CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 4 - Episode 17 - XX

Written  by E. A. Vare
Directed by Deran Sarafian

The CSIs are called to the scene on a “419” – report of a dead body – after a prison transport bus is involved in an accident. An arm crash lands on the window of the car that was trying to pass the bus when the accident occurred, and the passengers say it came from underneath the bus. Nick and Catherine investigate the undercarriage of the bus, and determine that a female had been tied there with bed sheets, which tells them they are going to find body parts strewn all over the road.

 Why was the victim willing to take such a risk to break out of prison? Convict #6920, Antoinette Stella, aka “Baby Girl,” was due for release, so why would she try to escape? Things get more complicated when Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that she was dead before she went to pieces, murdered by a blow to the head.

Sara and Nick visit the female correctional facility, where they can find no sign of a struggle or body drag inside the prison or Antoinette’s cell, so if she wasn’t attacked on the inside, they think they she may have been attacked on the bus. When they process the bus, they discover evidence they weren’t expecting. “What,” Sara asks, “is semen doing in the back of a female prison bus?” And when Dr. Robbins tests further and discovers that Baby Girl was expecting a baby, Catherine has another question --“Who’s your Daddy?” – and that answer could provide them with the name of a murderer.

Meanwhile, Grissom and Warrick report to a stabbing scene with “helter-skelter” carnage. The victim, Adanto Adams, was brutally murdered, stabbed in the chest and the back. The last person to see the murdered man alive was his mentally disabled brother, Zero; the person to discover the body was Zero’s legal guardian Frank Samuels,(guest star David Marciano), who has some explaining to do when his prints are discovered on the knife and he admits he went to work rather than calling 911. But the investigation takes a strange turn when Samuels’ story checks out, and Grissom and Warrick learn that Adanto, who lost all of his brother’s trust fund gambling, was a desperate man. Desperate men do desperate things. “Reevaluate,” Grissom tells Warrick, “and put that in context with your evidence.”