I take it that's not blood.
GrissomNo but there's protein in it.
Oh, the Mile High Club. That means that 2 passengers may have had no idea what was going on inside that cabin.
Grissom
You know high altitude enhances the whole sexual experience, increases the euphoria.
Well, it's good...I don't know if it's that good.[Grissom shoots her a look] Cite your source.
Grissom
Hand me a swab please.
[Smirks]] You're avoiding the question, "enhances sexual experience, increases euphoria" cite your source.
Grissom
A magazine.
Grissom
"Applied Psycho-dynamics in Forensic Science"
Grissom
I'll get you a subscription. Now cite your source.
Oh, now you want to go down that route?
Grissom
Yeah.
Grissom
You started it. [Raises his eyebrows as if to say "Well?"]
Delta airlines, flight 1109, Boston- Miami, March 93, Ken Fuller, hazel eyes, organic chem lab TABMOC, overrated in...every aspect...Could we get back to work please?
Grissom
Yeah, I think due to your first hand knowledge and experience in airplane bathrooms, you should do the swab.
Grissom
Well, in this case we're going to recreate the flight from ... 1630 hours on. [points to Brass] You are in 4B.
Lou -- the angry businessman. How about that?
Grissom
Good.
Excuse me, it's "Flight Attendant".
Grissom
Catherine, the doctor, 3E.
Single mom. What an imagination you have.
Grissom
[points to Nick and Warrick] Max and Marlene, 2E and F. You two are married. Who wants to wear the pants?
CSI-3 seniority, "sweetie".
Yeah, whatever. You're henpecked anyway.
[To Grissom] Let me guess; you're the computer geek.
Grissom
In the interest of clarity, yes. Nate in 2C.
Grissom
Please tell me you have something.
FCFemale coroner
I know what set this guy off.
Grissom
That's more than what I got.
FCFemale coroner
The guy had a ruptured spleen and I pegged that as probable cause of death. So, I crack his skull open and what do I find? A cantalope in a soup can.
Grissom
[Raises an eyebrow] Tight fit.
FCFemale coroner
And not from one or two blows to the head. He was also running a high fever, so I checked his spinal fluid. A normal human protein level is between 15 to 35 milligrams. Candelwell's was 60. Did anyone mention this guy had a headache?
Grissom
The flight attendant gave him two asprin. Why?
FCFemale coroner
He was suffering from undiagnosed encephalitis.
Grissom
Swelling of the brain.
FCFemale coroner
It can register like a heart attack. Slurred speech, loss of vision. You throw in the altitude and the air pressure changes in the cabin, and our poor guy was probably out of his mind.
Grissom
Is that what killed him, encephalitis?
FCFemale coroner
It wasn't the one thing. Ruptured spleen, intercranial bleeding, and the guy's heart just...stopped beating.
Grissom
A, B, C, D or all of the above. Standoff with the police -- guy gets shot in the chest, runs back into his burning house inhaling smoke as he goes. The roof collapses, the air conditioning unit falls on his head, he dies. What killed him?
[Grissom and Warrick go to interview the final passenger]
CCash
[Smirks] I was wondering when you guys would get around to asking me some questions.
Grissom
So, what did you see?
Grissom
[Barely holding his frustration] Mr. Cash, we're all very tired, here. And we don't have much time before our crime scene flies away.
Grissom
You were in 1A.
Sitting ringside; how could you not see what was going on?
[Cash promptly pulls out a collapsible cane used by blind people, extending it]
Grissom
[Sheepishly smiles] "The blind leading the blind."
CCash
I'm not totally blind, I'm legally blind. My central visual acuity is 20/200.
[A flashback is shown of the crime on the plane, from Cash's perspective, then cuts back to the present]
Grissom
Can you describe the voices?
CCash
First voice, behind me, 4B. Businessman, I could tell by the way he ordered drinks.
Grissom
How so?
CCash
"JW Black, triple not double."
Grissom
That's Lou.
CCash
Second voice, 2F, kind of far away.
Grissom
Max. Third voice?
CCash
Third voice...ah, row behind me, two seats over. Mr. Dot-com. Guy must've typed sixty words a minute.
Grissom
Nate. That's very good.
[The CSI team and Brass are recreating the crime based on the different witness testimonies]
Grissom
Now Lou said that he was the peacemaker.
Peacemaker, my ass. [Shows three empty mini-bottles of whiskey] He's got three empties in the pouch, the seat reeks of whiskey; the guy probably spilled Lou's drink.
