CSI: CRIME scene investigation
Season 7 -
Episode 7 - Post Mortem
Teleplay by
Dustin Lee Abraham and David Rambo
Story by Naren Shankar
Directed by Richard J. Lewis
When an elderly woman is found
impaled on jagged shards of glass from an earlier fall through her
sitting room window, the CSIs arrive at the scene to find an empty
highball liquor glass on the floor. Brass notes that there’s a spare
room in the back of the home with an unmade bed. Catherine finds
numerous pill bottles in the victim’s bedroom. Brass chats with the
young next door neighbor Jason who says a young man had lived with the
victim. Dr. Robbins says the victim died from exsanguination, but had a
terrible case of cancer. However, the pills Catherine found weren’t for
pain. Catherine finds shards of glass with blood on them in the laundry
room. Brass speaks with the victim’s tenant who is her nephew. He says
he was at the movies when she died. Brass notices track marks on his
arms. The lab finds no traces of narcotics in this system and no blood
on his clothing. When Archie runs the surveillance tape from the
victim’s other neighbor, he notices that Jason is slinging drugs.
Meanwhile, Henry, the victim’s nephew, brings a miniature of the crime
scene to the lab. Jason confesses that he was buying drugs from the
victim. Hodges realizes that the liquor the victim drank before her
death was poisoned with liquid nicotine. With a second serial murder on
their hands, the team wonders how they will catch their killer.
Meanwhile, Greg goes to court for a coroner’s inquest. A jury is present
to judge the death: justifiable, excusable, or criminal. Sofia, Nick,
Warrick and Dr. Robbins are questioned. The victim’s family makes
comments condemning Greg throughout the proceeding. Nick and Warrick
prove that there was no way Greg could have avoided hitting Demitrius
even if he wanted to because of his delayed acceleration when he saw
Demitrius come at him with the rock. The judge brings up the fact that
Greg was drinking before the fight. Greg manages to make the jury
believe that he had only one glass and was legally ok to drive. The jury
rules that the death is excusable. As Greg exits the courtroom he is
served with a civil suit for wrongful death
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