CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Double Cross

Written by Marlane Meyer
Directed by Michael Slovis

When two nuns find a woman crucified at their parish, Nick and Warrick are called in to lower the body from the cross. They note that whoever hoisted her up there had to be strong enough to lift over 100 pounds. Greg notices that the church’s sponsor is a car dealership by the name of Big Hombre Motors. Dr. Robbins confirms that the victim was alive when she was tied to the cross. Her cause of death is said to be suffocation. Catherine notes that the victim was bleeding on the way into the church. When Brass interviews the parish’s priest Father Frank, he notices blood on his clothing. Father Frank says he broke up a fight at the shelter. His clothes are sent in for examination. Sara finds a thorn in the victim’s foot. Catherine follows the blood pool out to the church’s sitting area where she sees a thorny bougainvillea bush and the victim’s high heel and car remote. Grissom notes that the victim was strangled with rosary beads. Meanwhile, Sofia interviews the owner of the car the victim drove to the church: Hugo Bombay. Bombay identifies the victim as Charlotte Danville and says she’s a friend from work who borrowed his car that night. Hugo says that on the night of her disappearance, Charlotte met a car salesman from Big Hombre Motors whom she fought with. Suspect and car salesman Cody White says he was an old friend of Charlotte’s and helped her out financially with a car and condo. Catherine notes small traces of blood in her condo. Catherine also sees old pictures of Father Frank, Cody and Charlotte. She finds a broken rosary underneath the couch. Brass finds Father Frank and Cody fighting outside of a confessional. However, when father Frank’s faithful sidekick Sister Bridget comes forth with a bloody hammer and confesses to the murder, the team questions the validity of Sister Bridget’s confession. With clues pointing to Father Frank or Cody White, whose relationship with the victim is strange given his marital status, the CSIs must analyze the evidence to find their sinner.