CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Coming of Rage

Teleplay by Sarah Goldfnger
Story by Rich Catalani
Directed by Nelson McCormick

A teenage boy is found beaten to death at a building site. Based on the fact that his pants are pulled down around his knees, Grissom thinks it is a crime of passion. But based on the brutality of the crime, he knows it is also an act of rage. The wounds in the boy’s skull seem to match that of a hammerhead, so the CSIs immediately take a hard look at the construction workers at the site, and blood found on one of the workers’ hammers matches the victim’s.

But when a bloodhound actually follows the scent from the scene to a nearby mall, the team finds they have another suspect – a teenage girl who claims that the victim tried to rape her, and someone else beat him off her. What’s the connection between the construction worker Gregory Curtwell (guest star Brian Austin Green) and the girl? It’s his kid sister Angela, and the team thinks she’s lying about what happened to protect Gregory, who has an uncomfirmable alibi, but who is her only family.

 Meanwhile, Nick reports to the scene where a woman, just returned from her honeymoon with her new husband, is shot to death. Her current husband admits that her ex turned up and they had a bit of a row. Considering that Marlene Mitchell had filed a restraining order against her former husband, he’s looking good as a suspect, but when there is no trace of gun powder residue on either man’s hands, and the bullet, for some reason, shows shallow penetration, Nick wants to know why.