Episode 2: Ghost Town
The CSIs investigate the deaths of a porn producer and a drug dealer in a respectable neighbourhood. Elsewhere, Ray and Doc Robbins make a gruesome discovery during an autopsy. Marnie Bennett finds the dead body of her boss, porn producer Ryan Lester, in her shower. She races from the scene and is rescued by neighbourhood watch captain Harvey Wincroft. When the CSIs arrive, Sara discovers a bloody size-ten footprint in the bathroom, while Nick finds a webcam in Marnie’s room. Coroner David Phillips explains that the girls who live in the house are part of a pay-perview porn show. “I subscribe to the website,” he admits, to Nick’s surprise. David also confirms that the victim died when his carotid artery was slashed.
Back at the station, the CSIs take Marnie and Harvey’s bloodstained clothing for analysis. During questioning, Harvey explains that the neighbourhood has gone downhill of late and there is a Peeping Tom in the area. Nick and Greg view footage of the porn website, hoping to see some evidence of the voyeur. “It looks like there’s something behind the curtain,” Nick says – and sure enough a close-up reveals a human eye. When they visit Ryan’s house again, the CSIs find white face paint next to a peep hole, along with a hanger from Diamond Star dry cleaners.
Nick and Sara learn that only one woman in the area, Faith Mason, frequents the dry cleaners – and her son, Craig, is a goth who uses white makeup. Sara searches the boy’s room and finds a bloodstained knife. When she spots a model of a hand hidden under the bed, Sara has a flashback and realises that Craig is the adopted son of Millander, a serial killer who locked horns with Grissom. Millander made a rubber mould of his own hand, which was later linked to a number of murders.
“Nature or nurture – you choose,” remarks Brass when the CSIs bring Craig to the station. “Just shut up and take my DNA,” he snaps. When Wendy discovers the blood on the knife does not belong to Ryan, Nick and Greg take a sniffer dog back to the house to search for more clues. However, the animal tracks down a body in another house on the street. The new victim is Cliff Kilos, who was also stabbed in the neck. The CSIs question Craig again but he denies murder. “I was just looking at the girls,” he insists.
Catherine brings Ray into the case, but he does not accept that a Peeping Tom would graduate to murder, pointing out that the evidence only places Craig outside Ryan’s house. “If Craig wasn’t a ghoul, and if his father hadn’t come after Grissom, would you be considering him at all?” he asks. Ray then takes a closer look at the rubber hand and notices it has a congenital deformity. Rather than keeping his father’s model, it seems Craig has made another, based this time on his own hand...
Ray visits Craig and opens up about his own father’s violence. He then asks the boy to slash a rubber mould of a man’s head and neck using a knife. “Show me how much you’re not like your father,” he says. Ray realises that Craig’s deformity means he could not have inflicted the injuries on either corpse. But if Craig did not commit the murders, who did? Elsewhere, Ray and Doc Robbins make a horrifying discovery when they examine the body of Joseph Bigalow, a man who apparently died of natural causes. The man’s small intestine has been wrapped around his spleen in a bow. “One thing’s for sure, he didn’t do this to himself,” Ray says.
Incisions made in the man’s belly button suggest the perpetrator has a medical background. Later, Ray realises that Bigalow’s bow tie was missing from the body and deduces their suspect took it as a souvenir. “I think next time he’s not going to be content with a dead body,” he says, ominously...
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