CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Werewolves

Written by Josh Berman
Directed by Ken Fink

Under the glimmer of a full moon, the CSIs encounter a strange case, even for them. The team is surprised to learn that a victim shot down in the living room of his rural Las Vegas home is more than just a little hairy- he’s got a pelt. The hairy victim is brought back to the lab where Dr. Robbins explains to Grissom the particulars of Hypertrichosis, the genetic disease that has caused the victim, killed by a single silver bullet, to display excessive hair growth and apparently be mistaken by his killer for a real life werewolf.

The CSIs begin the intricate process of piecing together the wolf man. They discover that despite his abnormality, he lives a relatively ordinary existence; he is engaged and even has an online gambling problem, racking up $10,000 in unsettled debt. The gambling leads the CSIs to their first suspect; a disgruntled Internet Casino owner who has sent the victim threatening emails urging him to pay up or else. However, Catherine soon discovers there was more going on at the victim’s den. She and Sofia go back to the scene of the crime for another look. There, they discover the victim’s twin sister living in self-imposed exile from the outside world. Afraid that she might have to testify in court and face scrutiny as a courtroom sideshow, the sister refuses to tell the truth about her brother’s murder.

To get to the bottom of the case, the team must turn its attention to the other three people in the vic’s life: his fiancé who was no where to be found after the death; the best friend whose fingerprints were discovered on a rock thrown through the vic’s window; and the vic’s mother who abandoned her monster children by faking her own death.