CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 5 - Episode 10 - No Humans Involved

Written by Judith McCreary
Directed by Rob Bailey

Grissom, Greg and Sophia report to the scene to investigate the murder of a suspected drug dealer, but the situation becomes even more complicated when Greg discovers the body of an emaciated child in a nearby dumpster.

As Greg is assessing that disturbingly sad situation, the team finds itself caught in the crossfire as the dealer’s brother is shot to death when he turns up to identify his dead brother, and suddenly what looked like a simple murder has become the scene of a triple homicide.

Sara and Greg, with Dr. Robbins’s help, trace the starved young boy to a foster home, and Sara immediately suspects abuse in a system often plagued with problems, something she admits to having experienced firsthand. But the foster mother turns out to be well-intentioned, according to another child in her care, and it is the dead boy’s biological mother who should have some explaining to do – including the whereabouts of her dead son’s two other siblings – if the team can find her.

 Greg, with Sophia’s help, extracts a print from the dumpster that leads the team to a soldier about to ship out to Iraq. All he will admit to is taking out the garbage for a woman he partied with on his last night Stateside, which sends Brass to the strip joint where the soldier’s “date” hangs out. She turns out to be related to the dead boy, but she is less than willing to discuss how he died, or what happened to the other missing kids her half-sister left in her charge.

Meanwhile, Warrick and Nick investigate a prison murder, the result of a particularly messy rumble between the guards and the inmates. Warrick’s suspicion that excessive force by a guard has been used on an unarmed prisoner puts him at odds with the watch commander in charge of central holding and, when he doesn’t clue Catherine into what he suspects and the accusations he has leveled, he experiences his first sticky situation with his new boss.