CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Spellbound

Written by Jacqueline Hoyt
Directed by Jeffrey Hunt

Grissom, Greg and Warrick find themselves in the otherworldly realm of the supernatural when they find a psychic shot to death in her occult shop. Brass rushes to the scene to find two women, Anna Leah and Lori, who met with Sedona right before her death. The women say that they fled from the occult shop when Sedona predicted a horrible fate. The shop was ransacked with broken bottles and potions all over the floor. Greg finds blood at the scene and swabs it. He also finds that the cash register is empty: meaning the crime was either a robbery or “staged” robbery. Back at the lab, Dr. Robbins finds white powder in the victim’s nasal cavities and lungs. Mandy traces the prints on the cash register to Reese Bingh

Meanwhile, Brass meets up with Detective Jameson who knew the victim. He says that when he was investigating the death of Claire Wallace, Gordon Wallace (Claire’s husband) used to frequent the occult shop for psychic readings. Jameson also says that Gordon is the key suspect in the unsolved case. Grissom has Mandy investigate Wallace’s visits to the shop. Back at the lab, Henry Andrews confirms that the white powder found in the victim is a plant extract called belladonna; in high doses this can cause death and hyperthermia. Mandy confirms that the blood at the scene was from a male.

Down the road, Brass finds a patient by the name of Damon Mitchell at the hospital; apparently he crashed his car after inhaling large amounts of belladonna. In the interim, Mandy tells Grissom that the prints found at the scene were from a Gordon Wallace and Detective Jameson. With a long lineup of suspects, Greg fights to solve the case in the shortest amount of time possible; knowing that if he succeeds Grissom may up his responsibilities.