CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Blood Lust

Written by Josh Berman & Carol Mendelsohn
Directed by Charlie Correll

A distracted cab driver runs over a young man, and an angry mob descends, believing that the driver is about to leave the scene of what looks like a fatal accident. Spurred by the fact that the driver is Indian, the enraged pack attacks and beats the cabbie to death. The CSIs prove that this was a truly misdirected hate crime, and the driver died for nothing – the boy who had been run over had collapsed in the street, the victim of a fatal stabbing.

As they investigate, the CSI team soon discovers that the young man who was killed had been reported missing by his mother. She tells Brass that she has spent the last several years fleeing an abusive husband, and this time, it was no different – she had just been about to leave Las Vegas when her son disappeared. The team follows the blood evidence they have, and the trail leads them from the scene of the taxi accident to a nearby park. Hoping to find the that was used in the stabbing, instead, they uncover a revolver – and a second body.

It soon becomes clear that the CSIs are investigating a terrible family tragedy – and the only witness to what really happened is the woman’s other son, a twelve year old boy who isn’t telling the truth about what he saw that fateful night.