CSI: CRIME scene investigationSeason 5 - Episode 6 - What’s Eating Gilbert Grissom?
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Sarah Goldfinger During a college hazing ritual, human remains are found in a pile of festering wood chips, and Grissom and his team are quickly able to prove that the body went through a wood chipper on the WLVU campus. The CSI team is worried when traces of blue paint – the modus operandi of John Mathers, the convicted and executed “blue paint killer” – are discovered with the body of a male student who was being hazed. John Mathers may have committed copycat murders of five coeds, but is the original serial killer from two years ago still out there and active? Taunting notes and planted hairs – the murderer’s signature – connect the new suspect to the one of the original victims, missing student Debbie Reston, as well as the vehicle he may have transported her body in. The dead male pledge may have been mistaken for the sexual sadist’s newest target – a young woman who resembled the murdered young man, and who has not been seen on campus in days. The team connects the dots and Brass questions a college art instructor who had contact with several of the victims and fits the profile of a serial killer. But he insists they’ve got the wrong guy, and he may be telling the truth. When Nick discovers that the new suspect has been using Mathers’ van, he posits a new theory – that Mathers and the serial killer weren’t the copycat and the master – they were partners. And then the killer surprises everyone, including Grissom. The trail that has led them from the art instructor to Kevin Greer is filled with clues and taunts, and then Greer shows up at the police station voluntarily. “If you made it to my house, then you deserved to meet me,” Greer says. He offers to show them his sixth victim, but this turns out to be a ruse – there is no sixth victim, and when Greer asks for permission to use the restroom, he successfully commits suicide right under the team’s noses, but not before leaving a final message for Grissom. |
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