CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Bite Me

Teleplay by Josh Berman
Story by Josh Berman & Carol Mendelsohn
Directed by Jeffrey Hunt

Paramedics respond to a 911 call at the suburban home of Ray Lester, who answers the door frantic and covered in blood. He leads the paramedics to his wife, Becky, who’s laying face-up on the stairs. The paramedics track through the pools of blood as they attempt to save her, but they’re too late – she’s dead.

Grissom and Catherine arrive, and ask Ray what took him so long to call 911 – because the partially dry blood pools indicate the accident happened several hours earlier. Ray says that he and his wife were sitting by the pool when his daughter (from his first marriage) called, asking to speak to Becky privately. When Becky left to take the call inside, Ray claims he passed out in his chair, and when he woke up and went inside, his wife was on the stairs, covered in blood; he assumed that she fell. However the CSIs soon determine that the victim’s body position and lack of blood smudges on the walls are inconsistent with a fall, and examination of blood spatter patterns suggests that Becky was bludgeoned.

When the CSIs take Ray’s bloody clothing into evidence, they find bite marks on his chest. Ray explains that his wife was into sexual biting and that he indulged her. But as the CSIs probe deeper, the sordid relationship between this couple begins to unfold into a world of fetishes, extramarital affairs, and blackmail.

And when further investigation reveals that Ray’s first wife also died in an accident on the stairs, the CSIs answer the question – does murder, like lightening, never strike twice?