CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Fallen Idols

Written by Marlane Meyer
Directed by Chris Leitch

High school cheerleader Meagan Cooper and her basketball star boyfriend Ryan Lansco put their parents and friends into frenzy when they go missing after an evening game. When Grissom and Nick arrive at the school to process the surroundings, they find blood on a chain link fence and even more blood in the field house. Nick also bags a concave piece of glass found on the ground and pulls a print from the lock of the field house. They find a cheerleader’s sweater and letterman’s jacket along with blankets on the floor. Back at the station, Sofia interrogates Meagan’s best friend Sheila who says she didn’t know where Meagan was the night before. Catherine realizes that Ryan called the school’s photography teacher Diane Kentner a few hours before he went missing from his cell phone. Nick confirms that the concave lens is from a camera. Greg confirms that all the blood found in the school is Ryan’s. Grissom and Nick find Meagan lying unconscious and bloody in a ditch close the school. Meanwhile, Sara and Warrick locate Ryan’s van where they find blood, but no one in it. Sara locates a pink cell phone underneath the driver’s seat. An egg crate mattress found in the van is brought back to the lab for examination. Catherine confirms that the mattress is covered in crabs. Archie ties the pink phone to Sheila. However, when Sheila and her mom are called in for questioning, Sheila dies in the station. Dr. Robbins confirms cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head possibly up to 24 hours ago. He also notes that Sheila swallowed a camera’s memory card before her death. When they recover the card they find a video taken of Ryan who is tied to a bar in the field house and stripped naked. They learn that Sheila and Meagan’s other pal Charlie tied up Ryan because he was infected with crabs and gave it to Sheila. Warrick goes to Ryan’s FriendAgenda page where it says he slept with his photography teacher, Sheila and Meagan. Warrick realizes that the car that hit Meagan and left her for dead in a ditch was a SAAB, same as what Diane drives. He also lifted Diane’s prints off of Ryan’s van’s back door handle.

As the team gets closer to the truth, they wonder if Diane killed Meagan out of jealousy as she was obsessed with Ryan and if Sheila killed Ryan out of revenge for giving her an STD.