CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Unbearable

Written by  Josh Berman & Carol Mandelsohn
Directed by Ken Fink

A young mother, Lori Kyman, is reported missing by her husband after a girls’ night out. One particularly persistent suitor from the club where Lori partied may know what happened to Lori – the CSIs find his print on her tire. He admits he let the air out of her tire, hoping it would go flat. His plan was to follow her, and she’d be appropriately grateful for his help. But the Lothario claims the tire never went flat, so he gave up.

 Then Lori turns up dead, with no attempt made by the killer to hide the body. There are signs of apparent strangulation, and evidence that despite what the husband told the CSIs, Lori may have come home after she left the club. In addition, Lori’s girlfriend admits to an affair with Lori’s husband, who is not only a serial adulterer, but one who likes to get rough as well. But things take an even uglier turn when fiber evidence found on Lori’s body proves that Lori’s body was transported in a very high-end car, a Bentley that can be traced to Lori’s mother (guest star Lolita Davidovich).

Meanwhile, Nick and Warrick are called to the scene where a mauled hunter is found in close proximity to a dead and slashed Kodiak bear. The CSIs find evidence showing that someone else was at the crime scene, and that person may hold the key to how a non-native Kodiak bear wound up dead in Nevada, missing a gall bladder.

Then Dr. Robbins locates a microchip that identifies the bear as being from the local zoo, Catherine finds out from the zookeeper who cared for Tippy that the bear was sold to a broker for placement in another zoo. The CSIs find out the broker who took Tippy was unlicensed and bogus, and Tippy never made it to his new home. When Nick and Warrick track down the other man who may have been at the scene, he admits he shot the bear as it attacked the other victim. He is also in possession of the bear’s missing organ, which he says is not a crime, and he insists that he did nothing wrong, but the CSIs aren’t buying it. They soon discover that the bear was also drugged, leading them to believe the unfortunate animal was sold and used in a “canned hunt” – prey for wannabe big game hunters, and whoever sold Tippy is about be charged with murder.

And the demoted Sofia (Louise Lombard) tells Grissom she does not intend to stay on the team, no matter how much they both like working with each other.