CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Big Shots

Written by Dustin Lee Abraham
Directed by Jeff Woolnough

Gun Shots erupt in the early morning hours and a shot-up and out of control limousine crashes into the “Seven Sins” Gentlemen’s Club barely missing a group of strippers coming off their shift.  The uniform on scene fills Brass in on the casualties.  One dead and two banged up.  Brass recognizes the passenger who managed to survive the shoot-out, their paths have crossed before.   His name is Kellen Tyford aka “Drops” (Episode #620), a flashy African-American gangsta wannabe and “music producer.”  The dead guy is his “cuz” Champ Landley.  Grissom and Greg process the limo and find evidence of alcohol, drugs, a slew of different caliber bullets and casings and evidence of a possible third person.  But the driver and Drops are not confirming the presence of another person.

 Meanwhile Catherine and Warrick are working a second crime scene.  The body of a young woman was found by some school kids on a suburban road next to a golf course.  From the injuries to the body and the evidence at the scene Catherine and Warrick surmise that the victim had been thrown from and dragged by a car to her death.

 Back at the lab Nick processes the limo and discovers that shots had been fired into and also out of the limo.  When Drops comes back negative for GSR it confirms the presence of another person in the limo.  Greg goes back to the limo to find evidence of the third person and in his search discovers a rolled up $100 bill that was obviously used to snort the coke found earlier.  DNA results from mucous found on the bill turn out to belong to the brother of Demitrius James, the kid Greg had run over and killed in self defense (Episode: “Fanny Smackin”).  Greg is promptly removed from the case by the Undersherrif who is still upset about the $2.75 million dollars the city just paid to the mother and brother of Demitrius

 James as a result of the lawsuit brought against Greg. 

Meanwhile Catherine finds evidence in the dead girl’s purse which leads them to a guy that had contact with the girl the night she was killed.  They search his car and find a massive amount of blood in the front seat.  The blood leads them to tie the guy and his pal to the shootout at the Seven Sins which also leads them to place the dead girl in the limo with the previously unknown female DNA found on the $100 bill.

A chance meeting with the mother of Demitrius James at the lab may give Greg and the boy’s mother the closure they are both looking for.