Episode 3: Working Stiffs
The CSIs investigate a brutal murder after two workmates plan to rob a casino. Elsewhere, Ray is forced to face up to his past in the light of his DNA results.
Paulie Krill, an office worker for the Tangiers casino, viciously murders a man in the woods, before returning to work as normal the following day. Doc Robbins performs the autopsy on the victim and concludes that the man was killed by several blows to the head. He also finds lacerations on his wrist. “The wound is postmortem. The killer was trying to dig something out,” he says. Catherine examines the wound and recovers a subcutaneous ID – a new form of implanted computer chip.
In the lab, Hodges studies the murder weapon – a thick piece of metal. “You see that kind of thing in a pipe bomb,” he says. Catherine gets an ID from the implanted chip and identifies the victim as Jason Deveraux, an IT tech at the Tangiers. Brass visits Jason’s office and interviews a woman named Belinda, who placed frequent calls to him late at night. He also interviews a nervous Paulie. “One of your co-workers was killed and you don’t seem to be too upset by it. Why is that?” he asks. Nick and Greg find Jason’s car abandoned outside his apartment building. His laptop has been stolen, but the cops quickly eliminate the thief, Jason’s hapless neighbour, from their enquiries. DNA on the car seat then leads the detectives to Belinda. As the woman is arrested, Paulie sneaks a flash drive with security codes belonging to Jason into Belinda’s purse. “I had a fling with him. That was it. I didn’t kill him!” she insists.
The team learns that Jason was spying on many of his colleagues by accessing their computer records. They also discover that he enjoyed blowing things up as a child, and had an uncle who worked at a mining company. The CSIs then learn that another piece of metal has been found near the murder scene – this time with blood and a serial number on it. When they discover that the serial number belongs to a safe, Catherine begins to suspect that Jason was planning on blowing up the safe at the Tangiers and stealing the money. When it emerges that Paulie and Jason both rented heist movies, the CSIs surmise that the pair were working together. The team puts out an urgent call to catch Paulie and prevent him from carrying out the robbery. But what was his motivation for killing Jason?
Also this week, Wendy sees Ray poring over some DNA results and points out that one of the genes displayed, monoamine oxidase A, has been linked to violent behaviour. “Just because something might happen doesn’t mean it will,” he snaps back. Can Ray come to terms with his violent genetic heritage?
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