CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Got Murder?

Written by Sarah Goldfinger
Directed by Ken Fink

The CSIs are called to the scene when birders discover a human eyeball in a raven’s nest. Grissom, Sara and Catherine begin to trace the unusual piece of evidence to a nearby garbage dump, a feeding ground for birds, and a perfect burial site. The dismembered female body they find belongs to a woman gone missing, and when they find her family, they have no explanation for why she deserted them, or what could have happened to her.

The husband, Daniel Easton (Michael O’Keefe), who is unemployed, is struggling to raise two teenagers: Charlie, who is detached and non-communicative, and Nora (Evan Rachel Wood), who seems mature and composed beyond her years. The CSIs soon are able to connect physical evidence in the family’s freezer with the woman from the dump, but Catherine is even more concerned by shocking evidence that she has found that may provide the husband and the daughter Nora with reasons for wanting the “missing” woman dead – motives that manage to appall even a seasoned investigator like Catherine.

Meanwhile, Dr. Robbins interrupts the autopsy on a relatively young man who supposedly died of a heart attack. But the first incision is made on a dead man who is still very much alive, and the CSIs try to figure out what made him look dead, and who wanted him that way. The unfortunate victim, who lives to die another day, was a car salesman, and a very good one at that. When Grissom and Warrick show up at the dealership to begin their investigation, they see firsthand how heavy-duty competition for customers can turn an office full of salespeople into a bunch of snakes. They suspect the victim was poisoned – but which of his co-workers knew how to use the venom from a lethal reptile, and where to get it?