CSI: CRIME scene investigation
Season 7 -
Episode 24 - Living Doll
Teleplay by
Naren Shankar & Sarah Goldfinger
Directed by Kenneth Fink
Special
Guest Stars :
Wallace Langham as “David Hodges”
A janitor at a convenience store
spills some bleach. The
puddle splashes up on the shoes of a girl in her late 20’s, Natalie
Davis. She has a panic
attack and runs out into the
Las Vegas
night. We have finally met
the Miniature Killer. Back
at the lab, Grissom is pouring over still images of Raymond Dell’s
foster children, whittling down to the killer.
They get a court order to track down Trevor Dell.
They enter his low rent apartment to find the A/C set at 55
degrees and his broken body in the bathroom.
There is no miniature on scene, but they do find one of the
dolls. Grissom goes back over
the cases from the year trying to piece together this new murder.
Grissom and Catherine magically find a partial print on this
doll.
Natalie
is applying for a job at a maid/ cleaning service that apparently has
several government contracts- she coolly consents to being fingerprinted
for her application.
Grissom, Sara, Nick and Warrick try to piece together the crime scene.
Trevor had a fracture skull, there were blood stains all over the
bathroom- must have been a huge struggle.
Natalie
is now at a local hobby shop that specializes in miniatures- she places
a special order. She
flashes back to Ernie Dells’ train collection and a conversation they
had in which he realized she had killed all those people- but he pledges
to still protect her.
Natalie is back at her apartment working on a new miniature based on a
sketch of Grissom and Sara at the scene of wrecked Mustang flipped over
on its roof. She’s making a
tiny CSI vest, she puts it on a tiny doll- it’s Sara Sidle.
Wendy is not
able to match the print on the Trevor doll but does confirm the DNA is
X-X, the killer is a female.
Nick begins to wonder if a woman could have killed Trevor in that
manner. Doc Robbins is able
to confirm that some electric shock was involved.
Nick and Catherine realize at the scene that Trevor was
electrocuted, which sent his body into convulsions that caused his
violent death. They
determine the neighbor had been stealing electricity, thereby
accidentally creating a circuit in the bathroom when it got wet.
Trevor just unfortunately stepped in the wrong place at the wrong
time, he was not murdered.
Grissom follows
the Trevor doll trail to the same hobby store Natalie was at earlier,
the clerk confirms that he had done a special job for her- but doesn’t
have anymore information about her identity.
With
this information they get a court order to unseal Natalie’s foster care
record. Grissom interviews
Donna Wetzel, who was Natalie’s first foster home.
She admits they had to send her away because she kept pushing
another child out of the top bunk.
This kid was broken at age 7.
Grissom and Catherine discover that Natalie’s real father is a
ventriloquist named the Great Rainone and they go to meet him.
He confirms that years ago his wife had died and then Natalie’s
sister was killed falling out of a tree house.
It was obvious the real truth was that Natalie had pushed her.
The aversion to bleach came from her father cleaning the bloody
sidewalk.
Natalie
has finished her car wreck miniature.
She enters CSI wearing a janitorial uniform- this was her
assignment. She puts the
new miniature on Grissom’s desk.
She confronts Sara in a parking garage.
Grissom finds the new miniature.
The
team quickly analyze the situation- the doll is still moving which mean
Sara is still alive.
Natalie has recreated the entire accident scene out in the desert.
But Grissom admits the truth.
This is about revenge.
Natalie holds him responsible for the death of the only person
she ever loved- Ernie Dell.
She will do the same to him- Sara.
Now that the killer’s identity is revealed- they go arrest
Natalie. But Grissom can’t get her talk.
She just sings a disturbing song.
Sara awakes, trapped under a red Mustang.
Her hand twitching just like the doll in the miniature.
To
be continued….
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