CSI: Miami – Episode 7.03 “And How Does That Make You Kill?” Recap

October 7, 2008 by Lynn

Horatio Opening Smart Aleck Comeback:

Dr. Marsh: You have to understand, Lieutenant. People tell me secrets all day. They have to know that I will keep them. I took an oath.
Horatio: So did I.

Delko struggles a bit upon entering the Marsh house, telling Calleigh that he saw Marsh professionally. He began seeing her…the department has a contract with her…after discovering that the staff psychiatrist office had been bugged.

Dr. Tara (the new M.E.) determines that she died of a single puncture wound, and had hit her head on the desk in the struggle. Liver temp indicates time of death between 1 AM and 4 AM. Delko finds blood on Marsh’s office sofa, nowhere near the body. Signs of a struggle include a broken decorative clock.
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Wolf shows Horatio a piece of Dr. Marsh’s calendar, torn off by Chelsea, when she fell. It indicates that Dr. Marsh’s last patient was Nick Burnham.

Burnham tells Horatio and Frank about his dream. He claims to have merely thrown a paperweight, breaking her clock. He seems nervous, but not obviously guilty. He has no alibi, but insists his dream was only a dream.

Tara finds that the weapon was long enough that it chipped the back of one of Chelsea’s front teeth. She also shows no signs of a struggle. Someone, though, used a long, thin blade to punch through the back of her head.

Finally looking in the juvenile database, they match the blood from the couch to seventeen year old Allison O’Conner. Allison sees Dr. Marsh and attends Chelsea’s school. She acts surprised, and mildly defensive upon hearing that Chelsea has died. Allison denies killing Chelsea, and reveals cut wounds on her legs. She’s a cutter…a self-mutilator.

A tox screen shows that Chelsea was full of prescription anti-psychotics and anti-depressants. Dr. Marsh tells Delko and Horatio that Chelsea must have been in her office to write out prescriptions. Horatio asks about Marsh’s son. She says that he always took care of Chelsea.

Justin, Dr. Marsh’s son, tells Calleigh and Frank that Chelsea suffered from anxiety. He says that she had a boyfriend, and was going to break up with him. He says that he saw a woman drive up and look around their yard, and remembers her vanity plates. Pam Daschle…the plate owner…says that she followed her ex-husband Eddie to Dr. Marsh’s house to find negative information about Eddie to use in a custody case. She realized he was getting help, not cheating, so she left.

Natalia tells Ryan that a sex kit she ran on Chelsea found DNA for Shane Huntington, a Miami heir with a record for posession with intent to sell. Huntington tells Natalia and Wolf that he met Chelsea after one of his sessions with Dr. Marsh. He said she dumped him the night of her death. About his lack of grief over Chelsea’s death, he says that he’s in therapy because he can’t access his feelings.

Delko goes to Dr. Marsh’s office. She says her files are missing, thinking that the police took them. Delko, though, says they didn’t take them, and finds the lock was jimmied, and is covered in prints. She’s concerned about her notes full of patients’ secrets. They wonder if Chelsea stumbled across a burglar.

Horatio tells Eddie Daschle that they found his prints on the file cabinet. Horatio thinks Chelsea caught him stealing the files, so he killed her. Daschle says he looked at the files one day in the office, to see what she wrote about him, but he didn’t steal them. He claims his son as his alibi for the night of Chelsea’s death.

Horatio finds the son Cory at the salon where Pam Daschle cuts hair. Cory says his dad has changed. He says he went swordfishing with his dad. Cory’s mom tells him not to cover for him. She claims that Eddie leaves Cory alone and goes out drinking. Horatio notices Pam Daschle’s scissors.

Eric finds that Pam Daschle’s scissors match the depth of the wound, and finds a bit of Chelsea’s brain matter on them. She finally admits that she got angry when she saw Eddie in therapy. She isn’t willing to let Eddie regain shared custody, just because a shrink says he’s okay. She killed Chelsea by accident, intending to kill Dr. Marsh.

The team responds to a gunfire call at Dr. Marsh’s house. They find her bleeding in the driveway. Horatio finds Justin Marsh frantically rinsing his hands in the pool. After Dr. Marsh dies, Tara tells Wolf that it was a close range gunshot that probably passed through her aorta and lodged in her back. She gives the bullet to Wolf. Delko questions how Justin would have had time to stash a weapon, when Horatio found him with fresh blood on his hands.

Justin says he was inside the house and heard the shot. He ran out to find his mom lying on the ground. He pulls out a wad of cash that a patient…Shane Huntington…had paid him to steal the files. Shane tells Calleigh merely wanted the files to hide all the bad stuff he’d done from his father. He claims he torched his file, and threw the rest in the trash.

Calleigh finds Delko looking through Dr. Marsh’s files, and questions the wisdom of breaking the confidentiality to find inadmissable evidence. He convinces her to help him look through them to find any lead they can use. They can substantiate what they find in some other way. Calleigh sees Delko’s file, which reveals Delko’s feelings for her.

Delko, though, finds Nick Burnham’s file, which says that he actually broke the clock with a handgun. They match Burnham’s gun to the bullet from Dr. Marsh’s back.

Nick tells Horatio and Delko that he got angry when she canceled his upcoming appointments.

Calleigh and Delko talk about the files. He apologizes for talking her into compromising her ethics, and asks if she saw his file. She effectively evades the point, telling him they make a good team.

Horatio unites Eddie Daschle with his son.

I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this episode, without all the gang or mob confusion. Just an old-school, interesting case…my favorite! How did you like this episode?

So what do you make of the romantic tension between Calleigh and Delko in this episode? Do you think they will get together romantically?