I was boss at CSI once, for a reason. So, Lou gets up and takes a swing at the guy. Well, after knocking three back at 30,000 feet, you know, he probably misses, so what does he get for his troubles?
A CD swipe across the chops.
So, then he falls back–oh, maybe that's when he fell back and spilled his own drink.
Grissom
Now, by this time, Candelewell's got to be out of his seat, right?
You know, if I'm Max, I want no part of this. Plus, I don't have an aisle seat.
Yeah, but you're lucky: your wife's going to make sure you get into the playing field.
Yeah, go ahead, honey. Save my life.
So Max gets up, goes across Marlene,[to Warrick] Excuse me, buttercup...
I don't care what you say. I could never take a life.
It was between him or me, I could. What about you, Nick?
[walks in with Grissom] Wow, looks deathly serious in here.
[smiling sweetly] Oh, we were just talking about murder and whether or not we would commit it. I couldn't, Warrick could, and Nick's on the ropes. We're taking an exit poll.
Catherine, you're a mother. You and Lindsey are on that plane. How far do you go?
(surprised) You didn't even hesitate.
That's right. If it involves the protection of my child I fight to the death.
See? We have four people here, all with different opinions. Think of how the passengers must have felt.
What do you think, Grissom?
Grissom
(beat) I can't answer that question.
That's a cop-out. It's a simple question. What would you have done if you had been one of those passengers?
Grissom
It's not about that. You all have different opinions but you've taken the same point of view. You've put yourself in the shoes of the passengers, but nobody's put themselves in the shoes of the victim. That's the point.
I'm sorry. What are you saying?
Grissom
Nobody stopped to ask Candlewell if he was all right. They just assumed, because he was kicking the back of Nate's seat, that he was a jerk. Because he was pushing his call button, that he was bothering the Flight Attendant. Because he was trying to get into the lavatory, he was making a scene. Because he was going back and forth up and down the aisles, he was posing a threat.
Grissom
No. He turned into a threat. It didn't have to be that way. People make assumptions. That's the problem. You just did. And I think these passengers made the wrong assumption and now this guy's dead.
Well, if that's your stance how could it have been prevented?
Grissom
If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him, it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.
Grissom
No, Sara's gonna work with me. You've got a missing person, Sheryl Applegate. Her husband notified the police that she took the car and headed to LA, but she never showed up. A few hours ago, the PD found her car at the bus station. They requested a CSI.
She took the bus instead, case solved. [grins]
Grissom
Well, right now, treat her car like a crime scene. [tilts his head to the side] Go.
SSScott Shelton
[after Sara discovers blood that has been wiped clean off the wall] I have no idea how it got there.
Oh... How it got there was when you shot your wife in the head, wrapped her in a blanket and left her on the side of a mountain. Dead!
[points her finger in his face]
SSScott Shelton
Get that finger out of my face bitch!
[they fight]
Stop! That's enough! [to Grissom] Get her under control!
Grissom
Get him out of here, Jim!
SSScott Shelton
Told you she was a handful.
Oh, you don't know a handful!
Grissom
Hey, Sara, what's the matter with you?
I am a woman, and I have a gun and look how he treated me! I can only imagine how he treated his wife!
Grissom
You have empathy for her, Sara. You want someone to pay for what was done to her. That's normal.
You want to sleep with me?
Grissom
Did you just say what I think you did?
That way, when I wake up in cold sweat under the blanket, hearing Kaye's screams ... You can tell me it's nothing. It's just empathy.
So, you planning a little late-night luau? Roast pig?
Grissom
It's an experiment. Maybe Kaye was dead five days.
I thought your bugs never made mistakes.
Grissom
They don't. People do. The victim was wrapped in a blanket. Normally a blanket or clothing doesn't impact insect maturation. The insects usually fight their way in anyway. But I examined the folds in Kaye's blanket. She was wrapped tight---maybe tighter than I realized---which would have decreased the corpse's exposure to insects
So it took longer for the insects to get in there?
Grissom
And deposit their eggs. Maybe two whole days. I've wrapped porky here pretty tight.
Well, let me ask you this. You killed a pig just for this?
Grissom
This poor ham was already on its way to someone's Christmas dinner
table.
Any idea how long she's been dead?
The elements really got to her. Grissom and his insects are going to have to figure that one out. (Doc Robbins turns around and sees Grissom picking up a bug from the body) Have we lost you, Grissom?
Grissom
" The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout."
Grissom
An old nursery rhyme.
A very special insect, Dr. Seuss?
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