Autopsy report. Cause of death, cardiac arrest.
That's coroner speak for "I can't explain what killed her."
“Art Imitates Life” · Season 9, Episode 3
In this episode: Gil Grissom (4), Catherine Willows (4), Nick Stokes (3), Jim Brass (3), Riley (3), Jerzy (3), Greg Sanders (1), Al Robbins (1)
No organ damage, no disease, no trauma, this was a perfectly healthy young woman.
Yeah, 'til she dropped dead without dropping.
[upon seeing Riley shine a UV light over her teeth] Well, I always thought it was cool that teeth fluoresced but veneers didn't. How'd you get them?
Somebody bet me that I couldn't jump into a lake with a rope swing in my mouth.
And that pulled the teeth out?
No, but it sure did hurt my neck. On the way home I hit a fire hydrant.
And you bumped the steering wheel with your mouth?
No, I was on my bike at the time. I flew over the hydrant and crashed into the cross bar of a chain link fence.
With your mouth?
My shoulder, broke my clavicle.
Okay then, how'd you lose the teeth?
[points to each tooth] This one was a root canal. This one a post and a crown. And this one I uh, I was in college, I woke up one morning and it was gone. I don't know what happened to it.
We got a serial killer, Greg, and he's working at the pace of one body per day.
Great. Somethin' to look forward to tomorrow.
[while searching the victim's apartment] The naughty drawer.
What?
[picks up a bag of weed that's in the drawer and sniffs it] Hydroponic, medical grade, put-you-on-your-ass, send-you-to-dreamy-land weed. Nurses always got the good stuff. [smells the weed again]
Uh, I take it you're aware of the lab's random drug testing policy?
Oh yeah, I got a bottle of clean urine in my locker just in case. I'm kidding.
[laughs awkwardly] Good one. Here, I'll bag it. [Catherine smells it before she bags it]
Do you know Carla Perotti?
Who?
Carla Perotti!
Oh, yeah. She was one of my models, she's a lovely girl. [looks at the picture] That's a cheap imitation of my work.
Well, you have to take it up with the coroner because she's dead for real.
Maybe you, uh, maybe you bumped into him at a grocery store or something.
I don't go out. I don't shop. I don't bump.
But you do paint dead people.
I paint people who look dead, and you would weep if you knew how much I make doing that. If you haven't noticed our culture seems to be obsessed with sex and death.
I've noticed.
I'm gonna save you some time because I know what's on your mind. I don't kill my models. I don't even bang them much anymore, occasionally, of course, but I find not with same gusto and verve with as the days go by.
You bang Carla Perotti?
I'm not doing women.
You mind if I look around?
I'd like to paint you in the nude.
I don't do nude. Where would I pin the badge?
Exactly.
Lividity says the victims died in the positions in which they were discovered.
So, what does that mean? That the killer's using some sort of gas chamber?
I think so. He lures someone back to his place, slips them a sedative, then re-dresses and positions the bodies inside a sealed container, waits for the carbon monoxide to go to work. Once the bodies are in full rigor, he's got about ten hours to place them and have them discovered.
Now that we know the recipe, let's find the cook.
PAPatricia Alwick
Dr. Grissom! May I have a word with you?
Yes, of course. Come in.
PAPatricia Alwick
I wonder why it is you hold what I do in such obvious contempt?
Excuse me?
PAPatricia Alwick
The last time we spoke, you mentioned that you were having problems with Hank. Now, out of concern for you and because I take my job very seriously, I started asking around.
Oh...
PAPatricia Alwick
And was met with a mixture of bafflement and smirks by most of your staff until David Hodges took pity on me and informed me that Hank was your dog.
I apologize. It was a serious question.
PAPatricia Alwick
Oh, really?
For the last few weeks my dog's been listless, barely eats, and I just wondered that if you thought it was possible that pets could take on the emotion of their owners?
PAPatricia Alwick
Well, companion animals were bred to respond to human beings. At some level, I do believe that they resonate with what their owners are feeling. So, what are you feeling?
I've just been a little distracted lately. Uh, having a hard time focusing on the details.
PAPatricia Alwick
That's normal.
Not for me. [pause] I wondered if you knew, typically how long this lasts?
PAPatricia Alwick
There's no typical. Days, weeks, sometimes years, the important thing is to acknowledge it, but you do have to talk about it, and if not with me, then with somebody else and soon.
[flipping the pictures facedown on the table] I can't stand looking at inferior art. It sears into my consciousness like bad Mexican food.
He's ready to talk but only to someone who understands his work. I'm ready to slap him around, but I figured you could show some restraint.
I'll try.
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