CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 4 - Episode 2 - All for Our Country

Teleplay by Andrew Lipsitz & Carol Mendelsohn
Story by Rich Catalani
Directed by Richard Lewis

When Grissom and Brass arrive at the Klinefelds’ house with a search warrant, only to find their husband and wife suspects murdered, they are stumped: how did the killer get by the undercover cops who were sitting on their suspects in the sexual serial killer case, and what was the motive?

The undercover officers explain they were called away on what appears to have been a bogus report of an officer down, leading Grissom to suspect that the Klinefelds murder may have been an inside job. After a neighborhood kid tells Grissom and Brass that he watched a uniformed officer knock on the Klinefelds’ door, and disappear inside, Grissom is even more convinced the killer may be a cop.

Evidence soon leads the team to a possible scenario: the shooter sat in surveillance on the undercover team, and the Klinefelds’ house, drinking a soda. His abandoned cell phone could explain the “officer down” call, and since the neighborhood kid heard no gunshots, the empty plastic soda bottle could very well have been used as a makeshift silencer. While Brass is upset with Grissom’s conclusion, he doesn’t have much of an argument when Greg, dispatched into the field to find the missing soda bottle with the bottom shot out, comes back with something else -- a uniform shirt with what looks like an official LVPD badge.

The badge is traced to a cop named Fromansky (guest star David Andrews), a bad ass with an even worse attitude, who claims he’d lost it some time ago, which Brass, and a rabid Grissom choose not to believe. But soon Grissom must deal with the fact that he has let his personal feelings take precedence over the evidence – Fromansky’s DNA doesn’t match the uniform shirt and his voice print does not match the tapes of the “officer down” call.

 Meanwhile, Catherine and Sara are called to the scene where a college student has been found dead in a bathtub, so badly decomposed the CSIs refer to the remains as “man juice.”

Much of the evidence has been washed away in the days before the dead man’s roommates found him, and there is no sign of a struggle in the bathroom. The autopsy soon reveals that the victim – Daniel O’Hannissey – was dead before he hit the water, from a blow to the head that caused bleeding in the brain. “Imagine,” Dr. Robbins says, “a slow leak in a tire.” Additional evidence leads Catherine and Sara to a local sports bar where football fanatic O’ Hannissey was sent to watch UNLV away games by his roommates after he wrecked their pad with too much heavy-duty rooting. Seems that Dan-o’s may have made a mistake sending a round of Shirley Temples to a table of rival fans, and all Catherine and Sara have to do is prove which guy was a sore loser-turned-killer.