CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Locomotives

Written by Evan Dunsky
Directed by Kenneth Fink

Carrying a rolled up rug on his shoulder a man mistakenly steps in concrete and the body of a dead woman in a bloody robe lands in the concrete as well. Grissom and Catherine arrive at the scene to investigate only to find that the suspect isn’t talking. Across town, Nick finds an old Russian immigrant whose cause of death is blunt force trauma with her head in the oven. Her dentures were in upside down and a sticky gel-like substance is on her ear that is confirmed as Jello. Nick finds a shoe print in the substance that is on the ground. He realizes that the old woman’s apartment has a keen view of another apartment that is in disarray with food all over the floor. Sofia talks with a woman whose daughter was babysat by the woman that lived in the neighboring apartment in disarray. The woman’s young daughter says that her babysitter’s husband Max watched her that day because his wife Patty Sullivan was gone. Sofia realizes that Patty was the deceased housewife found in the cement and when the little girl recognizes the cement man they know that the cement man killed his wife and killed the old woman in the neighboring apartment because she saw it happen through her window. Max claims that he accidentally killed his wife when they were picking up glass shards from a broken bowl of green Jello. He later confesses to killing his neighbor as well.

 Across town, Grissom and Greg find the body of chicken slaughterhouse employee Raymundo Suarez dead in the stun bath. Fellow employee Ernie Dell tells Brass that he thinks Raymundo was sleeping with the boss’s wife. Greg finds a piece of ceiling and a condom near the stun bath. Soon after, Grissom finds a miniature of the slaughterhouse killing denoting that the serial killer has struck again. Sara ties Izzy Delancy to the Manleigh Chicken Slaughterhouse. He did a PSA against them a few years back. Grissom checks the surveillance tapes from Penny’s murder and sees that the man who dropped off the replica had a motorized train logo on his shirt. Hodges ties the logo to locomotiveville and Ernie Dell, an employee at the chicken slaughterhouse, is associated with the company which fashions motorized toy trains. When Brass and Greg raid Dell’s home they find miniatures and toy trains covering the perimeter. When the team gets the evidence needed to arrest Ernie, Grissom realizes that Ernie has basically confessed to his crimes and committed suicide.