisoned the ground squirrels with potassium cyanide, which she uses in electroplating. The cat got into it, though. She is shocked to hear that she killed the Martins.
Willows watches Hodges sniff around the Martins’ house for cyanide. They discover traces of it in the carpet under the bed, as well as melted older carpet beneath the newer carpet, that had been laid directly over it.
Hodges goes into the crawl space and discovers the culprit that caused the “meltdown”, that triggered the subsequent gas, that carried the hydrogen cyanide along with it, killing the Martins. The team considers the weird coincidences.
Grissom, a non-believer in coincidence, ties it all to String Theory. [Hmmmm…]
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1 opinion for CSI Vegas Recap: Episode 8.15 - The Theory of Everything
boss ladi
May 4, 2008 at 10:08 pm
This was the best episode I’ve seen. I love how they had the myth buster there I love that show as well. It was a good one unpredictable and funny scenes.
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